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    LGBTQ+ rights
    Georgian trans model murdered after parliament passes ‘anti-LGBTQ+’ law

  • Painting of Mozart sitting at a piano

    Music
    Previously unknown Mozart music discovered in German library

    • Technology
      Social media and online video firms are conducting ‘vast surveillance’ on users, US regulator finds

    • Pakistan
      Police in southern Pakistan shoot dead blasphemy suspect

    • South Carolina
      ‘He didn’t do it’: days before execution in South Carolina, key witness says he lied

    • UK
      Keir Starmer’s £35k in free tickets puts football regulator plans under scrutiny

    • US
      North Carolina governor candidate called himself ‘black Nazi’

    • Space
      Earth will briefly have a second ‘mini moon’ this autumn

Europe in focus

  • A small group of people on rocky ground next to a body of water holding placards, one reads 'Tunisia government is killing us slowly, we need help'

    Migration crisis
    The brutal truth behind Italy’s migrant reduction: beatings and rape by EU-funded forces in Tunisia

  • ‘The ultimate example of following your dreams’ … ballerina Michaela DePrince.

    Dance
    ‘The first Black ballerina I found on YouTube’: ENB's Precious Adams pays tribute to Michaela DePrince

    DePrince, who has died aged 29, was a ‘beacon of hope’ for dancers, says English National Ballet first soloist
  • A building damaged by Ukrainian strikes, following the invasion of Ukraine forces into the Kursk region

    Ukraine war briefing
    Offensive in Kursk diverted 40,000 Russian troops, Zelenskyy says

    Moscow says it has captured another village in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region. What we know on day 940

Spotlight

  • An illustration of a person with four arms doing multiple tasks at once: dusting, typing on a laptop, looking at a cellphone, holding a pencil, and listening to music

    Well actually
    Breaks, walks and naps – tips to make you more efficient

    After a week guided by Mithu Storoni’s new book Hyperefficient, I learned to work with the rhythm of my brain
  • A model wearing a calf-length gunmetal dress with holes and mirrored circles in it, with a yellow anorak an a straw hat with a shaded visor built in

    Fashion
    Prada and Max Mara bring strangeness and science to Milan fashion week

  • Dining Across The Divide Valerie (left) and Pav at Mildreds Soho

    Dining across the divide
    ‘I think the EU should be divided into two, east and west’

    With opposing views on Brexit, inheritance tax and gender, will the two find common ground and embrace the cultural differences?
  • A man raises his arms in celebration in the foreground as another man scales the archways on the front of a white building

    Sri Lanka
    ‘The hardship is still there’: Sri Lanka prepares to vote as hopes of revolution falter

    Saturday’s election will be the first since a people’s movement toppled the president. But other problems have proved harder to shift
    • Sally Rooney.

      Books
      Intermezzo by Sally Rooney review – surprise moves in love, loss and chess

    • Rebecca Horn, installation artist

      Obituary
      Rebecca Horn 1944-2024, German artist who explored personal and cultural trauma through her work

    • film still of a woman in the woods with a crossbow

      Film
      Never Let Go review – Halle Berry takes hold of uneven woodland horror

    • Agent J or Agent No Way? … Will Smith and David Schwimmer

      Film
      Would starring in Men in Black really have made David Schwimmer a movie star?

Opinion

  • Permanent ambassador of Israel, Danny Danon, speaks during an emergency special session on illegal Israel actions in East Jerusalem

    Will the historic UN vote for sanctions on Israel change reality for Palestinians?

    Omar Barghouti
    Palestinians have never given up hope in our decades-old resistance to Israel’s ruthless regime of oppression
  • Ursula von der Leyen

    Von der Leyen has tightened her grip on the EU’s steering wheel – and is moving it subtly to the right

    Paul Taylor
  • A woman laughing while using her smartphone

    Too many ‘candid’ social media videos are obviously, agonisingly fake. So why are viewers laughing?

    Rebecca Shaw
  • Helen Sullivan

    A baby pygmy hippo named Moo Deng: she is all we want to look at

    Helen Sullivan
  • A black father with son in baby carrier doing laundry.

    Great men do wear their babies – the days of criticising a father for carrying his child are over

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
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    Europe
    Undercover as a hotel cleaner in Ireland: ‘Lifting the heavy mattress, I cry tears of rage and exhaustion’

    Saša Uhlová

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Climate crisis

  • First day of semester at Columbia University, as campuses brace for return of pro-Palestinian protests<br>People walk through Columbia University campus on the first day of the new semester in New York City, U.S., September 3, 2024. REUTERS/Adam Gray

    Fossil fuels
    Elite US universities rake in millions from big oil donations, research finds

  • Scandinavian Airlines planes lined up at Stockholm Arlanda airport

    Europe
    Sweden cuts tax on flying despite admitting it would increase emissions

  • Two men unloading sandbags from the back of a small truck

    Climate crisis
    Floods in Poland and wildfires in Portugal show reality of climate breakdown, says EU

  • A herd of cows walking over a meadow

    Environment
    Global spending on subsidies that harm environment rises to $2.6tn, report says

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  • a car burns on a street

    Caribbean
    Violent protests erupt in Martinique over high cost of living with 14 injured

    French Caribbean island sees scenes of vehicles engulfed in flames and gutted buildings as officials impose curfew
  • Alexandre de Moraes

    Brazil
    Brazil top judge accuses X of ‘willful’ circumvention of court-ordered block

  • Jay Emmanuel-Thomas playing for Aberdeen

    UK
    Former Arsenal player charged after £600,000 of cannabis seized at Stansted

  • Reactions in Bamako as terrorists attempted to infiltrate the Feladie gendarmerie<br>epaselect epa11609789 Local residents react near the site of an attack in Bamako, Mali, 17 September 2024. According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces, a group of terrorists attempted to infiltrate the Feladie gendarmerie school on the outskirts of the capital early on 17 September morning. The military government of Mali has been fighting rebel groups since taking power in a coup in 2021. EPA/HADAMA DIAKITE

    Mali
    Jihadist assault on Mali’s capital killed scores of people, say security sources

    • US
      US opens civil rights investigation into Mississippi sheriff’s office after torture of Black men

    • US
      Wall Street hits all-time highs after Federal Reserve’s interest rate cut

    • Business
      Nike appoints new CEO as sportswear giant’s sales come under pressure

    • Sweden
      Swedish children to start school a year earlier in move away from play

    • US
      Ohio city’s mayor issues emergency order over false migrant rumors

    • US
      ‘Bounty hunter’ couple finds body believed to be Kentucky shooting suspect

Culture

  • PR shot of Nelly Furtado in a fur coat.

    The reader interview
    Nelly Furtado: ‘Flames shot out of the speaker when I started making Maneater’

    As she releases new album 7, the Canadian pop star answers your questions on going in the studio with Timbaland, songwriting with Chris Martin, and the melancholy magic of fado
  • Sophia Loren in Legend of the Lost (1957)

    Ranked
    Happy 90th birthday Sophia Loren! Her greatest films

  • ‘These were once crazy, speedy machines’ … a sliced-up V10 engine from an Audi RS 6 in Bircken’s Gebrochenes Pferd show.

    Art
    Wombs to vrooms: the artist who makes work out of old Audi parts – and her own placenta

  • Hilary Mantel.

    Books
    Hilary Mantel was my mentor. Here are seven things she taught me about writing – and life

  • Geoff Hinsliff

    Television
    Former Coronation Street actor Geoff Hinsliff dies at 87

  • Kathryn Hahn as Agatha Harkness in Agatha All Along on Disney+.

    TV review
    Agatha All Along review – the perfect show for Halloween season

Lifestyle

  • Liz Haigh-Reeve, leaning on a fence post with a field behind her in Kent.

    How we survive
    The rollercoaster I was on hurtled backwards and crashed. My friend didn’t make it – and my life changed for ever

    Liz Haigh-Reeve and her friend Alison Comerford were at Battersea park in May 1972 when the Big Dipper collapsed. It turned out there were more than 50 faults on the ride
  • Ilya and Amy (right) in 2022.

    How we met
    She had an eyebrow piercing – I thought that was very edgy

  • An illustration of a Celsius can on its side, surrounded by psychedelic lines in hot pink, green and black with a silhouette of a person drinking a beverage

    US
    ‘A troubling halo of health’: how Celsius became Red Bull for women

  • Brown Rat (Rattus norvegicus) in garden patio at night, Sussex, England<br>H7YGG3 Brown Rat (Rattus norvegicus) in garden patio at night, Sussex, England

    Relationships
    From rat-spotting to a stroll on the M25: readers’ weirdest dates

  • Waterford, Ireland, historic waterfront showing Reginald's tower and churches<br>G3JCKB Waterford, Ireland, historic waterfront showing Reginald's tower and churches

    Travel
    Waterford revival: the reinvention of Ireland’s oldest city

  • A yellow-eyed penguin.

    Thursday quiz
    Noisy neighbours, nasty plagues and a winning smelly penguin

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From our global editions

  • A person's hand holding a wireless communication device

    Analysis
    Israeli front-controlled manufacturing process likeliest explanation for attacks on Hezbollah

    Reports that sabotaged pagers and walkie-talkies were made by Israeli front company with links to Europe
  • Rabbi with rainbow scarf at podium amid crowd holding signs.

    US
    ‘He didn’t do it’: days before execution in South Carolina, key witness says he lied

  • A man stands in front of his laundry hanging on a washing line.

    Central America
    Is circular migration a solution to the crisis at the US border? Guatemala provides a clue

  • A woman smiles in front of piles of coffee beans in a warehouse.

    US
    After a terrible cup of joe in the office, a founder decided to bring African coffee traditions stateside

  • Lauren and Harrison Smith with their daughters and a picture of Benaiah, the Chinese boy they were in the processing of adopting before Beijing announced on 4 September that it was no longer allowing inter country adoptions.

    Adoptions
    ‘It breaks us deeply’: anguish as China closes door to foreign adoptions

  • An Indian doctor stands by a patient in a bed holding up an X-ray while two female medics in white coats stand beside him

    Health
    ‘You feel omnipresent’: bringing city care to India’s country hospitals

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  • AC Milan's Alvaro Morata, bottom, and Liverpool's Virgil van Dijk battle for the ball during the Champions League game between AC Milan and Liverpool at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (Spada/LaPresse via AP)

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    Fashion
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    Photos of the day
    Soaring spires and floods in Europe

  • A man standing by the sea, holding large sticks over his shoulders

    Photography
    No hospital, no cars … and only three school pupils: life on a remote island

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    Astronomy
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    Photos of the day
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