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  • Palestinians walk past the rubble of buildings destroyed during the Israeli military offensive in Khan Younis, southern Gaza in July 2024

    Israel-Gaza war
    Clearing Gaza of almost 40m tonnes of war rubble will take years, says UN

  • Shannen Doherty in 2019.

    TV
    Shannen Doherty, Beverly Hills 90210 star, dies at 53

    • Africa
      Paul Kagame expected to be re-elected president as Rwanda goes to polls

    • Euro 2024
      Mikel Oyarzabal’s late winner for Spain crushes England’s dream

    • Gun violence
      Alabama shootings leave seven people dead including child, police say

    • Extreme heat
      Record-breaking heatwave shifts east as millions of Americans under heat alert

    • Wimbledon 2024
      Carlos Alcaraz blows past Novak Djokovic to retain Wimbledon title

    • Technology
      US financial watchdog urged to investigate NDAs at OpenAI

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  • ‘I got a call from Webster’s saying, we put your name in the dictionary, and it means outstanding, unbelievable’ … Beamon in South Carolina.

    Fascinating Olympians
    Abused, expelled, orphaned at eight months: how athlete Bob Beamon beat the odds – and became a legend

    In 1968, in one of the top five Olympic moments of the last century, the long jumper made a leap so jaw-dropping it inspired the superlative Beamonesque. He discusses pride, pressure and the politics of that momentous Summer Games
  • Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by US Secret Service agents at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.

    Pennsylvania rally shooting
    ‘The job is all about anticipation’: behind the lens of the defining photo of the Trump rally shooting

  • Woman in a hijab trying to feed three tiny babies with bottles in a tent.

    Global development
    Living in a tent with premature triplets: how fear and anxiety haunt Gaza’s new mothers

    Some women in Gaza have spent the duration of the war pregnant, but the constant bombing, death and chaos have cast a shadow over what should be a time of joy
  • Recycle and reuse … the Georges Vallerey pool, to be used for swimming training, has been fitted with a new retractable timber roof.

    Architecture
    Plastic-bottle seats and wooden pools: can Paris deliver the leanest, greenest Olympics yet?

    Oliver Wainwright
    The Paris Olympics vowed to build as little as possible, using the city’s landmarks as a backdrop instead. Has it worked? We check out the bold new venues, upgraded old ones – and the athletes’ candy-coloured village
    • The King of Spain presents the Henri Delaunay Cup to Spain after their victory in Berlin.

      Euro 2024
      Spain’s new generation match golden forefathers and make own history

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      Film
      Shannen Doherty – a life in pictures

    • Asha Puthli posing for a portrait in a pink patterned dress

      Music
      ‘I sexed it up’: 1970s disco queen Asha Puthli on Warhol, Dali and influencing Donna Summer

    • Happy smiley face helium yellow balloons for happiness feature in Observer New Review

      Business
      Why are 91% of small business owners so darned happy?

  • Trump, wearing a suit and a red Maga cap, walks up a red carpet flanked by security guards, past supporters, with a marquee and US flags in the background

    The Trump shooting is a reminder: we live in a grim new era of political violence

    Moira Donegan
  • The Green party leader Marine Tondelier at a protest against the National Rally last month

    Raging, radical and ready for change: France’s angry green women are an inspiration to us all

    Emma Beddington
    From Marine Tondelier to Mélanie Vogel, they are whip-smart, articulate and unafraid to show emotion. It’s astonishing to feel so inspired by politicians, writes Emma Beddington
    • Warren Buffet, pictured in 2006, speaks to a press conference.

      The rich were led to believe they were different. Those days are numbered

      Will Hutton
    • Happy in rain<br>Little girl with umbrella in autumn

      What is it about weather apps that has us all – including Queen Camilla – so obsessed?

      Coco Khan
    • Callum Bains

      I couldn’t put a boring book down. Now I take pleasure in saying enough is enough

      Callum Bains
    • Keir Starmer, centre, surrounded by Labour MPs, at Church House in Westminster.

      Why Labour wants to hang the Tory legacy around the Conservatives’ necks for years

      Andrew Rawnsley
  • Carlos Alcaraz celebrates victory against Novak Djokovic in the Wimbledon men’s singles final

    Wimbledon
    Alcaraz looks destined for seat at legends' table after defending his title

    Spaniard marches deeper into tennis history as sixth man to win French Open and Wimbledon in same year in Open era
  • Spain captain Álvaro Morata lifts the trophy
    Spain captain Álvaro Morata lifts the trophy
    Spain celebrate, England are devastated at full time
    Spain celebrate, England are devastated at full time
    Nico Williams and Mikel Oyarzabal celebrate Spain's winner
    Nico Williams and Mikel Oyarzabal celebrate Spain's winner
    Gareth Southgate reacts after the final whistle
    Gareth Southgate reacts after the final whistle
    Dani Olmo clears the ball off the line late on
    Dani Olmo clears the ball off the line late on

    Euro 2024
    Spain 2-1 England: Oyarzabal's late strike seals Euro 2024 glory

    Mikel Oyarzabal scored a late winner to earn Spain a record fourth European Championship title after Cole Palmer had given England hope
    • Travis Bazzana hit 28 home runs at Oregon State this season.

      MLB draft
      Australian Travis Bazzana selected No 1 by Cleveland Guardians

    • England’s Jude Bellingham slumps in dejection after the defeat

      England left nursing regrets again as football comes home ... to Spain

      Barney Ronay
    • Jacoby Jones was an All-Pro returner and All-Pro selection in 2012.

      Jacoby Jones
      Ex-NFL receiver who caught Mile High Miracle dies aged 40

    • Tadej Pogacar crosses the finish line to win the 15th stage of the Tour de France.

      Tour de France
      Pogacar pounces again to deflate Vingegaard in Pyrenees

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  • Flamenco dancer El Yiyo and guitarist Rafael Andújar perform at the Sala de las Musas hall in the Prado Museum in Madrid this week.

    Spain
    ‘Beat the heat’: Madrid looks to cool off with culture amid climate crisis

  • A man sitting at a desk with piles of multicoloured paper on the ground beneath.

    Environmental activism
    Artist punches holes in UN climate report six hours a day for Dutch installation

  • Jagged ambush bug

    Insects
    Climate crisis has impact on insects’ colours and sex lives, study finds

  • A Just Stop Oil activist climbs on to a gantry over the M25 on 10 November 2022.

    Environment
    Contempt, gagging and UN intervention: inside the UK’s wildest climate trial

  • Animated graphic of Trump holding a red cup and throwing a ball at a stack of blue cups.

    US elections 2024
    Top Democratic donors revolt as ‘odd and off-putting’ Joe Biden struggles post-debate

    In tony Democratic stronghold, campaign merchandise sales track same trend with Trump outselling Biden 10 to one
  • a lithium ion battery

    PFAS
    ‘Forever chemicals’ used in lithium ion batteries threaten environment, research finds

  • Man with red and white T-shirt on purple background

    Life and style
    Richard Simmons, celebrated fitness instructor, dies aged 76

  • Police recover $200,000 worth of stolen Lego sets

    Get bricks quick
    Collectible Lego sets fuel growing black market

    • Sex
      Legendary sex therapist Dr Ruth dead at age 96

    • Rust film set shooting
      Alec Baldwin trial dismissed after lawyers say evidence was withheld

    • RNC 2024
      Will the Republican convention be good for Milwaukee businesses?

    • Taylor Swift
      Singer's candid talk about body image inspires fans, US study finds

    • Extreme weather
      Houston swelters in punishing heat as 800,000 without power after Beryl

    • Oklahoma
      First victim in Tulsa race massacre mass grave identified

  • Chinese President Xi Jinping applauds at the closing session of the National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China March 11, 2024

    Asia Pacific
    China’s economy growing slower than expected as leaders meet for third plenum

    The world’s second-largest economy is grappling with a real estate debt crisis, weakening consumption, an ageing population and geopolitical tensions
  • A health worker in protective gear, carrying a large checklist, approaches a mother and baby at their door

    Global development
    War has prevented 15m children being immunised against diseases, UN warns

  • Turkey fans making the 'wolf salute' with their hands at a Euros 2024 match in Berlin.

    Germany
    German city bans ‘silent fox’ gesture in schools over similarity to far-right sign

  • Two young men wearing England football shirts with the St George's cross painted on their faces looking sad

    Euro 2024
    King Charles urges England team to ‘hold heads high’ after Euros defeat

    • Environment
      Climate plans of Australian companies would be exempt from private litigation for three years under proposal

    • Cyprus
      ‘Turkish troops fired on our hotel, the invasion had begun’: 50 years after Cyprus was torn apart

    • Environment
      First Asian elephant vaccinated in fight against deadly herpes virus

    • Australia
      Police investigating after 40-year-old man found dead in car park on Sydney’s northern beaches

    • UK
      Labour to fight 2029 election ‘like an insurgent’ as preparations begin

    • Space
      ‘Amazing’ new technology set to transform the search for alien life

Podcasts

Podcasts

  • The Great Ouse in Bedfordshire after bursting its banks earlier this year. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    Dirty waters: how the Environment Agency lost its way – podcast

  • Orlando Whitfield

    Today in Focus
    Inside the biggest art fraud in US history - podcast

  • England's Phil Foden looks dejected after Spain scored their second goal

    Football Weekly
    Heartache for England again as Spain take Euro 2024 crown – Football Daily

  • Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surround by U.S. Secret Service agents at a campaign rally, Saturday, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

    Today in Focus
    The attempted assassination of Donald Trump – Politics Weekly America

  • REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds a campaign rally in Butler

    Politics Weekly America
    Republicans elevate Trump to ‘living martyr’ status after shooting – podcast

  • US vice-president Kamala Harris speaks with President Joe Biden on a White House balcony

    Weekend
    Marina Hyde’s career advice for Joe Biden, the world’s smallest stuntman, Philippa Perry on ‘failure’, and could you forgive your childhood bully? – podcast

  • COMBO-FBL-EURO-2024-MATCH51-ESP-ENG<br>(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on July 12, 2024 shows Spain's midfielder #17 Nico Williams (L) during the UEFA Euro 2024 round of 16 football match between Spain and Georgia at the Cologne Stadium in Cologne on June 30, 2024; and England's forward #07 Bukayo Saka during the UEFA Euro 2024 Group C football match between Denmark and England at the Frankfurt Arena in Frankfurt am Main on June 20, 2024. Spain faces England during the UEFA Euro 2024 final football match at the Olympiastadion in Berlin on July 14, 2024. (Photo by Tobias SCHWARZ and Adrian DENNIS / AFP) (Photo by TOBIAS SCHWARZADRIAN DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images)

    Football Weekly
    Spain v England: who will win? And the Southgate verdict – Football Daily

  • FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2012, file photo, Shannen Doherty participates in a panel for the television show "Shannen Says" on WE tv during the AMC Networks portion of the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour in Pasadena, Calif. Doherty, the "Beverly Hills, 90210" star, has died, Saturday, July 13, 2024. She was 53. (AP Photo/Danny Moloshok, File)

    US television
    Shannen Doherty obituary

    American actor who has died aged 53, found fame playing the wholesome teen Brenda Walsh in Beverly Hills 90210
  • The cast of The Years photographed for the Observer New Review: Deborah Findlay, Anjli Mohindra, Romola Garai, Gina McKee and Harmony Rose-Bremner.

    Annie Ernaux
    ‘I wanted to read more’: five actors on bringing Ernaux’s memoir to the stage

  • Jung Yu-mi on the sofa looks over her shoulder

    Review
    Sleep – deviously twisty new parenthood-themed Korean thriller

  • The Berlin Wall, Germany - 1989<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Sipa Press / Rex Features ( 165153c ) MAN PEERING OVER THE NEWLY BUILT BERLIN WALL - AUG 1961 The Berlin Wall, Germany - 1989

    Books
    The Silence in Between by Josie Ferguson – love in a fractured city

  • Austin Duffy standing with the shoreline and sea in the background.

    Books
    Cross by Austin Duffy review – an IRA ceasefire with bloody strings attached

  • A handcuffed Brittney Griner is escorted from court near Moscow by Russian guards on 4 August 2022.

    Books
    Coming Home by Brittney Griner review – from hoop dreams to a living hell

  • Jenny Knight shot for OM

    Wellbeing
    How returning to competitive sport after 25 years taught me resilience – and the joy of new friends

    Jenny Knight, an author who was a teen world rowing champion, is rediscovering the benefits of exercise after joining a local netball team
  • cartoon of woman with black rings round her eyes

    The beauty Q&A
    Which mascara won’t give me ‘panda eyes’?

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    Ruth Westheimer obituary
    American therapist, author and broadcaster

  • man and woman with kids in fallen leaves

    Ask Philippa
    My brother’s mental illness hovers over my family life

  • A wheelchair beside a ramp at an airport

    Consumer rights
    American Airlines crew filmed my distress after wheelchair failed to arrive at Heathrow

  • A children’s birthday party. ‘Babies are so undiscerning, you could simply walk around until you found another baby’s birthday party in the park and join in.’

    There’s nothing like a big cake and local park for a stress-free child’s birthday party

    Séamas O’Reilly
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    Tell us: what advice do you wish you had known when you were younger?

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    Tell us your bridesmaid confessions

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    Sweltering temperatures
    How do you stay cool in extreme heat?

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  • Renée DiResta poses outdoors in a pink fleece with strawberries on it

    Technology
    Online manipulation expert Renée DiResta: ‘Conspiracy theories shape our politics in extremely mainstream ways’

  • A middle-aged woman sits in a tidy kitchen and show off her passport from when she was an infant.

    Chile’s stolen children
    A new effort offers hope to Pinochet-era international adoptees

  • Period colourised photograph of agricultural labourers in a field, including two sitting on a piece of horse-drawn agricultural machinery

    Agriculture
    ‘Goldmine’ collection of wheat from 100 years ago may help feed the world, scientists say

  • A young man linking arms with an elderly man and carrying his shopping

    Life and style
    Is it true that British people get nicer the farther north you go?

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  • Amanda Gearing outside an Amazon warehouse in a hi-vis jacket holding up a giant sign saying 'Better pay'

    Amazon
    ‘Let’s make history!’: Amazon staff at UK warehouse vote on union recognition

  • Actor Alec Baldwin, left, reacts as his wife Hilaria hugs him during a break in his trial for involuntary manslaughter for the 2021 fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during filming of the Western movie "Rust," Friday, July 12, 2024, at Santa Fe County District Court in Santa Fe, N.M. (Eddie Moore/The Albuquerque Journal via AP, Pool)

    ‘A botched prosecution’
    Alec Baldwin’s trial gets shock ending fit for Hollywood

    The high-stakes case, which saw the actor charged in the death of Halyna Hutchins, fell apart in a matter of hours
  • A collage of a crown and Donald trump

    ‘Rule of the lawless’
    What does the authoritarian playbook look like?

    Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a historian and professor, on the contemporary threat of authoritarianism in the US
  • Cubanos focused on a game of chess in a loud, busy outdoor market in Havana.<br>P7JEGN Cubanos focused on a game of chess in a loud, busy outdoor market in Havana.

    Cuba
    Members of the revolutionary generation feel abandoned by the society they created

  • A contractor surveys a home for structural damage

    Climate crisis
    After Hurricane Beryl’s destruction, climate scientists fear for what’s next

  • Joe Biden at the Nato summit on Thursday.

    The US politics sketch
    Gaffes, stumbles and missteps – for Biden, the cracks were showing

  • People walk down a street as a man sits on a chair at the side of the street

    Israel
    ‘Constant anxiety’: hundreds of Palestinians face eviction threat in East Jerusalem

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  • Bullet flies past trumps head

    Trump shooting
    Dramatic images capture assassination attempt

    Former US president Donald Trump is reportedly ‘fine’ after he was rushed offstage by the Secret Service after gunshots were heard during a rally in Pennsylvania. Trump has said he was hit by a bullet that pierced his ear.
  • A lesbian couple in white gowns holding bouquets over their faces

    In pictures
    Japan’s LGBTQ+ photo weddings

  • England’s Jude Bellingham looks dejected as Spain’s players celebrate at the final whistle.

    Football
    Spain reign, England pain: Euro 2024 final

  • Jude Bellingham of England acknowledges fans as the England squad arrive in Berlin ahead of the UEFA EURO 2024 final match between Spain and England

    Photos of the weekend
    Euro 2024, Trump shooting and Bastille Day

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    We Love
    Fashion fixes for the week ahead

  • A 1967 Fiat 124 with William Batchelor House, in Coventry, a 1969 Peugeot 504 with Preston Bus Station and a 1977 Rover SD1 at the Sports and Recreation Centre, Coventry.

    Autos and edifices
    Cars paired with buildings of the same vintage

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