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  • Simone Biles competes in the gymnastics individual vault final.

    Paris Olympics live
    Simone Biles wins gold in vault, Evenepoel doubles up in cycling road race

    Join our writers for the latest from Paris 2024, with action on the track, road, in the pool and much more
    • IOC president Thomas Bach speaks to media.

      Paris Olympics
      IOC puts out correction after president Thomas Bach confuses gender issues

    • Israel-Gaza war
      US-Israeli soldier posted videos showing detonation of Gaza homes and mosque

    • Ukraine war briefing
      Waves of Russian bombings and infantry assaults drive major gains in east

    • Somalia
      More than 30 killed in terrorist attack on popular Mogadishu beach

    • BBC
      Man at centre of Huw Edwards case says he felt ‘groomed’ by presenter

    • Ireland
      Irish police question man over woman’s death in County Cork

    • Music
      Aerosmith retire from touring over frontman Steven Tyler’s vocal injury

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  • Desiree Akhavan - American filmmaker, writer and actress. Hair and Make up by Alanna Chelmick.

    Life and style
    I was voted ‘ugliest girl’ at my high school. Would a nose job change my life?

    Filmmaker Desiree Akhavan on being crowned ‘The Beast’ by fellow pupils – and how her parents suggested a radical solution
  • Sam Altman with a digital design overlaid on his face

    Artificial intelligence
    OpenAI’s Sam Altman is becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth. We should be very afraid

  • For G2 arts: Ben Elton, London. Photograph by David Levene 6/9/19

    This much I know
    Ben Elton: ‘I often felt a one-man cliché in the 80s’

    The comedian, 65, talks about Elton John, Cat Stevens, unrequited love and pious anti-sexist, anti-racist ranting
  • A composite image of a man with a large Trump flag and a woman holding up a giant Trump playing card.

    Donald Trump
    Inside the Maga mind: Trump’s most dedicated fans explain their fervor

    From camaraderie to a shared political vision, these campaign rally regulars explain why they are all-in for Trump
    • Nathalie Cabrol

      Science
      Astrobiologist Nathalie Cabrol: ‘I believe Mars still has some big surprises for us’

    • Anthony Alderson speaks into a microphone

      Edinburgh fringe 2024
      Risk, reward and trigger warnings: the Edinburgh fringe chief's ‘balancing act’

    • The bedroom with an erotic mural by Damiano Groppi.

      Interiors
      Sex in the city: a designer’s ‘porno chic’ home in Milan

    • Head shot of cleaner Gabriela Rodriguez, who was sacked for eating a tuna sandwich

      Workers' rights
      ‘We need to assert our power - or we’ll get trampled on’: the cleaner sacked for eating a tuna sandwich

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    1 China 15 11 9 35
    2 Australia 12 7 5 24
    3 United States 11 20 19 50
    4 France 11 13 14 38
    5 Great Britain 10 10 12 32
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    Sport

    • Cyriel Dessers fires in a shot during Rangers’ goalless draw against Hearts

      Football
      Rangers unable to break down Hearts in Scottish Premiership opener

      Goalkeeper Zander Clark helps Hearts deny Rangers and secure opening 0-0 draw in the Premiership
    • Niclas Füllkrug applauds the crowd at Frankfurt Arena on 23 June 2024.

      Football
      West Ham close on Füllkrug after striker leaves Dortmund camp

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    Opinion

    • Donald Trump speaking at a Bitcoin event in Nashville on 27 July

      Silicon Valley’s Trump supporters are dicing with the death of democracy

      John Naughton
      In 2016, some said comparisons between the rises of Trump and Hitler were misguided. But as tech’s titans donate millions, worrying new parallels emerge
    • A middle-aged man at a lectern raises his arms in a 'whaddya want?' gesture.

      This one weird trick might win Democrats the election

      Arwa Mahdawi
    • A man in a colourful jacket standing in front of an urban river

      I swear by almighty river: an ancient practice is making a comeback in Britain’s courts

      Tim Adams
    • Pro-choice protesters in Parliament Square, London in September 2022.

      Women are being spat on outside my abortion clinic. Where is the safe zone we’re legally entitled to?

      Michaela McDaid
    • Gershkovich waves at the bottom of the steps of a silver aircraft at night

      After 16 months behind bars, my friend Evan Gershkovich is free

      Pjotr Sauer
    • Illustration: Thomas Pullin for the Guardian.

      Labour is still in its ‘phoney’ period. Far tougher tests await in autumn

      Martin Kettle

    Climate crisis

    • A danger warning sign at Montrose links

      Coastlines
      ‘This is climate change’: Scottish beach eroding by 7 metres a year

    • USA News - 01 Aug 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Bailey Stover/TNS via ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock (14615170e) Linda Fischer crouches and holds her head in her hands amidst the ruins of her home along Peregrine Road in Forest Ranch, California, on Wednesday. ''I can't do this,'' said Fischer, who lived in the home with her husband for 15 years before it was burned by the Park fire. USA News - 01 Aug 2024

      US wildfires
      ‘Here we are again’: a fire-addled California enclave reckons with disaster on repeat

    • A iceberg floats in front of Antarctic land ice and a looming misty mountain

      Climate crisis
      Antarctic temperatures rise 10C above average in near record heatwave

    • workers in white hazmat suits and reflective vests clean up a beach

      Big oil uncovered
      Harris is ‘perfect person’ to prosecute big oil, climate advocates say

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    Around the world

    • An elderly man with a cane rides in a gold cart.

      Business
      Berkshire Hathaway sells off large share of Apple and increases cash holdings

    • Kyle Rittenhouse cries at his trial in November 2021 for killing two people.

      US elections
      Kyle Rittenhouse reverses course on not endorsing Trump after online pile-on

      • Health
        Don’t try this at home: experts warn against copying Olympic feats

      • Hawaii
        Lawsuit over last year’s deadly Maui wildfires settled for $4bn

      • Analysis
        Assassination again shows Netanyahu’s disregard for US-Israel relations

      • Russia
        Kremlin admits Vadim Krasikov is a Russian state assassin

      • Australia
        Crocodile attack prompts search for missing man in far north Queensland

      • Guantánamo Bay
        Revealed: first picture of war on terror detainee in CIA black site

    Culture

    • Jeff Goldblum photographed in London June, 2024. Photographer: David Vintiner Photographer's assistants: Adam Orzechowski and Kristina Salgvik Stylist: Andrew T. Vottero Sittings Editor: Helen Seamons Grooming: Gareth Bromell at A Frame agency using Sisley Paris and 111skin Set design and build by wyliewood.co.uk All clothes prada.com

      Culture
      ‘It’s foolish to mask your age. Accept it. Present it’: Jeff Goldblum on vanity, mortality and becoming a father in his 60s

      After five decades in the business, the fast-talking, finger-jabbing actor is as intense and eccentric as ever – and wondering what comes next
    • Sue Perkins.

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      Books
      ‘A rumpled paperback showed me I was not alone’: Charlotte Mendelson, Michael Rosen and others on the books that marked their coming of age

    • Milton + Esperanza Milton Nascimento &amp; Esperanza Spalding

      Music
      Milton Nascimento and Esperanza Spalding: Milton + Esperanza review – a quixotic double act

    • Elif Shafak

      Books
      Elif Shafak: ‘As a writer in Turkey, you can be attacked, put on trial, imprisoned’

    • The Past and I: 100 Years of Thomas Hardy.

      Classical music
      The Past & I: 100 Years of Thomas Hardy review – the writer’s poetry gets a sensuous second life in music

    Lifestyle

    • Blind Date comp Anwit Pandit &amp; Kassondra Cloos

      Blind date
      He let it slip that he has a thing for writers

    • Too good not to share: Meera Sodha’s romano peppers stuffed with spiced tofu.

      Food
      Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for tofu-stuffed romano peppers

    • Frank Skinner in 2024

      Flashback
      Frank Skinner looks back: ‘I liked being famous – I felt noticed for the first time. But at some point it has to end’

    • Elle and Jay

      Life and style
      This is how we do it: ‘After trying spanking, role-playing and bondage, we decided to go back to basics’

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    • Protest against death of Roma man who died after police arrest in Czech Republic<br>epa09303329 People protest during a rally against police in Teplice, Czech Republic, 26 June 2021. Hundreds of people remembered slain Roma, Stanislav Tomas, who died in the city a week ago shortly after being arrested by police. The originally planned commemoration turned into a march to the police station. Police officers intervened on 19 June, because of a fight between two men who were also damaging other people's cars. When the patrol arrived at the scene, one of the men was lying on the ground with apparent injuries, according to police. When the officers approached him, he became aggressive and attacked them, police said. Footage of the arrest shows police officer kneeling at various times on the man's neck and back. A forensic autopsy ruled out a connection between the deaths and the police intervention, but the autopsy report points to drug impairment, a police spokesman said earlier. Officers insist the death was not related to the intervention. The Council of Europe and the Czech branch of the human rights organization Amnesty International have called for a thorough investigation of the incident. EPA/MARTIN DIVISEK

      Roma people in Europe
      How do you feel about the lack of Roma MEPs?

    • TOPSHOT-SPAIN-TOURISM-DEMO<br>TOPSHOT - People hold a placard which reads as "Tourism yes, but not like this" during a demonstration to protest against overtourism and housing prices on the island of Mallorca in Palma de Mallorca on July 21, 2024. (Photo by JAIME REINA / AFP) (Photo by JAIME REINA/AFP via Getty Images)

      Europe
      Share what it’s like to live in a European tourist hotspot

    • Ian Cairns’ photograph of Eastbourne's Towner Gallery with geometric artwork by Lothar Götz. It was published on the Guardian’s letters page on 9 July 2022.

      Photography
      Have your photos published in the Guardian’s letters section

    • Heatwave in Italy<br>epa10751450 A thermometer outside a pharmacy displays '42 degrees Celsius' in Rome, Italy, 17 July 2023. Southern Europe is experiencing a major heat wave this week with temperatures expected to climb up to 48 Celsius degrees on the islands of Sicily and Sardinia. Italy's health ministry sent on 17 July a circular letter to the country's regional governments with a series of recommendations to manage the impact of the intense heat wave the country is enduring. These recommendations include setting up a 'heat code' at emergency rooms with special, priority procedures for people suffering heat-related health issues. EPA/MASSIMO PERCOSSI

      Climate crisis
      How are you being affected by the heatwave in southern Europe?

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    • a woman wearing a light blue suit waves in front of people holding signs that read 'when we fight, we win' and 'Kamala'

      US elections
      Crunch time in ‘veepstakes’ as Kamala Harris prepares to choose running mate

      Running mate decision likely to come down to ‘who can have the hard conversations’, a former Harris aide says
    • a man in a suit speaks

      Explainer
      Who is Tim Walz, the governor who could be Harris’s vice-presidential pick?

    • Suella Braverman wears a teal green dress. She is pictured from the side and her hair is flying out behind her as she walks. In the background is a grey brick wall

      UK politics
      How Suella Braverman went from darling of the Tory right to outcast

    • Emma Barnett

      Media
      BBC presenter Emma Barnett reveals her side hustle – colouring books

    • A man wearing a blue suit and red tie speaks into a microphone with his hand gestured

      US
      Why conservative women dealing with infertility aren’t upset about Vance’s ‘cat ladies’ comment

    • Photo for Gullah project

      US
      The last Gullah sermon? End of an era looms for endangered language

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    • A red wooden boat house sits at the edge of the water on the archipelago, as trees line the coastline and clouds are reflected on the still water

      Travel
      Summer sun in Finland? Åland isles aim to lure tourists to cooler climate

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    • Jeff Goldblum smiling, behind a table full of orange flowers

      Weekend
      Jeff Goldblum, eccentric as ever at 71; the fallacy of ‘tradwives’; and ‘My dying wife found me a girlfriend’ – podcast

    • Ethiopia’s prime minister Abiy Ahmed visiting Sudan in June 2019. Photograph: Ashraf Shazly/AFP/Getty Images

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    • A handout picture provided by the Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei office shows him (C) leading the prayer, next to Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian (C-R), over the coffin of late Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and his bodyguard during his funeral procession in Tehran

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    • TOPSHOT-FBL-OLY-PARIS-2024-AUS-USA<br>TOPSHOT - US' midfielder #03 Korbin Albert celebrates with teammates after scoring her team's second goal during the women's group B football match between Australia and the USA of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Marseille Stadium in Marseille on July 31, 2024. (Photo by Pascal GUYOT / AFP) (Photo by PASCAL GUYOT/AFP via Getty Images)

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    • Brazil's Gabriel Medina reacts after round three of the men's surfing during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Teahupo'o

      Twenty photographs of the week
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      Simone Biles at the Olympics, the prisoner swap between Russia and the US, Israeli bombardment in Gaza and wildfires in California: the last seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists
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    • A black and white photographe of a young girl standing among a series of open-mouthed sculptures and imitating them

      Smart shot
      ‘The girl was so much like the sculptures they became a whole’: Yue Yu’s best phone picture

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      Carmignac photojournalism award: Ghana and e-waste

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      The week in wildlife
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