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  • Massiola, a mountain village in Piedmont, Italy

    The battle for births
    How the far right are exploiting Italy’s ‘demographic winter’

  • Sultan Al Jaber, the man in charge of Cop28

    ‘I wasn’t the obvious choice’
    Meet the oil man tasked with saving the planet

  • ‘This is one of the scariest and most pervasive forms of debt that we have because it is directly affecting children,’ said Talyn Summers.

    ‘Stop penalizing hunger’
    The push to cancel US school lunch debt

  • 2023 Global Citizen Festival, New York, USA - 23 Sep 2023<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Shutterstock (14118129bm) Audience members at the 2023 Global Citizen Festival in NYC. 2023 Global Citizen Festival, New York, USA - 23 Sep 2023

    New York
    Central Park warned a festival would ruin its lawn. New York went ahead with it

Spotlight

  • OnlineGirlsAdvice

    Group chat ghostings, unrequited crushes and dating your friend’s ex
    The teen girl problems being solved by adolescent agony aunts

    This summer two 17-year olds started a blog to answer their peers’ most common problems. Then it took on a life of its own…
  • Heather Cox Richardson, a writer, professor and an expert historian in 19th-century America, poses for a portrait in her study at her home.

    ‘An end of American democracy’
    Heather Cox Richardson on Trump’s historic threat

  • Linda Nylind/Graeme Robertson/The Guardian

    Blind date
    We got on the same train home – but he was going the wrong way

    Jake, 31, a teacher, meets Alessia, 31, who works in sustainability product management
  • Peter Sarsgaard and Jessica Chastain in Memory, looking at each other in a forest.

    Memory review
    Survivors grapple with an unstable past in a delicate, painful duet

    Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard excel in Michel Franco’s absorbing story about the unnerving reunion of a care worker and a friend from her past
    • Alden Ehrenreich and Phoebe Dynevor in Fair Play

      The women who earn more than their partners
      ‘I’m with someone who is threatened by me’

    • Eighteen more humpback whales could be killed each year by an increase in marine traffic.

      Canada
      How a huge new LNG plant spells ‘dire’ trouble for whales

    • Susan and Thomas

      This is how we do it
      ‘A lot of our relationship is conducted via email - it’s surprisingly intimate’

    • PP Arnold

      PP Arnold
      ‘Rod Stewart and I had a close call with the law in the 60s. A nosy landlord let the police into my flat’

Ukraine invasion

  • A residential building hit in a Russian missile attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

    Live
    Russia-Ukraine war: Russian border region of Belgorod attacked, local governor says

  • View of the presidential palace in Astana, Kazakhstan.

    Soviet language
    Kazakhstan drafts media law to increase use of Kazakh language over Russian

  • An expert examines a crater after a deadly Russian missile strike in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

    At a glance
    What we know on day 591 of the invasion

  • At least 51 people were killed after a rocket struck a cafe in a village in Ukraine's Kharkiv region during a wake service.

    What happened this week?
    Catch up with the must-read war news and analysis

Opinion

  • Writers Matthew Weiner, left, and Semi Chellas carry signs on the picket line outside Netflix on 27 Sept. 2023, Los Angeles.

    Screenwriters won a historic victory against AI. The rest of us should follow

    Hamilton Nolan
  • construction workers building a mental wall

    Why is Joe Biden campaigning for Donald Trump?

    Moustafa Bayoumi
    The US president is helping to build Donald Trump’s southern border wall. What is he thinking?
  • ‘The 36,000 primary voters who cast a ballot for Gaetz seven years ago wouldn’t get to call the shots for all 300 million of us.’

    Why do eight radicals hold power over the entire US House of Representatives?

    David Daley
    There are hundreds of Congresspeople representing millions of Americans – yet undemocratic rules give people like Matt Gaetz outsized sway
    • RAJ DHUNNA 231005 OPINION WEB

      Britain’s pheasant shooting season has begun. And a year-round massacre makes it possible

      George Monbiot
    • Sam Bankman-Fried arrives at court.

      The trials of SBF and DJT: Trump isn’t clean on crypto but he did warn us about it

      Lloyd Green
    • 231007 Climate scale thumbnail 1

      Climate crisis – Fiona Katauskas cartoon
      What’s worse than ‘gobsmackingly bananas’? You really don’t want to know

      Fiona Katauskas

Sports

  • Atlanta’s Ronald Acuña Jr became the first player in major league history to hit at least 40 home runs and steal at least 70 bases in one season.

    MLB playoffs 2023 power rankings
    Breaking down the final eight teams

    The NL and AL division series begin on Saturday. We rank the remaining eight teams from most likely to least likely to be crowned World Series champions
  • New York’s Breanna Stewart, right, and Las Vegas’ A’ja Wilson are among the headline attractions of a star-studded WNBA finals.

    WNBA finals predictions
    New York or Vegas? Our writers make their picks

  • Max Verstappen prepares for a practice session before the Qatar Grand Prix

    Verstappen’s stranglehold on rivals makes a third F1 title inevitable

    Giles Richards
  • Simone Biles on the uneven bars

    Simone Biles
    Gymnastics star crowned all-around world champion for a record sixth time

    A brilliant performance in Antwerp saw Simone Biles blow away the competition to win gold ahead of defending champion Rebeca Andrade
    • Barney Ronay

      No need for conspiracies – World Cup 2030 and 2034 are a plot in plain sight

      Barney Ronay
    • Billy Sharp: ‘To be honest where I live is not what I see of Los Angeles on TV’.

      Billy Sharp's new dawn in LA
      I’m doing the best job in the world

    • Edson Álvarez, Marcus Rashford, Alex Iwobi

      Premier League
      Ten things to look out for in the top flight this weekend

    • Chicago Bears wide receiver DJ Moore finished with 230 yards and three touchdowns on a career night.

      NFL
      Bears snap 14-game skid as Moore’s career night dooms Washington

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Climate crisis

  • A shed is seen in a field near Quemado, Texas, in September.

    Dead lawns, dry wells
    Texas drought persists after summer heat dome

  • Cows on a meadow in Scania, Sweden

    Environment
    Feeding seaweed to cows can cut methane emissions, says Swedish report

  • Someone plays Fortnite at the launch of Hamleys' new immersive interactive gaming space on 28 April 2022 in London, England.

    Shell
    Oil giant called out for promoting fossil fuels to youth via Fortnite game

  • A car passes downed power lines

    Weather tracker
    Typhoon Koinu causes disruption in Taiwan

Across the country

  • A man holds a drawing of Manuel ‘Tortuguita’ Paez Teran during a protest.

    Atlanta
    Georgia district attorney will not charge police who killed ‘Cop City’ activist

    Manuel ‘Tortuguita’ Paez Terán was shot and killed in January while protesting construction of police training center
  • A hearse and debris can be seen at the rear of the Return to Nature funeral home in Penrose, Colorado.

    Colorado
    At least 115 bodies found at ‘green’ funeral home

  • Stellantis workers in California. About 25,000 workers are currently on strike.

    UAW strike
    Union says General Motors has made key concessions

  • Commander's Palace restaurant in New Orleans.

    Louisiana
    New Orleans restaurant turns saltwater woes into a spirited cocktail

    • Sam Bankman-Fried trial
      FTX founder was not surprised by $8bn shortfall, key witness says

    • Health
      US nutrition panel’s ties to top food giants revealed in new report

    • ‘Stabbed in the back’
      Biden’s border wall U-turn leaves Indigenous and climate groups reeling

    • US economy
      336,000 jobs added in September surpassing expectations

    • Tupac Shakur murder
      Video released of suspect’s arrest for 1996 murder

    • Space
      Amazon launches first two satellites in planned orbital internet service

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Around the world

  • Donald Tusk speaks to residents of Rzeszów.

    Poland election
    EU veteran Tusk heads into final week of battle to steer country from populism

    Election is contest between Law and Justice party and politician it claims represents malevolent foreign forces
  • Protesters block the Inter-American highway in Totonicapán, Guatemala, on 6 October.

    Guatemala
    President-elect’s supporters block roads to protest party suspension

  • Drake in 2019, with his Grammy award for best new song for Gods Plan.

    Drake
    Rapper to take break from music to focus on his health

  • People hold candles during a minute’s silence during a protest at a park in Lagos amid rising anger over the MohBad’s death in unclear circumstances.

    Nigeria
    Nurse main suspect in death of Afrobeats star MohBad, say police

    • France
      Seven schools closed over bedbug infestations

    • Nobel peace prize
      Jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi wins 2023 prize

    • Pakistan
      Islamabad says it will deport 1.7m Afghans and all other ‘illegal immigrants’

    • Netherlands
      Nazi party membership card of Dutch royal confirmed as authentic

    • Japan
      Three bears that holed up in factory are captured and killed

    • Migration
      EU leaders clash with Hungary over proposed laws

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Podcasts

  • Weekend
    Weekend podcast: actor Julia Fox, John Crace at the Tory party conference, and The Greatest Show Never Made

  • Politics Weekly America
    US surgeon general on why loneliness threatens democracy – podcast

  • Today in Focus
    Why Britain is mourning the Sycamore Gap tree

  • The Audio Long Read
    ‘A huge heart’: the insatiable activism of Zimbabwean exile Patson Muzuwa – podcast

  • Football Weekly
    Newcastle put Mbappé and PSG to the sword – Football Weekly Extra

  • Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph
    Beyoncé on the big screen and Chanté speaks to Mahalia – Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph

  • Science
    All the news and science from the Nobel Prizes – podcast

documentaries

With Woman

A Black home birth midwife, motivated by the high maternal mortality rates for Black women in the US, guides first-time mother Raven through her delivery in this powerful new documentary.

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Culture

  • five pictures of concert goers dressed in silver outfits, masks and cowboy hats

    The pride of Houston
    Beyoncé’s Renaissance tour was a safe space for fans, a homecoming and a coronation

  • Terry Pratchett

    Terry Pratchett
    From lost stories to new adaptations, how the late Discworld author lives on

    It’s 40 years since The Colour of Magic hit the shelves. As newly unearthed short stories are published, fans and friends celebrate the late author’s enduring legacy
  • Sly Stone

    ‘I kicked ass’
    Funk pioneer Sly Stone on taking Woodstock by storm, partying with George Clinton and getting clean

    The frontman of Sly and the Family Stone brought the house down at Woodstock with a performance of I Want To Take You Higher. These extracts from his new memoir depict a life as vivid and riotous as the music of his band
    • Still from film showing Marion Deichmann standing in front of a cattle car on railway track at Drancy, her back to the camera

      ‘I don’t want my mother’s story to die’
      Holocaust account brought to life in virtual reality film

    • A man holds an emu killed in the 1932 war

      Australia’s emu war
      John Cleese outrun in race to shoot movie of how flightless birds thwarted army’s machine guns

    • Jamie Foxx in The Burial.

      The Burial review
      Jamie Foxx ignites crowd-pleasing courtroom drama

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Lifestyle

  • A baby’s feet in a mother's hands

    Naps, nuts and gentle parenting
    Everything you need to know about new babies

  • Meera Sodha's Japanese keema curry with courgette fritter.

    The new vegan
    Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for Japanese keema curry with courgette fritters

    A mild but moreish bowl of curry and rice topped off with a tempura-style courgette fritter
  • Yotam Ottolenghi's harissa vinegar chicken with chicory.

    How to cook with vinegar
    Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes for harissa chicken, paneer scramble and hot sauce

    Vinegar can lift and balance your cooking: try it in spicy chicken with chicory and sour cream, mix it into an orange and jalapeño hot sauce, or see it get to work in a scrambled curry paneer with sweet pickled red onions
    • Jose Pizarro's pumpkin pisto is a southern Spanish classic.

      Spanish food and drink
      José Pizarro’s recipe for pumpkin pisto

    • Tom Hunt's apple pectin jelly and apple pie

      Waste not
      How to use apple scraps to make pectin jelly (plus a bonus pie) – recipe

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      Tim Dowling's column
      I’m on holiday and someone is stealing my whole life

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  • Do you have an interesting story about how you met your other half aged 60+?

    Relationships
    Tell us: did you meet your romantic partner over the age of 60?

  • Sometimes, it’s the smallest changes which end up having the biggest impact on our lives.

    Lifestyle
    Tell us about a small change that improved your lifestyle

  • Residents gather next to buses in central Stepanakert before leaving Nagorno-Karabakh, a region inhabited by ethnic Armenians.

    Nagorno-Karabakh
    How have you been affected by the situation in the region?

  • What is the best way to split up?

    Relationships
    Have you been through an amicable breakup?

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Explore

  • woman playing guitar in a living room

    The City of Music
    Can anyone still make it as a country singer in Nashville?

  • Objects from the Temu website.

    Addictive, absurdly cheap and controversial
    The rise of China’s Temu app

    Temu’s meteoric growth – and its astronomical marketing budget – has experts asking whether its business model is sustainable
  • The Tree of Life in Bahrain<br>The Tree of Life in the desert of Bahrain, Middle East

    From the Major Oak to the Lone Cypress
    Eight of the world’s most amazing trees

    Spectacular ancient trees stir deep feelings, as the felling of Sycamore Gap showed. Here are more noble specimens, including one whose survival is a deep-rooted puzzle
    • Sly Stone at home in 1971.

      ‘I never lived a life I didn’t want to live’
      Sly Stone on addiction, ageing and changing music for ever

    • A white couple with arms over each other holding framed photos of three young children

      ‘She just wanted to live how she wanted to’
      Couple mourn their trans daughter

    • West announced his candidacy via social media on 5 June, first with the People’s party before switching to the Green party.

      ‘There is no alternative’
      Cornel West, presidential hopeful, is not backing down

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In pictures

  • Woman lying reading book under sun umbrella on beach with mountains in distance

    Jessica Chou’s best phone picture
    ‘The vista was all blue skies, mountains, lake, sand and, in the middle of all of it, this lady’

    On a celebratory road trip at Lake Tahoe, the photographer spotted an umbrella on a beach …
  • Simone Biles competes on the balance beam in the women's individual all-around final.

    In pictures
    World gymnastics championships: women’s individual all-around final

  • A woman walks among debris after a Russian missile attack on Kharkiv

    From Kharkiv to NYC court
    The week around the world in 20 pictures

  • Milan, Italy: a protester takes part in a demonstration as part of the Fridays for Future movement amid the ongoing climate crisis protester takes part during a demonstration as part of the Fridays for Future movement for climate change

    Family generations and marooned floating homes
    Friday’s best photos

  • A stag roars in Richmond Park, London.

    The week in wildlife
    A roaring stag and an endangered rhino

  • French artists Maud'Amour, Grand Soir, Odile De Mainville and Diamanda Callas, members of the transformist Cabaret Madame Arthur, poses at the Cabaret in Paris, France

    Madame Arthur
    aris’s oldest gender-twisting cabaret

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