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  • 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
    • A group of supporters of Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro outside a polling station during the country's presidential election, in Caracas.

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

    • Wildfires
      Firefighters battle California’s seventh largest wildfire on record

    • Donald Trump
      Swat team says it had no contact with Secret Service before Trump rally shooting

    • Literature
      Irish author Edna O’Brien dies aged 93

    • Ukraine war briefing
      Russia claims capture of two villages in Donetsk

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

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

    • Gymnastics
      Biles battles through pain on spectacular Olympic return with top score in qualifying

News in focus

  • Two men smoke shisha (water pipe), with people and umbrellas blurred in the background, during a sunny day on Ramlet Al Baida beach in Beirut, Lebanon

    Lebanon
    Tensions high but beaches full as Lebanon readies for war

  • A turbo-prop aircraft floodlit behind a high fence, while two figures in the foreground, hidden in darkness, observe.

    Drugs trade
    ‘Nada cambia’: Mexican drugs lord ‘El Mayo’ has been captured, but does targeting kingpins work?

    Ismael Zambada García, architect of the powerful Sinaloa narco-syndicate was arrested last week. A writer who has closely followed Mexico’s crime organisations traces his deadly career
  • A Brazilian woman with charred field

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

    A 2% global levy would affect about 100 super-rich families, says the country’s climate chief, but the $250bn raised could be transformative

Spotlight

  • 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

    Military tension simmers between the entities but a mixed doubles match in Paris still managed to turn into a minor classic
  • Max Ernst: The Fireside Angel (The Triumph of Surrealism)

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

  • A scene from the 1974 sexploitation comedy Can You Keep It Up For A Week?

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

    From ooh-er-missus innuendo to innocent workmen being ravished by lusty housewives, this look at the phenomenon of the saucy films of the 60s and 70s is truly eye-opening
  • 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
    • Rock musician and actor Steven Van Zandt

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

    • Illustration of a man handing sunglasses to a woman.

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

    • 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

    • 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

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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's 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Women holding 'Kamala Harris for president' placards.

      Editorial
      The Observer view: Kamala Harris has risen above doubters, now she must stay on high ground

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

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

      Wildfires
      'Catastrophic’ start to season in Oregon sparks alarm

    • A woman sitting on a bench among trees in autumn

      Language
      What is ‘nature’? Dictionaries urged to include humans in definition

    Around the world

    • Kemi Badenoch

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

    • A young man using his smartphone to gamble

      Australia
      Online gambling in Australia has ‘exponentially increased’, new report warns

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

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

      • China
        Professor sacked over abuse claims in rare win for country’s #MeToo movement

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

      • Netherlands
        Dutch child rapist greeted with boos – and applause – before Olympics loss

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

    Culture

    • 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

      Compact discs provided the soundtrack to his life. Then came streaming and he couldn’t get rid of them fast enough. As CDs enjoy a renaissance, our writer looks back at what he lost
    • Robert Downey Jr onstage during the Marvel panel at Comic-Con in San Diego

      Film
      Robert Downey Jr returns to Marvel as Doctor Doom

    • Martin Phillipps performing with the Chills at the Melkweg in Amsterdam, in April 1989

      Music
      Martin Phillipps, founder of New Zealand rock band the Chills, dies at 61

    • 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

    • 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

    • Kelley Heyer inventor of the Apple Dance

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

    Lifestyle

    • 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

      A joyful and inclusive subculture where people express their true selves or an example of unchecked wokery? The furry fandom has always been a polarising lightning rod for extreme opinions
    • Vogue World: Paris 2024 – Arrivals<br>PARIS, FRANCE - JUNE 23: Maria Sharapova attends Vogue World: Paris 2024 at the Place Vendome on June 23, 2024 in Paris. (Photo by Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)

      Sunday with Maria Sharapova
      If I need gardening help, my mother takes over

    Take part

    • 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

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

    • sun shines down on silhouette of person drinking from water bottle

      People in the US
      How do you stay cool in extreme heat?

    • 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?

    • Closeup of eye with makeup<br>Closeup image of beautiful woman eye with fashion makeup. Makeup with eyeliner. Cosmetic Eyeshadow.

      Life and style
      Have you experienced so-called ‘eyebrow blindness’?

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    From our global editions

    • The 2023 Outline festival.

      Russia
      Western DJs accused of ‘normalising war’ for playing at Russian techno events

    • Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

      ‘She is one of our heroines’
      Reviled, now revered, Winnie Mandela wins over young South Africa

    • Nadia Mohd-Radzman, with glasses and in a headscarf and cotton jacket, stands in front of vegetable market stalls holding a bunch of broad beans and grinning

      Science
      Broad beans could be the cure to Britain’s blues, says Cambridge research scientist

    • woman in white suit walks in front of men wearing suits

      Kamala Harris
      Vice-president makes history as whirlwind week upends election

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

    • Illustration of a woman and man stood on a laptop with the man looking at the screen and the woman with her head in her hands

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

    • Pile of red, white and blue Kamala Harris pins.

      ‘I’m rocking with Kamala’
      Black men defy faulty polling to show up for Harris campaign

    • Shafts of light surround the Eiffel Tower during the Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony.

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

    • Conor Niland after losing to Adrian Mannarino at Wimbledon 2011. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images

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      ‘I’m good, I promise’: the loneliness of the low-ranking tennis player – podcast

    • AP Photo/. Tony GutierrezVice President Kamala Harris speaks during the American Federation of Teachers' 88th national convention

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      Can Strictly survive its biggest scandal? – podcast

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    • Harrison Ford pulling a monster-like face

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

      The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
    • A young girl and a man doing handstands against a wall

      The big picture
      Precarious lives and playfulness in a London square

    • Female model wearing a off-white broderie anglaise midi-length dress in front of the sea.

      Fashion
      Easy breezy: pretty broderie anglaise for summer cool

    • Uppal Bhupa Village, Jalandhar District, Punjab, 2015

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

    • Asha Puthli, singer, songwriter.

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    • A black and white photograph of people playing on the sand and in the sea

      ‘A day at the beach is such a universal pastime’
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