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  • Benjamin Zephaniah.

    Benjamin Zephaniah
    British poet and campaigner dies aged 65

  • Rishi Sunak at 10 Downing Street.

    Live
    UK politics: Rishi Sunak defends Rwanda asylum policy as Tory split deepens

    • Live
      Israel-Hamas war: Gaza aid system at ‘severe risk of collapse’, says UN secretary-general

    • UK
      School inspection contributed to headteacher’s suicide, coroner rules

    • UK Covid inquiry
      Johnson surprised ‘eat out to help out’ not cleared by scientists

    • US
      Georgia prosecutors predict jail sentences in Trump 2020 election case

    • 'Silly joke'
      BBC presenter apologises after giving middle finger at start of live broadcast

    • CosMc’s
      McDonald’s to take on Starbucks with retro-style stores

Europe in focus

  • The Black Unity Bike Ride, London, 5 August 2023

    ‘On the road, we found ourselves again’
    Four bike rides, four years in the life of Black Britain

  • Sir Dave Brailsford, pictured in 2019

    Christophe Galtier
    Football coach's racism trial raises questions for Brailsford, Ineos and Manchester United

    Coach denies race and religious discrimination charges in episode at Nice that puts focus on judgment of would-be United part-owners
  • ‘I don’t consider myself a cancelled person’ … Candice Breitz.

    ‘A frenzy of judgement’
    Artist Candice Breitz on her German show being pulled over Gaza

    The Jewish artist’s exhibition was cancelled when she commented on the Israel-Hamas war. She argues that Germany is weaponising false charges of antisemitism to chilling and repressive effect

Spotlight

  • Safe at last … Jewish children arriving in London in February 1939.

    ‘He became everybody’s grandfather’
    How Nicholas Winton saved 669 children (and counting) from the Holocaust

    Four generations owe their lives to the man who brought trainloads of Jewish children from Czechoslovakia to Britain in 1939. The original refugees remember the Kindertransport – and the shy stockbroker who got them on it
  • ‘Suddenly I’m in another world’ … Jeffries goes ambisonic and volumetric in Marshmallow Laser Feast’s installation.

    ‘With Cate Blanchett in my ears, I become an insect on the wing’
    Our writer merges with a rainforest

  • Climate tracker illustration

    Visualised
    How all of G20 is missing climate goals — but some nations are closer than others

    As world leaders gather at Cop28, these charts show how far away the major economies are from their targets
  • Benjamin Zephaniah.

    Three poems by Benjamin Zephaniah
    A sandy place, a recipe for a nation and a Christmas plea

    As writers and readers pay tribute to the poet, here are three works reflecting his care and concern for refugees, for justice and for our need to feel we belong
    • Mark and Laur

      Dining across the divide
      ‘I enjoyed his company. But afterwards thought, hang on a moment … ’

    • Carol and Charles Stuart in Murder In Boston: Roots, Rampage & Reckoning

      ‘We failed the city of Boston’
      How a racist manhunt led to chaos in 1989

    • Shoba (left) and Hania.

      How we met
      ‘When she walked past me it was like being covered in a soft blanket’

    • A monkey protecting his blind cage mate at a macaque breeding facility.

      $20,000 monkeys
      Inside the booming illicit trade for lab animals

Opinion

  • Smoke rises from the Gaza Strip during an Israeli bombardment, 6 December.

    Any attempt to run Gaza like the West Bank will fail – and Hamas will benefit

    Tahani Mustafa
    The next administration is more likely to appear by default than by design, says Tahani Mustafa, senior Palestine analyst at the International Crisis Group
  • Jay Rayner Happy Eater illustration Observer Food Monthly OFM December 2023

    Christmas is a time for traditions. If yours is a nativity pizza, who am I to judge?

    Jay Rayner
  • Trump speaks at Republican fundraiser in Columbia<br>Former U.S. President and Republican candidate Donald Trump makes a keynote speech at a Republican fundraising dinner in Columbia, South Carolina, U.S. August 5, 2023. REUTERS/Sam Wolfe TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

    Here’s what Trump 2.0 will bring: ignorance and vengeance in the US, chaos for world order

    Gordon Brown
  • An anti-racism protest in Paris, France, 3 December 2023

    Islamophobia and antisemitism are equal scourges – and the EU is finally recognising that

    Shada Islam
  • school whiteboard with 'ceasefire now' written across it

    How do young Britons see the massacre in Gaza? These Luton students will tell you

    Aditya Chakrabortty
  • Carl Fredricksen (left) and Adrian Chiles

    I loved my new glasses – until everyone told me what they thought of them

    Adrian Chiles

Cop28

  • IMF head Kristalina Georgieva

    Carbon taxes
    Carbon pricing would raise trillions needed to tackle climate crisis, says IMF

  • Analyah Schlaeger dos Santos with two friends

    Beach? Shopping? Sleep?
    How Cop28 is spending its rest day

  • A view of dried reed plants on the parched soil of Lake Titicaca on Cojata Island, in Huarina, Bolivia, on 01 December 2023.

    Climate crisis
    $700m pledged to loss and damage fund at Cop28 covers less than 0.2% needed

  • From left, Francisco Vera, Emmanuel Jidisa, Lova Renee and Revan Ahmad

    Young people’s plea to Cop28
    ‘World leaders owe it to future generations’

Sport

  • Key players gather at the Investec Champions Cup launch at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

    Champions Cup
    Competition kicks off with usual suspects on top but plenty to relish

    La Rochelle, Leinster and Toulouse are the trio to beat but with Europe’s best colliding there are some intriguing possibilities
  • Steve Cooper apologises to Nottingham Forest’s fans after the 5-0 defeat at Fuham on Wednesday.

    Football
    Forest target possible Cooper successor with Lopetegui on list

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Around the world

  • Smoke billowing from Gaza’s second largest city, Khan Younis, which is the latest target of Israel’s offensive.

    US
    Washington faces UN showdown over fresh resolution for Gaza ceasefire

    US may feel impelled to protect Israel with veto again as UAE prepares security council motion
  • IPCC meeting

    Climate crisis
    We need power to prescribe climate policy, IPCC scientists say

  • Cos Mc's sign

    CosMc’s
    McDonald’s to take on Starbucks with retro-style stores

  • Patients are monitored in a recovery room following their surgical abortions at Alamo Women's Clinic in Carbondale, Illinois.

    US
    Abortion clinics saw record surge in out-of-state patients post-Roe, report says

    • Italy
      Fixing leaning tower of Bologna will take at least 10 years and €20m, says mayor

    • Science
      Blood test to determine organ age could help predict disease risk

    • Greedflation
      Corporate profiteering ‘significantly’ boosted global prices, study shows

    • Kyoto Animation fire
      Japan prosecutors seek death penalty over blaze that killed 36

    • Peru
      Alberto Fujimori, divisive former president, released from jail

    • US
      Meta platforms are marketplaces for child predators claims lawsuit

Culture

  • No choice but to run … Manoj Bajpayee in Joram.

    Film
    Joram review – old and new worlds collide in pressure cooker man and baby-hunt

    Director Devashish Makhija slowly ramps up the tension with a sharp eye for oppressive realism and social satire as a father tries to out run his oppressors in this gritty thriller
  • Bill O'Neill: The Amazing Banana Brothers.

    Heard the one about the 80 banana skins?
    The chaotic world of comedy props

  • book jackets

    Books
    The best memoirs and biographies of 2023

  • Dakota Johnson as Anne Elliott in the 2022 film adaptation of Persuasion.

    ‘Spirits dancing in private rapture’
    The best descriptions of joy in literature

  • Xmasbooks23 downpage childrens

    Books
    Best children’s books of 2023

  • Former Conservative cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken arrives at the Old Bailey in 1999.

    Best podcasts of the week
    Best podcasts of the week: Jonathan Aitken’s fall from Downing Street hopeful to convicted liar

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Lifestyle

  • Glenda Jackson, Matthew Perry and Tina Turner

    Take the Thursday quiz
    Pop stars, actors and politicians we lost in 2023

    Fifteen questions on notable pop culture and political figures we lost this year
  • Illustration of a man in a box surrounded by presents.

    The experts
    Money gurus’ 20 failsafe, frugal tips to keep Christmas overspend at bay

  • Sbowshoing in Bulgaria’s Pirin Mountains.

    ‘Just strap on the footwear and walk’
    A snowshoeing holiday for beginners in Bulgaria

  • The 87th Academy Awards - Arrivals - Los Angeles<br>Melanie Griffith and Dakota Johnson arriving at the 87th Academy Awards held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, USA. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Sunday February 22, 2015. See PA story SHOWBIZ Oscars. Photo credit should read: Ian West/PA Wire

    ‘Nepo baby’ was just the start
    Inside the expanding nepo universe

  • A man resting his hands on his lap as he sits onboard a commercial flight

    Pass notes
    ‘He’s about to give birth!’ Manspreading hits new heights at 30,000ft

  • illustration of an adult wearing a baby onesie and with a dummy in their mouth

    Why am I like this?
    I’m an adult. Why do I regress under my parents’ roof?

  • Football Weekly
    Fortress Villa Park and McTominay magic – Football Weekly Extra

  • Science
    All the drama from the first week of Cop28 – podcast

  • Today in Focus
    The lives and lies of George Santos

  • The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: The rise and fall of French cuisine – podcast

  • Today in Focus
    Boris Johnson v the Covid inquiry

  • The Guardian's Women's Football Weekly
    Team GB’s Olympic hopes hang in balance – Women’s Football Weekly

  • Science
    Why are we still struggling to get contraception right? – podcast

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  • Santa Claus holding his belly, two many cookies I think

    Christmas
    Tell us about the moment you found out the truth about Santa

  • Large group of people with a mixed age range sitting together around a table. They are enjoying a drink and having a book club meeting

    Books
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From our global editions

  • Palestinian children wait in a line with containers to collect water

    ‘We have no choice’
    Illness in Gaza as clean water becomes a luxury

    Safe drinking water is becoming ever harder to come by, with disastrous consequences for those who can’t afford it
  • The founders of Weaver Press, Irene Staunton and Murray McCartney, at their home in Harare, Zimbabwe.

    Telling tales
    Zimbabwe’s Weaver Press celebrates 25 years of championing truth-telling fiction

  • Prepared grasshoppers, or nsenene in Luganda, on sale at a stall in the Kamwokya district of Kampala, Uganda.

    Where have all the grasshoppers gone?
    Uganda’s insect traders struggle to find protein-rich bugs

  • A black rhino inside an enclosure in Zakouma National Park in Chad

    VIP passengers
    The five black rhinos flown 2,700 miles on a mission to repopulate Chad

  • Sigalit (headscarf) and Momi Cohen, the parents of Eliya Cohen, a 27 year old man who was kidnapped from the NOVA music festival after trying to escape in his car with his girlfriend. Both Eliya and his girlfriend, Ziv, were shot by Hamas. London. Photograph by David Levene 5/12/23

    ‘I just want my son home’
    Agony of hostage’s family amid Gaza fighting

  • The Sellafield nuclear site

    Nuclear Leaks
    What is the UK nuclear site Sellafield and why is it so important?

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    ‘It’s kind of gross but we can do it’
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  • Liverpool fans hold up signs paying tribute to the 97 victims of the Hillsborough disaster.

    Hillsborough disaster timeline
    Decades for victims' families seeking justice and change

  • Black and white photo of a women with a long plaited ponytail, wearing a striped outfit and standing against a patterned background

    Women behind the lens
    ‘I’ve photographed more than 2,000 people in my mobile studio’

  • The Republican presidential candidates at the debate on 6 December 2023.

    Swings, misses but no clear winner
    Five takeaways from the fourth Republican debate

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In pictures

  • An army outpost

    Photo essay
    West Bank settler violence

    A recent Human Rights Watch report says settler violence in the occupied West Bank has doubled since the 7 October attacks. Photographer David Lombeida stayed with Palestinian families facing threats and abuse from settlers encroaching on their land
  • Composite of images from the book "We The Spirits"

    Primal dreams
    The world’s wildest winter masquerades

  • Nottinghamshire, UK ‘The forecast looked promising for fog and frost, so a visit to the RSPB Budby Forest South looked worthwhile. We arrived to find sunshine, a temperature of -4C and some beautiful frost. I spotted this lone tree holding on to its autumn colours, surrounded by the frost-covered trees.’

    Readers' best photographs
    Autumn’s last stand and an inquisitive owl

  • Rodeo supporters outside City Hall in Los Angeles. Rodeo supporters ride outside City Hall as the city council voted unanimously to ban rodeos in the city

    Photos of the day
    Rodeo rally and ice swimming

  • Models in the foreground and George Plimpton George Plimpton, Jared Paul Stern and Cameron Richardson January 1999

    ‘From the counterculture to high society’
    Larry Fink’s career in pictures

  • Microimaging winner and overall winner: Martian landscape by Irina Petrova Adamatzky

    In pictures
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