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'What will people think? I don't care any more'
At 90, Alan Bennett has written a sex-fuelled novella set in a home for the elderly. He talks about mourning Maggie Smith, turning down a knighthood and what he makes of the new UK prime minister
10+ min |
November 08, 2024
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I see you
What happens when people with acute psychosis meet the voices in their heads? A new clinical trial reveals some surprising results
10+ min |
November 08, 2024
The Guardian Weekly
Rumbled How Ali ran rings around apartheid, 50 years ago
Fifty years ago, in a corner of white South Africa, Muhammad Ali already seemed a miracle-maker.
3 min |
November 08, 2024
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Trudeau faces 'iceberg revolt'as calls grow for PM to quit
Justin Trudeau, who promised “sunny ways” as he won an election on a wave of public fatigue with an incumbent Conservative government, is now facing his darkest and most uncertain political moment as he attempts to defy the odds to win a rare fourth term.
3 min |
November 08, 2024
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Lost Maya city revealed through laser mapping
After swapping machetes and binoculars for computer screens and laser mapping, a team of researchers have discovered a lost Maya city containing temple pyramids, enclosed plazas and a reservoir which had been hidden for centuries by the Mexican jungle.
2 min |
November 08, 2024
The Guardian Weekly
'A civil war' Gangs step up assault on capital
Armed fighters advance into neighbourhoods at the heart of Port-au-Prince as authorities try to restore order
3 min |
November 08, 2024
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Reality bites in the Himalayan 'kingdom of happiness'
High emigration and youth unemployment levels belie the mountain nation's global reputation for cheeriness
5 min |
November 08, 2024
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'It's better not to try our luck again'
Why voters back political forces that favour closer ties with Moscow, despite seeing their nations' future in the EU
3 min |
November 08, 2024
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A new enemy Inexperienced North Korean troops prepare to enter conflict
Depending on whom you ask, they are the boost that Russian forces need to make a significant breakthrough in Ukraine, or they are simple cannon fodder, destined for repatriation in body bags.
2 min |
November 08, 2024
The Guardian Weekly
Deep blue Badenoch faces multiple challenges as Tory leader
Kemi Badenoch might have avoided the cursed 52%-48% ratio that has riven the Conservative party before, but the nevertheless close-run nature of her 56.5% tally in the members' vote for the party's new leader shows the scale of the task before her.
2 min |
November 08, 2024
The Guardian Weekly
A brave investment? Rachel Reeves's first budget is a radical departure after years of constraint
Labour's first UK budget in almost 15 years marked a radical departure with past constraints on investment spending.
3 min |
November 08, 2024
The Guardian Weekly
Total siege Fears Israel plans to seize land in Gaza
Israel has tightened its siege of northern Gaza in the face of warnings from the UN and other aid agencies that hundreds of thousands of Palestinian lives at are risk, raising questions over whether the Netanyahu government’s ultimate war aims include territorial expansion.
2 min |
November 08, 2024
The Guardian Weekly
Ban on vital Unrwa aid could spell disaster
Bin bags were piling up at one end of the chaotic main thoroughfare in Shuafat refugee camp last Friday morning as shoppers walked by, stepping over a stream of wastewater trickling from a nearby drainpipe. Poor sanitation is just one of the UN-administered Palestinian camp's problems - but things will get much worse.
4 min |
November 08, 2024
The Guardian Weekly
Hey big spenders This election at least solved the riddle of how to fritter away $1bn
It was one of the most striking images of the final full week of the presidential election campaign: a giant projection of Kamala Harris's face on the 111-metre-tall Las Vegas Sphere.
2 min |
November 08, 2024
The Guardian Weekly
A predictable result Here's how the winner of the election did it
Whether Donald Trump or Kamala Harris prevails in the contest, it won't feel hard to explain why the outcome was inevitable
4 min |
November 08, 2024
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An'everyday apocalypse' Cop must face up to climate car crash
Move on. Nothing to see here. Just another ordinary, everyday apocalypse.
4 min |
November 08, 2024
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A tide of horror
Residents of Utiel in the Valencia region describe how they escaped rising waters, and the devastation left behind by unprecedented rain
5 min |
November 08, 2024
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Putin's Call To De-Dollarise Alarms Some At BRICS Talks
Vladimir Putin opened the expanded Brics summit last month by issuing a call for an alternative international payments system that could prevent the US using the dollar as a political weapon.
2 min |
November 01, 2024
The Guardian Weekly
Power in the darkness
Wolf Hall is back. As the extraordinary epic about King Henry VIII and his vengeful entourage edges to a climax, Timothy Spall reveals what it was like to play Cromwell's nemesis
4 min |
November 01, 2024
The Guardian Weekly
It's time for Trump's instincts to be called what they are: fascist
There is a good chance that on 5 November, Americans will elect the first fascist president of the United States.
3 min |
November 01, 2024
The Guardian Weekly
CASTLES IN THE AIR
It was meant to be a dream development of mansions in the Turkish hills. But 13 years on, Burj AI Babas is a half-built ghost town, and a microcosm of the scandal-hit construction sector under Erdoğan. Will the buyers ever get to move in?
10+ min |
November 01, 2024
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Using cutting-edge methods, Alexandra Morton-Hayward is unravelling the mysteries of grey matter – even as hers betrays her The brain collector
ALEXANDRA MORTON-HAYWARD, a 35-year-old mortician turned molecular palaeontologist, had been behind the wheel of her rented Vauxhall for five hours, motoring across three countries, when a torrential storm broke loose on the plains of Belgium.
10+ min |
November 01, 2024
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Dark times Blackouts spark fears of wider collapse
Maria Elena Cárdenas is 76 and lives in a municipal shelter on Amargura Street in Havana's colonial old town.
3 min |
November 01, 2024
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Washington Post sparks fury over decision not to endorse
Fury and shock ripped through liberal America last weekend after news that the Washington Post, home of the Watergate scandal exposé, will not endorse Kamala Harris for president.
2 min |
November 01, 2024
The Guardian Weekly
The great space waste
From chaotic collisions to depletion of the ozone layer, the thousands of satellites in orbit around Earth have the potential to wreak havoc
5 min |
November 01, 2024
The Guardian Weekly
New heights Teen Sherpa's fight for climbing equality
Growing up as a sherpa in Nepal, Nima Rinji Sherpa was used to his relatives performing superhuman feats on the mountains.
3 min |
November 01, 2024
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Plastic cave made in Spain keeps Amazonian culture alive
It is not yet dawn in Ulupuwene, an Indigenous village in the Brazilian Amazon, but the Wauja people have already risen to prepare for the festive day ahead.
3 min |
November 01, 2024
The Guardian Weekly
'Blood alliance' How Ukraine war is stoking tensions
The video is grainy but the message is clear. The clip, posted by NK News, purports to show North Korean soldiers receiving supplies at a training base in Russia's east, ahead of joining Vladimir Putin's war against Ukraine.
3 min |
November 01, 2024
The Guardian Weekly
A warlord became an unlikely forest protector. Now he is cutting it down
Deforestation in Colombia fell by a third when guerrilla leader Ivan Mordisco violently enforced a ban. Why did he change tack?
3 min |
November 01, 2024
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Despite the UK, leaders agree on reparatory justice talks
Commonwealth leaders have resolved that \"the time has come\" for a conversation on reparatory justice, despite the UK's insistence that the issue was not on their agenda.
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