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  • James Earl Jones
    James Earl Jones
    Jones with two Tony awards in 1991
    Jones with two Tony awards in 1991
    With Muhammad Ali for The Greatest
    With Muhammad Ali for The Greatest
    Jones as King Lear in Central Park in 1973
    Jones as King Lear in Central Park in 1973
    Receiving the national medal of the arts in 1992
    Receiving the national medal of the arts in 1992

    Film
    James Earl Jones, revered actor and voice of Star Wars’ Darth Vader, dies aged 93

    American actor starred in films including The Great White Hope and won two Tony awards in prolific stage career
  • a flag waves outside a federal building

    Hate crime
    US says white supremacist group tried to incite followers on Telegram to spark race war

In focus

  • Older man in foreground, huge industrial facility in background, with a map to the side showing chemical concentrations from a toxic plume of smoke.

    Revealed
    The huge toxic fire shrouded in secrecy: ‘I taste oil in my mouth’

  • Onami in a 2024 TikTok video about 'unschooling' her child.

    Education
    ‘Unschooling’ parents put their kids in charge of their own educations. Are they actually learning?

    The radical, open-ended teaching philosophy has gained steam among influencers. But some who experienced it would never go back
  • a woman speaks into a microphone

    Analysis
    How will Harris debate Trump? Six key moments offer insight

    Debate could allow her to deliver on her oft-repeated promise to voters: that she will prosecute the case against Trump

Spotlight

  • couple holding hands

    As our friends with kids become grandparents, it reignites the sadness of being childless not by choice

    Tess Pryor
    At times we fear a future without the anchor of family. But love bombs from the many children in our life can be great defibrillators for a blown-up heart
  • A man wearing a brown jacket and black backpack in New York City turns around

    Toronto film festival 2024
    Relay review – Riz Ahmed is a fixer on a mission in a throwback thriller

    Hell or High Water’s David Mackenzie attempts to recall 70s paranoid thrillers in a sleek, suspenseful watch before it makes a wrong turn
    • Drop in, blast stuff, earn stuff … Destiny 2

      Games
      Destiny at 10: the forever game that is also a forever conversation

    • John Oliver, wearing a dark suit and glasses, sits at a desk and speaks with a graphic of of a school lunch tray on the screen

      Late night TV
      John Oliver on universal free meals at school: ‘We have the power to ensure no kid in this country is hungry’

    • France, Paris, Croissants and Pastries Display in Patisserie Shop<br>CBC9YF France, Paris, Croissants and Pastries Display in Patisserie Shop

      Pass notes
      The croissant supremacy: why flaky pastry is everywhere – from handbags to homeware

    • Heather Graham in Place of Bones.

      Film
      Place of Bones review – Heather Graham takes on some bad dudes in gutsy budget western

Opinion

  • A man who is Donald Trump looks stern while speaking on stage

    Here is what will happen on day one of Trump’s presidency, according to Project 2025

    Daniel Martinez HoSang
    • An African woman carrying a hoe over her shoulder in a dry savannah landscape walks past four solar panels on poles

      The solar pump revolution could bring water to millions of Africans but it must be sustainable and fair

      Alan MacDonald
    • Woman sitting on couch eating crisps from a bowl on her lap and holding a TV remote

      All these health scares are making me ill. I need someone to tell me croissants are good for you

      Emma Beddington
    • Elle Macpherson holding sunglasses down from her face.

      If only other cancer patients could wish it all away, just like heroic Elle Macpherson

      Catherine Bennett
    • Nesrine Malik

      A Britain proud of its present and realistic about its past is taking shape: with the angry right trailing behind

      Nesrine Malik

Sports

  • Jannik Sinner kisses the US Open trophy after his victory.

    Big Three era is over, but can anyone take on Sinner and Alcaraz?

    Tumaini Carayol
    The new US Open champion joins Spaniard as dominant force in a new age of tennis, with players born in the 1990s now almost completely bypassed
  • Tom Brady and his partner in the booth, Kevin Burkhardt, greet fans before the Dallas Cowboys v Cleveland Browns game on Sunday

    Brady the TV analyst: all the pizzazz of a Zoom presentation from HR

    Aaron Timms
  • New England Patriots safety Jabrill Peppers celebrates his team’s win over the Cincinnati Bengals

    NFL review
    The post-Belichick Patriots may not be the dumpster fire we expected

    New England have lost an all-time great quarterback and coach over the last few seasons. But there are encouraging signs as they start to rebuild
  • Tyreek Hill says he is unsure why he was detained by police on the way to Sunday’s game.

    Tyreek Hill
    Police union says officers were correct to handcuff NFL star facedown

    Miami Dolphins star Tyreek Hill was handcuffed and placed facedown on the ground during a traffic stop because he was not ‘immediately cooperative’
    • Taylor Fritz alongside Jannik Sinner after the US Open men’s final

      Fritz will rue missing chance to dent Brash Two’s emerging dominance

      Andrew Lawrence at Flushing Meadows
    • graphic composite with two male footballers, a coach and lines of green

      Carsley’s star problems show the difficulties of international management

      Jonathan Wilson
    • Alex Morgan addresses the crowd on the night she played her final professional game

      ‘I did everything I wanted’
      Morgan ends career on emotional night in San Diego

    • Deshaun Watson leaves the field after his team’s loss to the Dallas Cowboys

      ‘I’ll always be Deshaun Watson’
      Browns QB shrugs off boos after latest woeful outing

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Climate crisis

  • The Pacific island of Vanuatu: aerial view of lush forestation with a small, scattered settlement towards the edge of the coast and blue sea

    Exclusive
    Pacific islands submit court proposal for recognition of ecocide as a crime

  • Bound plastic bottles.

    Big oil uncovered
    Most US voters say plastics industry should be held responsible for recycling claims – report

  • People cool off at a mist fountain

    Heat
    Hottest summer on record could lead to warmest year ever measured

  • Fishing boats moored in Boulogne, France

    Environment
    EU failing to enforce illegal fishing rules, say campaigners

Across the country

  • Flowers and signs of support lean against a wall reading '1859 University of Idaho'

    University deaths
    Idaho judge orders new venue in trial of 2022 murder of four university students

  • three men in suits

    Rupert Murdoch
    Succession battle for Murdoch empire to play out in secret in Nevada court

    • Gun crime
      Hunt for suspect in Kentucky highway shooting enters third day

    • Business
      Boeing reaches tentative labor deal with 25% pay hike and commitment to replace 737 planes

    • Tennessee
      Three ex-Memphis officers charged in killing of Tyre Nichols stand trial

    • Chris Sununu
      New Hampshire governor helps choking competitor at lobster roll eating contest

    • US election 2020
      Trial begins in alleged ‘Trump Train’ ambush of Biden-Harris bus in 2020

    • Georgia school shooting
      ‘We’re all sitting ducks’ without more substantial gun control, Georgia senator says

Around the world

  • Clostridium difficile, a bacterium that causes diarrhoea, was among pathogens found in airborne dust particles.

    Science
    Pathogenic microbes blown vast distances by winds, scientists discover

    Living microbes that cause disease in humans and host antibiotic-resistance genes carried 1,200 miles
  • A man wearing a royal blue shirt smiles on a red carpet

    Canada
    Ex-fashion mogul Peter Nygard sentenced to 11 years for sexual assault

  • People gathered around a crater in the ground

    World
    Israeli strikes in Syria kill at least 25, war monitor says

  • Court sketch of Dominique Pélicot sitting at a bench with a security guard standing behind him

    France
    French husband was ‘self-centred’ manipulator, mass rape trial told

    • Keir Starmer
      Starmer flies to US for talks with Biden, but faces Harris and Trump snub

    • Birds
      Golden eagle killed in Norway after attack on toddler in farmyard

    • Norway
      Whale alleged to be Russian ‘spy’ died after stick became lodged in its mouth, say police

    • Sudan
      Tens of thousands of artefacts looted from Sudan museum, says official

    • China
      Warm fronts to Y-fronts: Chinese city hit by underwear storm

    • Netherlands
      Dutch broadcaster launches news bulletin in easy-to-understand language

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Podcasts

Podcasts

  • Keir Starmer

    Politics Weekly UK
    Politics Weekly Westminster: Winter fuel payments test for Labour – podcast

  • Republic of Ireland v England - UEFA Nations League B<br>Dublin , Ireland - 7 September 2024; Jack Grealish, left, and Declan Rice of England celebrate after the UEFA Nations League B Group 2 match between Republic of Ireland and England at Aviva Stadium in Dublin. (Photo By Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile via Getty Images)

    Football Weekly
    Lee Carsley’s new-look England and more Scotland woe – Football Weekly

  • Illustration: Michael Towers/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    ‘A diagnosis can sweep away guilt’: the delicate art of treating ADHD – podcast

  • Khalil Ayaz in the car park

    Today in Focus
    The man who fell to Earth - podcast

  • Howard Crossley portraying politician Eric Pickles in Grenfell: System Failure, Scenes From The Inquiry

    Weekend
    Grenfell: System Failure – Scenes from the Inquiry (part 2) – podcast

  • Ron Cook portraying Richard Millett QC in Grenfell: System Failure, Scenes From The Inquiry

    Weekend
    Grenfell: System Failure – Scenes from the Inquiry (part 1) – podcast

  • Photographer: Erik Madigan Heck

    Weekend
    Best of Weekend part 1: Julia Fox, are we to blame for our bad habits? And surviving a ship wreck – podcast

Culture

  • Salma Hayek in Without Blood

    Without Blood review
    Angelina Jolie’s lacklustre war drama is another misfire

    The actor and activist again struggles to convince as a film-maker with a well-meaning yet unconvincing adaptation of Alessandro Baricco’s novel
  • Heretic-Official-Trailer-HD-A24-YouTube

    Heretic review
    Hugh Grant has devilishly dark fun in talky, twisty horror

  • ‘I’m not cribbing from history’s winners’ … the Dare, whose album is called What’s Wrong with New York?

    Music
    ‘My music’s like a drunk punch in the face’: indie sleaze horndog the Dare and his 00s hedonism

  • Drop in, blast stuff, earn stuff … Destiny 2

    Games
    Destiny at 10: the forever game that is also a forever conversation

  • Rebecca Horn, seen in a mirror in one of her own installation pieces in 2005.

    Art and design
    German installation artist Rebecca Horn dies aged 80

  • ‘To me, the smoking area can be the most intimate part of the club.’

    Club culture
    ‘It’s where all the best socialising happens’: the joy of the smoking area

Lifestyle

  • Image of deep-sea anglerfish

    How to build a better life
    Do you dream of becoming one with your partner? The deep-sea anglerfish shows how badly that can end

    In some fish species, couples lose all independence when they mate, even sharing one pair of eyes. Is that really something to aspire to?
  • Barry Levitt's dog, Anya

    The pet I'll never forget
    Anya, the big-hearted dog who taught me never to take life for granted

  • Customers drink outside a bar at night in the Le Cours Julien district in Marseille, France

    France
    ‘Just the right amount of edge’: how Marseille became 2024’s on-trend city

  • Sarah Burton

    Fashion
    Kate’s wedding dress designer Sarah Burton named Givenchy creative chief

  • Rachel Roddy's tomato crumble 1280

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for tomato crumble

  • Tommy Hilfiger.

    New York fashion week
    Tommy Hilfiger revives nautical theme for show on old Staten Island ferry

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Take part

  • Library with rows of books on shelves and empty chairs

    Books
    Share your experience of how libraries shaped your life

  • The national football team players representing Turkiye at the 2024 Summer Paralympic Games train in Paris, France.

    Paris Paralympic Games 2024
    Tell us about your favourite moment

  • Some data suggests that as many as one in four people are estranged from at least one family member.

    Family
    Are you estranged from your parents? Have your children cut off contact with you?

  • Aerial view of Saginaw, Michigan.

    US elections 2024
    Saginaw voters: tell us which issues will decide the US election

From our global editions

  • Café du Parc Ostende 9979

    Environment
    ‘Salty and soft, like a praline’: will Belgium’s national dish finally feature homegrown mussels?

  • teaching balloon

    The big idea
    How the ‘protege effect’ can help you learn almost anything

  • Israeli settler activists. In the occupied West Bank, it can be difficult to distinguish between IDF soldiers and settlers in uniform, villagers say.

    Middle East
    ‘I am the police, I am the army’: blacklisted settler’s rule in West Bank

  • Budjerah on his ‘notably pointy’ Aria awards: ‘I heard that someone dropped theirs and it went straight through their foot.’

    Australia
    ‘I don’t ever want to think of myself as a celebrity’: Budjerah’s meteoric ascent

In case you missed it

  • Composite in black and white of many of the images from the main story.

    US policing
    Tyre Nichols was brutally killed by five Black police officers. How did we get here?

  • Paige Rivers at her parents’ home in Birmingham.

    Society
    ‘Worrying lack of moderation’: how eating disorder posts proliferate on X

    Users say harmful content from accounts they do not follow appears even after requests to block it
  • A Pakistani man standing in a slightly overgrown car park in London with a tree behind him

    ‘He wanted a better life’
    The man who fell from a plane in search of a new start – and the brother who retraced his journey 20 years later

    In 2001, a badly broken body was found in a London car park. Police said the man had tried to enter the UK by hiding in a plane’s landing gear. Two decades after the Guardian first told his tragic story, there was an unexpected twist
  • Robot AI hand holding a quill on a green background

    Artificial intelligence (AI)
    ‘If journalism is going up in smoke, I might as well get high off the fumes’: confessions of a chatbot helper

  • Sérgio Mendes at home in Los Angeles in 2021.

    Music
    Brazilian musician Sérgio Mendes dies aged 83

  • a very rich man looks at another very rich man who is talking and gesticulating

    US elections 2024
    Billionaires are endorsing Trump – but is that a bad bargain for them?

  • James McAvoy in a black short-sleeved top, sitting with his arms stretched out in front of him on a white table

    Film
    ‘I’ve failed, badly – and I’m good with it’: James McAvoy on class, comfort and carnage

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  • Arjola Dedaj of Italy competes in the women's long jump T11 class while wearing a butterfly blindfold

    Paris Paralympic Games 2024
    ‘Defying expectations’: amazing Paralympic photographers with disabilities

    Whether legally blind or using a wheelchair, four photographers say there’s no impediment to creativity at the Games
  • Paralympians in Great Britain kit wave at onlookers

    Photos of the day
    Team GB and China Fashion Week

  • Step up … Teatro Mediterraneo, Naples, by architects Nino Barillà, Vincenzo Gentile, Filippo Mellia and Giuseppe Sambito. Interior architecture by Luigi Piccinato.

    Architecture
    Stairways to modernist heaven

  • Two women in chef whites at their pie and mash shop

    London
    Sights of London’s bus route 66

  • Young drivers on a track in pedal cars with a crowd of supporters behind

    Photos of the weekend
    Horse trials and pedal car races: the weekend in pictures

  • Para Athletics - Paris 2024 Summer Paralympic Games: Day 9<br>PARIS, FRANCE - SEPTEMBER 06: Hollie Arnold of Team Great Britain competes during the Women's Javelin Throw F46 Final on day nine of the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympic Games at Stade de France on September 06, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images)

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