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Sarina Wiegman
England women's football manager faces a journey into unknown territory, writes Jessy Parker Humphreys
4 min |
July 13, 2025
The Observer
Roman Starovoit
Sacked Russian transport minister found dead in his car after disappointing his masters in Moscow
3 min |
July 13, 2025
The Observer
Why weather forecasting is still crucial to prevent disasters
The Texas floods have shown the enduring importance of meteorology, at a time when climate change, Trump and AI are reshaping the science.
4 min |
July 13, 2025
The Observer
'Stopping breast screening at 70 is crazy. It's writing off older women'
Cancer surgery has convinced Labour peer Margaret Hodge that test rules must change, she tells Rachel Sylvester
4 min |
July 13, 2025
The Observer
I founded Teach First, I know it helps children
There were only two policies that the three national parties agreed on in their 2010 manifestos: that the House of Lords should be reformed and that Teach First had made a strong impact in helping to improve results in schools in challenging circumstances and should expand.
1 min |
July 13, 2025
The Observer
As the AI jobs Armageddon approaches, it seems that only plumbers are safe...
What career advice to give your kids has become a hot topic at Silicon Valley dinner parties.
2 min |
July 13, 2025
The Observer
WPP's pick for CEO faces huge challenges to rescue ad firm
Investors were calmed, at least for now, by Cindy Rose’s appointment as chief executive of WPP on Thursday, the day after a brutal profit warning triggered an 18% plunge in the advertising giant's share price.
1 min |
July 13, 2025
The Observer
The Observer, 14 July 1985 Rock'n'roll to the rescue
Raised high on the shoulders of Paul McCartney, Bob Geldof, the organiser of the Live Aid concert, led some of the world's top rock stars in a stirring finale to last night's concert at Wembley.
1 min |
July 06, 2025
The Observer
Pop doppelgangers: when the audience is the act
Bucket hats, teddy nighties, bald caps ... dressing like their idols gives fans an enhanced sense of tribal affinity. And the stars are showing their appreciation.
3 min |
July 06, 2025
The Observer
US funding for militarised Gaza aid distribution dodges scrutiny
Critics say shadowy $30m operation is 'turning food into a weapon of war', while contractors are accused of firing on a population on the brink of famine, reports Ruth Michaelson
7 min |
July 06, 2025
The Observer
Paradise tree snake
Never underestimate a snake. I know we're long, and everything else that flies or glides is essentially wide, but us lot, us Chrysopelea, we've cracked it too. Flying squirrels, flying lizards, flying frogs - I'd back myself to out-glide any one of them.
2 min |
July 06, 2025
The Observer
Britain's Potemkin defence – and why it's not fit for the modern battlefield
The UK military is woefully short of the weapons needed to make its ships, tanks and jets a lethal force
7 min |
July 06, 2025
The Observer
The real Salt Path
A couple's redemptive journey from penury and homelessness led to a bestselling book. But the truth behind it is very different, finds Chloe Hadjimatheou
10+ min |
July 06, 2025
The Observer
'An ugly insult to the past': Serbians fight US plan to build Trump Tower
Proposal to erect a gleaming hotel complex on the ruins of Belgrade's defence ministry adds to fury over corruption, writes Francisco Garcia
5 min |
July 06, 2025
The Observer
Today's heatwaves are an emergency but the UK just sticks its head in the sand
Sweltering temperatures harm the economy and cause thousands of deaths — the government needs a strategy to deal with this
4 min |
July 06, 2025
The Observer
The Dalai Lama
Tibetan Buddhism's spiritual leader faces a struggle over his successor, writes Stephen Armstrong
4 min |
July 06, 2025
The Observer
Sandy Gall
The newsreader and foreign correspondent was an old-style adventurer with a particular love of Afghanistan
3 min |
July 06, 2025
The Observer
Greece is on the path to fiscal order, but accusations of graft dim its future
A decade after avoiding 'Grexit', progress is being made, Kyriakos Pierrakakis, minister for national economy and finance, tells
4 min |
July 06, 2025
The Observer
The Wimbledon Effect? Pah! New balls please
As strawberries and cream provide their annual boost to the British economy, it's worth asking what became of the \"Wimbledon Effect\".
1 min |
July 06, 2025
The Observer
The ‘big, beautiful bill’ will have ugly results
“Devastatingly cruel and deeply irresponsible” were the words American economist Paul Krugman used to describe President Trump's so-called “big, beautiful bill” as it was passed by the Senate last week.
2 min |
July 06, 2025
The Observer
Fertility funding soars as global birthrates fall
Venture capitalists made more deals in the sector in 2024 than in the past decade, with good and bad outcomes for patients.
2 min |
July 06, 2025
The Observer
London Stock Exchange pitches hybrid private market
With London's IPO fundraising at a 30-year low and its largest listed company, pharma group AstraZeneca, considering joining the exodus to the US, the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) is pinning its hopes on the new private securities market it plans to launch later this year under Pisces, the Financial Conduct Authority's proposed private intermittent securities and capital exchange system.
1 min |
July 06, 2025
The Observer
Co-op MPs can help Labour see off Reform threat
After the general election last summer, Nigel Farage made the intentions of his Reform party abundantly clear. \"We're coming for Labour,\" he said. \"Be in no doubt about that.
3 min |
July 06, 2025
The Observer
Palestine Action boost before ban
Nearly 600 volunteers signed up for protest workshops run by Palestine Action after the home secretary announced plans to proscribe the group as a terrorist organisation.
1 min |
July 06, 2025
The Observer
He says he swam all the way from France to Jersey — now he's high and dry in jail
David Law is due for deportation for illegal entry to the island, but no one knows where to deport him to
4 min |
July 06, 2025
The Observer
Record number of rape trials collapse as victims and witnesses walk away
Rape victims and witnesses abandoned five times more cases last year than they did before the pandemic, causing trials to collapse at record rates, analysis shows.
2 min |
July 06, 2025
The Observer
Starmer's cuts to global aid are the very definition of inhumane
Keir Starmer probably doesn’t think he has much to thank Elon Musk for - this was, after all, the man who accused him of being “complicit in the RAPE OF BRITAIN”.
3 min |
July 06, 2025
The Observer
BBC to change rules after Gaza film protests
BBC rules on independently made documentaries are set to be strengthened in response to failures surrounding the broadcast of the Gaza film How to Survive a War Zone.
1 min |
July 06, 2025
The Observer
What did the PM know? France reels at 'absolute cruelty' of school abuse
A damning report accuses prime minster François Bayrou of failing to act over the depravity of Bétharram, where his wife taught and his children were pupils
3 min |
July 06, 2025
The Observer
Free speech for all! (Except Bob Vylan)
In October 1989, the Muslim Institute helped organise a meeting on the Salman Rushdie affair at Manchester town hall.
4 min |