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    North Carolina Republican candidate for governor called himself ‘black Nazi’ – report

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    Pakistan
    Police in southern Pakistan shoot dead blasphemy suspect

    • France
      ‘I am part of this nightmare’: man admits guilt in Gisèle Pelicot rape trial

    • Caribbean
      Violent protests erupt in Martinique over high cost of living with 14 injured

    • Technology
      Social media and online video firms conducting ‘vast surveillance’ on users

    • LGBTQ+ rights
      Georgian trans model murdered after parliament passes ‘anti-LGBTQ+’ law

    • Space
      Earth will briefly have a second ‘mini moon’ this autumn

    • Music
      Previously unknown Mozart music discovered in German library

News in focus

  • A man stands in front of his laundry hanging on a washing line.

    Central America
    Is circular migration a solution to the crisis at the US border? Guatemala provides a clue

  • ‘The ultimate example of following your dreams’ … ballerina Michaela DePrince.

    Dance
    ‘The first Black ballerina I found on YouTube’: ENB's Precious Adams pays tribute to Michaela DePrince

    DePrince, who has died aged 29, was a ‘beacon of hope’ for dancers, says English National Ballet first soloist
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    Undercover as a hotel cleaner in Ireland: ‘Lifting the heavy mattress, I cry tears of rage and exhaustion’

    Saša Uhlová
    We struggle to secure payslips or a schedule – and in an 11-hour shift I barely have time for a bathroom break, says Czech journalist Saša Uhlová

Spotlight

  • Sophia Loren in Legend of the Lost (1957)

    Ranked
    Happy 90th birthday Sophia Loren! Her greatest films

    The screen icon shows her range in roles ranging from Italian sirens to an Oscar-winning turn as a mother fleeing wartime horrors
  • film still of a woman in the woods with a crossbow

    Film
    Never Let Go review – Halle Berry takes hold of uneven woodland horror

  • Painting by Louisa Starr Canziani (1845 - 1909) depicting an elderly man comforting a crying young woman after seemingly having read a devastating report in a newspaper about an overseas battle (possibly something Boer War-related?). He is wearing a patriotic ribbon. It is titled after lines from The Battle of Blenheim of After Blenheim, a poem by Robert Southey written in 1796, 'But things like that, you know, must be after a famous victory.'<br>2C876DK Painting by Louisa Starr Canziani (1845 - 1909) depicting an elderly man comforting a crying young woman after seemingly having read a devastating report in a newspaper about an overseas battle (possibly something Boer War-related?). He is wearing a patriotic ribbon. It is titled after lines from The Battle of Blenheim of After Blenheim, a poem by Robert Southey written in 1796, 'But things like that, you know, must be after a famous victory.'

    Leading questions
    My 80-year-old dad is unrealistic about his future. Why can’t he move into a retirement village?

    It is difficult for adult children to navigate these changes, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. But it is difficult for your father too
  • An illustration of a person with four arms doing multiple tasks at once: dusting, typing on a laptop, looking at a cellphone, holding a pencil, and listening to music

    Well actually
    Breaks, walks and naps – tips to make you more efficient

    After a week guided by Mithu Storoni’s new book Hyperefficient, I learned to work with the rhythm of my brain
    • A model wearing a calf-length gunmetal dress with holes and mirrored circles in it, with a yellow anorak an a straw hat with a shaded visor built in

      Fashion
      Prada and Max Mara bring strangeness and science to Milan fashion week

    • Andrew and Josella met through Tinder in 2021

      Dating
      Andrew and Josella met online – it’s now the norm for more than half of young Australians

    • Sally Rooney.

      Books
      Intermezzo by Sally Rooney review – surprise moves in love, loss and chess

    • PR shot of Nelly Furtado in a fur coat.

      The reader interview
      Nelly Furtado: ‘Flames shot out of the speaker when I started making Maneater’

Opinion

  • Permanent ambassador of Israel, Danny Danon, speaks during an emergency special session on illegal Israel actions in East Jerusalem

    Will the historic UN vote for sanctions on Israel change reality for Palestinians?

    Omar Barghouti
    Palestinians have never given up hope in our decades-old resistance to Israel’s ruthless regime of oppression
  • A group of about 20 people on a boat, with several others standing in the deep water. A cluster of buildings, half submerged in water, can be seen behind them.

    I’ve studied geopolitics all my life: climate breakdown is a bigger threat than China and Russia

    Anatol Lieven
  • Ursula von der Leyen

    Von der Leyen has tightened her grip on the EU’s steering wheel – and is moving it subtly to the right

    Paul Taylor
  • A black father with son in baby carrier doing laundry.

    Great men do wear their babies – the days of criticising a father for carrying his child are over

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
  • A two-month-old female pygmy hippo named Moo Deng bites her keeper Atthapon Nundee at Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Thailand

    A baby pygmy hippo named Moo Deng: she is all we want to look at

    Helen Sullivan
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    JD Vance is factually challenged – and morally deficient

    Margaret Sullivan

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Climate crisis

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    US
    Elite US universities rake in millions from big oil donations, research finds

  • Scandinavian Airlines planes lined up at Stockholm Arlanda airport

    Sweden
    Sweden cuts tax on flying despite admitting it would increase emissions

  • Two men unloading sandbags from the back of a small truck

    Climate crisis
    Floods in Poland and wildfires in Portugal show reality of climate breakdown, says EU

  • A woman next to her home in Covelo, Gondomar, northern Portugal.

    Portugal
    Portugal wildfire deaths rise to seven after firefighters trapped in blaze

Around the world

  • Sue Gray walking outside with a woman in the background

    Keir Starmer
    ‘Appalling’ rows over Sue Gray must stop, senior ministers say

    Cabinet ministers rally around chief of staff as Keir Starmer insists he is in control of No 10
  • Reactions in Bamako as terrorists attempted to infiltrate the Feladie gendarmerie<br>epaselect epa11609789 Local residents react near the site of an attack in Bamako, Mali, 17 September 2024. According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces, a group of terrorists attempted to infiltrate the Feladie gendarmerie school on the outskirts of the capital early on 17 September morning. The military government of Mali has been fighting rebel groups since taking power in a coup in 2021. EPA/HADAMA DIAKITE

    Al-Qaida
    Jihadist assault on Mali’s capital killed scores of people, say security sources

  • George Papadopoulos and his wife Simona Mangiante

    Donald Trump
    Ex-Trump advisers help to grow pro-Russia website that spreads misinformation

  • Delta airplanes

    Air transport
    Delta faces US investigation after flight passengers report bloody ears and noses

    • UK
      Mohamed Al Fayed accused in BBC documentary of raping five women

    • Extreme weather
      Two missing and 1,000 evacuated as Storm Boris devastates northern Italy

    • Kentucky
      ‘Bounty hunter’ couple finds body believed to be Kentucky shooting suspect

    • UK
      Far higher pesticide residues allowed on food since Brexit

    • Business
      Nike appoints new CEO as sportswear giant’s sales come under pressure

    • US
      Eight-year-old Ohio girl takes mother’s car and goes shopping at Target

Culture

  • Agent J or Agent No Way? … Will Smith and David Schwimmer

    Film
    Would starring in Men in Black really have made David Schwimmer a movie star?

    The Friends actor says he regrets not going for the role made famous by Will Smith, but could he have made ‘I make this look good’ as good?
  • Kylie Minogue on stage.

    Kylie Minogue
    ‘I am beyond excited’: Kylie announces biggest tour in a decade

  • Hilary Mantel.

    Books
    Hilary Mantel was my mentor. Here are seven things she taught me about writing – and life

  • A composite image of a priest, an opera singer, a woman in a club, a man and woman in an office

    Film
    From The Brutalist to Conclave: what is the state of this year’s Oscar race?

  • ‘These were once crazy, speedy machines’ … a sliced-up V10 engine from an Audi RS 6 in Bircken’s Gebrochenes Pferd show.

    Art and design
    Wombs to vrooms: the German artist who makes work out of old Audi parts – and her own placenta

  • Courting attention … Arieh Worthalter as Pierre Goldman.

    Film
    The Goldman Case review – gripping French courtroom drama with a chaotic energy

Lifestyle

  • A guest carries a stuffed teddy bag from Simone Rocha during London fashion week in September 2024

    Fashion
    The science of cuteness: why fashion has fallen for the cuddly toy

    In this week’s newsletter: The rise and rise of kawaii and the need for some sweet relief has seen a boom in adorable accessories. But is there more to all this whimsy than meets the eye?
  • Ilya and Amy (right) in 2022.

    How we met
    ‘She had an eyebrow piercing – I thought that was very edgy’

  • An illustration of a Celsius can on its side, surrounded by psychedelic lines in hot pink, green and black with a silhouette of a person drinking a beverage

    Food & drink
    ‘A troubling halo of health’: how Celsius became Red Bull for women

  • Google Pixel 9 review showing the back of the phone and its distinctive camera bar.

    Technology
    Google Pixel 9 review: a good phone overshadowed by great ones

  • Brown Rat (Rattus norvegicus) in garden patio at night, Sussex, England<br>H7YGG3 Brown Rat (Rattus norvegicus) in garden patio at night, Sussex, England

    Relationships
    From rat-spotting to a stroll on the M25 – readers’ weirdest dates

  • Dining Across The Divide Valerie (left) and Pav at Mildreds Soho

    Dining across the divide
    ‘I think the EU should be divided into two, east and west’

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    Saginaw voters
    Tell us which issues will decide the US election

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    Life and style
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From our global editions

  • Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni on TV earlier this week.

    Giorgia Meloni
    The shapeshifter: who is the real Giorgia Meloni?

    She’s been called a neo-fascist and a danger to Italy. But she has won over many heads of Europe, including the UK prime minister. Should we be worried?
  • A small group of people on rocky ground next to a body of water holding placards, one reads 'Tunisia government is killing us slowly, we need help'

    Migration crisis
    The brutal truth behind Italy’s migrant reduction: beatings and rape by EU-funded forces in Tunisia

  • Kris Maharaj waving to his wife, Marita, at a 2014 hearing in Miami

    Obituaries
    Krishna Maharaj – Clive Stafford Smith on his friend's 37-year fight to overturn his US murder conviction

  • Lauren and Harrison Smith with their daughters and a picture of Benaiah, the Chinese boy they were in the processing of adopting before Beijing announced on 4 September that it was no longer allowing inter country adoptions.

    China
    ‘It breaks us deeply’: anguish as China closes door to foreign adoptions

  • Amazon offices

    Working from home
    The great divide: are office workers more productive than those at home?

  • An Indian doctor stands by a patient in a bed holding up an X-ray while two female medics in white coats stand beside him

    Health
    ‘You feel omnipresent’: bringing city care to India’s country hospitals

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  • ‘The most feared group of people in Europe’ … The march of the hats in Wrocław, Poland.

    Euro visions
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    Europe
    Undercover as a farm worker in Germany: ‘My hands are numb. No one knows when the shift will end’

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    Football Weekly
    A dream start for Celtic but drama in short supply at the Etihad – Football Weekly Extra podcast

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    Science
    The sweeping reorganisation of the brain in pregnancy, and why it matters – podcast

  • Giorgia Meloni and Keir Starmer

    Politics Weekly UK
    ‘Frockgate’ and Starmer’s love-in with Meloni – Politics Weekly UK

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    Today in Focus
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  • AC Milan's Alvaro Morata, bottom, and Liverpool's Virgil van Dijk battle for the ball during the Champions League game between AC Milan and Liverpool at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (Spada/LaPresse via AP)

    Football Weekly
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    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: The invention of whiteness: the long history of a dangerous idea – podcast

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In pictures

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    Fashion
    Football, tutus and mayonnaise: the highlights of London fashion week spring/summer 2025

    Art-inspired collections and garden showcases, plus cameos from Harry Styles and Arsenal’s Declan Rice
  • Ken Done showing a young girl a picture at a table, surrounded by artwork

    Art and design
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  • Construction workers walking on the roof of the Sagrada Família

    Photos of the day
    Soaring spires and floods in Europe

  • A man standing by the sea, holding large sticks over his shoulders

    Photography
    No hospital, no cars … and only three school pupils: life on a remote island

  • An aircraft flies past the supermoon as it rises in Brisbane, Australia.

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