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  • Lassana Diarra in action for Marseille against Paris Saint-Germain in October 2015

    Football
    Fifa’s transfer rules go against European Union law, rules EU’s highest court

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    Politics live
    Keir Starmer to set out Labour’s carbon capture investment plan in speech

    • Ultra-processed foods
      UK toddlers get nearly half their calories from ultra-processed food, study finds

    • Gambling
      Denise Coates’ charity may have saved Bet365 more in tax than it has given to good causes

    • The super-rich
      West Ham owner says non-dom crackdown is driving wealthy from the UK

    • JD Wetherspoon
      Wetherspoon’s boss calls academics’ smaller beer glass proposal ‘slightly daft’

    • Business live
      Bank of England’s chief economist urges caution over interest rate cuts

    • Andrew Flintoff
      ‘You can’t beat a bit of Bully!’: Andrew Flintoff to host Bullseye Xmas special

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  • Deveca Rose court case<br>Undated family handout photo issued by the Metropolitan Police of two sets of twins, Kyson and Bryson Hoath, aged four (left), and Leyton and Logan Hoath, aged three (right), who died in a fire after being left home alone. Their mother, Deveca Rose has been found guilty at the Old Bailey over the deaths of her four young boys in a fire after she left them home alone to go to Sainsbury's. 30-year-old Rose had left her two sets of twins in the locked terraced house when the fatal blaze broke out on the evening of December 16 2021. Issue date: Thursday October 3, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story COURTS Sutton. Photo credit should read: Family Handout/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

    London
    The missed chances that led to four small boys dying in a Sutton house fire

  • Hadil Louz at her home in front of books on a shelf

    7 October: one year on
    UK Palestinians on the nightmare of watching war unfold from afar

    One year on, we speak to those who have lost more than 50 relatives and who call some ministers’ support for the Israeli government ‘shameful’
  • Sharone Lifschitz

    7 October: one year on
    Daughter of hostage taken captive by Hamas describes her family’s pain and trauma

    Sharone Lifschitz also tells of impact conflict has had on life in the UK for British Jews, almost a year on from 7 October

Spotlight

  • Paul Simon on stage at teh Royal Albert Hall in November 2016.

    Paul Simon
    ‘I never said I was going to retire ...’ Paul Simon on disability, drive and the mystery behind his greatest songs

    He halted his career after decades of hits, then a dream one night changed everything. From New York to swinging London and apartheid South Africa, he explains his epic journey
  • Emily Eccles wearing a flowery crop top under beige cardigan, standing among shrubs and trees

    Experience
    A horse-riding accident shattered my jaw

  • Ashness Bridge in the Lake District.

    Readers' travel tips
    ‘A wildly beautiful place for autumn colour’: readers’ favourite UK forest trails

    From Japanese acers at Westonbirt arboretum to the pines of Loch Ard, our tipsters share their top woodland days out
  • Hideko Hakamada (C) holds a banner reading "innocent man, not guilty verdict" to support her brother Iwao Hakamada, as she arrives to the Shizuoka District Court on September 26, 2024. The world's longest-serving death row prisoner was freed last month after nearly 50 years on death row.

    Japan
    After freeing a man who spent half a century on death row, will Japan keep using the death penalty?

    Police fabricated key evidence that led to the conviction of Iwao Hakamada in 1968, but capital punishment still has popular support
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      You be the judge
      My daughter never wears her glasses – should I pay for her contact lenses?

    • Cottage surrounded by woodland in Fittleworth, West Sussex.

      Fantasy house hunt
      Homes for sale close to British woodland

    • Boris Johnson walking away from a lectern

      Book review
      Unleashed by Boris Johnson review – memoirs of a clown

    • Star Wars Outlaws

      Culture
      ‘We were only slightly influenced by the Cantina music’: the underworld sounds of Star Wars Outlaws

Opinion

  • Family members of the victims killed at the Nova music festival mark six months after the attack, April 2024.

    A brutal year and a tale of two Israels: the one that is feared and the one that is fearful

    Jonathan Freedland
    There is a yawning gap between how the world sees Israel and how Israelis see themselves. If only each could see through the other’s eyes, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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    Starmer is boxing himself in over Europe – and putting approval ratings above young people’s futures

    Zoe Williams
  • The actor Demi Moore looks into a mirror in a bathroom.

    Yes, Andrew Tate is a misogynist, but his real game is exploiting men’s vulnerabilities for cash

    Gaby Hinsliff
    It is a con women know well, yet it is important to recognise that men can also be its victims, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
  • An injured Palestinian teenager in a wheelchair.

    Disabled Palestinians are facing horrors piled upon horrors. I think of their suffering every day

    Frances Ryan
    With every bombing, more people are left to survive without the devices and medications they need, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
    • Frodsham wind farm and Rocksavage gas-fired power station near Runcorn, Cheshire.

      Today, with our £22bn pledge for carbon capture, Labour’s green revolution for Britain begins

      Rachel Reeves
    • Fans watch as Manchester City warm up at Joie Stadium.

      Taking my daughter to her first WSL game reminded me of the joy football can bring

      Will Unwin
    • Closeup of a woman with long hair looking off to the side

      Does Melania Trump really think her pro-choice messaging will fool us?

      Moira Donegan
    • Owen Jones

      What atrocity would Israel have to commit for our leaders to break their silence?

      Owen Jones

Editorials & Letters

  • Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England, gestures as he addresses the media during a press conference in London.

    Editorial
    The Guardian view on Andrew Bailey’s aggression: whatever traders think is true becomes fact

  • The Central Family Court/The Court of Protection in London

    Editorial
    The Guardian view on the family courts: the first principle must be safety

  • Conservative party leadership candidates, from left: Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick, James Cleverly and Tom Tugendhat at the party’s conference in Birmingham this week.

    Letters
    Fibs and failures in the Tory party and beyond

  • Protesters carrying signs rally against Drax power station.

    Letters
    Despite the end of coal-fired power, the UK’s green energy future is still unclear

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    Antarctica
    Antarctic plant cover growing at dramatic rate as climate heats

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    Pollutionwatch
    Dangers of adding rubbish to home fires

  • Susana Muhamad Rozo 001 in Bogota, Colombia, June 2022

    Environment
    How the ‘Frida Kahlo of environmental geopolitics’ is lighting a fire under big oil

  • Firefighters battling a wildfire in Corinthia, Greece, in October.

    Greenhouse gas emissions
    Wildfires are burning through humanity’s carbon budget, study shows

From the UK

  • Laura Winham smiling and looking at camera

    Society
    Woman who lay dead in flat for three years wrote she was ‘starving’ in diary

    Inquest hears how 38-year-old Laura Winham, who was deaf and had schizophrenia, wrote of struggling to buy food
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    Female genital mutilation
    Man who sent girl to Iraq for FGM jailed in legal first for England and Wales

  • USAF B-1 Bombers at the air base on Diego Garcia.

    Chagos Islands
    Britain to return Chagos Islands to Mauritius ending years of dispute

  • Sarah Caddick

    Organ donation
    White women added to NHS eligibility list to donate stem cells

    • Assisted dying
      MPs to get historic vote on England and Wales assisted dying bill

    • General election
      Boris Johnson insists he would have won July election in new book

    • UK
      Woman found guilty over deaths of four home-alone sons in fire

    • Chris Kaba
      Met officer gave ‘false’ account to justify fatally shooting unarmed man, jury told

    • Race
      All-black airline crew to fly from UK to mark Black History Month

    • Northern Ireland
      Stranded cruise ship finally leaves Belfast for round-the-world voyage

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    US
    US dock workers agree on deal with port operators to end strike

  • Paul Simon performing in Manchester on his 2018 Farewell Tour.

    Music
    Paul Simon ‘optimistic’ about returning to live shows despite hearing loss

    • Australia
      Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart wanted ‘so-called’ portraits ‘permanently disposed of’

    • Environment
      Ex-carbon offsetting boss charged in New York with multimillion-dollar fraud

    • Lebanon
      Lebanese healthcare workers fearful as growing numbers killed in strikes

    • Science
      Dental health benefits of fluoride in water may have declined, study finds

    • France
      France’s 31-year treasure hunt for a buried owl statue finally ends

    • Bruce Springsteen
      Bruce Springsteen endorses Kamala Harris for president while criticising ‘dangerous’ Trump

Culture

  • Melissa McBride as Carol in The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon – The Book of Carol

    TV tonight
    The Walking Dead is the zombie franchise that refuses to die

    Norman Reedus and Melissa McBride return in the Daryl Dixon spin-off. Plus: Hugh Grant discussing his terrifying role in new film Heretic. Here’s what to watch this evening
  • Bane (Tom Hardy) and Batman (Christian Bale) in The Dark Knight Rises, 2012

    Week in geek
    Give us DC’s Deathstroke and Bane movie – it can’t be worse than Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom

  • Alan Hollinghurst.

    The books of my life
    Alan Hollinghurst: ‘I wrote letters to my schoolfriends in dwarfish runes’

  • Chinese rapper Billionhappy, one of the artists featured on Redline Impact.

    Global album of the month
    Various Artists: Redline Impact review – thrilling dive into east Asian hyper-electronics

  • ‘It was like reliving everything’ … Shiori Ito in Black Box Diaries (2024)

    Documentary films
    ‘Editing it was like exposure therapy’: Shiori Ito, the reluctant face of Japan’s #MeToo movement

  • The Hard Quartet.

    Music
    The Hard Quartet review – cosmically trippy joy from Stephen Malkmus supergroup

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    7 October: one year on
    Israel was told ‘you are not alone’ – but year of war has left it isolated

    For many Israelis, the shedding of support since 7 October attack has revived a belief that they cannot rely on others
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