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  • Trump raises fist to crowd.

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    US politics
    Trump campaign reset goes awry in Pennsylvania as he attacks Harris

  • French actor Alain Delon on the set of Le Samourai, written and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. (Photo by Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)" src="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/afde61ae80d9e37ad5f857febc8c498d82345895/0_463_3962_2376/master/3962.jpg?width=120&dpr=1&s=none" loading="eager" data-chromatic="ignore" class="dcr-l300o4"/>

    Film
    French screen star Alain Delon dies aged 88

    • Education
      Golden age of English universities could be over, says head of watchdog

    • UK politics
      Public approves response to riots but Starmer’s appeal fades, new poll shows

    • Global health
      Failure to deal with mpox outbreak ‘is risk not just to Africa but whole world’

    • Science
      Rise in DNA tests being used to claim citizenship of other countries

    • UK
      Male university students are ‘less macho’ when sharing flats with women

    • Weddings
      ‘It’s fun, quirky and romantic’: why everyone wants Bridgerton music at their wedding

News in focus

  • Ukrainian soldiers training at a shooting range in the Sumy region.

    Ukraine
    Zelenskiy’s gamble: success of shock Russia offensive hangs in the balance

  • Graphic image of what looks like a watercolor black-and-white portrait of Kamala Harris.

    US elections 2024
    The evolution of Kamala Harris: from activist in pigtails to presidential candidate

    The daughter of civil rights activists has an unbroken history of working to change ‘anything that wasn’t right’, friends say
  • Mao Zedong, in Beijing in 1967

    Mao Zedong
    ‘Monument to history’ battle between US and China over future of secretary’s diary

    Beijing believed to be behind court bid to secure account of life inside Communist HQ

Spotlight

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    Mesmeric and beautiful, Alain Delon was one of cinema’s most mysterious stars

    Peter Bradshaw
    Whether playing the lover opposite Marianne Faithfull or the assassin in Le Samouraï, the prolific French actor was a symbol of the lost beauty of the 60s
  • Cailee Spaeny and David Jonsson in Alien: Romulus.

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    Alien: Romulus review – thrillingly gruesome new instalment gets a shot of young blood

  • An alligator lurking in low water at the bottom of the pink-tiled swimming pool

    Photography
    ‘I wanted my photos to reflect my disorientation’: rising star Anastasia Samoylova on how Florida’s hyperreal streets inspired her work

    It’s a big moment for the Russian-born photographer known for her dreamlike images of Miami after the 2017 hurricane. Here she talks about upcoming shows in London and New York, plus a new book surveying her career to date
  • A view from a slate quarry of a lake and mountains

    Wales
    Museum restoration in Snowdonia will put slate back at centre of Welsh history

    An up-to-date visitor attraction will serve as the core of the new Unesco world heritage site
    • Jenni Fagan and Samantha Morton photographed at the Union Club in London, August 2024

      Books
      ‘The hardest thing is to forgive yourself’: actor Samantha Morton and writer Jenni Fagan on the trauma of growing up in care

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      Books
      I wag, therefore I am: the philosophy of dogs

    • Back view of woman teacher, with hands on hips, a blurred view of desks and students in the background

      Ask Philippa
      Jobs make me feel trapped so I never stay. Am I just lazy?

    • Jordan Stephens sitting on a bench in Greenwich Park, smiling and with his arms spread across the back of the bench and one leg forward, wearing khaki shorts, a white-T-shirt and white trainers

      Rizzle Kicks
      ‘All this chaos. It’s part of who I am’: Jordan Stephens on life after pop stardom

Sport

Opinion

  • Tom Cruise is lowered through the air on a harness during the 2024 Olympics closing ceremony.

    Tom Cruise pulled off the best Scientology stunt ever. If only he could really levitate

    Catherine Bennett
    Waving the Olympic flag in Paris, the cult’s star made the world forget about the unpleasant bits
  • A close-up of Elon Musk scowling

    Inciting rioters in Britain was a test run for Elon Musk. Just see what he plans for America

    Carole Cadwalladr
  • Palestinians leaving Khan Younis in Gaza after Israel’s evacuation warning on 16 August 2024.

    Editorial
    The Observer view on the Middle East crisis: Iran and Israel risk sparking all-out conflict

  • Ethan James Green shoots Bridgerton actor Simone Ashley for the 2025 Pirelli calendar.

    Behold the new sexy Pirelli calendar, a perfect example of Post#MeToo creep

    Barbara Ellen
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    Make a playlist, buy in some nice crisps and save the house party from extinction

    Eva Wiseman
  • People board up a Turkish restaurant before an anti-immigration protest called by far-right activists in Birmingham on 7 August.

    Defending working-class interests requires more than simply opposing immigration

    Kenan Malik
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Climate crisis

  • Man works on pink and cream house as hurricane approaches

    Bermuda
    Hurricane Ernesto bears down on Bermuda amid deadly flood warnings

  • woman comforting Solly the sheep under a tree

    Environment
    ‘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’

  • A firefighter is silhouetted hosing down a tree against flames burning in a forest.

    Hotter than ever
    ‘The place I love is in flames’: the people living and working in extreme heat

Around the world

  • police on a roof wearing black with snipers

    US
    Trump rally shooting: local Swat officer fired first shot knocking gunman down

    Congress report says shot hit would-be assassin’s weapon, wounding him before he was killed by Secret Service sniper
  • Paloma Faith in concert

    The far right
    Rock Against Racism is reborn as gigs planned in riot towns across Britain

  • A nine-inch gun on the newly discovered wreck

    Archaeology
    ‘Virtually intact’ wreck off Scotland believed to be Royal Navy warship torpedoed in first world war

  • waves crash into the shore of a beach

    Bermuda
    Hurricane Ernesto pummels Bermuda with 35ft waves and high winds

    • Australia
      Man knocked out by whale tail whack while in small boat off Gold Coast

    • Technology
      Elon Musk says X will pull operations from Brazil after ‘censorship orders’

    • US
      George Santos expected to plead guilty in fraud case on Monday – reports

    • Turkey
      Turkish parliament descends into chaos as dozens of MPs take part in fistfight

    • India
      Hospitals in India hit as doctors begin nationwide strike over trainee’s rape and murder

    • UK
      Evidence in first Lucy Letby trial was incorrect, Crown Prosecution Service admits

Culture

  • A young WH Auden on a dock at Cherry Grove on Fire Island, New York.

    Books
    The Island: WH Auden and the Last of Englishness review – a deep dive into the poet’s early years

    Nicholas Jenkins’s exhaustive volume – part biography, part literary study, part marathon – draws together the many influences on the young writer, from the first world war to his fascination with the lead mines of the Pennines
  • Crowds enjoy the No Art festival in Amsterdam, where organisers asked people to put aside their phones.

    Music
    ‘The party is back’: rise in European festivals banning smartphones

  • A young woman wearing a green bob wig, shot against a pale pink wall

    Festivals
    ‘People came just to see how awful it was’: from Wonkaland to Fyre, the inside story of festivals so bad they went viral

  • Zadie Smith

    On my radar
    Zadie Smith’s cultural highlights

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    The watcher
    Dame Judi and Jay: The Odd Couple – the year’s weirdest, most soul-enriching TV show

  • A man takes a photograph of a piece of street art featuring a profile of a woman with turquoise curls

    Street art
    Beyond Banksy: the other British street artists you should know

Lifestyle

  • cartoon of floss lassoing bottle of mouthwash

    Health
    Ditch mouthwash, always floss: experts on their wellbeing dos and don’ts

    From skin to nutrition, sleep to menopause, we are inundated with wellness advice. But what actually makes a difference?
  • The vineyards of Veneto.

    Italy
    Soave summer: refreshing wines

Take part

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    Mental health
    Tell us: has arts and crafts improved your mental health?

  • Neneh Cherry performing at Glastonbury 2019.

    Music
    Send us your questions for Neneh Cherry

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    Dating
    Share your experience of quitting dating apps

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    Environment
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From our global editions

  • The site of the newly uncovered wooden-boarded Roman well.

    Roman Britain
    ‘Failure of Roman engineering on industrial scale’: discovery of water wells in England proves trial and error

    ‘Astonishingly preserved’ remains in Cambridgeshire give clues to substantial Romano-British industrial settlement
  • An illustration of a globe cracking under pressure

    Fertility crisis
    Slow the growth, save the world? Why declining birth rates need not mean an end to prosperity

  • a sign urging support for Palestine is seen through a hole in an American flag

    US
    How the siege of Gaza split America: ‘a battle for the political system’s soul’

  • Audrey Tang, former Taiwan cabinet minister

    Open source
    The good hacker: can Taiwanese activist turned politician Audrey Tang detoxify the internet?

  • The altar stone lies flat and buried under two fallen sarsen stones and is barely visible to visitors.

    Stonehenge
    Stonehenge’s altar stone was carried all the way from north-east Scotland. But how?

  • Two cutaway drawings showing a brain inside a skull, the sceond with a thin spiral implant placed on the left hemisphere

    Healthcare industry
    Brain implants to treat epilepsy, arthritis, or even incontinence? They may be closer than you think

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    ‘It enriches your mind in every way’: The fight to keep the UK learning German

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    Growing up in a utopian commune - and the dangers that came with it; Marina Hyde on the Trump-Musk interview; and the power of embracing selfishness – podcast

  • Campaigner Frances Stojilkovic outside City Chambers in Glasgow. Photograph: Katherine Anne Rose/The Observer

    The Audio Long Read
    Best of 2024…so far: ‘They were dying, and they’d not had their money’: Britain’s multibillion-pound equal pay scandal – podcast

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  • Embroidery of people in the sea at a beach by a fishing village with white-painted houses

    Textile art
    Embroidered summer holiday scenes

    The French artist La Filature uses a mixture of traditional and novel techniques to capture seaside scenes
  • A young girl is held tight as she weeps

    Twenty photographs of the week
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  • Two Swifties dressed in union jack dresses at Wembley before Taylor Swift’s latest Eras tour concert

    Photos of the day
    Swifties and Kim Jong-un with cake

  • A Rutland osprey swooping down to grab a fish

    The week in wildlife
    A hunting osprey, a golf-loving snake and a hedgehog in a war zone

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