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In this issue

August 10, 2025

As hundreds committed the offence of putting ink to cardboard, police moved in

Nurses, doctors, retired people and architects among more than 400 protesters arrested as terrorism suspects.

4 mins

Netanyahu's government divided over plans for military takeover of Gaza

Hamas has been decimated and most buildings destroyed. The Israeli military and hostage families fear another assault on the Palestinians will cause more civilian deaths and achieve nothing

5 mins

It's our life's work to make this region safe for our children

Sharone Lifschitz's 83-year-old father, Oded, was taken hostage by Hamas and died in captivity in Gaza. Her mother, Yocheved, 86, was released in October 2023.

1 mins

If you tire of your manor, JD, my Airbnb is all yours

As someone renting my Somerset cottage on Airbnb this summer, I was heartbroken not to get called up by JD Vance.

1 mins

Pat down the golden retrievers: Cotswolds put on high alert for Vance family visit

With helicopters whirring and police quizzing residents, the vice-president's visit is stirring up rural life, writes Vanessa Thorpe

3 mins

When love is not enough: the mothers left grieving by our knife crime crisis

The number of teenage boys being killed on our streets has more than doubled in a decade. Francisco Garcia spoke to some of the bereaved parents trying to make sense of it all

10+ mins

Pamela and Liam, Katy and Justin, Ana and Tom or the Coldplay duo. Which summer fling are you?

As celebrities use the summer break to unveil new relationships, take Barbara Ellen's quiz to find out which couple you most resemble

5 mins

'We thought: it can't be the Salt Path couple - they'd have told us they were homeless'

When fellow walkers the Parsons found they were in Raynor Winn's book, they were baffled. Details of their encounter didn't add up

5 mins

Law supports immediate deportation of foreign criminals

Foreign criminals will face immediate deportation under a change to the law being announced today. Shabana Mahmood, the justice secretary, said the government would introduce legislation to allow some foreign prisoners to be removed from the UK as soon as they are sentenced.

1 mins

Question: who is marking your GCSE? Answer: an AI examiner

Traditional exams may soon become a thing of the past as bots help assess pupils' achievement in education revolution

5 mins

World remains divided as plastics push elephants closer to extinction

A UN treaty to ban single-use products is facing resistance from nations including the US, India and Russia

4 mins

UK team works with French to break up Channel gangs

Officers from the National Crime Agency working with French police have arrested more than 300 suspected people smugglers and broken up 52 networks in five years, the unit has told The Observer.

1 mins

Cheat on your boyfriend if you must. But don't share it on speakerphone with the rest of us

Smartphone noise pollution is altering public spaces, so why are so many of us guilty of it? Kate Maltby takes to the street to find out

4 mins

Unite union 'broke law' in hotel construction scandal that left £66m hole in its accounts

Auditors discovered several financial failures by the leading Labour donor linked to Birmingham scheme

5 mins

“There were people following us up the coast with torches. It was like a scene from Shrek

Charity rowers tell of ordeal after ex-Reform MP Rupert Lowe posts social media messages accusing them of being illegal migrants

4 mins

I'm following the 'red Welsh way', not Keir Starmer, says first minister

Eluned Morgan tells Rachel Sylvester that she won't be chasing Reform - or including the PM's photo on her election leaflets

4 mins

Europe left out in the cold as Trump plans to offer Putin deal on Ukraine

This week's summit in Alaska is fuelling concerns the US president will offer sweeping concessions to the Russian leader and sideline Kyiv

3 mins

North Koreans once risked their lives to tune in. Now silence reigns

For decades, people have dared to listen to uncensored foreign radio in a country where that is illegal ... until US cuts and politics in Seoul snatched the chance away from them.

4 mins

Oh no, South Park's got a new owner – let's hope he's in on the joke

The $8bn takeover of Paramount has far-reaching implications for the old Hollywood studios and journalism

4 mins

US journalist survives five days on glacier in Norway

After five days of surviving on protein bars and rainwater, Alec Luhn, an award-winning US climate journalist, was found alive on a Norwegian glacier by rescue services on Wednesday.

1 mins

'It's not enough': anger at payout to mother wrongfully jailed for her children's deaths

Award amounts to less than £1m after DNA breakthrough ends 20 years in prison

3 mins

Memo to Keir: the three things to remember before you give the speech of a lifetime

As the prime minister prepares to address a restive party at this year's Labour conference, here's a note that might help

4 mins

Pity nepo parent Daniel Day-Lewis. Is he just another dad who can't say no?

What happens when the nepo debate inconveniently attaches itself to someone whose work you respect? There's excitement about triple Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis returning to acting to star in the film Anemone.

2 mins

Britain's social fabric has been torn but it's just easier to blame immigration

Is the UK “a rich country”, asked the economist Max Mosley earlier this year in a report by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR). It might, he observed, seem “a surprising question to ask” about the world’s sixth largest economy. The answer, though, is not as “straightforward” as it might have been in the past.

3 mins

Clear rules are needed for police disclosures to stop information being weaponised

What should police say about an alleged perpetrator in a high-profile case or a critical incident?

3 mins

What is a person worth?

Last week Tesla gave Elon Musk shares worth £22.3bn. That would pay for 100 doctors for 1,560 years.

1 mins

Robots don't need us to write great fiction. Let's leave them to it

People are concerned that books being produced by AI will result in a glut of “AI slop” on the market. I say: give slop a chance. It can’t be any worse than some human writers.

1 mins

Not without Ukraine

Trump is right to pursue peace, but not like this

3 mins

Tom Fletcher

Heading up the UN's humanitarian affairs is not a role for the faint-hearted

4 mins

American alligator

You don’t know bout me less you read a book by the name Life on the Mississippi but that ain’t no matter.

2 mins

Jim Meyer

Mentor for young journalists in Africa, who 'walked into newsrooms a stranger, and walked out a friend'

4 mins

Investors clash with lawyers over dam disaster class action

Events at law firm seeking compensation for Brazil claimants highlight secret backers and question success of October's case.

2 mins

Trump's ire with Intel boss adds to woes for chip maker

The chips are down for Intel, the semiconductor maker that once dominated Silicon Valley but is now fighting for its life.

1 mins

Tesla could end up like Ford: losing its pole position as dull corporate rivals race ahead

US stock market outperformance relies on the “Magnificent 7”: Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet (Google, Android), Meta, Nvidia and Tesla. Over the last decade, these stocks typically returned at least 500%. Without them, stock market rises would have been less than 2% a year after inflation.

2 mins

Elon Musk's $30bn stock option proves CEO pay in Silicon Valley is 'bonkers'

Tesla granted nearly $30bn of shares to Elon Musk on Monday in a staggering deal aimed at keeping the tech mogul at the helm of the electric car company.

2 mins

From defence to hiking, OS is still mapping out the future of Britain

Ordnance Survey, the UK's mapping agency, originated in 1747 as a military project by the Crown, mapping the bogs of the Scottish Lowlands to track down elusive Jacobite rebels. These days, the government-owned OS still underpins the defence of the realm by providing data for the Ministry of Defence on everything from UK coastlines to its 4 million km warren of underground pipes and cables.

2 mins

Chancellor Reeves could learn from the message of banking's demise in new play

Make It Happen satirises the RBS collapse of 2008. It's too close to real life for comfort, writes Ian Fraser

3 mins

From Unbound to unmoored: the painful death of a publishing dream

In 2011, three disrupters set out to challenge the literary establishment by signing authors others had spurned. Then the money ran out. Rachael Healy reports

5 mins

ChatGPT update a big step forward, says OpenAI

The buzz this week around the launch of GPT-5, the new version of OpenAl’s ChatGPT chatbot, echoed past releases of new iPhone models and Windows software.

1 mins

Amazon said I 'violated' policy but I'm innocent

I relocated to England from New Zealand on 16 May to take up a teaching position in September.

1 mins

ChatGPT update a big step forward, says OpenAI

The buzz this week around the launch of GPT-5, the new version of OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot, echoed past releases of new iPhone models and Windows software.

1 mins

Defence budgets bend for Trump

As defence spending booms, there is growing debate about what counts as a “dual-use” technology.

1 mins

Norway's wealth fund ordered to review investments in Israel

A global campaign to disinvest from Israel may soon win its biggest convert. Norway's sovereign wealth fund was ordered last week to consider selling its investments in Israel, which are worth some $2.1bn, after the prime minister expressed concern about possible entanglements in Gaza.

1 mins

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