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  • A person almost completely covered in gear, from a helmet with goggles and mouthpiece to a dark green uniform, appears to walk away from a helicopter.

    Kosovo
    White House warns of ‘unprecedented’ Serbian troop buildup on border

  • A man wearing long pants and waders stands in the middle of a completely flooded intersection holding a long pole in the water, as a blue-and-white NYPD SUV slushes past, red lights on.

    New York
    State of emergency amid heavy rainfall and flash floods

    • Australia
      Gardener becomes first person in world to survive deadly flesh-eating bacteria

    • Tupac Shakur
      One?of last living witnesses and ex-gang leader indicted in murder

    • Tesla
      Company sued for severe harassment of Black workers at California plant

    • US elections 2024
      Robert Kennedy Jr to run for president as independent in 2024 – report

    • ‘Brave Cave’
      Four officers charged over alleged abuse and sexual humiliation

    • See you later
      Emotional support alligator denied entry to Phillies game

In depth

  • Mstyslav Chernov photographed while on assignment for Associated Press in Sloviansk

    ‘It felt like the beginning of the third world war … It still does’
    Mstyslav Chernov on 20 Days in Mariupol

  • A stock image of a white woman and a Black man, who appear from the necks down, standing by a blue transparent water cooler.

    ‘We have a bias problem’
    California bill addresses race and gender in venture capital funding

  • Part of the Didion Milling plant in Cambria after the explosion in 2017. For Oosterhof and his family things will never be the same.

    ‘They’re back to making millions’
    Workers accuse Wisconsin mill where five died in blast

  • A veteran of SS ‘Galicia Division’ walks among the graves of his fellow soldiers in Chervone, Ukraine, in 2009.

    ‘Canada has a dark history with Nazis’
    Political scandal prompts reckoning

Spotlight

  • A black-and-white image of a white woman with coifed dark hair and a light knitted cap, and an overcoat with a large collar, chin up as she walks amid a crowd.

    Dianne Feinstein
    Historic career began in tragedy and ended in controversy

    She became San Francisco mayor after an assassination but her last days in the Senate brought questions about age and infirmity
  • A visitor to the Royal Academy passes between a naked woman and a man in a narrow doorway

    Intimacy with strangers
    Marina Abramovi? puts the squeeze on

  • Walking Netball<br>Feature on the England Walking Netball club called the ‘Wild Ones’ where women of different ages from 55 - 73 play walking netball at The Portland Centre in Nottingham. Pictured are (l-r) Joan Scarrott(72), Jean Bly(68) and Janet Blair(55). Photo by Fabio De Paola

    Run at 40, dance at 80
    The?best ways to exercise in every decade of your life

    Tennis, running, weights, yoga … all exercise is good, but certain sports have more of an impact at a particular age. Here’s what you should be doing – and when
  • Corey Gamble, Kris Jenner, Kim Kardashian and Anna Wintour watching the show

    Victoria Beckham
    Her?collection is dance of delight despite Kardashian delay

    Clothes the designer wore as dance student given a chic glow-up on the catwalk
    • Michael Palmer's photo of the Sycamore Gap tree, taken in 2022.

      ‘More than just a tree’
      Recollections of the UK's Sycamore Gap

    • The sound of music cast

      From Audrey Hepburn to Zac Efron
      A?brief history of dubbed singing in Hollywood

    • Tube of makeup

      Retinoids work, wipes don’t
      21?things I’ve learned about skin care

    • The site of the suicide bombing that struck a procession to mark the birthday of the prophet Muhammad in Mastung

      Pakistan
      Twin suicide attacks underline the depth of crisis

Ukraine invasion

  • Vladimir Putin sits at a table with Andrei Troshev and Yunus-Bek Yevkurov.

    Vladimir Putin
    President speaks to former Wagner chief on TV about Ukraine deployment

  • Local residents walk past damaged shops and buildings in Kupiansk, Kharkiv region.

    At a glance
    What we know on day 583 of the invasion

  • The logo of the Paralympics in Paris

    Russia
    Athletes cleared to compete at Paris Paralympics 2024

  • A Russian checkpoint near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine.

    Zaporizhzhia
    Greenpeace warns over safety of nuclear plant

Opinion

  • ‘The UAW strike could be a chance to dismantle the rightwing myth that reducing emissions hurts working people.’

    Biden is right to praise the auto strike. His climate agenda depends on it

    Kate Aronoff
  • Emma Brockes

    Digested week: even a dreary way to dump Trump is a dream

    Emma Brockes
  • The shadow cabinet pictured smiling outside in a sunny London street on 5 September 2023.

    UK?leaders, beware: endlessly shifting to the right won’t save the country

    Andy Beckett
    Self-styled ‘realists’ of both parties underestimate the depth of voters’ disillusionment
    • Illustration: Eleanor Shakespeare

      Unless Joe Biden stands aside, the world must prepare for President Trump 2.0

      Timothy Garton Ash
    • Kosovo police officers stand guard on 25 September 2023 after a gunfight with Serbian nationalists.

      The?flare-up of violence in Kosovo shows the folly of the west’s appeasement of Serbia

      Jasmin Mujanovi?
    • An older looking man wearing a white t-shirt and blue pants, sitting on the floor, reading a book. A fire burns in the fireplace in the background.

      One?of the hardest parts of getting older? Pondering the ‘me’ in dementia

      Larry F Slonaker

Sports

  • Barney Ronay

    AI?revolution in gaming paves terrifying path to sport’s total digital dissolve

    Barney Ronay
  • Michael Oher was the 23rd overall pick in the 2009 NFL draft out of Mississippi, and he spent his first five seasons with the Baltimore Ravens, where he won a Super Bowl.

    NFL
    Judge ends Oher conservatorship amid Blind Side dispute

    • Lions wide receiver Jameson Williams looks on during a January 2023 game against the Bears in Detroit.

      NFL
      Gambling policy toughened for players who bet on own team

    • Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk.

      Boxing
      Fury v Usyk heavyweight title fight agreed for Saudi Arabia

    • Joie Henney sits with his emotional support alligator Wally inside his home in York Haven, Pennsylvania on 22 January 2019.

      See you later
      Emotional support alligator denied entry to Phillies game

    • Detroit Lions running back David Montgomery (5) tries to elude Green Bay Packers safety Darnell Savage (26) during the second half of Thursday’s game.

      NFL
      Montgomery runs riot as Lions whip Packers in NFC North tilt

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Climate crisis

  • hot three momnths

    A visual timeline
    The?hottest summer in human history

  • Dead dolphin

    Environment
    Mass death of Amazonian dolphins prompts fears for vulnerable species

  • A rig and supply vessel in the Gulf of Mexico,

    Fossil fuels
    Biden to sell three oil and gas leases over five years, angering climate advocates

  • young people lying on the ground with signs

    'Climate action not shutdown'
    Eighteen activists arrested for McCarthy office protest

Across the country

  • Clarence Thomas and John Roberts in robes talking to one another

    Supreme court
    Chief justice urged to make Alito and Thomas step aside in megadonor cases

    More than 40 watchdog groups call on John Roberts to force US supreme court justices to step aside after ethics scandals
  • A white man wearing a vaulted black cop with gold decorations, and a black suit with many multicolored bars on the left breast, salutes with his right hand outside.

    Mark Milley
    Retiring general appears to call Trump ‘wannabe dictator’

  • Jimmy Carter<br>FILE - In this Nov. 3, 2019, file photo, former President Jimmy Carter teaches Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Ga. Carter, the oldest former U.S. chief executive ever, will quietly mark his 97th birthday at home in southwest Georgia on Friday, Oct. 1, 2021, an aide said. (AP Photo/John Amis, File)

    Jimmy Carter
    Former president to celebrate 99th birthday with digital mosaic from well-wishers

  • Kent Walker, president of global affairs at Alphabet, trailed by Ian Madrigal dressed as ‘Monopoly Man’, departs federal court on 12 September 2023 in Washington DC.

    ‘Veil of secrecy’
    Outrage as Google limits public access to antitrust trial

    • California
      Newsom faces tough choice to fill ‘friend and mentor’ Feinstein’s Senate seat

    • Dianne Feinstein
      Trailblazer for women in US politics dies at 90

    • UAW
      ‘Fed up’ US autoworkers expand strikes against GM and Ford

    • Healthcare
      Doctors and insurers clash over law that protects against surprise billing

    • California
      Shasta county abuzz after far-right figure appointed for mosquito control

    • Christopher Steele
      Trump suing ex-MI6 officer who alleged he was ‘compromised’ by Russian security service

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Around the world

  • Injured people are treated at a hospital in Mastung, near Quetta, Pakistan, after an explosion

    Pakistan
    At?least 59 people killed in twin attacks on mosques

    Suicide bombing kills at least 54 at parade to mark prophet’s birthday, while five die in attack in police compound
  • The felled Sycamore Gap tree in Northumberland.

    Sycamore Gap
    Man, 60, arrested in connection with felled UK tree

  • A bedbug.

    Paris
    Bedbug crisis sparks political row as insect ‘scourge’ continues

  • Alberto Nú?ez Feijóo leaving the lower house of parliament after the vote

    Spain
    Alberto Nú?ez Feijóo fails to win MPs’ backing to become PM

    • Brazil
      Bank’s past slavery ties to be investigated in unprecedented inquiry

    • CND
      Co-founder Pat Arrowsmith dies aged 93

    • High-speed rail
      ?600m of UK public money spent buying up property in north of England

    • Apple
      iPhone 15: users of Pro and Pro Max models complain of overheating issues

    • Poverty
      More than 1 million children in UK sleep on floor or share bed – study

    • UK
      82-year-old tortoise has cricket ball-sized bladder stone removed

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Culture

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    Fashion
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  • Michael Gambon in Krapp's Last Tape at the Duchess theatre in 2010.

    ‘He turned every performance into a masterpiece’
    Readers pay tribute to Michael Gambon

    The actor gave astonishing performances in works by Shakespeare, Beckett and Brecht in the West End – and he was just as unforgettable off stage, our readers remember
  • John Malkovich and Gary Sinise as Lennie and George in the 1992 film adaptation of Of Mice and Men.

    Books
    Of?Mice and Men first-draft fragment torn up by Steinbeck’s dog goes to auction

    John Steinbeck’s pet ‘made confetti’ of the manuscript in 1936, but a surviving piece will go on sale alongside personal journals, first editions and a wrought-iron sword owned by the author
    • An underwater picture of different shades of dark and light blue, with light from above shining on a metal capsule shaped like a pill with a porthole on the end facing toward the camera.

      Film
      OceanGate Titan sub disaster movie in the offing

    • Werner Herzog

      ‘Everything became a lie, a performance’
      Werner Herzog on Soviet Russia

    • ‘They look after you’ … PGA Tour 2K23

      This golf sim is the best video game ever – I just need to figure out why

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Lifestyle

  • Nan Hauser sitting on a rock in front of water

    Experience
    A?whale saved me from a shark attack

  • Illustration of a man in deep thought

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    I?feel sickened with myself for shouting at my child. Please help

    You say you’d never hurt your children, but you do seem scared of losing control
  • The Breakfast Martini, courtesy of Mount St. restaurant in London.

    Cocktail of the week
    Mount St restaurant’s breakfast martini – recipe

    There are worse ways to kick off a weekend brunch than with this gin and citrus livener
    • Illustration of two windows: one showing a couple embracing; another showing a girl sulking

      You be the judge
      Should my mum stop bringing her dates home?

    • Male hands pouring espresso martini cocktail into glass... whats your secret tipple?

      Baileys, egg nog, cream sherry
      Which drink’s your old favourite?

    • Grace Dent at Wagamama's in Westfield Stratford City: ‘Come as you are, come dishevelled, hungover, heartbroken, alone or with a rabble ... My order rarely deviates and my love never dwindles.’

      Grace Dent on the joy of chain restaurants
      A?moment of dependable zen on a helter-skelter day

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  • Sometimes, it’s the smallest changes which end up having the biggest impact on our lives.

    Lifestyle
    Tell us about a small change that improved your lifestyle

  • Residents gather next to buses in central Stepanakert before leaving Nagorno-Karabakh, a region inhabited by ethnic Armenians.

    Nagorno-Karabakh
    How?have you been affected by the situation in the region?

  • What is the best way to split up?

    Relationships
    Have you been through an amicable breakup?

  • A snoring man and a young woman in bed

    Life and style
    Tell us how you feel about your partner’s sleeping habits

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Explore

  • A dog on a dry lawn by a tree

    ‘The dog’s very happy’
    Water-conscious Swedish islanders compete for ugliest lawn title

  • Expensive looking yachts in the harbour

    ‘Saint-Tropez has become LVMH Ville’
    Locals in French Riviera town slam super-rich ‘takeover’

    The annual influx of billionaires is leading to ‘odious’ practices in the French Riviera town
  • Abstract illustration of people connected by a flow of information through their brains

    New York
    A?23-year-old was arrested for gun possession. It led the FBI to a global Satanic cult

    Angel Almeida’s alarming social media posts led authorities to 764, a group that abuses minors and circulates violent videos
    • composite image of woman's mug shot, prison corridor, Kim Anh restaurant and a woman smiling

      Antoinette Frank
      She’s the only woman on death row in Louisiana. Will the state grant her mercy?

    • Two girls play on barnacle-covered rocks at SG?ang Gwaay in British Columbia, Canada

      An end to plunder and pillage
      How?a First Nations nature reserve became a model for the world

    • black and white picture of man supporting woman

      ‘The model is not working’
      Midwives navigate legal limbo as they save lives

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In pictures

  • woman smiling

    Dianne Feinstein
    A?life in pictures

    The longest-serving female US senator, who was the first woman to be mayor of San Francisco and blazed a trail for women in US politics, has died aged 90. We look back on her career
  • A girl on a man's shoulders looks back at the camera

    Twenty photographs of the week
    The?world in 20 pictures

  • Amal and George Clooney

    A space exhibition and the Clooneys
    Friday’s best photos

  • A hummingbird hawk moth feeds on salvia in a garden in London, UK

    Environment
    The?week in wildlife

  • Julius Erving of the New York Nets, 1976

    Superfly
    Basketball fashion on and off the court

  • Competition day in Glasgow

    Go Team Sharkie!
    Scotland’s disco lassies – photo essay

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