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  • The casket of Jimmy Carter lies in state in the Capitol

    US
    Biden hails Jimmy Carter’s strength of character in eulogy at state funeral

  • Bryant<br>Singer Anita Bryant speaks at a news conference in Boston, Ma., Friday, Sept. 1, 1978. Bryant says the forced cancellation of her scheduled concert is another example of gay rights supporters denying her constitutional rights. Bryant, an outspoken critic of gay rights, is in Boston to endorse a conservative U.S. Senate candidate. (AP Photo)

    Oklahoma
    Anita Bryant, singer and anti-gay rights crusader, dies aged 84

    • Climate crisis
      Hottest year on record sent planet past 1.5C of heating for first time in 2024

    • Venezuela
      Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado ‘kidnapped’, allies say

    • Rust film set shooting
      Alec Baldwin sues prosecutors in Rust trial, alleging civil rights violations

    • LGBTQ+ rights
      Biden’s Title IX expansion protecting LGBTQ+ students struck down

    • North Carolina
      Gunman in ‘Pizzagate’ conspiracy attack fatally shot by North Carolina police

    • Canada
      Trudeau: Trump threatened to annex Canada to distract from tariffs impact

  • LA fires before and after photos. A composite of two images - on the left, homes in neat lines, on the right, smoke and fire.

    Before and after
    Satellite pictures show devastation of California blazes

  • Firefighter aims hose at house engulfed in flames

    Explainer
    What are the unprecedented conditions facing firefighters in LA?

  • Smoke from the Eaton fire blankets Altadena, California.

    Los Angeles
    Burned homes and rattled nerves: Altadena residents grapple with toll of deadly LA blaze

  • Wildfires have forced the evacuation of more than 130,000 people in Los Angeles

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    Video
    Timelapse shows wildfires rapidly burning across California mountains

In focus

  • a man in front of microphone as rows of people sitting look at him

    Jimmy Carter funeral
    Joe Biden speaks for a vanishing age in eulogy praising Jimmy Carter’s decency

  • Woman enters room with 'Using Room' sign on door

    Drugs
    ‘All eyes are on Glasgow’: UK’s first legal drug consumption room ready to open

    The Thistle will be available 365 days a year and provide a supervised space where drugs can be injected safely
  • Four young people wearing ‘Maga’ hats.

    Greenland
    What do Greenlanders make of Donald Trump’s advances for their home?

    Though few welcome idea of being acquired by the US, status quo as part of Denmark is not universally popular

Spotlight

  • Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg.

    '24 hours of panic to just get out the door'
    Jesse Eisenberg on self-indulgence, candid aunts and his Oscar-tipped Holocaust comedy

    The writer-director of A Real Pain and co-stars Kieran Culkin, Jennifer Grey and Will Sharpe talk about being overcome by generational trauma while making Oscar season’s funniest film
  • TOPSHOT-SURFING-OLY-PARIS-2024-BEST OF-DAY3<br>TOPSHOT - Brazil's Gabriel Medina reacts after getting a large wave in the 5th heat of the men's surfing round 3, during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, in Teahupo'o, on the French Polynesian Island of Tahiti, on July 29, 2024. (Photo by Jerome BROUILLET / AFP) (Photo by JEROME BROUILLET/AFP via Getty Images)

    Sport
    World Sports Photography Awards 2025 winners revealed – in pictures

  • Noah Wyle in The Pitt

    TV
    The Pitt review – real-time medical drama puts Noah Wyle back in ER

    There are interestingly knotty issues covered in the series, set over one hellish shift, but soapy acting and thinly written characters ultimately derail
  • Composite image of women’s workout wear (jogging pants, vest top, puffer jacket, white socks and white trainers) as well as a water bottle against a blue and orange background.

    Fashion
    Making moves: what to wear for your work out

    From parkruns to pilates classes, here is the kit that will make getting out of bed to work out on a cold morning a little easier
    • Smiling Michael Sheen

      Culture
      ‘I’m bursting with ideas’: Michael Sheen launches new national theatre for Wales

    • Celebrator of car crashes … Marinetti at a desk with some futurist magazines.

      Art
      ‘We will glorify war – and scorn for women’: Marinetti, the futurist Mussolini sidekick who outdid Elon Musk

    • illustration of a woman exercising with different emojis around her

      How to start
      Lift, rest, recover: how to start weightlifting

    • a woman sitting on an armchair with a row of people behind her with their backs to her

      Well actually
      I chose to be childfree. I didn’t think I was choosing isolation, too

  • destroyed houses on a hillside by the sea

    The chronicle of a fire foretold

    Rebecca Solnit
    • Aka Hansen

      Forget it, Trump: Greenland doesn’t want to be ruled by the US – or Denmark

      Aka Hansen
    • Coffin of Jimmy Carter covered in US flag is borne up the aisle past dignitaries including President Biden, Vice-President Kamala Harris and former presidents Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump

      The Guardian view
      Jimmy Carter’s funeral: requiem for a good man and a better era

    • An image of a phone showing Elon Musk's X account, with a union jack in the background.

      Elon Musk’s rage-fests on X make it clear that he wants something. I think I know what it is

      Emma Brockes
    • Mary Bokassa, Kelyan’s mother, with a picture of her son aged 13.

      Loved ones mourn Kelyan Bokassa, the 14-year-old boy killed on a London bus. And we all have some thinking to do

      Gaby Hinsliff
  • Riley Leonard of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish throws the ball during the first quarter against the Penn State Nittany Lions in the Orange Bowl on Thursday night.

    College football
    Notre Dame pip Penn State in Orange Bowl thriller to reach CFP title game

    Notre Dame beat Penn State 27-24 in the Orange Bowl on Thursday night to advance to the College Football Playoff championship game
  • (clockwise from top left) Patrick Mahomes, Sam Darnold, Josh Allen, Dan Campbell, Saquon Barkley, Lamar Jackson.

    NFL playoff predictions
    Will anyone thwart the Chiefs’ three-peat bid?

  • The manager's notes of Sean Dyche are seen in the Everton programme prior to the Emirates FA Cup Third Round match against Peterborough

    Dyche’s exit puts Everton’s need to stay up in sharp focus

    Jonathan Wilson
    Manager’s departure is no surprise given his dour football but his successor faces a perilous task. Could Moyes be the right man?
  • Los Angeles Lakers head coach JJ Redick stands during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Cleveland Cavaliers, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)

    LA wildfires
    Lakers postpone Hornets game as coach Redick loses home

    The NBA has postponed Thursday’s game between the Lakers and the Charlotte Hornets in Los Angeles due to the wildfires in the region
    • Magnus Carlsen

      The wrong trousers: how dress codes can create image problem

      Emma John
    • Wayne Rooney is out at Plymouth Argyle after seven months and a winless run that left the club bottom of the Championship.

      How viewers were failed by the tell-nothing documentary craze

      Aaron Timms
    • Montreal’s Mikyla Grant-Mentis (18) celebrates her goal against the Toronto Sceptres with teammates during first period on Wednesday’s game in Vancouver.

      PWHL
      Montreal’s Poulin scores ‘Superwoman’ goal before 19,038 in Vancouver

    • TOPSHOT-ALPINE-SKI-WORLD-WOMEN-SUI-SUPERG<br>TOPSHOT - US' Lindsey Vonn competes in the Women's Super-G race as part of the FIS Alpine ski World Cup 2024-2025, in St. Moritz on December 21, 2024. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)

      Skiing
      Vonn 10th fastest in practice for first World Cup downhill in six years

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  • A minke whale breaching.

    The age of extinction
    Grey seals, minke whales and bluefin tuna: is the North Sea bouncing back to its glory days?

  • Alaska - Frontline Of Global Warming<br>AK - JUNE 18: In this aerial image, caribous are seen at the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) on June 18, 2017 in Alaska, United States. In April 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to expand drilling in the Arctic Ocean just four months after his predecessor Barack Obama banned, as a part of 'America First Energy Plan' to reduce dependence on imported oil. In June Trump announced that the United States withdrew from the Paris agreement on climate change. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)

    US
    Alaska sues Biden administration over oil and gas drilling leases in Arctic refuge

  • aerial view of banks in Canary Wharf in east London.

    Business
    Six big US banks quit net zero alliance before Trump inauguration

  • An aerial view of sea and forested shore, a single boat in the centre heading towards a pier

    Environment
    Want to sponsor a piece of ocean paradise? How one Pacific island’s novel response to rising seas is paying off

  • a car drives along a border fence

    Immigration
    US Senate advances Laken Riley Act, which would detain undocumented immigrants for theft

    Laken Riley Act passed House on Tuesday by 264 to 159, showing Democrats are feeling pressure over immigration
  • a police tape in front of buildings

    New Orleans
    New Orleans truck attack victims sue city for failing to protect them

  • Elon Musk

    Artificial intelligence
    Elon Musk says all human data for AI training ‘exhausted’

  • side-by-side images of men in suits looking ahead

    US supreme court
    Samuel Alito spoke to Trump hours before sentencing delay request

    • Weather
      Winter storm to hit US south again, carrying in snow and freezing weather

    • Donald Trump
      New York court declines to block sentencing in Trump’s hush-money case

    • Meta
      Meta has ‘heard the message’ from Trump, says whistleblower Frances Haugen

    • US
      Extremism in US military is ‘sleeping danger’ says author of Pentagon report

    • Technology
      Google and Microsoft donate $1m each to Trump’s inaugural fund

    • Space
      Bezos’s Blue Origin schedules, then delays first orbital launch

  • A long line of people sitting on the sand in the desert beside a border wall

    Rights and freedom
    Libya expels 600 Nigeriens in ‘dangerous and traumatising’ desert journey

  • man gives a thumbs up

    World
    Uruguay’s popular former president José Mujica reveals he is dying of cancer

    • Germany
      Elon Musk heaps praise on AfD’s Alice Weidel during live talk on X

    • Donald Trump
      Greenland’s prime minister calls for calm after Trump comments

    • Germany
      Birkenstock sues ‘copycat’ rivals claiming its sandals are applied art

    • Italy
      Italian mayor vows to stop sale of Neapolitan islet to wealthy speculator

    • Americas
      Venezuela tumbles deeper into dictatorship with Nicolás Maduro set to extend 12-year rule

    • Italy
      Giorgia Meloni hopes to attend Trump’s inauguration after receiving invite

Podcasts

Podcasts

  • John B Calhoun in 1971 with his Utopia 25 mouse experiment. Photograph: Stan Wayman/The Life Picture Collection/Shutterstock

    The Audio Long Read
    The ‘mad egghead’ who built a mouse utopia – podcast

  • Donald Trump and Mark Zuckerberg

    Politics Weekly America
    Silicon Valley leaders bend the knee to Trump – podcast

  • Farmer Ruairidh Mackay at Stronmagachan farm at Inveraray with the remains of lambs he believes have been killed by white-tailed eagles

    Today in Focus
    It was a wildlife conservation triumph, then came the corpses – podcast

  • Tottenham goalkeeper Antonin Kinsky (left) and their winning goalscorer Lucas Bergvall celebrate after the Carabao Cup semi-final first leg match between Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on 8 January 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Tom Jenkins)

    Football Weekly
    A huge night for Tottenham in the League Cup – Football Weekly Extra

  • Attention span

    Science Weekly
    Where did our attention spans go, and can we get them back? – podcast

  • Stephen Colbert: ‘We here want to send our love and concern to all of the residents of Los Angeles, who are facing what has been described as the most destructive fire in the city’s history.’

    Culture
    Stephen Colbert on Angelenos: ‘Doing everything they can to help one another’

    Late-night hosts discuss the wildfires besieging Los Angeles while Donald Trump fixates on annexing Greenland and other nonsense
  • Lily Allen with her Miss Me? co-host Miquita Oliver, in June 2024.

    Music
    Lily Allen takes break from podcast, citing poor mental health: ‘I’m spiralling’

  • Sergei Prokofiev in 1935

    Book of the day
    The Sound of Utopia by Michel Krielaars review – the musicians persecuted by Stalin

  • Dreams on a Pillow game artwork

    Games
    ‘Talking about the Palestinian story was forbidden’: a developer’s struggle to make a game about the 1948 Nakba

  • Grunn.

    Games
    Grunn review – part gardening sim, part survival horror thriller

  • man wearing patterned shirt speaks into microphone with red streamers in the background

    Film
    But what about … the most overlooked performances of this awards season

  • Kissing on the dancefloor is in, according to fashion influencer Camille Charrière.

    Fashion
    How ‘ins and outs’ are defining the look of 2025

  • a woman sitting on an armchair with a row of people behind her with their backs to her

    Well actually
    I chose to be childfree. I didn’t think I was choosing isolation, too

    I’ll never stop trying, but parents and childfree people both have to work hard to maintain a community
  • Leena Norms

    Life
    How to be a half-arse human: ‘You probably aren’t going to have clean knickers all the time’

    Is it better to fail half the time than do nothing at all? Of course! Author and poet Leena Norms explains the fine art of being slapdash and happy
  • A person in athletic wear is sitting on the floor. She is holding a bottle in front of a camera also propped up on the floor

    Well actually
    Are you falling for wellness misinformation online? Here’s how to tell

  • Famed restaurateur Alice Waters chats with the Duchess of Sussex in Netflix’s With Love, Meghan.

    Let them eat sponge cake
    We watched Meghan Markle’s cooking show trailer so you don’t have to

  • Illustration of boots, an pan, and a pizza box

    Well Actually
    Are PFAS in everything? What you need to know about ‘forever chemicals’

  • Illustration of two hands with thumbs and index fingers forming a circle, a scale and geometric shapes.

    How to start
    ‘The only thing you need is your own mind’: how to start meditating

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  • Donald Trump Jr during a visit to Nuuk, Greenland.

    Donald Trump
    People in Greenland: share your reaction to Trump’s comments

  • Expressive woman watching television and holding the remote control

    Television
    Tell us about the times you feel TV has gone too far

  • Fertility and population illustration

    World news
    What questions do you have about the fertility crisis?

  • Light traffic drives on a snow covered Pennsylvania Avenue in downtown Washington DC.

    US weather
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From our global editions

  • President of Bougainville, Ishmael Toroama

    Pacific leaders
    ‘No one will stop our people’: Bougainville president defiant in push for independence

  • Women gather at a public water point in Mtandile township in Lilongwe, Malawi.

    Reproductive rights
    ‘I’ve seen women suffer’: Malawi’s religious leaders fight for legal abortions

  • The singer, guitarist and pianist Victorial Canal.

    Music
    ‘It was anything but chill!’ Rising star Victoria Canal on performing with Coldplay – and what Tom Cruise taught her

  • Dining across the dividers Allison (left) and Michael, facing each other across a restaurant table

    Dining across the divide
    ‘I’m angry about elderly, supposedly celibate priests giving women advice on reproductive health’

In case you missed it

  • bench with flames and smoke in the background

    Analysis
    The Los Angeles wildfires are climate disasters compounded

  • Man points to border wall

    US
    Immigration groups ‘doing everything we can’ amid Trump deportation threat

    As the incoming president pledges a crackdown, activist groups anticipating migrant raids are preparing to resist
  • Graphic image showing Victor Pelevin and scenes from Russia in the background.

    The long read
    The mysterious novelist who foresaw Putin’s Russia – and then came to symbolise its moral decay

    Victor Pelevin made his name in 90s Russia with scathing satires of authoritarianism. But while his literary peers have faced censorship and fled the country, he still sells millions. Has he become a Kremlin apologist?
  • Palisades fire burns during a windstorm on the west side of Los Angeles.

    ‘Never seen anything like this’
    LA’s night of horror as furious wildfires ignited

  • A Trump aircraft on the runway in Nuuk, Greenland.

    US politics
    Why is Donald Trump talking about annexing Greenland?

  • Lichfield Cathedral from Memorial Gardens with snow in winter<br>D8RG53 Lichfield Cathedral from Memorial Gardens with snow in winter

    Travel
    Where tourists seldom tread, part 14: three English towns form the unlikely end of the Silk Road

  • A middle-aged woman drinks a glass of milk

    Film
    More fizzle than pop: the limits of Nicole Kidman’s erotic drama Babygirl

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  • Artem, 22, from Luhansk, a city in eastern Ukraine that seceded in 2014 and was annexed by Russia in 2022

    Picture essay
    On asphalt we grow: the skateboarders of Ukraine

    Amid the devastation in Ukraine, the photojournalist Robin Tutenges has captured how skateboarding provides a vital escape for the country’s young people – an act of resilience and freedom as they reclaim the streets in the face of conflict and trauma
  • Flag-draped casket in spotlight

    In pictures
    Jimmy Carter funeral: citizens, politicians and loved ones say goodbye

  • ‘You no longer knew who your friends were’ … Aristocratic reception in the garden with a dead fox, Palermo, 1987

    Photography
    Chasing the mafia: the wild, Vespa-riding life of Letizia Battaglia – in pictures

  • Various nominees for the Best Art Vinyl award.

    Music
    ‘Is it sexual? Or violent?’: 2024’s best record sleeves

  • People wearing insulated clothing carry boxes into an ice cave

    Photos of the day
    Antarctic cave and a red squirre

  • Oh deer … an image from Dana Stirling’s Why Am I Sad?

    January blues?
    Images that share your sadness

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