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The Observer
Starlink 'not up to task' of delivering broadband
Elon Musk's satellite internet company, Starlink, operates more than two-thirds of the active satellites orbiting the earth and is set to take a share of more than $40bn of US public funding for rural broadband. But doubts are now rising over whether it can reliably deliver the service.
2 min |
August 03, 2025
The Observer
Trump floods the media – but can't make the Epstein scandal go away
White House news blitz comes as Ghislaine Maxwell is transferred to 'Club Fed' minimum security prison
4 min |
August 03, 2025
The Observer
They kill horses, but the outcry is getting louder
The New York cruelty case has again raised the animal rights issue, writes Melanie Reid
2 min |
August 03, 2025
The Observer
Identity crisis
Digital ID cards could be an effective tool against the illegal migration corroding Labour's credibility
2 min |
August 03, 2025
The Observer
Controversy over how to use frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine
Last week, the supreme court ruled that Phi, a now-derelict superyacht seized in March 2022, would remain in London, writes Emma Haslett
4 min |
August 03, 2025
The Observer
A second chance: Sizewell C to give jobs to hundreds of ex-offenders
Nuclear power station to offer training courses and work for prisoners in the building and operation of the plant
3 min |
August 03, 2025
The Observer
Howzat! Now India is calling all the shots
Cricket in India manages to be both mass-participation religion and opulent dreamland, set alongside Bollywood.
1 min |
August 03, 2025
The Observer
THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA IMPROVES ITS POSITION IN THE TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION UNIVERSITY IMPACT RANKINGS
THE 2025 RESULTS RELEASED IN JUNE show that the University of South Africa's performance regarding the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals rose to 66,3, compared to 65,3 achieved in 2024.
2 min |
August 03, 2025
The Observer
Trump has made the world cross the economic rubicon – an act we will all regret
This weekend is the moment the world crossed the economic rubicon. Until now the open, trade-friendly system built and expanded after the second world war, the midwife of unprecedented global growth and peace, still held - if only just.
4 min |
August 03, 2025
The Observer
Protest or terrorism? Palestine Action wins right to challenge ban in Britain
After more than 200 arrests, activists now hope to build on last week's court ruling with a mass demo that could fill police cells
6 min |
August 03, 2025
The Observer
Tether's record quarterly profit shows strength of stablecoins
In the flurry of results last week one company deserved particular attention. Tether, the world's largest issuer of dollar-backed stablecoins, registered a whopping net profit of $4.9bn (£3.7bn) - a quarterly record.
1 min |
August 03, 2025
The Observer
A new dotcom bubble? Al hype has yet to translate into profits
The top two tech firms are worth twice the rest of the FTSE 100 combined but valuations haven't turned into revenues, write Patricia Clarke and Katie Riley
2 min |
August 03, 2025
The Observer
Labour is facing a two-fronted battle:and, whisper it, even Sir Keir's seat could be at risk
With a new leftwing party launching, the danger now is that disillusioned voters hand more to rivals from both flanks
4 min |
August 03, 2025
The Observer
China attacks! It's a TV show... but the fear is real for Taiwan
\"Enemy missile attack! Seek shelter immediately!\" The presidential alert blared on millions of mobile phones.
1 min |
August 03, 2025
The Observer
Why Reeves would do best to bank on Bailey
Rachel Reeves is fighting on too many fronts. She remains wedded to her “iron clad” fiscal rules when even the traditionally hawkish German government is relaxing its budgetary rules to make provision for extra defence spending.
2 min |
August 03, 2025
The Observer
Children cannot be safe online. We will just have to carry on policing them
The Online Safety Act is a response to a practical problem everyone wants to solve, which is to stop kids from stumbling across pornography online.
3 min |
August 03, 2025
The Observer
The crane
We are the birds who lived. We were gone - for half a millennium - but we came back and, in a modest sort of way, we thrive.
2 min |
August 03, 2025
The Observer
Pressure grows on Israel as horror in Gaza fuels calls for Palestinian statehood
The push by world powers to end the war in Gaza by recognising Palestinian statehood is intensifying - first from France, then from the UK and now Canada.
2 min |
August 03, 2025
The Observer
The suffering in Gaza's hospitals that US envoy Witkoff did not see
Starving children have no chance of recovery and medics are fainting with hunger, reports
3 min |
August 03, 2025
The Observer
Europe must show its trade alternatives are a better model of action than Trump's
Despite cries that the EU has capitulated to Donald Trump, a deal to limit US tariffs to 15% should provide some relief for Europe's companies.
2 min |
August 03, 2025
The Observer
Trump's relationship with Putin 'at breaking point' after Russia unleashes Kyiv blitz
The US president has performed a complete U-turn, deploying subs to Russia and bringing forward a deadline on sanctions, writes Hugh Tomlinson
5 min |
August 03, 2025
The Observer
The dark side of the sun that shines brightly on Greece’s tourist industry
Forest fires, fireball sunsets, Sahara-style heat. For weeks, it seems, the sun has burned brighter than ever in Greece.
3 min |
August 03, 2025
The Observer
When rushing to recognise a Palestinian state, remember Yugoslavia
This week the UK government appeared to walk away from more than 200 years of its own policy with barely a backward glance.
3 min |
August 03, 2025
The Observer
I'm no terrorist, says former magistrate facing six months in prison
Late on Saturday afternoon last month, former magistrate Deborah Hinton, 81, was being fingerprinted in a police station and having a DNA swab extracted from her mouth. She was then held in a cell for more than seven hours under the Terrorism Act.
3 min |
August 03, 2025
The Observer
Pregnant, panicking ... then the bomb struck
Her name was Diana Koshyk and she was 23 years old. She liked to write poetry and paint, and she was the “love of my life”, says her husband Oleksandr Koshyk, 27.
1 min |
August 03, 2025
The Observer
Putin unfazed as his economy holds up
The Kremlin claims to be unfazed by Donald Trump's new ceasefire deadline, and with good reason: though dangerously overheated by the war machine and western sanctions, Russia's economy is far from collapse.
1 min |
August 03, 2025
The Observer
The never-ending fear that haunts Jersey's seasonal migrant workers
The Channel Island has rules that critics say legitimise a form of modern servitude — and in one case have led to tragedy, reports Orlando Crowcroft
4 min |
August 03, 2025
The Observer
Al thrives where thinking is devalued
In 1940, the translator and educator AJ Jenkins organised a survey of the reading habits of working-class children.
4 min |
August 03, 2025
The Observer
Kim's cure for Ozempic face: a giant plaster
Kim Kardashian has launched a new product, the Seamless Sculpt Face Wrap, for her $3bn Skims shapewear empire.
1 min |
August 03, 2025
The Observer
Joan Anderson
The model appeared in beauty contests with Marilyn Monroe, named the Hula Hoop and missed out on a fortune
3 min |