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  • Ukrainian soldiers fire artillery on Russian positions on the frontline in the city of Avdiivka, in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk province

    Live
    Russia-Ukraine war: Zelenskiy reports ‘powerful’ day for Ukraine; Saudis to host Kyiv-backed peace summit

    Ukrainian president’s comments come amid reports of heavy fighting in north-east; Russia not invited to talks at Red Sea port city of Jeddah
    • The illuminated X logo sign beaming out from the roof of Twitter’s offices in San Francisco

      Concerning
      Twitter neighbours complain of lit-up ‘X’ sign working at high intensity

    • Pakistan
      Police suspect Islamic State in bomb blast that killed at least 44

    • Arkansas
      Judge blocks law allowing librarians to be charged over ‘harmful’ books

    • Student debt
      Biden administration trials website for new loan repayment scheme

    • Turkey
      UN complaint lodged over Turkish airstrikes on hospital in Iraq

    • Lebanon
      Six dead as fighting breaks out at Palestinian refugee camp

    • Extremism
      Denmark considers banning burning of holy texts including Qur’an at protests

    • Florida
      Family of US woman who died from ingesting kratom wins $11m damages

In depth

  • Alison Rose Jefferson showing the Phillips Chapel CME Church.

    ‘Denying our humanity’
    How Santa Monica decimated a thriving Black community

  • Biden announces new initiatives to expand access to mental health care<br>epa10768398 US President Joe Biden departs after speaking on expanding access to mental health care in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC USA, 25 July 2023. The president said mental health care and treatment for substance abuse is out of reach for most Americans. EPA/JIM LO SCALZO

    Where did it all go right for Biden?
    Facts blunt Republican attack lines

  • Ron DeSantis

    ‘I’m not wanted’
    Florida universities hit by brain drain as academics flee

  • Absentee ballot election workers fill ballot applications in Charlotte, North Carolina.

    ‘Ripe for political violence’
    US election officials are quitting at an alarming rate

Spotlight

  • Andrea Constand at her home in Canada.

    ‘I knew Bill Cosby was going to try to ruin me’
    Andrea Constand on her 14-year fight for justice

    More than 60 women have made allegations against Cosby – but Constand was the woman whose case resulted in criminal charges. She explains her determination to fight for all the survivors
  • Finn Lau at a London demonstration

    ‘I won’t be deterred’
    Hong Kong activist Finn Lau vows to fight on despite arrest bounty

  • A 3D-modeled replica of the teeth of the clouded leopard.

    The age of extinction
    Can 3D-printed tiger teeth help save our rarest animals from extinction?

    Indian tribal hunting endangers wildlife but now a startup making 3D replicas is giving teeth to conservation efforts
  • Megan Rapinoe wears an embroidered Gucci gown to collect Fifa’s best women's player award in 2019

    ‘Sometimes a hurricane, sometimes plain’
    Megan Rapinoe’s unpredictable fashion instincts

    Talismanic United States footballer’s diverse approach to clothes mirrors her flair on the field
    • Eileen Orwell.

      Looking for Eileen
      How George Orwell wrote his wife out of his story

    • The view of Xiamen in China from Taiwan’s Kinmen islands.

      ‘A Trojan horse’?
      Taiwanese islands weigh plan for ‘peace bridge’ to China

    • Abstract illustration by Observer Design.

      ‘We have hope for some breakthroughs’
      Can we change the way we treat schizophrenia?

    • Happy family walking along a path in the woods

      Ask Philippa
      My wife and I argue so much, but she will not go to counselling

Ukraine invasion

  • Moscow City bombing - 30 Jul 2023<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Vlad Karkov/SOPA Images/Shutterstock (14028546c) Police car seen near a damaged building at the sight of another drone attack on Moscow. On July 30, Ukraine attacked the Russian capital with drones. Two of the drones hit residential and commercial buildings in the Moscow City business center. Moscow City bombing - 30 Jul 2023

    Moscow strikes
    War is coming to Russia, Zelenskiy warns after latest drone attack

  • A damaged skyscraper in Moscow’s international business after the latest drone attack on the capital region

    At a glance
    What we know on day 523 of the Russian invasion

  • The damaged facade of an office building in Moscow hit by a drone attack that Russia blames on Ukraine.

    0:42

    Moscow
    Buildings damaged in overnight drone attacks that Russia blames on Kyiv

  • Victoria Belim smiling

    The Rooster House by Victoria Belim review
    Secrets and lies in Ukraine

Opinion

  • Ron DeSantis speaks at the Republican Party of Iowa 2023 Lincoln Dinner in Des Moines on Friday.

    Weak, small and reckless: how Ron DeSantis, Republican Napoleon, met his Waterloo

    Sidney Blumenthal
  • Illustration by Nathalie Lees

    Why I could not tell my story of domestic abuse in my book – or put my name to this piece

    Anonymous
    It feels like a Greek myth: to wait a lifetime to speak out, only to find you are cursed with eternal silence, says an anonymous author
  • A burnt-out car in Nea Anchialos central Greece.

    The lesson from the Greece wildfires? The climate crisis is coming for us all

    Nesrine Malik
    The developed world needs to be shocked out of its complacency about our warming world, and the unexpected effects that will follow, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
    • Nothing like a bit of airport trauma-bonding to get you in the holiday mood.

      Billionaires yearn for a life free of human contact – and they are imposing this on the rest of us

      Emma Beddington
    • Organized efforts to document and broadcast the truth of our past are the most significant defense we have against disinformation.

      Why Ron DeSantis’s Florida slavery curriculum is so dangerous

      Saida Grundy
    • Larry Elliott

      We bailed out the banks but we’re not prepared to bail out the planet

      Larry Elliott

Women's World Cup 2023

Sports

  • Aaron Rodgers called Sean Payton’s comments ‘way out of line’.

    NFL
    Rodgers hits back at ‘insecure’ Broncos coach Payton after Jets jibes

    Aaron Rodgers is sticking by his offensive coordinator and firing his hardest throw of the summer at Sean Payton
  • Marcus Rashford rues a missed opportunity during Manchester United’s pre-season friendly against Borussia Dortmund.

    Manchester United
    US tour ends with error-strewn defeat to Borussia Dortmund

  • Devon Conway of the Texas Super Kings bats during a Major League Cricket match against the Los Angeles Knight Riders in Grand Prairie, Texas.

    ‘This is an American league’
    Major League Cricket drops curtain on maiden campaign

    As Major League Cricket’s inaugural tournament concludes on Sunday, its cadre of wealthy investors remain as bullish on its potential in America as ever
  • Max Verstappen takes the chequered flag at Spa-Francorchamps.

    F1
    Verstappen wins Belgian GP despite five-place grid penalty

    Red Bull’s Max Verstappen won the F1 Belgian Grand Prix, his eighth successive victory, to extend his lead in the drivers’ championship
    • Terence Crawford, right, dominated Errol Spence in their welterweight title unification fight on Saturday night in Las Vegas.

      'Without a doubt'
      Crawford claims pound-for-pound boxing supremacy

    • Los Angeles Angels' Taylor Ward reacts after being hit by a pitch from the Toronto Blue Jays' Alek Manoah

      MLB
      Angels’ Ward suffers facial fractures after taking 91 mph pitch to head

    • Axel Disasi

      Soccer
      Chelsea agree £38m deal with Monaco to sign France defender Axel Disasi

    • Demi Vollering atop the podium

      Tour de France Femmes
      Vollering crowned champion after surviving time trial

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Climate crisis

  • Scenes from climate-related films

    Emergency viewing
    15 must-see films about the climate crisis

  • Eleni Myrivili poses among shrubs on a hilltop overlooking Athens

    ‘This is another beast’
    UN chief heat officer on living amid fires, how to cool cities and fears for her daughter

  • Sea ice in the Antarctic

    ‘Something weird is going on’
    Search for answers as Antarctic sea ice stays at historic lows

  • A deep-sea mining robot onboard a ship

    Oceans
    International talks end without go-ahead for deep-sea mining

Across the country

  • Lloyd Austin, the US secretary of defense.

    US military
    Pentagon hit by ‘critical compromise’ of air force communications – report

    Forbes reports claim that engineer at Arnold air force base in Tennessee had taken home government radio technologies
  • Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Erie, Pennsylvania.

    Donald Trump
    Judge throws out $475m ‘big lie’ defamation lawsuit against CNN

  • Dawit Kelete in court in Seattle. He is set to be sentenced in September.

    Seattle
    US man who killed woman by driving car through BLM protest pleads guilty

  • The Florida governor Ron DeSantis at an event in Des Moines, Iowa on Friday night.

    ‘Stop’
    Black Republican congressman attacks DeSantis over slavery curriculum

    • Kanye West
      Elon Musk reinstates Ye’s Twitter account after ban

    • Colorado
      Officer who put handcuffed woman in car hit by freight train found guilty

    • Moms for Liberty
      Tax complaint filed against rightwing parents’ group

    • Lottery
      US Mega Millions jackpot soars to $1.05bn

    • Texas
      Houston school district to turn libraries into disciplinary centers

    • ‘Unnecessary deaths’
      Relatives mourn Colorado family who died off the grid

Around the world

  • A man rides a bike while holding an umbrella in heavy rain in Beijing.

    Typhoon
    31,000 forced to flee homes in Beijing as Doksuri brings heavy rains to China

    Strongest storm to hit country in years has also caused widespread flooding and evacuations in province of Fujian
  • Security forces fire teargas as protesters gather outside the French embassy in Niamey, Niger

    Niger coup
    Britain cuts aid and neighbours ‘may use force’ to restore president

  • Pedro Sánchez waving to supporters

    Spain
    Stalemate drags on as Pedro Sánchez’s socialist party loses crucial seat

  • Kenya to deploy Police officers to Haiti to help fight with crime<br>epa10777780 Members of the Haitian Armed Forces carry out a security operation in Port-au-Prince, Haiti 30 July 2023. Nearly ten months after Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry called for a multinational force, Kenyan Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama on 29 July has announced Kenya's willingness to lead that mission and deploy 1,000 police officers to the Caribbean country in an attempt to help to end a multidimensional crisis and extreme violence that have been bleeding the population for a long time. EPA/JOHNSON SABIN

    Haiti
    US nurse and her child kidnapped, aid group announces

    • Step to riches?
      Disused stairwell in London could be yours for just £20,000

    • Lebanon
      Six dead after clashes at Palestinian refugee camp

    • Russia
      ‘Hurricane’ leaves eight dead after trees fall on campsite

    • Science
      Supermoons to serve up double treat for UK stargazers in August

    • UK
      Rishi Sunak to use Scottish trip to attack Labour stance on North Sea oil

    • Influencers and freebies
      Big tobacco’s push to sell nicotine pouches in UK

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Culture

  • Benjamin McKenzie as Ryan, Mischa Barton as Marissa, Adam Brody as Seth and Rachel Bilson as Summer in The OC.

    Television
    Cocaine! Threesomes! Comic book addictions! It’s 20 years of The OC

  • René Magritte, The fifth season, 1943. Art experts have discovered a painting by Magritte underneath another painting by the 20th-century master. Beneath La cinquième saison dated 1943 is a portrait of a woman, who resembles Magritte's wife, Georgette.

    René Magritte
    Hidden meaning of Magritte uncovered as new image is found under painting

    Secret portrait of woman likely to be wife of Belgian surrealist found during examination of artist’s work
  • Sandro Farmhouse holding a glass bowl of melted chocolate in one hand and a whisk, high above it, with melted chocolate dripping from it into the bowl, with the other, and smiling

    ‘The world has to watch out for me’
    Great British Baking Show star Sandro Farmhouse

    He rose from humble beginnings to become a Bake Off star, winning legions of fans along the way. Describing himself as an ‘open book’, Sandro Farmhouse has set his sights on improving the lives of young people
    • Sinéad O'Connor on stage in 1990

      Nothing Compares review
      The profound, striking tale of Sinéad O’Connor, born rebel

    • Cologne, Germany. 20th Mar, 2015. Israeli author Hila Blum reads at the international literature festival Lit.Cologne in Cologne, Germany, 20 March 2015. Photo: Horst Galuschka - NO WIRE SERVICE -/dpa/Alamy Live News<br>EJ63P7 Cologne, Germany. 20th Mar, 2015. Israeli author Hila Blum reads at the international literature festival Lit.Cologne in Cologne, Germany, 20 March 2015. Photo: Horst Galuschka - NO WIRE SERVICE -/dpa/Alamy Live News

      How to Love Your Daughter by Hila Blum review
      Unforgettable story of a shattering rift

    • Frank Skinner photographed in London by Antonio Olmos for the Observer.

      Frank Skinner
      I’ve always operated near the line. If it moves, I move with it

documentaries

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During a record high temperature of 49.6C, wildfires spread out of control and the village of Lytton turned to ash. We meet three local residents reluctant to leave their indigenous lands.

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Lifestyle

  • One use in G2 only - A new start after 60

    A new start after 60
    At 74, I go to a gig every night – and once went to 725 in a row

  • Launch event for the iPhone 14 with new phones on a strand surrounded by journalists and others

    Technology
    Say hello to longlife devices that can challenge our throwaway culture

    We’ve got used to dumping old devices. But a new breed of firms is making products that they hope you will hang on to
  • Detail from Alexandre Cabanel’s Fallen Angel, 1847

    Should I worry?
    … about dry eyes?

    The ubiquity of screens is one of the greatest challenges to our peepers. Fortunately, the symptoms can often be remedied
    • Sam Gregory serving Sunday roast at the Bank Tavern in Bristol

      ‘Worth the wait’
      Sunday lunch at the Bristol pub with a four-year bookings backlog

    • The contestants for Love Island series 10.

      Face fillers, fire pits and the ick
      How 10 series of Love Island have shaped UK culture

    • Twins Chloe and Lydia The Observer 0155

      Family
      If the house caught fire, who would you rescue, your partner, your dog or your identical twin?

Take part

  • FILE - Sinéad O’Connor Dies Aged 56 Sinead O'Connor Performs At The Roundhouse In London<br>FILE PHOTO - Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor has died aged 56. LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - AUGUST 12: Sinead O'Connor performs on stage at The Roundhouse on August 12, 2014 in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Christie Goodwin/Redferns via Getty Images)

    Share your tributes and memories of Sinéad O’Connor

  • Will Messi’s arrival grow the game even further in the US?

    Soccer fans: send us your questions for columnist Jonathan Wilson

  • What has worked for you and what hasn’t?

    Tell us: are you using AI for emotional connection or support?

  • *** BESTPIX *** Actors Set to Join Writers On Strike As SAG-AFTRA Contract Negotiations Collapse<br>NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JULY 13: Members of the Writers Guild of America East are joined by SAG-AFTRA members as they picket at the Warner Bros. Discovery NYC office on July 13, 2023 in New York City. SAG-AFTRA members joined a picketline with WGA members for a Support Staff Solidarity Day, a day after their contract expired and with membership previously authorizing a strike, with nearly 98 percent of voters in favor. WGA have been on strike since May 2. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) *** BESTPIX ***

    US actors: why are you striking?

Explore

  • Raoni Mekutire

    'The big trees are dying'
    Joy and defiance at gathering led by Amazonian chief Raoni Metuktire

  • ‘A substantial amount of square feet in all those tall office buildings in our major metropolitan areas are going to remain empty.’

    US offices are sitting empty
    Business owners will have to adapt

    You’d better not wait – small businesses must reconsider their location and business model to survive in this new era
  • Florence Given Grid highres

    Reality bites
    How influencer Florence Given found a safer way live online

    When Florence Given’s online persona became a source of acute anxiety and public shaming, she had to find a way to communicate that didn’t feel dangerous. Now she’s learned to be herself on her own terms
    • Colombia, Providencia Island, Caribbean Sea, Manzanillo Beach<br>WE8DPH Colombia, Providencia Island, Caribbean Sea, Manzanillo Beach

      ‘They wanna do away with us’
      Tiny island fears for its way of life as outside world encroaches

    • A carbon capture and storage facility at Taizhou coal-fired power plant in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu.

      Radical ways to fix the Earth
      Are they magic bullets or just band-aids?

    • Philippa Gregory sits at a table by a window

      ‘His story just continues to grip people’
      Philippa Gregory revisits the history of Richard III for stage

Video

Video

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    Italy
    Country battles extreme storms and wildfires over 24-hour period

  • 1:24

    Greece
    Local people join firefighters in battling wildfires on Rhodes

  • 1:27

    Extreme weather
    Hailstorms pummel northern Italy after days of extreme heat

  • 3:10

    El Niño southern oscillation
    What is supercharging the global heat? – video explainer

  • 1:10

    Ukraine
    Russia strikes grain terminals, port and apartment blocks in Odesa

  • 1:01

    California
    Wildfire rips through valley as seen in timelapse video

In pictures

  • Skaters Sue Sun, Anita, and Harriet

    ‘Damn, I wanna be like her!’
    London’s female skaters

    Olivia Harris has been documenting the growth in women’s skateboarding – photographing and talking to skaters across London
  • Taylor Swift singing into a microphone at a stadium concert

    The weekend’s best photos
    Taylor Swift and a bathing bear

  • Design for posters from the new digital collection showing Henry Moore exhibitions in Arnhem, 1966, Bern, 1950 and Basel, 1982.

    Poster boy
    Henry Moore exhibition art through the ages

  • Lead singer Jarvis Cocker performing with Pulp at the Castlefield Bowl in Manchester. It is Pulp's first gig in Manchester in 22 years.

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    The month's best shots

  • Photograph of men sitting outside in London

    ‘I might have been told off if I had pulled out a proper camera’
    Johny Pitts’ best phone picture

  • People play with a ball in front of a burnt forest at a beach near the village of Gennadi.

    Art and design
    The week around the world in 20 pictures

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