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    The Birth Keepers: I choose this – episode one

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  2. Finland
    Santa's ‘home’ town hosts Nato soldiers as Russian threat looms

    Tourists walk around Santa Claus Village in the dark

  3. Steve Valdez-Symonds
    Starmer's push to water down the ECHR will harm us all

    Steve Valdez-Symonds

  4. The super-rich
    A breakdown of the world’s wealthiest people

    Crowd of people gathered around 3 stacks of gold coins looking up at one person standing on top of them

  5. Snakes alive!
    Hannah Modigh’s photograph of a boy and his serpent

    My Best Shot: Hannah Modigh The wild horses at Bonny Blue

  6. 'She was ready'
    How Nnena Kalu's Turner prize victory shook the art world

    ‘Utterly, properly joyous’ … Nnena Kalu at the Turner prize ceremony.

News

  • Four people wearing sunglasses and shiny silver outfits behind a piece of stage scenery representing a boat

    Eurovision
    Iceland becomes fifth country to boycott Eurovision 2026 over Israel

  • Woman walking in silver metallic pants and a wavy flowing white jacket with sunglasses at night on a concrete bridge or path

    Social media
    From ‘glacier aesthetic’ to ‘poetcore’: Pinterest predicts the visual trends of 2026 based on its search data

  • Early humans cooking meat over a fire

    Science
    Humans made fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought, discovery suggests

    Groundbreaking find makes compelling case that humans were lighting fires much earlier than originally believed

Special report

  • A crowd of people waving Syrian flags in Berlin

    Fall of Assad: one year on
    ‘It’s a breach of trust’: fear and frustration over countries’ push to return Syrians home

    Syrians who have rebuilt their lives abroad face uncertainty over their futures amid hardening of attitudes

In focus

  • Podcast
    The Birth Keepers: I choose this – episode one

    Podcast36:34
  • Tourists walk around Santa Claus Village in the dark

    Finland
    Santa at war: ‘home’ town in Finland hosts Nato soldiers as Russian threat looms

Features

  • Uzo Aduba in quirky whodunnit The Residence and Mark Ruffalo in gritty procedural The Task.

    Television
    The 50 best TV shows of 2025: 50 to 41

  • Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone

    Christmas
    The Christmas vibe shift: forget beige – the Home Alone look is all the rage

More features

  • Madeleine Wickham, AKA Sophie Kinsella.

    Books
    Confessions of a Shopaholic novelist Sophie Kinsella dies aged 55

  • ‘Utterly, properly joyous’ … Nnena Kalu at the Turner prize ceremony.

    Art
    ‘Nnena Kalu was ready for this – nobody else was’: how her Turner prize victory shook the art world

  • a webpage showing posters of recently released movies

    Film
    Film bro finds and ‘crash out cinema’: how Letterboxd became a review haven for the algorithm-averse

  • Matthew Perry as Chandler Bing in Friends

    Matthew Perry
    The hidden life of Matthew Perry: ‘He would say: I need to stop and get help’

  • people stand around a dead whale on a beach

    Environment
    A dead whale shows up on your beach. What do you do with the 40-ton carcass?

  • ‘Wasteful’ … Calibri.

    Pass notes
    Calibri: is this really the world’s wokest font?

Opinion

  • Steve Valdez-Symonds

    Starmer is lobbying Europe to join him in watering down the ECHR. This illiberalism will harm us all

    Steve Valdez-Symonds
    The prime minister and his counterpart in Denmark want a concerted effort to weaken human rights across Europe. This isn’t pragmatism – it’s cruelty
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Eurovision used to be a campy joy – but it has become a cynical way to whitewash war

    Arwa Mahdawi
    The song contest continues with its mission of ‘unity and cultural exchange’ by rolling out the red carpet for Israel, even though at least four countries have pulled out in protest

More opinion

  1. Peter Bradshaw

    Quentin Tarantino needs to stop criticising films and start making them again

    Peter Bradshaw
  2. Zoe Williams

    An EU-UK mobility scheme won’t erase the ‘violent indifference’ against young people. But it’s a start

    Zoe Williams
  3. Cas Mudde

    The US is not just Europe’s unwilling ally, but an adversary steeped in far-right ideology

    Cas Mudde
  4. Kenneth Roth

    All of the deadly US strikes on alleged drug boats are murders

    Kenneth Roth

Editorials

  • The Guardian view
    ECHR reform: times change, but universal values need defending

  • The Guardian view
    Trump and Europe: more an abusive relationship than an alliance

Cartoon

  • Nicola Jennings on Donald Trump and the ‘civilisational erasure’ of Europe – cartoon

    Nicola Jennings
    Donald Trump and the ‘civilisational erasure’ of Europe

    The Trump administration has argued that the US must ‘cultivate resistance’ within the continent to ‘Europe’s current trajectory’

Sport

  • Richard Ríos (left) takes the acclaim of his Benfica teammates after scoring the second goal against Napoli in Lisbon.

    Champions League
    Benfica swat aside Napoli, PSG held in Bilbao

    Benfica’s Richard Ríos scored one goal and set up another to boost their hopes of Champions League progress with a 2-0 victory against Napoli

More sport

  1. Alejandro Grimaldo beats Aaron Ramsdale to secure a point for Leverkusen

    Champions League
    Grimaldo’s late Leverkusen leveller denies Newcastle

  2. The construction site of the Santagiulia Arena in Milan

    Winter Olympics
    NHL warns top players will not travel to Milan if venue is unsafe

  3. Fabio Cannavaro pictured outside the Paradiso training centre in Naples

    Interview
    Fabio Cannavaro: ‘Uzbeks are tough, never give up. Playing them is a pain in the arse’

  4. Aryna Sabalenka

    Tennis
    Sabalenka says ‘not fair on women to face basically biological men’

More top stories

  • Girls sit behind a tractor as they are evacuated amid deadly clashes between Thailand and Cambodia.

    Thailand-Cambodia
    Half a million evacuated on border as Trump makes diplomatic push to end fighting

  • Man looks to side

    Bolivia
    Former Bolivian president Luis Arce reportedly detained by police

  • Police officers outside the Louvre after the heist

    Paris
    Louvre thieves evaded police with 30 seconds to spare, investigation finds

  • a silver spacecraft in front of a red planet

    Space
    Nasa loses contact with spacecraft orbiting Mars for more than a decade

Climate crisis & environment

  1. A snow-covered peak

    Kashmir
    ‘Even the animals seem confused’: a retreating Kashmir glacier is creating an entire new world in its wake

  2. A Tapanuli orangutan hangs from branches in a rainforest as a baby Tapanuli clings to her

    The age of extinction
    Billion-dollar dig for gold threatens future of world’s rarest ape

  3. Scan of a photograph of STE's founder Iain Douglas-Hamilton offering a ball to an elephant with other elephants behind it.

    Conservation
    Iain Douglas-Hamilton obituary

  4. A farm worker plows fields overlooking Grangemouth petrochemical and refining plant in Scotland.

    Climate crisis
    ‘Food and fossil fuel production causing $5bn of environmental damage an hour’

UK news

  1. Online abuse
    Online child sexual abuse surges by 26% in year as police say tech firms must act

  2. Unemployment
    Britain slipping down global league table for youth employment, says report

  3. Education
    Some GCSEs and A-levels in England could be taken on laptops by 2030, Ofqual says

  4. Media
    Meghan accuses UK's Daily Mail of ethics breach over reporting from father’s bedside

World news

  1. Italy
    Italy first country to win Unesco recognition for national cuisine

  2. Europe
    EU proposes loosening rules on AI gigafactories in green rollback

  3. Fashion
    Beyoncé, Venus Williams and Nicole Kidman to co-chair Met Gala with Anna Wintour

  4. Music
    Bob Vylan to sue Ireland’s RTÉ for defamation over Glastonbury coverage

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Culture

  • a man in front of a microphone

    Photography
    Sounds like activism: musicians who fight for change – in pictures

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  • Performance at the opening night of Serge Attukwei Clottey’s [Dis]Appearing Rituals: An Open Lab of Now for Tomorrow.

    The Long Wave
    A tribute to resilience: what we can learn from the splendour of Accra Cultural Week

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What to watch

  1. ELLA MCCAYEmma Mackey as Ella McCay in 20th Century Studios' ELLA MCCAY. Photo by Claire Folger. © 2025 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.

    Film
    Ella McCay review – James L Brooks returns with a sorry mess of a movie

  2. a scene from Food Delivery: Fresh From The West Philippine Sea.

    Film
    ‘The bullying can’t go on’: the film-maker following Filipino fishers under siege by China

  3. Kate Bush’s hit re-enacted on the moors … this year’s ‘Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever’ on Penistone Hill, Yorkshire.

    Film
    Margot Robbie in red latex, Kate Bush impersonators and a pint of Emily ale: my crash course in Brontëmania

  4. Anika Jade Levy.

    Books
    Flat Earth by Anika Jade Levy review – fear and loathing in New York

What to listen to

  1. John Glacier, Cate Le Bon

    Music
    The 50 best albums of 2025: 50 to 21

  2. Mari Lwyd, an ancient welsh Christmas custom.

    Audiobook of the week
    The Dead of Winter by Sarah Clegg audiobook review – haunting Christmas tales

  3. Jacquelyn Stucker as Ginevra in Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, 2025.

    Opera
    Ariodante review – dysfunctional royals and designer dresses in Handel with a disjunct

  4. Tom Holland and Conan O'Brien team up for The Rest Is History podcast.

    Best podcasts of the week
    Conan O’Brien serves up a Beatles geekfest: best podcasts of the week

What to read

  1. US-POLITICS-CORRESPONDENTSReporter Olivia Nuzzi arrives for the White House Correspondents' Association dinner at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC, April 29, 2023. (Photo by Stefani Reynolds / AFP) (Photo by STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

    Biography
    American Canto by Olivia Nuzzi review – insufferable filler that sidesteps the real issues

  2. Naomi Alderman.

    Book of the day
    Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today by Naomi Alderman review – how to navigate the information crisis

  3. Jane Birkin in 1969.

    Biography
    It Girl by Marisa Meltzer review – how Jane Birkin became an icon

  4. picture of people on a grey background.

    Fiction in translation
    On the Calculation of Volume III by Solvej Balle review – how to make a timeloop endlessly interesting

What to play

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    Pushing Buttons newsletter
    As AI floods our culture, here’s why we must protect human storytelling in games

    Newsletter
  2. Skate Story.

    Sport games
    Skate Story review – hellish premise aside, this is skateboarding paradise

  3. People at table covered in cards

    Pokémon
    ‘Kids can’t buy them anywhere’: how Pokémon cards became a stock market for millennials

  4. Horses game

    Games
    Horror game Horses has been banned from sale – but is it as controversial as you’d think?

More culture

  1. ‘Dynamic design possibilities’ … the motel from Land of the Lost

    Photography
    ‘My beautiful house lay in ruins!’: how to build (and wreck) a Hollywood set – in pictures

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  2. My Best Shot: Hannah Modigh The wild horses at Bonny Blue

    Photography
    Snakes alive! A boy with a serpent in the Appalachians: Hannah Modigh’s best photograph

  3. VIENNA-KENNEDY-KHRUSHCHEVUS President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (R) and USSR leader Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev head to their first meeting 03 June 1961 at the start of the East-West talks in Vienna, one year before the beginning of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. President Kennedy ordered a blockade of Cuba in October, 1962 after the Soviet Union began to transport missiles on the island. (Photo by INTERFOTO / AFP) (Photo by -/INTERFOTO/AFP via Getty Images)

    Podcasts
    ‘After almost destroying the world, our families are friends’: the thrilling podcast from JFK and Khrushchev’s relatives

  4. Marlon Wayans at the Golden Globe nominations.

    Film
    Anybody heard of a rehearsal? Mangling nominees’ names may be traditional – but it’s still embarrassing

Lifestyle

  • Anna Woodford on a train around the time of the crash.

    Life
    A moment that changed me: My train crashed – and then I heard a little girl crying

  • A model on the catwalk at a Miu Miu show.

    Fashion
    1 Granary: the influential platform holding the fashion establishment to account

Food

  1. Tom Hunt's tea soaked prunes.

    Waste not
    How to turn a spent tea bag into a boozy, fruity treat – recipe

  2. Alice Zaslavski Veg TerrineFor Alice Zaslavsky recipes. Alice Zaslavsky Veg Terrine. Melbourne. Australia. 14 October 2025

    Vegetarian Christmas food
    Alice Zaslavsky’s festive vegetable terrine

  3. Adriann Ramirez' black pepper soft gingerbread cookies in several familiar shapes with icing on top, such as the 'gingerbread man' motif, a traditional angel, a Christmas tree, and a five-pointed star. Two green gift tags have been added to the human-shaped biscuits.

    Festive treats
    Adriann Ramirez’s recipes for pumpkin loaf and gingerbread cookies

  4. Brian Levy’s sugarplum and coffee cookies look like frosted doughnuts with a cherry on top.

    Christmas food
    Nutcracker stocking fillers: Brian Levy’s recipe for sugar plum and coffee cookies

Fashion & beauty

  1. Michael Kors and Megan Thee Stallion at the Met Gala

    Fashion
    ‘You have to stay curious’: Michael Kors on his inclusive brand’s global rise

  2. A composite image of an embroidered wrap coat, bodysuit, earrings, trousers, perfume, gold sandals and pink clutch bag on a blue and red horizontal striped background.

    What to wear...
    Love is in the air: what to wear to a winter wedding

    Gallery3
  3. Dario Vitale

    Fashion
    Versace creative director leaves shortly after fashion house’s $1.4bn sale to Prada

  4. Model with long grown hair wearing short brown glittery dress and purple socks, and holding sparkly shoes

    Fashion
    Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: ’tis the season to party. Time to recap Christmas dressing rules

Relationships

  1. a woman being dangled off a foot

    This is how we do it
    Her work crush led to us having clinging-on-for-dear-life sex

  2. Samuel and Catrina chatting at a restaurant table

    Dining across the divide
    She’s not unwelcoming or racist but she thinks immigration is creating a brain drain elsewhere

  3. 6DecGHcare 01 1a2 1206 018

    Relationships
    The truth about the ‘gender care gap’: are men really more likely to abandon their ill wives?

  4. Miranda and Darcy in Scotland, 2019.

    The moment I knew
    We were discussing Jane Austen when I told her I wanted to be with her for ever

Health & fitness

  1. a cup of an orange fluid with a thermometer in it

    Well actually
    Is it a good idea to have a hot toddy when you’re sick?

  2. a lemon saying 'Achoo!'

    Life and style
    Is it true that… you should take vitamin C when you’ve got a cold?

  3. an illustration of someone putting a needle into someone's back

    Well actually
    I got an epidural for all three of my births – none of them worked as expected

  4. ‘I think this is going to be one of our most successful houses’ … CEO Andrew Carnie at Soho House Manchester.

    Wellness
    Two-sip martinis – and IV infusion drips: Soho House’s CEO on how wellness replaced hedonism

More lifestyle

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    The birth keepers
    ‘There’s no longer a heartbeat’: the couple whose twins were stillborn – and the ‘birth keeper’ they blame

  2. Cherie Clonan at her neurodivergent friendly home in Yarraville, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Taken on Friday 5th December, 2025.

    Homes
    How Australia's neurodivergent households design ‘a home that knows your brain’

  3. Two large wooden nutcracker characters stand among other smaller woodwork and figurines

    Germany
    ‘This is the real Santa’s workshop’: a trip to Germany’s toy village

  4. Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau cheek to cheek and smiling

    Relationships
    The art of going ‘Instagram official’: how 10 celebrity couples shared their love with the world

Documentary

  • Life Invisible
    The fight against superbugs starts in the driest place on Earth

    Cristina Dorador is on an urgent mission in one of the most extreme environments on Earth, the Atacama desert in Chile, where she attempts to uncover new, life-saving antibiotics in the stunning salt flats she has studied since she was 14

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