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  • 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

  • Saturday magazine Lifestyle Divorce feature

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

    Have the awkward chats early on, don’t be afraid to argue and be graceful when it ends. Divorce lawyers share their advice for singles and couples
  • Elif Shafak

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

  • 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

  • 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

    Gabriela Rodriguez was fired from her job over a minor misdemeanour. Now she and others like her are fighting back
    • Elyanna

      Music
      Palestinian-Chilean singer Elyanna: ‘Our people deserve love’

    • Man holding small insect

      Food
      British firms strive to create a buzz around insect farming

    • 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'

    • Logos of: Nvidia, Microsoft, Tesla, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet and Meta

      Artificial intelligence
      Why have the big seven tech companies been hit by AI boom doubts?

Paris Olympic Games 2024

  • Lin Yu-ting during her fight with Sitora Turdibekova of Uzbekistan at the Olympics

    In the Olympics boxing arena, facts and fairness are taking a battering

    Barney Ronay
  • Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone celebrates winning the women's 400 metres hurdles final at the 2022 World Athletics Championships with second placed Femke Bol.

    The impossible job: can Bol really beat McLaughlin-Levrone?

    Ben Bloom
    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • Running spikes shown during the 100m decathlon event

      Track
      It’s shoe time: inside the super spike war driving world records at Olympics

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Olympic medal table

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    Medal table
    1 China 13 9 9 31
    2 France 11 13 13 37
    3 Australia 11 6 5 22
    4 Great Britain 10 10 9 29
    5 United States 9 18 17 44
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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
      • 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
      • 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

    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 rugby seeks swift growth

      • 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'

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

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

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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
    • Mugshot of man with brown hair and beard

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

    • Trump in suit closes eyes on stage

      Donald Trump
      Trump 2020 election interference case resumes after immunity decision

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

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

      • 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

    • Metal darts used in wire catapults in attacks in East Sepik, Papua New Guinea.

      Pacific islands
      Slingshots and metal darts see tribal violence ‘horrors’ worsen in Papua New Guinea

    • The moon

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

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

      • 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

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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

    • 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

    • books

      Books
      ‘A rumpled paperback showed me I was not alone’: Writers on the books that marked their coming of age

      From a children’s classic to a novel of forbidden love, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Kaliane Bradley, Donal Ryan and more recall their formative reading experiences
    • Daniel Bedingfield speaks into a microphone on stage

      Music
      ‘We have to adapt or die’: Daniel Bedingfield says AI is future

    • TG books 137 choices Tom Gauld

      Cartoon
      The writer’s new gamebook idea

    • Reah Bravo

      Book review
      Complicit by Reah Bravo – a revisionist history of #MeToo

    • a composite of four images from My Neighbour Totoro; Spirited Away; Mononoke and Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.

      Film
      Director Hayao Miyazaki speaks to the child in all of us

    • Josh Hartnett in Trap

      Film review
      Trap – M Night Shyamalan’s concert thriller is a mess

    Lifestyle

    • Blind Date comp Anwit Pandit &amp; Kassondra Cloos

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

    • A photo collage of various body parts intertwined.

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

    • Yotam Ottolenghi’s chicory and lettuce with coconut and lime leaf green-goddess dressing gets its special texture from a sunflower seed dukkah.

      Ask Ottolenghi
      How can I add texture to my cooking?

    • tim dowling collage

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

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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

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      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?

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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
      Have your photos published in the Guardian’s letters section

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    From our global editions

    • mural depicting Lamine Yamal

      Spain
      Can Lamine Yamal change attitudes towards immigrants?

    • 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?

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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
    • 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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    • 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 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
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    • 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

    • Zongo Lane in Accra, Ghana

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