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The Observer
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 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
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 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
Tom Fletcher
Heading up the UN's humanitarian affairs is not a role for the faint-hearted
4 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
'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 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
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 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
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 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
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 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
Defence budgets bend for Trump
As defence spending booms, there is growing debate about what counts as a “dual-use” technology.
1 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
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 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
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 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
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 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
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 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
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 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
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 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
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 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
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 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
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 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
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+ min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
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 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
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 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
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 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
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 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
“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 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
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 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
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 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
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 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
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 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
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 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
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 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
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 min |