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  • Illustration of a woman and man stood on a laptop with the man looking at the screen and the woman with her head in her hands

    Family
    We had an ordinary marriage. Then I found out my husband had been viewing images of child abuse

    For Emily and her husband, Matthew, everything changed when the police knocked on the door at 6.20am one morning. Could their family survive?
  • Jacques Neefjes in his lab at Leiden University.

    Science
    One man’s mission to revive a forgotten, life-saving cancer drug

  • A figure made out of east Asian food items, standing on a bright pink and blue plinth, against a yellow background

    Lifestyle
    ‘America was futuristic once. Now all the crazy things are from Asia’: why the British are going wild for kawaii culture

    From bubble tea and corn dogs to K-pop and plushies, Korean, Japanese, Taiwanese and Chinese brands have captured the pocket-money market
  • Two lower arms touching each other

    This is how we do it
    ‘I bought a book on tantra – erections are not necessary’

    Caleb’s never felt attractive but after two years with Jen – and buying a book that rejected the normal sex agenda – his self-confidence is growing
    • Jude Law as Henry VIII with Alicia Vikander as Catherine Parr.

      Film
      Royal stinker: how Henry VIII changed from heroic to hideous on our screens

    • Shafts of light surround the Eiffel Tower during the Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony.

      ‘It was like us, a chaotic mess’
      France enjoys Paris Games opening ceremony

    • Katherine Ryan<br>Katherine Louisa Ryan is a Canadian comedian, writer, presenter and actress based in the United Kingdom

      This much I know
      Katherine Ryan: ‘My love language is intimacy. That’s what my comedy is about’

    • Illustration showing a person with head in hands over background of a clock and numbers

      UK
      Starting salaries are £180,000 – but do young lawyers believe the hours, stress and burnout are worth it?

Paris Olympic Games 2024

  • Gianmarco Tamberi with the Italian flag during his team’s boat trip down the River Seine.

    Italy
    Tamberi admits he lost wedding ring in Seine during boat parade

  • Opening Ceremony - Olympic Games Paris 2024: Day 0<br>PARIS, FRANCE - JULY 26: Athletes of Team Palestine wave flags on the athletes' parade team boat along the River Seine during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 on July 26, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images)

    Palestine
    No handshakes with Israelis unless they recognise state, says Olympic head

    • Andy Murray on the Team GB boat during the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics.

      Tennis
      ‘A great champion’: Murray remembered by rivals before retiring at Olympics

    • Georgia's Nino Salukvadze has competed for three different teams at the Olympics

      Shooting
      Georgia's Salukvadze becomes first 10-time female Olympian

    • US fencing has been beset by allegations around officiating.

      Fencing
      Sport enters Olympics under cloud of accusations and referee bans

    • Britain’s Adam Peaty in action in the swimming heats.

      Swimming
      Peaty calls for ‘fair game’ amid anti-doping concern at swimming heats

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    2 Japan 1 0 1 2
    2 Kazakhstan 1 0 1 2
    5 Australia 1 0 0 1
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    Sport

    Opinion

    • President Joe Biden at the White House on Thursday.

      Last Tango in Washington: how sad, sidelined Joe Biden may yet have the last laugh

      Simon Tisdall
      Far from being a lame duck, the president can use his time in office to champion US democracy and tackle unfinished business abroad
    • US vice president Kamala Harris speaks with former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as they endorse her as the Democratic presidential candidate, on 26 July.

      This is a misogyny emergency. A huge outpouring is coming in the runup to the US election

      Carole Cadwalladr
    • A young middle-aged white man with brown hair and a bomber jacket smiling and giving a double thumbs-up in front of a blue press background.

      Elon Musk’s 20-year-old estranged daughter responded to his rant about her

      Arwa Mahdawi
    • Customers queue outside an Apple store in Shanghai, China, during the first day of sale of the iPhone 15, September 2023.

      My new iPhone symbolises stagnation, not innovation – and a similar fate awaits AI

      John Naughton
    • Henry Porter

      What I learned about Kamala Harris over our Oscars dinner

      Henry Porter
    • passenger on a bus wearing headphones

      ‘Do you mind listening to that with headphones?’ How one little phrase revolutionised my commute

      Hannah Ewens
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    Climate crisis

    • Fish and colourful coral on the Scott Reef in north-western Australia

      Australia
      North-west reefs teem with life – but they are also at the centre of a massive fossil fuel expansion

    • Beautiful autumn colours over the rolling countryside of Dartmoor National Park

      UK
      Prince William could overturn king’s windfarm ban as he orders renewable energy review for estate

    • The sky is orange as a firefighter works to contain the wildfire with a hose

      Wildfires
      'Catastrophic’ start to season in Oregon sparks alarm

    • A woman sitting on a bench among trees in autumn

      Language
      What is ‘nature’? Dictionaries urged to include humans in definition

    Around the world

    • A clutch of buildings on a hillside, perched near rugged rocks by the sea

      Italy
      Cinque Terre’s Path of Love reopens with charges to ease Insta-tourism

      Visitors will need to pay up to €15 to stroll – and take photos – along romantic 900-metre walkway in Liguria, Italy
    • Broken glass of red wine splashed on hardwood parquet floor

      Alcohol
      Why scientific support for alcohol’s health benefits is fading

    • The Nelons on a red carpet in 2018

      US
      Members of family gospel group the Nelons killed in plane crash

    • Shaman Durek and Princess Martha-Louise of Norway attend a celebrity event

      Norway
      Norwegian princess investigated over role in commemorative wedding gin

      • Ireland
        Sinéad O’Connor waxwork pulled from Dublin museum after backlash

      • US
        JD Vance called for ‘federal response’ to block women from traveling for abortions

      • UK politics
        Ministers urged to act over physical and online intimidation in UK election

      • Australia
        Surfer who lost leg in shark attack vows to be back in the water ‘in no time’

      • Drugs trade
        Mexico president calls for ‘transparency’ amid secrecy over Sinaloa cartel arrests

      • Belarus
        German man sentenced to death in Belarus begs for help on state TV

    Culture

    • Collage of Madonna and Sandra Bernhard; The Wizard of Oz; Queer as Folk; Kenny Everett; Edward Scissorhands

      Loud and queer
      Gareth Thomas, Rosie Jones and more on the culture that helped them find their true selves

      From a rugby great to a former MP, LGBTQ stars spill the beans
    • Mick Herron.

      Mick Herron
      ‘Most people didn’t know I was writing – I was a secretive kind of writer’

    • Michelle Shaughnessy dressed as a dancer

      ‘It was the first time I wasn’t obsessed with food’
      Comedians mine Ozempic trend for laughs at Edinburgh Fringe

    • The Pet shop Boys perform at the Royal Opera House, London.

      Pet Shop Boys review
      Still never being boring

    • Ursula Parrott during her 1943 trial for aiding an army deserter.

      Notes on a scandal
      Monica Heisey on why Ursula Parrott’s account of divorce is still alarmingly relatable

    • The Walking Dead Daryl Dixon<br>Daryl Dixon's arrival to France sets off a violent chain of events that inadvertently puts a young boy at the heart of a growing religious movement in danger. Daryl agrees to help shepherd the boy to safety in exchange for help returning to America.

      The watcher
      The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon – one of TV’s strangest ever franchises refuses to die

    Lifestyle

    • Brigit & Solomon

      Blind date
      I felt flustered at times – in a good way

    • Daphne Guinness

      The Q&A
      Daphne Guinness: ‘I don’t look in the mirror much. Growing up, I never thought I was beautiful’

    • ‘Lean into what’s in your heart’: Danielle and Curtis Taylor in their bold living room.

      Interiors
      In the picture: a vibrant art-filled home in Chicago

    • Flashback: Linford Christie and Brianna in 2024.

      Linford Christie and his daughter Briannah look back
      ‘It’s a curse having a dad as good as I was’

    Take part

    • Heatwave in Italy<br>epa10751450 A thermometer outside a pharmacy displays '42 degrees Celsius' in Rome, Italy, 17 July 2023. Southern Europe is experiencing a major heat wave this week with temperatures expected to climb up to 48 Celsius degrees on the islands of Sicily and Sardinia. Italy's health ministry sent on 17 July a circular letter to the country's regional governments with a series of recommendations to manage the impact of the intense heat wave the country is enduring. These recommendations include setting up a 'heat code' at emergency rooms with special, priority procedures for people suffering heat-related health issues. EPA/MASSIMO PERCOSSI

      Europe
      How are you being affected by the heatwave in southern Europe?

    • sun shines down on silhouette of person drinking from water bottle

      People in the US
      How do you stay cool in extreme heat?

    • Commuter chaos at Montarpanasse station in Paris, following a series of suspected co-ordinated arson attacks on the high-speed national rail network and ensuing widespread train cancellations.

      Paris Olympic Games 2024
      Tell us: have you been affected by travel disruption ahead of the Paris Olympics?

    • Closeup of eye with makeup<br>Closeup image of beautiful woman eye with fashion makeup. Makeup with eyeliner. Cosmetic Eyeshadow.

      Life and style
      Have you experienced so-called ‘eyebrow blindness’?

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    From our global editions

    • Palestinians flee the eastern area of Khan Younis as Israel’s bombardment begins

      ‘Like judgment day’
      Evacuees tell of fleeing Israel’s assault on Khan Younis

      Given barely any warning, many people fled with nothing as bombs fell and bullets flew around them
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      UK politics
      ‘I’ve got a massive ego!’: Jess Phillips on feminism, Farage and being an attention-seeker

    • Brian Cox as Logan Roy (L) in Succession, and Rupert Murdoch.

      Rupert Murdoch
      Are the lives of Rupert Murdoch and Succession’s Logan Roy inching closer?

    • King Charles steps out of one of the royal chauffeur-driven Bentleys

      ‘A real pioneer’
      King Charles seeks to embody green values in royal estate

    • Closeup of Mark Zuckerberg

      Analysis
      Why Zuckerberg’s multibillion-dollar gamble doesn’t just matter to Meta

    • An older woman receives a plaque in April 2024.

      Texas
      ‘I just feel like living every day’: oldest American, 115, offers tips for longevity

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      Quizzes
      Can you face Frank Paul’s fiendish summer quiz?

    • A portrait of Hazem Rahma, a director at Mubarrat Al Rehmat orphanage in Gaza City, holding two young children, atop the Palestine colours

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      The Gaza orphanage director: I carried a small boy with cerebral palsy to safety – but he died soon after

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      Music
      ‘Sublime eternal love exists within each one of us’: David Lynch on music, friendship and life’s biggest mystery

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      Weekend
      Bullied, belittled but indisputably brilliant: how Victoria Pendleton became a cycling legend; and what’s missing from Twisters? – podcast

    • Conor Niland after losing to Adrian Mannarino at Wimbledon 2011. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images

      The Audio Long Read
      ‘I’m good, I promise’: the loneliness of the low-ranking tennis player – podcast

    • AP Photo/. Tony GutierrezVice President Kamala Harris speaks during the American Federation of Teachers' 88th national convention

      Politics Weekly America
      Harris navigates Netanyahu visit - podcast

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    • Zara McDermott and Graziano Di Prima on Strictly Come Dancing

      Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph
      Can Strictly survive its biggest scandal? – podcast

    • One of the largest elephant in in the world. Craig the super tusker just outside Amboseli national park in Kenya.

      Science
      Trophy hunting: can killing and conservation go hand in hand? - podcast

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    In pictures

    • Uppal Bhupa Village, Jalandhar District, Punjab, 2015

      India
      Up on the roof: the homespun art of rural Punjab – in pictures

      Photographer Rajesh Vora has documented the grandiose sculptures that adorn the tops of buildings in north-west India
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    • A black and white photograph of people playing on the sand and in the sea

      ‘A day at the beach is such a universal pastime’
      Mariel and Katherine Tyler’s best phone picture

    • Caroline Marks's hand passes through a blue wave as it breaks over her

      Twenty photographs of the week
      Wildfires in California, Netanyahu in Washington and Snoop Dogg at the Paris Olympics

    • A colossal painted head of a woman partially submerged in the water by the bank

      Photos of the day
      Artworks in the Seine and a Swedish shipwreck

    • A pair of harvest mice greet each other on wheat stems in Dorset, UK

      The week in wildlife
      An escaped tortoise, friendly harvest mice and a giraffe on the move

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