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    Mary Austin on her best friend Freddie Mercury

    A man with dark hair and a moustache and a stars and stripes t-shirt, cuddling a woman with long blond hair wearing a blue and red jumper

  • The long read
    Can we stop AI from deceiving us?

    Graphic of Pinocchio walking, in a digitally blurry ambience

  • Autumn arts preview 2026
    Monet’s Riviera, 90s nostalgia and Bayeux à gogo!

    Statue of Crouching Aphrodite (left) and an Eddie Otchere photo of Metalheadz Sunday Sessions.

  • Exclusive
    The London office, the empty boxes and the £1bn tax loophole

    The exterior of 2 America Square, a seven-storey, charcoal-and-beige office building located within London's financial district

  • Alexander Hurst
    Only Europe can make the AI arms race stop

    Alexander Hurst

  • ‘I’m not nervous, I’m ready’
    Tschabalala Self on her bold striding woman for the Fourth Plinth

    Artist Tschabalala Self kneels beside a bronze sculpture, with colorful paintings behind her

News

  • People shout and throw their hands in the arm in celebration

    Analysis
    Iceland’s close ties with EU mean no vote is not a Brexit-style rejection

    A yes to membership would have given Brussels a boost but Icelanders have not voted to isolate themselves

In focus

  • puddles of water and mud cover ground near grand canyon

    Extreme weather
    How intense rains in the Grand Canyon turned into a deadly disaster

    Flash flooding in Arizona tourist destination was likely triggered by compounding climate factors, such as drought and warming in Pacific Ocean
  • a burning Maga hat

    US
    Life after Maga: the group offering an ‘exit ramp’ for rightwingers questioning Trumpism

  • A swaddled newborn baby yawns in a bassinet at a maternity ward, another infant behind

    Singapore
    Singapore asks the $70,000 question: who wants to start a family?

Features

  • A man with dark hair and a moustache and a stars and stripes t-shirt, cuddling a woman with long blond hair wearing a blue and red jumper

    Interview
    The extraordinary untold story of Freddie Mercury: Mary Austin on her best friend – and love of her life

  • Portrait of Ryan Caldwell pointing to his temples

    Rugby union
    ‘I had no love for myself … now I have peace’: former Ireland rugby player Ryan Caldwell’s journey back from the edge

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  • Top: The Odyssey, Spider-Man: Brand New Day Bottom: Obsession, One Night Only

    Film
    Summer box office 2026: what can we learn from the hits and misses?

  • Video game workers rally outdoors in red shirts, holding signs against Xbox layoffs

    Games
    ‘I feel like I’m grieving’: staff on the devastating fallout of widespread layoffs at Xbox

  • Whitewashed houses with terracotta roofs surrounded by green mountains with a lake below

    Travel
    A walking tour of Andalucía’s historic white villages: ‘Nightingales serenade us as we wind along lush river valleys’

  • Artist Tschabalala Self kneels beside a bronze sculpture, with colorful paintings behind her

    Art
    ‘I’m not nervous, I’m ready’: Tschabalala Self on racist vandals and her bold striding woman for the Fourth Plinth

  • Raygun leans back dramatically under a spotlight, kicking one leg up on stage

    TV review
    Raygun: Breaking Badly review – the ridiculed Olympic B-girl gets the last laugh … and it’s a total joy

  • A person harnesses a team of sled dogs beside a wooden sled on snow, with icy cliffs behind, in the Arctic Circle

    Photography
    Scaring monkeys? Detecting bedbugs? Meet the elite working dogs – in pictures

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  • Graphic of Pinocchio walking, in a digitally blurry ambience

    Artificial intelligence
    ‘If you build something vastly smarter than you, it better be on your side’: can we stop AI from deceiving us?

    The long read: We are used to the idea that our fellow humans might intentionally mislead or manipulate us, but the idea that machines can now do the same is deeply unsettling. Researchers are racing to find solutions before it’s too late
  • Alexander Hurst

    From Bill Gates to Bernie Sanders, most agree the AI arms race is disastrous. Only Europe can make it stop

    Alexander Hurst
    An EU export ban on Dutch tech giant ASML’s machines could force the pause we all need, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst
  • Bill McGuire

    The Nepal and Tibet flood is a warning: melting snow and ice will bring more disasters around the world

    Bill McGuire
    In Alaska, the Himalayas, the Andes, Greenland, and perhaps also the Alps, deadly chain reactions are just waiting to be triggered, says climate professor Bill McGuire

More opinion

  • Nepal’s glacial collapse foreshadowed a future of climate disaster

    Michael Mann
  • Brigid Delaney

    Cities sweltering and the smell of the middle ages: has the climate crisis killed Instagram’s Euro summer?

    Brigid Delaney
  • Protesters hold handmade signs supporting USAID, including one reading 'USAID makes America GREAT!' during a march in support of USAID in Washington DC, February 2025.

    How misconceptions and woeful PR allowed Musk to shred USAID so easily

    Jeremiah A Carew
  • Caelainn Hogan

    I’m giving birth as a battle rages over maternity care in Ireland. We shouldn’t have to pay to feel safe

    Caelainn Hogan

  • The Guardian view
    Regulating big tech: Meta has got off too lightly

  • The Guardian view
    Trump’s immigration crackdown: who will have fewer rights next?

  • Nicola Jennings on Donald Trump, fossil fuels and climate disaster – cartoon

    Nicola Jennings
    Donald Trump, fossil fuels and climate disaster

    While the US president boasts about oil deals, Nepal has suffered devastating floods

More sport

  • Colin Kaepernick kneels amid images of protest, Trump, and a Capitol riot figure

    Kaepernick knelt 10 years ago. America responded with a clear warning to Black people

    Howard Bryant
  • David Mokwa of Elversberg celebrates scoring his team’s third goal in the 3-2 win over Bayer Leverkusen.

    Bundesliga
    Elversberg and ‘miracle village’ prove that Bundesliga fairytales still exist

  • The players of Fiorentina look on after their 3-0 defeat at home to Frosinone

    Serie A
    Fiorentina’s renaissance feels a way off after chastening centenary

  • Marseille lost a number of players over the summer and they lost 2-0 to Monaco on Sunday night

    Ligue 1
    Marseille’s squad is being gutted but their manager is staying – for now

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  • Helicopter above boats in the sea

    Cyprus
    Turkish deep-sea search vessel joins efforts to retrieve 20 still missing after Cyprus ferry disaster

    TCG Isin expected to play vital role in locating Filo Jet’s voyage data recorder 514 metres below surface
  • Busy street at night with dozens of neon signs

    US military
    Thai resort prepares to host USS Abraham Lincoln sailors after more than 270 days at sea

  • A smartly dressed older man standing behind a podium gestures with his right arm.

    European politics
    Head of Viktor Orbán’s favourite thinktank quits over unpaid wages

  • FILE PHOTO: Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney suspends trade negotiations with the U.S.FILE PHOTO: Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks with the news media after he suspended trade negotiations with the United States, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada August 22, 2026. REUTERS/Chris Tanouye/File Photo

    Canada
    Canada’s ruling Liberals sweep special elections in boost to Mark Carney

  • WA Police arrested a man after finding approximately three and a half grams of methylamphetamine hidden in a McMuffin meal during a car search on 20 August.

    Australia
    Meal deal: meth found hidden inside McMuffin during a police car search in Western Australia

  • An algae-covered chicken liver sponge

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Could this humble sea sponge clean up the world’s ports?

  • Flares burn off methane and other hydrocarbons against a blue sky

    Greenhouse gas emissions
    ‘Breakthrough’ as Turkmenistan starts fixing ‘mindboggling’ methane mega-leaks

  • Salad and vegetables growing in allotment beds.

    South Africa
    How a South African town cleaned up its polluted river using stones, wood and sand

  • People stand next to produce laid out on mats on the ground at a market

    Food
    Bhutan hosts first ‘conscious food summit’ amid threats to global supplies

  • Politics live
    Burnham to say he wants to unlock ‘positivity’ in first statement to MPs since becoming PM

  • The Channel
    British family pleads with French authorities to release body of relative who died in Channel

  • Exclusive
    More public control is only way to grow UK economy, Burnham to tell MPs

  • British Museum
    British Museum hosted Palantir founder Peter Thiel in private viewing of Bayeux tapestry

  • New York
    Police fatally shoot woman who stabbed two people in Times Square

  • Pacific
    China warns of ‘consequences’ over Taiwan presence at Pacific Islands Forum

  • Business live
    Rising oil prices trigger global bond rout

  • Fashion
    Met Gala exhibition honouring John Galliano is cancelled after backlash

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    Comics and graphic novels
    Gen Z ‘Chinamaxxers’ fantasise about life in China. This journalist and this artist can never go back there

  • Hayley Mills looks warily at Alan Bates in a barn

    How we made
    ‘The whistling on the theme tune? That’s Dickie Attenborough!’ Hayley Mills on Whistle Down the Wind

What to watch

  • The Extractor Press publicity film still

    Film
    The Extractor review – Indonesian hostage-rescue thriller has surprising thread of gentleness at its core

  • An actor stands at the end of a pier as the sun sets, while a another stands in the foreground near the sea, looking to the left, in a still from the film Pin de Fartie.

    Film
    Pin de Fartie review – spoonerist remix of Samuel Beckett’s Endgame finds fresh absurdity in Argentina

  • BETTY UND IHRE SCHWESTERN / Little Women USA 1994 / Gillian Armstrong WINONA RYDER (Josephine March), TRINI ALVARADO (Margret March), SUSAN SARANDON (Marmee March), CLAIRE DANES (Elizabeth March), in der Mitte: KIRSTEN DUNST (Younger Amy March) Regie: Gillian Armstrong aka. Little WomenGGF35T BETTY UND IHRE SCHWESTERN / Little Women USA 1994 / Gillian Armstrong WINONA RYDER (Josephine March), TRINI ALVARADO (Margret March), SUSAN SARANDON (Marmee March), CLAIRE DANES (Elizabeth March), in der Mitte: KIRSTEN DUNST (Younger Amy March) Regie: Gillian Armstrong aka. Little Women

    My feelgood movie
    ‘Sometimes you just need a good cry’: why Little Women is my feelgood movie

  • Riley's face is partly hidden by curly hair in dim, menacing light

    Film
    Parasomnia review – sleep-schedule horror conjures up a succubus on the loose in waking nightmare

What to listen to

  • Jennifer Herrema standing against a chain fence under a blue sky.

    Honest playlist
    Jennifer Herrema: ‘After I had my cat stolen, I would listen to Funkadelic and cry and cry’

  • Culture Preview Autum 2026 - Music - Kehlani, Noah Kahan

    Autumn arts preview 2026
    Best music of autumn 2026: Johnny Marr, Phoebe Bridgers, Rachel Chinouriri and more

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    Music
    How Katseye became the world’s biggest girl group – while falling apart

  • A flashed-out photo of the musician Klara Lewis, wearing a black coat, taken in the dark

    Experimental album of the month
    Klara Lewis: Opening review – enigmatic, ecstatic sound sculptures from a Swedish slowburn master

What to read

  • Author Anita Brookner holds a cigarette, seated in a striped armchair, looking intently at the camera

    Book of the day
    Anita Brookner by Hermione Lee review – an enigmatic literary great given her due

  • Chloe Benjamin

    Science fiction books
    Under Story by Chloe Benjamin review – this time-reversal melodrama is quantum hokum

  • Emma Cline.

    Books
    Switzy by Emma Cline review – this Booker-listed account of a man’s last days is profoundly moving

  • Gordon Brown, with white hair and a light blue shirt, stands before a pink outdoor backdrop

    Politics books
    The Future Starts With Us by Gordon Brown review – the ex-PM’s recipe for beating populism

What to play

  • Culture Preview Autum – Games – There are no ghosts at the grand and GTA 6

    Video games
    Gems, ghosts and GTA VI: the biggest video games for autumn 2026

  • A screenshot showing a huge bird-like creature looming over a man in a corn field.

    Summer games previews
    The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past – Geralt of Rivia returns after a decade in the sun

  • A fierce woman warrior holds two curved knives, surrounded by ancient ruins and soldiers

    Games
    Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy review – picture-postcard retelling of haunting Minoan myth

  • Trainwatch game

    Summer games previews
    Trainwatch – alone with your thoughts on a railway line to nowhere

More culture

  • FILE PHOTO: Dolly Parton attends a red carpet gala event honoring her as the MusiCares person of the year in Los AngelesFILE PHOTO: Dolly Parton attends a red carpet gala event honoring her as the MusiCares person of the year, ahead of the Grammy Awards, in Los Angeles, California, U.S. February 8, 2019. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/File Photo

    Music
    Dolly Parton laid to rest in private Nashville funeral

  • Stewart Lee standing in a wooded cemetery with he left arm stretched out and his left hand leaning on a pillar

    Comedy
    ‘I was miserable for a lot of this century’: Stewart Lee on divorce, his adoption and the twisted children’s poem that explains his life

  • A man wearing a horned helmet sticks his tongue out.

    Culture
    J’ouvert celebrations at Notting Hill carnival

    Gallery13
  • On the Babylon Berlin set, actors in period costume sit watching intently, with crew nearby

    Television
    Goodbye to Babylon Berlin, the 1920s TV drama that has eerily foreshadowed real-life politics

  • Sami Tamimi 's musabaha with turmeric and nigella seed flatbread.

    Food
    Sami Tamimi’s recipes for musabaha (warm chickpea dip) and turmeric and nigella seed flatbreads

  • Rosie Mackean's cucumber rice dish in a bowl on a check tablecloth, with a glass on the table

    Food
    Rosie Mackean’s quick and easy recipe for cucumber rice with fudgy eggs

  • Felicity Cloake's key lime pie on a green plate, with slices cut off

    Felicity Cloake's masterclass
    How to make key lime pie

  • Dean Parker's roast squash and cavolo nero salad with black olive tapenade in dishes on a wooden table, with glasses and cutlery nearby

    Food
    Squash salad and chocolate mousse: Dean Parker’s recipes for early autumn

Fashion & beauty

  • Eve Ogden Schaub smiles, holding a pitchfork beside a basket of flax fiber she grew

    Fashion
    ‘I wanted to find the slowest fashion imaginable’: the woman growing her own dress

  • A big pile of clothes and accessories thrown on the floor

    Fashion
    ‘It gives Shein’: how did polyester become the world’s most-hated material?

  • Jackie Sandler wearing a long black dress and Adam Sandler in shiny blue baggy trousers and a light blue baggy short-sleeve shirt

    Fashion
    Dads and dudes: the two style clans that dominate menswear

  • Dolly Parton smiles broadly, wearing an ornate beaded jacket and statement earrings

    Fashion
    Like a rhinestone cowgirl – Dolly Parton’s most glorious, joyful and meta looks

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  • A mum with three barefoot children walk on a road

    Kindness of strangers
    My car had been towed and my kids had no shoes, then a man made a wonderful offer

  • Illustration of a small naked figure sitting in the mouth of a man lying down

    This is how we do it
    My ex wouldn’t even kiss me during sex. Marcus is happy to take his time

  • Composite of Mike and Caterina, both smiling, him on left with hand on chin wearing a pale shirt, her with hands in pockets wearing a cream waistcoat

    Blind date
    She’s one of the easiest people to talk to that I’ve ever met

  • Tyler and Jim Rogers smile together, and Jim has his arm around Tim's shoulder

    The moment I knew
    I’d never had romantic feelings for a man – then he touched my hand and it felt electric

  • An illustration of a sad inflamed brain

    Wellbeing
    Is it true that … mental health is affected by inflammation?

  • A woman making a bed, and a man in the background holding cleaning products and a mop

    The experts
    Make your bed – and be ruthless: 14 expert rules for a clean, healthy, happy home

  • Woman in bed sleeping

    Sleep
    ‘People should not feel guilty’: weekend lie-in may be good for you, experts say

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    Health
    Statins can reduce dementia risk by up to 15%, long-term study suggests

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    Well actually
    Caregiver creep: how helping elderly relatives can snowball into a full-time job

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    The pet I'll never forget
    Jerry, the king of dogs, who taught me how to live

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