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    United Nations
    UN chief António Guterres to seek world leaders’ backing for vision of the future

  • Phillip Mehrtens, the New Zealand pilot who was taken hostage by the West Papua National Liberation Front on 7 February 2023. Indonesian police say he has been freed.

    West Papua
    Phillip Mehrtens, New Zealand pilot held captive in West Papua, freed after 19 months

    • California
      Cat lost in Yellowstone travels 1,300km to reunite with owners after two months

    • Italy
      Man arrested in Italy nearly 50 years after two women found dead in their Australian home

    • UK
      Keir Starmer’s popularity ratings will bounce back, deputy PM Angela Rayner insists

    • Mohamed Al Fayed
      Mohamed Al Fayed accuser says she ‘walked into a lion’s den’

    • US military
      US soldier Travis King sentenced for desertion after fleeing into North Korea

    • Television
      David Graham, voice of Thunderbirds and Peppa Pig characters, dies aged 99

News in focus

  • People shop for fruit and vegetables at the same time as what appears to be an explosion

    Israel
    From Munich 72 to 7 October attack: the chequered history of the Mossad

  • dpatop - 16 September 2024, Austria, St. Pölten: At St. Pölten Alpenbahnhof station, a kiosk and several cars are flooded after rainfall., Credit:Christoph Reichwein / Avalon

    Environment
    ‘Catastrophe region’: Austrian city faces up to scale of damage left by deadly flooding

    Destructive interplay between human influence on rain and land can be seen in municipalities such as St Pölten
  • A courtroom sketch of Dominique Pelicot, who allegedly drugged and raped his wife Gisèle Pelicot

    France
    ‘Everyone here is disgusted’: the village at the heart of the rape trial that shook France

    Residents of Mazan, where Gisèle Pelicot was allegedly drugged and raped, hope the case will raise awareness of sexual violence

Spotlight

  • David Mitchell in Ludwig.

    The watcher
    Ludwig: this hilarious detective drama is the perfect platform for David Mitchell

    The BBC’s new comedy-mystery about an awkward puzzle-setter and his missing identical twin has made me laugh more than anything else on TV all year. All year!
  • Portrait of Janet Jackson in structure jacket and knee-high lace-up boots sitting on a large cement sphere

    Janet Jackson
    ‘I shouldn’t have listened to those around me’: Janet Jackson on Michael, motherhood and how she’s taking back control

    After five decades in the public eye, three failed marriages and the ‘wardrobe malfunction’ that torpedoed her career, the pop megastar is back. She opens up about family, fame and her fears of mayhem after the US election
    • Actor Romola Garai in black top against blue background

      The Q&A
      Romola Garai: ‘For a lot of my 20s, I was rude, annoying and a brat’

    • Mark, David, Lukas and Mirjam hiking on the Perito Moreno glacier in Argentina.

      Family gap year
      Eight months off school, but we all learned so much: a family sabbatical in South America

    • A model wearing a lilac flower print dress and carrying a bright red bag walks the runway.

      Milan fashion week
      Donatella Versace channels 1990s joy in bright spring/summer collection

    • Local rock collectors and fossickers Marion Troon (right), of Invercargill, and Jack Geerlings (left), of Winton, search for precious stones at Gemstone Beach, Orepuki, Southland, New Zealand. Photo: Derek Morrison

      New Zealand
      Jasper, garnet, sometimes sapphires: pocketfuls of treasure at Gemstone Beach

Sport

Opinion

  • Volodymyr Zelenskyy at a meeting at Mariinsky Palace, Kyiv, 11 September 2024.

    Zelenskyy has a gamechanging plan to win peace. For it to work, Biden must back it – fast

    Timothy Garton Ash
    In besieged Kharkiv, I saw how Ukraine is approaching a perilous moment. It needs to decisively knock back Russia, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash
  • A funeral procession in Beirut for a Hezbollah member killed by an exploding handheld device, 19 September 2024.

    The pager bombing of Hezbollah was jaw-dropping. Will it make Israel safer? Not for long

    Jonathan Freedland
  • Leroy Lupton

    I am world leader at bagging my shopping faster than supermarket staff can scan it

    Stuart Heritage
  • Fiona Sturges

    Fayed’s predatory behaviour was an open secret when I worked at Harrods. His victims deserve to be heard

    Fiona Sturges
  • Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer arrives at Number 10 Downing St<br>05/07/2024. London, United Kingdom. The Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria arrive at Number 10 Downing Street upon his appointment. Picture by Rory Arnold/ No 10 Downing Street

    With the best glasses donor money can buy, surely Starmer can see that this week has been a total disaster

    Marina Hyde
  • Illustration of a woman in a natural landscape

    Midlife left me asking what was the point of me? But then everything changed, again

    Ros Reines
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Climate crisis

  • Keir Starmer making a speech with people stood behind him in a large warehouse

    Environment
    Is the UK's Labour government on track to meet its promises on the environment?

  • The protest at Rishi Sunak’s manor house in North Yorkshire in August 2023

    UK
    Greenpeace activists who scaled Rishi Sunak’s roof cleared by judge

  • Boilers and solar panels on flat roofs, with the sea in the distance

    Environment
    ‘You basically have free hot water’: how Cyprus became a world leader in solar heating

  • Typhoon Bebinca lands in Shanghai<br>epa11607565 People commute through floodwater as heavy wind and rain from Typhoon Bebinca hit Shanghai, China, 16 September 2024. Shanghai, China's financial hub, closed its seaports and canceled over 600 flights in preparation for Typhoon Bebinca, the strongest tropical storm to hit the city in 75 years. More than 377,000 people were evacuated, and the Mid-Autumn Festival's mood has been dampened by the potential for up to 10 inches (25 cm) of rain. EPA/ALEX PLAVEVSKI

    Weather tracker
    Shanghai hit by its ‘strongest typhoon in 75 years’

Around the world

  • emissions billow from a nuclear power generating station at night

    Nuclear power
    Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to restart to power Microsoft AI operations

  • The dead bear shot by police

    Iceland
    Rare polar bear shot dead by police in Iceland after being thought a threat

    • Exclusive
      Economist Group cancer conference cancelled due to links to tobacco firms

    • US
      South Carolina executes first man in 13 years despite new evidence of innocence

    • Germany
      Far-right AfD looking to make German history in Brandenburg state election

    • West Bank
      Israeli soldiers filmed pushing bodies of Palestinians off West Bank roof

    • Kenya
      Missing Kenyan anti-government protesters resurface as police chief appears in court

    • Slovakia
      Slovakia targets ‘wealthy’ book buyers with steep VAT rise

Culture

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    Books
    ‘I no longer have to save the world’: Novelist Richard Powers on fiction and the climate crisis

    The Pulitzer-winning author of The Overstory on how ocean life inspired his latest novel – and why we need to rewrite our relationship with nature
  • composite of Jodie Comer and Austin Butler in The Bikeriders (2024); Marlon Brando in The Wild One (1953); Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda in Easy Rider (1969); Rodrigo de la Serna and Gael García Bernal in The Motorcycle Diaries (2004).

    Film
    Streaming: the best biker movies

  • Inventory of everything … the humble yet fascinating list

    Books
    Five of the best books shaped by lists

  • An illustration from Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows.

    Book of the day
    The Haunted Wood: a History of Childhood Reading by Sam Leith review – young at heart

  • two characters next to a machine

    Books
    Tom Gauld on the ultimate writing machine – cartoon

  • One Hand Clapping Paul McCartney during the Backyard Tapes session at EMI Studios. London, August 1974.

    Cinema
    ‘The whole human condition is encased in the story’: why Beatles films just keep coming

Lifestyle

  • tim dowling band collage

    Tim Dowling's column
    They asked me to play ‘bad piano’, but no one thought I’d be quite this bad

  • Gucci model in lime-green leather jacket, shorts, fingerless gloves and handbag on the runway

    Milan fashion week
    Gucci’s ‘casual grandeur’ rules the runway at Milan fashion week

  • Canape cartoon by Edith Pritchett

    Edith Pritchett on millennial life
    How to win at canapes? Aim for the kitchen door

  • Ask Annalisa - In Laws Pregnancy-01

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    I want to be a stay-at-home mum, and feel angry that society won’t let me

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    Fashion
    Tell us about your tattoos and what they mean to you

  • Aerial view of Saginaw, Michigan.

    Saginaw voters
    Tell us which issues will decide the US election

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    Guardian Weekly readers
    Share your best recent pictures with us

  • Have you ever had a date in a particularly memorable location?

    Life and style
    Tell us about your most memorable dating locations

From our global editions

  • Plans to pedestrianise parts of London's Oxford Street have been announced by the mayor, Sadiq Khan.

    Cities
    Can a traffic-free Oxford Street match its global rivals?

    The London mayor has big plans for the famous shopping street. We look at how similar schemes in Paris, New York and Barcelona have fared
  • Mohamed Al Fayed raises a finger as he talks to journalists.

    Mohamed Al Fayed
    A gilded life full of controversy

  • Ten or so people in short sleeves in a small picturesque street with shops

    UK
    ‘Horrendous’: rise in tourism stokes local tensions in Lake District town

  • Aunty Florence Watson standing outside in a black jacket

    Indigenous Australians
    Aunty Flo’s family members were massacred. She’s sharing her harrowing memories to be part of change

  • A man seen from above, eating a bowl of instant noodles at a rough table covered with sackcloth

    UPF
    Time for a noodle tax? Doctor who sounded alarm on ultra-processed food urges tougher action

  • man in yellow uniform stands against backdrop of burning forest

    Brazil
    ‘It’s guerrilla warfare’: Brazil fire teams fight Amazon blazes – and the arsonists who start them

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  • A model presents a creation during the Patrick McDowell spring/summer 2025 show at London fashion week

    Twenty photographs of the week
    The week around the world in 20 pictures

    The Middle East crisis, wildfires in Portugal, floods in Poland and London fashion week: the last seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists
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    Smart shot
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  • Supermoon rises over a canola field, shown black in the night sky

    Australia
    Gold rush: harvest moon rises to meet canola season in Riverina region

  • A macaque dangles from the trees with a leafy snack in Kyoto, Japan.

    The week in wildlife
    Hampshire beaver babies, bubbly lizards and a shopaholic koala

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