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  • The National Institutes of Health building in Bethesda, Maryland.

    US healthcare
    Trump administration to cut billions in medical research funding

  • Irish boxer John Cooney, pictured at a press conference in November 2023

    Boxing
    Irish boxer John Cooney dies aged 28, one week after suffering injury in bout

    • Malta
      Millionaire accused over 2017 murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia freed on bail

    • Ticketmaster
      Dreams ‘crushed’ as Ticketmaster cancels fans’ Oasis ’25 tickets

    • Film
      Emilia Pérez movie wins top Spanish film prize amid Karla Sofía Gascón furore

    • Revealed
      Gambling firms secretly shared users’ data with Facebook without permission

    • UK
      Hundreds protest against Chinese ‘mega-embassy’ in London

    • UK
      Hollyoaks actor Callum Kerr issues statement after death of mother and her husband in France

Europe in focus

  • Albin Kurti, Kosovo's prime minister and leader of the Self-Determination party, speaks at the closing electoral rally in Pristina, ahead of Sunday’s elections

    Kosovo
    Kosovo goes to the polls as the shadow of Trump looms large

  • Pavel Talankin, in a turtleneck sweater, adjusts a microphone in front of a crowd of young schoolchildren in front of a ruched curtain

    Russia
    ‘Many teachers don’t want to do this, but they’re trapped’: film shows extent of Putin indoctrination in Russian schools

    Two years after he started documenting the effect of the Ukraine war on his pupils, Pavel Talankin reveals how it led to accolade – and exile from home
  • Fans and players of Serbia and Albania clash during their Euro 2016 qualifying match.

    Football
    Serbia and Albania move on from ‘drone’ game but tensions still simmer

    The rivals will co-host the Under-21 European Championship in 2027, 11 years on from a football flashpoint that sparked a diplomatic incident

Spotlight

  • Palestinians walking among the ruins and rubble of Gaza City

    Gaza
    ‘This time, we stay’: the Palestinian families vowing not to leave Gaza

    Defiant Gazans reject Trump’s resettlement plan after enduring 15 months of conflict
  • Conceptual image of Social Distancing<br>GettyImages-1225144263

    Ask Philippa
    I feel happier and healthier when not around my mother

  • chewed pencils

    Society
    Can we break the anxiety habit?

    Writer and therapist Owen O’Kane believes we have become addicted to feeling anxious. Here, he explains how he learned to manage his fears
  • Members of the the self-organised social defence forces of Rojava on duty at night on the streets of Kobane.

    Syria
    ‘Woman, life, freedom’: the Syrian feminists who forged a new world in a land of war

    In a society riven by conflict and misogyny, the autonomous region of Rojava has a government with perhaps the most complete gender equality in the world
    • Gordon John Buchanan, Scottish wildlife cameraman, filmmaker and presenter. Author of “In the Hide” (How the Natural World Saved My Life.) Seen by the river Kelvin in Glasgow. Scotland UK 16/01/2025 © COPYRIGHT PHOTO BY MURDO MACLEOD All Rights Reserved Tel + 44 131 669 9659 Mobile +44 7831 504 531 Email: m@murdophoto.com STANDARD TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLY See details at http://www.murdophoto.com/T%26Cs.html No syndication, no redistribution. A22U4Y, sgealbadh, A22R4S

      Wildlife
      ‘It’s about escaping from yourself’: wildlife presenter Gordon Buchanan

    • Alex Comfort, the polymath who wrote The Joy of Sex.

      Film
      ‘They were trying to do 200 different poses during power cuts’: Bridget Jones director takes on The Joy of Sex

    • The pristine waters of Lake Braies, high in the Italian Dolomites;

      Travel
      From world’s ‘roughest wilderness hotel’ to a cosy Cotswolds hideaway: 10 adventure stays in Europe

    • American philosopher Agnes Callard, outside the Wallace Collection, London, January 2025.

      Books
      ‘We’re not doing the thing we’re built to do’: Agnes Callard, the philosopher living life according to Socrates

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Opinion

  • Lily Collins and Charlie McDowell at the Emily in Paris Netflix photocall in Paris on 12 September, 2024.

    Sorry, Lily Collins, but when people outsource childbirth, their motives really count

    Martha Gill
    Whether it’s infertility, to save a career or pure altruism, is there ever a reason that can morally justify surrogacy?
  • Keir Starmer visits Hinkley Point nuclear power station.

    Nimbys. Naysayers. Traitors. Children take note, why learn oracy when insults will do?

    Catherine Bennett
  • Ring Video Doorbell 2

    Is it time to ring the alarm on internet door cameras?

    Eva Wiseman
  • Satellite view of the Diego Garcia<br>DIEGO GARCIA, BRITISH INDIAN OCEAN TERRITORY JULY 02, 2013: (SOUTH AFRICA OUT): Diego Garcia, a British Indian Ocean Territory and the largest of the islands in the Chagos Archipelago on July 02, 2013 in Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory. (Photo by USGS/NASA Landsat data/Orbital Horizon Gallo Images/Gallo Images/Getty Images)

    Global leaders have a selective view of sovereignty. It matters, as long as it’s in their interests

    Kenan Malik
  • Jessie Cole's house among the trees that her parents planted in the late 1970s on their property in northern New South Wales, Australia

    I live in a forest my parents planted when I was a child. It’s not too late for you to grow one too

    Jessie Cole
  • Donald Trump in a hard hat standing in front of a billboard showing a luxury beach resort with the slogan ‘Gaza- Riviera of the Middle East’. Behind the billboard is a mountain of rubble. Trump clutches rolled up blueprints labelled ‘Greenland Gold Mine’, ‘Ukraine Baba Yaga Theme Park’ and ‘Panama Water World’. Netanyahu is grasping Trump’s coat tails and smiling broadly as Trump says “Don’t worry, Bibi, I’ve got this…”

    Cartoon
    Chris Riddell on Donald Trump’s plan to take over and redevelop Gaza

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Climate crisis

  • A worker in the green belt of Ouagadougou.

    Environment
    ‘We water, rest, water’: the green belt of vegetable plots cooling a city

  • The sun sets near a coal-fired power plant by the Yangtze River

    Climate crisis
    ‘Backsliding’: most countries to miss vital climate deadline as Cop30 nears

  • People walk through snow-covered streets in Obihiro, northern Japan

    Weather tracker
    Japan’s record snowfall causes chaos as temperatures dive

  • Black server cabinets in a white room

    Technology
    Call to make tech firms report data centre energy use as AI booms

Around the world

  • Friedrich Merz standing with members of his CDU party, with an EU flag flying in the background

    Merz’s gamble
    Germany’s centre-right leader splits voters by flirting with hardline AfD

    Would be chancellor Friederich Merz breaks post-war convention of no political deals with far right
  • African leaders pose for photo at conference

    DRC
    Rwandan and Congolese leaders join summit on eastern DRC conflict

  • A composite of researchers collecting dust samples from a window sill, the Zinc Nacional plant and a woman looking at a chest X-ray.

    America's dirty divide
    Mexico authorities order factory cleanup after Guardian toxic waste investigation

  • Rita Potter with her arm round Daisy the dog.

    UK
    Norfolk couple reunited with their dog stolen seven years ago

    • US
      Trump cuts aid to South Africa over ‘racial discrimination’ against Afrikaners

    • Namibia
      Sam Nujoma, Namibia’s first president, dies aged 95

    • Refugees
      Thousands of Syrians in limbo as UK Home Office freezes asylum claims

    • PlayStation
      PlayStation Network outage leads to rush of complaints from gamers

    • India
      Narendra Modi’s ruling Hindu nationalist party wins crucial Delhi state elections

    • ‘Native wine of England’
      UK apple growers and producers call on government to protect traditional cider

Culture

  • actor Soheila Golestani about to push actor Missagh Zareh in the chest – they're standing outside in the sun beside a stone building – in The Seed of the Sacred Fig.

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    The Seed of the Sacred Fig – Mohammad Rasoulof’s fearless drama is a damning indictment of the Iranian regime

    A government official comes into conflict with his wife and daughters when violent protest grips Iran in the exiled director’s Oscar-nominated latest
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  • Tony Roberts, left, with Woody Allen in Play It Again, Sam

    Film
    Tony Roberts, versatile actor and longtime Woody Allen sidekick, dies aged 85

  • The Centenary Building in Salford, which is due to be demolished.

    Architecture
    Praised, then razed: why is UK’s best building of 1996 being demolished?

  • 13. La dormeuse 913. Henri Matisse Marguerite endormie Étretat, été 1920 Huile sur toile 46 x 65,5 cm Collection particulière Crédit : Collection particulière / © Martin Parsekian

    Art
    Matisse’s muse: new exhibition dedicated to the illegitimate daughter he spent a lifetime painting

  • Rotten movies

    Film
    Splat’s entertainment: I watched Rotten Tomatoes’ 40 lowest-rated films to find out which was worst

Lifestyle

  • Mariacarla Boscono wears 7 For All Mankind

    We love
    Fashion fixes for the week ahead – in pictures

    Samuel Ross’s new label for Zara, statement jewellery, and Holly Willoughby’s sell out boots
  • Steph Vizard and Hugh in 2014

    The moment I knew
    I was mourning the end of my summer fling – then a parcel arrived at my door

  • Puma's ballet inspired Speedcat shoes

    Fashion
    The sneakerina: must-have item or step too far for hybrid fashion?

  • Cream £295, ba-sh.com

    Fashion
    Spin a yarn: why the knitted dress is an easy one-stop look

  • An older man with white hair and a beard, wearing a red and white striped shirt and jeans, with a small flat cap perched on the front of his head, sitting on a sofa holding a smiling baby wearing jeans, a white shirt and a blue waistcoat, in a cottage-style living room with a brick fireplace

    Family
    ‘My time with my son is more limited – and more precious’: older fathers on having kids in their 60s and 70s

  • Chiara and Frank

    Sex
    This is how we do it: ‘If she wants me to dominate her, I will. It brings her happiness’

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  • People board a ferry to Piraeus during an increased seismic activity on the island of Santorini.

    Greece
    Have you been affected by the earthquakes on Santorini?

  • Piggy bank stands next to stacks of coins and coins scattered on the floor

    Money
    Share your experience of working and paying into a pension

  • Have you had a tattoo removed?

    Tattoos
    Do you have a tattoo you regret?

  • How is your sex life going?

    Relationships
    Would you and your sexual partner like to share the story of what you get up to in the bedroom?

From our global editions

  • People working in a covered open-air restaurant selling kebabs and burgers

    Gaza
    ‘We make the most of every minute’: relief and resolve at Gaza’s few reopened restaurants

    Palestinians find moment of respite in going out to dinner or relaxing in cafes as devastated territory seeks to rebuild
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    Technology
    Google Maps changed the way we get around. It all began in a spare bedroom in Sydney

  • Ukrainian servicemen fire a howitzer towards Russian troops near the frontline town of Pokrovsk in Donetsk region, Ukraine.

    Ukraine war briefing
    Kim Jong-un vows ongoing support for Russia’s ‘just cause’

  • A modern, glassy industrial building in a grassed campus setting, flying a union jack on its flagpole

    Pharmaceuticals
    AstraZeneca, Whitehall, and a failed £450m deal for the next generation in vaccines. What went wrong?

  • Frontage of a NatWest branch with people walking by

    Business
    Will the bonus bubbly still flow as reality bites for British banks?

  • David Lammy, the foreign secretary

    UK
    ‘The world wants more Britain’: David Lammy on Trump, tariffs, Gaza and the Chagos Islands

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  • Kanye West and Bianca Censori (in a black coat) arriving at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards

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  • Pippa Crerar visits Ukraine with David Lammy. Photograph: Ben Dance/FCDO

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In pictures

  • Bethnal Green, east London, 1991.

    The big picture
    Wedding celebrations in London’s Banglatown, 1991

    Wayne Tippetts’s shot of young Bangladeshi women preparing for a Gaye Holud ceremony is part of a series exploring a pivotal moment in the neighbourhood’s history
  • One the the lost homes of Los Angeles drawn by the artist Asher Bingham.

    Drawing
    Where the heart is: the artist memorialising homes lost in the LA fires

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  • Matt Goss wearing a studded leather jacket and ripped jeans

    Flashback
    Matt Goss looks back: ‘I’d like another Bros experience. Something massive, Bros on steroids. Bigger, the biggest’

  • A staff member of Christie's holds a cartoon drawing against a backdrop of Barry Humphries and Dame Edna, during a preview of Barry Humphries: The Personal Collection in London.

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