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  • A woman wearing a light blue jacket smiles and points at a lectern

    Claudia Sheinbaum
    Mexican president claims ‘no potential tariff war’ with US after call with Trump

  • Police push away protesters pouring into the streets early on Friday following Georgian prime minister Irakli Kobakhidze's announcement suspending EU membership talks.

    Georgia
    Georgia protesters clash with police after PM suspends EU membership talks

    • Israel-Gaza war
      Israeli military to remain in Gaza for years, food minister says

    • Animals
      ‘Baby bouncer’ helps pick up poorly penguin so she can learn to stand again

    • Ukraine war briefing
      Zelenskyy says massive attack by Russia is ‘despicable escalation’

    • Social media
      Meta accuses Australian government of failing to consider young people’s voices with world-first social media ban

    • Assisted dying
      MPs hours away from historic vote on whether to legalise assisted dying

    • Evolution
      Footprints in Kenya ‘show distant relatives of modern humans coexisted’

In focus

  • A person pushes a full shopping cart in front of a store sign that says "Costco Wholesale"

    Black Friday
    ‘People forget their manners’: US retail workers brace for Black Friday shopping rush

  • A female soldier of the P18 Gotland Regiment covers her face with paint during a field exercise near Visby on the Swedish island of Gotland on May 17, 2022.

    Europe
    ‘Would you survive 72 hours?’ Germany and the Nordic countries prepare citizens for possible war

    Apps and booklets are offering advice on how to build a bunker, stockpile food and live without electricity in case the worst happens
  • A truck carrying bags of flour

    Gaza
    Aid officials recount violent looting in Gaza as criminal gangs thrive amid Israeli bombardment

    Recent attack on trucks carrying flour has deprived starving civilians of food as territory teeters on edge of famine

Spotlight

  • Nightbitch director Marielle Heller and star Amy Adams at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival.

    Amy Adams
    ‘That’s my own hair. I can really grow whiskers’: Amy Adams and Marielle Heller on toddlers, incontinence and Nightbitch

    The film adaptation of Rachel Yoder’s 2021 novel offers a whip-smart depiction of motherhood – and some icky body horror. Its director and star talk awful husbands, menstrual blood and canine transformation
  • a view of Lower Hutt city in new zealand

    New Zealand
    Living with ‘the stench’: the smelly New Zealand city with an air of despair

  • Washington in Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)

    Film
    Denzel Washington at 70: his 20 greatest films – ranked!

    Ahead of his birthday next month, we celebrate the filmography of Washington, from his charisma-oozing role in Cry Freedom to his colossal performance in Gladiator II
  • The Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah on a visit to Bint Jbeil with bomb damaged buildings in the background

    World news
    Hezbollah tries to claim victory as Lebanon mourns its dead

    A year of fighting with Israel killed thousands – and shattered Hezbollah’s air of invincibility – before a ceasefire was reached
    • A clay model of a slice of sweet potato pie on a plate with a fork, a couple in the background.

      Culture
      Not just dessert: how sweet potato pie became a tool of Black American resistance

    • black-and-white image of a parade float marked 'Macy's Christmas Parade Little Miss Muffet'

      Thanksgiving
      How the largely immigrant-founded Macy's parade became a national symbol

    • Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba looks at camera while making a spell with her hands

      Film
      Wicked’s green skin trigger warning may feel silly – but not as silly as those crying woke

      Stuart Heritage
    • A Christmas tree with a glass ornament that has a snow globe inside. The scene is set in a room with a window, and there are lights in the background

      The Filter
      The best Christmas trees: everything you need to know, from sustainability to style

Opinion

  • Illustration

    Opinion
    Questions of life and death are complex and messy. Let’s admit the assisted dying debate is too

    Frances Ryan
    Campaigners on both sides dub the bill ‘a matter of conscience’ – but profound ethical issues can’t be reduced to right v wrong, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
  • Joe Biden at a lectern speaking, with US flags behind him.

    Don’t be naive about the ceasefire in Lebanon. It may mean more horror and death in Gaza

    Simon Tisdall
    Netanyahu can redeploy his troops or abandon the peace deal at any time. It doesn’t bind his hands, says Simon Tisdall, the Observer’s foreign affairs commentator
    • Ben Jennings on Black Friday – cartoon

      Opinion
      Ben Jennings on Black Friday – cartoon

    • Andrei Popoviciu

      My father voted for Romania’s ultra-nationalist. I am beginning to understand why

      Andrei Popoviciu
    • Cormac McCarthy, in a jacket and tie, at the New York premier of the film adaptation of his novel The Road, in 2009.

      Let’s be honest with ourselves: Cormac McCarthy groomed a teenage girl

      Moira Donegan
    • Kamala Harris concedes the 2024 presidential election.

      The message to Democrats is clear: you must dump neoliberal economics

      Joseph Stiglitz

Sports

  • Mohammed ben Sulayem (left), the FIA president.

    Formula One
    F1 ‘running out of people’ says sacked race steward

    Long-time F1 steward Tim Mayer says he was sacked by text and reveals meddling by FIA president Mohammed ben Sulayem
  • Poland’s Iga Swiatek in action against Jasmine Paolini of Italy during the 2024 Billie Jean King Cup.

    Explainer
    Why has Swiatek been banned and how serious is the offense?

    • PSG’s Brazilian defender Marquinhos walks off after their 1-0 defeat to Bayern in Munich.

      Champions League
      Round five review: pain for PSG but Inter and Arsenal on rise

    • Mats Hummels (third right) celebrates after equalising in the 91st minute for Roma at Tottenham.

      Europa League
      Roma's Hummels strikes late to ruin Tottenham’s night

    • Conor McGregor.

      Why was Conor McGregor’s sinister cult of content lauded and rewarded for so long?

      Jonathan Liew
    • England’s footballers (left to right) Conor Gallagher, Conor Coady and Declan Rice suffer during training in Qatar before the 2022 World Cup.

      Soccer
      Footballers at ‘very high risk of extreme heat stress’ during World Cup 2026

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Climate crisis

  • An aerial shot of an elephant carcass lying at the edge of a small green body of water

    The age of extinction
    Mysterious mass elephant die-off ‘probably caused by toxic water’

  • In Accra, Ghana, two boys run away from waves crashing on to a beach choked by discarded fast fashion.

    Environment
    We need to talk about plastic: five everyday items choking the planet

  • CGI image of a cruise ship sailing between icebergs

    The real cost of cruises
    Can you take a clean cruise holiday and which vessels are the worst emitters?

  • An LNG plant in WA

    Environment
    Six things we learned about the Australian government’s response to the climate crisis

Across the country

  • people stand in a cranberry bog

    US
    Massachusetts farmers turn cranberry bogs back to wetlands in $6m initiative

    Restoration projects awarded grants to convert defunct bogs to bring environmental benefits and restore wildlife
  • Two men hug on stage

    US politics
    Democrat Derek Tran ousts Republican rival in key California House seat

  • a women with her hand over her chest

    US elections 2024
    Democrats criticize Harris for ‘self-congratulatory’ review of election loss

  • a tree fallen on a house

    North Carolina
    ‘Emotionally daunting’: Thanksgiving feels different for those affected by Hurricane Helene

    • Trump administration
      Trump’s picks for new administration are focus of bomb threats and ‘swatting’

    • Diplomacy
      China releases three US citizens held for years in prisoner swap

    • Film
      Sharon Stone says US is in state of ‘ignorant, arrogant adolescence’

    • US prisons
      New York City found in contempt over conditions in city jails

    • Oregon
      Oregon tribe celebrates as court lifts decades-long hunting and fishing restrictions

    • Donald Trump
      Gibson issues cease and desist over Trump-backed guitars

Around the world

  • A woman and a child huddle in the middle of a snowy road. They are wrapped up in relatively thin clothing and are covered in snow

    Afghanistan
    Women arrested by Taliban for begging report rape and killings in Afghan jails

    Draconian new laws allow mass incarceration of women and children forced to beg because of work ban
  • A person stands by a lake with mountains and trees ahead

    Canada
    Astonishment as missing Canadian hiker emerges after weeks in wilderness

  • Volunteers carry mud out of a garage nearly a month after severe flooding in Paiporta, Valencia, Spain, 28 November 2024.

    Spain
    Spain introduces paid climate leave after deadly floods

  • Louise Haigh

    UK politics
    Louise Haigh resigns as UK transport secretary after admitting phone offence

    • New Zealand
      New Zealand navy ship sank off Samoa because autopilot was left on, inquiry finds

    • Asia Pacific
      Laos bans sale and consumption of vodka and whisky brand following suspected mass methanol poisoning

    • UK
      ‘Sophisticated’ spy ring passed secrets to Russia for three years, UK court told

    • Weather tracker
      Indonesia flash floods and landslides leave dozens dead

    • France
      French PM abandons electricity tax rise amid pressure from far right

    • Ireland
      Ireland goes to polls with three parties neck and neck

Podcasts

Podcasts

  • Palestinian journalist Ahmed Alnaouq

    Today in Focus
    One man on his grief for Gaza

  • Al Jazeera journalist Wael al-Dahdouh. Photograph: Steffen Roth/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    ‘I couldn’t cry over my children like everyone else’: the tragedy of Palestinian journalist Wael al-Dahdouh – podcast

  • Kamala Harris and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

    Politics Weekly America
    How the left is defending itself in the Democratic blame game – podcast

  • A burned-out truck near the Roman ruins at Baalbek, Lebanon, a days after the ceasefire began

    Today in Focus
    Lebanon: a fragile ceasefire in a shattered nation – podcast

  • Liverpool v Real Madrid - UEFA Champions League - League Stage - Anfield<br>Liverpool's Alexis Mac Allister (centre) celebrates scoring his sides first goal of the game during the UEFA Champions League, league stage match at Anfield, Liverpool. Picture date: Wednesday November 27, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story SOCCER Liverpool. Photo credit should read: Peter Byrne/PA Wire. RESTRICTIONS: Use subject to restrictions. Editorial use only, no commercial use without prior consent from rights holder.

    Football Weekly
    Liverpool look the Real deal against Madrid – Football Weekly Extra

  • Liz Carr protesting outside parliament. Photograph by Jonathan Brady/PA Wire

    Assisted dying
    MPs’ big assisted dying moment, and the people watching every move – Politics Weekly UK

Culture

  • Billy Preston as he poses against a red backgound, London, England, January 28, 1972. (Photo by TPLP/Getty Images)

    Music
    ‘I just had to rejoice’: the brilliance and tragedy of ‘fifth Beatle’ Billy Preston

    A magnetically vibrant keyboard prodigy who played on Let It Be and worked with George Harrison, Preston later lived through years of addiction. A new film aims to find ‘the dark and the light’ in his story
  • Charli xcx standing under simulated rain with knee high boots on

    Music
    Charli xcx review – feral masterclass in pop presence heralds Brat winter

  • three men in suits

    Comedy
    How to respond to another Trump presidency?

  • A courtroom artist’s drawing of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs with lawyer Anthony Ricco at his bail hearing last Friday.

    Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs
    Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs denied bail for a third time over ‘serious risk’ of witness tampering

  • Kuss Quartett Press publicity portrait

    Classical music
    Schubert, Ter Schiphorst, Andre album review – something old, something new

  • Sally Smart’s Performance/Punokawan/Chout (The Choreography of Cutting), with Yinka Shonibare’s Refugee Astronaut

    Art and design
    Queer quilts, rebellious knitting and political pants: the radical world of textiles

Lifestyle

  • Model in jacket and miniskirt

    Fashion
    The return of the miniskirt has been happening gradually – and I’m into it

  • PR images- composite

    What to wear...
    Deck the halls: what to wear for putting up the tree

    Adorn yourself in soft layers, bows, and sparkly jewellery
  • Choosing Keeping in London

    Fashion
    ‘Antidote to bland’: inside the ironic bauble trend

    Christmas decorations in the form of Taylor Swift, a mini air fryer and even ‘evil’ carrots might sound weird – but they’re more rooted in tradition than you think. Plus, how to find a party outfit bargain

Well actually

  • An illustration of a girl reading a book titled 'Being That Girl'

    Ask Ugly
    I want to ignore beauty culture. But I’ll never get anywhere if I don’t look a certain way

  • Dairy cows on a farm

    Well actually
    The truth about raw milk and why experts are ‘absolutely horrified’ by the trend

  • An illustration showing various foods associated with an anti-inflammatory diet – olives, eggs, tea, apple, berries and fish

    Well actually
    I tried an anti-inflammatory diet for a week. This is what I learned

  • Illustration of women in various poses with colorful clothing

    Well actually
    How do I stay healthy in my 50s?

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From our global editions

  • A man holds a copy of Angela Merkel's autobiography.

    Germany
    ‘We miss her so much’: fans welcome Angela Merkel’s return to stage

  • Children wait around a large tree on a riverbank for the arrival of other villagers for the general assembly of Munduruku people, at the Waro Apompu village in High Tapajós, Brazil.

    Latin America and the Caribbean
    What’s behind the alarming rise in birth defects in Brazil’s illegal gold mining capital?

  • A white stork returns on its nest, as viewed through the window of a disintegrating shed in Tyurkmen, Bulgaria

    The long read
    The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear?

In case you missed it

  • people walking out of grocery store

    Business
    US grocery workers hit by rising prices: ‘We’re at the bottom of the food chain’

  • composite image of man wearing gray suit and black tie speaks while holding up index finger next to water dripping out of faucet

    Fluoride
    ‘The science of fluoride is starting to evolve’: behind the risks and benefits of the mineral

    With RFK Jr and a court ruling, conversation on fluoride, in about 72% of US community water supplies, has exploded
  • An image of shipping containers stacked at an airport.

    Explainer
    What are tariffs and why is Trump levying them on Canada, Mexico and China?

    Trump is now laying ground for a trade war with the country’s largest trading partners
  • two white turkeys stand on a green lawn

    Environment
    The short, painful life of your Thanksgiving turkey

  • Packets of fentanyl and methamphetamine which US Customs and Border Protection say they seized from a truck crossing into Arizona from Mexico.

    Fentanyl
    Is the China-US fentanyl pipeline really responsible for the US opioid crisis?

  • Shipping containers in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China

    Analysis
    Trump’s talk of tariffs raises fears of hit to economies worldwide

  • Fa'aoso Tuivale, 30, holds a picture of her three children who died in the 2019 measles epidemic, while sitting on their grave

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    ‘We learned the hard way’: Samoa remembers a deadly measles outbreak and a visit from RFK Jr

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