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    What do you do with the 40-ton whale carcass?

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

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  3. The Birth Keepers
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    How Letterboxd became a review haven for film fans

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  5. Australia
    Neurodivergent households design ‘homes that know your brain’

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

  6. Film
    Tarantino should stop criticising and start making again

    Quentin Tarantino in a leather jacket in front of a cinema marquee reading: "Now playing: Zero Hour"

News

  • Nobel peace prize
    Venezuelan Nobel peace prize winner greets crowds in Oslo after nearly a year in hiding

    María Corina Machado climbs over barriers to meet chanting supporters gathered outside the Grand Hotel in early hours of Thursday
  • Elon Musk on videolink with Alice Weidel on a stage in front

    Europe
    AfD responds to Trump ‘erasure’ claims with call for nationalist revival in Europe

  • The McDonald’s logo with icicles over it outside an outlet

    Netherlands
    ‘Ruined my Christmas spirit’: McDonald’s removes AI-generated ad after backlash

  • 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

  • Early humans cooking meat over a fire

    Anthropology
    Humans made fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought, discovery in Suffolk suggests

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  • A man walks down a street covered in mud after flood waters receded

    ‘Not normal’: Climate crisis supercharged deadly monsoon floods in Asia

    Cyclones like those in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Malaysia that killed 1,750 are ‘alarming new reality’
  • 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

  • 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

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    Sounds like activism
    Musicians who fight for change – in pictures

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  • people stand around a dead whale on a beach

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

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  • 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

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

    Podcast36:34
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    Fashion
    Beyoncé, Venus Williams and Nicole Kidman to co-chair Met Gala with Anna Wintour

  • 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

  • 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’

  • ‘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

Opinion

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Sean Duffy wants ‘civility’ in air travel … so why is he doing pull-ups at the airport?

    Arwa Mahdawi
    Transport infrastructure in the US is a hot mess – and the guy in charge thinks ‘wellness spaces’ are going to solve the problem
  • Kenneth Roth

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

    Kenneth Roth
    There is no rule of law if the president can deem anyone an enemy combatant and order them summarily shot

More opinion

  1. Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese and communications minister Anika Wells speak to the media

    Luke Beck
    Will Australia’s social media ban survive a high court challenge from two teenagers? Most likely – here’s why

    Luke Beck
  2. Chietigj Bajpaee

    Look behind the pomp of Putin’s New Delhi visit. The India-Russia relationship has weakened

    Chietigj Bajpaee
  3. Polly Hudson

    Received an unwanted gift? Here is your failsafe guide to how to respond

    Polly Hudson
  4. Arwa Mahdawi

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

    Arwa Mahdawi

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

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  1. Luke Littler lifts the trophy after winning the Grand Slam of Darts final against Luke Humphries in November.

    World Darts Championship
    A sporting superhero: can anyone stop Littler retaining his crown?

  2. Philip RiversFILE - Former Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers watches warmups before an NFL football game between the Chargers and the Denver Broncos, Dec. 10, 2023, in Inglewood, Calif. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun, File)

    NFL
    ‘Let’s freaking go’: 44-year-old grandfather Rivers could start for Colts

  3. A rainbow flag

    World Cup 2026
    LGBTQ+ celebrations to go ahead in Seattle despite Egypt and Iran objections

  4. South Africa's Eben Etzebeth

    Rugby union
    Etzebeth accepts 12-week ban but claims eye-gouge ‘was never intentional’

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  • two people wearing backpacks walk past row of lockers at a school

    US immigration
    Immigrant students experience more bullying as ICE raids cause ‘culture of fear’, says survey

    In survey, US school principals describe ‘climate of distress’ and declines in student attendance amid crackdowns
  • Woman speaks into microphone.

    Mexico
    Daily killings in Mexico drop 37% under Claudia Sheinbaum, but experts say data is problematic

  • A girl sitting on a bed in a dark room looking at her phone

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

  • An inquest will be held into the death of Dean Sanderson at Jungle Surfing Canopy Tours at Cape Tribulation, in north Queensland, after a zip line system failed

    Australia
    Tourist zip line failure left man dead and woman injured, inquest hears

  • Man looks to side

    Bolivia
    Former Bolivian president Luis Arce reportedly detained by police

Climate crisis & environment

  1. Jessika Roswall speaking during a press conference

    Europe
    EU proposes loosening rules on AI gigafactories in green rollback

  2. Parsnips, lettuce, celery and tomatoes in plastic pa

    Pfas
    Synthetic chemicals in food system creating health burden of $2.2tn a year, report finds

  3. A huge school of bait fish and sharks in Byron Bay

    Australia
    Hundreds of sharks filmed in bait fish feeding frenzy near Byron Bay

  4. A snow-covered peak

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

UK news

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

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

  3. Books
    Confessions of a Shopaholic novelist Sophie Kinsella dies aged 55

  4. Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex
    Meghan accuses 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. Space
    Nasa loses contact with spacecraft orbiting Mars for more than a decade

  3. Bangladesh
    Desperate Rohingya falling prey to traffickers as they flee Bangladesh

  4. Nigeria
    Burkina Faso releases 11 Nigerian troops after ‘unauthorised’ plane landing

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Culture

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

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

  • 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’

What to watch

  1. Teenagers look up at a billboard of Simon Cowell that says Simon needs you

    TV review
    Simon Cowell: The Next Act review – the billionth take on his one idea

  2. Avatar: Fire and Ash

    Film
    All hail Avatar! How event movies are trying to bring back the box office blockbuster

  3. a woman and a dog

    Christmas romcom
    Merv review – a dog steals the show in Amazon’s by-the-book Christmas romcom

  4. two women holding hands

    Television
    Growing pains: the struggle to make a must-see gen Z TV show

What to listen to

  1. 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

  2. John Glacier, Cate Le Bon

    Best music of 2025
    The 50 best albums of 2025: 50 to 21

  3. Mari Lwyd, an ancient welsh Christmas custom.

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

  4. Eliza Rose.

    Honest playlist
    Eliza Rose: ‘Witness (1 Hope) by Roots Manuva gives me some bad girl energy’

What to read

  1. Anika Jade Levy.

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

  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. 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)

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

  4. Jane Birkin in 1969.

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

What to play

  1. Zombies, Run! promo art

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

    Newsletter
  2. Skate Story.

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

  3. Horses game

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

  4. Red Dead Redemption 2, a Western-themed action-adventure video game developed and published by Rockstar Games.

    Pushing Buttons
    Dan Houser on Victorian novels, Red Dead Redemption and redefining open-world games

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  1. Quentin Tarantino in a leather jacket in front of a cinema marquee reading: "Now playing: Zero Hour"

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

    Peter Bradshaw
  2. Natalie Portman and Jenna Ortega appear in The Gallerist by Cathy Yan, an official selection of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by MRC II Distribution Company L.P.

    Film
    Charli xcx, Natalie Portman and Salman Rushdie lead 2026 Sundance lineup

  3. 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

  4. ‘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

    Gallery12

Lifestyle

  • Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone

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

  • An illustration of a shopping trolley with AI chip and marketing icons

    Retail industry
    ‘What to buy Dad for Christmas’: is retail ready for the AI shopping shift?

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. People raising pints together

    Breweries
    Extracting hangovers from beer: inside Budweiser owner’s ‘nolo’ brewery in south Wales

Fashion & beauty

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

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

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

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

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

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

  4. Jacqueline Bisset wearing a long sheer skirt with a long black blazer

    'Naked dressing'
    ‘Sexy and a little daring, but never too much’: sheer skirts hit the sweet spot

Relationships

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. Paul and Amanda

    Blind date
    The waiters wanted an on-the-spot review of what we thought of each other

Health & fitness

  1. a lemon saying 'Achoo!'

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

  2. Caroline Idiens poses holding some weights

    YouTube
    ‘It has to be genuine’: older influencers drive growth on social media

  3. Tam Patachako in front of a shop selling trainers

    The one change that worked
    I used to be a compulsive shopper – until I hit upon a simple trick

  4. Illustration of a heart-shaped character drinking a glass of red wine with the speech bubble 'Cheers!'

    Life and style
    Is it true that … a glass of wine a day is good for your heart?

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

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

  3. Plants under a growlamp

    Houseplant hacks
    Can grow lights help plants during winter?

  4. Rich Baker in a black T-shirt and beanie, holding up a pizza at his restaurant, Flat Earth Pizzas.

    A new start after 60
    I moved on to a boat, fell in love – then opened my own restaurant

Documentary

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

    Cristina Dorador is on an urgent mission in the world’s driest desert, the Atacama in Chile. As the rise of drug-resistant superbugs kills millions per year, Cristina has made it her mission to uncover new, life-saving antibiotics in the stunning salt flats she has studied since she was 14. Against the magnificent backdrop of endless plains, microscopic discoveries lead her team of scientists to question how critically lithium mining is damaging the delicate ecosystem and impacting Indigenous communities

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