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  • 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.

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

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

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

    Graphic illustration of Trump looking up at a tidal wave.

  • 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

  • It’s snow time
    Europe's best winter activity holidays for non-skiers

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

  • Polly Hudson
    What kind of prepper are you?

    Polly Hudson

News

  • Prime minister Donald Tusk speaks into a microphone with a furrowed, animated expression

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

  • 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

  • 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 says 90% of losses from $6.3bn hack covered as FBI says North Korea behind attack

  • Migrants in orange life jackets crowd an inflatable boat as a Border Force vessel approaches

    Immigration and asylum
    Asylum seekers still being sent to France under ‘one in one out’ weeks after scheme ended

  • Police and army vehicles behind cordon tape during a security operation on a residential street

    Northern Ireland
    Man in Belfast charged with possessing explosives and firearms

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

  • 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?

    With the far right resurgent in Germany, experts are divided as to whether the dictator’s former mountaintop retreat is better restored or left a ruin
  • 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

  • Josephine Schneider's House, a children's home, stands behind a wooden slat fence and gate

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

  • 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

  • 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’

  • 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

  • Simon Blake, wearing a green knitted vest over a white top, looks at the camera

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

  • 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

More sport

  • 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

  • Canelo Álvarez (right) exchanges punches with Christian Mbilli during their WBC super-middleweight title fight in Riyadh early on Sunday.

    Boxing
    Álvarez wins back world title as Houthi attacks cast shadow over Riyadh

  • Australia's Alex de Minaur celebrates his upset semi-final win over Germany's Alexander Zverev in Vienna

    Tennis
    ‘Super proud’ De Minaur takes down world No 1 Zverev to reach Vienna Open final

  • Everton's Courtney Brosnan catches the ball from Andrea Medina shot near the goal

    Women's Super League
    ‘Must do better’: Manchester United’s Olid demands progress after Everton draw

  • Arwa Mahdawi

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

    Arwa Mahdawi
    The first lady has been praised for ‘singlehandedly’ brokering a ceasefire in a Ukrainian city – though she might have had some help
  • 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

More opinion

  • 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
  • Christina Applegate

    Christina Applegate’s multiple sclerosis misdiagnosis is not an isolated event. I should know

    Shakira Hussein
  • For years, UK governments have tried and failed to increase growth per person in the UK. So what’s the lesson from the great British fairytale? The rebel economists Karel Williams and Sukhdev Johal explain to Aditya Chakrabortty why they believe praying for growth is a fool’s dream – and why it won’t improve your life

    Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty
    Why politicians chasing economic growth is a lie

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  • Carly Dober

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

    Carly Dober

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

  • The Guardian view
    Labour’s fiscal devolution: the future of Burnhamism will play out in municipal England

More top stories

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

    With 180,000 eligible voters, Bedouin turnout was key in Palestinian-led parties winning unprecedented 19 seats
  • 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

  • emissions rise from a power plant

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

  • 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

  • Aerial view of Wemmer Pan Road's pits dug by illegal miners, Johannesburg skyline beyond

    Mining
    Sinkholes, scarred land and scapegoats: the scourge of illegal gold mining in Johannesburg

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

  • Brexit
    Former chancellor Rachel Reeves says UK’s future is in EU as she backs Andy Burnham on Brexit

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

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

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

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

  • Spain
    Spain’s trust in high-speed rail ‘broken’ after second deadly crash this year, says PM

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

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    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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Awkwafina, in a beige jacket, lifts noodles with chopsticks over a wooden bowl.

    Television
    ‘I felt bad for my exes’: Awkwafina on making deeply personal TV – with her grandma

What to listen to

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    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

    Skepta
    ‘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’

  • Barbi Markovic, author

    Translated fiction roundup
    The best recent translated fiction – review roundup

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

    Indie games
    Eight great new indie horror games for Halloween

More culture

  • The photo of Geoffrey Barden and some of the painting men (and child) that first caught Kitty Hauser's attention

    Australian art
    ‘A whitewashing of minds’: the mania and myth of Geoffrey Bardon and the painting men of Papunya

  • Costumed as a cheering squad member, a man shouts into a megaphone, wearing a headband

    In pictures
    Japan’s Jimi Halloween, a celebration of all things mundane

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    The Guide
    Robert Pattinson embraced his inner lowlife and became one of the best actors of his era

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  • 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

  • An Italian tourist reads his book at a table outside the cafe. There is a blue-painted wooden chair next to him and the windowframes of the cafe are green. There is a large plant to the side.

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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 model walks the Bottega Veneta runway in a grey beanie and oversized camel coat

    Fashion
    DIY socks, messy collars and cummerbunds: nine wardrobe updates from the catwalks

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  • 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

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  • 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

  • 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?

  • 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

  • Stephanie Israel and Clement, pictured in July 2026

    The pet I'll never forget
    Clement was hit by a car and left to die in a ditch – then found his beautiful purpose

  • 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?

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    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

  • Hallie and her mom working on the book, with the mother dispensing wisdom and stories, and Hallie writing them down.

    Memento mori: a series about death
    I wrote a book about death. Here’s what people really think about dying

  • 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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