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The great carbon divide

  • Carbon divide illustration with jet and shanty town

    The great carbon divide
    Richest 1% account for more carbon emissions than poorest 66%, report says

    • Sergey Brin, Roman Abramovich and Jeff Bezos composite

      'Obscene'
      Twelve billionaires’ climate emissions outpollute 2.1m homes, analysis finds

    • Elon Musk
      Once an environmental hero – is he still a rare green billionaire?

    • The project
      What is the great carbon divide?

Headlines

Israel-Hamas war

  • People fleeing south from Gaza City on Saturday

    'We lost so many people'
    Nakba generation relive trauma of displacement in Gaza

  • Patients at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on 10 November, before it was evacuated as the IDF closed in.

    ‘It’s basically hell on earth’
    Gaza City left totally bereft of healthcare

  • Israeli reservist soldiers in and abandoned Palestinian village

    ‘These are biblical lands promised to us’
    Jewish settlers in West Bank hope Gaza conflict will help cause

  • Yuval Haran (quoted in the piece in the front row wearing a hat) and Meirav Leshem Gonen to his right.

    ‘Just look us in the eye’
    Israeli hostages’ families arrive at Netanyahu’s office

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In focus

  • Zach Shrewsbury: ‘We need a leader who will not waver in the face of these powers that keep the boot on our neck.’

    West Virginia
    Can socialist ex-marine Zach Shrewsbury fill Joe Manchin’s seat?

  • Dr Elinor Breman, a researcher at the Millennium Seed Bank, Wakehurst, Sussex.

    Plants
    The doomsday vaults storing seeds, data and DNA to protect our future

    Around the world, highly secure chambers are being built to preserve everything we need to withstand any number of worst-case scenarios
  • A man cools off in the Arara Park favela in Rio de Janeiro.

    ‘Hell de Janeiro’
    Scorching heat highlights Brazil’s glaring inequality

    It felt like 58.5C in Rio on Tuesday – and the soaring, indeed dangerous, temperatures are hitting the poorest hardest

Spotlight

  • Nantou county in Taiwan's central mountain ranges was hit by weeks of landslides after the edge of Typhoon Khanun brought torrential rain in August 2023.

    ‘There are no crops to celebrate’
    Climate crisis wipes out a way of life in Taiwan’s mountains

    Countless landslides in Nantou county are disrupting ancient agricultural traditions, leading some to wonder how much longer they can continue to cling to the steep slopes they call home
  • Mark Bezos, left, and Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and space tourism company Blue Origin, watch a video playback of their flight experience from the spaceport near Van Horn, Texas, on July 20, 2021.

    Jeff Bezos wore a cowboy hat again
    Real cowboys are rolling their eyes

  • ‘Whatever your sexuality, older people can watch our videos and see a ray of hope and optimism’: (from left) Mick, Jessay, Robert and Bill.

    ‘We don’t hold anything back’
    Meet the Old Gays, TikTok’s most influential pensioners

    When four gay men with an average age of 74 started appearing on TikTok, they became an instant hit. They talk about how, as their audience has grown, their outfits have shrunk
  • A person in a hard hat and safety vest looks way, way up in a mostly-white industrial building at towers of trays stacked so high they're out of the frame, beyond which are fans.

    Suck carbon from the air?
    US facility launches novel climate solution

    Direct air capture is a reality in California with plant that pledges not to take investments from oil and gas
    • **BESTPIX** Saturday Night Live - Season 49<br>SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE -- "Jason Momoa, Tate McRae" Episode 1849 -- Pictured: (l-r) Musical guest Tate McRae, host Jason Momoa, and Chloe Fineman during Promos in Studio 8H on Thursday, November 16, 2023 -- (Photo by: Rosalind O'Connor/NBC via Getty Images)

      Saturday Night Live
      Jason Momoa is given very little to work with

    • Karlie Kloss

      A new model for digital media?
      What Karlie Kloss’s acquisition of i-D means

    • President Lincoln's Cottage, in Washington DC.

      ‘The Lincoln shiver’
      A visit to the Soldiers’ Home, a less-known Washington gem

    • Boeung Chhouk Market in Battambang

      Cambodia
      How a sleepy town won a place on Unesco’s culinary map

Opinion

  • TOPSHOT-FRANCE-POLITICS-HERITAGE-CULTURE<br>TOPSHOT - French President Emmanuel Macron speaks to his wife Brigitte Macron during a visit to Gueret, central France, on September 16, 2022, as part of the 2022 European Heritage days. (Photo by Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP) (Photo by EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Getty Images)

    The Macrons are an exception. My teacher’s seduction scarred me

    Joe Gibson
    An interview with the French president’s wife contrasts with the film May December about a taboo that is an abuse of power
  • Tom Whyman’s children

    The latest Google phone promises to transform my children into perfect, smiling angels. Why would I want that?

    Tom Whyman
  • Woman with eyes closed at dusk

    Work has conquered every day of the week. How do we remain human in a world that worships toil?

    Justine Toh
  • Sam Altman<br>File - Sam Altman participates in a discussion during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023, in San Francisco. The board of ChatGPT-maker Open AI says it has pushed out Altman, its co-founder and CEO, and replaced him with an interim CEO(AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

    Sam Altman was the trusted face of AI. His firm, though, is much more complex

    John Naughton
  • A young woman resting on the sofa at home

    I know sitting is bad for me. But how can I cut back when it’s so much fun?

    Emma Beddington
  • Prime minister Rishi Sunak searches for the magic ingredient to revive the fortunes of his unpopular government.

    The sight of Lord Cameron strutting the world stage won’t save Rishi Sunak

    Andrew Rawnsley

Sports

  • Detroit Lions running back David Montgomery walks off the field after the Detroit Lions’ win over the Chicago Bears

    NFL roundup
    Lions roar back late as Browns win without Watson

    David Montgomery’s go-ahead one-yard touchdown run with 29 seconds left against his former team lifted the Detroit Lions to a comeback victory
  • Lewis Hamilton

    'Proved them wrong'
    Hamilton hits back at Vegas GP negativity

  • Pat Cummins lifts the trophy after Australia beat India by six wickets to claim their sixth World Cup.

    Cricket World Cup
    Australia shock hosts India in final to win sixth title

    Australia won their sixth 50-over World Cup as Travis Head’s superb 137 capped a ruthless display to stun the hosts in Ahmedabad
  • Novak Djokovic celebrates with the trophy after beating Italy's Jannik Sinner

    ATP Finals
    Djokovic claims seventh title with demolition of Sinner

    The world No 1 silenced the crowd in Turin with a dominant 6-3, 6-3 triumph, breaking his tie with Roger Federer for the most ATP Finals victories
    • Scotland's Billy Gilmour, Andrew Robertson and John McGinn wear ‘We're off to Germany’ shirts after qualifying for Euro 2024.

      Scotland 3-3 Norway
      Elyounoussi rescues draw for visitors in six-goal thriller

    • Graham Taylor and Elton John before the 1984 FA Cup semi-final

      Elton John’s Watford showed clubs are about people

      Simon Burnton
    • Aleksandar Mitrovic leads the celebration as Serbia booked their place in Germany with a 2-2 draw in Leskovac.

      Euro 2024 qualifying
      Serbia seal historic finals place after nervy draw with Bulgaria

    • Nicolai Højgaard celebrates his win at the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai

      Golf
      Højgaard takes Dubai title, Woods confirms comeback

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Climate crisis

  • A pumpjacks in the oilfields of Penwell, Texas. Texas has seen some of the most extreme effects of the worsening climate crisis in recent years.

    Republicans
    School board in Texas votes against climate textbooks

  • The most common disposal methods for PFAS waste were incineration, landfilling, discharge into wastewater treatment systems, and deep well injection.

    Toxic chemicals
    US industry disposed of at least 60m pounds of PFAS waste in last five years

  • Gas flaring

    Exclusive
    Cop28 host UAE breaking its own ban on routine gas flaring, data shows

  • Plastic waste inside cargo containers in Port Klang, Selangor, Malaysia

    Environment
    EU agrees to ban exports of waste plastic to poor countries

Across the country

  • This Dec. 1, 2012 file photo shows a silhouette of a crucifix and a stained glass window inside a Catholic Church in New Orleans. On Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023, a Louisiana state grand jury charged a now-91-year-old disgraced priest, Lawrence Hecker, with sexually assaulting a teenage boy in 1975, an extraordinary prosecution that could shed new light on what Roman Catholic Church leaders knew about a child sex abuse crisis that persisted for decades and claimed hundreds of victims. (

    Ohio
    Priest who sex-trafficked boys he met in preschool given life sentence

    Michael Zacharias’s victims said the priest waited until they began abusing drugs before he sexually trafficked them
  • White woman with long blond hair, glasses, and red blazer laughs in afternoon sunlight on the side of a street where there is a parade behind her.

    Democrats
    Congresswoman with brain disorder skipping therapy to serve in House

  • Rescue crews help Christy Perry, a hiker who spent a week missing in west Texas’s Big Bend national park.

    Texas
    Hiker rescued after wandering lost in national park for more than a week

  • U.S. Economy Adds Jobs In September, Unemployment Rate Drops To 3.7 Percent<br>NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 05: A now hiring sign is displayed in the window of a Brooklyn business on October 5, 2018 in New York, United States. Newly released data by the Labor Department on Friday shows that US employers added 134,000 jobs last month. While this was below economists expectations of 185,00, it brought the unemployment rate down to 3.7 percent, the lowest since December 1969. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

    US economy
    Top US economists are often wrong – should we trust their predictions?

    • Los Angeles
      Investigators identify ‘person of interest’ in freeway arson

    • ‘Incredibly overdue’
      Minnesota library book returned more than 100 years later

    • Texas
      Killer of pro cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson sentenced to 90 years

    • Colorado
      Judge says Trump ‘engaged in insurrection’ but keeps him on ballot

    • SpaceX
      Starship rocket reaches space for first time but explodes moments later

    • Taylor Swift
      Singer postpones Rio concert after fan dies amid heatwave

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Around the world

  • Volodymyr Zelenskiy at a press conference in Odesa.

    Ukraine
    Zelenskiy calls for operational changes to military after sacking commander

    President demands ‘new level of medical support for soldiers’ as questions mount over speed of counteroffensive against Russia
  • A humpback whale near the coast of Ilhabela, Brazil.

    Brazil
    Bolsonaro under investigation for ‘harassing’ humpback whale

  • The upper half of a faience shabti inscribed for a man named Hor-sa-Iset, discovered in the school grounds.

    'That’s not a potato'
    Mystery of Egyptian treasures found buried in grounds of Scottish school

  • Russell Brand wearing sunglasses

    Russell Brand
    Comedian interviewed by police over sexual offense allegations

    • Taiwan
      Defence ministry reports increased Chinese military drills nearby

    • Netherlands
      Far-right Party for Freedom makes gains in poll ahead of election

    • Egypt
      My brother the political prisoner, by Sanaa Seif

    • Heritage
      US accused of sending fake Roman mosaics back to Lebanon

    • Shakira
      Singer due to go on trial in Spain over tax fraud claims

    • Pacific islands
      A four-decade-old Pacific treaty was meant to preserve the ‘peaceful region’. Now experts say it’s being exploited

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Culture

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    Booker prize
    Booker prize 2023: will the judges talk themselves out of the right choice?

  • Dolly Parton looking amazing in rock star mode in black leather with an electric guitar and with pink hair

    Dolly Parton: Rockstar review
    The country icon turns it up to 11

  • Maria Callas as Tosca at La Scala, Milan.

    ‘They’ll see she was extraordinary’
    Callas centenary inspires new generation to find the real Maria

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  • Philippa Perry

    Ask Philippa
    I am so lonely and so isolated, I feel I’m living like a zombie

    It sounds as though something from your past has triggered your brooding – and that you have forgotten how to make things happen for yourself
  • Zahra Hankir writer for for OM's eyeliner feature

    Makeup
    ‘There are three of us in my relationship: my partner, my eyeliner and me’

  • Woman standing in the aisle of a server room

    Notes and queries
    For which tasks is artificial intelligence least well suited?

  • Detail from a cocktail suit from Chanel’s autumn/winter 1991-92 collection, by Karl Lagerfeld – showing a large black bow at the small of the back on a gold sequinned jacket, worn over black skirt

    ‘Crusade for haute couture’
    252-item Chanel collection up for auction in Paris

  • a woman pulling a green jumper over her head

    We Love
    Fashion fixes for the week ahead – in pictures

  • Kylie Jenner in a black bustiere top on the red carpet with long, black, natural wavy hair which she is adjusting

    ‘It’s a rock’n’roll vibe’
    Stars reject the coiffured look in favour of messy hair

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    Music
    Post your questions for Busta Rhymes

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In case you missed it

  • US-SPACE-SPACEX<br>SpaceX's Starship rocket launches from Starbase during its second test flight in Boca Chica, Texas, on November 18, 2023. SpaceX on November 18, 2023, carried out the second test launch of Starship, the largest rocket ever built that Elon Musk hopes will one day colonize Mars, while NASA awaits a modified version to land humans on the Moon. It comes after a first attempt to fly the spaceship in its fully-stacked configuration back in April ended in a spectacular explosion over the Gulf of Mexico. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP) (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)

    Elon Musk
    Rows and rockets blow up as Musk’s firms endure turbulent weekend

  • Kate Moss in pink vest top, leaning against a white wall with a string of coloured lights behind her Kate Moss, 1993 (photo) by Day, Corinne (1962-2010); Private Collection; (add.info.: British Vogue, Underexposed, Kate Moss, June 1993); Estate of Corinne Day. All rights reserved 2023. Please note: This photograph requires additional permission prior to use. If you wish to reproduce this image, please contact Bridgeman Images and we will manage the permission request on your behalf.

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  • Former journalist Mustafa Nayyem

    Mustafa Nayyem
    The man who sparked the Maidan revolution … and is now tasked with rebuilding Ukraine

    On the 10th anniversary of the uprising, journalist-turned-politician Mustafa Nayyem recalls ‘the last time our country was in one piece’, and tells of his vision for the future
  • Rita Roberts portrait

    Operation Identify Me
    How Interpol traced the identity of ‘the woman with the flower tattoo’

  • A model of the skull of Homo floresiensis

    Where did they all go?
    How Homo sapiens became the last human species left

  • Andrea Ævarsdóttir with her two teenage sons and one of their three cats in her mother's one-bedroom apartment.

    ‘I felt like I was in a dystopian novel’
    Residents unsure they’ll ever return to volcano-threatened Icelandic town

  • A mother and child are seen through an X-ray of the child’s lungs

    ‘The complete murder of our young’
    India counts cost of another polluting Diwali on a generation of children

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In pictures

  • Paris Hilton on the grid before the start of the Las Vegas Grand Prix

    Photos of the day
    A heatwave, snow and a celebrity selfie

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • Then the Sisters Made Their Guest and His Horse Known to All the Wild Beasts by Laura Pannack

    The big picture
    In search of a land where time stands still

  • Red Bull celebrate a big win in Vegas.

    Formula One
    Las Vegas Grand Prix: F1 hits Sin City

  • The celebration of Holi at Banke Bihari Temple. Vrindavan, India, 2008–11

    'Pause, slow down and take notice'
    Watch with Wonder, a book by Palani Mohan

  • Chrysantemum Morifolium photographed by Tine Poppe for her series Gilded Lilies.

    Flowers
    Shop staples returned to the wild

  • Smart shot by Koichi Miyase: taken from my room at a hotel in Osaka. This hotel has a very interesting location , with several rivers surrounding it and a highway running between the buildings . I dimmed the lights in the room and used my smartphone to capture scene of a working city at 7 p.m., where the expressway is congested .

    ‘The cars’ lights flowed like a river’
    Koichi Miyase’s best phone picture

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