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  • Firefighters work at the Tesla Cybertruck which burned at the entrance of Trump Tower in Las Vegas<br>The remains of a Tesla Cybertruck that burned at the entrance of Trump Tower are pictured, as they stand inside a cordoned area, in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. January 1, 2025. REUTERS/Ronda Churchill

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    Las Vegas
    One dead after Tesla Cybertruck catches fire and explodes outside Trump hotel

  • A police car at the scene

    Montenegro
    At least 10 killed and four wounded in Montenegro shooting

    • Russian gas
      Russian gas flows to Europe via Ukraine cease as transit agreement expires

    • UK
      Refugee Council urges UK to introduce special visas in effort to stop deaths in the Channel

    • England
      Urgent referrals of children in mental health crisis rise 13% in year

    • Middle East crisis live
      Israeli strikes kill at least 10 people in attack on al-Mawasi ‘safe zone’

    • UK
      Coventry woman who vanished 52 years ago found alive and well

    • Science
      Scandinavians arrived in Britain long before Vikings and Anglo-Saxons, finds study

Europe in focus

  • a pair of black, sand-covered trainers, a baby's bottle and a set of headphones are arranged on the beach's sand

    Forensic science
    The hunt for identities of thousands who tried to reach Europe

  • Greek vases and other artefacts recovered by the Carabinieri Cultural Heritage Protection team of Naples

    Italy
    How Carabinieri cultural heritage protection squad foiled tomb-raiders

    The force recently uncovered a clandestine dig in the middle of Naples
  • Maccabi Tel Aviv fans in Amsterdam, Netherlands, 7 November 2024

    Integrate? Europe’s Muslims are damned if we do and damned if we don’t

    Shada Islam
    The new allegation in Islamophobic discourse is that even Muslims who appear ‘well-integrated’ hate the west, says commentator on EU affairs Shada Islam

Spotlight

  • Fig leaf gourd (cucurbita ficifolia) growing in vegetable garden at RHS Harlow Carr, Harrogate.

    Environment
    Fig and almond trees thriving in UK thanks to fewer frosts, RHS says

    Society to retire plants no longer suited to UK’s changing climate after 14% fewer days of ground frost recorded
  • A midwife checks on a newborn baby lying in a cot

    Cox’s Bazar
    Threadbare facilities, high mortality, cats in the corridors: the realities of life for new Rohingya mothers

    In the world’s largest refugee site, high mortality, child kidnapping and a lack of healthcare make the journey to motherhood a perilous one
    • The aurora Australis seen in Tasmania on 1 January

      Australia
      Spectacular aurora australis thrills sky gazers across south-east of country

    • Crackerjack! … Jack O’Connell as Paddy Mayne in SAS Rogue Heroes series two.

      TV review
      SAS: Rogue Heroes season two review – air-punchingly good

    • Phish perform their New Year's Eve concert at Madison Square Garden in New York on 31 December 2024.

      Music
      Phish review – spiraling jams and communal bliss at Madison Square Garden

    • A smartphone with a displayed NVIDIA logo is placed on a computer motherboard.

      Economics
      A year of two halves: how global financial markets fared in 2024

Opinion

  • Frances Ryan

    During the holidays, reports of domestic violence surge. But what if next year could be different?

    Frances Ryan
    Labour has promised to halve violence against women. As another year of grim statistics beckons, that’s a speck of hope worth grasping, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during their meeting on the sidelines of Brics summit in Kazan, Russia, on 22 October.

    Editorial
    The Guardian view on Russia and China: an old friendship poses new threats

  • Volksbühne theatre, Berlin.

    People like me flocked to Berlin because it was ‘poor but sexy’. Those times are over

    Fatma Aydemir
  • Nicola Jennings on Putin, Trump and Musk’s impact on world politics this year – cartoon

    Cartoon
    Nicola Jennings on Putin, Trump and Musk’s impact on world politics this year

  • Identity Through the Side Profile, Yasmina and Donna. Co-creative directed by Roxanna Vatandoust, Charlize Miradi and Bea Dero.

    As a child, I couldn’t wait to change my Iranian nose. Now I’ve learned to see its beauty

    Bea Dero
  • USDA Orders Tests For Bird Flu On National Milk Supply To Start December 16<br>ITHACA, NEW YORK - DECEMBER 10: A lab manager in the molecular diagnostic lab prepares milk samples for testing at the Animal Health Diagnostic Center at Cornell University on December 10, 2024 in Ithaca, New York. The U.S. Department of Agriculture last week issued a federal order that requires the testing of the nation's milk supply amid increasing concerns over HPAI (a strain of the H5N1 avian flu), which has been raising alarm since it was first detected in a Texas cow. In July 2024, New York lawmakers gave $19.5 million in order to expand the Animal Health Diagnostic Center at Cornell University, after avian flu was confirmed to be spreading to dairy cattle. The virus has spread to over 710 dairy herds across 15 states. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

    Bird flu, brain rot and booze – the health issues you’ll be hearing more about in 2025

    Devi Sridhar
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Climate crisis

  • Firefighters on their way to tackle a wildfire in Ano Loutro, near Xylokastro in Corinthia, Greece, in September 2024.

    Environment
    Former EU environment chief warns against backsliding on climate crisis

  • Donald Trump at a Turning Point USA event in Phoenix, Arizona, on 22 December.

    Big oil uncovered
    Trump aims to crush legal curbs on his climate rollback – but it may not be easy

  • Sunflowers wilt in a field

    Extreme weather
    World endures 'decade of deadly heat' as 2024 caps hottest years on record

  • Landon McNamara drops in on a massive wave

    Weather tracker
    Giant waves bring rare surfing event to Hawaii

Around the world

  • FILE - The FBI seal is pictured in Omaha, Neb., Aug. 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

    US
    FBI says it foiled possible attack against pro-Israel group Aipac

    Man accused of traveling to offices in Florida with intention of ‘killing, injuring, harassing and intimidating’
  • An Italian coastguard vessel

    Libya
    Twenty missing after falling from boat in rough seas off Libya’s coast

Culture

  • Nicola Dinan

    Book of the day
    Disappoint Me by Nicola Dinan review – a fresh take on modern love

    The author of Bellies explores contemporary questions of sex, love, relationship etiquette and gender identity
  • A man sitting in a red theatre seat wearing a beige jumper

    Stage
    Brian Friel’s plays to be brought home to cross-border Irish terroir that inspired them

  • Ice Spice

    Music
    US rapper Ice Spice faces fan backlash over ‘disrespectful’ five-minute appearance at Brisbane gig

  • The Pasadena Playhouse Gala Honoring Jane Fonda And Richard Perry<br>PASADENA, CA - APRIL 30: Record Producer Richard Perry is honored at The Pasadena Playhouse Gala at Pasadena Playhouse on April 30, 2016 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Earl Gibson III/Getty Images,)

    Music
    Richard Perry obituary

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    Culture
    Politics Weekly UK’s 2024 culture list

  • Shyam Benegal being interviewed during the Australian film festival in Sydney, 1978.

    Obituaries
    Shyam Benegal obituary

Lifestyle

  • Ed Davey goes bungee-jumping Eastbourne, East Sussex

    2024: what happened next?
    ‘Bizarrely, I enjoyed bungee jumping!’ How Ed Davey became the Tom Cruise of British politics

    The Liberal Democrat leader’s summer of stunts ended in the party’s biggest electoral success ever – and managed to push social care up the agenda. His next project? Mastering TikTok
  • Illustration of a woman using tinned food to exercise while cooking

    Health
    101 ways to get healthier and happier – in just five minutes

  • Felicity Cloake’s perfect chilli con queso.

    Food
    How to make the perfect chilli con queso – recipe

  • Illustration of boy with phone looking at giant jar labelled “Anabolics”

    Life and style
    ‘Why are my biceps so small?’ The boys and young men turning to steroids

  • Great-Barn Gong-Bath-Wellness-retreat-165 Wonderful Escapes in Wales.

    Travel
    Happy new you! 10 of the best UK wellbeing retreats for 2025

  • Illustration showing a man in a Zen pose, atop a mountain of chores, to-do lists and message notifications

    The overwhelm
    Make a much shorter to-do list! 15 quick, simple ways to avoid overwhelm

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Take part

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    Life and style
    What’s your five-minute fix for feeling happy or healthy?

  • UK supermarket shelves stacked with produce and goods.<br>BXF5E8 UK supermarket shelves stacked with produce and goods.

    Ultra-processed foods
    What questions do you have about ultra-processed foods?

  • Syrians gather at Umayyad Square to celebrate the collapse of 61 years of Baath Party rule in Damascus.

    Syria
    Share your reaction to the fall of Assad

  • Smoke billows over southern Lebanon following an Israeli strike, as seen from Tyre, Lebanon.

    Living in Lebanon
    How have you been affected by the recent violence?

From our global editions

  • A handout photo made available by the State Emergency Service shows Ukrainian rescuers working at the site of a drone attack on a residential building in Kyiv, Ukraine, 01 January 2025.

    Ukraine war briefing
    New Year’s Day drone strike kills two in Kyiv

    Explosions boomed across the morning sky as Ukraine’s air force warned of incoming drones
  • Two men hold a reddish hose over a tank outside

    US
    Infrastructure neglect and poverty lead to parasites in the Mississippi Delta

  • Two people amid blackened trees and mud with spade

    Ukraine
    ‘The forest will survive’: the volunteers saving Kharkiv’s war-charred woodland

  • A woman stirs a huge pot while others look on

    Global development
    ‘Deeply inspiring and humbling’: how neighbourhoods in Sudan are coming together to fill gaps left by foreign aid

  • A woman with long black braids wearing a purple T-shirt looks directly at the camera

    US
    Cori Bush on losing her US House seat: ‘I’m just getting started’

  • Women Killed by men in 2024

    Killed women count
    80 women allegedly killed by men in UK in 2024

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    Over the past three months Kieran Seager photographed and interviewed staff, patients, and their families at the UK-Med field hospital in al-Mawasi, Rafah. Approximately 40% of all patients treated at the field hospital are children or young people under 18
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