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About the Guardian Weekly

The Guardian Weekly is one of the world's best-selling international weekly newspapers. It provides a global view on world events by combining comment and analysis from the Guardian with selected articles from the Observer, the Washington Post and Le Monde.

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A global view on world events

Containing a diverse range of news and comment pieces, the Guardian Weekly provides an in-depth overview of the week’s international events. It includes sections on culture, science, book reviews and international development, as well as a diversions section including crosswords and sudoku.

The Guardian Weekly also features regular supplements on topical global issues, such as climate change and trade justice. Our monthly education supplement reports on the latest developments in English-language education and provides complete lesson plans for TEFL teachers based on news features.

The Guardian Weekly’s Global Network website complements the print edition by looking at news from the perspective of individual people around the world, and allowing users to get involved. Find out more about this site

A short history

The Guardian Weekly is one of the world's oldest international newspapers, originally founded to help foster democracy in Europe after the First World War. Its first edition was printed a week after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, and included the following as a statement of mission: "We aim at presenting what is best and most interesting in the Guardian, what is most distinctive and independent of time, in a compact weekly form".

How to get a copy

You can subscribe to the Guardian Weekly and get your first four weeks free, as well as benefiting from the convenience of having the paper delivered directly to your door anywhere in the world.

The Guardian Weekly can also be purchased at newsagents around the world. Email gw.retail@guardian.co.uk with your address details to find your nearest stockist.

Diverse readership

The Guardian Weekly is read by more than 200,000 people in over 100 countries. Coming from all backgrounds and walks of life, Guardian Weekly readers are often passionate contributors to society. Indeed, Nelson Mandela read the Guardian Weekly whilst he was incarcerated in Pollsmoor prison, describing it in his autobiography as a "window on the wider world".

You can become involved in the Guardian Weekly community in the My Guardian Weekly section of this site.

What our readers think

"I find the Guardian Weekly a great resource for generating ideas and keeping in touch with debates about what is going on in the world...In this era of sound bite politics and tabloid journalism, the Guardian Weekly is an antidote for ignorance."

Professor Simon Adams - University of Notre Dame

"The Guardian Weekly helps keep me abreast of global events and I support the soul and conscience of the newspaper - often focusing on the marginalised and poor, allowing their voices to reach us. Accurate information can be a great catalyst for action and it is good that information about injustices in faraway places can reach people who are often unable to travel and witness what is going on."

Breda Gahan – Concern Worldwide

"Some people go to mass or the synagogue each week for a spiritual re-charge…or to their shrink. Whereas every seven days, without fail, I go to the Guardian Weekly. You get much more reliable information. And the therapy's better!"

Philip Adams – Broadcaster and author

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