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The Observer
AI love you: now bots will write profiles and flirt on dating apps
AI bots will soon be rolled out on dating apps to flirt with people, craft messages on users' behalf and write their profiles for them.
2 min |
March 09, 2025
The Observer
'Musk? He's horrendous': Martha Lane Fox on diversity, jobs and the threat from tech bros
The investor and former Twitter board member believes rejecting DEI initiatives is simply denying US companies talent, writes Richard Partington
4 min |
March 09, 2025
The Observer
After 80 years of transatlantic ties, Europe forges a whole new alliance
Germany, France and UK sweep away old rules in pledge to do whatever it takes’ to defend themselves from Russian threat
6 min |
March 09, 2025
The Observer
'Burn him alive on the street': how Russian journalist was targeted in UK by spy ring
Still living in hiding, Roman Dobrokhotov tells Daniel Boffey the Kremlin will definitely try to kill him again
5 min |
March 09, 2025
The Observer
Fears of a return to war within days as Gazan airstrikes dent peace hopes
Fears of a return to war in Gaza are intensifying this weekend, with faltering diplomatic efforts and almost daily airstrikes by Israeli forces in the devastated territory.
4 min |
March 09, 2025
The Observer
'They brought it on themselves': new low in US-Ukraine relations
There was an audible gasp in the room at the Council on Foreign Relations as Keith Kellogg, the White House’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, characterised the US decision to cut off intelligence sharing and military aid to Kyiv as like beating a farm animal with a piece of wood.
3 min |
March 09, 2025
The Observer
'We are still not ready to protect the population'
Remember the lessons of Covid and spend more on health security. Robin McKie hears scientists’ views
3 min |
March 09, 2025
The Observer
In the line of fire: the fleet trying to stop Russia taking the Black Sea
When the air raid siren sounds, Captain Oleksandr’s patrol boat scrambles to defend Ukraine against the drone swarms that have come to dominate the war, writes
7 min |
March 09, 2025
The Observer
Tehran is riven with conflict. Trump's offer of talks won't ease it
The letter the US president, Donald Trump, says he sent to Iran's leadership offering to reopen talks on the country's nuclear programme comes at a point when Iranian domestic politics is at its most unstable for years.
3 min |
March 09, 2025
The Observer
Crumble, cookies and madeleines – recipes of hope for Iran's jailed women
Sepideh Gholian's diary of prison life came out four years ago. Next month, she will publish a cookbook to honour her fellow inmates. Rachel Cooke meets the journalist who brought her work to the west
5 min |
March 09, 2025
The Observer
I adore my children. I'm also scared my son might one day kill me
In the UK, 172 women have been murdered by their sons in the past 15 years. Here, one mother explains why she can't walk away - but often wishes she could
4 min |
March 09, 2025
The Observer
Kremlin attacks on Ukraine intensify, killing 14 in Donetsk
Russia launched a devastating attack on Ukraine yesterday, killing at least 14 people and injuring dozens more, hours after Donald Trump defended Vladimir Putin and said the Kremlin leader was \"doing what anybody would do\".
2 min |
March 09, 2025
The Observer
More benefit cuts would risk turning a drip-feed of dissent in Labour's ranks into a flood
There was a telling moment at prime minister’s questions last week when a super-keen Labour backbencher used his moment in the spotlight to praise Keir Starmer as a “true statesman”.
6 min |
March 09, 2025
The Observer
From Trump whisperer to trouble ... Farage under fire as Reform implodes
Internal row in party over ‘messianic’ leader becomes public amid members’ competing allegations of bullying and dirty tricks
3 min |
March 09, 2025
The Observer
Boom in comics paints a brighter picture for the book trade – and for literacy
Vivid visuals and funny characters are helping to draw more children into reading books, say experts
3 min |
March 09, 2025
The Observer
Millions in water firm fines to help restore our rivers
Millions of pounds of fines imposed on water firms will fund environmental schemes to protect the country's waterways after fears the money would be diverted to the Treasury.
1 min |
March 09, 2025
The Observer
Tell Mama loses state funding despite rise of anti-Muslim hate
Police warn that cut will hamper ability to protect communities
3 min |
March 09, 2025
The Observer
Mao Zedong's first Little Red Book was blue ... and without the spin
The thoughts of Mao Zedong, published in 1964 under the title Quotations, are considered the blueprint for Chinese communism and a guidebook to the Cultural Revolution.
3 min |
March 09, 2025
The Observer
'No settlement, no apology' — Oxford University accused of trying to silence academic
Despite winning a landmark legal battle over 'sham' teaching contracts, Alice Jolly believes it won't benefit other tutorial staff
3 min |
March 09, 2025
The Observer
Britons among hardest hit by Covid fallout five years on
Slower bounceback despite higher spending. Failure to recover is 'damning indictment'
4 min |
March 09, 2025
The Observer
Charli xcx turns the Brits into Brats as she takes five gongs
All-conquering artist follows up on her bumper summer by lifting second-highest number of wins in a single year
1 min |
March 02, 2025
The Observer
Ex-Barclays boss to fight FCA in court over ties to Epstein
This week Jes Staley hopes to overturn a City ban in a case that will reveal his dealings with the late financier.
3 min |
March 02, 2025
The Observer
Never mind the planet's fate when the jet set feel the urge to seek out some winter sun
Self-denial will save the Earth, we're told. But big emitters seemingly haven't had the memo
4 min |
March 02, 2025
The Observer
Him again? Windsor reacts to more Trump and circumstance
A second state visit for the US president widely seen as a necessary evil
2 min |
March 02, 2025
The Observer
I may be a pan-cultural youth vampire, but I think I'll leave gen Z to their slang
Parents trying to decode youth speak are leaving nothing for the young to identify as their own
4 min |
March 02, 2025
The Observer
Fancy a stay at Tito's Yugoslav beach haven? Your room may soon be ready
A Croatian resort built by the communist leader is finally on the verge of rebirth from the ruins.
4 min |
March 02, 2025
The Observer
Mine metals but don't harm the planet? Here's a copper-bottomed plan
It is the key ingredient of bronze, the alloy that helped create some of the world's greatest civilisations and took humanity out of the Stone Age on its way to modern times.
3 min |
March 02, 2025
The Observer
It's a gambol: why lambing weekends are an unlikely holiday sensation
In a shed in the Malvern Hills, lambs struggle clumsily to their feet as holidaymaking couples look on.
3 min |
March 02, 2025
The Observer
Enough of the 'children these days' insults ... they're just human beings
Gentle parenting ruins young people, insists 'Britain's strictest head'.
3 min |
March 02, 2025
The Observer
The 'special' relationship that we have now is the one with our nearest neighbours
It's exhausting and humiliating to have no control - watching every meeting in the Oval Office for a glimmer of Trump's approval or displeasure, our security resting on a perceived slight or a mood.
2 min |