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    Phillip Schofield: ‘utter betrayal’ made me never want to be a presenter again

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    Climate crisis
    The UK will get hotter and drier for plants... except in Manchester

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      Boy, 8, dies after being shot in face at farm in Cumbria

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      Flood warning as heavy rain expected in southern England and Wales

    • Mohamed Al Fayed
      Harrods must reveal all NDAs signed by Mohamed Al Fayed’s victims, say lawyers

    • Brexit
      Starmer visit to Brussels could lead to overhaul of Brexit deal

    • US elections 2024
      Trump leans into anti-immigrant rants and Harris barbs at Wisconsin rally

    • Pope Francis
      Catholic Belgian university ‘deplores’ comments by Pope Francis moments after speech

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  • Rockets are fired from Gaza City towards Israel on 7 October 2023.

    Israel-Gaza war
    The Middle East in crisis: 7 October, the day that changed the world

  • A sleek white bullet train passes in front of snow-capped Mount Fuji, against a deep blue sky

    Japan
    Japan’s magic bullet: 60 years of the train that helped rebuild the idea of a country

    Over just a few days in 1964, the launch of the shinkansen and the Tokyo Olympics trumpeted the emergence of a new economic and democratic power
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    Capital punishment
    Six days of horror: America’s thirst for executions returns with a vengeance

    Five executions, five states: a glut of judicial killing not seen in 20 years took place last week – and there was nothing random about it

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    Television
    ‘It has felt so bizarre’: Industry’s Harry Lawtey on coping with sudden fame

    It’s quite a leap for a ‘fragile, sensitive kid’ to find himself starring in a Hollywood action movie. After the huge success of Industry and his new part in Joker, Harry Lawtey reveals why being in denial is the only way he can make sense of it
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    How to work freelance, plan ahead and stay afloat in the UK

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    Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty examines the struggle between Michelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo
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    • Philippe Boxho

      Books
      ‘Death isn’t necessarily always sad’: the pathologist taking the French book charts by storm

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  • Rachel Reeves, wearing a dark red jacket, gestures towards an unseen audience.

    Bringing an end to child poverty really ought to be an economic no-brainer

    Sonia Sodha
    Growing up poor blights children’s lives, and results in lower work and health outcomes that cost the exchequer long term
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    Labour’s economic success lies in reshaping a doom-laden Treasury mindset

    Richard Partington
  • Illustration by David Foldvari of sausages in handcuffs.

    Starmer’s tiny gaffe has made him a sausage to fortune

    Stewart Lee
    If the Labour leader can’t make a minor slip in a speech without being accused of being anti-Israel, no wonder he’s retreated to Arsenal’s corporate box
  • Head and shoulders shot of Vladimir Putin, with one arm raised, against a background collage of the RT logo.

    In tackling Vladimir Putin’s web of troll farms and hackers, we have one advantage: democracy

    Peter Pomerantsev
    By focusing on its strengths and pooling information, the west can disrupt Russia’s war machine – but there’s no time to lose
    • Mrs Thatcher at the height of her powers in 1987.

      Can liberal conservatism survive the remaking of the right? We’ll soon find out

      Kenan Malik
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      He cries, he forages, but redemption may still elude cast away Phillip Schofield

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      Owning a pet can be complicated, but it’s a signifier like no other

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    • Graham Hancock, left, explains his unique insights into lost civilisations to Hollywood actor Keanu Reeves.

      Any ice-age telepaths out there? Please explain why Netflix is revisiting Ancient Apocalypse

      Catherine Bennett

Editorials & Letters

  • Soldiers from the Sudanese Armed Forces on a troop carrier.

    The Observer view on Sudan
    Decisive action is needed to avert catastrophe, but where is the will?

  • Campaigners hold a banner that reads: 'End unnecessary suffering'.

    Observer letters
    Assisted dying is much more than a party political issue

  • Students studying together in a cafe.

    The Observer view
    Youth mobility must be part of post-Brexit reset

  • Kemi Badenoch

    Editorial
    The Guardian view on the Conservative party conference: a parade of bad choices

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Climate crisis

  • People carry drinking water along a sandbank of the Madeira river. The water is at its lowest level since 1967.

    Brazil
    Brazil’s ‘Paradise’ on fire: ‘The forest is burning. Animals are burning. Everything’s burning’

  • Close-up of cows in summer

    Environment
    Cows help farms capture more carbon in soil, study shows

  • How two Airbus ZeroE blended wing concept planes could look in flight.

    Aerospace industry
    Flying-Vs and longer wings: how the familiar shape of passenger planes is about to change

  • Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are shown a heat pump demonstrator

    Heat pumps
    Are heat pumps the future or just a lot of hot air?

From the UK

  • A view of a hospital ward

    Health
    Only 4.3% of stroke patients in England can access life-saving treatment

    Mechanical thrombectomy can save a patient from permanent disability or death, but its availability depends on where they live
  • Rachel Reeves

    Politics
    Winter fuel cut savings will be far less than Reeves expected, new analysis finds

  • Thames Water metal cover on paving

    Water industry
    Labour used water industry analysis to argue against nationalisation

  • A large pile of waste food vegetables

    Environment
    Force companies to report their food waste, say leading UK retailers

    • Just Stop Oil
      Three Just Stop Oil activists charged after soup thrown at Van Gogh paintings

    • Tory conference
      ‘Like celebrity reality TV where you don’t recognise the celebrities’: senior Tories fear for next leader

    • Education
      Jamaican teachers at leading UK academy chain paid less than their British colleagues

    • Education
      Major fears over Labour’s nursery plan for 9-month-olds in schools

    • UK weather
      Wind and rain warnings issued for southern England and south Wales

    • UK
      Met police officer sacked for allegedly spanking 12-year-old girl’s bare bottom

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    South Africa
    Seventeen killed in two mass shootings in South African town

    Police hunting for suspects in attacks that took place in same neighbourhood in Eastern Cape province
  • Sana and Abbas Chamseddin and their sons Zien and Jawad arriving at Heathrow airport from Beirut.

    Lebanon
    Israel’s strike on Lebanon killed five of my family members, says British woman

  • photos of two men in suits, surrounded by stars and red and blue shapes

    US elections 2024
    Walz v Vance: two midwesterners miles apart in politics ready for debate

  • A search and rescue vessels looks for migrants off El Hierro, Spain after their boat sank off the coast

    Spain
    Nine dead and 48 missing after migrant boat sinks off Canary Islands

    • Germany
      German far-right politician accused of using political prisoners as cheap labour in Belarus

    • UN
      Top Russia diplomat warns west not to fight ‘nuclear power’ in UN speech

    • Nepal
      More than 100 killed and 64 missing as flooding and landslides hit Nepal

    • Mexico
      At least 22 reported dead as storm John weakens over Mexico

    • Space
      European twin satellite mission bids to create total solar eclipse on demand

    • Hurricane Helene
      At least 64 dead and millions without power after Helene devastates south-eastern US

Culture

  • Elizabeth Olsen sitting on a silver velvet couch

    Film
    Elizabeth Olsen: ‘I’m not the sexy one. I’m not the nerd. I don’t know where I fit’

    She thought acting was ‘silly’, despite having A-list sisters. Her interests lay in dance, accountancy, agriculture, construction. Here she explains how she conquered her anxiety and embraced being a Hollywood star
  • Rice slumps at a desk while Campbell-Wallace sobs into a handkerchief

    Opera
    Suor Angelica review – Puccini’s maternal tragedy gets a haunting modern update

  • Boris Johnson

    Boris Johnson
    Covid, canal raids and May’s nostrils: six key takeaways from Johnson’s memoir

  • Migrants standing together in a group.

    Books
    The Silence of the Choir by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr review – a masterly tale of African refugees in rural Sicily

  • Maisy Stella, right, as Elliott and Aubrey Plaza as the teenager’s 39-year-old self in My Old Ass.

    Film
    My Old Ass review – time-bending coming-of-age comedy with real heart and depth

  • Roderick Williams sitting on a bench.

    Music
    Baritone Roderick Williams: ‘I once heard a singer at a party say: “No peanuts. I’m singing in three days!”’

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