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  • Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant seated in front of Israeli flags during a press conference

    Israel-Gaza war
    Britain drops its challenge to ICC arrest warrants for Israeli leaders

    Labour government says it will not pursue questions on court’s jurisdiction over Netanyahu and Gallant
    • A middle-aged white women standing on a stage talking to an unseen audience

      Germany
      Doctor behind trial of HIV prevention drug recounts breakthrough moment

    • Mexico
      Top leaders of powerful Sinaloa drug cartel arrested in Texas

    • Global development
      Green economy could generate 3.3m jobs across Africa by 2030 – report

    • UK
      Manchester airport arrest: family call for calm after second night of protests

    • UK
      ‘Sadistic and manipulative’ ex-Spandau Ballet singer guilty of rape

    • Environment
      Backpack-wearing dogs enlisted to rewild urban nature reserve in UK

    • Space
      No return date for Nasa astronauts amid problems with Boeing Starliner capsule

News in focus

  • A portrait of Hazem Rahma, a director at Mubarrat Al Rehmat orphanage in Gaza City, holding two young children, atop the Palestine colours

    Gaza voices
    The Gaza orphanage director: I carried a small boy with cerebral palsy to safety – but he died soon after

  • Illustration of oil pipe looming over a traditional Norwegian house on the coast

    The other petrostates
    Climate hero or villain? Fossil fuel frenzy challenges Norway’s green image

    As it rapidly adopts clean technologies while drilling furiously for oil and gas, the Nordic nation is a paradox
  • Annie Versteeg is followed by Bwieuwkje Bruinenberg-Haisma, being pushed in a wheelchair by her son Harry, through Kunstmuseum Den Haag.

    Netherlands
    ‘Smell it, it’s wonderful’: Dutch gallery designs tours for people with dementia

    Kunstmuseum Den Haag tour sparks senses of people with dementia and their carers

Spotlight

  • David Lynch and Chrystabell.

    Music
    ‘Sublime eternal love exists within each one of us’: David Lynch on music, friendship and life’s biggest mystery

  • Sean Wang, wearing a white T-shirt under a blue jumper, sits sideways on a chair, hands linked, facing the camera

    Film
    ‘In all those movies about childhood, I never saw someone who looked like me’: Sean Wang on his debut, Dìdi

  • Andy Morton at the Kelham Island Tavern in Sheffield.

    Experience
    I’ve tried 50,000 beers

    At a festival, I try up to 17 half pints, and the most I’ve been to in a year is 109
  • Laura Kenny

    Paris Olympic Games 2024
    Laura Kenny Q&A: ‘I got a bike with a basket on the front as a retirement present!’

    • Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman in Deadpool & Wolverine.

      Deadpool’s obnoxious gay panic humour is a tiresome schoolyard taunt

      Guy Lodge
    • Two folded origami faces made from £10 and £20 notes

      Life and style
      Are you a cash stuffer or a doom spender? The new lingo helping people save money

    • Divisive … Ice Spice.

      Ice Spice: Y2K! review
      Wilfully trashy wordplay from wily new rap star

    • man applying sunscreen to his boyfriend on the beach

      You be the judge
      Should my boyfriend apply my suncream for me?

Opinion

  • Demonstration in support of former U.S. President Donald Trump who was shot the previous day<br>A pro-Trump supporter holds a portrait of former U.S. President Donald Trump and wears a cap reading “I’m Voting for the Convicted Felon” during a demonstration day after Trump was shot in an assassination attempt during a rally in Pennsylvania, in Huntington Beach, California, U.S. July 14, 2024. REUTERS/Etienne Laurent

    Donald Trump is a misogynistic, billionaire felon. Here’s why Americans can’t stop voting for him

    Stephen Reicher
    Outsiders can’t fathom his success. But Trump’s supporters believe his gaffes and misdemeanours prove he’s ‘one of them’, says academic and author Stephen Reicher
  • woman wearing light pink suit waves

    Conservatives’ racist and sexist attacks on Kamala Harris show exactly who they are

    Judith Levine
  • Visitors speak to gendarmes at a barrier to a restricted area

    Digested week: central Paris becomes a steel-clad ghost town

    Jon Henley
  • An older Black man with white hair, wearing a short-sleeved, pink, collared shirt, speaks into multiple microphones at a lectern, waving his finger, as Black man in a suit and Black women behind him listen.

    Sonya Massey, killed by police after asking for their help, deserved better

    Tayo Bero
  • Older men in black gowns sit on chairs in semicircle in a cathedral, watched by standing onlookers and all listening to a man in a gown with a shiny-visored cap, his hands behind his back

    How will we solve the world’s water wars? An ancient Spanish court offers one answer

    Roman Krznaric
  • Campaigners for and against assisted dying gather during a debate in Parliament<br>epa11308684 Pro-assisted dying campaigners gather outside the UK Houses of Parliament as MPs prepare to debate over changing the law on assisted dying, in London, Britain, 29 April 2024. Following a petition backed by Dame Esther Rantzen, the UK Parliament will debate assisted dying and assisted suicide, which is currently illegal in the UK. EPA/TOLGA AKMEN

    At last, the chance to legalise assisted dying in the UK – and end the untold, unnecessary anguish

    Polly Toynbee

Paris Olympic Games 2024

  • Canada head coach Bev Priestman during the Women's World Cup 2023

    Spying scandal
    Canada football coach sent home amid claims of ‘previous drone use’

  • Fireworks at the Eiffel Tower on Bastille Day

    Paris 2024
    Five things to watch out for at the Paris Olympics opening ceremony

    • A general view as Team France (left) and Team Austria compete during a Beach Volleyball training session on Day -1 of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 on July 25, 2024 in Paris, France.(Photo by Tom Jenkins)

      Two weeks to save the Games – can Paris 2024 restore the dream factory?

      Barney Ronay
    • Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, Tyrese Haliburton, Lebron James, Joel Embiid, and Anthony Edwards prepare to board the Eurostar from London to Paris for the Olympics

      Basketball
      Is USA men's era of Olympic domination coming to an end?

    • Trinity Rodman and Mallory Swanson celebrate one of the USWNT’s three goals in their opening win over Zamia at the Paris Olympics

      Football
      Hayes brings brings back joy as USWNT attack thrives in Olympic opener

    • Count Clary delivers the opening speech at the Paris Games in 1924

      Gallery
      Memories of the 1924 Paris Olympics opening ceremony

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Climate crisis

  • Police officers carrying out arrests at Heathrow airport perimeter with a passenger on runway in background

    UK
    Eight climate activists arrested in Heathrow area remanded to prison

  • A resident walks among debris of destroyed belongings next to her house at a village in Manila

    Weather tracker
    Typhoon Gaemi wreaks havoc in Philippines and Taiwan

  • An oil refinery spews pollution with the city of Houston, Texas, in the background.

    The other petrostates
    UN chief urges wealthy countries to beat fossil fuel ‘addiction’ amid expansions

  • Cattle on a farm in Para state, Brazil.

    Brazil
    Brazilian rancher ordered to pay $50m for damage to Amazon

Around the world

  • Smoke from the wildfire burning near Jasper, Alberta, Canada

    Canada
    Firefighters try to save resort town as fast-moving wildfire hits

  • Mel Stride in Downing Street

    UK politics
    Mel Stride to stand in Conservative leadership contest

    • South China Sea
      ‘I did it as quietly as I could’: the navy chief who wrecked his ship to scupper China’s ambitions

    • Business live
      Former Royal Mail chair ‘horrified’ by Horizon IT scandal but says Post Office kept him in dark

    • Donald Trump
      Prosecutors in Trump hush-money trial say conviction must stand despite immunity ruling

    • UK
      Assisted dying bill to be introduced into House of Lords

    • Health
      Childhood air pollution directly linked to adult lung health, study says

    • Ukraine war briefing
      Pentagon accounting error creates path for billions more to be sent to Kyiv

Culture

  • Linford Christie

    Television
    Linford review – the scenes about the racist fetishisation of his genitals are heartbreaking

    He may have been one of Britain’s most successful ever athletes, but Christie’s triumphs opened him up to abuse from the press, the police – and sexual harassment
  • Claire Kilroy.

    The books of my life
    Claire Kilroy: ‘My moral compass has turned 180 degrees on Lolita’

  • Empire of the Sun

    Music
    Empire of the Sun: Ask That God review – the magic’s still there

  • Crack Cloud Press publicity portrait

    Music
    Crack Cloud: Red Mile review – aggressively tuneful rock about life’s big questions

  • Raphael Rogiński seated, playing guitar, with a traditional rug on the wall behind him

    Music
    Raphael Rogiński: Žaltys review – hypnotic eastern European folk

  • Thom Gunn, 1970.

    Books
    Thom Gunn by Michael Nott review – sex, drugs and San Francisco

Lifestyle

  • Ookioh’s ‘excellent’ one-piece swimsuit.

    Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion
    Bikini or swimsuit? Choose whichever makes you feel like your best self

    Ask yourself what you’d be comfortable in on the beach when shouting at the kids about suncream
  • People sitting outside The Peterboat pub in the summer in seaside town Leigh-on-Sea near Southend on Sea, Essex, UK<br>2BE6Y6D People sitting outside The Peterboat pub in the summer in seaside town Leigh-on-Sea near Southend on Sea, Essex, UK

    Travel
    If you’re fond of seafood and salty air: readers’ favourite places to eat at the British seaside

  • A grand townhouse in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire.

    Fantasy house hunt
    Grand townhouses under £1m for sale in England

  • Foundation sticks by Ilia

    Sali Hughes on beauty
    Foundation sticks are back – finally a Y2K trend that’s worth reviving

  • Meenakshi and Sankar in Chennai in 2012.

    How we met
    I thought straight away he was someone I wanted to marry

  • view along path to red garden bench

    Gardening advice
    The secret to making garden furniture sing? The planting around it

Take part

  • Commuter chaos at Montarpanasse station in Paris, following a series of suspected co-ordinated arson attacks on the high-speed national rail network and ensuing widespread train cancellations.

    Paris Olympic Games 2024
    Tell us: have you been affected by travel disruption ahead of the Paris Olympics?

  • 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

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

  • Closeup of eye with makeup<br>Closeup image of beautiful woman eye with fashion makeup. Makeup with eyeliner. Cosmetic Eyeshadow.

    Life and style
    Have you experienced so-called ‘eyebrow blindness’?

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

    People in the US
    How do you stay cool in extreme heat?

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From our global editions

  • Millions of Venezuelans abroad unable to vote due to government obstacles<br>epa11491941 Venezuelans walk across the Simon Bolivar Bridge in Villa del Rosario, Colombia, 18 July 2024 (issued 22 July 2024). Venezuela currently has a population of approximately 29.4 million people, of whom 21.4 million are theoretically eligible to vote in the presidential elections scheduled for July 28, both within and outside the country. EPA/Mario Caicedo

    Venezuela
    ‘To be reunited … would be a dream’: Venezuelan exiles’ fate hangs on vote

  • Illustration of an oil pipeline with a Canadian maple leaf-shaped valve, with mountains and windmills in background

    Environment
    Canada is proposing to lead on climate – but it’s doubling down on oil

  • A Teahupo’o wave crashes down

    Environment
    Point break? Why sharing its ‘secret’ wave with the Olympics could cost a tiny Tahitian village dear

  • Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses Congress in Washington, DC

    Explainer
    Fact check: Were Benjamin Netanyahu’s claims accurate in his speech to US Congress?

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  • Suha Nasser with her husband and son

    Gaza voices
    The Gaza physiotherapist: My house was bombed – and my baby son and beloved husband died

  • David Duke in 1991.

    The long read
    From the KKK to the state house: how neo-Nazi David Duke won office

  • A hand holds a photograph up to the camera of a severely emaciated man sitting with his back to the camera on a bed

    Ukraine
    ‘One goal is to destroy Ukrainian identity’: the haunting images of Russia’s prisoners of war

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    Documentary
    ‘Greed, power and fame’: inside pop music’s biggest Ponzi scheme

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  • Conor Niland after losing to Adrian Mannarino at Wimbledon 2011. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    ‘I’m good, I promise’: the loneliness of the low-ranking tennis player – podcast

  • AP Photo/. Tony GutierrezVice President Kamala Harris speaks during the American Federation of Teachers' 88th national convention

    Politics Weekly America
    Harris navigates Netanyahu visit - podcast

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    The mother who forgave her daughters’ killer – but not the police – podcast

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    Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph
    Can Strictly survive its biggest scandal? – podcast

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    Science
    Trophy hunting: can killing and conservation go hand in hand? - podcast

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    Labour suspensions and the Tory leadership race - Politics Weekly UK

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    Today in Focus
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In pictures

  • A pair of harvest mice greet each other on wheat stems in Dorset, UK

    The week in wildlife
    An escaped tortoise, friendly harvest mice and a giraffe on the move

    The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
  • Silky Anteater sleeping

    Environment
    Roots and refuge: the year’s best mangrove images – in pictures

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    Photos of the day
    Cards from Princess Diana and a prosthetic eye

  • Lee Friedlander – Topless Bridesmaid, 1967

    Photography
    Keep on Kicken! 50 years photographing Berlin and beyond – in pictures

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    Photography
    ‘Our own dirtbag Narnia’: hanging out with the trash people

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    Kenya
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