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    The art of defusing a second world war bomb

    Capt Liam Kidman and Maj Andrew Boyce stand arms crossed beside a bomb-disposal robot and truck

  • Next Generation 2026
    60 of the best young talents in world football

    5:4 trail image for the 2026 Rest of the World Next Generation featuring (left to right): Eduardo Conceição, Cavan Sullivan and Mezian Mesloub Soares

  • Ariel Dorfman
    double quotation markThe Pinochet regime’s fall offers hope and a warning for the US

    people march sadly with images from the pinochet regime

  • The butter boom
    How world fell back in love with the glorious spread

    A man in coveralls and baseball hat hands Morwenna several packs of butter in front of a fridge stacked with more butter

  • ‘Spit on our sacrifice’
    Canadian veterans fume after Trump and allies take jibes at military

    Soldiers aim their rifles during a raid

  • ‘Erotic landscapes’
    Tim Walker on his powerful tapestry of queer Britain

    Chappell Roan with voluminous orange hair and colourful makeup wears a white textured, fringed garment

News

  • Parti Quebecois supporters cheer and hold up a flag on election nightElxn-Que, Montreal, Canada - 05 Oct 2026

    Canada
    Separatists win Quebec election in test for Canada PM’s national unity strategy

  • A patient receiving a CT scan

    Health
    Cancer rates rising more quickly among younger people, international research finds

  • Three health workers in full PPE taking part in a training session

    Ebola
    Kenya confirms first Ebola case as virus ‘surges’ in DR Congo province

  • August Hanning in 2006

    Germany
    Germany arrests former intelligence chief over alleged spying

  • The IceCube Lab at the South Pole stands under a starry night sky with faint aurora

    Science
    Nobel prize in physics goes to Francis Halzen for south pole work on neutrinos

  • Folded page from the Voynich Manuscript.

    Culture
    A medieval manuscript has confounded scholars for centuries. Have they been reading it wrong all this time?

In focus

  • A cyclist in a yellow vest rides toward a burning barricade during a student protest

    France
    On the barricades with wheelie bins and shopping trolleys: Paris students rage at politicians and police

    Unprecedented protests that began in low-income banlieue are turning ugly, with investigations under way into police brutality
  • Soldiers aim their rifles during a raid

    Canada
    ‘Spit on our sacrifice’: Canadian veterans fume after Trump and allies take jibes at military

  • Illustration of man with counterfeit Trump dollars in jacket pocket

    Donald Trump
    ‘Using the presidency to line his pockets’: could claims of corruption fuel backlash against Trump?

Features

  • A woman with blond hair wearing a light brown sheer top

    Television
    ‘We got that bad guy and took him down!’ Jaclyn Smith on the fun, friendship and frustration of Charlie’s Angels

  • A man in coveralls and baseball hat hands Morwenna several packs of butter in front of a fridge stacked with more butter

    Food
    The butter boom – how the world fell back in love with the glorious golden spread

More features

  • A female protester with a placard saying '10% chance of doom is too damn high'

    Technology
    ‘Pull the plug’: protesters resort to direct action against AI firms

  • Chanel women’s Prêt-à-porter Spring/Summer 2027 show / Ed Alcock / MYOPThe Chanel women’s Prêt-à-porter Spring/Summer 2027 show at the Grand Palais, in Paris, October 5 2027. Photo © Ed Alcock / MYOP 5/10/2027 Le défilé Chanel de prêt-à-porter féminin Printemps/Été 2027 au Grand Palais, à Paris, le 5 octobre 2027. Photo © Ed Alcock / MYOP 5/10/2027

    Paris fashion week
    Chanel is all about joy as Blazy celebrates year at helm of world’s hottest brand

  • Chappell Roan with voluminous orange hair and colourful makeup wears a white textured, fringed garment

    Art
    ‘I call them erotic landscapes’: photographer Tim Walker on his powerful tapestry of queer Britain

  • 5:4 trail image for the 2026 Rest of the World Next Generation featuring (left to right): Eduardo Conceição, Cavan Sullivan and Mezian Mesloub Soares

    Football
    Next Generation 2026: 60 of the best young talents in world football

  • Red anthurium flower with green leaves growing in ceramic pot isolated on white background.

    Houseplant hacks
    Houseplant hacks: Are windowsills too cold for plants in winter?

  • Kristin Bride in a still from Your Attention Please.

    Documentary films
    ‘We’re not going to go away’: the mom fighting for social media reform after her son’s suicide

  • Stateside with Kai and Carter
    A nurse was attacked by ICE agents on camera. Now she wants justice

    Earlier this year, the ACLU filed more than 50 legal claims across 17 states on behalf of people harmed by federal immigration agents. One of them is Norma Bowe. She speaks to Kai Wright about why she is fighting back
    Video38:16

The long read

  • Capt Liam Kidman and Maj Andrew Boyce stand arms crossed beside a bomb-disposal robot and truck

    ‘It could knock a whole street down’: the art of defusing a second world war bomb

    The long read: On 14 January this year, army and navy squads faced an unprecedented challenge: one bomb on a Plymouth building site, another floating on a dredger in Exmouth. That afternoon, the clock started ticking

Opinion

  • people march sadly with images from the pinochet regime

    double quotation markI witnessed the Pinochet regime’s fall. It offers hope – and a warning – for the US

    Ariel Dorfman
    November’s midterms bring parallels with a moment in October 1988. But Pinochet’s exit wasn’t the end of his influence
  • Robert Reich

    double quotation markTrump is fueling a culture of misogynistic impunity

    Robert Reich
    The allegations against seven men at Cornell University come amid a climate of belligerent sexism

More opinion

  • Zoe Williams

    double quotation markWhat have I learned in my 53 years? That I shouldn’t listen to strangers who accost me in the street

    Zoe Williams
  • jd vance at a rally

    double quotation markVance wants voters to ‘give us another chance’. But he is cornered

    Sidney Blumenthal
  • Charlotte Hill

    double quotation markWhile British children go hungry, we waste 1.1bn meals a year. Bring on the redistribution revolution

    Charlotte Hill
  • Zoe Williams

    double quotation markPreppers used to be ridiculed – but we’re all stockpiling now

    Zoe Williams

Editorials

  • The Guardian view
    Sexual abuse in schools: teachers cannot deal with this alone

Cartoon

  • Ben Jennings on US bombers leaving RAF Fairford – cartoon

    Ben Jennings
    US bombers withdrawing from RAF Fairford

    The aircraft have been redeployed back to their home bases in the US, according to a Pentagon official
  • The Sherborne 1st XV rugby team from 1977, flanked by Mike Davis and Phil Jones.

    The Breakdown
    From France to Old Reigatians: the most inspiring sides in rugby history

    The most memorable teams aren’t always the the most famous – and the key ingredients have remained the same for many years
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More sport

  • Marie-Louise Eta applauds the Union Berlin fans after a 3-1 victory at Mainz during her tenure as interim head coach of the men’s team

    Moving the Goalposts
    Union Berlin’s Marie-Louise Eta: ‘I wanted to impress through my work, not because I am a woman’

    Newsletter
  • Darío Osorio of Crystal Palace walks across the pitch at Elland Road

    Football
    Schooled for success: how English lessons power Midtjylland’s talent factory

  • Kevin Pietersen, Harry Brook and Stephen Fleming.

    Cricket
    England’s warm-up plans reveal healthy dose of reality and limits of Bazball ethos

  • Members of the Connecticut Sun team stand in a circle after a game.

    Basketball
    ‘I will not be moving on’: sale of WNBA’s Connecticut Sun leaves Native fans facing cultural loss

More top stories

  • People with bright coloured flags protesting

    Argentina
    ‘They take our water, our soil’: protesters fight ‘foreignisation’ as Javier Milei encourages land sales in Argentina

  • Someone holding a mobile phone showing the Asos logo

    Retail industry
    Asos customers receive ‘hack’ notification threatening leak

  • A smiling middle-aged Persian woman in a blouse and without a hijab

    Iran
    ‘A return to prison is always looming’: Iran nobel laureate recounts torture in jail and hopes for the future

  • Marine Devin Jacob Ballard looks sideways while escorted by a uniformed officer

    Japan
    Japanese PM leads outcry after US Marine arrested over alleged killing of woman on Okinawa

  • Birdeye view of the Drax power station

    Datacentres - UK
    Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick airport flights

  • Pacific Pre-COP31 Meeting Takes Place In Fiji And TuvaluAustralia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese gives thumbs up at the Tuvalu Coastal Adaptation Project (TCAP) during the Pre-Cop31 meeting on October 6, 2026 in Funafuti, Tuvalu. The Pacific pre-COP31 meeting is being held in Nadi, Fiji, from Oct. 5–8, with leaders from Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific gathering. Delegates and ministers met to build momentum for the COP31 climate summit, while regional leaders also convened in Tuvalu to spotlight the existential threat rising seas pose to low-lying Pacific nations. (Photo by Saeed Khan - Pool/Getty Images)

    Climate talks
    Australia faces summer of extreme weather, Anthony Albanese warns at pre-Cop

  • A large blunt-nosed shark with an open mouth and apparently no teeth

    Sharks
    To cull or not to cull: Greenland debates fate of world’s slowest shark

  • A satellite image of a huge plume of methane detected over the Silivri landfill site near Istanbul.

    Greenhouse gas emissions
    Revealed: the methane mega-leaks from UN climate summit host Turkey

UK news

  • UK politics live
    Shadow minister says Tories would ‘keep political activism out of classrooms’

  • Energy
    ‘It really hammers people’: Scottish islanders hit by highest diesel prices in UK

  • UK news
    Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor takes legal action against police and Old Bailey over Epstein raids

  • Windrush scandal
    Mel B ‘heartbroken’ by Windrush scandal victims’ fight for justice

World news

  • Israel
    UK threatens to expel Israeli diplomats over planned East Jerusalem consulate closure

  • Africa
    ‘There’s always been a belittling of African women’: honouring history’s invisible heroines

  • This Is India
    From competing for food to a gold medal: the stories behind India’s Asian Games winners

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  • Russia
    US closely monitoring case of lab worker who ‘possibly’ died of plague in Siberia, says Rubio

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Culture

  • Celibidache, Sergiu, 28.6.1912 - 14.8.1996, Romanian conductor, half length, conducting, circa 1982,BHDA06 Celibidache, Sergiu, 28.6.1912 - 14.8.1996, Romanian conductor, half length, conducting, circa 1982, Sergiu Celibidache

    Classical music
    Celibidache was a musical visionary, an uncompromising perfectionist – and my father

  • Sean Connery and Christian Slater, as monks, examine a swollen corpse

    How we made
    ‘I spat in Sean Connery’s face 16 times’: Ron Perlman on making The Name of the Rose

What to watch

  • Damilola Taylor in a sports shirt

    Television
    Damilola: The Untold Story review – John Boyega’s trauma after losing his childhood friend is haunting

  • Four young women dressed in school uniform leaning against a wall.

    Film
    The Craft review – cult high-school horror a reminder of the fearless 90s

  • Monica Dolan, as Catherine Corless, touches her ear with a concerned expression outdoors

    Film
    The Lost Children of Tuam review – deeply serious retelling of Ireland’s devastating tragedy

  • Man with talking plant

    Film
    ‘Exceptionally crafted’: why Little Shop of Horrors is my feelgood movie

What to listen to

  • A conductor plays violin energetically while leading the Scottish Ensemble and singers on stage

    Classical music
    Scottish Ensemble review – singular sounds from an ever-adventurous string orchestra

  • The musician Liz Harris wearing a baseball cap and laughing with her eyes close in shadowy woodland

    ‘It’s rational to fear the music industry’
    Grouper’s Liz Harris on virality, streaming scammers and her ‘restorative’ dream-pop trio

  • Musician Greg Freeman stands outside a white house.

    Country
    Greg Freeman: All Set the Bone review – ambitious alt-country double album spreads its talents a touch thin

  • Andy and Vince sat side by side, Vince's head is resting on Andy's shoulder

    Pop
    ‘It’s a deep soul connection’: Erasure on how 40 years of friendship got them through grief

What to read

  • Barbara Kingsolver.

    Book of the day
    Partita By Barbara Kingsolver review – a quieter follow-up to Demon Copperhead

  • Whitney Houston in 1999.

    Whitney Houston
    Holding Lightning by Emily Lordi review – an intimate portrait of Whitney Houston

  • Lily James (front) as Mrs de Winter and Kristin Scott Thomas as Mrs Danvers and in the 2020 film adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca.

    Fiction
    The Housekeeper by Rose Tremain review – a bloodless origin story for Du Maurier’s Rebecca

  • David Byrne in a blue suit and striped shirt, with his hand outstretched

    Book of the day
    Sleeping Beauties by David Byrne review – a quirky journey through the afterlife of invention

What to play

  • Marcus, in armour, raises a rifle with a chainsaw blade attachment; another soldier stands behind

    Review
    Gears of War: E-Day – an alien invasion shouldn’t be this boring

  • Director Zach Cregger points through a window beside Austin Abrams holding camera equipment on set

    Horror games
    How Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil stands out from all other game adaptations

    Newsletter
  • A video game fighter jet pilot in helmet and oxygen mask sits in the cockpit, clouds outside, from Ace Combat 8

    Review
    Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve – brilliant aerial combat game fulfils the Top Gun fantasy

  • A game still of Wolverine with claws extended attacks an armed soldier amid flying sparks in an industrial setting

    Marvel
    Why fans are digging their claws into Wolverine over its patronising gameplay

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  • Andrew Scott, in a leather jacket, stands in profile looking upward inside an empty theatre

    London film festival
    Hamlet’s goodbye, the last of Leigh, Birmingham blues and a vampire in Vienna: 12 great films at the London film festival

  • Jack Nicholson grins manically through a hole he hacked in a wooden door

    Film
    Axe used by Jack Nicholson in The Shining for sale as part of Stanley Kubrick auction

  • Annual brass band festival in Serbia

    Photography
    Bottles, brass bands and a blood red sea: a trip through the Balkans – in pictures

    Gallery11
  • Composer George Fenton, pictured in 2001, rests his head on his hand with sheet music on his lap

    Music
    George Fenton, Oscar-nominated British composer for more than 100 films, dies aged 76

Lifestyle

  • Portrait of Denise Brown, with long silver hair

    How we survive
    double quotation markMy sister Nicole married OJ Simpson. This is what I wish I had known

  • An illustration of a cockroach overlaid on a big red armchair.

    The pest I’ll never forget
    The cockroaches I still dream about

Food

  • Georgina Hayden's charred corn gado gado.

    Food
    Georgina Hayden’s quick and easy recipe for corn gado gado

  • A Negroni with plantain crisps, cashews and savoury pastries at Velvet, Verona.

    Travel
    My search for the perfect Italian aperitivo in Verona

  • Nik Sharma's poached eggs with green chutney and yoghurt.

    Food
    Nik Sharma’s recipes for spiced French onion soup and Indian-style Turkish eggs

  • Felicity Cloake's zuppa di cozze final

    Food
    How to make the perfect zuppa di cozze – recipe

Fashion & beauty

  • A model in a vibrant dress and dark sunglasses walks the Valentino catwalk in a library. Photo: Abdul Saboor/Reuters

    Fashion
    Alessandro Michele designs for the dancefloor at Valentino’s Paris show

  • A shot of colorful make up being swept into a pan

    The Filter
    The first step of caring for your makeup is storing it right. We asked experts how to

  • Olivia Colman walks the Miu Miu runway in a black leather suit

    Miu Miu
    Miu Miu turns ‘real clothes’ into high fashion with sportswear style

  • Henry Holland wearing a crinkly black satin suit with a black cummerbund and bow tie, smiling at the camera, against cornflower-blue background

    The Q&A
    Fashion designer Henry Holland: ‘I’ve thought about a nose job but everyone says I’ll look different. That’s the point!’

Relationships

  • Pet I'll Never Forget - Steven Band and his dog Poppy

    The pet I'll never forget
    Poppy the curious, clever dog – who searches for missing people

  • A person crawls on all fours wearing a collar and leash, head lowered toward a woman's leg

    This is how we do it
    double quotation markMy mistress has complete control over me and makes me so happy

  • A businessman walks alone across a large white sphere against an orange background

    Society
    ‘There’s a lot of silence’: have we created a new ‘Lonely Generation’?

  • Illustration of a photo of the couple coming out of an envelope

    The moment I knew
    As a reality TV contestant, I was allowed one 15-minute call a week. Even at 3am, Chris would always pick up

Health & fitness

  • Bowl of assorted colorful freshly picked berry fruits on rustic picnic table

    Fruit
    They’re delicious, popular and versatile – but how healthy are berries?

  • Illustration of a human figure made of tangled wires, representing nervous system chaos

    Health
    Feeling wired? The truth about ‘nervous system resets’

  • Illustration of a woman holding a baby, turning her back on a dog

    Pregnancy
    ‘12 weeks and SO disgusted by my dog’: what happens when you’re pregnant and can’t stand your pet?

  • Two children dip vegetable sticks into a bowl of hummus, chatting together

    Hygiene
    Is it true that … double-dipping food is unhygienic?

More lifestyle

  • Kicking off the 2026 Nobel prizes in is the award for physiology or medicine. This year the prize went to three scientists for their work investigating the mysteries of the brain. Karl Deisseroth of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Stanford University, Peter Hegemann of the Humboldt University of Berlin and Georg Nagel of the University of Würzburg have been awarded the prize “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics”. Science correspondent Nicola Davis tells Madeleine Finlay how this technique is already transforming neuroscience and how it could one day help restore sight, remove pain and tackle diseases like addiction and Alzheimer's

    Science Weekly
    Nobel prize in medicine 2026: unlocking the mysteries of the brain

    Video7:44
  • A frowning woman reads in an armchair beside two houseplants blowing air from their faces

    Is it true that …
    Do houseplants freshen the air in our homes and offices?

  • Backstage At The Hollywood Sign overlooking Los Angeles. The iconic sign was originally created in 1923.2J3HTF1 Backstage At The Hollywood Sign overlooking Los Angeles. The iconic sign was originally created in 1923.

    Hollywood
    Snakes, bobcats, mountain lions: the secret animal world beneath the Hollywood sign

  • Jack Larkin, one-time landscaper, now journalist, with his brother in 2020.

    A job that changed me
    I mulched city parks in the dead of winter – I was not cut out for manual labour or working with family

Documentary

  • Letters from prison
    Prison Letters: the teenager writing letters to jailed climate activists – documentary

    A teenager struggling with climate anxiety searches for hope in an unexpected place – writing letters to imprisoned activists. Max, 14, is on a quest to understand the human stories behind direct action, and why so many climate protesters have spent time in prison​
    Video18:27

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