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  • An image that is half black earth, half bright orange flames and gray smoke.

    Arizona
    Firefighters near Phoenix battle wildfire as temperatures surpass 100F

  • Three people on a bright orange motorboat move across water toward fins.

    Massachusetts
    More than 100 dolphins stranded in shallow water around Cape Cod

    • France
      Voters head to polls in high-stakes snap parliamentary election

    • Live
      Israeli and Palestinian forces fighting ‘above and below ground’ in northern Gaza

    • Uvalde
      Families of shooting victims push for more arrests after indictments: ‘Why only two people?’

    • Ukraine war briefing
      Zelenskiy repeats plea for more weapons after Russian attack near Zaporizhzhia kills seven

    • Australia
      Three women killed, more injured in bus crash in Whitsunday tourist region

    • Stage
      Fame, lust and drugs: Dorian Gray staged as a genderfluid rock musical

In focus

  • Weathered-looking white woman wearing pink and blue sunhat holds up bright orange piece of paper, with tents on green grass behind her.

    ‘Terrifying and dystopian’
    The dark realities of the supreme court’s homelessness decision

  • An older white man man in a black suit and blue tie looks down, as he stands in front of a blue digital background with multiple red CNN logos.

    Explainer
    If Biden drops out now, how do the Democrats choose a new candidate?

  • A Palestinian flag and an Israeli flag

    Revealed
    The tech entrepreneur behind a pro-Israel hate network

    The Guardian used public records and open source materials to identify Daniel Linden of the Shirion Collective

Spotlight

  • Kevin Bacon, in a pale blue shirt, arms and hands resting on a table next to his black-framed glasses

    Interview
    ‘You have to get over the me thing’: Kevin Bacon on money, marriage – and learning to live with himself

    At 65, Hollywood’s great survivor is back on the big screen. Here Bacon talks about his band, politics, family and, most of all, learning selflessness
  • Factor Druk printing house, after being destroyed by a Russian missile in May

    Ukraine war
    ‘They burned books, like the Nazis did 80 years ago’: Russia’s deadly attack on Ukraine’s biggest printing house

  • Illustration by Julia Allum.

    Summer reading
    Beach books at the ready: authors pick their essential summer reads

    From newly published novels to timeless classics, Elizabeth Strout, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Irvine Welsh, Tessa Hadley and other writers choose their holiday favourites
  • Chris Martin fronts headliners Coldplay on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonburyon Saturday night.

    Glastonbury
    Coldplay’s record return lights up Pyramid at a Glastonbury of melodrama

    Festival opens its arms with more diversity but rock royalty gets the crowd bouncing
    • Take the plunge: curves and beige shades in the pool area and hammam of the Hôtel Pilgrim.

      Travel
      Retro Paris: stepping back into the 70s

    • Tyagarah beach

      Australia
      Tourist hotspot Byron Bay to be stripped of its nudist beach – and naturists blame ‘conservative creep’

    • From the series Zwischen den Jahren ( Between the Years) by Valentin Goppel. Published by Gost books £40 https://gostbooks.com/products/zwischen-den-jahren

      Book of the week
      Coming of Age: How Adolescence Shapes Us by Lucy Foulkes review – deep dive into the teenage mind

    • ray kurzweil in a room at singularity, the university he co-founded in mountain view, california

      Artificial intelligence
      AI scientist Ray Kurzweil: ‘We are going to expand intelligence a millionfold by 2045’

Opinion

  • Julian Assange on a flight from London to Bangkok after being released from prison on 25 June.

    Julian Assange is free, but his case is a grim reminder of the fragility of press freedom

    Kenan Malik
    • People in a pub laugh as they watch the televised debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

      America’s big problem is not Biden, it’s the menace to democracy posed by Trump

      Simon Tisdall
    • Renée DiResta, former research manager of the Stanford Internet Observatory, testifies to the US Senate, 2018.

      Closing the Stanford Internet Observatory will edge the US towards the end of democracy

      John Naughton
    • white man wearing blue suit stands at podium with crowd of people behind him

      Biden’s agonizing debate performance doesn’t change the reality of this election

      Sidney Blumenthal
    • Princess Anne and her husband Tim Laurence after attending the Order of the Garter service at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, on 17 June, 2024.

      Is a slimmed-down British monarchy really such a ‘foolish idea’? We subjects seem to be surviving just fine

      Catherine Bennett

Sports

  • Australian swimmer and former Olympian James Magnussen who will compete in the Enhanced Games, photographed in Sydney, Jun 2024

    Enhanced Games
    ‘Imagine a 60-year-old breaking Bolt’s record’: doper's Olympics

    Would an athletics competition where taking drugs is encouraged put the honesty back in sport – or cause rifts, risks and addictions?
  • Ecuador v Jamaica was played in front of a crowd of 24,074 at Las Vegas’s Allegiant Stadium, which has a capacity of 61,000 for soccer games

    Copa América
    Expensive tickets, empty seats and brutal heat: Copa América’s fan problem

    • Remo Freuler steers Switzerland’s first goal past Gianluigi Donnarumma

      Switzerland 2-0 Italy
      Switzerland outclass awful Italy to end the torment for Spalletti

    • Novak Djokovic reaches for a shot while wearing a knee support during preparation for Wimbledon.

      Wimbledon 2024
      Djokovic the underdog with Sinner and Alcaraz shining

    • England players step up preparations ahead of Sunday’s last-16 clash against Slovakia

      England could still become serious Euro challengers but there is plenty to fix

      Jonathan Wilson
    • Kishane Thompson will be among the favourites for this summer’s 100m at the Paris Olympics.

      Paris 2024
      Jamaica’s Thompson sends Olympic warning with 9.77sec 100m

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Climate crisis

  • An artist impression of the Microsoft Park Royal datacentre, now under construction in west London.

    Carbon
    AI drive brings Microsoft’s ‘green moonshot’ down to earth in west London

  • Two men in hard hats, jumpsuits and heavy boots work on dark purple painted pipes above, with pink floppy tubes and hard blue tubes.

    Big oil uncovered
    Colorado oil and gas wells can’t fund their own cleanup. Taxpayers may foot the bill

  • Building covered in scaffolding and hoarding sadvertising Cop29

    Azerbaijan
    Journalists refused entry to Azerbaijan energy conference ahead of Cop29

  • Earth mover on an active landfill site.

    England
    Landfills across England could be leaking harmful toxic ooze, warn experts

Across the country

  • A worker inspects flowering cannabis plants

    Marijuana
    Republicans use cannabis smell complaints as ‘excuse’ to oppose legalization, advocates say

    Norml argues lawmakers exaggerate scent complaints to support policies banning public use of marijuana
  • Three people sit in front of microphones at a long table covered with dark blue cloth, in a wood-paneled room, like a courthouse. A Black man speaks, sitting next to a white woman in a pink dress and a white man.

    New York City
    Renters fight back against real estate broker fees

  • Elena Kagan

    Analysis
    Elena Kagan’s scathing Chevron dissent shows supreme court’s disregard for precedent

  • A great white shark, among a few much smaller sharks, swim in bright blue water.

    Florida
    Shark attack leaves man in critical condition

    • Missouri
      Woman accused of putting weed killer in husband’s Mountain Dew

    • New York
      Four dead and nine injured after minivan crashes into nail salon

    • Steve Bannon
      US supreme court rejects Steve Bannon attempt to avoid prison

    • Homelessness
      Supreme court rules unhoused people sleeping outside can be fined and jailed

    • Texas
      Texas megachurch pastor tried to pay off his child sexual abuse victim, phone transcript shows

    • Rust shooting
      Judge denies Alec Baldwin’s plea to dismiss case in fatal shooting

Around the world

  • A satellite image of the Atlantic and Caribbean with a circular storm visible.

    Barbados
    Tropical Storm Beryl predicted to turn into first hurricane of season

  • Kemi Badenoch, the business and trade secretary, standing in front of a Union Jack

    UK
    ‘Disbelief’ as US-UK trade deals under threat after Britain axes negotiators

    • London Pride
      Mayor Sadiq Khan leads 32,000 marchers through capital

    • Germany
      Two police officers hospitalised after attack by protesters at far-right AfD congress in Germany

    • UK
      Royals open Balmoral Castle to extensive public tours for first time

    • Domestic violence
      ‘War zone stuff’: women 14 times more likely to die during natural disasters

    • Iran
      Iran heading for runoff election after neither lead candidate scores majority

    • Emmanuel Macron
      French president told ‘people detest you’ as far-right bids to be biggest party in France

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Podcasts

Podcasts

  • FBL-EURO-2024-MATCH37-GER-DEN<br>Germany's forward #07 Kai Havertz (C) runs with the ball past Denmark's defender #02 Joachim Andersen during the UEFA Euro 2024 round of 16 football match between Germany and Denmark at the BVB Stadion Dortmund in Dortmund on June 29, 2024. (Photo by Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP) (Photo by TOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP via Getty Images)

    Football Weekly
    Germany beat the storm and the Danes while the Swiss roll Italy – Football Daily

  • Keir Starmer

    Weekend
    Keir Starmer’s most personal interview yet, the woman who gave birth to her granddaughter, and why do we have the dreams we do?– podcast

  • Donald Trump (left) and Joe Biden take part in the first presidential debate (Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

    Politics Weekly America
    Debate disaster: is there a way back for Joe Biden? – podcast

  • Beneath the Baobabs, a festival in Kilifi, Kenya, over new year's 2023-2024. Photograph: Drew Kamau

    The Audio Long Read
    Nairobi to New York and back: the loneliness of the internationally educated elite – podcast

  • A still image taken from video shows Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, sitting next to Prime Minister David Cameron after presenting his Budget to the House of Common (Photograph: REUTERS/UK Parliament via REUTERS TV)

    Today in Focus
    The 14 years that broke Britain, part 1 – podcast

  • Keir Starmer in shirtsleeves standing on the doorstep of a house in North Yorkshire with Luke Charter, Labour's parliamentary candidate for York Outer

    Today in Focus
    Election Extra: will undecided voters be decisive? – podcast

  • Insurrectionists with flags and red baseball hats, including QAnon conspiracist Jake Angeli, inside the US Capitol on 6 January 2021

    Science
    The surprising psychology behind extremism, and how politics is driving it – podcast

Culture

  • Anita Desai

    Anita Desai
    ‘After I left India, I had to train myself to express my opinions’

  • Isabel Deroy-Olson walking alongside Lily Gladstone.

    Review
    Fancy Dance – Lily Gladstone is sublime in moving Native American family drama

  • The Breeders led by Kim Deal in concert at the Troxy.

    Review
    The Breeders – effortless pop gems from the grunge era

  • Spiderbait Press Shot 2 (credit Ian Laidlaw)

    Music
    Spiderbait’s Kram: ‘Which famous person would I fight? Anyone but Danny DeVito’

Lifestyle

  • Offices and employees with their pets inside the Mars Petcare HQ, a woman hugs a dog, and kibble production at a factory.

    Pets
    Love of animals and love of profit? Inside the $500bn pet boom

  • An illustration of a lady with her back facing us, sitting.

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    I just found out who my real father is. What do I do now?

  • Roland Bull performs in the Med Revue

    At age 40 I performed in the med school musical – and learned humility is my superpower

    Roland Bull
  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2021 - NEW YORK, NEW YORK : Fran Lebowitz at The Players, also known as the Players Club, in Manhattan, New York. CREDIT: Adrienne Grunwald

    This much I know
    Fran Lebowitz: ‘I am very angry. I’m angry almost all the time’

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  • Biden and Trump speak during the presidential debate in Atlanta, Georgia.

    Tell us
    Share your reaction to the first US presidential debate

  • A pair of male adult hands cradles a pair of child's hands cradling a pink piggy bank

    Well actually
    US parents: tell us how much you spend on your kids a month

  • 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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    Life and style
    Do you still sleep in your childhood bedroom?

From our global editions

  • Archival image of the Warwick Daily News from 1974.

    Media
    ‘We don’t know what’s going on any more’: how Australia lost its rural newspapers

  • Soldiers in uniform throw their hats in the air.

    ‘I am not made for war’
    The men fleeing Ukraine to evade conscription

  • Vikos Gorge, Greece

    Travel
    Our epic family adventure hiking through Greece’s Vikos gorge

  • Man standing on stage.

    Zungenbrecher
    How viral tongue-twisters lightened up German language

In case you missed it

  • A swimmer learns to float during a free swimming lesson organized by Black People Will Swim at York College in Jamaica, Queens, New York, on Thursday, June 20th, 2024.

    New York
    A program helps Black people of all ages enjoy swimming: ‘It’s very empowering’

  • Crumpled envelope with the words 'overdue account'.

    The broken years: Tory Britain 2010-24
    How the ‘unforced error’ of austerity wrecked Britain

  • A woman poses in a crouch with a sword and shield in a training room

    India
    Sword Granny: meet the 82-year-old dedicated to teaching India’s oldest martial art

  • Stellan Skarsgård.

    Film
    ‘In Europe, everyone’s screaming kill, kill, kill’: Stellan Skarsgård on Sweden, ‘silly’ Scandi noir and security

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  • From the series Rotting from Within, by Abdulhamid Kircher.

    The big picture
    Abdulhamid Kircher reflects on his traumatic family history

    Kircher’s seemingly innocent shot of his father’s girlfriend having her hair dyed in an Istanbul salon belies the truth about the couple’s reason for visiting
  • A person in a vest printed with the word 'LOVE' holding aloft a multi-coloured umbrella during the annual Pride parade on the streets of London.

    LGBTQ+
    Pride in London

  • WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrives in Canberra<br>WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange kisses his wife Stella Assange as he arrives in Canberra, Australia, June 26, 2024. REUTERS/Edgar Su

    Gallery
    Australia’s best photos of June

  • Oatcake shopfrontsof the Staffordshire Potteries photographed by David Fletcher.

    Oat cuisine
    Celebrating the oatcake sellers of Staffordshire

  • Lily Allen and Miquita Oliver photographed in London for the Observer New Review by Perou, June 2024.

    Art and design
    Original Observer Photography

  • Teenager sitting on her bed

    ‘It’s the quagmire of teenage existence - vulnerability with confidence’
    Denise Marcotte’s best phone picture

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