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  • Spanish peacekeepers of the United Nations interim force in Lebanon.

    Middle East crisis live
    Air raid sirens reported in central Israel; European leaders ‘outraged’ over attacks on UN peacekeepers

    IDF said sirens sounded regarding a ‘hostile aircraft infiltration’; US says it has urged Israel to ensure Unifil forces’ safety
    • Moment Virginia McCullough admits killing her parents

      England
      Woman jailed for life after murdering parents and living with bodies in Essex

    • Media
      Carol Vorderman to leave LBC radio show after ‘health scare’

    • Hurricane Milton
      Biden says Hurricane Milton caused staggering $50bn in estimated damage

    • Media
      BBC staff should not feel fear or worry at work, says chair, as review begins

    • Environment
      Surrey swimming lake could close amid plan to allow in polluted Thames water

    • Private schools
      UK private faith schools lobby for VAT exemption on fees under £7,690

    • England
      Man in his 60s missing after Thames boat capsizes in Surrey

    • Mountaineering
      More clues in 100-year-old Mount Everest mystery as climber’s foot found

News in focus

  • Keir Starmer

    Analysis
    Keir Starmer may still need to dispel perception of ‘boys’ club’

  • Derek Webb in Las Vegas

    Gambling
    Poacher turned gamekeeper: the gambler who turned tables on bookies and lobbies for UK tax rise

    Multimillionaire Derek Webb, a Labour donor, goes all-in with support for levy on online casinos and bookmakers
  • The northern lights over the causeway leading to Holy Island in Northumberland on Thursday night

    Explained
    Northern lights: what causes them and where will I be able to see them?

    Will there be a repeat of Thursday’s show on Friday night? And why all the different colours?

Spotlight

  • Young women browsing books on a stall in Spitalfields Market in London

    Books
    ‘I can spend hours browsing’: how did bookshops suddenly become cool?

    A new survey suggests that young people are shunning AI algorithms and online retailers to experience the joy of visiting bookshops
  • People doing yoga in dim lighting

    Gym
    Independent gyms jump into gaps in UK high street amid shift to local living

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    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    My 15-year-old son keeps appearing naked in front of me ‘accidentally’

    This provocative behaviour sounds like a cry for help. You need to talk about boundaries – and keep asking if anything is bothering him
  • Demis Hassabis and Geoffrey Hinton.

    Science
    ‘They don’t just fall out of trees’: Nobel awards highlight Britain’s AI pedigree

    Recognition for Demis Hassabis and Geoffrey Hinton marks moment when important ingredients came together
    • Richard E Grant in Marvel satire, The Franchise.

      Television
      ‘It’s like Trump – how do you satirise something so ridiculous?’: Armando Iannucci’s hilarious superhero spoof

    • woman holding a mug and reading book in bed

      Reading
      How to put your phone down and get back into habit of reading books

    • ‘Far better than it really needs to be’: an interior shot of Café François, Borough Market, London SE1.

      Grace Dent on restaurants
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    • A collage of hair styling products including a paddle brush, a waver, a straightener, a silk bonnet and a hairdryer

      The Filter
      ‘This will give you a beautiful fringe’: top hairdressers on the 14 best at-home styling tools

Opinion

  • Elon Musk at Donald Trump’s campaign event in Butler, Pennsylvania on 5 October.

    Hurricane Milton has left two worlds in its wake. Elon Musk lives in one of them. The other is called reality

    Marina Hyde
    Remember when the existence of natural disasters wasn’t up for ‘debate’? It seems like a long time ago now
  • Thousands of people, most of them women and children, in a refugee camp

    Sudan is the world’s gravest humanitarian disaster – but almost nobody cares

    Jonathan Freedland
  • Martin Rowson on claims that Labour’s tax plans will cause rich people to flee the UK – cartoon

    Cartoon
    Martin Rowson on claims that Labour’s tax plans will cause rich people to flee the UK

    The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, is reported to be contemplating raising capital gains tax to 39%
  • Keir Starmer with his former chief of staff Sue Gray in London, 12 October 2023

    The chaos at Keir Starmer’s No 10 isn’t just political gossip – but there’s a way for him to fix it

    Anthony Seldon
    Sue Gray out, Morgan McSweeney in, Simon Case to leave… the churn highlights how vital the right staff are to any PM’s success
    • A child playing.

      Canada is showing that it’s possible to have universal, affordable childcare. Is the UK brave enough to follow?

      Gaby Hinsliff
    • Pimlico Plumbers chief executive Charlie Mullins gets out of a blue Bentley in 2018

      The super-rich claim they’ll flee to escape a Labour ‘tax grab’. Here’s an idea for how to stop them

      Polly Toynbee
    • A building destroyed by an Israeli airstrike

      How long will the destruction of Lebanon continue? This is madness.

      Moustafa Bayoumi
    • Benjamin Netanyahu, in a suit and tie, speaks at a podium with his hands gestured, an Israel flag hanging behind him

      Why has Israel detained American journalist Jeremy Loffredo?

      Seth Stern

Editorials & Letters

  • Chancellor of the exchequer, Rachel Reeves.

    Editorial
    The Guardian view on taxing the rich: essential for economic fairness and growth

  • South Korean author Han Kang, the winner of the 2024 Nobel prize in literature, attends a press conference in Seoul, South Korea.

    Editorial
    The Guardian view on Han Kang: a bold outsider has been rewarded

  • Patient and loved ones holding hands

    Letters
    Assisted dying bill leaves much unanswered

  • Elderly woman with hand on radiator looking out of window

    Letters
    When care homes just don’t care

Sport

  • The America's Cup final composite design.

    Sailing
    Ainslie leads GB’s chase for the sporting trophy they want most

  • Lee Carsley crouches on the touchline.

    Football
    Carsley intends to row back on England tactics after chastening loss

    • Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, left, and Fifa president Gianni Infantino at the match between Russia and Saudi Arabia which opened the 2018 World Cup in Moscow.

      Football
      Fifa ‘ignoring human rights report’ into Saudi 2034 bid

    • Andy Murray, Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal posing for photographs before competing for Team Europe in Federer’s final event, the Laver Cup in 2022.

      Tennis
      ‘Part of me left with them’: Djokovic on Nadal, Federer and Murray retiring

    • Hugo Palmer at the Chester Racecourse

      Talking Horses
      ‘A bit like his Brighton owners’: Seagulls Eleven faces racing’s Manchester City

    • Steve Clarke looks on during the international friendly match between Gibraltar and Scotland

      Football
      Clarke ‘disappointed’ Scotland Nations League fixtures not on TV

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Climate crisis

  • Palm trees are flooded in a lake next to the desert town of Merzouga, near Rachidia, south-east Morocco.

    Morocco
    Dramatic images show the first floods in the Sahara in half a century

  • Residents cut off by floods being rescued by boat

    Weatherwatch
    A year after Suffolk floods, underinsured homeowners struggle to rebuild

  • Combine harvester gathering the crop and transferring it to a tractor’s trailer on arable farmland in Shropshire

    Farming
    Harvest in England the second worst on record because of wet weather

  • An oil refinery in Kaohsiung, Taiwan

    Carbon emissions
    Foreign aid for fossil fuel projects quadrupled in a single year

From the UK

  • Nick Read at Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry, London, England, United Kingdom - 11 Oct 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Tayfun Salci/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock (14776723d) Chief Executive of Post Office Ltd. NICK READ arrives at Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry Public Hearing ahead of completing his 3 days long evidence. Nick Read at Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry, London, England, United Kingdom - 11 Oct 2024

    Horizon scandal
    Post Office boss admits attempts to double his pay look ‘very poor’

    Nick Read tells Horizon IT inquiry he did not threaten to resign over remuneration
  • Murals of Mickey and Minnie Mouse and Tom and Jerry on the walls of a waiting room

    Tory leadership
    Jenrick suggests he regrets removing Disney murals from asylum-seeker centre

  • Pink and green hues over a windmill

    Weather
    Northern lights seen across parts of England

  • The good news for Rachel Reeves is that the UK economy is in reasonably good shape.

    Analysis
    Rachel Reeves spends first 100 days in power trying to ride two horses

    Larry Elliott

    • Media
      TV producer Hat Trick pays £4.2m to founder Jimmy Mulville and wife

    • Conservatives
      Tory MP Geoffrey Cox missed winter fuel votes while working abroad in second job

    • Brexit
      Talks on UK rejoining EU could start in 10 years’ time, says Peter Mandelson

    • Mohamed Al Fayed
      Police investigate 40 new allegations against Mohamed Al Fayed and others

    • GDP
      UK economy returns to growth in boost to Rachel Reeves before budget

    • Novichok poisonings
      Justice ‘highly unlikely’ over Salisbury novichok attack, says Theresa May

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  • French prime minister Michel Barnier

    France
    French government faces first major test over deep budget cuts

  • Toshiyuki Mimaki standing on a pavement

    Nobel peace prize
    Nobel peace prize awarded to Japanese atomic bomb survivors’ group

    • Business
      Tesla’s value drops $60bn after investors fail to hail self-driving ‘Cybercab’

    • EU
      EU unable to retrieve €150m paid to Tunisia despite links to rights violations

    • Boeing
      US oversight of Boeing airplane production inadequate, watchdog says

    • Caribbean
      Violent protests at Martinique airport strand hundreds of passengers

    • Spain
      DNA study confirms Christopher Columbus’s remains are entombed in Seville

    • Italy
      Italian migration centres open in Albania under controversial deal

Culture

  • Making a rukus! at Somerset House

    Art
    Making a rukus! review – rousing and emotional celebration of Black LGBTQ+ culture

    The rukus! Federation opens up its archives for an exhibition brimming with joy, sadness… and an incredible amount of sex
  • Vince McMahon (left) with Hulk Hogan.

    The Guide
    Mr McMahon and the trouble with celebrity documentaries in the age of streaming

  • Crowds gather at Kyobo Book Centre in Seoul to purchase Han Kang's Nobel-winning novels.

    Books
    Han Kang’s books sell out as South Korea celebrates her Nobel prize in literature

  • Michael Patrick as Richard III

    Stage
    ‘It’s a tragedy because everyone dies – not because he’s disabled’: the creatives casting Richard III in a new light

  • Jeff Goldblum as Zeus in Kaos

    Television
    Kaos creator ‘gutted’ at Netflix show’s cancellation

  • Taylor Swift, Chappell Roan and Halsey.

    Music
    ‘It’s like, wow. I was really deranged’: stars and repentant stans on the terror of toxic fandom

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    Fashion
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    Children
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  • Books by South Korean writer Han Kang are displayed in the Swedish Academy after she was named the 2024 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature in Stockholm, Sweden.

    Books
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  • People looking at a car in flood water in Grendon, Northamptonshire.

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  • A woman holds her crying baby and kisses it on the forehead

    US
    No water, power or formula: moms struggle to feed babies after Hurricane Helene

    The storm has created a crisis within a crisis for families in North Carolina who need safe infant food – but some areas may not properly recover for months
  • A map of Cochise county and a photo of a middle-aged woman.

    US
    Trial of Arizona officials who refused to certify 2022 election delayed until next year

  • A composite of MEPs singing Bella Ciao next to an image of the speaker, Roberta Metsola

    European Union
    Bella Ciao: a brief history of the resistance anthem sung to Viktor Orbán

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    Bolivia
    ‘Many are obliged to sleep with the foreman’: Bolivia’s female builders square up to an abusive system

  • Border Crossings Fall From Record Highs But Remains Potent Issue In Presidential Election<br>RUBY, ARIZONA - JUNE 24: Migrants seeking asylum from Central and South America ride in the back of a border patrol vehicle after being apprehended by U.S. Customs and Border protection officers after illegally crossing over into the U.S. on June 24, 2024 in Ruby, Arizona. President Joe Biden has announced an immigration relief plan, which promises a path to citizenship for approximately 500,000 undocumented immigrants married to or adopted by U.S. citizens. Day's after Biden's announcement, Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump announced to a podcast host that he would solidify green cards for foreign nationals who've received a U.S. college diploma. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

    Anywhere but Washington
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  • Two fishers work on a wooden boat off the coast of Mombasa, Kenya.

    Environment
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