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  • The Sunday read
    Are the US midterms going to see a blue wave?

    Graphic illustration of Trump looking up at a tidal wave.

  • Improve your memory
    10 tips, from reading a book to getting more sleep

    The Experts memory illustration Credit: Guardian Design; Photographer/Agency

  • Autism
    Are experts changing their minds on a single autism spectrum?

    Illustration of pink circles, turning red towards the centre, where a boy sits looking towards a crowd of people coming from the left

  • Imogen West-Knights
    I’m sick of smug celebrities on the podcast circuit

    Imogen West-Knights

  • Eagle’s Nest
    Hitler’s retreat was torched – should it be rebuilt?

    Flames engulf the Eagle's Nest mountain lodge at night, with fog filling the valley below.

  • Power cuts and piles of rubbish
    Anger over Johannesburg’s run-down infrastructure

    Recyclers sort through bags of rubbish on a street corner beside old buildings with a skyscraper in the background

News

  • A man walks near security personnel ahead of a ‘Save Democracy’ march towards Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi, India, on Sunda

    India
    Indian forces tighten security in Delhi ahead of big opposition protest

  • Crypto Billions Stolen In Binance HackIn this photo illustration, the Binance logo is displayed on a phone screen adjacent to an image from a crypto exchange on a laptop on October 30, 2026 in London, England. The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, experienced a $6.3 billion security exploit yesterday, representing the largest digital asset theft to date. The incident occurred when an unauthorised attacker drained funds from the exchange's hot wallets across 10 distinct blockchain networks within a 20-minute window. In response, Binance temporarily suspended all deposits and withdrawals, and co-founder Yi He confirmed that the exchange will fully cover all user losses using company assets.

    Cryptocurrencies
    Binance resumes customer withdrawals after record $6.3bn hack

  • A boy lies in a hospital bed as his parents stand alongside, the boy's father resting his hand on the boy's head

    Israel-Gaza war
    ‘What’s our crime?’: A Palestinian family’s fight to get care for son injured by Hamas rocket

    Kinaan Dadou, 10, has been left disabled since 7 October 2023 as his parents struggle to find funding for specialist treatment
  • Melbourne street art depicting the former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern.

    Sydney
    Jacinda Ardern suggests politicians ‘rebuild trust by building financial security’

    Former New Zealand PM has moved to Sydney and is lecturing at a university – and from stage of city’s famous landmark

The Sunday read

  • Graphic illustration of Trump looking up at a tidal wave.

    Are the US midterms going to see a blue wave of Democrats winning seats – or a blue flood?

    Donald Trump uttered five words this summer that could seal the Republican party’s fate: ‘Pretend I’m on the ticket’

In focus

  • Xi Jinping and Donald Trump watch as people play music

    Analysis
    The US-China trade war seems to have subsided – but the sense of calm is misleading

    A truce has cooled the trade conflict, but neither country has done anything to limit the outbreak of new hostilities
  • Recyclers sort through bags of rubbish on a street corner beside old buildings with a skyscraper in the background

    South Africa
    Piles of rubbish, power cuts and potholes: anger grows over Johannesburg’s run-down infrastructure

  • Flames engulf the Eagle's Nest mountain lodge at night, with fog filling the valley below.

    Germany
    Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest retreat was torched in an arson attack. Should it be rebuilt?

  • UNALASKA - OCTOBER 16, 2026: Carl E. Moses Boat Harbor.

    Alaska
    It’s closer to Beijing than Washington – and residents of this Alaskan outpost are reeling from Trump’s policies

  • A disheveled Epstein in a sex offender registry photo.

    Republicans
    Ads accusing Republican candidates of protecting Epstein fill airwaves in final midterm push

  • Collage of Elon Musk wearing a red MAGA hat, surrounded by dollar bills and a descending red chart line

    Elon Musk
    The staggering $446m Elon Musk has spent on the US midterms – visualised

  • A black-and-white and red grid of 12 squares, with 9 filled with headshots, overlayed by red circles.

    Voters
    Days away from a national verdict on Trump 2.0, we check in with nine people across the political spectrum

Features

  • Illustration of pink circles, turning red towards the centre, where a boy sits looking towards a crowd of people coming from the left

    Autism
    ‘The term is becoming unrecognisable’: have the experts who believed in a single autism spectrum changed their minds?

  • The Experts memory illustration Credit: Guardian Design; Photographer/Agency

    The experts
    How to improve your memory: 10 easy, enjoyable expert tips – from reading a book to getting more sleep

More features

  • Joe Dunthorne.

    Books
    Like many authors, I’m bombarded by scam fan mail. I wasn’t prepared for what would happen when I wrote back

  • DANES, DICAPRIO, ROMEO + JULIET, 1996RW588E DANES, DICAPRIO, ROMEO + JULIET, 1996

    Film
    Romeo + Juliet at 30: how Baz Luhrmann made teens fall in love with Shakespeare

  • Illustration of crossed arms, hands touching wrists, against a pink background

    This is how we do it
    This is how we do it: ‘We don’t have penetration – but it’s by far the best sex I’ve ever had’

  • A woman and man sitting at a restaurant table

    Dining across the divide
    Dining across the divide: ‘My family are all Trumpian, so I’ve had a lot of practice talking to people who are far right’

  • An illustration of a man with white hair turning away, arms folded, with a thought above his head

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    My wife and I are in our late 70s and have no children. Who can help us in our old age?

  • A red "Steal" key with an enter arrow sits among black laptop keyboard keys

    Scam watch
    A gift to scammers: why you should probably keep your birthday a secret

    Taiwan
    ‘Our voices, our journey’: 2026 Taiwan Pride parade – in pictures

    An estimated 150,000 people took to the streets of Taipei to attend the 24th annual Taiwan LGBT+ Pride parade celebrating gender diversity and inclusivity
    Gallery12

More sport

  • Ciara Mageean, pictured in Glasgow in 2019

    Athletics
    Ciara Mageean, European 1500m gold medallist with Ireland, dies aged 34

  • Harriet Dart celebrates with her trophy after her three-set defeat of Lilli Tagger in the Guangzhou Open final.

    Tennis
    Dart wins maiden WTA title at 30 with Guangzhou Open triumph

  • Enzo Maresca holds his chin

    Premier League
    Maresca rues ‘silly’ errors after Manchester City are upset by Brighton

  • Zion Suzuki carries the ball over his own line to hand Fulham their equalising goal

    Premier League
    Suzuki horror own goal haunts Aston Villa to hand Fulham a point

Opinion

  • Polly Hudson

    What kind of prepper are you?

    Polly Hudson
    I have been asking friends and family this question all week. The answers reveal precisely how they deal with fear
  • Imogen West-Knights

    I’m sick of smug celebrities on the podcast circuit. No wonder there’s a fuss when someone speaks the truth

    Imogen West-Knights
    It was so refreshing to hear Aaron Sorkin admit he was bad at parts of directing after his movie flop. If only others could be as frank, says writer Imogen West-Knights

More opinion

  • Dave Schilling

    A curmudgeon’s guide to the 2026 US elections

    Dave Schilling
  • Kojo Koram

    The UK’s legal cannabis market is booming – so why can’t this talented artist get any to treat his epilepsy?

    Kojo Koram
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Hear me out: maybe Norway should give Melania Trump the Nobel peace prize

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Carly Dober

    Relying on AI is rotting your brain. But here’s what you can do about it

    Carly Dober

Editorials

  • The Guardian view
    50 years of The Selfish Gene: flawed, outdated, yet still a model of truly popular science writing

More top stories

  • A Rubik's cube with faces showing an explosion and American flags appears twisted apart, surrounded by smoke

    Trump administration
    As Trump fans the flames of a world on fire, can diplomacy take back control?

    Amid the chaos, havoc and war caused by a capricious and amoral US president, countries are waking up to the dangers of being excluded and abused by America
  • Prime minister Donald Tusk speaks into a microphone with a furrowed, animated expression

    Poland
    Tusk defends overhaul of Poland’s constitutional court despite protests

  • Two women sitting and talking

    Israel
    ‘You need the power of all your votes’: Bedouin women secure success for Arab parties in Israeli election

  • Police are seen around the premises of Poland's top constitutional court after its head was suspended in Warsaw, Poland, on Friday.
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    Poland
    Riot police deployed to Poland’s constitutional court after judge suspended

  • A large display features photos, candles, orange flowers and a smiling skull decoration

    ICE
    ‘Love as resilience’: Latino immigrants find joy in honoring ancestors despite ICE arrests

  • emissions rise from a power plant

    Coal
    Trump boosted half of US coal plants with taxpayer dollars and ‘free passes to pollute’, report says

  • A baby orangutan is held in the arms of a rescuer with parched forest in the background.

    Cop17
    ‘Bunch of baloney’: calls grow for Cop summit reforms as countries on track to fail nature targets

  • Smuggled green parrots are crammed inside white pipes, blocked by wire grids

    The age of extinction
    Twice as many plants and animals sold in wildlife trade as previously thought, says report

  • data4 copyblurr

    Datacentres
    Electrocutions, disease and no pay: how workers risk exploitation in Europe’s datacentres

UK news

  • Tommy Robinson
    Tommy Robinson conviction leaves far right with leadership void

  • Children
    English children’s homes are in crisis. Does Denmark hold the answers?

  • Gambling
    High street ‘slot farms’ could avoid budget tax rise through bingo hall loophole

  • London
    Almost 140 arrested at protest against Palestine Action ban outside US embassy

World news

  • Society
    ‘Progress takes time’: Stonewall CEO on turning down the heat on the trans debate

  • Greece
    ‘The last fortress’: historic Athens cafe closes as countercultural area gentrifies

  • India
    ‘Don’t worry about the leopard. It’s a man you don’t want to run into’: Delhi women reclaim the outdoors

  • Jamaica
    ‘Plantation tourism’: court victory signals hope in Jamaica’s fight to keep beaches public

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Culture

  • 'ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA' PLAY, ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY, SWAN THEATRE, STRATFORD UPON AVON, BRITAIN - APR 2006Harriet Walter and Patrick Stewart 'ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA' PLAY, ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY, SWAN THEATRE, STRATFORD UPON AVON, BRITAIN - APR 2006

    Patrick Stewart
    Dafne Keen and Harriet Walter on working with Patrick Stewart: ‘I’ve never seen anyone so ecstatic’

  • Pos and Maseo from De La Soul

    Honest playlist
    ‘It seems weird for an MC – but lyrics have never been a thing for me’: De La Soul’s honest playlist

What to watch

  • French author Gisèle Pelicot, wearing a silk scarf, looks at the camera

    Stage
    The best theatre to stream this month: the Gisèle Pelicot trial becomes an all-star play that ‘just floors you’

  • People around a bar table – some smiling, some looking shocked – as they watch James Acaster on a screen above them.

    UK
    ‘They cheer like it’s football’: Celebrity Traitors fans hit bars to watch climax

  • A man with dark hair in an unbuttoned white shirt leans on a wooden railing, looking aside

    TV review
    Yaga review – this erotic witchy thriller starring Hudson Williams is a total head-messer

  • Carrie Anne Moss As Katherine in Yaga.

    The watcher
    Yaga: chicken bones? Saltburn parties? This folk horror is so debauched, it’s hilarious

What to listen to

  • Conductor Vasily Petrenko performs, holding a baton with the other hand in the air

    Music
    Strauss: An Alpine Symphony album review – monumental work’s mystic vision guides Petrenko

  • Skepta, in a beanie and jacket, stares intensely at the camera against a green backdrop

    ‘Ignorance towards immigration is horrible. It’s not British’
    Skepta on his long-awaited return – and his anger at the racist right

  • A blue-lit shot of Bombstrap frontperson Eva Kah onstage.

    Add to playlist
    The week’s best new tracks and the act you need to know: Dutch squat-punks Bombstrap’s uncompromising racket

  • A close-up shot of Radie Peat, wearing a black leather jacket, gold chain and gold earrings, with short cropped strawberry blonde hair

    Folk album of the month
    Radie Peat: No Human Tongue Can Tell review – Lankum singer’s solo debut is the year’s best folk album

What to read

  • Helen Garner smiles gently, standing before a tree trunk outdoors

    Books
    ‘Being hated is very bracing’: Helen Garner on surviving three marriages and being called a ‘rotten feminist’

  • Book covers

    What we're reading
    Ian Rankin, Louise Kennedy and Guardian readers on the books they enjoyed in October

  • Phlippa Gregory.

    The books of my life
    Philippa Gregory: ‘I read 100 of the 18th century’s most popular novels – the perfect author’s apprenticeship’

  • Aea Varfis-van Warmelo

    Fiction
    Attention Seeking Behaviour by Aea Varfis-van Warmelo review – a slippery liar’s taleaFiction

What to play

  • Draga, protagonist of Black Tides Draga's Wake, played by Dominik Diamond

    After 50 years of playing video games, I’m finally starring in one

    Dominik Diamond
  • Night Plane game screen shows a figure in the aisle of a plane with text onscreen reading 'Hey Bestie You Gotta Run! Ruuun!

    Review
    Night Plane – join the jumbo jet to hell in this indie horror game

  • A blocky Minecraft character glides with a large orange and white Fortnite-style glider over terrain

    Pushing Buttons
    Social media is full of weird video game mashups. Where are they all coming from?

    Newsletter
  • In The Killing Stone game, a horned demon looms over small figurines on a glowing ritual mat

    Games
    Eight great new indie horror games for Halloween

More culture

  • A small silhouetted man speaks charismatically at a podium inside a giant shark's open jaws

    The big idea
    Why you should treat charisma as a red flag

  • A still from Manhood

    Documentary films
    ‘Never big enough’: inside the booming penis enlargement industry

  • From left: LeVar Burton, Patrick Stewart and Marina Sirtis in Star Trek.

    Culture
    ‘We freed Patrick Stewart!’ Star Trek’s Marina Sirtis on breaking in her beloved but very serious co-star

  • Aidan Turner sits on a patterned rug in a purple blazer, salmon shirt, brown tie with a white pattern, baggy navy trousers and shiny purple brogues, laughing and looking upwards

    Television
    ‘The sexy stuff has got to be coming to an end, right?’: Rivals star Aidan Turner on beards, ballroom dancing and putting Poldark to bed

Lifestyle

  • Kev and Danielle smile for a selfie on a beach path near the sea

    The moment I knew
    He loved to travel, I had a fear of flying. I expected him to skol his beer and wish me well

  • Man eating noddles with chopsticks

    Food
    ‘I’m sweating … can I get some tissues on stage?’ Behind the scenes at Darwin’s international laksa festival

Food

  • Child's play kitchen with utensils hanging up and food on a plate

    Chefs' family meals
    Don’t make sugar a treat – or hide the broccoli: top chefs on how to make your kids happy eaters

  • Two bowls of roast apples with toffee sauce, walnuts and soured cream, beside spoons

    Autumn food
    Jackson Boxer’s recipe for roast apples with toffee sauce and soured cream

  • Ayllu's sakura no hana.

    Drinks
    Cocktail of the week: Ayllu’s sakura no hana – recipe

  • Breaded fried pickle spears fill a tray beside a bowl of spicy orange dipping sauce

    Pickles
    Gherkins galore! 17 delicious ways to enjoy pickles – from frickles to pickletinis

Fashion & beauty

  • Law Roach in a black suit and Zendaya in a blue dress and fascinator.

    Fashion industry
    A-listers and AI stylists: how high-street brands are staging a fashion comeback

  • A model wearing a pink raincoat and black rain hat tilts her face upward in side profile amid colourful raindrops

    Dripping with style
    What fashion insiders wear in the rain – plus we pick the best raincoats and accessories

  • A composite image of a purple furry jacket, a cream baseball cap with 'mischievous nature' written in red writing, a cream grid check wrap shirt, wide leg blue jeans, a chunky silver star ring, chestnut brown calf length boots and a red lip oil on a raspberry pink and peach horizontally striped background.

    Styling
    Hot fuzz: what to wear with a fluffy coat

    Gallery3
  • A colourful composite image of a woman's waist.

    Cosmetic surgery
    The shocking rise of rib remodelling: ‘I wanted that hourglass shape’

Relationships

  • An illustration of people on a date with a robot on all fours being used as a table for a meal

    Dating
    Is AI your new wingman? How chatbots are transforming dating

  • Painting: The dispute at cards by Jan Steen

    Leading questions
    My sister-in-law is nearly 40 but cannot handle losing at board games. What can I do?

  • Two robotic hands reach toward a glowing crystal ball with digital code symbols floating around it

    Artificial intelligence
    Computerised clairvoyance: psychics push back against AI-generated readings

  • An illustration looking down on someone holding up a smartphone surrounded by speech bubbles with microphone icons and sound waves

    You be the judge
    Should my girlfriend stop sending me 10-minute voice notes?

Health & fitness

  • People sit at a bar with screens around them showing a weight-loss jab being performed

    Body positivity
    Everyone is thin and we’re not allowed to say so: the toxic legacy of body positivity

  • A woman looking at herself in the mirror

    Science
    ‘Ferritin face’: are social media claims about iron deficiency fact – or fiction?

  • Two women looking over fence

    Well actually
    Sin or virtue? How envy can actually be helpful

  • Marathon runners and a GLP-1 bottle image in a picture.

    Running
    ‘I was so sick’: is running a marathon while on a GLP-1 a bad idea?

More lifestyle

  • Two cyclists ride mountain bikes with fat tyres through a snowy forest trail at sunrise

    Travel
    It’s snow time: the best winter activity holidays in Europe for non-skiers

  • woman grimacing at her laptop

    Email
    ‘Apologies for any confusion!’: how to write the perfect passive-aggressive email

  • A composite image of Nelson and Louise standing together smiling against a plain white background

    Blind date
    ‘He said: “If heaven is real, you’ll definitely be going there”, which might be the nicest thing anyone’s ever said to me’

  • Andy Taeger, who has curly hair, glasses and a beard, and James Purcell, who has shorter dark hair, pose with the box of The Campaign for North Africa

    Board games
    ‘We’re looking at a 30-year run’: UK pair aim to complete world’s most complex board game

Documentary

  • Dream of Birds

    What happens when a forest loses its birdsong? Following clues hidden in the sounds birds make while asleep, Argentinian physicist Gabriel Mindlin uncovers a hidden extinction – not of species, but of memory – and sets out to revive vanished melodies before they disappear forever.

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