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    US elections 2024
    Robert F Kennedy Jr suspends US presidential campaign and endorses Trump

    Independent candidate’s campaign, seen as a threat by both Harris and Trump, had been dogged by controversies
    • Jermaine Jenas at an FA Cup match earlier this year.

      BBC
      More women have made allegations against Jermaine Jenas, reports say

    • Pacific Islands Forum
      UN chief to push for more climate change action at Pacific leaders’ summit

    • Health
      High levels of fluoride in drinking water linked to lower IQ in children

    • Media
      Neglect of working class has decimated TV industry, says Carol Vorderman

    • Business
      Frasers Group seeks approval for Mike Ashley to cash in £585m in share buyback

    • Exclusive
      Royal Society facing calls to expel Elon Musk amid concerns about conduct

    • World
      Israeli security chief condemns ‘terrorism’ of militant settlers

    • UK
      Brothers jailed for being at forefront of riot outside Rotherham hotel

News in focus

  • A throng of Pro-Palestinan protesters conduct a night-time sit-in with flags and lights

    US foreign policy
    ‘Like a rollercoaster’: Palestinian-Americans clamour to be heard at Democratic convention

  • Jeremy Clarkson stands with arms wide open outside the door of the Farmer's Dog pub, as the queue looks on. A blackboard reads 'Everything we cook, serve and sell is grown or raised or produced in Great Britain – even the salt and pepper! This means we don't serve Coca Cola or ketchup #backbritishfarming'

    Oxfordshire
    ‘He’s hilarious’: Jeremy Clarkson fans flock to opening of Oxfordshire pub

    After being denied permission to open a restaurant on Diddly Squat farm, the presenter turned farmer opens doors to all-British venture
  • The Bayesian with storm cloud looming overhead

    Italy
    ‘I’ve never seen a vessel this size go down so quickly’: why did the Bayesian sink in 60 seconds?

    As all seven bodies are recovered from the yacht, including that of British tycoon Mike Lynch, Italian authorities begin to look at how the tragedy unfolded, and who is responsible

Spotlight

  • Finding a better way … Brian May: The Badgers, the Farmers and Me.

    TV
    Brian May: The Badgers, the Farmers and Me review – the Queen star could save so many animals’ lives

    May’s four-year experiment into whether badgers actually need to be culled is eye-opening stuff – but he’s so gently spoken that astonishing facts slip by almost unnoticed
  • Illustration of a woman standing alone with her arms folded.

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    My friends never want to go out any more – and it’s making me feel lonely

  • ‘You can’t time it. You’re not in control of it’ … Nina Gilligan.

    Stage
    A marathon of mirth and stress: comics with chronic health issues on completing Edinburgh fringe

    The festival’s relentless pace is demanding for performers, especially with an underlying health condition. Three acts explain how their month has gone
  • Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas in Maria.

    Film
    Maria Callas, Lady Gaga and divas of a different stripe: Peter Bradshaw’s picks of the Venice film festival

    Meaty roles for Angelina Jolie, Daniel Craig and George Clooney will feature alongside premieres of intense dramas from across the globe
    • Wunderhorse. L-R : Jamie Staples, Jacob Slater, Harry Fowler, Peter Woodin

      Pop and rock
      ‘We like it when things fall apart’: heavy rockers Wunderhorse on embracing music’s messy side

    • Abby Allen leaning over a farmyard fence and smiling

      Environment
      ‘We’ve got baby owls again’: how farming policy is helping English wildlife

    • The London & Paris, Folkestone: ‘a formula that has worked for 170 years.’ Interior shot.

      Grace Dent on restaurants
      The London & Paris, Folkestone, Kent: ‘Numerous devil-may-care twists’ – restaurant review

    • A cyclist passes planters in a low-traffic neighbourhood in London.

      Labour is right about LTNs – the Tories need to learn the same lesson

      Andrew Gilligan

Opinion

  • A plastic thumbtack in a piece of paper reading "Total electricity costs", "Total energy costs" and "Your new balance"

    I have been a Labour loyalist for 45 years, but cutting the winter fuel allowance is short-sighted folly

    George Foulkes
    While I do understand the logic of this proposal, it would have a devastating effect on hundreds of thousands of poorer pensioners
  • Martin Rowson on Labour being forced to confront the monster of inflation – cartoon

    Cartoon
    Martin Rowson on Labour being forced to confront the monster of inflation

  • Women at the front of a march wearing keffiyehs.

    It was joy, joy, joy at the DNC convention, unless you were a Palestinian woman

    Arwa Mahdawi
    Pro-Palestinian protesters at the Democratic national convention have been met with stony faces, jeers – and violence
  • Illustration of a medal podium with the words Paris 2024 on it and microphones on each step.

    Groundbreaking Paralympic coverage a reminder of sport’s power to do good

    Emma John
    Channel 4’s bold move to appoint deaf actor Rose Ayling-Ellis as a host is a timely antidote to the BBC’s over-sentimentality
    • Illustration by Thomas Pullin

      Is effective centre-left government possible? Starmer has yet to prove that – but prove it he must

      Andy Beckett
    • Girl outdoors putting a nicotine packet in her mouth. snus

      I (regrettably) tried a nicotine pouch. It made me question what I think about addiction

      Imogen West-Knights
    • Young asian traveler with backpack in the railway, Backpack and hat at the train station with a traveler, Travel concept

      I’m with Kirstie Allsopp – parents have to let go, and allow their kids to roam

      Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
    • Kamala Harris at the Democratic national convention

      Kamala Harris’s speech was the test of her political life. She passed, but there will be others – not least Gaza

      Arwa Mahdawi

Editorials & Letters

  • The cast of The Years at the Almeida Theatre.

    Editorial
    The Guardian view on theatre intervals: a moveable feast

  • Kamala Harris speaks to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago

    Editorial
    The Guardian view on Kamala Harris’s speech: the Democrats have liftoff

  • National Forest launch at the Woodland Trust event high on the mountainside above Neath in South Wales , UK<br>Blaendulais primary school pupil Georgia plants a small tree during the National Forest launch at the Woodland Trust event high on the mountainside above Neath in South Wales this morning at the newly planted Coed Cadw woodland. Re: National Forest launch at the Woodland Trust event high on the mountainside above Neath in South Wales this morning at the newly planted Coed Cadw woodland.

    Letters
    Forest schools provide nurture and nature at a child’s own pace

  • Hind Rajab was in a car with family members on 29 January 29 as they attempted to flee from approaching Israeli forces in the Tel al-Hawa area of Gaza City, but they ended up in the paths of Israeli tanks and were fired on.

    Letters
    Hind Rajab’s killing sums up the hell that Gaza has become

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Climate crisis

  • A road in China blurred by poor air.

    Environment
    Can climate stripes change the way we think about air pollution?

  • People in a dinghy with lifejackets and umbrellas

    Weather tracker
    10 dead and 34,000 displaced in north-east India floods

  • The entrance to the Koenji Hikawa shrine in Tokyo. It is Japan's only shinto shrine dedicated to the weather

    Climate crisis
    Praying to the god of sunshine and rain: visitor numbers at Japan’s only Shinto weather shrine surge

  • An aerial view of Asháninka territory in Peru.

    Environment
    Could a £2-a-day basic income be the key to protecting rainforests?

From the UK

  • Rishi Sunak and Craig Williams stand beside each other

    UK election
    Political figures who bet on election date will not face police charges, Met says

  • Deputy mayor Debbie Weekes-Bernard stands with Khaleb Brooks next to a visual representation of The Wake, outside City Hall

    London
    Cowrie shell sculpture chosen as slavery memorial for London

    • Shopping
      John Lewis begins Christmas countdown with top-10 toy forecast

    • Northern Ireland
      ‘Fierce, fearless and fiery’ Irish campaigner and writer Nell McCafferty is laid to rest

    • Business
      Royal Mail delivers less than 80% of first-class post on time

    • Politics
      UK must curb rise in racist hate speech by politicians and public figures, UN says

    • UK weather
      Storm Lilian: high winds disrupt flights and Leeds and Creamfields festivals

    • UK
      Balloons, bubbles and bright colours at funeral of girl killed in Southport attack

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  • A man wearing a navy suit and red tie (Donald Trump) looks to the side while at a political rally

    US
    Harris’s convention speech sparks live rant from outraged Trump

  • Modi and Zelenskiy shake hands

    Ukraine
    Modi tells Zelenskiy he is ready to work ‘as a friend’ to bring about peace deal

    • Gaza
      Baby in Gaza partly paralysed from polio in territory’s first case for 25 years

    • Russia
      Russian special forces free hostages taken by four men linked to Islamic State

    • Australia
      Transgender woman wins discrimination case after being banned from women-only app

    • Environment
      India should consider ban on microbeads in personal care products, researchers say

    • France
      French leftwing leaders ‘extremely satisfied’ after Macron talks

    • Business
      ‘Time has come’ for US Federal Reserve to cut interest rates, says Powell

Culture

  • Bradley Cooper wears a dinner jackedtand Lady Gaga a pink feathered meringue of a dress

    Film
    ‘Eager not to miss it’: Hollywood glitz to return to Venice film festival

    A casualty of last year’s strikes, movie event long associated with celebrity is expected to be star-studded affair once again
  • Charli XCX.

    The Guide
    Brat summer’s been fun – but it’s time for something more mature

  • Grant ‘Daddy G’ Marshall and Robert ‘3D’ Del Naja of Massive Attack

    Music
    Massive Attack castigate music industry over climate inaction: ‘We don’t need to talk. We need to act’

  • A shot from After the Silence by Christiane Jatahy, loosely based on Itamar Vieira Junior’s best-selling novel Torto Arado and the 1984 film from Eduardo Coutinho Cabramarcado para morrer.

    Stage
    After the Silence review – compelling tale of racial inequalities and slavery in Brazil

  • Standup and football presenter Chloe Petts.

    Stage
    Chloe Petts: How You See Me, How You Don’t review – a former head girl’s life lessons

  • ‘When I was a kid, I just wanted to sing on stage’ … Sabrina Carpenter.Sabrina Carpenter

    Music
    ‘I’m a tyrant!’: pop superstar Sabrina Carpenter on freakish fame, fighting Disney and writing the song of the summer

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  • What can you get for £20?

    Shopping
    The best £20 you’ll ever spend: 16 affordable essentials the experts swear by

    Which cake tin would a Bake Off contestant pick? What vest top does the Vogue editor find the most flattering? Our panel shares their best £20-or-less go-tos
  • Pidgey, the purse pigeon, outside in NYC.

    Pets
    Pigeon-fluencers help the much-hated bird make a surprising comeback

  • Swift’s Campino is unexpectedly orange for a strawberry drink.

    The good mixer
    Cocktail of the week: Swift’s campino – recipe

  • You be the judge on food

    You be the judge
    Should my sister stop eating my food when I leave it in our shared fridge?

  • Benjamina Ebuehi’s giant oat and almond cookie.

    The sweet spot
    Benjamina Ebuehi’s recipe for a giant oat and almond cookie

  • Barbi Agostini and her partner, James, standing on a bridge over a river, with the safe they found

    Experience
    We went magnet fishing and found $100,000 in a safe

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  • People queue outside the Hermes store in Mayfair in London, Monday, April 12, 2021.

    Luxury goods sector
    Are you splurging on luxury goods you can ill afford?

  • US-TRAVEL-TOURSIM-LEISURE<br>This aerial picture taken on July 11, 2024 shows Royal Caribbean's "Utopia Of The Seas," billed as the world's largest cruise ship, docked at Port Canaveral in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Photo by Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo / AFP) (Photo by MIGUEL J. RODRIGUEZ CARRILLO/AFP via Getty Images)

    Cruises
    Millennials: have you recently taken a cruise for the first time?

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    Life and style
    Tell us about the small things that have helped you get your act together

  • Violent attacks against women on British railways<br>Undated file photo of a British Transport Police officer. Violent attacks against women on British railways have more than doubled since 2021, as per new data published by The Times. The number of crimes against women and girls rose from 7,561 in 2021 to 11,357 in 2023, and the number of sexual offences jumped 10 per cent, the newspaper reported. Sexual harassment reports also doubled over the last two years, rising to 1,908. Issue date: Wednesday August 14, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story TRANSPORT Harassment. Photo credit should read: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

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  • Steel framing inside the tunnel before casting the cement.

    World
    Like ‘using Lego blocks’: record-breaking tunnel connecting Denmark and Germany takes shape

    Tunnel being built with innovative engineering is final step of project to connect Denmark – and the Nordics as a whole – to the rest of Europe
  • Aerial view of intensive pig factory farm

    Europe
    ‘I am always tired’: life in the long shadow of factory farming in Europe

  • Tourists in North Korea. The country is set to allow the resumption of travel.

    Travel
    North Korea is reopening to tourists after almost five years, but will anyone go?

  • Sami al-Nader holding green bell-shaped glass objects in his factory

    West Bank
    ‘No one has any money’: Israel’s restrictions stifle West Bank economy

  • Kamala Harris takes the stage to make her acceptance speech

    Analysis
    Kamala Harris makes forceful Democratic convention speech – and skewers the menace from Mar-a-Lago

  • The influencer Deja Foxx spoke on the convention floor this week.

    DNC 2024
    ‘Hottie’ Dems and Chappell Roan stans: meet the 200 TikTokers who scored access to the convention

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    Ukraine’s offensive in Russia, Israeli bombardment in Gaza, the Democratic National Convention and wildfires in Turkey: the last seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists
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  • Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris arrives to speak on the final day of the Democratic National Convention

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  • A pair of bonnet macaques check themselves out in the side mirror of a motor-scooter in Chandigarh, India

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