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  • Blurry image of one of the workers inside the cave, who is wearing a white hard hat

    India
    First images show workers trapped in collapsed tunnel

  • The aftermath of a Russian missile strike in Selydove.

    Live
    Russia-Ukraine war: More than 10,000 civilians killed in Ukraine in war, UN says; Berlin unveils £1.1bn military aid package

    • Darién Gap
      Rapists and kidnappers increasingly targeting migrants crossing

    • Live
      Trump return to White House would be perilous for democracy, conservative lawyers say

    • France
      MP says she feared a heart attack after drink was spiked with ecstasy

    • Microsoft
      Chief says ‘no OpenAI’ without tech giant’s involvement

    • Italy
      Girl, two, dies and eight missing after boat sinks off Lampedusa

    • ‘Fifa goofed’
      Anger over Australian tax on Women’s World Cup match fees

Israel-Hamas war

  • Iran's foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, left, and Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh in Doha, Qatar, in late October.

    Explainer
    Why is Qatar often a mediator and what is its role in Israel-Hamas war?

  • Jonathan Shamriz with his wife, Natali, and daughter Yali

    ‘I’ll never go back'
    The Israelis displaced from homes by Hamas attack

  • Children wait to be handed food

    Gaza diary part 25
    For a few seconds, I felt loved and cared for

  • Mosab Abu Toha poet from Gaza.

    Mosab Abu Toha
    Detained Palestinian poet released by Israeli forces

News in focus

  • Fadi sits on rocks looking out to the sea, his small silhouette dwarfed by rain clouds

    Libya
    Months after deadly floods, migrants’ families still await news of the missing

  • Javier Milei standing behind a lectern, wearing glasses, a dark jacket, blue shirt and tie. He has an animated expression on his face.

    Argentina’s new leader is a snake-oil salesman with extreme views on abortion, gay rights and more. I fear for my country

    Uki Goñi
    After his landslide victory in the presidential election, Javier Milei is threatening to undo 40 years of democracy in Argentina
  • Superyacht illustration

    ‘I cannot stress too much about it’
    Monaco yacht buyers shrug off climate concerns

    At annual yacht show, only a handful of customers said they were troubled by vessels’ disproportionate carbon footprint

Spotlight

  • Val Wilmer: Rural Blues guitarist Guitar Shorty at home, Elm City, North Carolina 1972

    ‘Fela Kuti was always in his pants’
    Legendary music photographer Val Wilmer’s greatest shoots

    She ate fried chicken with BB King, gave Jimi Hendrix a lift home from a gig and accidentally worked for MI6. The pioneer recalls her favourite subjects – and the ones like Miles Davis she’d rather forget
  • johnson points with one eye closed. the word "porn" is superimposed repeatedly over the image

    'Porn creates shame'
    I tried US House speaker's favourite anti-porn app. It didn’t go well

  • Groundfloor<br>DSC 0250

    After-school club for the post-30s
    Anti-loneliness club offers friendship for $200 a month – and thousands have signed up

    California’s Groundfloor club targets the isolation epidemic with an ‘after-school club’ for the post-30 set
  • FILE - A woman hangs a portrait of a missing person on a makeshift line along Reforma Avenue during a march demanding the government do more to locate their loved ones, marking International Day of the Disappeared, in Mexico City, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023. Almost 112,000 people are missing in Mexico. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador claims that is an overcount, but a new U.N. report published Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023, suggests the number may be even greater. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)

    Mexico
    Is the capital's plummeting murder rate too good to be true?

    Growing number of missing people prompts questions about homicide statistics
    • Claire and her mother

      'Flying back to the nest isn’t a failure'
      There are no self-help books for moving in with your parents in middle age, but there should be

    • Inventions Exhibition, 1969<br>The first London International Inventions Exhibition, held at London's Royal Horticultural New Hall, Westminster. Pictured, Sylvia Acca (24) trying out the portable Volks-sauna bath that costs ú15, which consists of a plastic case with a warm air heater, which comes from Germany, 6th January 1969. (Photo by Eric Harlow/Mirrorpix/Getty Images)

      Shock of the old
      12 torturous and orgasmic exercise fads

    • People march from Freedom Plaza to the White House to hold a pro-Palestine demonstration and condemn Israeli attacks on Gaza.

      TechScape
      Are social media giants silencing online content?

    • A young rider appears to be asleep on a brown horse

      Five pillows and an indoor fountain
      Readers share their surprising sleep routines

Opinion

  • Benjamin Netanyahu

    The pressure on Netanyahu is starting to tell – this potential truce shows something has changed

    Simon Tisdall
    A deal to pause hostilities in Gaza and free some hostages is agonisingly close, but both sides are split on what happens next
  • Flooding in Brechin, Scotland, caused by Storm Babet, 20 October 2023.

    Of course working-class people care about the climate crisis: they emit the least, but will suffer most

    Roger Harding
  • ‘Ventura also alleges that after she was romantically linked to another man, Combs told her that he would blow up the man’s car.’

    Diddy’s alleged abuse of Cassie is a sad reminder of how power works in society

    Moira Donegan
  • Spaghetti bolognese on a white plate

    AI is changing the world – and I’ve just eaten the underwhelming pasta that proves it

    Zing Tsjeng
  • Robert Reich

    Billionaires are lining up to fund Donald Trump’s anti-democratic agenda

    Robert Reich
  • Jill Posener, Born Kicking, London, 1983, reprinted 2023, part of Tate Britain’s Women in Revolt! exhibition.

    Motherhood is exhausting - but this week I was reminded that we’ve come a long, long way

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
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Sport

  • David Squires on … the ultimate fantasy football stadium in 50 favourite bits

    David Squires on …
    The ultimate fantasy football stadium in 50 favourite bits

    Our cartoonist asked his echo chamber to nominate their best-loved parts of grounds. The response was overwhelming
  • Colombia v Brazil - FIFA World Cup 2026 Qualifier<br>BARRANQUILLA, COLOMBIA - NOVEMBER 16: Gabriel Martinelli of Brazil celebrates with teammates after scoring the team's first goal during the FIFA World Cup 2026 Qualifier match between Colombia and Brazil at Estadio Metropolitano Roberto Meléndez on November 16, 2023 in Barranquilla, Colombia. (Photo by Gabriel Aponte/Getty Images)

    Football
    Brazil will stick to their style – even if it means losing to Argentina

Around the world

  • A police officer arrests a Just Stop Oil activist in Bishopsgate, London, in July.

    Exclusive
    Political attack on human rights is a ‘dangerous’ assault on UK democracy, says HRW director

    Yasmine Ahmed says government actions regarding asylum seekers, climate activists and pro-Palestine protesters are starting to ‘look very much like authoritarianism’
  • Alejo Vidal-Quadras pictured in 2009

    Spain
    Three arrested over shooting of former rightwing politician in Madrid

  • A cricket bat, helmet and gloves

    Sport
    Transgender players banned from international women’s cricket by ICC

  • ***BESTPIX*** Former President Trump Visits The Southern Border With Texas Governor Abbott<br>EDINBURG, TEXAS - NOVEMBER 19: Former President Donald Trump gives remarks at the South Texas International airport on November 19, 2023 in Edinburg, Texas. Trump took the stage shortly after Texas Governor Greg Abbott officially endorsed the former president for his 2024 presidential campaign. (Photo by Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images) ***BESTPIX***

    Donald Trump
    Prominent conservative lawyers band together to fight threat

    • Tails I win
      Coin toss sends North Carolina candidate into mayor’s office

    • US
      Democrats supporting Israel oppose Bernie Sanders’ plan for conditional aid

    • Sweden
      ‘Breakthrough battery’ may cut dependency on China

    • Netherlands
      Party leaders clash in TV debate as election nears

    • Environment
      ‘Extremely venomous’ green mamba on the loose in Netherlands

    • Falkland Islands
      Sovereignty not up for discussion, says UK PM

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Climate crisis

  • Darlene Jones sweeps the sidewalk in front of her home in the Treme neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, on 12 November 2023.

    'We are not the main polluters'
    In climate-vulnerable New Orleans, residents face battle to lower carbon emissions

  • Revealed: The huge climate impact of the middle classes

    Revealed
    The huge climate impact of the middle classes

  • Water melting from an iceberg in Scoresby fjord, Greenland in August this year.

    'Hellish'
    World facing 3C of climate heating, UN warns before Cop28

  • Carbon divide illustration with jet and shanty town

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

Culture

  • This image released by IFC Films shows Shere Hite in a scene from "The Disappearance of Shere Hite." (IFC Films via AP)

    Shere Hite
    Remembering the feminist sex researcher forgotten by time

    A new documentary examines the work of bestselling author Shere Hite and her absence from the feminist canon
  • Protesters are escorted out of the Four Seasons Hotel by police after interrupting the Scotiabank Giller Prize ceremony.

    Sarah Bernstein
    Canadian writers ask Giller prize to drop charges against pro-Palestinian protesters

  • Chris Harris, Freddie Flintoff, Paddy McGuinness on the BBC’s Top Gear.

    Top Gear
    Show taken off air by BBC following Freddie Flintoff crash

  • Composer Yuzo Koshiro in 2023

    Meet Yuzo Koshiro
    Your favourite game’s soundtrack wouldn’t exist without him

  • Lost in the Night Movie still Juan Daniel Garcia Trevino as Emiliano Press publicity film still supplied by PR

    Lost in the Night review
    Amat Escalante’s Lynchian melodrama of Mexican corruption

  • A life less ordinary … Tischa “The Tigress” Thomas.

    I Am the Tigress review
    Nuanced portrait of female bodybuilder’s strength and resilience

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  • Christine Gabardo, co-founder and technology director at U of T startup CERT Systems

    A sustainable alternative
    How researchers remade ‘the world’s most widely used petrochemical’

  • Professor Yu Sun (MIE)

    Tiny robots, giant steps
    How nanotechnology could improve cancer and fertility treatment

  • PhD candidate Folake Oyewole

    Reducing anaemia
    Why researchers are adding nutrients to salt and tea

  • Prof Kevin Golovin and DREAM Laboratory team working on Wettability Solid liquid interactions

    Fashion’s microplastics problem
    Could a chemical found in many household products help alleviate?

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Lifestyle

  • Kitchen cupboard contents showing cooking ingredients, food stuffs and condiments. Image shot 04/2012. Exact date unknown.<br>CNDYY6 Kitchen cupboard contents showing cooking ingredients, food stuffs and condiments. Image shot 04/2012. Exact date unknown.

    Kitchen aide
    I followed a Nigella recipe, and now have a cupboard full of unused ingredients. Help!

    Random leftovers can often make themselves useful in all manner of batters, coatings and stuffings for fish or meat dishes, as well as sweet treats
  • Maike Hohnen on a yellow fishing boat

    How we survive
    My boat sank in the dead of night – and I had to save my seven-year-old son

  • Jayne McGibbon Peberdy and her son Matthew have a huge collection of Kevin the Carrot merch from Aldi

    Middle-aisle mayhem
    How Aldi and Lidl changed UK shoppers

  • Emma Beddington cuddling cows at Dumble Farm

    'They enjoy the attention'
    Can cuddling a cow make me less stressed? There’s one way to find out …

  • 'Detail of decor from SFRJ Kafana, Belgrade 10/23'. -Ed Godsell

    ‘People dance on tables’
    Welcome to Belgrade’s kafana pub culture

  • ‘Do you need to be drawn to the odour of the person you love?’

    Sexual healing
    I don’t like the way my partner smells

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My Blonde GF

A disturbing story of deepfake pornography. Sexually explicit images appear on a porn site, with Helen's face edited onto other women’s bodies. In this powerful short film, Helen shares the impact this experience has had on her life

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  • High-speed hits … Busta Rhymes.

    Music
    Post your questions for Busta Rhymes

  • TOPSHOT-ICELAND-VOLCANO-EARTHQUAKE-EMERGENCY<br>TOPSHOT - This photo taken on November 13, 2023 shows a crack cutting across the main road in Grindavik, southwestern Iceland following earthquakes. The southwestern town of Grindavik -- home to around 4,000 people -- was evacuated in the early hours of November 11 after magma shifting under the Earth's crust caused hundreds of earthquakes in what experts warned could be a precursor to a volcanic eruption. The seismic activity damaged roads and buildings in the town situated 40 kilometres (25 miles) southwest of the capital Reykjavik, an AFP journalist saw. (Photo by Kjartan TORBJOERNSSON / AFP) / Iceland OUT (Photo by KJARTAN TORBJOERNSSON/AFP via Getty Images)

    People in Iceland
    Have you had to evacuate?

  • A man walks past placards highlighting the plight of the hostages kidnapped by Hamas, in Tel Aviv, Israel.

    People in Israel
    How have you been affected by the Israel-Hamas war?

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    People in Gaza
    How have you been affected by the Israel-Hamas war?

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  • Residents of Luleå, northern Sweden, go sledging.

    ‘You live in your own bubble’
    Swedish city takes on loneliness with a simple hi

    Residents of Luleå welcome new campaign encouraging them to say hello to each other during dark winter months
  • Netanyahu

    The Netanyahu doctrine
    How Israel’s longest-serving leader reshaped the country in his image

  • A man stands by as a fire rages in a livestock market area in al-Fasher, the capital of Sudan's North Darfur state.

    ‘There is a genocide going on in west Darfur’
    Sudan’s cycle of violence

  • Pro-Palestinian demonstrators at a protest at the Memorial Auditorium on Saturday, 18 November 2023 in Sacramento, California.

    ‘Why can’t I get them out?’
    Palestinian Americans who fled Gaza devastated over leaving family behind

  • Javier Milei from the far-right Liberty Advances coalition shakes hands with supporters outside his campaign headquarters in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Sunday.

    ‘Ghosts from the past’
    Fears of abortion setback after Milei wins in Argentina

  • Painted dogs

    Zimbabwe
    Ranger brings unloved painted dogs back from brink

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    Restaurants and holidays
    UK’s well-off have outsize carbon footprints

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    A rich minority
    Recognising the climate chasm

  • Carbon divide illustration with jet and shanty town

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

  • A hotel and casino the occupied part of Nicosia, with the flags of Turkey and the self-styled ‘Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus’

    ‘No questions asked’
    How Russian money is fuelling a building boom in northern Cyprus

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  • Football Weekly
    England and Italy qualify but what to make of their campaigns? – Football Weekly

  • Science
    Superyachts and private jets: the carbon impact of the ‘polluter elite’ – podcast

  • Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
    S5 E9: Tamsin Greig, actor

  • Today in Focus
    How much legal trouble is Donald Trump in?

  • Football Weekly
    Everton deducted 10 points and Wales falter in Armenia – Football Weekly

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    ‘I stopped counting how many friends died’: life after the contaminated blood scandal – podcast

  • Living hell: Britain’s rent crisis
    The families stuck living in Britain’s unlicensed bedsits

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  • Uttarkashi, India A picture taken with an endoscopic camera shows a worker trapped inside the under-construction tunnel,

    Photos of the day
    Tunnel collapse in India and a Guangzhou light show

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • Ocean Photographer of the Year 2023. Overall Winner of the Ocean Photographer of the Year.Following the Taal Volcano eruption in the Philippines, the water column filled with particles from the stirred-up sediments. Navigating through the low visibility and dense fog during a blackwater dive, I found this female paper nautilus taking a ride on a drifting wooden stick. When I pressed the shutter, the particles reflected my light. The scene felt unusually serene following the natural disaster and reminds me of a fairytale set in a snowy night. As underwater photographers, we aim to shoot in clear water but this image reminds us that grains of sand, organic matter, or tiny organisms are integral parts of the underwater environment. I aim to accept their, Batangas Bay, Philippines.

    Environment
    2023 ocean photographer of the year

  • a spectacled bear in an ancient tree amid a curtain of Spanish moss, in the Andean mountains of Ecuador

    Nature photographer of the year 2023
    The winning images

  • Good to meat you … Dorothy Bohm’s Butchers at Smithfield Market, London, 1970s

    London
    Get your vintage photos, two for a pound! Old street markets

  • Alessia Russo of England celebrates victory on the final whistle during the Womens Euros 2022 final match between England and Germany at Wembley Stadium on 31 July 2022 in London

    Tom Jenkins’ sporting moments
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  • The nuclear power station at Aktau, on the shores of the Caspian Sea in Mangystau, western Kazakhstan

    The shrinking sea
    Why the Caspian is under threat

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