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  • Aerial view of crashed plane on snow and two people in orange jumpsuits

    US
    Alaska plane crash: remains of all 10 victims have been recovered, authorities say

  • 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

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

    • DRC
      Rwandan and Congolese leaders join summit on eastern DRC conflict

    • US
      Mexico authorities order factory cleanup after Guardian toxic waste investigation

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

    • 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

News in focus

  • Palestinians walking among the ruins and rubble of Gaza City

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

  • 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
  • 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

    Fears of partition that arose during Trump’s first administration have re-emerged as PM Albin Kurti navigates tense relations with both US and EU

Spotlight

  • 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
  • Conceptual image of Social Distancing<br>GettyImages-1225144263

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

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    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
  • 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

    In the 1970s a ‘nude biologist brandishing a cigar’ wrote a game-changing sex manual. Now, ‘Shazza’ is putting his story on the big screen
    • 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

    • 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

    • Donald Trump attends a game between the New York Jets and Pittsburgh Steelers in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, while on the campaign trail in October.

      Trump at the Super Bowl
      How the NFL’s culture war ended in surrender

Sport

Opinion

  • 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
    Whether in Gaza or the Chagos Islands, denying a people’s identity and rights paves the way to robbing them of their autonomy to govern
  • Keir Starmer visits Hinkley Point nuclear power station.

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

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

    Eva Wiseman
  • 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

  • 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
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Climate crisis

  • Tesla cars charging up at a station.

    Electric vehicles
    Trump administration suspends $5bn electric vehicle charging program

  • 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

  • Aerial view of the bright red stream

    Argentina
    River near Buenos Aires turns bright red after suspected industrial dye leak

  • man wearing suit looks ahead

    Elon Musk
    Elon Musk’s journey from climate champion to backing EV-bashing Trump

Around the world

  • 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
  • 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

  • Narendra Modi holds his hands together in a greeting.

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

  • Men standing in the snow near electrical infrastructure

    European Union
    Baltic states leave Russian power grid in move towards closer EU integration

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

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

    • US news
      Americans expected to place record $1.39bn in bets for Super Bowl LIX

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

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

    • US
      Trump revokes Biden’s security clearance in latest revenge move

Culture

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

    Our brave victim writer sits through the film site’s 0%ers to see what makes a bad movie. Will she emerge with her sanity intact – and are all these flops really so bad?
  • 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

  • Andrew O'Hagan, Scottish novelist and non-fiction author

    Books interview
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  • Director Mike White (front) on set on a beach in Thailand with some of the cast and crew of The White Lotus season three

    Television
    ‘Sometimes it’s fabulous, sometimes it’s Lord of the Flies’: behind the scenes of The White Lotus season three

  • A crowd of people wearing Christmas-themed headbands pack into a bar, as one person in the center waves a bubble gun into the air

    Going out
    Come early, leave early: a gen X dance party that ends at 10pm is taking off across the US

  • Moses Yoofee Trio

    Jazz
    Moses Yoofee Trio: MYT review – brilliantly explosive jazz

Lifestyle

  • a colorised rendering of a senescent cell

    Ageing
    Anti-ageing jabs – they can rejuvenate mice, but will they work on humans?

    Senescent cells power the body’s ageing process, and scientists are developing treatments to annihilate them
  • 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?

  • Mariacarla Boscono wears 7 For All Mankind

    We love
    Fashion fixes for the week ahead – in pictures

  • 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

  • Painting of woman in elaborate dress lying on sofa alone, looking toward light

    Well actually
    Constantly scrolling on your phone? Why we can’t stand feeling bored

Take part

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

    Santorini
    Have you been affected by the earthquakes on Santorini?

  • Have you had a tattoo removed?

    Tattoos
    Do you have a tattoo you regret?

  • According to a recent Edelman Financial report, half of US homeowners under 50 feel trapped in their current homes, citing financial constraints as a key factor.

    US homeowners
    Tell us how you are coping with the rising costs of owning your home

  • Well-protected medical staff performs swab test for Covid-19 to a young blonde female patient.

    Coronavirus
    Share your experiences ahead of the fifth anniversary of Covid being declared as a global pandemic

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From our global editions

  • 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?

    When the pharma firm cancelled plans for a major expansion of its Merseyside plant last month, there was no shortage of questions – or blame – over responsibility
  • A man with dark hair and a beard, wearing a black shirt and jeans, sitting in a wheelchair

    Science
    Elon Musk put a chip in this paralysed man’s brain. Now he can move things with his mind. Should we be amazed - or terrified?

  • Woman rests face on hands

    Trump administration
    US equality chief fired by Trump condemns ‘demonization of the term DEI’

  • An aerial view of the destruction in the Gaza Strip

    Analysis
    Rebuilding shattered Gaza may require a new Marshall plan

  • Graphic illustration of three people looking at brown fields with bison, with mushrooms in foreground

    Our unequal earth
    Western food was unhealthy and costly. So they turned back to bison and mushrooms

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    Oregon
    Food security project that helps farm workers springs from ashes of wildfires

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

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    Marina Hyde on Kanye and Bianca; the woman who lives without money; Roman Kemp on tattoos and mental health; and Philippa Perry on ‘chaotic’ partners – podcast

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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

  • Children dressed for church walk hand in hand

    Twenty photographs of the week
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  • Matt Goss wearing a studded leather jacket and ripped jeans

    Flashback
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  • 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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