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  • A man looks over at another man who is speaking

    Syria
    The UN wants to influence a pluralist Syria – but will the country listen?

  • Supporters of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol near the presidential residence.

    South Korea
    Communist spies and assassination attempts: how the cold war still shapes South Korean politics

    Attitudes to North Korea are key to understanding President Yoon Suk Yeol’s attempt to impose martial law and its aftermath
  • A J-15 Chinese fighter jet takes off from the Shandong aircraft carrier

    Taiwan
    The maps that show how China’s military is squeezing Taiwan

    China has increased its incursions into Taiwan’s airspace over the last year, part of strategic harassment that is taking a toll on the island’s resources

Spotlight

  • Man sat in bed reading a book, smiling

    Social etiquette
    ‘People feel they don’t owe anyone anything’: the rise in ‘flaking’ out of social plans

    Some call to drop out of events at late notice – even weddings and funerals. Self-care? Others call it selfishness
  • Someone hands holding a mug of black coffee.

    Coffee
    Coffee drinkers reap health boost – but only if they do it in the morning

  • A woman holds her autographed copy of The Plot Against the King by Kash Patel.

    Trump administration
    Kash Patel’s Maga kids’ book is embarrassing. I should know – I’m a children’s author

    Jill Twiss
    The Plot Against the King, a thinly veiled take on the ‘stolen’ 2020 election, has a few hits and lots of misses
  • Taylor Swift

    Music industry
    UK music sales hit record high as Taylor Swift tops album sellers

    Spending on streaming subscriptions and physical sales hits £2.4bn as industry recovers from piracy and CD slump
    • Claudia Winkleman in The Traitors.

      Television
      ‘Banishment-level posh’: why is The Traitors so middle-class?

    • Rashid Johnson in the studio 2020

      2025 culture preview
      The most exciting US art exhibitions in 2025

    • ‘I’m queer and I’m a figurative painter. I don’t really know what else to say’ … Grewal at his studio with The Ceaseless Cycle of Erosion.

      Art and design
      ‘I was drenched in painting’: how Jake Grewal’s nudes in nature caused a sensation

    • photo of two topless men

      Fashion
      ‘People thought we liked being touched and grabbed’: a former Abercrombie model recalls brand’s dark days

Opinion

  • protesters holding a sign with a man's face on it

    Joe Biden is Leonard Peltier’s last hope

    Rose Styron and Alex Matthiessen
    The imprisoned Native American is long overdue for clemency. Joe Biden is probably the last president who can give it to him
  • L-r: Mark Zuckerberg, Donald Trump and Jeff Bezos

    Will flattery get you everywhere with Donald Trump? Billionaires are determined to find out

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • UK Opposition Leader Kemi Badenoch Holds Press Conference<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 27: Leader of Britain's opposition Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch delivers a speech on immigration on November 27, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Peter Nicholls/Getty Images)

    Kemi Badenoch was supposed to make the Tories serious again. She has failed

    Rafael Behr
    By jumping on Elon Musk’s passing bandwagon and echoing the far right, the Conservative leader has shown she doesn’t understand her responsibilities, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
  • Mark Zuckerberg and Meta logo

    A new era of lies: Mark Zuckerberg has just ushered in an extinction-level event for truth on social media

    Chris Stokel-Walker
    The Meta boss’s decision to end Facebook and Instagram’s factchecking program has set the stage for a fact-free four years online
    • A woman dressed in denim browses vinyl records in a record shop

      The UK music industry is reporting record revenues. The reality is much gloomier

      Eamonn Forde
    • two men looking at each other

      To see how Trump will control the US media, look at Viktor Orbán’s Hungary

      Owen Jones
    • Palestinian children play next to buildings destroyed by Israeli army strikes in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, 7 January 2025

      Editorial
      The Guardian view on Gaza’s suffering: a deepening disaster should not be treated as inevitable

    • a man looking straight ahead

      Why was Justin Trudeau forced out? With Trump on the horizon, his party wasn’t sure he could win

      David Moscrop

Sports

  • Antonio Pierce’s Las Vegas Raiders ended the season with a 4-13 record.

    NFL
    Raiders fire Pierce after just one season in charge

    The Las Vegas Raiders fired Antonio Pierce on Tuesday after just one season as their full-time coach, the team’s latest in a line of coaching changes
  • Anthony Gordon doubles Newcastle’s lead against Arsenal

    Soccer
    Newcastle on verge of Carabao Cup final after famous win at Arsenal

  • Calgary Flames v Columbus Blue Jackets<br>COLUMBUS, OHIO - OCTOBER 20: Johnny Gaudreau #13 of the Columbus Blue Jackets warms up prior to a game against the Calgary Flames at Nationwide Arena on October 20, 2023 in Columbus, Ohio. (Photo by Ben Jackson/NHLI via Getty Images)

    NHL
    Man charged with killing Johnny Gaudreau and brother turns down deal

    The driver charged with killing the Gaudreau brothers as they cycled on a rural New Jersey road pleaded not guilty to the indictment on Tuesday
  • Alejandro Garnacho, Rasmus Højlund and Kobbie Mainoo

    Soccer
    United will listen to offers for Mainoo, Garnacho and Højlund

    Manchester United will listen to serious offers for any of Ruben Amorim’s squad, including Kobbie Mainoo, Alejandro Garnacho and Rasmus Højlund
    • Minnesota Vikings quarterback Sam Darnold reacts after a play during the second half of Sunday’s loss to the Lions at Ford Field in Detroit.

      Sam Darnold turned into a pumpkin on Sunday. But he can still be Cinderella

      Doug Farrar
    • Elon Musk

      Liverpool
      Musk would be interested in buying club, claims father

    • Novak Djokovic hits a return as Andy Murray looks on during training in Melbourne

      Tennis
      Behind the scenes: a first look at Djokovic and Murray on court

    • Russia’s Mirra Andreeva hits a return during her women's singles match against Anna Blinkova.

      Tennis
      Mirra Andreeva: ‘I would say that I’m still a kid sometimes. I can be a pain’

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Climate crisis

  • emergency workers navigate a street covered in debris following a flash flood

    Exclusive
    World’s climate fight needs fundamental reform, UN expert says: ‘Some states are not acting in good faith’

  • FILE - President Jimmy Carter speaks against a backdrop of solar panels at the White House, June 21, 1979, in Washington. (AP Photo/Harvey Georges, File)

    US
    ‘He was prescient’: Jimmy Carter, the environment and the road not taken

  • Commuter in Oklahoma wrapped up against Winter Storm Blair

    Weather tracker
    The polar vortex disturbance behind Storm Blair

  • Off-shore oil platform in the Santa Barbara channel, off Ventura, California.

    Fossil fuels
    Biden bans new drilling in US coastal waters weeks before Trump handover

Across the country

  • Beige house with three greek letters

    Crime
    Four San Diego fraternity members charged after setting member on fire

  • Federal Courthouse in New Orleans<br>Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals courthouse in downtown New Orleans, Louisiana

    Louisiana
    Appeals court hears case that could dilute Black voters’ power in Louisiana

    • California
      Biden designates two new national monuments after advocacy from tribes

    • Laken Riley Act
      US House passes bill allowing detention of undocumented immigrants for theft

    • Reaction
      Ditching of Facebook factcheckers a ‘major step back’ for public discourse, critics say

    • California
      Former representative Barbara Lee files paperwork to run for Oakland mayor

    • US weather
      Bitter cold envelops US south as central states recover from freeze

    • Technology
      Meta appoints Ultimate Fighting Championship’s Dana White to board

Around the world

Podcasts

Podcasts

  • ‘For some reason, it’s almost impossible to cry in the sea.’ Photograph: Cavan Images/Getty

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: Cold comfort: how cold water swimming cured my broken heart – podcast

  • The backs of nine schoolboys in frockcoats on a moss-covered wall with trees behind

    Today in Focus
    Will Labour take on the power of private schools in the UK? – podcast

  • Arsenal Women Training Session<br>LONDON COLNEY, ENGLAND - JANUARY 06: Caitlin Foord of Arsenal during the Arsenal Women's training session at Sobha Realty Training Centre on January 06, 2025 in London Colney, England. (Photo by David Price/Arsenal FC via Getty Images)

    The Guardian's Women's Football Weekly
    Winter mailbag: who will Arsenal’s next manager be? – Women’s Football Weekly

  • Front view of a man and woman using laptops and glaring sideways at each other

    Neuroscience
    Are we hardwired to commit ‘deadly sins’? – podcast

  • An effigy of Yoon Suk Yeol covered in snow.

    Today in Focus
    The month that changed South Korea for ever – podcast

Culture

  • From left: Peter Yarrow, Mary Travers and Noel ‘Paul’ Stookey pictured in 1962.

    Music
    Peter Yarrow of folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary dies aged 86

    Known for his political songs as well as Puff, the Magic Dragon, the group’s co-songwriter died of bladder cancer
  • Ahead of the curves … Arnhem’s panopticon, which is now an event space and a hotel.

    Netherlands
    Escape from the terrordome: how Netherlands panopticon prisons are being reborn as stunning arts hubs

  • Jon Stewart on another January 6 in Washington: ‘It’s amazing how smoothly our democracy works when you don’t act like a little bitch when you lose.’

    Late-night TV roundup
    Jon Stewart on Harris presiding over election certification: ‘Like attending your own funeral’

  • Demi Moore with her Golden Globe

    Film
    Demi Moore’s stellar second act: how the star was finally given her due at 62

  • Zora Neale Hurston.

    Books
    Where to start with: Zora Neale Hurston

  • Chappell Roan performing in New York in June 2024

    Music
    ‘Audiences can smell fakeness a mile away’: the creative directors behind pop’s biggest stars

Lifestyle

  • In an effort to limit doom-scrolling Doosie Morris is trying to rekindle her love of reading.

    66 days to change
    66 days to learn to love reading again: ‘Ten pages in and my brain is twitching with fatigue’

  • Martha Beck at home in New Hope, Pennsylvania, December 2024.

    Life and style
    The anxiety secret: how the world’s leading life coach stopped living in fear

    Famous for her work with Oprah Winfrey, Martha Beck is a bestselling author and self-help superstar. But for 60 years she was anxious and terrified - until she found a simple, uplifting answer
  • Illustration of yellow thumbs up

    My petty gripe: thumbs-up emojis say ‘I don’t care’ – please stop using them on my big news

    Alex Michael
    It doesn’t matter if it’s Mario Party or my fictional promotion to junior regional manager, my texts deserve more than a digital eff-off

Well actually

  • Famed restaurateur Alice Waters chats with the Duchess of Sussex in Netflix’s With Love, Meghan.

    Let them eat sponge cake
    We watched Meghan Markle’s cooking show trailer so you don’t have to

  • Illustration of boots, an pan, and a pizza box

    Well Actually
    Are PFAS in everything? What you need to know about ‘forever chemicals’

  • Illustration of two hands with thumbs and index fingers forming a circle, a scale and geometric shapes.

    How to start
    ‘The only thing you need is your own mind’: how to start meditating

  • illustration of a person sitting by their two children, holding a white envelope

    Writing my will sent me into an existential spiral

    Angela Garbes
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    People in the US
    How do you eat a climate-friendly diet on a budget?

  • Light traffic drives on a snow covered Pennsylvania Avenue in downtown Washington DC.

    US weather
    Tell us how you have been affected by Winter Storm Blair in the US

  • Ian Cairns’ photograph of Eastbourne's Towner Gallery with geometric artwork by Lothar Götz. It was published on the Guardian’s letters page on 9 July 2022.

    Photography
    Have your photos published in the Guardian’s letters section

  • If people are becoming more ‘flaky’, why do you think that is, and are you one of them?

    Flaking
    Share your experience and views on the rise of cancelling plans on a whim

From our global editions

  • Aerial view of a low-rise town with wide roads sprawling for miles

    Latin America and the Caribbean
    From the ashes: how a mayor beat the loggers to turn the Amazon green again

  • Gerald Durrell with lemurs at Jersey Zoo (now Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust).

    Books
    ‘He wouldn’t hurt a fly – literally’: remembering Gerald Durrell at 100

  • A crowded beach with cabanas

    Australia
    ‘Everyone owns the beach’: Australian PM throws shade in cabana debate

  • Justin Trudeau shakes hands with the crowd

    Analysis
    Justin Trudeau promised ‘sunny ways’ but could not fulfil his lofty ambitions

In case you missed it

  • Li Jianxiong: ‘My story is like a phoenix rising from the ashes.’

    China
    The man making a business out of China’s burnout generation

  • illustration of head shaped like an apple

    The big idea
    The big idea: can what you eat change your mind?

    From designer drinks to dodgy leftovers, our brain responds to food in surprising ways
  • A south Asian child writes in the Hanifi script on a blackboard

    Global development
    From Igbo to Angika: how to save the world’s 3,000 endangered languages

    With half of all languages predicted to die out in decades, activists are turning to online tools to preserve them
  • Jerry Springer with an audience member in 1991.

    TV review
    Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action review – a remarkable look at the trashiest TV of all time

  • Illustration of a question mark with pound signs on it, against green background

    Life and style
    Questions to ask yourself ... to sort out your finances

  • A file photo of a nurse walking past a clock in a Beijing hospital. Cases of human metapneumovirus (HMPV) are surging in northern China, where there has been an outbreak of the virus.

    Explained
    What is HMPV, are cases of human metapneumovirus surging in China, and should we be worried?

  • Composite of a tattered flag and Trump supporters at the US Capitol.

    Analysis
    Trump promised pardons for January 6 rioters in ‘first hour’ of his second term. What might this mean?

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    California
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    Homes evacuated in Los Angeles neighbourhood as blaze spreads amid intense Santa Ana winds in Southern California
  • A girl puts on a santa hat on the head of a child

    Photos of the day
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  • Trudeau waves to supporters

    In pictures
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  • Rio de Janeiro, Brazil A reveler takes part in the unofficial kick off of Rio’s Carnival

    Photos of the day
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  • From left: Amy Adams, Quinta Brunson, Chris Perfetti and Lisa Ann Walter take a selfie

    Golden Globes 2025
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  • Given the increasingly scarce snow cover at lower altitudes, resorts perched between 2,000 and 2,500 fill up. Parking lots are full, checkouts are crowded, and there are long queues at restaurants and lifts

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