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  • Simone Biles does an elegant somersault on the beam at the start of her Olympic comeback.

    Gymnastics
    Biles battles through pain on spectacular return

    Dazzling comeback despite worry of calf injury as Tom Cruise and Ariana Grande join celebrities in crowd
    • The writer Edna O’Brien

      Literature
      Irish author Edna O’Brien dies aged 93

    • Venezuela
      Venezuela on a knife-edge as polls close in election which could end socialist rule

    • Unesco
      Ancient Roman Appian Way becomes Italy’s 60th Unesco world heritage site

    • Formula one
      George Russell’s Belgian F1 GP disqualification hands Lewis Hamilton victory

    • Australia
      Ruqia was murdered by the man she was forced to wed. Her mother has now been jailed over the marriage

    • Environment
      Number of plastic bags found on UK beaches down 80% since charge introduced

    • Television
      Janet Andrewartha, Australian actor in Neighbours and Prisoner, dies aged 72

    • Film
      Deadpool & Wolverine shatters record for R-rated movies

Europe in focus

  • The Shkval special battalion takes part in military exercises in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine

    Ukraine war briefing
    Russia claims capture of two villages in Donetsk as army advances towards Pokrovsk

  • The 2023 Outline festival.

    ‘Normalising war’
    Western DJs under scrutiny for playing at Russian techno events

    Ukrainian activists say summer music festivals give a false idea that life continues as normal, despite the conflict
  • Beach volleyball in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower in Paris

    Olympics
    Roadtesting the Olympics: ‘You think you know this city? You don’t’

    Using Paris landmarks as Games venues is inspired but security is so tight that visitors need deep reserves of patience

Spotlight

  • Maori Illustration

    New Zealand
    ‘Dangerous’ and ‘retrograde’: Māori leaders sound alarm over policy shifts in New Zealand

    Experts say policy changes that include scrapping Māori-led programs will harm communities and put New Zealand’s ‘great reputation’ at risk
  • Wang Chuqin and Sun Ying of China (in red) in action against Chen Szu-yu and Lin Yun-ju.

    Sport
    Ping-pong the latest vehicle for China’s continuing face-off with Taiwan

  • Max Ernst: The Fireside Angel (The Triumph of Surrealism)

    Art
    Touring exhibition opening in Paris will celebrate global spread of surrealism

    Pompidou Centre show will proceed to Madrid, Hamburg and Philadelphia, changing along the way
  • Sarah Aarons takes Phil Daoust through a basic squat.

    Fit for ever
    Get fit in two minutes! 17 micro-workouts that will change your life – even if you’re stuck in the office

    No time for a run or a trip to the gym? Exercise ‘snacks’ are the answer. All you need is some stairs, a wall and 120 seconds away from your desk or sofa
    • A scene from the 1974 sexploitation comedy Can You Keep It Up For A Week?

      TV review
      Saucy! Secrets of the British Sex Comedy review – a cheeky look at cinema’s wild sexploitation craze

    • Rock musician and actor Steven Van Zandt

      TV review
      Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple review – seeing Springsteen’s sidekick take on apartheid is an air-punch moment

    • Old City of Dubrovnik elevated view<br>View of Dubrovnik including Old City and nearby beach

      Travel
      Rediscovering Dubrovnik: the pearl of the Adriatic

    • Clockwise from top left: Noel and Liam Gallagher of Oasis, Lauryn Hill of the Fugees, Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta in Grease, DJ Jazzy Jeff (right) and the Fresh Prince (AKA Jeffrey A Townes and Will Smith).

      Music
      CDs sales are growing. How I wish I hadn’t given my beloved collection away

Paris Olympic Games 2024

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    1 Japan 4 2 1 7
    2 Australia 4 2 0 6
    3 United States 3 6 3 12
    4 France 3 3 2 8
    5 Republic of Korea 3 2 1 6
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    Opinion

    • Evan Vucci’s photograph of Donald Trump after the failed assassination attempt on the presidential candidate at a rally in Pennsylvania.

      A spoof after the Trump assassination attempt shows the eye to hazard needed on heavy news days

      Elisabeth Ribbans
      Newsrooms would have been frenetic after the events in Pennsylvania – and in our case, a wrong picture of the shooter was published, says the Guardian readers’ editor
    • Cutouts of Lachlan and Rupert Murdoch against a background of newspapers.

      Rupert Murdoch’s secret succession drama is a warning to rein in the super-rich

      Will Hutton
    • FILES-FRANCE-US-THEATRE-FESTIVAL-AVIGNON-RACISM<br>(FILES) American novelist, writer, playwright, poet, essayist and civil rights activist James Baldwin poses at his home in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, southern France, on November 6, 1979. This historic debate on racism in the United States has been seen millions of times on YouTube: "Baldwin contre Buckley", held in 1965 and reinterpreted at the Festival d'Avignon by an American company, is still very topical. (Photo by RALPH GATTI / AFP) (Photo by RALPH GATTI/AFP via Getty Images)

      James Baldwin taught us that identities can help us to locate ourselves. But they trap us too

      Kenan Malik
    • A woman at a desk with her hands over a face, hunched over her computer in a dark, otherwise unoccupied office.

      We were promised a 15-hour working week. What’s the hold-up?

      Emma Beddington
    • Rachel Reeves poses outside the door to 11 Downing Street.

      The Observer Editorial
      Sticking to fiscal rule will imperil Labour’s future

    • Illustration: R Fresson

      Men are spending more time looking after their children – and it’s not just cultural, it’s in their genes

      Jonathan Kennedy

    Sport

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    Climate crisis

    • A Brazilian woman with charred field

      ‘Morally, nobody’s against it’
      Brazil’s radical plan to tax global super-rich to tackle climate crisis

    • Beautiful autumn colours over the rolling countryside of Dartmoor National Park

      UK
      Prince William could overturn king’s windfarm ban as he orders renewable energy review for estate

    • Fish and colourful coral on the Scott Reef in north-western Australia

      Australia
      North-west reefs teem with life – but they are also at the centre of a massive fossil fuel expansion

    • The sky is orange as a firefighter works to contain the wildfire with a hose

      Wildfires
      'Catastrophic’ start to season in Oregon sparks alarm

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    Around the world

    • Thousands of Venezuelans wait Edmundo Gonzalez to arrive at the closing campaign rally in Las Mercedes, eastern Caracas, Venezuela, on 25 July 2024.

      Venezuela
      Venezuela votes in election that could end 25 years of socialist rule

      Edmundo González Urrutia could upset Nicolás Maduro’s run for a third term – but several obstacles can prevent a regime change
    • Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers the official endorsement letter to president-elect Masoud Pezeshikan

      Iran
      Iran’s new president rekindles faint hopes of rapprochement with west

    • Kemi Badenoch

      UK
      Kemi Badenoch latest MP to enter race to lead Tory party

    • person wearing yellow shirt and red hat and carrying black backpack looks at flames in front

      Wildfires
      Firefighters battle California’s seventh largest wildfire on record

      • Health
        Widely advertised hormone test unreliable as fertility prediction tool for women, researchers say

      • UK
        Man graduates 41 years after being denied ceremony by parrot problem

      • Channel crossings
        One dead and dozens rescued in latest attempt to cross Channel

      • Brexit
        UK port operators to seek compensation if post-Brexit trade barriers lowered

      • PFAS
        Some condom and lubricant brands contain alarming levels of PFAS – study

      • Vladimir Putin
        Putin warns US against deploying long-range missiles in Germany

    Culture

    • A woman in a shiny jacket takes a picture with her mobile phone of comedian Sikisa Bostwick-Barnes, with long braided hair and in a jacket, jeans and backpack, pointing at the poster "Sikisa: Life of the party" and grinning

      Edinburgh festival 2024
      ‘They’re dumb – but I want to win’: comedians tell of the highs and lows of the fringe awards

      Awards generate a buzz and are motivating but the pressure to be nominated and the disappointment are intense
    • Martin Phillips of the Chills, who has died aged 61.

      The Chills’ Martin Phillipps leaves a legacy of melancholy brilliance

      Andrew Stafford
    • Josh Hartnett sitting barefoot on a fur rug

      Film
      ‘I didn’t want to be swallowed up’: actor Josh Hartnett on swapping Hollywood for Hampshire

    • Kelley Heyer inventor of the Apple Dance

      Music
      I invented the Apple dance! The woman behind Brat summer’s viral choreography

    • Hill Street Blues - Season 2<br>HILL STREET BLUES -- "The Spy Who Came in from Delgado" Episode 210 -- Pictured: James B. Sikking as Lt. Howard Hunter -- (Photo by: NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images)

      Television
      Obituary: actor James B Sikking

    • Jeremy O Harris, Olivia Washington and Kit Harington

      Stage
      Games of Thrones actor defends ‘black out’ theatre nights

    Lifestyle

    • Wellbeing Ranking Friends WEB

      Friendship
      Ever thought of ranking your friends in silly, random categories?

      It may sound childish and potentially dangerous, but actually it’s a novel way of really getting to know each other
    • Furry tales: attendees at the Midwest FurFest gather for a group photo in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont, Illinois.

      Furries
      ‘Why are people always pointing the finger at furries?’: inside the wild world of the furry fandom

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    • Commuter chaos at Montarpanasse station in Paris, following a series of suspected co-ordinated arson attacks on the high-speed national rail network and ensuing widespread train cancellations.

      Paris Olympic Games 2024
      Tell us: have you been affected by travel disruption ahead of the Paris Olympics?

    • TOPSHOT-SPAIN-TOURISM-DEMO<br>TOPSHOT - People hold a placard which reads as "Tourism yes, but not like this" during a demonstration to protest against overtourism and housing prices on the island of Mallorca in Palma de Mallorca on July 21, 2024. (Photo by JAIME REINA / AFP) (Photo by JAIME REINA/AFP via Getty Images)

      Europe
      Share what it’s like to live in a European tourist hotspot

    • Heatwave in Italy<br>epa10751450 A thermometer outside a pharmacy displays '42 degrees Celsius' in Rome, Italy, 17 July 2023. Southern Europe is experiencing a major heat wave this week with temperatures expected to climb up to 48 Celsius degrees on the islands of Sicily and Sardinia. Italy's health ministry sent on 17 July a circular letter to the country's regional governments with a series of recommendations to manage the impact of the intense heat wave the country is enduring. These recommendations include setting up a 'heat code' at emergency rooms with special, priority procedures for people suffering heat-related health issues. EPA/MASSIMO PERCOSSI

      Climate crisis
      How are you being affected by the heatwave in southern Europe?

    • Banks, airlines and media outlets hit by global outage linked to Windows PCs.

      Technology
      Tell us: how have you been affected by the outage linked to Windows PCs?

    From our global editions

    • Luke Turner sitting at a kitchen table with a vase of flowers

      IVF
      ‘I felt as if my sperm had let me down’: one man’s IVF journey

      Male infertility is at an all-time high, but undergoing fertility treatment proved an ‘intensely lonely’ process
    • Illustration of a man handing sunglasses to a woman.

      ‘Armageddon election’
      Voters to choose between two starkly different candidates in US

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      We had an ordinary marriage. Then I found out my husband had been viewing images of child abuse

    • Israeli army reservists Yuval Green, Tal Vardi and Michael Ofer Ziv have revealed their reasons for not returning to military service in Gaza.

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      ‘I can’t justify this military operation any more’: the IDF reservists refusing to return to Gaza

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      Why Spain wants tourists to go home

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      Bullied, belittled but indisputably brilliant: how Victoria Pendleton became a cycling legend; and what’s missing from Twisters? – podcast

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      The weekend in pictures
      Olympic celebs, midnight dips and Comic-Con

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      The big picture
      Precarious lives and playfulness in a London square

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      Fashion
      Easy breezy: pretty broderie anglaise for summer cool

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      India
      Up on the roof: the homespun art of rural Punjab – in pictures

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