No water, no power, hordes of birds: who will buy San Francisco’s $25m private island?
Red Rock Island, a 5.8-acre hunk of stone with a colorful history, is an outlier in the luxury market. We joined the realtor tasked with finding a buyer
Oleg Orlov: the veteran dissident who accepted jail to ‘show there is resistance inside Russia’
Israel strikes on Gaza school site kill at least 80, Palestinian officials say
DJs join Ravers for Palestine boycott of top Berlin techno club Berghain
‘We’re freed, but it doesn’t end here’: Bangladeshis mix hope with vigilance after PM flees
Russia claims to have thwarted Ukraine’s advance in Kursk
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Democrats’ joy is unconfined as Harris and Walz take upbeat message on tour
The new presidential ticket is accentuating the positive on a swing through battleground states but opinions differ on whether they can shift the mood in rural America
‘It’s going to be hair-raising’: high-risk slingshot move will send robot craft to Jupiter
Was the shooting of a nine-year-old girl in Hackney linked to a Europe-wide battle between rival drug gangs?
From brats to tradwives: why do we keep putting women into subcultures?
Hamas’s leader is dead, Iran vows revenge: can anything stop all-out war in the Middle East?
Is the dream of nuclear fusion dead? Why the international experimental reactor is in ‘big trouble’
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Alicia Vikander: ‘If you’re depicting an abusive relationship, you can’t shy away’
The Oscar-winning Swedish star on keeping her head as Henry VIII’s last wife in a no-holds-barred reimagining of the Tudor court, the rise of AI – and why filming feels like first love
Black Arsenal: how the club and its players set the pace for integration and ‘natural multiculturalism’
Beautiful, bruising and complex: what I’ve learned about female friendship
Britain burns while liberals check facts
Stewart Lee
Fusion power might be 30 years away but we will reap its benefits well before
‘Actors are strange animals’: Jack Lowden of Slow Horses on playing an alcoholic and working with his new wife, Saoirse Ronan
Comedian Phil Wang: ‘The Taskmaster bulge issue only became apparent too late’
Black Arsenal: how the London club earned its place in Black British culture
The big picture: sun worship in Sicily with Pia Riverola
Sarah Manguso: ‘I seem to have hit on a cultural sore spot’
What opposition to delivery drones shows about big tech’s disrespect for democracy
John Naughton
On my radar: Ade Adepitan’s cultural highights
Hello, goodbye: the rise and decline of the celebrity video-greeting app Cameo
One to watch: Dua Saleh
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‘I see the world for what it is’: actor Naomi Ackie’s rage-fuelled rising star
Starring as Whitney Houston catapulted Naomi Ackie to fame – and drove her to exhaustion. She tells Hayley Campbell about channelling anger, coping with grief, and why she’s drawn to the dark side of life
Home medical tests are on the rise – but do they really work?
‘The young offenders system worked for me’: the ex-convict turned chef
My sister buys posh food, but most of it ends up in the bin
Should artists be terrified of AI replacing them?
10 of Europe’s best sculpture parks and open-air galleries
Nigel Slater’s recipes for summer green vegetable curry and summer fruits in raspberry and elderflower
Finding someone to look after our toddler all day and night is a big ask
Séamas O’Reilly
Notes on chocolate: a seven-inch chocolate single
At last things seem to be looking up…
Eva Wiseman
Remedies for uneven skin tone: 10 of the best
Community, chores and colour – the best of summer on an allotment
A toast to the remarkable new ‘Piwi’ grape varieties
From Nigella Lawson’s lemony prawns and Nigel Slater’s noodles with pickled ginger to classics such as potato and pasta salads, these dishes are pure summer
Refreshing, thirst-quenching, distinctive: 20 best wines for the summer
Nigel Slater’s recipes for salads to share
Welcome to July’s Observer Food Monthly
My search for the perfect veg – from my greenhouse to the Cotswolds and even into orbit
