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    UK foreign policy
    MPs consider naming Chinese ‘spy’ linked to Prince Andrew

    Allegations raise calls for caution in UK over bid to re-establish China links
    • The remains of makeshift homes after Cyclone Chido hit France's Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte

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      Extreme weather
      Hundreds feared dead as Cyclone Chido devastates French island of Mayotte

    • Premier League
      Amad Diallo seals Manchester United’s late derby turnaround win to stun City

    • Spain
      Tributes paid to Mango founder Isak Andic after his death

    • US
      Boy, 16, arrested in connection with deaths of four family members in New Mexico

    • France
      French police search for motive after five shot dead near Dunkirk

    • US Capitol attack
      Lindsey Graham contradicts Trump by saying January 6 investigators should not go to jail

    • Film
      Guy Pearce says he was blocked from working with Christopher Nolan by Warner Bros

    • Spain
      Spanish artwork seized by Franco regime returned to rightful owners

Europe in focus

  • Woman arranged products in a shot

    Retail
    Antidote to online: Germany’s one-stop wellness shops get ready for Christmas

  • Dramatic photo of the central aisle of Notre Dame looking up at the illuminated tracery of pale stone vaulting

    Architecture
    Now Notre Dame reverberates with light: it’s impossible not to be moved

    An extraordinary restoration has swept away the lead dust and made the cathedral vivid, but thankfully not kitsch. Our architecture critic takes a look inside
  • Michel Barnier hands over the reins to the new prime minister, François Bayrou.

    European Union
    Why the Franco-German engine that powered the EU is currently kaput

    Beset by political crises and economic turmoil, the bloc’s two biggest countries are both at a crossroads

Spotlight

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    Self and wellbeing
    Uncertainty is part of being human, so how can we learn to live with it?

    A professor of statistics explains that living is about taking risks and not knowing the outcome, and why it’s important to accept and embrace that
  • Sublime … Paul McCartney at Co-op Live, Manchester.

    Music
    Paul McCartney review – extraordinarily sublime and humblingly beautiful

  • a young man in an orange jumpsuit

    Brian Thompson shooting
    The forces behind the lionisation of a murder suspect

    Reaction to Brian Thompson’s killing shocked pundits but a polarized US is united in contempt for health system
  • Open house: the iron-framed windows and balcony that inspired the design of the apartment.

    Interiors
    Finding beauty in Brutalism: a flat in Milan provides a haven for creativity

    Art defines the space in an apartment in an iconic building whose Brutalist architecture once led to protests
    • Film director Asif Kapadia photographed in London for the Observer New Review by Phil Fisk, November 2024.

      Film
      ‘Trump has been explicit about revenge’: Asif Kapadia on his new film about the threat to democracy

    • Prince Andrew had a friendship with a Chinese businessman alleged to be a spy.

      Analysis
      Prince Andrew may have been a victim of Chairman Mao’s ‘magic weapon’

    • People flash the victory sign as they walk carrying shopping bags.

      Syria
      ‘Celebrating the unknown’: Syrian Alawites fear for future under rebel rule

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      Artificial intelligence
      ‘I received a first but it felt tainted and undeserved’: inside the university AI cheating crisis

Opinion

  • Victory rallies of celebration across Syria - 13 Dec 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Juma Mohammad/IMAGESLIVE via ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock (15003091q) Aleppo, Syria. 13 December 2024. A major rally takes place in Aleppo on ''Victory Friday'' to celebrate the fall of the Syrian regime of Bashar Al-Assad. A large crowd converged into Aleppo's Saadallah al-Jabiri Square to mark the overthrown of the Syrian government by opposition forces headed by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. Similar rallies and celebrations have taken place in major squares in Syria's various governorates Victory rallies of celebration across Syria - 13 Dec 2024

    The world failed to save Syria. Now its people must be free to chart their own path

    Simon Tisdall
    Self-serving meddling by Israel, Turkey and other foreign powers puts the revolution at risk. They should back off now
  • A boy unwraps presents

    It’s been a grim year for baby-making. But what can the Christmas story teach us about having a child?

    Justine Toh
  • Ella Baron on the power vacuum in Syria – cartoon

    Cartoon
    Ella Baron on the power vacuum in Syria

  • A smiling man holds up a small boy in front of a Syrian flag.

    Editorial
    The Observer view on Syria: we must reach out a hand of friendship to Damascus

  • Strict protocol: ‘my sister Caoimhe assembles a database in September’

    The Séamas O’Reilly column
    Try doing secret Santa when 39 family members gather in one house

    Séamas O’Reilly
  • Shoppers in Swansea walk past a Christmas market.

    How do we bring joy this Christmas? Build homes, mend potholes, restore trust

    Torsten Bell

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Climate crisis

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    US
    Anxious scientists brace for Trump’s climate denialism: ‘We have a target on our backs’

  • The holnicote flood plain on the river aller in somerset

    Environment
    ‘It absolutely took off’: five UK biodiversity success stories

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    Environment
    ‘Forever chemical’ found in mineral water from several European countries

  • historical ruins on a hill

    Technology
    TikTok’s annual carbon footprint is likely bigger than Greece’s, study finds

Around the world

  • Around two million citizens gathered Seoul calling for the impeachment of President Yoon Suk-yeol.

    Asia Pacific
    South Korea’s president reportedly defies summons in martial law inquiry

    Report comes day after MPs voted to impeach Yoon Suk Yeol, who faces possible charges of insurrection
  • A Syrian man with his head resting on his folded arms as he leans on a rusty railing, with other Syrians in the background

    UK
    Yvette Cooper urged to end ‘cruel’ pause on Syrian asylum decisions

  • Sara Sarif

    UK
    Sara Sharif’s grandfather vows to keep her siblings in Pakistan as vigil is held

  • WH Briefing Oct 1<br>UNITED STATES - OCTOBER 1: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks about the flooding in North Carolina at the White House daily press briefing on Tuesday, October 1, 2024. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan also spoke about the conflict between Iran and Israel. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

    US military
    Mayorkas says no known foreign involvement in mass drone sightings

    • US
      Austin Tice’s mother hopes American found in Syria is ‘rehearsal’ for son’s return

    • UK
      Man dies after falling from balcony at Bullring shopping centre in Birmingham

    • Television
      Kelly Cates ‘to replace Gary Lineker on BBC’s Match of the Day’

    • Brazil
      Brazil’s President Lula leaves hospital after brain surgery

    • UK
      Woman dies after shooting in north-west London

    • Europe
      Small boat crossings from France would be ‘thousands higher’ under the Tories, senior UK minister says

Culture

  • Familiar but fresh … Ivana Bueno (first cast) as Clara in Nutcracker by English National Ballet at London Coliseum.

    Ballet
    Nutcracker review – Wonka meets Mary Poppins in English National Ballet’s reboot

    Artistic director Aaron S Watkin oversees a faintly surreal Edwardian setting of dancing chimney sweeps, suffragettes and Liquorice Allsorts in a sweet but not sickly production
  • A scene from a 2005 episode of Malcolm in the Middle, with Frankie Muniz (foreground) and Bryan Cranston

    TV
    Bryan Cranston and Jane Kaczmarek reprise roles in Malcolm in the Middle

  • Drew Starkey, left, and Daniel Craig in Queer.

    Film
    Queer review – seedily terrific Daniel Craig carries Luca Guadagnino’s artificial-looking drama

  • Jude Law photographed in London, November 2024.

    Q&A
    Jude Law: ‘The persona built on stuff written about me is not me, it’s this other guy’

  • Kyla Harris and Lee Getty for BAFTA Breakthrough UK 2024

    TV
    ‘We want to take the sting out of shame’: Kyla Harris and Lee Getty on narratives, nudity and normalising disabled bodies

  • Mr Santa by Jarvis; I Follow the Fox by Rob Biddulph; Weirdo Goes Wild by Zadie Smith, Nick Laird; The Wrong Shoes by Tom Percival; Cross My Heart and Never Lie by Nora Dasnes

    Books
    The best children’s and YA of 2024

Lifestyle

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    Gardens
    Why an apple tree is a perfect Christmas present for the gardener in your life

    They come in all sizes, they blossom and you can eat their delicious fruit straight off the tree
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    Cocktail of the week
    Nobu Bar’s teapple – recipe

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    Ask Philippa
    I’m nearly 80 and there’s a void in my life that hobbies can’t fill

  • OM Nigel Pork Black Pudding II

    Food
    Nigel Slater’s recipes for roast pork with black pudding and apple sauce, and chocolate almond cookies

  • France, Haute Savoie, Morzine, Les Gets, the valley of Aulps, ski slopes of the Portes du Soleil, Chablais, view of the chaine du Bargy and the Pointe Blanche (2438m)<br>F1Y7MT France, Haute Savoie, Morzine, Les Gets, the valley of Aulps, ski slopes of the Portes du Soleil, Chablais, view of the chaine du Bargy and the Pointe Blanche (2438m)

    Travel
    Going solo: top European resorts for single skiers

  • Georgina Hayden's chocolate and clementine cassata semifreddo.

    Food
    Georgina Hayden’s recipe for chocolate and clementine cassata semifreddo

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    Technology
    Is there an app, site or service you use to avoid doomscrolling?

  • Syrians gather at Umayyad Square to celebrate the collapse of 61 years of Baath Party rule in Damascus.

    Syria
    Share your reaction to the fall of Assad

  • Miles Mitchell, 21, winner of the Timothee Chalamet lookalike contest near Washington Square Park, in New York.

    Celebrity
    Share your experience of being a celebrity lookalike

  • Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) listens to the debate after his government statement in the 199th session of the Bundestag, Deutscher Bundestag, Berlin, Germany, on 13 November 2024.

    Germany
    Share your thoughts about the collapse of the coalition government

From our global editions

  • people working in a supermarket

    US
    ‘A huge regression’: Walmart’s DEI rollback incites new racial equity push

    Largest private employer in US pledged to tackle inequities after George Floyd murder but has now dropped initiatives
  • Michelle Dvorak on Chaukhamba

    Interview
    ‘If we don’t get off this mountain I don’t think I can do another night’: climber Fay Manners on surviving the odds

  • A man in a suit wearing a yellow tie and a US flag pin

    US
    Trump plan to end birthright citizenship is more conceivable in second term

  • a women speaking to people

    US
    LA tree enthusiast shares her love for the city’s canopy: ‘Something we took for granted’

  • A scientist in a white coat fits a headset to a woman's head

    Neuroscience
    How seeing his own brain inspired doctor to find a method to rapidly detect delirium

  • a man in an orange prison jumpsuit is led to a car

    Luigi Mangione
    ‘Only one viable defense’: how might the CEO murder case play out in court?

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    Weekend
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