Skip to main contentSkip to navigation
Print subscriptions
Search jobs
Sign in

Headlines

  • Musk raises his hands as he takes the stage during a campaign rally for Trump, at Madison Square Garden on 27 October 2024 in New York City.

    US
    Elon Musk’s ‘election integrity community’ on X is full of baseless claims

  • small beds in a row with curtains

    Housing
    Sleep on it: the $700 San Francisco ‘pod’ with privacy curtains and charging ports

    • Spain
      ‘It was a trap’: flood alert came too late for residents of Paiporta, Spain

    • Technology
      Apple reports robust demand for iPhone 16 even as overall sales in China slow

    • Middle East
      US attempts to broker ceasefire as civilians killed in Lebanon and Israel

    • Technology
      Russia says $20 decillion fine against Google is ‘symbolic’

    • Assisted dying
      Canada judge halts medically assisted death of woman in rare injunction

    • Sugar
      Less sugar in first 1,000 days of life protects against chronic disease, study finds

News in focus

  • composite image of person's mouth and people holding signs and US flag

    US elections 2024
    If Trump wins the election, mass deportations could wreak havoc on immigrants

  • Cars piled up in the street

    Analysis
    Why were the floods in Spain so bad? A visual guide

    Scores of people have died in Spain as country hit by deadliest floods in decades
  • A woman speaks into a microphone with a younger man and woman to her left, the woman holding a sign with a map with the words 'Returning to Gaza' written beneath in capitals

    Israel-Gaza war
    ‘The Arabs will disappear’: emboldened Israeli settlers eye return to Gaza

    Once dismissed as the pipe dream of fringe extremists, the idea of resettling Gaza has gained momentum

US elections 2024

  • Elon Musk joins Donald Trump at a rally

    Elon Musk
    Musk’s get-out-the-vote workers didn’t know they were canvassing for Trump – report

  • a man speaks to a room full of people in front of a banner that reads 'when we vote we win'

    US elections 2024
    Nevada is in a profound economic rut. Its working-class voters could swing the election

  • a man in a suit and tie speaks into a microphone

    Donald Trump
    Six racist and bigoted comments you might have missed from Trump’s New York rally

  • candidates in a casino

    The big bet
    Opinion polls have Harris and Trump locked in a tight race. ‘Gambling polls’ say otherwise

Spotlight

  • Dolly in starry vest, bikini top, white hotpants

    The reader interview
    Dolly Parton: ‘I was sorry when Dolly the sheep died – though I don’t want to be cloned’

    As she launches a new LP and her own wine, the country legend answers your questions on her tough childhood, how she recorded Jolene, and why she’ll never retire
  • Judy Garland with the scarecrow, the tin man and the lion on the yellow brick road in the 1939 version of The Wizard of Oz.

    Film
    ‘It’s the damnedest thing I’ve ever seen’: 10 film flops that became classics – ranked!

  • cars with bright headlights on a road at night

    Well Actually
    Headlights are too bright! But US experts say they’re not bright enough

    Driver complaints about high beams are commonplace, though specialists say US roads need to be better lit
  • Graphic illustration shows an email notification symbol with a cloud and a frame.

    Environment
    Concerned about your data use? Here is the carbon footprint of an average day of emails, WhatsApps and more

    Vast datacentres are being built worldwide, amid growing concerns about the environmental costs. So should we all be considering a data diet – if not complete digital sobriety?
    • Sempre-vivas

      Photography
      Never-ending story: rare flower gatherers of Diamantina

    • Tall and thin trees covered in moss in a cloud forest

      The alternatives
      ‘Cloud-milking’: the zero-energy technique keeping young trees alive

    • Two men sitting talking at a restaurant table in a pannelled room

      Dining across the divide
      ‘I think his opposition to child benefit came partly from a place where he doesn’t have any kids’

    • Felicity Cloake’s noodles with soy-sauce eggs and quick-pickled vegetables

      Food
      The delicious rise of ramen: 17 creative, surprising, affordable ways with instant noodles

Opinion

  • Israeli attacks on Gaza continue<br>KHAN YUNIS, GAZA - SEPTEMBER 11: Relatives of Palestinians who lost their lives after Israeli attacks, mourn in Khan Yunis, Gaza on September 11, 2024. Eleven people were killed in an attack by the Israeli army in Khan Yunis city in the south of Gaza. The bodies of those who lost their lives were taken by their relatives from the Gaza European Hospital morgue in the city and sent off to their last journeys. (Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images)

    I’m a surgeon, and I’ve been refused re-entry to Gaza – we need a medical ceasefire now

    Ali Elaydi
    Doctors sign the hippocratic oath to do no harm, but how can we treat people without hospitals, staff and enough medicines, asks doctor Ali Elaydi
  • Woman hammers Harris-Walz sign into yard.

    Why are so many women hiding their voting plans from their husbands?

    Rebecca Solnit
  • Ben Jennings on Donald Trump’s garbage truck stunt – cartoon

    Cartoon
    Ben Jennings on Donald Trump’s garbage truck stunt

  • Elon Musk speaking at a Trump rally in Madison Square Garden, New York, on 27 October 2024

    An excess of billionaires is destabilising politics – just as academics predicted

    Zoe Williams
  • Women holding smartphones having an online conversation<br>Collage image using speech bubbles and smartphones to communicate an online conversation

    I am the infamous non-responder in our group chat. Does that make me a bad friend?

    Louis Hanson
  • Winning Jockey Davy Russell after winning the Randox Health Grand National Handicap Chase with Tiger Roll during Grand National Day of the 2018 Randox Health Grand National Festival at Aintree Racecourse, Liverpool.<br>MC8X6F Winning Jockey Davy Russell after winning the Randox Health Grand National Handicap Chase with Tiger Roll during Grand National Day of the 2018 Randox Health Grand National Festival at Aintree Racecourse, Liverpool.

    I had never really considered bad luck before. A brilliant memoir changed all that

    Adrian Chiles

Sport

  • Jamie George in training

    Rugby union
    England captain George admits Marler’s haka jibe might fire up All Blacks

  • Ruud van Nistelrooy gestures on the touchline during Manchester United’s win over Leicester in the Carbao Cup.

    Van Nistelrooy relishes leading role as he waits on future under Amorim

    Will Unwin
    • Jack Draper reaches but cannot find the ball in a hard-fought defeat by Alex de Minaur

      Tennis
      Draper runs out of steam at Paris Masters as De Minaur wins three-setter

    • Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen

      Formula One
      Hamilton claims Verstappen has kept driving dangerously since 2021 clashes

    • The Dodgers celebrate winning the franchises’s eighth World Series title

      The $1bn Dodgers have everything but complacency

      Hannah Keyser
    • Bronny James drives to the basket against Cleveland Cavaliers forward Jaylon Tyson

      ‘We want Bronny’
      James Jr gets first points as Cleveland fans welcome him home

Tip us off
Share stories with the Guardian securely and confidentially

Climate crisis

  • Wind turbines illuminated by the setting sun with power lines, in shadow, in front of them

    Greenhouse gas emissions
    EU emissions fall by 8% in steep reduction reminiscent of Covid shutdown

  • A group of 12 people on a stage in front of a sign saying 'Let's make Peace with Nature'

    Environment
    Alarm grows over ‘disturbing’ lack of progress to save nature at Cop16

  • Richard Seymour

    Climate crisis
    ‘You can’t shoot climate change’: Marxist thinker on how far right exploits environmental crisis

  • Two men wearing black Greenpeace t-shirts hold a sign saying 'Rich countries: break the piggy bank and pay the $20 billion by 2025' while standing next to a model of a piggy bank.

    Environment
    The world needs $700bn a year to restore nature. But where is the money coming from?

Around the world

  • Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer smiling while meeting members of staff

    UK autumn budget
    UK’s borrowing costs rise as Reeves’s budget prompts fears of slower interest rate cuts

    Markets conclude higher level of public spending could lead to higher inflation, making cuts in Bank of England rate less likely
  • Jen, Lindsay and Gemma, victims of the former Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed, at a press conference.

    Mohamed Al Fayed
    Mohamed Al Fayed’s victims call for Harrods boycott

  • National Guard patrol while standing out of car roofs in a procession and driving down the road

    Mexico
    Mexican officials warn residents to avoid Halloween costumes so they're not mistaken for criminals

  • an Amazon worker is surrounded by packages

    Technology
    Amazon beats Wall Street expectations with strong cloud business growth

    • International criminal court
      ICC chief prosecutor facing staff calls for external inquiry into sexual misconduct claims

    • Brexit
      EU citizen who applied for pre-settled status is to be deported from Scotland

    • Animals
      Rats trained to sniff out smuggled rhino horn and pangolin scales

    • Georgia
      Final recount confirms Georgia ruling party victory, says electoral commission

    • US
      Human remains found near Hoover Dam in 2009 identified as Michigan man

    • Taiwan
      Typhoon Kong-rey: biggest storm in decades wreaks destruction in Taiwan

Culture

  • Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson; The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden; Missing Person: Alice by Simon Mason

    Books
    What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in October

    Authors, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month
  • Mike Leigh and Dick Pope on the set of Naked (1993).

    Film
    ‘A revelation and a joy’: Mike Leigh pays tribute to cinematographer Dick Pope

  • ‘The post-apocalyptic genre is deluged by catastrophic flooding’ … Flooding at the Ouse Washes Welney, England.

    Books
    The new folk horror: nature is coming to kill you!

  • ‘A genuine sense of finality’ … Peter Perrett.

    Music
    Peter Perrett: The Cleansing review – a late-career triumph that dances in the face of death

  • man in fedora hat looking off to the right

    Saturday Night Live
    ‘I was a coke fiend, I made a lot of bad choices’: Garrett Morris on SNL’s early days – and how the show lost its courage

  • Martha Stewart.

    Film
    Martha Stewart criticises Netflix film that ‘makes me look like a lonely old lady’

Lifestyle

  • Alicia (left) and Tola sitting at a table in a restaurant in Los Angeles in 2016.

    How we met
    We connected in a chat room, lost touch – then found each other 10 years later

    Alicia and Tola, now in their late 30s, met on an internet chatroom in the 90s. They reconnected through Facebook years later and remain close, despite living on opposite sides of the Atlantic
  • Some pumpkins for Halloween

    Thursday quiz
    Ghostly returns, cursed cheese sales and gothic maths

  • The exterior of Blickling Hall, Norfolk, on a misty day

    Travel
    Spooky days out: 10 of the most haunted houses in the UK

  • illustration of three people, two ghosts, a dog and three pumpkins at a table decorating pastries and drawing

    Halloween
    Pumpkin soup and DIY fake blood: how to be more sustainable this Halloween

  • Linda Gustafsson (left) and Annika Dalén, gender equality officers at the city of Umeå, Sweden.

    Euro visions
    The world’s most feminist city: how Umeå in Sweden became an idyll for women

  • Zeynep Gurtin with one of her sons

    A moment that changed me
    My miscarriages were devastating – then an orca’s grief made me try again

Take part

  • Smoke rises amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in Tyre, southern Lebanon.

    Living in Lebanon
    How have you been affected by the recent violence?

  • Residents cross a flooded street in Sedavi, in the province of Valencia, on 30 October 2024.

    People in Spain
    Have you been affected by flooding?

  • Cameraman using shooting equipment on tripod while recording take of scene working in team

    Film
    Share your experience of being a runner for film or TV

  • Rent and homelessness levels have been increasing at an alarming rate in Australia

    Housing
    Tell us your experience with Australia’s housing affordability crisis

From our global editions

  • A protester stands praying just over 150 metres from an abortion clinic in central London on 31 October 2024.

    UK
    Anti-abortion activists set up outside clinic ‘safe zones’ on first day of new law in England

    Pro-choice campaigners welcome CPS guidance that ‘silent prayer’ is among the activities prohibited within the 150-metre buffer area
  • INDIA-US-POLITICS-INAUGURATION<br>Residents prepare to put up a hoarding with a photo of US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris at her ancestral village of Thulasendrapuram in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu on January 20, 2021. (Photo by Arun SANKAR / AFP) (Photo by ARUN SANKAR/AFP via Getty Images)

    India
    Village in India where Harris is ‘daughter of the land’ on edge as US election looms

  • A woman takes pictures on her phone

    Cotton Capital
    ‘We built Brazil’: how descendants of enslaved Africans have helped shape the country

  • Mboweni during his time as finance minister, in Cape Town, February 2019.

    South Africa
    Tito Mboweni obituary

  • A man wearing blue overalls stacks numbered boxed on shelves inside a store room

    Kenya
    ‘Not just a museum’: Kenya’s seed bank offers unexpected lifeline for farmers

  • A camera on a film or TV set

    Media
    ‘I was screamed at for incorrectly spreading Marmite’: life as a runner in the UK film and TV industry

documentaries
Documentary link

Guardians of the Gibbons

A moving story about a devoted dad who is taking care of a gibbon family while raising his own. Follow his fight for animal-human harmony in an environment under threat

Watch now19.07
Guardians of the Gibbons Documentary

You may have missed

  • Al Jazeera journalist Wael al-Dahdouh.

    The long read
    ‘I couldn’t cry over my children like everyone else’: the tragedy of Palestinian journalist Wael al-Dahdouh

  • People brushing their teeth

    The experts
    Dentists on 22 quick, easy ways to care for your teeth

  • Joe Roman, in mask and snorkel, in the waters of the Bay of Pigs, Cuba

    Environment
    I’m obsessed with whale poop: ‘It can be neon green, bright red – or even sparkle’

  • Man and woman walk past cars set up as barricade

    Haiti
    ‘This is effectively a civil war’: despair in Haiti as gangs step up assault on capital

Play the Guardian's daily word game and share your score with your friends

Play Wordiply" Play
Wordiply composition

Podcasts

Podcasts

  • Early voting update of US presidential general election, in Atlanta<br>epa11692943 Citizens participate in early voting at a Dekalb County advance polling location in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 30 October 2024. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said more than 3.09 million voters have cast their ballots in early voting and county elections officials are reporting more than 195,000 absentee ballots have been received. Early voting, continues through 01 November 2024. The US presidential general election is 05 November 2024. EPA/ERIK S. LESSER

    Today in Focus
    US election extra: the race in Georgia

  • Manchester United v Leicester City - Carabao Cup Fourth Round<br>MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 30: Ruud van Nistelrooy, interim manager of Manchester United, acknowledges the home support after the Carabao Cup Fourth Round match between Manchester United and Leicester City at Old Trafford on October 30, 2024 in Manchester, England. (Photo by James Gill - Danehouse/Getty Images)

    Football Weekly
    Ruud’s Reds thrash Leicester and Spurs surprise City – Football Weekly Extra

  • Colombian president Gustavo Petro speaks at the 2024 United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Cali, Colombia

    Cop16
    Love motels and gridlocked talks: all the news from Cop16 – podcast

  • Rachel Reeves posing with the red budget box in Downing Street

    Autumn budget 2024
    Rachel Reeves’s big tax-and-spend budget dissected – podcast

  • Rachel Reeves holding up the red budget box. Photograph by Reuters/Mina Kim

    Politics
    The budget: Labour returns to tax and spend – Politics Weekly UK

  • Kamala Harris stands at a podium with a mic in Washington DC

    Today in Focus
    US election extra: Kamala Harris’s closing argument – podcast

  • Photograph: Johan Lolos/Rex/Shutterstock

    The Audio Long Read
    10 years of the long read: Why Silicon Valley billionaires are prepping for the apocalypse in New Zealand (2018) – podcast

In pictures

  • Fireworks go off as fans celebrate on the streets of LA after the Dodgers beat the New York Yankees in the baseball World Series

    Photos of the day
    Diwali prayers and York Minster’s 184 solar panels

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • What comes out at night … a four-armed monster costume

    Photography
    Too scary for children! How Halloween used to be

  • Residents clean the street next to cars piled up after being swept away by floods in Valencia, Spain.

    Spain
    Torrential rain brings deadly flooding to Spain – in pictures

  • ‘Stage Fright’ from the Hollywood Nightmares series, self-portrait, 2022.

    Photography
    Fright club! Hollywood’s golden age goes ghoulish

  • The writing on the T-shirt … a Trump supporter.

    US
    ‘Things are truly scary’: the divided states of America

  • Prisoners talk to other prisoners through the gaps of a cell

    Paraguay
    Life inside Paraguay’s overcrowded prisons

Most popular

Most viewed

What readers are clicking on

  1. Why were the floods in Spain so bad? A visual guide

  2. Spain floods death toll passes 150 as country begins three days of mourning

  3. UK urged to break with France, North Korea and Russia on UN nuclear war resolution

  4. About 8,000 North Korean soldiers at Ukraine border, says US

  5. Russia says $20 decillion fine against Google is ‘symbolic’

  6. Anti-abortion activists set up outside clinic ‘safe zones’ on first day of new law in England

  7. ‘The Arabs will disappear’: emboldened Israeli settlers eye return to Gaza

  8. UN should consider suspending Israel over ‘genocide’ against Palestinians, says special rapporteur

  9. Spain floods: number killed passes 150 as scientists say climate change ‘most likely explanation’ – as it happened

  10. ‘It was a trap’: flood alert came too late for residents of Paiporta, Spain

Deeply read

What readers are spending time with (Learn more)

  1. Dining across the divide: ‘I think his opposition to child benefit came partly from a place where he doesn’t have any kids’

  2. Sara Sharif’s father ‘hit her like crazy’ and made her do sit-ups all night, court hears

  3. ‘It’s the damnedest thing I’ve ever seen’: 10 film flops that became classics – ranked!

  4. Woolworths employee on $26 an hour confronts board at AGM over millions paid to executives

  5. ‘I was a coke fiend, I made a lot of bad choices’: Garrett Morris on SNL’s early days – and how the show lost its courage

  6. Hamilton claims Verstappen has kept driving dangerously since 2021 clashes

  7. ‘It was a trap’: flood alert came too late for residents of Paiporta, Spain

  8. Why were the floods in Spain so bad? A visual guide

  9. The experts: dentists on 22 quick, easy ways to care for your teeth

  10. Thom Yorke walks off stage after being heckled by pro-Palestine protester at Melbourne concert