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  • Spain’s Nikoloz Sherazadishvili against Adnan Khankan of Refugee Olympic Team in the judo mixed teams heat.

    Paris Olympics live
    Athletics, rowing, men’s cycling road race and more

    Join our writers for the latest from Paris 2024, with action on the track, road, in the pool and much more
    • File photo of a US Osprey landing on the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea

      Middle East
      US bolsters military presence as threat of regional escalation intensifies

    • Venezuela
      Blinken congratulates González on winning election as more countries come out against Maduro

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

    • Climate crisis
      Utah’s Great Salt Lake rings climate alarm bells over release of 4.1m tons of carbon dioxide

    • US jobs
      US jobs data ‘flashing red’ as poor growth sparks Wall Street sell-off

    • UK
      Eight people arrested and three police injured in Sunderland after another night of disorder

    • Washington DC
      Florida lawyer pleads guilty to Chinese embassy bombing attempt in DC

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

In focus

  • Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu standing beside each other

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

  • 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
    We exchanged letters on a weekly basis and throughout his time in a Russian prison the journalist in him never faded
  • Sunisa Lee and Simone Biles celebrate their all-around medals at the Paris Olympics on Thursday

    Paris Olympics
    The Suni also rises: Simone Biles isn’t the best redemption story of the Olympics

    Sunisa Lee recovered from multiple kidney diseases that left her at rock bottom to stand on the podium beside her US teammate on Friday

Spotlight

  • A man walks by a Burberry storefront

    Fashion
    Is luxury fashion in its flop era?

    As #underconsumptioncore trends on TikTok and gen Z turns to vintage, high-end houses fret over stalling demand
  • Saturday magazine Lifestyle Divorce feature

    Relationships
    How to make it work – and when to call it quits: 10 lessons in love from divorce lawyers

  • 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

  • Blind Date comp Anwit Pandit & Kassondra Cloos

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

    Anwit, 32, a scientist, meets Kassondra, 33, a travel writer
    • A photo collage of various body parts intertwined.

      Well actually
      Curious about sex parties? Here’s what they’re really like

    • Noah Lyles is aiming for four gold medals at the Paris Olympics

      Paris 2024
      USA’s Noah Lyles: manga geek, alpha male and very, very fast

    • tim dowling collage

      The Tim Dowling column
      I thought my dad would live for ever. I was wrong

    • Tropea’s old town and Rotonda beach at sunset

      Travel
      Discovering Calabria in Italy, where tourists are seen as a blessing, not a curse

Paris Olympic Games 2024

  • France and Argentina players have to be separated after the final whistle.

    Men's soccer
    France knock out Argentina as Mateta wins Olympic football grudge match

    Jean-Philippe Mateta’s early header put France into the men’s Olympic semi-finals with a 1-0 win against Argentina, before a brawl after the final whistle
  • Caleb Dressel won gold in the 50m freestyle and 100m butterfly at the Tokyo Olympics.

    Swimming
    ‘It’s heartbreaking’: Caeleb Dressel in tears after failing to defend Olympic crowns

    • Running spikes shown during the 100m decathlon event

      Track
      It’s shoe time: the trainers and tracks driving recent run of world records

    • Vernon Norwood, Shamier Little, Kaylyn Brown and Bryce Deadmon of the US celebrate after breaking the world record for the 4x400m mixed relay.

      Track
      US mixed relay team break world record as athletes praise fast track

    • Sunisa Lee and Simone Biles celebrate their all-around medals at the Paris Olympics on Thursday

      The Suni also rises
      Simone Biles isn’t the best redemption story of the Olympics

      Bryan Armen Graham in Paris
    • Noah Lyles is aiming for four gold medals at the Paris Olympics

      Noah Lyles
      Manga geek, alpha male and very, very fast

Olympic medal table

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    Medal table
    1 China 13 9 9 31
    2 France 11 12 13 36
    3 Australia 11 6 5 22
    4 United States 9 18 16 43
    5 Great Britain 9 10 8 27
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    Opinion

    • 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
      • Funeral in Tehran of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and his bodyguard who were killed in an assassination blamed on Israel.

        The war in the Middle East is escalating fast – and Biden has squandered too many chances to stop it

        Mohamad Bazzi
      • Evan Gershkovich hugs his mother, Ella Milman, as Joe Biden looks on and smiles at an airbase

        I feel joy at my friend Evan Gershkovich’s release. But the anger lingers

        Margaret Sullivan
      • A woman wearing a black blazer speaks at a podium at an airport

        How Kamala Harris can lose the cop’s badge and still look tough

        Judith Levine
      • A Guantanamo detainee's feet are shackled to the floor as he attends a "Life Skills" class at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base.

        The Guardian view
        Guantánamo Bay: betraying the victims of terrorism too

    Sports

    • 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

      • France and Argentina players have to be separated after the final whistle.

        Olympic soccer
        France knock out Argentina as Mateta strike wins fiery grudge match

      • Mike Trout hasn’t played more than 119 games in any of the past five seasons

        MLB
        ‘Devastated’ three-time MVP Mike Trout ruled out for rest of MLB season

      • Sha'Carri Richardson won two golds at last year’s World Athletics Championships

        ‘Fast, expensive … fancy’
        How Sha’Carri Richardson revived her Olympic dream

      • Andy Murray signs autographs

        Tennis
        Murray retires: 'I’m glad I got to finish on my own terms … I feel lucky'

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    Climate crisis

    • 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

    • Trinidad, California, tree sitters, protest logging during time of coronavirus Covid 19 Los Angeles Times photographer Carolyn Cole<br>SCOTIA, CA - APRIL 16: In Scotia, California, the Humbolt Redwood Company sawmill is not operating due to the coronavirus, but logging is still happening and trees are piling up in Scotia. Scotia on Thursday, April 16, 2020 in Scotia, CA. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

      Environment
      US Forest Service failing to protect old growth trees from logging, critics say

    Across the country

    • A middle-aged woman hugs a smiling young man.

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

      Ella Milman pressed world leaders and researched the scheme that would eventually lead to the release of her son
    • Megan Thee Stallion Attends Kamala Harris Campaign Rally In Atlanta<br>ATLANTA, GEORGIA - JULY 30: Democratic presidential candidate, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris arrives at her campaign rally at the Georgia State Convocation Center on July 30, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Julia Beverly/Getty Images)

      US elections 2024
      Kamala Harris campaign raises $310m in July as presidential race is transformed

    • Trump in suit closes eyes on stage

      Donald Trump
      Trump 2020 election interference case resumes after immunity decision

    • a man in a suit and tie looks on from behind a microphone

      Trump rally shooting
      Secret Service takes ‘full responsibility’ for Trump shooting security failures

      • TikTok
        US sues TikTok and ByteDance for allegedly failing to protect children’s privacy

      • US
        Flu vaccine will curb bird flu risk for US farm workers, CDC deputy director says

      • Donald Trump
        Secret Service’s tech issues helped shooter go undetected at Trump rally – report

      • West Coast
        Fire-starting lightning and erratic winds threaten effort to tame wildfires in US west

      • Louisiana
        Louisiana mayor arrested on child rape accusations after abrupt resignation

      • Texas
        Texas lockups violate minors’ constitutional rights, says US justice department

    Around the world

    • Crowds of men with heads bowed, surrounding a large mosque

      Qatar
      Hamas leader buried in Doha as Biden says killing has ‘not helped’ ceasefire efforts

    • The moon

      The moon
      Meteorite impacts produce most of moon’s thin atmosphere, study reveals

      • Media
        Huw Edwards should return BBC salary paid after arrest, says Lisa Nandy

      • Global health
        Outbreak of Oropouche virus in Brazil should be a ‘wake-up call’, say experts

      • Stock markets
        Fear of US recession rattles global markets as tech shares fall

      • UK
        Face of British army recruitment drive wins payout for racist and sexist abuse

      • BBC
        BBC accused of ‘gaslighting’ Jewish staff over antisemitism complaints

      • China
        China has highest number of significant floods since records began

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    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

    • 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

    • Ben McKenzie being interviewed on stage

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

    Culture

    • Channel 4’s 2017 Eden: Paradise Lost.

      TV
      Death, disease and cash prizes: the most disastrous reality TV shows ever

      Children drinking bleach, helicopter crashes, explosive diarrhoea – there’s a troubling history of reality shows going off the rails. Some of the participants explain where it all went wrong
    • David Rawlings and Gillian Welch.

      The reader interview
      Post your questions for Gillian Welch

    • Tom Cruise at the Olympic Games Paris 2024

      Paris Olympics
      Tom Cruise to rappel off Stade de France in Olympics closing ceremony

    • Female contestants on and around a sofa

      Reality TV
      Love Is Blind’s addictive antidote to modern dating gets a British twist

    • Feels like a teen ghost movie … Fear the Spotlight.

      Gaming
      Grab your Ouija board: behind Fear the Spotlight’s 90s-inspired horror

    • Tekashi 6ix9ine surrounded by heavy security while shopping on Rodeo Drive, Los Angeles.

      Music
      ‘Your favourite rappers are only alive because of our sacrifices’: the secret life of rap bodyguards

    Lifestyle

    • The AI gadget Friend.

      Well actually
      Can an AI friend make you less lonely?

      Meet Friend: a ‘Tamagotchi with a soul’, wearable AI companion that records your interactions and texts back
    • Auguste Rodin's sculpture The Thinker in the grounds of the Musee Rodin, Paris, 2015

      The quiz
      Who posed like Rodin’s The Thinker on Saturday night TV?

    • Charli xcx on left, with her hands on her head, while on the right is a closeup of a the bottom of a woman wearing jeans, with bright pink knickers visible above the waistand

      Fashion
      ‘Rebellious and subversive’: the rise of the new visible panty line

    • Confused-01

      Ask Annalisa Barbieri
      I’m jealous of my husband’s relationship with his sister

    • Mil Markle and his wife, Jan, with a picture of his late wife, Carolyn.

      Experience
      My dying wife found me a girlfriend

    • Yotam Ottolenghi's cucumber yoghurt and peanut soup.

      Food
      Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes for chilled summer soups

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    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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      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?

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      Sweltering temperatures
      How do you stay cool in extreme heat?

    • 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
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    From our global editions

    • Residential properties in Melbourne

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

    • A female African soloist sings in front of a symphony orchestra in a concert hall

      Music
      African classical music hits world stage as the Africa United Youth Orchestra plays Carnegie Hall

    • Numerous lit windows in high-rise buildings at night

      The alternatives
      ‘Ultra-cheap energy for every household’: could a different kind of tariff change everything?

    • Protesters clash with police in Westminster following the knife attacks in Southport

      Extremism
      How TikTok bots and AI have powered a resurgence in UK far-right violence

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      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
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      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

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

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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
      Simone Biles at the Olympics, a prisoner swap, Israeli bombardment in Gaza and wildfires in California

      The last seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists
    • A general view of action during the women's 100m heats.

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

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    • A fox runs through flames

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

    • Zongo Lane in Accra, Ghana

      Ghana
      Carmignac photojournalism award: Ghana and e-waste

    • ‘Lost in music’ … reggae fan Ken

      Photography
      Sound systems and struggle: community spirit in east London

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