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Microplastics unwrapped Could particles be reshaping our bodies?
Plastics are found in our blood, brains and guts- and while the long-term effects are still unclear, there are simple ways to reduce exposure
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October 17, 2025
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Homecoming In 'hostages square', joy is met with cautious hope
The estimated 65,000 people in “hostages square” in Tel Aviv heard it before they saw it. Their faces turned up to search the sky for the source of the sound. Then it swept into view from the west, from the direction of Gaza.
3 min |
October 17, 2025
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That won't wash: should you rinse and then peel your mushrooms?
What’s the best way to prep and cook mushrooms? Olivia, by email
2 min |
October 17, 2025
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The enablers of Gaza's hell can't now pose as its saviours
On Monday, Sharm el-Sheikh played host to the most high-profile gathering of global leaders in the Middle East of recent years.
4 min |
October 17, 2025
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Taking a gamble
Colin Farrell and Tilda Swinton talk risk, addiction and Fabergé eggs on the set of their casino film Ballad of a Small Player
6 min |
October 17, 2025
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Is London really in the grip of a crime wave?
The perception is that phone snatching and watch theft are rife in the capital - but some offences are dropping
5 min |
October 17, 2025
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Life before fame A masterful portrayal of Tennyson before the poet became a Victorian celebrity
Alfred Tennyson was a divided soul. He even wrote a poem called The Two Voices in which dual versions of himself argued out the pros and cons of suicide. In this illuminating book, Richard Holmes has chosen to focus on the lesser known of the poet’s personae.
3 min |
October 17, 2025
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I can't stop apologising. How could therapy help?
I'm a woman in my late 30s who, since childhood, has thought it vital to be polite. While I have a happy and fulfilling life, I've always had very low self-confidence.
2 min |
October 17, 2025
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A small town making big headlines around immigration
Flanked by farmland and nestled among the deep valleys of central Spain, few in Villamalea, a town of 4,200 people, expected to find their tranquil home splashed across Spanish media this summer.
3 min |
October 17, 2025
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Town tries to call time on gen Zers' use of their smartphones
Despite working full-time for a company in Tokyo, Shoki Moriyama manages to eke out eight hours a day to devote to his smartphone. \"I need my phone to navigate my way through the information wars,\" said Moriyama, who at 25 is part of a generation that can't imagine life without scrolling through news and social media, messaging apps and off-the-wall video clips.
3 min |
October 17, 2025
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Trump card European allies rally to antifa ban
Where Donald Trump leads, Europe's nationalists and far right follow. After a Truth Social post last month, when Trump announced the US would designate antifa, the decentralised anti-fascist movement, “a major terrorist organisation”, his international allies swung into action.
2 min |
October 17, 2025
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Soil secrets Ancient plants and seeds come back to life
A wetland restoration has lead to astonishing discoveries as scientists have been able to resurrect fleas and plankton
5 min |
October 17, 2025
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Animal language is far more complex than we can ever imagine
Another day, another cute story about how dogs can grasp elements of human language and use them to communicate with us.
3 min |
October 17, 2025
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Peace prize may offer indemnity for Machado - but at a cost
In March 2019 as a nationwide blackout plunged Venezuela into darkness, hundreds of citizens huddled on a basketball court in the city of Maracaibo to hear their leader promise to guide them out of the gloom.
2 min |
October 17, 2025
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Gen Z protests across the world share more than just an interest in anime
After 25 years, the global triumph of Monkey D Luffy - a fresh-faced and rubber-bodied pirate captain - had seemed almost complete.
2 min |
October 17, 2025
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Alternative view of an alternative decade
At New York's Whitney museum, the exhibition Sixties Surreal finds ways to highlight the less dominant artistic forces of the revolutionary era
3 min |
October 17, 2025
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On the trail of the great book heist
Up to 170 valuable Russian classics were stolen from European libraries. Were petty criminals or bigger forces behind the crime? By Philip Oltermann
10+ min |
October 17, 2025
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France is not alone in its crisis of political faith. Just look around
Emmanuel Macron sounded not angry, not defiant, just a little triste. Europe, he lamented, was suffering a “degeneration of democracy”.
3 min |
October 17, 2025
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Jilly Cooper
Her romances were so outrageously readable that she created her own category, bewitching generations of readers
3 min |
October 17, 2025
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Soviet sisters A personal and political history of Russia brings women to the fore
At a moment when the world is desperate to comprehend Russia, journalist Julia Ioffe seeks to explain it through the eyes of women, some of them historical figures, some from her own family.
2 min |
October 17, 2025
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'Like a juggernaut' Speed and momentum kept the pressure on both Israel and Hamas
A meeting chaired by Trump on the sidelines of the UN general assembly became the turning point for Gaza
6 min |
October 17, 2025
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'I THOUGHT NOTHING COULD SCARE ME'
Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai on bravery, breakthroughs, growing up, getting cynical - and the dramatic fallout from smoking a bong while at Oxford University.
10+ min |
October 17, 2025
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A musical full of heart and hope
Its first production 40 years ago was critically panned, but Les Misérables continues to enthral and delight theatregoers- and outlive the original critics
4 min |
October 17, 2025
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'We found no trace'
Using manual tools and their bare hands to clear rubble strewn with unexploded bombs, Palestinians begin the immense task of trying to find their loved ones' remains
3 min |
October 17, 2025
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Shutdown Democrats hold firm as Republican anger grows
When he sat down to talk about the US government shutdown last week, Chuck Schumer sounded as if he were relishing his standoff with the Republicans. “Every day gets better for us,” he told Punchbowl News.
3 min |
October 17, 2025
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Defying convention Director's intriguing search for the 'ecstatic truth' is as strange as his enchanting films
At 83, Werner Herzog can and does do precisely what he wants. Like the strange, enchanting films for which he is best known, Herzog's seventh book defies the usual conventions of structure, narrative arc and the delineation of fact from fiction, even as it addresses the very subject of truth.
1 min |
October 17, 2025
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Free speech How the global protest movement met repression and resistance
The ceasefire between Hamas and Israel has been met with joy and relief across the Middle East and beyond. Over the past two years, outrage at Israel’s war in Gaza has erupted across Europe and the US, manifesting itself in university campus protests, massive marches through countless capitals and the disruption of major sporting events.
3 min |
October 17, 2025
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Stylists offer advice and a listening ear as well as a trim
Yopougon, the largest of Abidjan’s 13 communes, with a population of 1.5 million, is known for its entrepreneurial grit, its bubbly nightlife and, in pop culture, as being the birthplace of Francophone Africa’s most popular comic character, Aya de Yopougon.
3 min |
October 17, 2025
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Has the rock star president played his final encore?
Despite facing election defeats and scandal, Javier Milei took to an arena stage in Buenos Aires for a concert, telling his fans 'I'm human'
3 min |
October 17, 2025
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Still appetite for a military coup despite guilty verdict
Hours after supporters of the former president Jair Bolsonaro ransacked Brasília on 8 January 2023, three electricity pylons were brought down in different locations, between 1,600 and 2,900km away from Brazil's capital.
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