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    Diane Abbott on becoming an MP, dating Jeremy Corbyn and media intrusion

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    Donald Trump
    Trump rebrands his ramblings as ‘I do the weave’ – but is he just losing it?

    Ex-president tries to fend off criticisms of mental acuity that plagued Biden as he waffles about sharks and batteries
  • A grey and white cat sits on the pavement outside a black door

    Keir Starmer
    Starmer leads with compromise for new family pet – and gets ‘dog-like’ cat

    Siberian kitten at No 10 may get frosty reception from chief mouser Larry, who took on George Osborne’s cat, Freya

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    ‘I wouldn’t dream of telling a stranger I hated their laugh’: how does it feel when your social media followers cross a line?

    Sometimes being the subject of a ‘parasocial’ relationship can be positive. But then come the messages about my body, health or life choices … and it all gets a bit weird
  • A Pakistani man standing in a slightly overgrown car park in London with a tree behind him

    Refugees
    The man who fell from a plane in search of a new start – and the brother who retraced his journey 20 years later

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    This is how we do it
    'We have phone sex once a month – and it feels primal’

    Ellen and Santiago have a long-distance marriage, so stoke the flames of their relationship remotely
  • Tim Lovejoy and Helen Chamberlain in 2024

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    Tim Lovejoy and Helen Chamberlain look back at Soccer AM: ‘We fought like siblings. She couldn’t stand me and I couldn’t stand her’

    The longtime co-presenters on changing the game, their unique bond, and dispelling Christmas party rumours
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      Pedro Almodóvar: ‘Life needs fiction to make it bearable’

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      Ask Ottolenghi: should you cook with extra-virgin olive oil?

    • Kim Cattrall

      Culture
      Kim Cattrall: ‘I’ve had a life’s experience – I want to bring it on board’

    • Kevin McCloud presenting Grand Designs.

      The watcher
      Grand Designs: 25 Years & Counting – people enduring hell for a slightly nicer house? It’s TV made in heaven

Opinion

  • Kamala Harris

    How the lessons of the UK election could help Kamala Harris defeat Donald Trump

    Deborah Mattinson and Claire Ainsley
    Two ex-senior Labour advisers reveal the strategy the party used to turn its fortunes around by targeting disillusioned ‘hero voters’ and how it could benefit the Democrats
  • Princess Märtha Louise of Norway and Durek Verrett arrive in Geiranger for their wedding on 31 August.

    An ageing king, his clairvoyant daughter and her celebrity shaman – welcome to Norway’s epic reality show

    Aslak Nore
  • Jesse Watters, in a blue suit, speaking on Fox News.

    The Kamala Harris campaign has Fox News grasping at straws – literally

    Margaret Sullivan
    Rattled rightwing pundits keep trying out new lines of attack on Harris and Walz. Yet few of them are sticking
  • Amelia Gentleman

    Imagine your friend survives a catastrophic accident. What do you do? This is what I learned

    Amelia Gentleman
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      The people of Grenfell knew the truth before the fire. It’s we who must learn from them now

      Gillian Slovo
    • Ticketmaster's purchase policy explaining dynamic pricing and the website in the background showing the options for purchasing Oasis tickets.

      Process fee, service fee, delivery fee … Who wouldn’t pay to see Ticketmaster rinsed by the regulator?

      Marina Hyde
    • Keir Starmer

      Keir Starmer has united Israelis and Palestinians – both hate his arms exports policy

      Jonathan Freedland
    • Syrian Kurdish migrants wait at a meeting point in the desert near the Libyan-Algeria border en route to Spain.

      Brave words, Yvette Cooper – but refugees like me know Britain can’t stop people traffickers

      Anonymous

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    Editorial
    The Guardian view on the Paris Paralympics: a return to the spirit of London 2012

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    Editorial
    The Guardian view on the regulatory state: Labour must put people before profit

  • Pregnant woman

    Letters
    The NCT pushes for ‘natural birth’ too strongly, but we have much to thank it for

  • Person laying on a bed with a cat

    Letters
    Paloma Faith’s swipe at dating apps is justified – but we won’t give them up

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    2 Great Britain 45 37 25 107
    3 United States 31 37 21 89
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      Glaciers
      ‘Oh my God, what is that?’: how the maelstrom under Greenland’s glaciers could slow future sea level rise

    • An angler fishes on the River Derwent near Bakewell

      Environment
      ‘Citizen scientists’ to check UK rivers for sewage and pollution

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      If Trump wins the election, it will doom our efforts to slow climate disaster

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      Climate crisis
      Hottest summer on record could lead to warmest year ever measured

    From the UK

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      Why are the Murdochs trying to buy UK property site Rightmove?

      Eldest son Lachlan may want to repay Rupert for bid to hand him full control by protecting UK newspaper empire
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      Revealed: the touts offering Oasis tickets for thousands on resale sites

    • New students arrive at the University of Surrey in Guildford.

      Education
      Labour’s ‘change of tone’ revives foreign students’ interest in UK universities

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      Scotland
      Man charged in connection with death of missing Edinburgh woman

      • Money
        ‘I couldn’t sleep’: victims of UK fraud epidemic tell their story

      • Crime
        Cleared man’s claim to wife’s fortune blocked as judge rules he did kill her

      • Retail industry
        Body Shop’s remaining UK stores saved after rescue deal agreed

      • Grenfell Tower fire
        Tony Blair told to ‘take responsibility’ after Grenfell criticism

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        Drinking wine to 5: Dolly Parton launches prosecco and rosé range in UK

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        Deaths of three children in Staines being treated as murder, police say

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    • A row of executives in dark suits sit at a long table in the foreground while, in front of them, factory workers hold banners

      Germany
      An ‘earthquake’ at Volkswagen – and a crisis for Germany?

      The company is seen as crucial not just to local but national wellbeing – and never before have its workers been threatened in their own homeland like this
    • Officals secure the scene after the fatal fire at Hillside Endarasha academy in Nyeri, central Kenya.

      Kenya
      Kenyan police to begin DNA testing to identify victims of boarding school fire

    • Tanaiste Micheal Martin against Irish and EU flags

      Brexit
      ‘A la carte’ new Brexit deal with EU not on table, Ireland warns

    • Elton John at the Toronto film festival

      Elton John
      Elton John makes first appearance after revealing ‘limited vision’

      • Science
        Boeing’s Starliner lands on Earth – without its astronauts

      • Italy
        Italian culture minister quits after affair scandal embarrasses Meloni government

      • China
        Super Typhoon Yagi hits China’s Hainan, killing two people and forcing 1 million to leave their homes

      • Brazil
        Signs of ice buildup on plane before Brazil crash, says early report

      • Ukraine
        Zelenskiy claims support waning for strikes against Russian occupiers

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        Desserted by 8pm: Aucklanders revel in status as world’s earliest diners

    Culture

    • julianne moore looking fondly up at tilda swinton ahead of the venice premiere of almodovar's the room next door

      Film
      Venice film festival 2024 roundup – Nicole Kidman gets carnal and Lady Gaga goes crazy

      In a festival rich in impressive female leads, Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton bonding for Almodóvar, while a strong documentary lineup ranges from Trump to Yoko Ono
    • Anne Enright

      The Q&A
      Anne Enright: ‘When I was eight I wanted to be a boy, so that I could be anything I wanted’

    • Sting playing live in 2024.

      TV tonight
      TV tonight: festival season climaxes with Sting, the Manics and Sugababes live

    • Angry and articulate … Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Pansy in Hard Truths

      Film
      Hard Truths review – a Mike Leigh classic of day-to-day disillusionment and courage

    • Morfydd Clark in Starve Acre.

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      We’ve given the new puppy a name, but I fear the cat may starve to death

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