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  • Protesters in London calling for a ceasefire in Gaza

    Revealed
    Plan to brand anyone ‘undermining’ UK as extremist

  • A close up of Russell Brand wearing a brown leather jacket

    Russell Brand
    Alleged sexual assault victim felt ‘used and abused’ on film set

    • Africa
      Former Guinea dictator Moussa Dadis Camara recaptured after armed prison escape

    • India
      Senior lawyers criticise handling of case of imprisoned British Sikh activist

    • Business
      Female chief executives have shorter tenure than men due to crisis management roles

    • Australia
      Murder charge after human bones found in burnt-out tree trunk

    • Engineering
      ‘We need more women,’ says only female winner of Millennium prize

    • Japan
      Osaka’s baseball underdogs hope one more win will lift curse of KFC

Spotlight

  • Italian ultra-endurance cyclist Omar Di Felice preparing for his attempt to ride across Antarctica coast to coast

    Antarctica
    Italian ultra-endurance cyclist returns to crossing where isolation is the enemy

    In his first attempt to cross Antarctica last year, Omar Di Felice was prepared for minus 38C temperatures and gale force winds — but not extreme loneliness
  • a young woman and young man with drinks, her in lace-up white top, him in white vest, both tanned

    How to Have Sex review
    Two stars are born with this searing study of consent

  • Anna Readman in her home studio, Leeds

    ‘It would be amazing if this led to something’
    Anna Readman, winner of our graphic short story prize 2023

  • Daisy Haggard wears dress by edelinelee.com; shoes by Jimmy Choo (selfridges.com); rings and earrings by indiamee.co.uk and missoma.com.

    ‘My life is a series of awkward stories’
    Daisy Haggard on finding humour in dark situations

    Daisy Haggard has made a name for herself playing fragile, flawed and often hilarious characters. From Back to Life to Breeders and now Boat Story, she tells Eva Wiseman why she’s always rooting for the underdog
    • Jilly Cooper at home in Bisley, Gloucestershire.

      Jilly Cooper
      The secret to a happy marriage is creaking bed springs – from laughter

    • Marcelo Ordás at his museum in Madrid

      Football’s memory keeper
      The man with more than 5,000 shirts

    • Small girl holding mother's hand, seen from behind/the side, outside wearing coats

      Ask Philippa
      I love my son, but I resent my daughter

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      Monsters of the road
      What should the UK do about SUVs?

  • Sam Bankman-Fried looking serious

    It’s easy to be dazzled by the super-rich, but don’t believe that they’ll do the right thing

    Will Hutton
    Silicon Valley tech showmen like Elon Musk and Sam Bankman-Fried can blind us with science. A little more scepticism would not go amiss
  • Female manager discussing business<br>Posed by models Group of people on a business meeting

    Why are women far more likely than men to praise their colleagues’ work?

    Torsten Bell
  • Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson staff give evidence to Covid Inquiry<br>epa10951299 Dominic Cummings, former Special Advisor to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, departs the Covid Inquiry after giving evidence in London, Britain, 31 October 2023. Former staff of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson are to give evidence this week. EPA/ANDY RAIN

    In Boris Johnson’s Lord of the Flies fraternity, women were there to be talked over or banished

    Catherine Bennett
  • The exterior of Palermo’s Politeama theatre.

    Sicily, where billionaires get back to basics – by booking an entire city

    Tobias Jones
  • Ukraine's President Zelenskiy visits an artillery training centre at an undisclosed location in Ukraine<br>Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visits an artillery training centre, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, at an undisclosed location in Ukraine November 3, 2023. Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.

    The Observer view on the war in Ukraine
    The west can’t afford to forget about it

  • Maya Jama Hosts Halloween Party With Gordon's Premium Pink<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 31: Zachariah Noble and Snoochie Shy attend Maya Jama's Halloween Party with Gordon's Premium Pink at Omeara on October 31, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by Dave Benett/Getty Images for Maya Jama)

    Would you Adam and Eve it – cockney’s out. We’re all speaking multicultural now

    Tomiwa Owolade
  • People at a flooded street after the storm in Campi Bisenzio, Florence.

    Italy
    Storm Ciarán leaves seven dead in Tuscany as torrential rain causes flooding

    Hundreds forced to evacuate homes and others left without power as storm sweeps across Europe
  • A generic image of police tape

    Australia
    Three dead in firefighting plane crash in outback

  • Anthony Albanese arrived at Shanghai’s Hongqiao airport on Saturday evening.

    China
    Australian PM arrives for landmark visit, says it’s in ‘our national interest’

  • The graves of Russian prisoners at the Alderney camp.

    Exclusive
    Himmler ordered mass execution of prisoners in only Nazi camp on British soil, documents reveal

    • ‘Loneliest sheep’
      Ewe rescued after two years at foot of cliff in Scotland

    • ‘It’s very dehumanising’
      Model says her face was edited with AI to look white

    • Nepal
      Search for survivors after earthquake kills at least 157 people

    • Eric Trump
      Ex-president's son says he was not involved with documents at heart of fraud trial

    • Denmark
      Ex-defence minister and spy chief ‘relieved’ after charges dropped

    • US
      Blow to Ron DeSantis as more key Florida backers switch to Trump

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  • Victims of heavy flooding from monsoon rains wait to receive relief aid in the Qambar Shahdadkot district of Sindh province, Pakistan.

    Climate crisis
    Talks resume on ‘loss and damage’ funding for poorest countries

  • Aerial shot of two ships next to a large cage

    Environment
    Sea-lice outbreak on Icelandic salmon farm a ‘welfare disaster’, footage shows

  • The UN deputy secretary general  Amina Mohammed at mic

    Climate crisis
    UN to seek assurances UK will not renege on net zero pledge

  • A man hangs clothes to dry in on barriers as Delhi is engulfed by heavy smog.

    India
    Delhi air pollution spikes to 100 times WHO health limit

Culture

  • South Africa's Caster Semenya competes in the women's 800m heats at the athletics event of the London 2012 Olympic Games on August 8, 2012 in London. AFP PHOTO / OLIVIER MORIN (Photo credit should read OLIVIER MORIN/AFP/GettyImages)

    The Race to Be Myself by Caster Semenya review
    Running for her life

    Controversy has surrounded the career of the South African athlete. But her timely, sometimes angry memoir inspires compassion
  • David Oyelewo as Bass Reeves in Lawmen: Bass Reeves

    Lawmen: Bass Reeves review
    This utterly distinctive western is a rare treat

  • Tkay Maidza.

    Tkay Maidza: Sweet Justice review
    The Australian rapper levels up

  • Dennis Cooper -American novelist, poet, critic, editor and performance artist - at his home in Paris 27/10/2023. Portrait by ©Magali Delporte

    Dennis Cooper
    I’m saddled with this cult writer thing

  • Ian McKellen (Macbeth), Judi Dench (Lady Macbeth) in MACBETH by Shakespeare at the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, England 04/08/1976 design: John Napier lighting: Leo Leibovici director: Trevor Nunn<br>2E9Y7WH Ian McKellen (Macbeth), Judi Dench (Lady Macbeth) in MACBETH by Shakespeare at the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, England 04/08/1976 design: John Napier lighting: Leo Leibovici director: Trevor Nunn

    Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent review
    Judi Dench’s seven-decade love affair

  • Matthew Perry speaks during a session on prescription drug abuse in April 2013 in St Louis.

    Matthew Perry
    Actor buried in service attended by family and Friends costars

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  • Carl Cox in a black T-shirt with a black and white Hawaiian shirt on top, grey background

    Sunday with Carl Cox
    I’ll hit 250mph in five seconds

    The techno DJ on drag racing, Smooth FM and a roast
  • Sunset at Giants causeway

    The Giant’s Causeway lives up to the hype, but my commentary is less impressive

    Séamas O’Reilly

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  • Dominic Cummings, former chief adviser to Boris Johnson, and Helen MacNamara, former deputy cabinet secretary at the inquiry.

    Cummings vs MacNamara
    The backstage clash at the heart of the UK’s Covid response

    Boris Johnson’s chief adviser and senior civil servant traded blows at the pandemic inquiry last week, describing horrifying levels of government chaos. The irony was how often their assessments agreed
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    Monsters of the road
    What should the UK do about SUVs?

  • The Milky Way is viewed from the outside

    Take an interstellar tour
    What would you see if you could travel around our galaxy?

  • Former Royal Australian Navy chaplain Mel Baker with retired racehorse Treble Clef

    ‘This saved my life’
    The emotional alchemy bonding traumatised veterans and damaged racehorses

  • Damage to seafront buildings in Acapulco, in Guerrero state, caused by Hurricane Otis.

    ‘The children screamed for hours’
    Horrors of Hurricane Otis leave devastation for Acapulco’s poorest

  • Vivienne Westwood and staff in the Kings Road shop Clothes for Heroes in the 1970s

    ‘It’s scarily good’
    Vintage clothing market is flooded with fakes

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    Television & radio
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    Weekend podcast: Louis Theroux, Marina Hyde on the Covid inquiry, and remembering Matthew Perry

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    ‘We are just getting started’: the plastic-eating bacteria that could change the world

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    Speaker Johnson, Israel, government shutdown and Virginia

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    How oligarchs use English courts to silence their critics

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    Manchester United and Arsenal crash out of Carabao Cup – Football Weekly Extra

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    Dennis Morris’s 70s London

    The photographer was just 15 and already a professional when he shot this cool young boy in the East End
  • A lifesize cake figure of King Charles III by sugar artist Emma Jayne of Emma Jayne Cake Design.

    Sugar art show
    A lifesize king and a rock god at NEC Cake International

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    ‘It was odd to see someone standing in a 30ft-high window’
    Anthony Edralin’s best phone picture

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    Photography
    Clutter-free images to calm the mind

  • Children pose in front of a concrete wall decorated with a mural

    Australia
    Melbourne’s public housing commission towers

  • People stand behind the metal mesh that covered the window of a building hit by an Israeli strike in Rafah

    Twenty photographs of the week
    War, Hurricane Otis, Storm Ciarán and the Rugby World Cup final

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