Newspaper
The Guardian Weekly
Bring to bear Tensions over Taiwan end panda diplomacy
The panda house at Ueno zoo in Tokyo is not due to open for several hours, but visitors are already milling around its entrance, posing for photographs in front of murals of the facility's most beloved residents.
3 min |
January 30, 2026
The Guardian Weekly
Evergreen
Why do some people age better than others? And is it possible to reverse years of unhealthy habits? We asked five exceptional individuals to share their tips
10+ min |
January 30, 2026
The Guardian Weekly
Minneapolis resistance Anger and resolve after latest killing
The killing of Alex Pretti, just weeks after Renee Good's death, has made mourning a familiar scene in the city
3 min |
January 30, 2026
The Guardian Weekly
'Exclusively for the elite' Mumbai's motorway is a symbol of wealth divide
With 64% of the city's residents relying on buses and trains so overcrowded that up to 10 passengers die a day, anger is rising over a taxpayer-funded road that most will never use
5 min |
January 30, 2026
The Guardian Weekly
Worth their salt: savoury snacks to stave off the lure of the biscuit tin
The pull of the biscuit tin is all too familiar to Guardian baker Benjamina Ebuehi, who is often found in full “sweet mode”.
2 min |
January 30, 2026
The Guardian Weekly
A mother’s anguish as her son waits for treatment
When the Gaza war began, Ismail Abu Naji was just 18 months old, his small body covered in swollen, bleeding lesions.
2 min |
January 30, 2026
The Guardian Weekly
A bold attempt to convince sceptics that neuroscience has proved Freud was right
Vladimir Nabokov notoriously dismissed the \"vulgar, shabby, and fundamentally medieval world\" of the ideas of Sigmund Freud, whom he called.
3 min |
January 23, 2026
The Guardian Weekly
A fascinating and wideranging account of the good-and the bad-of the new obesity drugs
Few aspects of being human have generated judgment, scorn and conmore demnation than a person's size, shape and weight - particularly if you are female.
1 min |
January 23, 2026
The Guardian Weekly
Can Cuba survive?
Disillusioned with the revolution after 68 years of US sanctions and a shattered economy, one in four Cubans have left the country in the past four years. Now it seems the Trump administration has the regime in its sights and its future is unclear
10+ min |
January 23, 2026
The Guardian Weekly
Are our bodies really full of microplastics?
Doubts over whether plastic particles have infiltrated human tissue have grown, with one high-profile study called a 'joke'
5 min |
January 23, 2026
The Guardian Weekly
The team reinventing abortion advice for TikTok age
What do a purple cartoon cat and abortion have in common? Nothing - and that is the point, say the women behind Jacarandas, a Colombian abortion helpline.
3 min |
January 23, 2026
The Guardian Weekly
Talk of The town
Michael Sheen on building a new Welsh National Theatre company, as its first show reimagines an American classic in his homeland
7 min |
January 23, 2026
The Guardian Weekly
Parallel lives
Piet Mondrian found fame with his grid-like paintings. But a reappraisal of little-known British artist Marlow Moss repositions her influence on his work
4 min |
January 23, 2026
The Guardian Weekly
Melting ice brings geopolitical jostling for Arctic assets
Lying between the US and Russia, Greenland has become a critical frontline as global heating opens up the Arctic.
2 min |
January 23, 2026
The Guardian Weekly
Every cent you take?
Sting and his former bandmates have been in court over a royalties dispute-the latest chapter in the song's fractious story
3 min |
January 23, 2026
The Guardian Weekly
Shah's son stakes his claim to lead the country
Reza Pahlavi, the son of Iran’s former pro-western monarch, has predicted the country’s Islamic regime will fall and claimed he is “uniquely” placed to head a successor government.
2 min |
January 23, 2026
The Guardian Weekly
Can a cistern epiphany save me from my January despair?
At the beginning of the month my wife and I had our traditional dispute about the official start date of Dry January.
2 min |
January 23, 2026
The Guardian Weekly
Remarkable rise of a language in danger
Concentrated among the people living in the remote Daliwe valley, siPhuthi has gained new life thanks to intrepid linguists and activists
4 min |
January 23, 2026
The Guardian Weekly
Enough's enough: we are overwhelmed with having too much stuff
Ten years ago, a postie delivered eight packages to my door. Each one contained something for me to photograph and promote on social media, and the pile felt ominous.
3 min |
January 23, 2026
The Guardian Weekly
Historic Kinshasa market given a makeover
Selling vegetables was Dieudonné Bakarani’s first job.
2 min |
January 23, 2026
The Guardian Weekly
Ghosts confronta dying oil tycoon's destructive legacy.Will he repent?
George Saunders is back in the Bardo-perhaps stuck there. Vigil, his first novel since 2017's Booker prize-winning Lincoln in the Bardo, returns to that indeterminate space between life and death, comedy and grief, moral inquiry and narrative hijinks. Once again, the living are largely absent, and the dead are meddlesome and chatty.
2 min |
January 23, 2026
The Guardian Weekly
It's time to put down the screens and focus on big tech's fracking of our mental resources
In the last 15 years, a linked series of technologies have changed the experience of personhood across most of the world. It is estimated that nearly 70% of the population of Earth possesses a smartphone, and these devices constitute about 95% of the planet's internet access-points.
3 min |
January 23, 2026
The Guardian Weekly
Opposition in limbo as democracy remains a distant goal
As the harsh reality sets in that Venezuela's authoritarian regime remains essentially unchanged even without Nicolás Maduro, activists who have spent years fighting for the country's return to democracy are unsure about what the next steps should be.
3 min |
January 23, 2026
The Guardian Weekly
The world of today looks bad, but we've been here before and got through it
From Greenland's icy mountains, from India's coral strand, as the old hymn has it, we seem to inhabit a world that is more seriously troubled in more places than many can ever remember.
3 min |
January 23, 2026
The Guardian Weekly
Is Badenoch the winner after Jenrick's Reform switch?
It is never ideal in politics to have a senior colleague defect, hurling insults as they depart, but as the dust settles on Robert Jenrick's move to Reform UK, many remaining Conservative MPs agree on one thing: it has left Kemi Badenoch stronger.
2 min |
January 23, 2026
The Guardian Weekly
Is Vance Trump's heir apparent?
Vice-president has emerged as key defender of the Maga flameand is backed by big tech. He is a 2028 candidate in all but name
5 min |
January 23, 2026
The Guardian Weekly
Why central banks are rushing back to gold
Fifteen minutes after takeoff, the call came for Serbia’s central bank governor: millions of dollars’ worth of gold bars, destined for a high-security Belgrade vault, had been left on the runway of a Swiss airport.
3 min |
January 23, 2026
The Guardian Weekly
The world must not look away as the people of Iran cry out for help
Did you notice history being made last week? I am not referring to what may have been the most pathetic moment in recorded time - Donald Trump gratefully taking the Nobel peace prize medal from the woman who actually won it - nor the defection of a politician from one British rightwing party to another, but something grimmer. For last week witnessed what could well prove to be a landmark chapter in the blood-soaked history of the Middle East.
4 min |
January 23, 2026
The Guardian Weekly
Why have so many dugongs gone missing?
The Andaman coast was one of very few places in the world with a viable population of the mammals. Now half have gone
5 min |
January 23, 2026
The Guardian Weekly
The dangerous pattern of Labour policy U-turns is corroding confidence
In practical terms there is little difference between proving your identity online with a passport and using a government-issued digital ID.
2 min |