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  • The Bayesian, which has capsized and sunk off the coast of Sicily in bad weather.

    Italy
    UK tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch among missing in Sicily yacht sinking

    Four Britons, two Americans and a Canadian missing and one body found after superyacht carrying 22 sank in storm
  • A satellite image shows a bridge collapsed over the Seym river in the Glushkovo district of Kursk, two more bridges have also reportedly been hit

    Russia-Ukraine war live
    Zelenskiy says Ukraine ‘achieving our goals’ in Kursk as third bridge is hit

  • Emmanuel Macron in a crowd of people, with several people taking selfies

    France
    Macron hoping new round of talks can break French government deadlock

  • The fishing village of Fisterra, with lobster creels in the foreground

    Spain
    Fish thieves not welcome: Galicians coin term for stereotypical Madrid tourist

    • Middle East crisis live
      Netanyahu’s office says meeting with Blinken was ‘positive’

    • UK
      Mother says internet trolls ‘terrorising’ her after death of her son in Tenerife

    • Northern Ireland
      Ulster Unionist party leader quits over ‘irreconcilable differences’ with colleagues

    • UK
      140 women in England receive payout for vaginal mesh implant complications

    • Motorcycling
      Irish motorcyclist Louis O’Regan dies aged 43 after crash at Manx Grand Prix

    • Social media
      Scrolling through online videos increases feelings of boredom, study finds

Europe in focus

  • Demonstrators march shouting slogans against the Formula 1 Barcelona Fan Festival in downtown Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, June 19, 2024. Barcelona City Hall announced last month that it would not renew any tourist apartment licenses after they expire in 2028. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

    My Barcelona is being destroyed by mass tourism – but kicking visitors out isn’t the answer

    Xavier Mas de Xaxàs
  • Dried out fields in southern Sicily

    Sicily
    ‘The land is becoming desert’: drought pushes Sicily’s farming heritage to the brink

    While tourists flock to the Italian island in greater numbers, a water crisis is intensifying for its rural population
  • People in hi-vis and hard hats in the brick vaults

    London
    'A little bit Indiana Jones': shock find under London Museum enchants its builders

    Discovery of Victorian network hiding under some of city’s busiest streets set ‘magical’ new challenge for multimillion pound project

Spotlight

  • TG Menopause and cycle color b MM (1) G2

    Menopause
    The end of menopause: would women be healthier and happier if they menstruated for ever?

    The ovaries affect everything from metabolism to mood – so some scientists are on a quest to slow their ageing process
  • Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson in Something’s Gotta Give.

    Film
    Lights, camera, comfy furnishings: why the ‘beige chic’ of Nancy Meyers is having a revival

  • Elia-Barbieri--

    The big idea
    Are we all beginning to have the same taste?

    Music seems to be at the forefront of a rush to uniformity. It’s time to rebel
  • Reuben in the snow.

    The pet I'll never forget
    Reuben the ambitious, accident-prone St Bernard who loved people and cars alike

    He would get into any vehicle with an open door and was warmly welcomed by our neighbours. So much so that his wake was packed
    • Brazilian model Rosa Saito

      A new start after 60
      I became a model at 69 – when people suddenly started to notice me

    • Paige McClanahan in Paris.

      Overtourism
      The good tourist: can we learn to travel without absolutely infuriating the locals?

    • A man and woman in bed

      Sexual healing
      My partner and I only have sex three times a year – and I am frustrated

    • Warm light at Wadden Sea dyke

      Travel
      Walking the Netherlands’ new long-distance Salt Path

Opinion

  • Palestinian women weep on a truck as she evacuates a school that had been her shelter, in eastern Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Friday, Aug. 16, 2024, after the Israeli military dropped leaflets asking civilians to evacuate from the area, saying forces plan to respond to rocket fire that targeted Israel. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

    Bombed hospitals, buried children: we have become numb to Gaza’s destruction

    Hala Alyan
    As we are saturated with horror, it gets normalized – and Israel’s assault continues unfettered. A Palestinian American poet on dehumanization
  • Hannaf Neeleman, aka influencer Ballerina Farm, and her family in Utah.

    An anti-childcare movement is spreading online – it’s both disturbing and regressive

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
  • Illustration

    After the riots, Keir Starmer should tell us the truth about the UK. This is why he won’t

    Nesrine Malik
  • Emma Beddington

    An American came to stay – and completely changed my attitude to water

    Emma Beddington
  • People in foreground as smoke rises from building in the distance

    These ceasefire talks have been doomed to fail – Netanyahu and Hamas have tied negotiators’ hands

    Gershon Baskin
  • Lynne Wallis

    After my brother’s death, guilt haunted me. Until I went back to where he died

    Lynne Wallis

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Climate crisis

  • A man in a hat with binoculars round his neck looking intently at trees.

    Environment
    The world is getting hotter. Could helping England’s trees migrate northwards protect them?

  • An aerial view of a fire in the Amazon rainforest with smoke rising from the jungle.

    Amazon
    ‘Nobody ever saw anything like this before’: how methane emissions are pushing the Amazon towards environmental catastrophe

  • woman comforting Solly the sheep under a tree

    Hotter than ever
    ‘He was choking on his own tongue’: animals suffer as heatwaves increase

  • Graphic of refugees, cycle couriers, construction workers and street cleaners

    Extreme heat
    Heat inequality ‘causing thousands of unreported deaths in poor countries’

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Around the world

  • Defendants can be held in police cells until prison beds become available under the measures

    UK politics live
    Prison crowding emergency measures could be triggered several times over next few weeks, No 10 says

  • Mark Simmons at the Edinburgh fringe

    Edinburgh festival
    Mark Simmons’ ship joke named funniest of Edinburgh fringe

    • World
      Fierce seas in US north-east as Ernesto regains hurricane strength over Atlantic

    • The super-rich
      Wealth tax on super-rich could raise £1.5tn globally, campaigners say

    • Business live
      Gold near record high as US interest rates cut expectations grow

    • UK
      Final artwork in Banksy animal series removed by London Zoo

    • Education
      Imran Khan aims to be University of Oxford’s next chancellor

    • South China Sea
      Chinese and Philippine ships collide near disputed Sabina Shoal in South China Sea

Culture

  • Tom Brooke and Kerry Condon in After The End at the Traverse theatre, Edinburgh festival 2005.

    Stage
    ‘Peter Capaldi was punched off his chair’: 50 years of explosive UK theatre company Paines Plough

    From locking playwrights up until a drama emerged to dreaming up Sarah Kane’s Crave in a pub; the talent behind half a century of innovation reveal their secrets
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    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    The Art of Cloying by ZR Ghani

  • George Harrison and Ravi Shankar, 1975.

    Book of the day
    And the Roots of Rhythm Remain: A Journey Through Global Music by Joe Boyd review – the Proust of music

  • Flickers of fear … Karen Martínez in Cadejo Blanco.

    Film
    Cadejo Blanco review – compelling performances in slow-burn drug gang thriller

  • The novelist Muriel Spark, who during the second world war left her four-year-old son in the care of nuns in Rhodesia and moved back to Britain.

    Books
    The Abandoners by Begoña Gómez Urzaiz review – why do some mothers desert their children?

  • Faye Dunaway in Sidney Lumet’s Network.

    Television
    Faye review – where are all the hair-raising stories of Dunaway’s nightmare behaviour?

Lifestyle

  • OFM Nigel Tomato DPS Nigel Slater Observer Food Monthly OFM August 2024

    Food
    Nigel Slater’s summer tomato recipes to enrich the soul

    The colour and aroma of deepest summer, tomatoes are versatile whatever the weather. Perfect for crisp gnocchi, refreshing gazpacho and baked sausages
  • Georgina Hayden's blackberry feta and seed salad.

    Food
    Georgina Hayden’s quick and easy recipe for blackberry, feta and seed salad

  • Rachel Roddy's pasta alla checca – pasta with a raw tomato, mozzarella, herb and olive sauce.

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for pasta with a raw tomato, mozzarella, herb and olive sauce

  • Hair bleach

    The beauty Q&A
    Can you dye dark hair a bright colour without bleach?

  • Valentina Moretti's Home in Brescia

    Interiors
    Absolutely prefabulous: a vision of the future

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    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Can you solve it? Naughty noughts and crosses

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  • Mature woman wearing white apron talking on phone and using laptop in small pottery factory

    Life and style
    Tell us about a summer holiday that inspired you to make a major life change

  • epa09303329 People protest during a rally against police in Teplice, Czech Republic, 26 June 2021. Hundreds of people remembered slain Roma, Stanislav Tomas, who died in the city a week ago shortly after being arrested by police. The originally planned commemoration turned into a march to the police station. Police officers intervened on 19 June, because of a fight between two men who were also damaging other people's cars. When the patrol arrived at the scene, one of the men was lying on the ground with apparent injuries, according to police. When the officers approached him, he became aggressive and attacked them, police said. Footage of the arrest shows police officer kneeling at various times on the man's neck and back. A forensic autopsy ruled out a connection between the deaths and the police intervention, but the autopsy report points to drug impairment, a police spokesman said earlier. Officers insist the death was not related to the intervention. The Council of Europe and the Czech branch of the human rights organization Amnesty International have called for a thorough investigation of the incident. EPA/MARTIN DIVISEK" src="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e9d912c86331554ab7b1193ded129435de7440d5/0_0_5299_3180/master/5299.jpg?width=120&dpr=1&s=none" loading="lazy" data-chromatic="ignore" class="dcr-l300o4"/>

    Roma people in Europe
    How do you feel about the lack of Roma MEPs?

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    Dating
    Share your experience of quitting dating apps

  • Ian Cairns’ photograph of Eastbourne's Towner Gallery with geometric artwork by Lothar Götz. It was published on the Guardian’s letters page on 9 July 2022.

    Photography
    Have your photos published in the Guardian’s letters section

From our global editions

  • Labourers working on a salt pan in Little Rann of Kutch in the western Indian state of Gujarat.

    India
    Televisions, fridges and water pumps: why solar power means a brighter future for Gujarat’s salt farmers

    With plenty of sunlight to drive their pumps instead of costly diesel, harvesting salt costs a third of what it used to and has made life for workers much easier
  • Soldiers patrol a street with foreign journalists escorted into the area as a little girl watches from her doorstep in the Tivoli Gardens neighborhood of Kingston May 27, 2010. Soldiers and police were still searching for Christopher "Dudus" Coke, a notorious suspected Jamaican drug don whose extradition is being sought by the United States on charges of cocaine trafficking and gun-running which has resulted in nearly 50 deaths in the area this week. REUTERS/Hans Deryk (JAMAICA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS CRIME LAW SOCIETY MILITARY IMAGES OF THE DAY)

    Caribbean
    ‘Wherever you have drugs, you have guns’: why is there an epidemic of violence in the Caribbean?

  • a white stone church

    World
    She accused a New Orleans priest of sexual assault. The church quietly moved him out of state

  • Destroyed buildings in Gaza, Palestine overlaid with messages and an image of young men walking on a road with lots of people in the background also walking

    Israel-Gaza war
    Leaving Gaza: the war seen through the lens of WhatsApp messages between friends

  • Coastal headlands in south Taranaki, New Zealand

    Oceans
    The fight for iron sands: the bitter battle to protect New Zealand’s sea-floor riches

  • Crowd of protesters with placards complaining about police racism

    Analysis
    UK police believe strip-searching children can be effective, but suspicions of misuse remain

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