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  • Athletes cross the finish line during the men’s hurdles heats
    Athletes cross the finish line during the men’s hurdles heats
    Equestrian jumping final
    Equestrian jumping final
    Men's javelin qualifications
    Men's javelin qualifications
    Keely Hodgkinson wins gold in the women's 800m last night
    Keely Hodgkinson wins gold in the women's 800m last night
    Women's volleyball quarter-final
    Women's volleyball quarter-final

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    • person wearing yellow firefighter uniform holds red container with flames in the back

      California
      Fast-moving California wildfire destroys homes and burns at least 100 acres

    • Google
      Google broke law to maintain online search monopoly, judge rules

    • Ohio
      US fugitive who joined Mexican police is extradited to Ohio over 2004 murder

    • Environment
      ‘It made me cry’: photos taken 15 years apart show melting Swiss glaciers

    • Middle East crisis live
      US personnel injured in attack on Iraq army base as region braces for fresh violence

    • Montana
      Body of man who drowned in Montana national park may have been found

    • Colorado
      Owners of funeral home where 190 bodies found ordered to pay $950m

    • Media
      Bloomberg fires reporter for ‘premature’ publication of Evan Gershkovich release – reports

In focus

  • President Putin greets Russians returning to Moscow after prisoner Artyom Dultsev, Anna Dultseva and their children, followed by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin

    Prisoner exchange
    How children of freed spies learned they were Russian on flight to Moscow

  • Viktor Orbán, dressed in a blue suit, looks ahead.

    Viktor Orbán
    ‘Somewhere between Orwell and Kafka’: Hungary closes in on its media

    The country’s new sovereignty protection office was set up to quieten anti-government voices, critics say
  • Tommy Robinson was arrested near the Royal Courts of Justice in London on November 26 at a march against antisemitism. Picture date: Monday January 22, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story COURTS Robinson. Photo credit should read: James Manning/PA Wire

    Far right
    Are the authorities powerless to stop Tommy Robinson’s online output?

    New laws may make it easier to pursue far-right activist over alleged role in spreading disinformation

Spotlight

  • Zoe Williams reads romance literature.

    Romance books
    My weeks of reading hornily: steamy book sales have doubled – and I soon found out why

    From fairy porn to romantasy via the Omegaverse, publishing is sexier than ever. The reason? A big shift in gen Z and millennial attitudes to respectability and shame ...
  • Creed performing at Danforth Music Hall in Toronto, 2012.

    The long read
    On board the Creed cruise: the unfathomable return of the ‘worst band of the 90s’

  • Juliane Diller in 1972, arriving at Frankfurt airport to live a more peaceful life in Germany

    How we survive
    A bolt of lightning struck my plane – and I plunged 3,000m into a rainforest

    Juliane Diller was 17 when the aircraft she and her mother were on exploded. Of the 92 people on board, Juliane was the only survivor – and it would take her 11 days to walk to safety
  • Rising concerns over living costs and housing shortages have fueled a mounting scepticism of mass immigration policies. Leyland Cecco spends time in Toronto – a rapidly growing city where rent is up more than 40% in just two years – to understand the sharp shift in opinion

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    Canada
    Why is anti-immigrant sentiment on the rise in Canada?

    Rising concerns over living costs and housing shortages have fueled a mounting scepticism of mass immigration policies. Leyland Cecco spends time in Toronto – a rapidly growing city where rent is up more than 40% in just two years – to understand the sharp shift in opinion
    • A Pakistani woman holds a placard reading "there is no honour in killing" during a protest. Another sign says "no more honour killings"

      Women's rights
      She wanted a divorce so her father hacked her legs with an axe: how Pakistan fails women

    • A shirtless man looks determined as he steers a sailboat's steering wheel

      Film
      Dark summer: why film noirs often work better in the sunshine

    • Cuba’s Mijaín López competes in the Greco-Roman wrestling event at the Champ de Mars Arena during the 2024 Paris Olympic Games

      Cuba
      Mijaín López aims for unparalleled glory in race against the clock

    • Celebrity Sightings In New York City - July 18, 2024<br>NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JULY 18: Actor Glen Powell is seen outside ABC Studio on July 18, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Raymond Hall/GC Images)

      Celebrity
      Goodbye hot rodent, hello beefcake: the return of the hunk

Paris Olympic Games 2024

  • Noah Lyles and Kishane Thompson wait for the result of the men’s 100m to be confirmed

    ‘Thompson is a gold medalist!’
    NBC announcer apologizes after incorrect 100m call

    For a few moments on Sunday, Kishane Thompson was an Olympic champion, to viewers in the United States at least
  • Armand Duplantis celebrates his victory in the men’s pole vault at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games

    Duplantis achieves new heights with world record

    Jonathan Liew
    Armand ‘Mundo’ Duplantis broke the pole vault world record again with a clearance of 6.25m, having already secured his second Olympic gold
    • Michael Phelps has been in Paris to see the Olympic swimming meet

      Swimming
      'One and done': Phelps says dopers should be given lifetime ban

    • Australia's Jack Robinson secured a silver medal as France’s Kauli Vaast won the men’s surfing final in Teahupo’o, Tahiti during Paris 2024

      Surfing
      USA's Marks and local hero Vaast win gold in Tahiti

    • Simone Biles finished fifth in the balance beam final at the Paris Olympics.

      Gymnastics
      Biles says crowd affected routine in Olympic final

    • Imane Khelif.

      Boxing
      Fighter in gender eligibility row hits out at ‘bullies’ as IBA doubles down

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    1 United States 21 30 28 79
    2 China 21 18 14 53
    3 France 13 16 19 48
    4 Australia 13 12 8 33
    5 Great Britain 12 13 17 42
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    Opinion

    • An outside view of the New York Stock Exchange building, a beige building with an American flag hanging outside

      The United States is not facing an imminent recession. This is nonsense

      Robert Reich
      The American economy is still growing. There is no reason to panic, despite Trump’s ‘world war three’ comments
    • woman in a suit speaks at a podium in front of a plane

      Democrats should run on a progressive economic agenda. Americans are ready

      Bernie Sanders
    • Gaby Hinsliff

      I fear books are going the way of vinyl records – a rarified pursuit for hobbyists

      Gaby Hinsliff
    • Independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr giving a speech

      From RFK Jr’s dead bear to a shot dog, why do US politicians keep throwing us red meat?

      Zoe Williams
      We are living through the age of the meatfluencer and it has led to some strange stories in this election cycle – few stranger than Kennedy’s latest, writes Zoe Williams
      • Police officers in riot gear in Liverpool on 3 August 2024.

        The Guardian view
        The UK riots: culpability in high places

      • A hand chopping vegetables.

        Why am I addicted to watching videos of people chopping salads?

        Sophie Brickman
      • A woman wearing a dark purple blazer speaks at a podium with a blue background reading 'Vice President Kamala Harris.'

        Harris helped pass one of the strongest climate laws. Her policies don’t stop there

        Leah C Stokes
      • Balloons float in the foreground with skyscrapers in the background

        Get ready for a long and messy August in the stock markets

        Nils Pratley

    Sports

    • Harrison Butker has won three Super Bowls with the Kansas City Chiefs.

      NFL
      Chiefs sign Butker to record contract after controversial offseason

      • Chicago White Sox players watch another defeat from the dugout

        MLB
        ‘It sucks. It’s painful. It hurts’: White Sox lose record-tying 21st straight game

      • Julián Álvarez

        Premier League
        Manchester City agree to sell Julián Álvarez to Atlético Madrid in €95m deal

      • Savinho’s transfer to Man City is emblematic of the problems with the multi-club model.

        Uefa’s craven failure to stand up for soccer’s values has left clubs on the brink

        Jonathan Wilson
      • Jean-Philippe Mateta celebrates scoring his second goal in France's win

        Soccer
        Mateta fires France into Olympics final against Spain

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    Climate crisis

    • a side-by-side image of Ted Cruz and Steve Scalise

      Climate crisis
      Climate change deniers make up nearly a quarter of US Congress

    • person stand on beach shore holds phone up

      Hurricanes
      Tropical Storm Debby intensifies as most of Florida under emergency orders

    • A sign warning of extreme heat with a mountain backdrop.

      Extreme heat
      Death Valley records its hottest month ever in July

    • A bird's-eye view of a person standing beside a lake

      Utah
      Great Salt Lake rings climate alarm bells over release of 4.1m tons of carbon dioxide

    Across the country

    • a police car with its lights on blocks a flooded section of a road

      Hurricane Debby
      At least four killed as Hurricane Debby makes landfall in Florida

      Storm hits Big Bend region, bringing widespread power outages, flooding and road closures
    • man in a suit speaks into microphone

      Robert F Kennedy Jr
      RFK Jr says Trump is ‘a sociopath’ – despite link to job if Republican wins

    • Woman in cream shirt reads statement in court

      Arizona
      Ex-Trump attorney agrees to cooperate in Arizona fake electors case

    • Justice Clarence Thomas at the White House in April 2017.

      Supreme court
      Clarence Thomas failed to disclose more private jet travel, senator says

      • Oklahoma
        Oklahoma educators push back on state rule forcing Bible into lesson plans

      • Democrats
        Roy Cooper dropped VP bid over fears about extremist lieutenant governor

      • US elections 2024
        Trump leans into religious extremism to energize rightwing evangelicals

      • Donald Trump
        US supreme court declines to halt Trump’s sentencing in hush-money case

      • OpenAI
        Elon Musk sues OpenAI again, alleging ‘deceit of Shakespearean proportions’

      • Elon Musk
        Secretaries of state call on Musk to fix chatbot over election misinformation

    Around the world

    • German police and pro-Palestinian protesters

      Germany
      Court due to rule on ‘from the river to the sea’ case in test of free speech

      Defendant is accused of ‘condoning the assault by Hamas’ by using slogan during protest
    • A woman waves and holds the Venezuelan flag from the center of a truck filled with people and decorated with political posters

      Venezuela
      Venezuela opposition leaders urge army and police to abandon Nicolás Maduro

    • Protesters in Bangladesh climb a public monument in Dhaka as they celebrate the news of Sheikh Hasina's resignation as prime minister

      South Asia
      Bangladesh student protesters to meet with army chief after PM resigns

    • Police officers detain people after unrest in Plymouth on Monday evening.

      UK riots live
      Man in serious condition after suspected hate crime; archbishop says rioters ‘defile the flag’

      • Tunisia
        Tunisia court jails potential presidential candidates and bars them from upcoming election

      • Australia
        Wife of man killed in Queensland crocodile attack says his last act was to save her life

      • Indonesia
        Papua separatists kill helicopter pilot from New Zealand, say police

      • Books
        Pope Francis says future priests should read poetry and fiction

      • Bangladesh
        Bangladesh PM has resigned and left country, army chief confirms

      • UK
        Two dolphins found dead on banks of Thames in London

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    Podcasts

    Podcasts

    • Self Esteem Rebecca Lucy Taylor Grace Dent comfort eating podcast

      Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
      Revisited - S3 E2: Self Esteem, musician

    • Woman and young girl embracing outdoors<br>Woman and young girl embracing outdoors - stock photo

      Science
      Secrets of ageing: making our last years count – podcast

    • Evan Gershkovich arriving at Joint Base Andrews last week. REUTERS/Nathan Howard

      Today in Focus
      Inside the prisoner exchange that set an American journalist free - podcast

    • Celtic FC v Kilmarnock FC - cinch Premiership<br>GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - AUGUST 4: Manager Brendan Rodgers of Celtic during the cinch Premiership match between Celtic FC and Kilmarnock FC at Celtic Park on August 4, 2024 in Glasgow, United Kingdom. (Photo by Steve Welsh/Getty Images)

      Football Weekly
      Transfer tittle tattle and the Scottish season kicks off – Football Weekly

    • An inhaler for the administration of chloroform or ether, circa 1848. Photograph: World History Archive/Alamy/Guardian Design

      The Audio Long Read
      Revolution in the air: how laughing gas changed the world – podcast

    • David Azevedo with his niece Emma in 2013

      Today in Focus
      A death at work in the age of extreme heat – podcast

    • Jeff Goldblum smiling, behind a table full of orange flowers

      Weekend
      Jeff Goldblum, eccentric as ever at 71; the fallacy of ‘tradwives’; and ‘My dying wife found me a girlfriend’ – podcast

    Culture

    • Grey Bees (2024) by Dmytro Moiseiev.

      Film
      Missile attacks and masterpieces: Mike Figgis on the bravery of a film festival under fire in Ukraine

      Ukraine’s war with Russia dominated the entries and trips to bomb shelters punctuated the Odesa film festival, but two rather wonderful films emerged
    • The cast of Rebel Moon

      Film
      Rebel Moon: what do Zack Snyder’s extravagant Netflix director’s cuts add?

    • Radical.

      Film
      Radical review – Mexico’s heartwarming answer to Dead Poets Society makes the grade

    • Happier times … Lynch at the Cannes film festival in 2002.

      Film
      David Lynch says he is not retiring after revealing he is too ill to direct films in person

    • Tom Glynn-Carney as Aegon Targaryen Matthew Needham as Lord Larys Strong

      Television
      House of the Dragon: season two, episode eight recap – what were the writers thinking?

    • ‘Every song has a destiny’ … Jonathan Cain, Steve Perry and Ross Valory of Journey.

      How we made
      ‘When The Sopranos used it, my phone blew up’: Journey on Don’t Stop Believin’

    Lifestyle

    • Dream composite of a man talking to a woman in black and white with cut out images in colour of an open door, pint of milk and flamingo head

      Sleep
      Sleep secrets: should you ever tell someone you dreamt about them?

      It can be difficult to resist the urge to divulge that someone has been rattling around your unconscious. But it is worth proceeding with care
    • Carmen Francesch wearing a white sweatshirt - standing next to her bike with grass and lake behind

      A new start after 60
      I did my first Ironman at 61 – after my husband bet I couldn’t beat him

    • an air conditioner sits in a window of a brick building, with sunflowers growing next to it

      Well actually
      From A to C: how to get the most out of your window air conditioner

    • Composite image of vintage illustrations of two women wearing fur coats

      Closet clinic
      The vintage fur debate: does it honor an animal or normalize cruelty?

    • Lilly the French bulldog

      The pet I'll never forget
      Lilly the stubborn, perfect Frenchie, who bounded into our lives and took over

    • Fork twirling through bowl of garlic and chilli spaghetti.

      Food
      Faster pasta: Tipo 00’s spaghetti with garlic and chilli – plus two other speedy recipes

    documentaries
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    As single women, Lei and Abu are banned from freezing their eggs in China, so they travel to the US to pursue their dreams of motherhood

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    Take part

    • Hands of teenage boy using computer on desk.

      Society
      Have you been affected by sexual extortion?

    • Snoop Dogg attends the Artistic Gymnastics Women's Qualification at the Paris Olympics at Bercy Arena on 28 July.

      Paris Olympics
      Tell us about your favourite Paris Olympics moment so far

    • What happened that forced you apart and what it was that brought you back together again?

      Family
      Have you rekindled a relationship with a close family member?

    • sun shines down on silhouette of person drinking from water bottle

      Sweltering temperatures
      How do you stay cool in extreme heat?

    From our global editions

    • Sheikh Hasina raises a fist as she speaks during a meeting at the prime minister's residence in Dhaka

      Explainer
      Why has Bangladesh’s prime minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled?

    • Sari Huriye wipes away a tear

      Israel
      Torture, abuse and humiliation: Palestinians on Israeli prison ‘hell’

    • People sat in a bar

      Business
      Sobering times for UK alcohol-free bars as many struggle to survive

    • Artwork from a screengrab of CCTV footage from NSW police and AAP image of the scene

      Australia
      A botched murder investigation left a family broken and a 15-year-old boy in jail for a year

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    • Supreme Court<br>UNITED STATES - JUNE 20: Pro-choice and pro-life demonstrators rally outside of the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday morning, June 20, 2016. The court is expected to hand down their decision on a Texas law which requires clinics to meet the same standards as ambulatory surgical centers and forces doctors to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

      Explainer
      Project 2025: what does the rightwing blueprint say about abortion?

    • black and white images of men side by side, in a collage over an image of red and white stripes

      US elections 2024
      Young men in the US used to lean left. Could they now hand Trump the presidency?

      The ex-president is courting a demographic drifting away from the Democrats. What’s driving the widening gender gap among young people?
    • a man in a suit speaks

      Profile
      Who is Tim Walz, the governor who could be Harris’s vice-presidential pick?

      The Minnesota governor has delivered progressive policies in his state and has a history of swaying Republican districts
    • Crowds of people, some waving flags, surround a decorated truck with a picture of Ismail Haniyeh on it. A large Iranian flag hangs from a building above

      Analysis
      US and UK expected to be drawn in as Iran prepares retaliation against Israel

    • A younger man wearing a dark gray blazer and white button-down with glasses folds his arms and looks ahead

      Georgia
      Ashwin Ramaswami takes on a fake elector for a Georgia state senate seat

    • Sam Neill at home in Central Otago, New Zealand.

      Interview
      The second act of Sam Neill: ‘The truth was, I didn’t know how long I had to live’

    • Phra Mahapranom Dhammalangkaro, the abbot, poses for a portrait at with The HIPPO project at Wat Chak Daeng on July 30, 2024 in Bangkok. The HIPPO project by Seven Clean Seas, in collaboration with Wat Chak Daeng temple, uses a solar-powered vessel to collect plastic waste from Bangkok's Chao Phraya River and recycles it to reduce environmental pollution. Phra Mahapranom Dhammalangkaro, the abbot, leads a project at Wat Chak Daeng that turns plastic waste into monk robes, upcycling around 40 tons of plastic since 2015 and serving as a model for environmental conservation. Photo by Lauren DeCicca for The Guardian

      Environment
      How a monk and a Hippo joined forces to tackle Bangkok’s plastic pollution

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    In pictures

    • Reo Inaba of Japan rides a huge wave.

      Sport
      Barrels and pigdogs - the best Olympic surfing pictures from Tahiti

      Held at Teahupo’o in Tahiti, AKA the ‘wall of skulls’, the Olympic surfing competition saw some epic waves
    • Families on the beach in front of rows of beach huts

      In pictures
      Shore thing: English beach huts

    • Mermaid in Italy … Alison and Thee, St Lawrence River

      In pictures
      ‘I never know what I’ll find’: under the influence of Italy

    • Simone Biles celebrates with a US flag during the Paris 2024 Olympics

      Photos
      The best of Simone Biles’ sensational Paris Olympics

    • Athletes head around the bend during the women's 200m repechage

      Paris Olympic Games 2024
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