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  • Sophia Loren sitting next to Marlon Brando at the Rome premiere of On the Waterfront, in 1954

    Hollywood
    Marlon Brando fury at ‘feeling like a freak’ among revelations in new book of Hollywood secrets

  • two women crying

    Ohio
    Two more family members sentenced in Ohio crime of ‘boundless depravity’

    • Syria
      International flights to resume at Damascus airport

    • Dallas
      Fire at pet shop leaves more than 500 animals dead

    • Astronomy
      Venus rewards stargazers with appearance next to moon

    • Tomiko Itooka
      World’s oldest person dies in Japan aged 116

    • Technology
      Meta is killing off its own AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles

    • Oil
      ‘Ironic’: climate-driven sea level rise will overwhelm major oil ports, study shows

In focus

  • A man sits on the edge of a sidewalk with his head in his hands

    America on edge
    US staggers into 2025 buffeted by week of attacks and looming political violence

  • Man in suit on stage speaking

    Donald Trump
    President-elect promised to shut down the education department. Is it possible?

    President-elect said he would give states the power to control education, but it would be extremely difficult
  • buildings in the sky

    Detroit
    ‘It’s buzzing here’: City's revival takes shape after decades of decay

    The tech scene is booming in the US’s largest Black-majority city, with foreign investment and a recent population boost

Spotlight

  • Charli XCX against a lime green background

    Language
    Rawdogging, brat and looksmaxxing: Guardian’s breakthrough words of 2024

    If boysober, femininomenon and vibecession also leave you confused, you’re probably not a member of gen Z
  • Photograph of a broken, smoking vape

    Quit it!
    From vaping to doomscrolling, 10 bad habits and how to break them

  • Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni in a scene from It Ends With Us.

    Why did so many people jump to criticise Blake Lively? The answer isn’t complicated

    Sarah Manavis
    A man can do anything but if a woman does an inch of wrong, people want to watch her burn
  • Woman smiles at camera

    The Baldoni-Lively legal battle has depressing echoes of Depp v Heard

    Arwa Mahdawi
    The It Ends With US wrangling is becoming increasingly nasty – we live in a world where the powerful can ‘bury’ their enemies
    • Composite image of a child's drawing of a house in the wood

      Losing my ‘haunted’, mouldy flat was awful. I swore I’d get it back – and I did

      Claire Jackson
    • US president Jimmy Carter, right, with Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping at the White House in Washington DC, 29 January 1979

      How will 2025 turn out? The life of Jimmy Carter offers an unexpected clue

      Jonathan Freedland
    • Police try to contain rioting supporters of Donald Trump at the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.

      January 6 was part of an attempted coup d’etat in America. Don’t let Trump and his allies tell you otherwise

      Arwa Mahdawi
    • A man with a pain in his neck working at a laptop.

      Why does modern life often feel like the seven circles of digital hell?

      Margaret Sullivan
  • Newcastle United's Alexander Isak (second right) scuffs the ball home from close range to put the visitors ahead at Spurs.

    Live
    Tottenham v Newcastle – Premier League

    First-half goals from Anthony Gordon and Alexander Isak earned victory as Newcastle held off Tottenham’s late fightback. Join Barry Glendenning
  • Coco Gauff celebrates with her US teammates after defeating Karolina Muchova in Sydney.

    Tennis
    USA to face Poland for United Cup title, Sabalenka and Osaka earn wins

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  • A parking lot full of yellow cabs is flooded as a result of superstorm Sandy on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012 in Hoboken, NJ.

    The alternatives
    ‘A place for kids to play and a place to store water’: the stormwater capture zone that is also a playground

  • A modern heat pump in front of a residential building in Bavaria, Germany.

    Heat pumps
    ‘They’ve heard so much wrong information’: Selling heat pumps across Germany’s political divide

  • A grey car parked on a road

    Automotive industry
    UK needs to ban full hybrid cars by 2030 or face net zero ‘catastrophe’, says motoring body

  • Firefighters on their way to tackle a wildfire in Ano Loutro, near Xylokastro in Corinthia, Greece, in September 2024.

    Climate crisis
    Former EU environment chief warns against backsliding on climate crisis

  • people with their arms around each other looking out

    California
    California tribes celebrate historic dam removal: ‘More successful than we ever imagined’

    After four dams were blasted from the Klamath River, the work to restore the ecosystem is under way
  • Justin Baldoni<br>FILE - Justin Baldoni attends the world premiere of "It Ends with Us" at AMC Lincoln Square on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

    Film
    Justin Baldoni plans to sue Blake Lively after she accused him of harassment

  • At-home COVID tests.

    Coronavirus
    Covid surges across US after holidays amid low booster uptake

  • a man in a suit speaks into a microphone

    Donald Trump
    Judge sets date for Trump hush-money sentencing but rules out prison term

    • Colorado
      Teenage boy rescued after falling into abandoned missile silo in Colorado

    • Health
      Alcohol should carry warning label for cancer risk, US surgeon general says

    • House of Representatives
      Mike Johnson secures House speakership after facing internal dissent

    • New Orleans attack
      FBI concerned about copycat potential

    • Las Vegas
      Police search for motive in Las Vegas Cybertruck explosion at Trump hotel

    • Business
      Joe Biden blocks Nippon Steel’s $14.9bn bid to purchase US Steel

  • Edward Pettifer

    New Orleans attack
    King Charles 'saddened' as stepson of princes’ former nanny named among New Orleans victims

  • Syrian refugee Anas Modamani poses in a park in Berlin, displaying the selfie he took with Angela Merkel outside a refugee centre in Berlin on 10 September 2015.

    Germany
    The Syrian refugee whose selfie with Angela Merkel changed his life

    • Scotland
      ‘The hair stands up’: citizen archaeologists unearth ancient treasures

    • Chile
      Chilean president makes historic trip to south pole amid Antarctica sovereignty claim

    • Israel-Gaza war
      Israeli attacks kill about 30 people in Gaza in 'harsh day' of bombardment

    • South Korea plane crash
      A toddler, a student, a family of nine: who were the victims of Jeju Air flight 7C2216?

    • Thailand
      Thai prime minister declares £324m in assets including 217 designer handbags

    • Pakistan
      Shunned and shamed, trans community finally gets help for TB

Podcasts

Podcasts

  • Palestinian journalist Ahmed Alnaouq

    Today in Focus
    One man on his grief for Gaza

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    Weekend
    Revisited: a new approach to quitting smoking; how to stop people-pleasing; and why do we have the dreams we do? – podcast

  • Some of molecular paleontologist Alexandra Morton-Hayward’s ancient brains. (This image was edited to add a composite element.) Photograph: Alicia Canter/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    The brain collector: the scientist unravelling the mysteries of grey matter – podcast

  • Trump supporters storming the Capitol

    Politics Weekly America
    What happens if Trump pardons the January 6 rioters? – podcast

  • Luke Littler celebrates with a fist pump.

    Today in Focus
    How Britain fell in love with darts - podcast

  • Gabriel Jesus file photo<br>File photo dated 01-01-2025 of Arsenal's Gabriel Jesus who has vowed to keep scoring for Arsenal to end the club’s two-decade wait for a Premier League title. Issue date: Thursday January 2, 2025. PA Photo. See PA story SOCCER Arsenal. Photo credit should read John Walton/PA Wire.

    Football Weekly
    The case for Arsenal’s title challenge and an EFL roundup – Football Weekly Extra

  • This image released by Netflix shows Karla Sofía Gascón, right, and Zoe Saldaña in a scene from "Emilia Pérez." (Shanna Besson/Netflix via AP)

    Golden Globes 2025
    Who will win and who should win the film awards?

    Without clear frontrunners, this weekend’s awards ceremony could offer a string of surprises. Will it be Wicked or Emilia Pérez? The Brutalist or Conclave?
  • Sumit Paul-Choudhury.

    Books
    ‘I became an optimist the night my wife died’: a science writer on loss and letting go of rationalism

  • Culture 4 Jan Main

    The big chill
    Warming, nourishing culture to help you hibernate until spring

  • A portrait of Maya Jama with bare shoulders, against a warm brown background

    Maya Jama
    ‘Adversity can ruin your life. Or give you resilience’: TV host on grit, growing up, and bringing good vibes to primetime

  • Clockwise from top left: Mikey Madison in Anora (2024); Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, James Ransone and Mya Taylor in Tangerine (2015); Brooklynn Prince and Bria Vinaite in The Florida Project (2017); Simon Rex in Red Rocket (2021).

    Film
    Sean Baker thrillingly puts the marginalised centre stage

  • Soul singer Brenton Wood

    Music
    Soul singer Brenton Wood, behind the 1967 hit Oogum Boogum Song, dies aged 83

  • 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

  • Blind Date Felix &amp; Erin

    Blind date
    ‘He handled an allergic reaction with stoicism, while I fretted about having to tell the Guardian I’d killed my date’

  • 4Jan Q&amp;A Marcus Brigstocke for web

    The Q&A
    Marcus Brigstocke: ‘I’ve been in recovery for various addictions all my adult life’

    The comedian on gaining and losing weight, taking two-hour baths, and a sexy dream involving Jimmy Carr
  • 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
  • people smiling at a table

    Well actually
    Why some people are spending the holidays sans family: ‘My friends are more fun than my relatives’

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Take part

  • 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

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    People in the US
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  • 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

From our global editions

  • A woman dressed in purple sits on an armchair

    Pakistan
    Shunned and shamed, trans community finally gets help for TB

  • Gem, a cloned spaniel, at Gemini Genetics in Whitchurch, Shropshire, thought to be the only firm in Europe helping pet owners create genetic duplicates of their animals. Christopher Thomond for The Guardian.

    Science
    Meet Gem the cocker spaniel – the face of UK pet cloning

  • South Australian shark attack victim Lance Appleby

    Explainer
    As police search for the body of shark victim Lance Appleby, just how fearful should Australians be?

  • A woman runs against the direction of a crowd of protesters who have their fists raised and are holding placards

    Denmark
    ‘A look into the future’: TV drama about Danish climate refugees divides opinion

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  • Composite of a woman exercising, a glass of wine and a cup of coffee

    The experts
    Love your liver! 19 simple ways to look after this incredible organ, chosen by doctors

  • Jasmin Elezović posing in front of the bridge

    Bosnia and Herzegovina
    ‘It was a light in the dark’: how a bakery transformed lives in war-torn Mostar

    Jasmin Elezović says he and his family would not be who they are today without War Child, the charity that grew out of bitter conflict
  • Becky Barnicoat cartoon

    The Becky Barnicoat cartoon
    New year’s resolutions: the dream vs the reality

    January goals can be hard to satisfy …
  • Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    How do we tell our young daughter that she has a half-brother?

  • Judge illustration of a man on his mobile phone

    You be the judge
    Should my boyfriend stop trolling rightwing social media accounts?

  • Jeb Jagne posing for a photograph behind some flowers

    New year, new start …
    Is 2025 the right time to become your own boss?

  • A collage of writing and romantic images.

    US politics
    Once dismissed as frivolous, ‘romancelandia’ is getting political

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  • DO NOT USE. ONE TIME USAGE SMART SHOT 4 JAN. Jake Polonsky

    Smart shot
    ‘This reminds me of how unglamorous the film industry can be’: Jake Polonsky’s best phone picture

    During a long night on a TV shoot, the photographer seized the moment when he spotted two extras trying to get some rest
  • A woman holds up a sparkler as others watch and film on phones

    Twenty photographs of the week
    The New Orleans truck attack, hunger in Khan Younis, the plane crash in Seoul and new year’s celebrations

  • Soldiers wave their guns in the air as they dance and laugh

    Photos of the day
    Dancing soldiers and charity curios

  • A young chimpanzee eats on an island during an outing in the Douala-Edea Natural Park in Marienberg, Cameroon.

    The week in wildlife
    A rare warbler, a young chimp and sheltering joeys

  • Eslam shows her two-year-old son, Khalid, photos of his father, Shadi.

    Middle East
    'We never lose hope': life in a Gaza field hospital

  • Gorilla in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda.

    Readers' best photographs
    A gentle giant and a fried egg jellyfish

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