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  • Indonesia
    The women saving Borneo: battling fire and super El Niño

    Irma, a member of the Power of Mama team, poses for a portrait on burned peatland in Sungai Putri village, Ketapang Regency, West Kalimantan province, Indonesia, August 18, 2026.

  • Family
    double quotation markRaising Elsie – my one in 163 million daughter

    Christelle Randall holding and cuddling Elsie

  • Slow Horses
    double quotation markIt gets harder to enjoy every year

    Jack Lowden and Gary Oldman stand together in a dim, shadowy doorway in Slow Horses.

  • Rafael Behr
    double quotation markPutin's fake democracy illustrates the threat to Britain

    Rafael Behr

  • Ukraine in depth
    The children who don’t want to go home

    A young woman makes a heart gesture with her hands on a phone's screen during a video call with an older woman

  • Explainer
    Could AI really wipe out humanity?

    A red robot face stands out among many identical teal robot faces in profile

News

  • Three armed men, with faces covered by scarves, standing against a metal door and a graffiti-covered wall.

    Africa
    Al-Qaida and IS-linked violence in Africa’s Sahel belt set to hit record levels this year

    Twenty-five years after 9/11, figures compiled by conflict monitor underline how Sahel region has become centre of Islamist terror

  • The women saving Borneo
    Battling fire, patriarchy, and super el Niño on Indonesia’s peatland frontlines

    Fire threatens Kalimantan’s rainforests. On the peatland frontlines, a group of local mothers is defending their community
  • Canada's PM Mark Carney gestures while speaking, seen past silhouetted audience members with a mountain backdrop

    Canada
    Carney says Canada will pursue ‘unique security and economic alliance’ with EU amid US trade spat

  • A person sits cross-legged on a wooden floor, holding an open book covering their face, in front of bookshelves

    Singapore
    Singapore pays people to pick up a book in battle against doomscrolling

  • The Parthenon temple in Athens

    Science
    UK mathematician debunks myth around Parthenon’s optical illusions

    Study challenges belief that temple’s curves were designed to correct optical illusions that would have ruined its clean lines
  • Illustration of the St George flag, with the red cross stretching across the image and a smaller white background behind it showing African American adults and children under a large tree in about 1860. Imposed in front is an image of the Ornate cross at St Paul’s Cathedral, London.

    Enslaving nation
    Fresh evidence of C of E’s role in enslavement uncovered as church wrestles with reparations debate

  • An illustration showing the financial district skyline in London, a British coin from the 1700s and the Bank of England.

    Enslaving nation
    Slave-trade wealth was embedded in Britain’s financial system, research finds

  • A boy's drawn face emerges from a silhouette of a lady's wig, wearing a pearl earring symbolising enslavement

    Women
    More than 1,000 women invested in companies at heart of Britain’s slave trade

  • A large pencil drawing of Quamina and smaller drawings of Robert Peel, John Gladstone, King James II and Thomas Coster

    MPs
    How enslavement became state-backed operation supported by Conservative and Lib Dem forerunners

In focus

  • A young woman makes a heart gesture with her hands on a phone's screen during a video call with an older woman

    Ukraine in depth
    ‘My future is in the EU’: the Ukrainian children who don’t want to go home

    Thousands of children in state care were evacuated when Russia invaded. Kyiv wants them back – but many resist
  • Onlookers watch police recover a woman’s body

    South Africa
    ‘We are prey’: discovery of seven women’s bodies fuels anger over femicide in South Africa

  • Protesters outside the US Capitol hold signs supporting mail-in voting rights

    Analysis
    Mail-in disaster averted as Trump in angry froth after court defeat

Features

  • Christelle Randall holding and cuddling Elsie

    Family
    double quotation markThe love, hope and pain of raising Elsie – my one in 163 million daughter

  • Natalie Ambersley, in a white bodysuit and jeans, sitting in a director-style chair

    A moment that changed me
    double quotation markI felt hugely self conscious about my skin - until I had a revelation

More features

  • Jack Lowden and Gary Oldman stand together in a dim, shadowy doorway in Slow Horses.

    Television
    Slow Horses season six review – it gets harder to enjoy Gary Oldman’s spy thriller every year

  • Esteghlal and Al-Sadd players collide during the AFC Champions League Elite match at the Basra Sports Complex in Basra, Iraq

    Football
    Iranian football returns in the shadow of war and with row over last league title

  • Nude men sit and stand around a poolside bench in a colorfully lit ornate hall. Sunil Gupta, from Sun City (2010).

    Art
    ‘We weren’t shy. We were queers in leather!’ Sunil Gupta on his momentous photographs of gay life

  • America Girls Eva Verbeeck

    Photography
    ‘Who do they dream of becoming?’ Teenage girls in America – in pictures

    Gallery13
  • Picturesque vineyards in Plesivica in Croatia, popular Croatian wine region, idyllic landscape3CEC0J4 Picturesque vineyards in Plesivica in Croatia, popular Croatian wine region, idyllic landscape

    Travel
    The other side of Croatia: ‘a landscape that could out-Tuscany Tuscany’

  • Posters of Ayatollah Khomeini during the 1979 Iranian revolution .

    Book of the day
    Redwood by Ben Macintyre review – a superbly wrought tale of cold war defection

  • Helen Mirren and Alden Ehrenreich in A TALENT FOR MURDER

    First look
    A Talent for Murder review – Helen Mirren is a viperous Patricia Highsmith in hit-and-miss thriller

  • A still from Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo

    First look
    Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo review – Takashi Miike follows Ferrara and Herzog with a disappointment

  • E_03144_R Andrew Scott stars as Ian Charleson in ELSINORE, a Focus Features release. Credit: Anthony Dickenson / © 2026 FOCUS FEATURES LLC

    First look
    Elsinore – Andrew Scott is astonishing as Ian Charleson in devastating Aids drama

  • Éanna Hardwicke in Ancestors

    First look
    Ancestors – messy but moving ghostly drama about the Aids crisis

  • Lionel Messi after the World Cup final against Spain

    Football
    Messi called up by Argentina to make farewell ⁠appearance in friendly

    Lionel Messi has been called up by Argentina to make a farewell ⁠appearance in a home friendly against Benin in October following his international retirement

More sport

  • Lions Women head coach Jo Yapp sits in an armchair before a wall of framed sports photographs

    Exclusive
    Sky closes in on broadcast rights for first women’s British & Irish Lions tour

  • A screengrab taken from bodyworn video issued by the Crown Prosecution Service showing Raheem Sterling being detained by police officers
    1:50

    Football
    Sterling could face prison for reckless driving while using nitrous oxide

  • Harry Maguire handles the ball against Ipswich

    Football
    Webb says accidental handball law ‘a nonsense’ and calls for reform

  • Texas quarterback Arch Manning with coach Steve Sarkisian

    College football
    Manning apologises for ‘insensitive’ joke about AI video of ESPN’s Holly Rowe

Opinion

  • Rafael Behr

    double quotation markTo understand the threat to our real democracy, watch Putin’s fake one

    Rafael Behr
    As Russians vote this weekend, remember that Britain is not immune to the cynical tactics and corrosion of trust that keep him in power
  • Marina Hyde

    double quotation markAre you outraged by Sydney Sweeney – again? More fool you

    Marina Hyde
    Today it’s a silly sports betting ad, but I can’t see anything she’s done that’s worth this ire. She’s in her 20s: she does dumb things. Enjoy!

More opinion

  • dario amodei

    double quotation markAI safety requires more than just slowing our pace

    Stuart Russell

  • double quotation markOpposition to Mamdani’s 9/11 remembrance was painful to witness

    Francine Prose
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    double quotation markBonnie Blue’s baby outrage – and the dangers of our extreme attention economy

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Polly Hudson

    double quotation markThere are two kinds of people in this world: hosts or guests. Nobody can be both

    Polly Hudson

Cartoon

  • Ben Jennings on tech leaders’ outcry over the dangers of AI – cartoon

    Ben Jennings on tech leaders’ outcry over the dangers of AI

    Sam Altman and Elon Musk have backed a call from the head of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, to ‘slow the pace’ of AI development

More top stories

  • Ursula von der Leyen

    Europe live
    Von der Leyen to set out challenges and opportunities for EU in ‘state of the Union’ speech

    European Commission president says EU is also the strongest it has ever been, but warns the bloc is ‘dealing with an openly hostile world’
  • Two men in black suits.

    Brazil
    Ferocious fight among Brazil’s supreme court erupts on eve of presidential election

  • First responders work the scene after a helicopter crashed near a bus crash in Chatsworth, a neighbourhood in Los Angeles.

    Los Angeles
    Helicopter crash kills at least three people with others injured

  • A car exhaust pumping out polluting gases

    Air pollution
    Air pollution linked to higher suicide risk, international research suggests

  • A passenger plan makes its landing approach to Heathrow Airport in London.

    Aviation
    Airlines should pay for CO2 removal if Heathrow expands, say UK climate advisers

  • More than 330,000 sea turtles arrived in southern Mexico in a mass nesting phenomenon

    Marine life
    Thousands of sea turtles reach Mexico in yearly migration threatened by climate crisis – video

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  • An orangutan wearing a nasal cannula lies on the ground

    Wildlife
    Indonesian wildfires threaten leading orangutan research site in Borneo

UK news

  • Youth unemployment
    Revealed: the UK towns with the fewest jobs for young people

  • Police
    Thirteenth Met police officer sacked after undercover BBC investigation

  • Race
    Britons of all ethnicities feel racial inequality is worsening, study shows

  • UK news
    Army officers ‘let down’ soldier over sexual assault claim before she killed herself, court martial told

World news

  • Grand Canyon flash floods
    Human remains found in Arizona

  • Space
    US confirms for first time it has deployed weapons in space

  • Pakistan
    Imran Khan’s sons accuse Pakistani army chief of vendetta against imprisoned father

  • Health
    ‘It makes you feel helpless’: patients and doctors cast doubt on standard treatment for endometriosis

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Culture

What to watch

  • Matthew Rhys with his Emmy awards for best lead comedy actor and best lead actor in a limited series.

    Television
    ‘The entire world belongs to Matthew Rhys, and we just live in it’: why the incredible actor broke Emmy records

  • Fall Film PreviewThis image released by A24 shows Julianne Moore in a scene from "The Debut." (Matt Infante/A24 via AP)

    Toronto film festival
    The Debut review – Julianne Moore is a thrill in Jesse Eisenberg’s oddball comedy

  • Grey's Anatomy stars Katherine Heigl, Justin Chambers, Sandra Oh and Ellen Pompeo

    Stream team
    Grey’s Anatomy: the steamy and often thrilling medical drama is still endlessly watchable

  • An animated picture of a regal looking woman staring piercingly at the viewer as she confronts soldiers

    Film
    Legend of Destruction review – starry voices grace animated telling of the Jewish revolt against the Romans

What to listen to

  • Beck sits in a lamplit bar, wearing a white suit with a chessboard on a neighbouring table

    Indie
    Beck: Ride Lonesome review – stunning end to the heartache trilogy of Sea Change and Morning Phase

  • Carly Rae Jepsen, in a black leather coat, poses with one leg on a red plastic chair

    The big interview
    ‘I’ve never been more terrified!’ Carly Rae Jepsen on motherhood, stardom and her horniest album ever

  • Dominic Chianese

    Best podcasts of the week
    A great time with Uncle Junior from the Sopranos: best podcasts of the week

  • Kylie Minogue arches back dramatically, holding a microphone above her in a white outfit

    Kylie Minogue
    ‘You start to worry you’ll never listen to anything else’: 25 years of Can’t Get You Out of My Head, the song that saw the future of pop

What to read

  • Anthony Scaramucci in 2017

    Politics
    All the Wrong Moves by Anthony Scaramucci review – confessions of an ex-Trumper

  • China Miéville.

    Fiction
    The Rouse by China Miéville review – a mighty achievement from the ‘new weird’ author

  • A demonstrator holds a "Tax the Billionaires" sign in New York City.

    Politics books
    End Times Fascism by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor review – the fightback starts here

  • Sebastian Faulks.

    Fiction
    Farewell to Eden by Sebastian Faulks – conflict and compromise, from a veteran of the genre

What to play

  • Fable game screenshot of a curly-haired child in a green tunic walking through a medieval village

    Gaming
    ‘We were bored of traditional fantasy cliches’: inside Playground Games’ 10-year effort to revive Fable

  • Lara Croft crouches with two pistols, facing a growling leopard in dense jungle foliage

    Tomb Raider
    Raiding the past: Lara Croft relives her first adventure in Legacy of Atlantis

  • Marvel's Wolverine game screenshot

    Review
    Marvel’s Wolverine – a gloriously conflicted lead is let down by crude, boring battling

  • A group of people sitting in front of screens, wearing headphones, playing a video game

    Pushing Buttons
    Streaming from the cloud was meant to change games forever – what happened?

    Newsletter

More culture

  • Gillian Gilbert performing in 2023.

    Music
    New Order keyboardist Gillian Gilbert announces she is ‘living with cancer’

  • Mathilde Arcel poses with the Volpi Cup at the awards ceremony on Saturday in Venice.

    Venice film festival
    Venice best actress winner says she signed on at Danish job centre days before her victory

  • Untitled (Green Landscape), abstract painting of hills and green fields by Yasmin David

    Art
    ‘She went to her studio every day and no one was allowed near it’: the glorious nature paintings of Yasmin David

  • Emily D'Angelo (Ruggiero), left, photographed from the wings during rehearsals for Alcina by Handel @ Royal Opera House. A Royal Ballet and Opera production. Directed by Richard Jones. Designed by Antony McDonald. (Opening 15-09-26) ©Tristram Kenton 09-2026

    Opera
    The lion, the witch and the warblers: behind the scenes of Handel’s Alcina at the RBO – in pictures

    Gallery19

Lifestyle

  • A woman with wet dark hair washes her shoulder with a foamy loofah in the shower

    Health
    Double cleansing: should we really be cleaning ourselves twice in each shower?

  • shots of a daughter and mother overlaid over a pixelated human figure

    Artificial intelligence
    ‘I created my mom and talk to her’: AI ghosts and deathslop are changing the way we mourn

Food

  • Chris Leach's squid Ink spaghetti with anchovies, cherry tomato and pangrattato on a platter with cutlery and drinks nearby

    Food
    Squid ink tomato pasta and honey and fig semifreddo: Chris Leach’s Italian recipes for the end of summer

  • Felicity Cloake perfect rice supplement arancini and risotto

    Kitchen aide
    Can you freeze leftover risotto?

  • A bowl of natto

    Japanese food
    It’s a superfood but natto as we know it. Japan’s slimy fermented beans are coming your way

  • Rukmini Iyer's mozzarella in carrozza on plates with salad leaves and a drink beside it

    Cook once, eat twice
    Rukmini Iyer’s recipe for mozzarella in carrozza – and the leftover crusts

Fashion & beauty

  • A woman with closed eyes uses a green jade facial roller on her cheek

    Beauty
    Gua sha looks good on Instagram – but is it worth the hype or a waste of time?

  • dandruff-02-effectapp

    Well actually
    Not glamorous, but common: how to manage dandruff at home and when to get help

  • Line of models walking along the outdoor catwalk

    New York fashion week
    ‘I love the boldness of modernism’: New York fashion week goes highbrow

  • Black sporting legends and style icons … Naomi Osaka, Dennis Rodman, Florence Griffith Joyner.

    The Long Wave
    ‘Dress good to run fast’: how Black athletes became style icons

    Newsletter

Relationships

  • A man with black-rimmed glasses looks into a mirror as he poses for a portrait at home on July 29, 2026 in Noida, India.

    How we survive
    double quotation markThe pirates arrived with AK-47s. They took us hostage – then the torture began

  • Illustration of a person squeezed and trapped between large abstract shapes, feeling cornered by conversation

    Social etiquette
    ‘But enough about you …’ How to survive in a world of monologuists, interrupters and trauma dumpers

  • Two illustrated giant hands hold two small nude people, whose fingertips reach toward each other

    This is how we do it
    This is how we do it: ‘Being in an open relationship means we’re constantly choosing each other’

  • An illustration of two women from side profile shouting at each other, while another person stands in the middle.

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    My sister-in-law has published an unfair memoir. Should we cut her off?

Health & fitness

  • illustration with colorful shapes and close-up of person doing yoga poses

    How to start
    ‘It’s about controlling your entire body’: how to start doing handstands

  • Different medical ampules toned blue on black background.

    Health
    Peptide user tore oesophagus after using counterfeit product, Australian regulator warns

  • Illustration of red inflated balloon with an injection pen pushing into it

    Weight loss
    From ‘Ozempic breath’ to hair loss: sorting the science from the hype about weight loss jabs

  • Graham Russell in a wetsuit and pink vest in the ocean with half his head underwater

    Health
    I survived a stroke during an ocean swim. Here’s what I’ve learned about fear

More lifestyle

  • The wilting rose emoji

    Emojis
    The wilting rose emoji: what its rise and fall tells us about gen Alpha

  • A man with black-rimmed glasses looks into a mirror as he poses for a portrait at home on July 29, 2026 in Noida, India.

    How we survive
    double quotation markThe pirates arrived with AK-47s. They took us hostage – then the torture began

  • A seized orange sports car sits loaded on a flatbed tow truck near a stone archway

    Cars
    Fast, furious and potentially fatal: why are supercars suddenly so popular?

  • Image of a rodent on a scourer with a yellow circle and a purple background, for the series The pest I'll never forget

    The pest I’ll never forget
    The rat who jumped off the wardrobe and flew at my face

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  • St Batholemew's Hospital with illustrations in and around it representing it's links to enslavement

    London
    The hospital funded by donors who invested in the slave trade

  • A Kronenbourg sign hangs outside a French village café, with tiled roofs and red awnings beyond

    Special report
    The battle to save the dying heart of rural France: the village bistro

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    Life and style
    Young people: are you doom-saving or doom-spending? How are you approaching the future?

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