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  • Elon Musk during a press conference at SpaceX's Starbase facility in Texas in February 2022.

    Analysis
    Elon Musk v California: what exits of X and SpaceX mean for the Golden state

  • A large grassy field with three robotic weedkillers moving through openings

    Our unequal earth
    Could robot weedkillers replace the need for pesticides?

    The robotic services allow farmers to rely less on chemicals. ‘This solves a lot of problems,’ workers say
  • Less than a week after a failed assassination attempt, Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination in Milwaukee. But supposed nods to national unity gave way to partisan falsehoods, as the former president was anointed at a moment of national crisis

    10:40

    Anywhere but Washington
    Behind the scenes at Donald Trump’s national convention

    Less than a week after a failed assassination attempt, Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination in Milwaukee. But supposed nods to national unity gave way to partisan falsehoods, as the former president was anointed at a moment of national crisis

Spotlight

  • A man wearing a baseball cap stoops down and reaches into a plastic bag to collect cans and bottles.

    One's person's trash …
    He ‘redeems’ the garbage New Yorkers throw away, finding value – and opportunity – in waste

    Pedro Romero is one of hundreds of thousands of informal waste workers the world over, from Paris to Bangalore
  • side-by-side photo of rows of produce and a portrait of a woman

    Food poverty
    A first-of-its-kind free food market opens in San Francisco: ‘Without this, some of us won’t make it’

  • Billie Piper as Hannah in Secret Diary of a Call Girl.

    Film
    Secret Diary of a Call Girl hits Netflix top ten 17 years after release

    Algorithm pushes new generation of viewers to the old ITV2 drama starring Billie Piper
  • A side by side image of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump after their attempted assassinations

    Gun control
    Past assassination attempts led to gun reform. But not this time

    Political violence has long shaped the gun control movement, but it appears little will change from this week
    • Donald Trump

      Analysis
      European divisions risk incoherent response to any second Trump term

    • Three side-by-side photos: one of a work area of the Mars simulation; one of a portrait of a woman crossing her arms and smiling; and one close-up of black and orange O'Neal work boots

      Nasa
      Life on Mars ‘absolutely exhilarating’: a scientist’s year in a simulation

    • Illustration in shades of pink and orange showing a human head with flowing lines inside the brain and flowing out around it

      Psychology
      The flow state: the science of the elusive creative mindset that can improve your life

    • Illustration of a Google search page asking questions about Google itself

      Google
      ‘Google says I’m a dead physicist’: is the world’s biggest search engine broken?

Opinion

  • Donald Trump strokes Peter Thiel's hand during a meeting at Trump Tower in 2016

    Tech broligarchs are lining up to court Trump. And Vance is one more link in the chain

    Carole Cadwalladr
    • Serious and concentrated on game tennis player with racquet before pitch. Active senior man<br>Healthy and active lifestyle of senior people on retirement. No problem with body. Happy old age man in tennis game on sports court. Elderly man in harmony with self in old age. Life of retire people, amateur athlete. Wellbeing and success. SIlver generation, young at heart.

      Turn off Netflix and take the stairs: let’s aim to die healthy rather than just live longer

      Robin McKie
    • Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump and Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, listen during the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum, Thursday, July 18, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

      Pity US voters their choice of leaders. Surely democracy is better than this?

      Simon Tisdall
    • Larry Page and Sergey in 2004, by a window at their HQ, holding a Google sign between them.

      Google’s wrong answer to the threat of AI – stop indexing content

      John Naughton
    • ‘Women who are childfree by choice are often happier and healthier than men and married women with children.’

      Sorry, JD Vance, but being a ‘childless cat lady’ is actually not a bad thing

      Arwa Mahdawi

Sports

  • Tadej Pogacar celebrates as he crosses the line at the summit of the Col de la Couillole.

    Tour de France
    Pogacar heads for glory with fifth mountain stage win of race

  • Philadelphia Union midfielder Cavan Sullivan looks on during Wednesday’s game against the New England Revolution at Subaru Park in Chester, Pennsylvania.

    Soccer
    A matured MLS can foster US prodigy Cavan Sullivan where it failed Freddy Adu

    Alexander Abnos
    The 14-year-old Philadelphian marked for Man City stardom has broken Freddy Adu’s ‘youngest ever’ MLS record, re-igniting age-old debates of how young is too young
    • Lando Norris celebrates pole position with his McLaren team at the Hungaroring.

      Formula one
      Norris takes Hungarian GP pole after shock Russell exit

    • Rafael Nadal celebrates after winning his Nordea Open semi-final against Duje Ajdukovic.

      Tennis
      Nadal reaches first final in two years at Bastad

    • Nascar driver Josh Berry enters the garage area during practice on Friday for the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

      Nascar
      Berry unveils Caitlin Clark-inspired car for Brickyard 400 in Indianapolis

    • Iga Swiatek illustration including annotated angles on her arm as she prepares to strike the ball

      Midas touch
      How to hit a topspin-heavy forehand like Iga Swiatek

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Climate crisis

  • A movie still of three young, good-looking people - one woman and two men, one Latino and two white - looking in concern out a door.

    Film
    ‘It affects everything’: why is Hollywood so scared to tackle the climate crisis?

  • Oil drilling equipment in the Caspian Sea near Baku, Azerbaijan

    Cop29
    Host Azerbaijan seeks $1bn from fossil fuel producers for climate fund

  • Composite image showing a plane, a dog, a lightbulb, a food scraps bin, and a card payment

    Ten effective habits to adopt if you’re an eco-enthusiast

    Abigail Austin
  • Tourists look up at the ancient Temple of the Parthenon on the Acropolis hill in Athens

    Europe weather
    European heatwave forecast to hit peak as health warnings issued

Across the country

  • a woman looks out a window

    Abortion rights
    Preventable deaths and high cancer rates: women’s health in ‘perilous’ place

    Report finds ‘clear distinctions’ in US women’s health outcomes, which can be linked to states’ abortion laws
  • Anthony Odiong after his arrest in Florida on 16 July 2024.

    Texas
    US priest’s sexual assault accusers felt they ‘could not say no’, police say

  • US representative Sheila Jackson Lee

    US politics
    Democratic congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee dies aged 74, family says

  • a man looks off to the side

    Donald Trump
    Pro-Maga multimillionaire boosts funds to voter-conspiracy groups

    • Florida
      Police tell people to stop taking selfies with ‘depressed’ black bear

    • Policing
      Illinois deputy charged with murder after shooting a Black woman

    • US Capitol attack
      Man accused of Nazi salute during US Capitol attack jailed for nearly five years

    • US listeria outbreak
      Deli meat-linked listeria outbreak kills two and sends two dozen to hospital

    • UT Austin
      Judge throws out rightwing affirmative action lawsuit against Texas university

    • Abortion
      Texas city to vote on ban on people helping patients traveling for abortion

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Around the world

  • Damaged structure of a burned out building with rubble lying around

    Myanmar
    Junta ‘bombing schools’, with 170 Myanmar sites hit in past three years – report

    Analysis of imagery from conflict zones shows evidence of burned-out and flattened buildings, with long-term impacts on education
  • Soldiers jump down from armoured vehicles by a flyover.

    Bangladesh
    Police given ‘shoot-on-sight’ orders amid national curfew

  • The moment the statue of Edward Colston was thrown into Bristol harbour in 2020.

    UK
    Slave trader Colston left bequest to Church of England, archive shows

  • Khortytsia Island near the city of Zaporizhzhia

    Ukraine
    Life returns to reservoir drained by Russian strike on dam

    • UK
      Optimism surges in Britain – but how long can Labour’s honeymoon last?

    • UK
      Chinese artifacts in repatriation row were ‘given willingly’ to British Museum

    • China
      Several killed in bridge collapse during torrential rain

    • Israel
      UN court orders Israel to end its occupation of Palestinian territories

    • Evan Gershkovich
      Russian court sentences US journalist to 16 years in prison

    • Bella Hadid
      Adidas removes Bella Hadid from ad campaign after criticism from Israel

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Podcasts

Podcasts

  • Charlie xcx in hot pants and a T-shirt reading I heart Me

    Weekend
    Is this the Brat girl summer? Marina Hyde predicts a sticky end for Trump-Vance, how to be a Norwegian parent, and Ask Philippa on sibling rivalry – podcast

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    The Audio Long Read
    ‘How do I heal?’: the long wait for justice after a black man dies in police custody – podcast

  • Charli XCX

    Today in Focus
    The ‘brat’ summer takeover – podcast

  • Close-up image of Rapman in a zipped-up, shiny puffer jacket

    Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph
    Writer-director Rapman on creating Netflix’s global smash hit Supacell – podcast

  • The hands of a woman holding a glass of water and a tray of vitamins

    Science Weekly
    Is there any point in taking multivitamins? – podcast

  • A Ukrainian serviceman and police officers check the documents of a man in Kyiv. A controversial mobilisation law aimed at boosting troop numbers has been introduced which toughens penalties on draft dodgers, incentivises conscription and obliges men to keep their military registration details with the authorities up-to-date. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty

    Today in Focus
    Dodging the draft: one Ukrainian man’s story – podcast

  • King Charles III and Queen Camilla in a carriage

    Politics Weekly UK
    The king’s speech: can Labour keep the optimism going? – podcast

Culture

  • Composite of screen shots from summer films

    Film
    From steamy summertime romances to spring-break chaos: the 20 best films about holidays

    Cinema has often explored the break from the norm that a holiday offers. Guy Lodge gets away from it all with films from home-invasion horrors to sunny comedies
  • Glen Powell – in a dark green shirt the same colour as his blazer and with a slightly wavy fringe, a bit oiled and slicked back – grins in front of the cutoff letters "E" and "R" at the Twisters premiere in Los Angeles

    Film
    Glen Powell: meet the new Hollywood A-lister who can do heart-throb, goofball or action hero

  • OBserver Books<br>Orlaine McDonald, author of debut novel = No Small Thing. Photographed at home in South London.

    Books
    Orlaine McDonald: ‘As a writer it’s important that I don’t look away’

  • China Miéville and Keanu Reeves.

    Keanu Reeves
    ‘I wanted to do pulpy, hyper-violent action’

  • Megan Thee Stallion at the O2 Arena.

    Review
    Megan Thee Stallion – positivity bootcamp with a rapper on fire

  • Johnny Blue Skies looking not very cheerful, holding a guitar

    Review
    Johnny Blue Skies: Passage du Desir – heartache all the way

Lifestyle

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Take part

  • Banks, airlines and media outlets hit by global outage linked to Windows PCs.

    Microsoft IT outage
    Tell us: how have you been affected by the outage linked to Windows PCs?

  • What happened that forced you apart and what it was that brought you back together again?

    Family
    Tell us: have you rekindled a relationship with a close family member?

  • Do you earn more – or – less than your partner?

    Relationships
    Tell us: do you earn significantly more – or less – than your partner?

  • White isolated Postit Note<br>get the Memo

    Life and style
    Tell us: what advice do you wish you had known when you were younger?

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From our global editions

  • Members of the Indian community protest against gangmastering following the death of Satnam Singh, on 25 June in Latina, Italy.

    Italian dispatch
    Satnam lost his arm and was allegedly left to die on the roadside. This is the horror of exploitation on Italian farms

  • A mural of Jerusalem with the caption “the gate of return” is painted on the border fence that separates Israel and Lebanon in the town of Kafr Kila, south Lebanon.

    Lebanon
    Inside a Lebanese village where war with Israel has already arrived

  • Scientist examining hamburger with lab-grown meat sitting at his workplace in lab.

    Cultivated food
    From lab-grown burgers to medicinal berries

  • Auntieverse Chapter 3: Factory #0201 Aunties often display patterns of unacceptable behaviour! They say the most outlandish things! The subtle inter-familial inflections of which require a meaning decoder to mollify the notions of perceived reproach, and the ensuing feelings of hurtfulness and anxiety. In this alternative reality the “Niceaunties” provide a visual narrative where our adventuring aunties party uninhibited, have fun with a freedom of expression that is a positive representation of their collective joie de vivre.

    Art
    Into the Auntieverse: a surreal fantasy of older women

In case you missed it

  • Writer Tom Lamont sitting in a garden, July 2024

    Identity
    ‘There are lots of us who hover on margins, who are not quickly definable’: my life as a so-called ‘stealth Jew’

  • Lightning strikes the cooling towers of the Tricastin nuclear complex in south-east France.

    Nuclear power stations
    Life next door: ‘The day it goes wrong? We won’t know about it’

    France has 56 reactors – more than any other European nation. What is it like to swim, play and live in their shadow?
  • JD Vance speaks during a fundraiser in Milwaukee on Wednesday, 17 July 2024.

    Silicon Valley
    How JD Vance’s path to being Trump’s VP pick wound through Silicon Valley

  • Gabby Thomas poses for a portrait during the Team USA media summit.

    Paris Olympics
    ‘It’s in reach at the Olympics’: Gabby Thomas on the science of speed and hunting down Flo-Jo’s record

  • woman stands in front of sign that says RNC

    Analysis
    Trump is desperate to not appear racist. He’s enlisted Black and brown people to help him

  • people hold green, black and yellow signs as person standing in front of podium speaks

    America's dirty divide
    Car camping and fighting wildfires: what are the new US climate jobs?

  • Illustration of Donald Trump with a red crown

    ‘Fight! Fight! Fight!’
    Trump emerges at convention as an American messiah with swagger

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In pictures

  • Joy Labinjo Chosen Family, 2024 Signed and dated on the back Oil on canvas 200 x 250 cm 78 3/4 x 98 3/8 in (JLA 174)

    Green dreams
    Joy Labinjo’s paintings celebrating park life

    The British-Nigerian artist’s joyful images celebrate ‘characters within the story’ of a popular space
  • Ibrahim Iskandar, holding a long gold dagger, and Raja Sofiah stand side by side before gold, yellow and black thrones

    Malaysia
    Sultan Ibrahim Iskander crowned as new king

  • A UN peacekeeper stands at Nicosia’s Toyota showroom inside the buffer zone in the central of the divided capital

    Cyprus
    Where time has stood still for 50 years: the UN buffer zone

  • Former president Donald Trump is rushed off stage by secret service personnel after being shot at during a campaign at the Butler Farm Show.

    Twenty photographs of the week
    Trump shooting, a global IT outage, the Rwanda election and the Euros

  • A young girl running up a colourful spiral staircase

    Smart shot
    ‘Happy moments like these deserve to be captured’

  • A woman flyboarding

    Photos of the day
    Flyboarding and Zelenskiy at UK cabinet meeting

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