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    Crime
    Lucy Letby: inquiry into how former nurse was able to murder babies begins

  • Mel B in conversation on stage

    Race
    Mel B among Britons taking fight against afro hair discrimination to parliament

    • Prisons
      Some crime victims ‘unaware’ of offenders’ early prison release in England and Wales

    • State pensions
      UK state pension could rise by about £460 a year from April, wage growth figures suggest

    • Climate crisis
      Rich countries silencing climate protest while preaching about rights elsewhere, says study

    • Business
      Remainder of year’s water bills will pay dividends and service debts, say campaigners

    • Consumer affairs
      Oasis and Ticketmaster urged to refund fans after ‘dynamic pricing’ debacle

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

News in focus

  • Man sitting in front of a heavily damaged building.

    Palestinian territories
    ‘We are all Jenin together’: West Bank city seeks normality after IDF’s deadly raids

  • Moscow skyline. A child has died as Moscow intercepted a Ukrainian drone attack on the Russian capital.

    Ukraine war briefing
    Woman dies as Moscow air defences repel Ukrainian drones, officials say

    Dire warnings to Iran over ballistic missiles for Russia; Swedish aid package holds out possibility of Gripen fighter jets. What we know on day 930
  • José Antonio Fernández Bouzas

    Spain
    ‘People understand the cap’: how a Spanish eco-beauty spot tackled overtourism

    A limit on visitors to the Cíes islands off Galicia makes tourists feel special while protecting the wildlife and environment for the future

Spotlight

  • Jerald Walker.

    How we survive
    I was a black child raised in a white supremacist cult. When doomsday didn’t come, I had to learn how to live

    Jerald Walker grew up believing the world would end in 1972, when he was eight. But when it didn't, he and his family had to start again
  • James Earl Jones, actor, who is appearing in an all black version of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof at Novello Theatre. Commissioned for Arts

    James Earl Jones was movie royalty, a magisterial star who inspired both love and respect

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Rory Sparrow (Perry Fitzpatrick) outside a house wielding an axe

    Television
    Sherwood was so good the tension gave you a stomach ache. And yet …

    The second series of James Graham’s epic was urgent and timely and left you with a sense of lurching dread. It clearly towers above the competition – which is why it needs to end
  • illustration: a large ominous surgeon figure holding a small vulnerable figure (representing a migrant) in his hand and moving a pair of forceps towards him as if about to perform an organ removal. another ominous figure representing a trafficker looms in the background and money floats around the scene

    The long read
    ‘For me, there was no other choice’: inside the global illegal organ trade

    I spoke to dozens of people – from ‘donors’ to brokers – to find out how this exploitative trade thrives on chaos and desperation
    • two women moving in to apartment carrying box of possessions and household objects upstairs

      Education
      ‘You’ll meet so many people’: how to choose where to live at uni

    • Ross Kemp with Professor John Dickie at Blackfriars, London, in Ross Kemp: The Mafia and Britain

      TV tonight
      Ross Kemp is on the trail of the mafia in the UK

    • A staircase and yellow seating in the public area of a hotel.

      Travel
      Time travel in the Italian Alps: a glam stay in a 70s design hotel

    • A young person sitting in a chair, a fence behind them.

      Global development
      Kenyan and queer: how going public as gay and non-binary has led to a life of activism and optimism

Opinion

  • Multi-screen TV images of Margaret Thatcher's last speech as PM at the 1990 Tory party conference.

    Beaten, marooned, demoralised – and yet still the right clings to Thatcher. I’ve seen them: they’re so lost

    Polly Toynbee
    I went to a conference of rightwing pollsters and party grandees. It seems their only way forward is to look back, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
  • Jenny Jones

    I sit in the House of Lords – and here’s why getting rid of 92 hereditary peers won’t fix it

    Jenny Jones
  • James Cleverly, Mel Stride, Kemi Badenoch, Tom Tugendhat and Robert Jenrick

    No one cares who will lead the Tories next, not even them

    John Crace
    The Lucky Five are soon to become four as the contest limps on. Meanwhile, Victoria Atkins assists herself to an own goal
  • Distant view of oast house in the Kent Weald at Sevenoaks

    Warning: countryside at risk. Ministers are pulling a fast one over the threat to pristine green-belt land

    Geoffrey Lean
    Proposals for potential development go much further than anyone first thought. A revolt may follow, says environment writer Geoffrey Lean
    • Ben Jennings on Labour’s plan to cut winter fuel payments to pensioners – cartoon

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      Ben Jennings on Labour’s plan to cut winter fuel payments to pensioners

    • A couple holding hands on a beach

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

      Tess Pryor
    • Young girl under blanket looking at phone

      Australia’s dummy spit over kids on social media isn’t the answer. We need an internet for children

      Aleesha Rodriguez
    • Keir Starmer and his chancellor, Rachel Reeves

      This winter fuel fiasco will save Labour £1.3bn this year. But it will cost Starmer more

      Simon Jenkins

Editorials & Letters

  • Trades Union Congress leaflets are displayed on the first day of the annual conference in Brighton on 8 September 2024.

    Editorial
    The Guardian view on Keynesian naivety: workers must be able to bargain for a fair share

  • Yellow-and-black Bee Network bus drives through Manchester at night

    Editorial
    The Guardian view on a boost for buses: reversing deregulation is the right move

  • People, some in hoods and balaclavas, stand in front of flames with St George's flag and Union Jack in background and police officer in foreground

    Letters
    Economic inequality leads to anger – and riots

  • The Summerland fire on the Isle of Man, 2 August 1973

    Letters
    Grenfell brought back memories of Summerland fire

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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

  • Environmentalists mark World Water Day in San Salvador holding posters that read: ‘I fight for life, I defend water’, while one marcher holds a picture of slain Indigenous environmental activist Berta Caceres.

    The age of extinction
    Almost 200 people killed last year trying to defend the environment, report finds

  • Dozens of sharks swimming away from a reef

    Sharks
    Sharks deserting coral reefs as oceans heat up, study shows

  • steam billows from the four Drax cooling towers at dusk in Selby, North Yorkshire

    Explainer
    Why ‘the UK’s biggest carbon emitter’ receives billions in green subsidies

From the UK

  • Latest earnings data will set the level of the UK’s triple-lock pensions next year

    Business live
    UK state pension on track to rise 4% under triple lock, latest wage growth data shows

  • The Guardian viewed on a mobile phone.

    Media
    Internet replaces TV as UK’s most popular news source for first time

    • Prisons
      Parole Board’s move to release murderer is ‘betrayal’, says victim’s mother

    • Politics
      Britons should be able to use wider range of ID to vote, says watchdog

    • Police
      Sunak and Braverman wrong to lambast Met over Palestine demos, report says

    • Economics
      UK debt must be steered off unsustainable course, warns Lords committee

    • Health
      Covid lockdowns prematurely aged girls’ brains more than boys’, study finds

    • Money
      Martin Lewis: authorities handle unpaid council tax like ‘worst loan sharks’

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  • An aerial view of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

    Japan
    Fukushima nuclear plant: operation begins to remove radioactive debris

  • Selena Gomez pictured on the red carpet at Toronto international film festival on Monday

    Selena Gomez
    Selena Gomez reveals she’s unable to carry her own children due to health risks

    • Bali
      Indonesia puts moratorium on new Bali hotels amid overtourism fears

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

    • US
      Harvey Weinstein taken to hospital for emergency heart surgery

    • Venezuela
      Anti-Maduro campaign ‘stronger than ever’ after Venezuelan election, says Machado

    • Science
      Pathogenic microbes blown vast distances by winds, scientists discover

    • US
      Republicans spread unsubstantiated slurs about Haitian migrants in Ohio city

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    Book of the day
    Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari review – rage against the machine

    The author of the bestselling Sapiens offers a penetrating critique of the insidious dangers of machine learning and its capacity to manipulate the truth
  • Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump holds a rally in Johnstown<br>Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump gestures during a campaign rally at the Cambria County War Memorial Arena in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, U.S. August 30, 2024. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

    Television
    Trump: Should We Be Scared? review – no, we should be absolutely terrified

  • Triggering … (from left) Calum Ross, Paul Higgins, Brian Vernel and Daniel Portman in Kill.

    Film
    Kill review – family ties unravel during hunting trip in suspenseful forest thriller

  • Es Devlin seated on the floor working on several portraits at once

    Art
    ‘We need safe routes’: artist Es Devlin to open refugee portrait show

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    Television
    Sherwood series two finale recap – well that was the mother of all showdowns!

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    Toronto film festival 2024
    Heretic review – Hugh Grant has devilishly dark fun in talky, twisty horror

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