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    Organ donation
    White women added to NHS eligibility list to donate stem cells

  • Harry Maguire’s injury-time header earns Manchester United a point in Porto.

    Football
    Harry Maguire rescues point for 10-man Manchester United after Porto pain

    • Assisted dying
      MPs to get historic vote on England and Wales assisted dying bill

    • Ultra-processed foods
      UK toddlers get nearly half their calories from ultra-processed food, study finds

    • Bruce Springsteen
      Bruce Springsteen endorses Kamala Harris for president while criticising ‘dangerous’ Trump

    • US elections 2024
      Liz Cheney campaigns with Harris and urges voters to reject Trump’s ‘cruelty’

    • France
      France’s 31-year treasure hunt for a buried owl statue finally ends

    • Society
      Woman who lay dead in flat for three years wrote she was ‘starving’ in diary

News in focus

  • Frodsham wind farm and Rocksavage gas-fired power station near Runcorn, Cheshire.

    Today, with our £22bn pledge for carbon capture, Labour’s green revolution for Britain begins

    Rachel Reeves
  • Hideko Hakamada (C) holds a banner reading "innocent man, not guilty verdict" to support her brother Iwao Hakamada, as she arrives to the Shizuoka District Court on September 26, 2024. The world's longest-serving death row prisoner was freed last month after nearly 50 years on death row.

    Japan
    After freeing a man who spent half a century on death row, will Japan keep using the death penalty?

    Police fabricated key evidence that led to the conviction of Iwao Hakamada in 1968, but capital punishment still has popular support
  • Deveca Rose court case<br>Undated family handout photo issued by the Metropolitan Police of two sets of twins, Kyson and Bryson Hoath, aged four (left), and Leyton and Logan Hoath, aged three (right), who died in a fire after being left home alone. Their mother, Deveca Rose has been found guilty at the Old Bailey over the deaths of her four young boys in a fire after she left them home alone to go to Sainsbury's. 30-year-old Rose had left her two sets of twins in the locked terraced house when the fatal blaze broke out on the evening of December 16 2021. Issue date: Thursday October 3, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story COURTS Sutton. Photo credit should read: Family Handout/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

    London
    The missed chances that led to four small boys dying in a Sutton house fire

    Deveca Rose’s two sets of twins were seen as well brought up yet their mother, who has been convicted of manslaughter, struggled with her mental health

Spotlight

  • Boy George and Leigh Bowery at the Limelight Club in London.

    Fashion
    Dressing for the dancefloor: creative explosion behind 80s’ most colourful club

    Fashion Museum exhibition charts how shortlived Taboo and its founder, Leigh Bowery, inspired decade’s fashion
  • Boris Johnson walking away from a lectern

    Book review
    Unleashed by Boris Johnson review – memoirs of a clown

  • David Gilmour photographed in London 2024

    The reader interview
    David Gilmour: ‘The rich and powerful have siphoned off the majority of music industry money’

    As he tours new album Luck and Strange, the Pink Floyd guitarist answers your questions on spirituality, Kate Bush – and reconciliation with Roger Waters
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    Red, white or yellow? What your tongue says about your health

    The shape, color and texture of your tongue can offer valuable insights into your wellbeing, experts say
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      Baby names
      ‘The truth is that I’m named after a Baywatch character’: readers on their unusual names

    • Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick, James Cleverly and Tom Tugendhat stand on a stage

      Politics
      ‘The night of the living dead’: denial-fuelled Tory conference ends without direction

    • Three people cheer and raise their clasped hands over their heads with banners and balloons in the background

      Analysis
      How remigration became a buzzword for global far right

    • Draught beer or daft beer? … Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson, Shelley Long, John Ratzenberger and George Wendt in Cheers

      Television
      Not just desperate but cruel! Making a British Cheers is the stupidest TV idea yet

Opinion

  • Closeup of a woman with long hair looking off to the side

    Does Melania Trump really think her pro-choice messaging will fool us?

    Moira Donegan
    It could be that she is being sincere, but that does not mean her choice to make them now is not cynical
  • A Dignity in Dying protest at Old Palace Yard, London in 2015.

    Too many people have been condemned to die in misery and pain. My assisted dying bill can change that

    Kim Leadbeater
  • Ben Jennings on Joe Biden being dragged into war by Benjamin Netanyahu – cartoon

    Cartoon
    Ben Jennings on Joe Biden being dragged into war by Benjamin Netanyahu

    The US president has warned Israel’s PM against bombing Iran’s nuclear sites, while continuing to supply him with weapons
  • Owen Jones

    What atrocity would Israel have to commit for our leaders to break their silence?

    Owen Jones
    • UK primary school children playing in the playground<br>M44RB1 UK primary school children playing in the playground

      Time is ticking for Labour to scrap the two-child limit – and then make Britain a welcoming place for children again

      Polly Toynbee
    • Phoebe Plumber and Anna Holland after throwing soup at Vincent Van Gogh's Sunflowers at the National Gallery in London on 14 October 2022.

      Van Gogh is turning in his grave at the harsh Just Stop Oil sentence. I know, because I spoke to him

      Nadya Tolokonnikova
    • Nils Pratley

      Tesco is unbeatable when it concentrates on the day job

      Nils Pratley
    • Conservative leadership candidates during the party conference in Birmingham, 2 October.

      The Tories are deluded to think they’ll be back in power in 2029. Here are three economic reasons why

      Larry Elliott

Editorials & Letters

  • Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England, gestures as he addresses the media during a press conference in London.

    Editorial
    The Guardian view on Andrew Bailey’s aggression: whatever traders think is true becomes fact

  • The Central Family Court/The Court of Protection in London

    Editorial
    The Guardian view on the family courts: the first principle must be safety

  • Conservative party leadership candidates, from left: Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick, James Cleverly and Tom Tugendhat at the party’s conference in Birmingham this week.

    Letters
    Fibs and failures in the Tory party and beyond

  • Protesters carrying signs rally against Drax power station.

    Letters
    Despite the end of coal-fired power, the UK’s green energy future is still unclear

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    The alternatives
    ‘Because secondhand is feckin’ grand’: how clothes swapping became huge in Ireland

  • Susana Muhamad Rozo 001 in Bogota, Colombia, June 2022

    Environment
    How the ‘Frida Kahlo of environmental geopolitics’ is lighting a fire under big oil

  • Firefighters battling a wildfire in Corinthia, Greece, in October.

    Greenhouse gas emissions
    Wildfires are burning through humanity’s carbon budget, study shows

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    Deforestation
    Former EU environment chief hits out at plans to delay anti-deforestation law

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    Female genital mutilation
    Man who sent girl to Iraq for FGM jailed in legal first for England and Wales

    Former PhD student given four-year ‘deterrent sentence’ for conspiring to commit FGM and forced marriage
  • USAF B-1 Bombers at the air base on Diego Garcia.

    Chagos Islands
    Britain to return Chagos Islands to Mauritius ending years of dispute

  • Boris Johnson sitting in front of a microphone

    General election
    Boris Johnson insists he would have won July election in new book

  • Deveca Rose wearing a hoodie with a scarf covering the lower part of her face

    UK
    Woman found guilty over deaths of four home-alone sons in fire

    • Chris Kaba
      Met officer gave ‘false’ account to justify fatally shooting unarmed man, jury told

    • Race
      All-black airline crew to fly from UK to mark Black History Month

    • Education
      Private London college taught students by showing videos, investigation reveals

    • Northern Ireland
      Stranded cruise ship finally leaves Belfast for round-the-world voyage

    • UK
      Man, 35, arrested after suspected acid attack outside west London school

    • Lucy Letby
      Lucy Letby: hospital chiefs ‘refused to call police amid concern of media spotlight’

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  • Lebanese ambulances

    Lebanon
    Lebanese healthcare workers fearful as growing numbers killed in strikes

  • Men hold up signs

    US
    US dock workers agree on deal with port operators to end strike

    • Science
      Asteroid that eradicated dinosaurs not a one-off, say scientists

    • Islamic State
      Yazidi woman kidnapped by IS freed from Gaza after decade in captivity

    • Elon Musk
      Musk’s millions in rightwing gifts began earlier than previously known – report

    • US
      ‘No room for compromise’: Melania Trump reiterates abortion rights support

    • Analysis
      Chagos Islanders have fought a long and determined campaign for right to return

    • Abortion
      Pro-choice Catholics protest at Vatican after abortion left off summit agenda

Culture

  • This image released by Searchlight Pictures shows Sarah Paulson in a scene from "Hold Your Breath." (Searchlight Pictures via AP)

    Film review
    Hold Your Breath review – Sarah Paulson gets lost in scattered horror

    A 1930s-set thriller, about a family battling mysterious dust storms and a possible intruder, is impressively made and acted but falls apart by the end
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    Games
    Otters in hats and magical staffs: all you need to know about Throne and Liberty, Amazon’s new free fantasy game

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    A live-action version of Rugrats with CGI babies sounds nightmarish… and kind of interesting

    Stuart Heritage
  • Emily (Lily Collins) with Sylvie Grateau (Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu) in Emily in Paris

    Television
    ‘She speaks her mind’: why stylish, steely Sylvie Grateau is the real star of Emily in Paris

  • Caribou, AKA Dan Snaith.

    Album of the week
    Caribou: Honey review – this AI-aided album is dubious on so many levels

  • Swallowed … Meera Syal (Queenie) in A Tupperware of Ashes at the Dorfman theatre.

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    A Tupperware of Ashes review – wrenching drama of a family hit by Alzheimer’s

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    Leading questions
    ‘My teenage children are bright but unmotivated. How much should I get involved with their school work?’

    It’s important to consider why school matters to them, writes advice columnistEleanor Gordon-Smith– but it might be more valuable to help them develop their sense of self
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    ‘Gamechanger’ HIV prevention drug to be made available cheaply in 120 countries

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