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  • Ruben Balagtas, in a tank top, shorts and flipflops, leans against the concrete post of metal gates on which are hung two signs in support of "Mayor Alice Guo", with houses and trees behind him

    Philippines
    Cognac, tortoises and a pink-striped helicopter: inside the mystery of Alice Guo, the missing Philippines mayor

  • a man in a suit speaks

    US elections 2024
    Who is Tim Walz, the governor who could be Harris’s vice-presidential pick?

    The Minnesota governor has delivered progressive policies in his state and has a history of swaying Republican districts
  • A composite image of a man with a large Trump flag and a woman holding up a giant Trump playing card.

    American psyche
    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

Spotlight

  • Children play next to a fire hydrant

    America's dirty divide
    Cold showers and ‘farmers’ hours’: how readers stay cool in a heatwave

    Air conditioning isn’t always enough to keep you safe – but people across the US have hacks to handle extreme heat
  • A clock, the silhouette of women sitting under a circular hanging and the sign "What if women ruled the world" are in a scene from the anti-war film Two Minutes to Midnight by Yael Bartana

    Society
    ‘Would a world run by women be a better place?’: Athens museum hosts a bold female takeover

  • On the eve of the 10th anniversary of the Yazidi genocide, the community in the old city of Sinjar hung the pictures of victims on the rubble.

    Iraq
    Country’s Yazidis gather to remember the dead and missing, 10 years on from Islamic State genocide

    A decade after thousands were killed or displaced, many in the remaining community are still living in refugee camps
  • Camellia Ling Aebischer and Rob at Zhangjiajie national forest park in China in March 2024

    The moment I knew
    When he couldn’t decide between the poutine or macaroni, he ordered both

    Camellia Ling Aebischer was on a make-or-break date with Rob when a small but significant menu decision signalled she could be herself, without judgment
    • 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

    • Nathalie Cabrol

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

    • Cross section of the Iter tokamak reactor

      Energy
      Is the dream of nuclear fusion dead? Why the international experimental reactor is in ‘big trouble’

    • 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-ravaged California enclave reckons with disaster on repeat

Paris Olympic Games 2024

  • Snoop Dogg feeds a horse. Martha Stewart not pictured.

    Snoop Dogg
    Rapper steals show at dressage – despite fear of horses

    Rapper and Martha Stewart don uniforms and helmets to watch ‘horses that dance’ as Germany win team prize
  • Simone Biles

    Gymnastics
    Biles wins seventh Olympic gold medal in stunning vault final

    • Trinity Rodman celebrates with Emily Fox after scoring the USWNT’s winner in extra time against Japan.

      Olympics
      Trinity Rodman’s extra-time stunner sends USWNT to final four

    • Julien Alfred holds up her name tag after racing to women’s 100m gold at the Stade de France.

      Track
      Julien Alfred beats American favourite Sha’Carri Richardson for 100m glory

    • Ryan Crouser’s opening throw would have been enough to take the top spot on the podium.

      Shot put
      Ryan Crouser creates Olympic history with third straight gold

    • Sam Kendricks competes in the men's pole vault qualification at Stade de France.

      Pole vault
      ‘Olympics screwed me’: Sam Kendricks still ‘broken’ from Tokyo Covid exit

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Olympic medal table

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    Medal table
    1 China 16 12 9 37
    2 United States 14 24 23 61
    3 France 12 14 15 41
    4 Australia 12 8 7 27
    5 Great Britain 10 10 13 33
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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
      • 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
      • Figures silhouetted on a winners' podium face rays of light emerging from clouds above.

        The way, the truth and the Olympic record: how God struck gold in Paris

        Emma John
      • 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
      • Protests Erupt After IDF Reservists Arrested Over Abuse Of Gazan Detainee<br>KFAR YONA, ISRAEL - JULY 30: Protesters knock a stick on barriers during a demonstration against Israeli military prosecutors near a military court on July 30, 2024 in Kfar Yona, Israel. Yesterday, far-right protesters broke into the Sde Teiman compound to show support for Israeli reservists detained over allegations of abusing a Palestinian detainee. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

        When will Israel free the Palestinians it is holding hostage?

        Arwa Mahdawi

    Sports

    • Kaleb Geiger takes the ball up for the New England Free Jacks, against Seattle Seawolves in April.

      Rugby
      New England face Seattle in MLR final as US game seeks swift growth

      • A bronze statue of legendary baseball pioneer Jackie Robinson was stolen from a park in Wichita, Kansas, in January.

        Baseball
        Man who stole Jackie Robinson statue leaving only feet given 15 years in jail

      • San Francisco Giants Blake Snell, left, celebrates after throwing a no-hitter against the Cincinnati Reds.

        MLB
        ‘I’m in shock’: Reigning Cy Young winner Snell pitches first career no-hitter

      • Emma Raducanu takes on a backhand before losing against Paula Badosa before losing in three sets in Washington.

        Tennis
        Emma Raducanu loses marathon quarter-final to Badosa in Washington

      • Ruud Van Nistelrooy at PSV in 1998, with Sir Alex Ferguson in 2005, coaching at PSV in 2018.

        Soccer
        Ruud van Nistelrooy: 'I loved the way Sir Alex asked us to play at United'

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    Climate crisis

    • A bird's-eye view of a person standing beside a lake

      Utah
      Great Salt Lake rings climate alarm bells over release of 4.1m tons of carbon dioxide

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

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

    • An armed man in fatigues and combat gear watches a pick-up truck burn

      Global development
      The lawless mining gangs targeting the Amazon’s precious green energy minerals

    • 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

    Across the country

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

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

      Some say the dig on childless women is ‘disheartening’ but that there are ‘more pressing issues’ demanding attention
    • Three men wearing suits stand at a conference, with one speaking at a podium

      Internet safety
      What’s ahead for Kosa, the online safety act for minors, as it reaches US House?

    • a side-by-side image of Cori Bush at different events

      Missouri
      Pro-Israel groups have set sights on unseating this progressive lawmaker. Will they succeed?

    • Lloyd Austin

      9/11
      Plea deal for accused 9/11 plotters revoked by Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin

      • Donald Trump
        Report reveals secret US inquiry into alleged 2016 Egyptian $10m gift to Trump

      • Democrats
        Harris effectively clinches nomination for president

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

      • US
        Evan Gershkovich’s most tireless advocate to secure his release: his mother

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

      • New York
        Justin Timberlake appears by video and pleads not guilty in drunk-driving case

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    Podcasts

    Podcasts

    • 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

      The Audio Long Read
      From Nobel peace prize to civil war: how Ethiopia’s leader beguiled the world – podcast

    • A suited Paul Dans speaks into a microphone

      Politics Weekly America
      Is this the end of Project 2025? – podcast

    • 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

      Today in Focus
      How two assassinations left the Middle East on the edge - podcast

    • 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)

      Football Weekly
      Canadian spying scandal and Emma Hayes’ USWNT start – Football Weekly Extra

    • Ben McKenzie being interviewed on stage

      Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph
      The OC star Ben McKenzie on how crypto took over Hollywood – podcast

    • A vehicle ablaze on a litter-strewn street as police vans are parked nearby

      Politics Weekly UK
      Are Southport riots a sign of our political future? Politics Weekly UK - podcast

    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

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

    • Richard Evans sitting in a leather armchair.

      Books
      Historian Richard J Evans: ‘I’m planning to write a book about pandemics next. I’ve had enough of Nazis’

    • Sue Perkins.

      On my radar
      Sue Perkins’s cultural highlights

    • Milton + Esperanza Milton Nascimento &amp; Esperanza Spalding

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

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

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

    • Elif Shafak

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

    Lifestyle

    • The bedroom with an erotic mural by Damiano Groppi.

      Sex in the city
      A designer’s ‘porno chic’ home in Milan

      A 1930s apartment and gallery, packed with erotic touches and eccentric clashes, doesn’t fail to titillate
    • Guardian Australia picture editor Carly Earl trials an ebike for her daily commute in Sydney to a CBD office via her children’s daycare

      Life and style
      The ebike commute challenge: could I do daycare drop-off and get to work faster than driving?

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

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

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

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

    • Harlan Coben wearing a bright blue checked suit, a light shirt and a navy tie

      Harlan Coben
      After I’d signed autographs for fans in Paris, one said: 'I told you it wasn’t Bruce Willis'

    • Elle and Jay

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

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    Frozen in Time

    As single women, Lei and Abu are banned from freezing their eggs in China, so they travel to the US to pursue their dreams of motherhood

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    Take part

    • Hands of teenage boy using computer on desk.

      Society
      Have you been affected by sexual extortion?

    • Audience sitting in tiered seating. Image shot 03/2014. Exact date unknown.<br>F3YAKG Audience sitting in tiered seating. Image shot 03/2014. Exact date unknown.

      Film
      Tell us: do you bring your own snacks to the cinema?

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

      Family
      Have you rekindled a relationship with a close family member?

    • sun shines down on silhouette of person drinking from water bottle

      Sweltering temperatures
      How do you stay cool in extreme heat?

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    From our global editions

    • mural depicting Lamine Yamal

      Spain
      Can Lamine Yamal change attitudes towards immigrants?

    • 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
    • Man holding small insect

      Food
      British firms strive to create a buzz around insect farming

    • Residential properties in Melbourne

      Australia
      Melbourne is the only Australian capital to see a drop in house prices. What’s going on?

    In case you missed it

    • silhouette of hands enveloping a cross

      US elections 2024
      ‘We have to be voting biblically’: the Courage Tour rallies Christians to get Trump in office

    • GERMANY-HISTORY<br>Picture taken on February 10, 1962 shows the Glienicke bridge in Berlin after US pilot Gary Francis Powers was swapped for Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. The Glienicke Bridge, which during the Cold War linked West Berlin with East German territory, made it the ideal location for dozens of spy swaps. AFP PHOTO / DPA GERMANY OUT (Photo credit should read DPA/DPA/AFP via Getty Images)

      Cold war
      Prisoner swaps between Russia and west started in 1962 during cold war

      Two groups of people gathered on a bridge separating West Berlin and East Germany for exchange of Russian spy and American pilot
    • A still from War Game

      Film
      ‘It’s not a theoretical proposition’: the ‘war game’ imagining a coup in the US

      A tense new documentary highlights a program using a mock situation room to play out a terrifying fictional scenario putting ‘democracy in jeopardy’
    • a man stands in court

      Russia
      How Evan Gershkovich was finally freed after a 500-day odyssey in Russia’s prison system

    • a side-by-side image Donald Trump and audience members at a convention

      Black journalists were right about Trump. NABJ ignored them

      Shamira Ibrahim
    • A faceless portrait of Peninah at her homestead in Junju, Kilifi county.

      Kenya
      Pain, organ damage, infertility: the neglected disease that leaves millions of women in agony

    • illustration of a woman looking a table of desserts, a glucose monitor and pills

      Unsweet
      Gimme some sugar: a diabetic on love, loss and longing for pound cake

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    In pictures

    • Side view of a row of mobile homes

      Photography
      The secret lives of mobile homes

      Jethro Marshall’s Jurassic Coast photographs capture the eerie scenes of off-season resorts
    • 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
      Simone Biles at the Olympics, a prisoner swap, Israeli bombardment in Gaza and wildfires in California

    • 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

    • A general view of action during the women's 100m heats.

      Olympic Games
      Day seven in pictures

    • Rogers Magutha, known as Street Bird Man, in Nairobi, Kenya

      Photos of the day
      Raptors, wildfires and gingerbread Teslas

    • A fox runs through flames

      The week in wildlife
      A feisty sea lion, a retiring elephant and a fleeing fox

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