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    China turns Taiwan tensions into top-rating TV drama

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    What is Sydney Sweeney’s game?

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  • Alex Turner
    double quotation markYou should listen to the warnings about AI

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  • 'Controlling your body'
    How to start doing handstands

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  • Fabian Zuleeg
    double quotation markCanada should become an EU state in all but name

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  • Bolsonaro 2.0
    Brazil’s far right edges back to power

    Presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro rides on a man's shoulders during a campaign rally.

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  • Container ship enters the Panama canal

    Shipping
    Panama canal traffic to be cut again as drought from El Niño worsens

  • A black doctor in white coat washing his hands in a basic setup during treatment of Ebola patients

    Ebola
    Ebola outbreak in DRC has peaked, say authorities, as infection rates slow

  • Houthi armed forces ride in a pickup truck patrolling the streets of Sanaa

    Strait of Hormuz
    Gulf states postpone strait of Hormuz talks with Iran as Yemen conflict intensifies

  • Joanna Wietrzyk carries a heavy sandbag on her shoulders while running at Hyrox Beijing

    Sport
    Hyrox changes rules and apologises for allowing Australian athlete who soiled herself to continue

  • A bowl of natto

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

    Comprised of smelly soya beans held together by strands of mucus, the ancient dish is appearing in health food shops across the world

In focus

  • White Afrikaners in Pretoria holding US flags and a sign that reads: ‘Refuge please.’

    South Africa
    ‘I believed the hype’: the white South Africans denied refugee status in the US

  • Amy Hunt, Sydney Sweeney and Ariarne Titmus

    Sport
    ‘Sydney Sweeney, this is what women in sport look like’: female athletes lead backlash against viral advert

Features

  • The long watch TV series.

    China
    ‘This is seriously bold’: How China turned Taiwan tensions into a top-rating TV spy drama

  • 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
    The pirates arrived with AK-47s. They took us hostage – then the torture began

More features

  • Presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro rides on a man's shoulders during a campaign rally.

    Brazil
    ‘A coin flip’: on the campaign trail as Brazil’s far right edges back to power

  • 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

  • National Kitchen Garden awards composite

    Gardens
    One of Australia’s best kitchen gardens belongs to a primary school – with only seven students

  • Hannah and Adam Cooke with their golden retriever Polly

    The pet I'll never forget
    Polly, the golden retriever, saved my husband’s life

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

    Toronto film festival 2026
    Elsinore review – Andrew Scott is astonishing as Ian Charleson in devastating Aids drama

  • Éanna Hardwicke in Ancestors

    Toronto film festival 2026
    Ancestors review – messy but moving ghostly drama about the Aids crisis

  • Cynthia Erivo in Prima Facie

    Film
    Prima Facie review – fiery one-woman play is flattened into a bland movie

  • Amanda Seyfried in The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd

    Film
    The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd review – Amanda Seyfried compels in wrenching prison drama

More sport

  • Patrick Mahomes celebrates a Chiefs touchdown on Monday night

    NFL
    Mahomes triumphant on return as Chiefs beat up misfiring Broncos

  • Alex Ovechkin has never hidden his support of Vladimir Putin

    NHL
    Ovechkin appears in campaign ad for pro-Putin United Russia party

  • Angela Stanford, the USA captain, clasps her hands in a hooded rain jacket

    Golf
    USA’s Solheim Cup inquest begins amid early celebrations and stats complaints

  • Formula 1 cars race in a line during the Spanish Grand Prix in Madrid

    Formula One
    Spanish GP plans to change Madring after fierce criticism from F1 drivers

Opinion

  • A far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) rally in Magdeburg, Germany, on 5 September 2026.

    double quotation markI know why many east Germans vote AfD. And no, it’s not an inherited longing for dictatorship

    Carolin Würfel
    Grievance politics has grown in the east of the country where I was born. But west Germans have hard questions to answer too, says writer Carolin Würfel

  • double quotation markI worked at Google DeepMind. You should listen to the warnings about AI

    Alex Turner
    We must stop companies from allowing AI to self-improve into an uncontrollable level of intelligence

More opinion

  • Sydney Sweeney rests a large metal hockey stick blade on her bare shoulder

    double quotation markSydney Sweeney’s prediction ad is cynical, unhealthy and reveals plenty about modern sports

    Jane McManus
  • Fabian Zuleeg

    double quotation markCanada should become an EU state in all but name. Here’s how to make that a reality

    Fabian Zuleeg
  • Caty Enders

    double quotation markZuckerberg says the science isn’t settled. But the harms of short-form video on the brain are starting to show

    Caty Enders
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    double quotation markThe situation in Iran is dangerously escalating – but whatever you do, don’t call it a war

    Arwa Mahdawi

Editorials

  • The Guardian view
    The united Ireland debate: shifting dynamics need to be treated with caution

  • The Guardian view
    Reform UK: crypto billionaires must be stopped from undermining democracy

More top stories

  • The Social Democrats’ party leader, Magdalena Andersson, standing at a podium decorated with the party's red rose emblem

    Sweden
    Sweden’s political parties launch coalition talks as both blocs try to secure power

    Centre-left bloc led by Social Democrats has narrow lead with 95% of vote counted, but faces internal policy battle
  • A mail-in ballot during Pennsylvania primary

    US voting rights
    Supreme court rejects Trump’s mail ballot restrictions for midterm elections

  • Aliko Dangote speaking into a microphone at a lectern

    Nigeria
    Africa’s richest man aiming to make $23bn from continent’s biggest-ever IPO

  • Lucy Letby's police mugshot

    UK
    Experts quit Lucy Letby’s defence team over ‘scientific credibility’ concerns

  • FRANCE-MUSIC-FESTIVAL-HIPHOPUS rapper, singer, dancer and DJ, Benjamin Haggerty, known as Macklemore, performs at the Goldencoast Rap Festival in Corcelles-les-Monts, near Dijon, central-eastern France, on August 30, 2026. (Photo by ARNAUD FINISTRE / AFP via Getty Images)

    Music
    Macklemore dropped from Ed Sheeran’s US tour after ‘free Palestine’ speech

  • a flare burns at an oil well

    Environment
    US ‘super-emitters’ of planet heating methane identified by satellite analysis

  • Datacentre equipment and wiring

    Artificial intelligence
    ‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn

  • Deep-sea sponges and other invertebrates

    Marine life
    Scientists find nine new sponge species in glimpse of Alaska’s deep-sea diversity

  • emissions rise from a smokestack

    Environment
    US ends limits on coal and gas plant emissions, removing key tool to battle climate crisis

UK news

  • Hospitality industry
    Digital ID comes of age as pubs and bars get go-ahead for biometric scan tech

  • UK politics
    Ministers seek law change to make £72m donations to Reform illegal

  • UK
    British man accused of drugging and raping wife over two decades admits 60 offences

  • Devolution
    Westminster’s time is coming to an end, say first ministers of UK’s Celtic nations

World news

  • Ukraine
    Russian strike on passenger train will not deter Ukraine’s backers, Nato chief says

  • Nigeria
    Africa’s richest man aiming to make $23bn from continent’s biggest-ever IPO

  • Travel
    Nine EU countries further delay entry-exit-system border checks

  • Uganda
    Uganda reverses Invictus Games withdrawal after reassurance from King Charles

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Culture

  • Lupita Nyong'o in Pre-Existing Condition.

    New York stage
    Pre-Existing Condition review – Lupita Nyong’o is phenomenal in domestic abuse drama

  • Rendering of Trump's proposed 'Independence Arch,' a white arch with golden angel statues

    Architecture
    The desecration of DC: from a giant arch to a nuke-proof bunker, Trump’s legacy-building blingfest is an architectural atrocity

What to watch

  • Two young people look at each other longingly

    My feelgood movie
    ‘I never pass up a rewatch’: why Valley Girl is my feelgood movie

  • A young man sits on a rooftop ledge holding a machete, overlooking Barrio Triste at dusk

    Film
    Barrio Triste review – raw and dynamic portrait of anarchic slum life in 1980s Medellín

  • Max Wren sits using a laptop, surrounded by dark, unsettling drawings and photos pinned to the wall

    Film
    Lenore review – incel’s obsession with online influencer turns into anatomy of dislocated digital-age mindset

  • Extreme close-up of a woman's face lit by blue and red light, gazing sideways in horror film Goody Goody

    Film
    Goody Goody review – intriguing natural childbirth horror lurches into demonic occult blowout

What to listen to

  • 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

  • J Mascis playing guitar in a wood

    Honest playlist
    ‘I grew my hair and dropped out of society after hearing Black Sabbath’: J Mascis’s honest playlist

What to read

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

    Book of the day
    End Times Fascism by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor review

  • Sebastian Faulks.

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

  • Author Emily St John Mandel, with short brown hair and a necklace, smiles gently

    Books
    Emily St John Mandel: ‘When half the electorate disagrees on basic reality, how do you come back from that?’

  • Julia Donaldson.

    Children's books
    Julia Donaldson: ‘Am I the Gruffalo Granny? Not really. I’m the mouse’

What to play

  • 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?

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  • The Duskbloods game screenshot

    Interview
    ‘Ruin and decay bring a chance of rebirth’: Hidetaka Miyazaki on uniting players in a damaged world

More culture

  • One of Sian Davey’s The Garden images of Martin Parr on display.

    The Guardian picture essay
    We Are Family: photography from Images Vevey 2026 – picture essay

  • A close-up of a capybara sitting on a wooden deck in Florida, looking to the side

    Film
    The Route to Cappyness review – capybara boosterism is an ode to the internet’s favourite rodent

  • Steven McRae dances before a screen showing Vasko Vassilev playing violin

    Royal Ballet
    The McRae/Vassilev Project review – an encounter between two masterful ROH performers

  • Aa sparse crowd in front of an art structure in the desert with a mountain backdrop

    Festivals
    Burning Man at 40: the once anarchic desert festival faces a midlife crisis

Lifestyle

  • A dentist wearing blue gloves examines a patient's open mouth with dental instruments

    The one change that worked
    double quotation markI was scared of the dentist - until I found a very special one

  • Barletta Cathedral's stone bell tower rises over the town under a bright blue sky, in northern Puglia, Italy.

    Italy holidays
    Burrata and beyond: a foodie tour of northern Puglia, Italy

Food

  • Rosie Mackean's lambchop with courgettes walnuts and yoghurt.

    Quick and easy
    Rosie Mackean’s recipe for lamb chops with courgettes, walnuts and yoghurt

  • Fuschia Dunlop's juicy tofu in a spicy sauce on plates with chopsticks and a drink nearby

    Tofu
    Hot and sour, vegetarian mapo and in spicy sauce: Fuchsia Dunlop’s tofu recipes

  • Felicity Cloake's chocolate mousse.

    Food
    How to make chocolate mousse – recipe

  • Pickled vegetables and fruits in jars

    Sour times
    Pickled onions enjoy revival as Britons think outside the jar

Fashion & beauty

  • Cher,Bob MackieFILE - Cher, left, and designer Bob Mackie arrive at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Gala on Sept. 25, 2021, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

    Fashion
    Bob Mackie, costume designer to stars daring to be noticed, dies aged 87

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    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

  • A large jumbled pile of brown and black leather shoes, boots, and sandals sits on a wooden floor

    Fashion
    Hide and chic: are clothes and apparel made from alternative leathers better for the environment?

Relationships

  • 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?

  • Two high-schoolers in uniform, a boy and a girl, standing with their heads together looking at the camera

    The moment I knew
    I had planned to break up with him – then he snuck out of school to buy me hot chips

Health & fitness

  • Different medical ampules toned blue on black background.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Photo illustration of a group of weight loss medications on a white background.

    Science
    Cravings ‘like heroin withdrawal’: what happens when weight-loss drugs don’t work?

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    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? Do you have the brain of an engineer?

  • a female research scientist is analysing a sample on her microscope in a microbiology lab. the lab is brightly lit with natural light.

    Education
    Can you futureproof your career by choosing an AI-resistant degree?

  • A Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold stands open in a V-shape, showing app icons across its internal tablet screen.

    Smartphones
    Pixel 11 Pro Fold review: the foldable with the best triple camera

  • A sunburned man in swim trunks sits on a beach towel, pouring tea from a kettle wearing a knitted hat

    Life and style
    Is it true that … having a hot drink will cool you down?

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