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    Donald Trump
    Pro-Trump multimillionaire and election denier boosts funds to far-right voter-conspiracy groups

  • Bella Hadid

    Fashion
    Adidas removes Bella Hadid from ad campaign after criticism from Israel

    • Ukraine
      Nationalist campaigner for the Ukrainian language is shot dead in Lviv

    • Israel
      UK billionaire’s Israeli TV channel accused of axing show for Netanyahu

    • Israel-Gaza war live
      Ceasefire ‘close to the goalline’, says US

    • Animals
      Cat burglars: scientists try to solve mystery of why felines ‘steal’ random objects

    • China
      At least 11 killed and dozens missing as Chinese bridge collapses amid floods

    • Australia
      ‘Magical wintry scenes’: snow ‘just keeps coming’ at Australian ski resorts

News in focus

  • Duke of Norfolk in military outfit, flanked by senior officers

    'Outdated and indefensible'
    The last of the hereditary peers in the House of Lords

  • A mural of Jerusalem with the caption “the gate of return” is painted on the border fence that separates Israel and Lebanon in the town of Kafr Kila, south Lebanon.

    Lebanon
    Inside a Lebanese village where war with Israel has already arrived

    Long stretches of Odaisseh and a neighbouring village have been virtually abandoned and reduced to rubble
  • Displaced Greek-Cypriots in Latsia<br>Giorgos is talking with Helena, An elderly man gestures as he sits at his kitchen table.

    Cyprus
    ‘Why can there be no peace?’ Cyprus remains divided 50 years on

    As both sides of the island mark the war that began on 20 July 1974, it is in the knowledge that almost nothing has changed

Spotlight

  • A composite picture of Meera Sodha wearing a long-sleeved black top and holding her arms out while appearing to be sinking into a can of tomato soup

    Meera Sodha
    I was a bestselling recipe writer - then burnout killed my appetite for food, and life. This is how I found my way back

    Cooking and eating was everything to the author and Guardian columnist. But when she found herself at breaking point, she had to go back to basics
  • Writer Tom Lamont sitting in a garden, July 2024

    Identity
    ‘There are lots of us who hover on margins, who are not quickly definable’: my life as a so-called ‘stealth Jew’

  • She sits looking at the device in her left hand

    Mobile phones
    Liberating and a huge pain: my week with a Nokia ‘dumbphone’

    Using the reissued 3210 model left our reporter very frustrated – but less mobile-obsessed and in awe of its battery life
  • Nina and Grace

    Blind date
    ‘The middle of Oxford Circus might not have been the best place to kiss’

    Nina, 25, a research analyst, meets Grace, 23, a production assistant
    • Arion vulgaris also known as the Spanish slug in motion on a tree stump.

      Gardens
      ‘They’ve been something else this year’: slugs wreak havoc on UK gardens

    • Ruth and Lawrence

      This is how we do it
      ‘After our child was born we didn’t have satisfying sex for seven years’

    • China Miéville and Keanu Reeves.

      Books
      ‘I wanted to do pulpy, hyper-violent action’: Keanu Reeves on his novel with China Miéville and the afterlife of The Matrix

    • Bruce Dickinson with his hair pulled back and wearing a black leather jacket, against a mid-blue background

      The Q&A
      Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson: ‘The closest I’ve come to death? The list goes on and on … ’

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Opinion

  • The UCAS website shot in a coffee shop environment (Editorial use only: ­print, TV, e-book and editorial website).<br>C9C646 The UCAS website shot in a coffee shop environment (Editorial use only: ­print, TV, e-book and editorial website).

    Farewell, Ucas personal statements: I won’t miss your hackneyed, cliche-ridden prose

    Max Fletcher
    These hated essays are going to be scrapped. It’s good news for those who can’t afford private tutors – and for those who had to read them, says writer Max Fletcher
  • Racism Protest<br>Black protesters demonstrating in Whitehall, London, two weeks after the murder of Kelso Cochrane, 1st June 1959. Cochrane was an Antiguan, who was murdered on 17th May by a gang of white youths in Notting Hill, west London. The protestor at far right is carrying a placard with Kelso's name and portrait. (Photo by John Franks/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

    The truth about this unsolved murder is finally coming to light. Here’s what it reveals about racism in Britain

    Mark Olden
  • Boris Johnson and Donald Trump at the Republican national conference in Milwaukee.

    Welcome to 2024’s saddest race – who gets to be Britain’s ‘Trump whisperer’?

    Marina Hyde
    Every luminary from Boris Johnson to the MP for Clacton has been lining up for a chance to enter the former president’s backchannel, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
  • Donald Trump gives his speech at the Republican national convention in Milwaukee.

    Donald Trump’s run of good luck could end this weekend – if Joe Biden does the right thing

    Jonathan Freedland
    Were the president to stand down – soon – the dynamics of this fateful election could quickly shift in the Democrats’ favour, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
    • Martin Rowson on Donald Trump and divine intervention – cartoon

      Cartoon
      Martin Rowson on Donald Trump and divine intervention – cartoon

    • A group of six people standing in front of Southwark crown court. A few protesters sit in the background, holding signs such as 'Jurors deserve to hear the whole truth'.

      You may find Just Stop Oil annoying. You may dislike their tactics. But they do not belong in prison

      Chris Packham and Dale Vince
    • What do you do for work?

      Cartoon
      ‘So, what do you do?’ It’s a question I dread – Sarah Akinterinwa’s millennial life cartoon

    • Aidan Kelly

      I treat transgender children – banning puberty blockers is not a decision for politicians to make

      Aidan Kelly

Editorials & Letters

  • COMBO-US-VOTE-POLITICS-BIDEN-TRUMP<br>(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on July 18, 2024 shows former US President and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (L), with a bandage on his ear after being wounded in an assassination attempt, applauding during the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 15, 2024; and US President Joe Biden clearing his throat as he speaks on economics in Las Vegas, Nevada, on July 16, 2024, before testing positive for Covid with mild symptoms on July 17. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI and Kent Nishimura / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKIKENT NISHIMURA/AFP via Getty Images)

    Editorial
    The Guardian view on an exultant Trump and ailing Biden: a week is a long time in US politics

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    Editorial
    The Guardian view on CBeebies: a safe space for children that adults can enjoy too

  • Invitro fertilisation.

    Letters
    Price caps could help end IVF postcode lottery

  • Gareth Southgate

    Letters
    Southgate has left a legacy that will inspire us all

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Climate crisis

  • A movie still of three young, good-looking people - one woman and two men, one Latino and two white - looking in concern out a door.

    Film
    ‘It affects everything’: why is Hollywood so scared to tackle the climate crisis?

  • An offshore oil rig in the Caspian Sea near Baku, Azerbaijan

    Climate crisis
    Cop29 host Azerbaijan seeks $1bn from fossil fuel producers for climate fund

  • Lucia Whittaker De Abreu, Cressida Gethin, Louise Lancaster and Daniel Shaw and Roger Hallam

    Just Stop Oil
    ‘Not acceptable in a democracy’: UN expert condemns lengthy Just Stop Oil sentences

  • A large field under a cloudy grey sky

    Environment
    ‘Some absolute gems’: £1.5m appeal to save rewilding haven Strawberry Hill

From the UK

  • Kerry and Charles Hine sit for a photo in front of an old house

    Dementia
    Up to 100,000 may have undiagnosed forms of dementia in England

    NHS figures show underdiagnosis of Lewy bodies and frontotemporal dementias
  • Dame Moya Greene

    Post Office Horizon scandal
    Vennells knew prosecution of post office operators was wrong, inquiry told

  • The leader of the opposition, Rishi Sunak with his MPs around him in the House of Commons

    Conservatives
    New Sunak appointments mean four in 10 Tory MPs are on frontbench

  • Lots of midges on red tent fabric

    Scotland
    Midges thriving in wet Scottish summer – and experts say worse is to come

    • Country diary
      An alarmingly bad day searching for butterflies

    • Law
      Andrew Malkinson calls for CCRC chief executive to resign

    • Politics
      No more ‘basket-case Britain’: Europe welcomes Starmer reset in UK-EU ties

    • Environment
      Celebrities add voices to outcry over severity of Just Stop Oil sentences

    • UK weather
      Hottest day of the year so far as temperatures top 30C

    • Travel
      ‘Bedlam’ in UK as air and rail travel hit by global IT outage

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Around the world

  • Lightning strikes the cooling towers of the Tricastin nuclear complex in south-east France.

    France
    ‘The day it goes wrong? We won’t know about it … ’: life next door to a nuclear power station

    France has 56 reactors – more than any other European nation. What is it like to swim, play and live in their shadow?
  • Dortheavej residence in Copenhagen

    Architecture
    Putting design first: six social housing projects from around the world

  • Donald Trump

    Donald Trump
    European divisions risk incoherent response to any second Trump term

  • black bear sitting by a pole

    Florida
    Police tell people to stop taking selfies with ‘depressed’ black bear

    • US
      Man accused of Nazi salute during US Capitol attack jailed for nearly five years

    • Belarus
      German national sentenced to death in Belarus, Berlin confirms

    • Paris Olympic Games 2024
      ‘Improvisation is key’: DJs ready for supporting role in breakdancing’s Olympics debut

    • Ireland
      Former factory in Dublin intended to house asylum seekers is set on fire

    • France
      Former Rolls-Royce designer’s alleged killer arrested in France

    • US
      Priest’s sexual assault victims felt they ‘could not say no’ due to his position, cops say

Culture

  • Toddlers playing on the beach at sunset

    Books
    Sand with everything: writer Catherine Newman on family summers at the beach

    Growing appetites and changing tastes … how summers at the beach capture the flavour of family life
  • ‘They filled the studio with foam and we rolled around naked’ … Robin Askwith and Sue Longhurst in Confessions of a Window Cleaner.

    Documentary
    The sex movie craze that swept 70s Britain

  • Killer smile… Elizabeth Olsen in Love &amp; Death

    TV tonight
    Elizabeth Olsen and Jessie Plemons’s outstanding murder drama

  • Joe Swash and Seann Walsh in Battle in the Box.

    The watcher
    Battle in the Box: kids’ birthday parties have better games than Jimmy Carr’s tedious new show

  • Elim Chan conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra baton-free.

    Proms 2024
    First Night of the Proms review – a thrilling adventure ride

  • Daisy Edgar-Jones in Twisters.

    Going out, staying in
    From Twisters to Latitude: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

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A taste of Piedmont and Alpine Italy

  • Glass and bottle of Menabrea on table with Italian food

    Anchovy sauce to sundried chillies
    What the UK’s Italian chefs eat for a real taste of home

  • Biella funicular connects the historic neighborhood of Piazzo

    Hops from Bavaria, barley from Champagne, soft pure water
    The alchemy of one of Italy’s finest beers

  • Piedmont’s unique characteristics are fertile ground for regional delicacies.

    Kings of the mountain
    All you need to know about the food, drink and produce of Piedmont

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    What to pair with Italian Alpine beer

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Lifestyle

  • Scientist examining hamburger with lab-grown meat sitting at his workplace in lab.

    Cultivated food
    From lab grown burgers to medicinal berries

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    The Tim Dowling column
    I’m in Spain, lying on my back with my legs in the air like a baby

  • No strings attached: the type of mandoline you want for slicing your veg.

    Ask Ottolenghi
    How to keep a mandoline sharp

  • naturist Anne Nisbet walking naked in the countryside

    Health & wellbeing
    Dance, spend time in nature, and get naked! 17 body confidence tips from people who have it

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  • Banks, airlines and media outlets hit by global outage linked to Windows PCs.

    Technology
    Tell us: how have you been affected by the outage linked to Windows PCs?

  • Graduates throw their caps in the air at Birmingham University, UK, after the graduation ceremony.

    Graduate careers
    UK graduates: tell us how your job hunt has been going

  • A woman walks on the beach, in Vouliagmeni near Athens, Greece on 3 July, 2024.

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    Tell us: if you’ve booked a last minute summer holiday, share why and where you are going

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    Family
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From our global editions

  • Auntieverse Chapter 3: Factory #0201 Aunties often display patterns of unacceptable behaviour! They say the most outlandish things! The subtle inter-familial inflections of which require a meaning decoder to mollify the notions of perceived reproach, and the ensuing feelings of hurtfulness and anxiety. In this alternative reality the “Niceaunties” provide a visual narrative where our adventuring aunties party uninhibited, have fun with a freedom of expression that is a positive representation of their collective joie de vivre.

    Singapore
    Into the Auntieverse: a surreal fantasy of older women

    Inspired by her own family, Singaporean artist Niceaunties puts aunties at the heart of the world she conjures up
  • Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands listening to the verdict in a glass cage of a courtroom

    Analysis
    Does Evan Gershkovich’s quick trial suggest a Russia-US prisoner swap is close?

  • Choirboys sing

    Australian arts
    ‘My God, how courageous’: the British choirboys taking on an Indigenous family’s painful story

  • woman stands in front of sign that says RNC

    Republican national convention 2024
    Trump is desperate to not appear racist. He’s enlisted Black and brown people to help him

  • Rieko Hirosawa performs the music of the goze – itinerant blind and visually impaired Japanese women who earned a living playing the shamisen

    Japan
    Playing for survival: the blind Japanese woman keeping a music tradition alive

  • people hold green, black and yellow signs as person standing in front of podium speaks

    America's dirty divide
    Car camping and fighting wildfires: what are the new US climate jobs?

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    ‘We’re in it together’: how unrest in Leeds escalated – and was defused

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  • A Ukrainian serviceman and police officers check the documents of a man in Kyiv. A controversial mobilisation law aimed at boosting troop numbers has been introduced which toughens penalties on draft dodgers, incentivises conscription and obliges men to keep their military registration details with the authorities up-to-date. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty

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    Smart shot
    ‘Happy moments like these deserve to be captured’: Chang Nianzu’s best phone picture

    The Shanghai native and street photographer intentionally included his own shadow in this colourful image
  • Former president Donald Trump is rushed off stage by secret service personnel after being shot at during a campaign at the Butler Farm Show.

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