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    Kentucky
    Student killed in second shooting at Kentucky State University in four months

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    LGBTQ+ rights
    Teacher in Hungary facing criminal charges for organising Pride event

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    Gaza
    More than 9,000 children in Gaza hospitalized for acute malnutrition in October, UN says

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Trump presidency

  1. Donald Trump shows a signed executive order.

    Trump administration
    Font of ‘wasteful’ diversity: Trump’s state department orders return to Times New Roman

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    Student loans
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    Trump had two mortgages he claimed were primary dwellings, records show

  4. President Donal Trump looks on as FIFA President Gianni Infantino reads a certificate awarding him the FIFA Peace Prize during the 2026 FIFA World Cup Draw at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, DC on Friday, December 5, 2025.

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    Gianni Infantino accused of breaking Fifa rules with Trump’s peace prize

In focus

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    Kolahoi is one of many glaciers whose decline is disrupting whole ecosystems – water, wildlife and human life that it has supported for centuries
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    Education
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    US prisons
    He was called one of the most violent prison guards in America. He got promoted

Features

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  • Kate Bush’s hit re-enacted on the moors … this year’s ‘Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever’ on Penistone Hill, Yorkshire.

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    Art
    Nnena Kalu’s embodied, sensuous art makes her a worthy Turner prize winner

  • Jon Stewart on the inaugural Fifa Peace Prize: “An entirely fictitious golden butt plug.”

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    Jon Stewart on Fifa’s peace prize: ‘An entirely fictitious golden butt plug’

Opinion

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    The US is not just Europe’s unwilling ally, but an adversary steeped in far-right ideology

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Editorials

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    Trump and Europe: more an abusive relationship than an alliance

Sports

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    MLB
    Phillies near $150m deal for Schwarber while Dodgers reel in top closer Díaz

  • Rainbow corner flag on football pitch

    Football
    Egypt and Iran ask Fifa to prevent LGBTQ+ Pride celebration at World Cup 2026 match

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    20-year-old charged with attempted murder over shooting of Jets player

  • Claressa Shields, right, has captured world titles in five different weight classes as a professional.

    Boxing
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    NFL
    Chargers edge Eagles after Hurts has two turnovers on same play

  2. Lionel Messi #10 of Inter Miami CF celebrates after winning the Championship following the Audi 2025 MLS Cup Final match between Inter Miami CF and Vancouver Whitecaps FC at Chase Stadium on December 06, 2025 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

    Soccer
    Messi named 2025 MLS MVP, the second player to win award twice

  3. President Donal Trump looks on as FIFA President Gianni Infantino reads a certificate awarding him the FIFA Peace Prize during the 2026 FIFA World Cup Draw at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, DC on Friday, December 5, 2025.

    Soccer
    Infantino accused of breaking Fifa rules with Trump’s peace prize

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    France
    Brigitte Macron criticised after using sexist slur against feminist protesters

  • Hondura’s outgoing president, Xiomara Castro, casts her vote accompanied by her grandson Jose Manuel in Catacamas

    Honduras
    Honduras president alleges ‘electoral coup’ under way amid Trump ‘interference’

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    Ghislaine Maxwell
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    Michigan
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  • Nnena Kalu at work with colourful fabric

    Art
    Nnena Kalu becomes first artist with a learning disability to win Turner prize

Climate crisis & environment

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    Trump administration
    US judge strikes down Trump order blocking wind energy projects

  2. A farm worker plows fields overlooking Grangemouth petrochemical and refining plant in Scotland.

    Environment
    ‘Food and fossil fuel production causing $5bn of environmental damage an hour’

  3. elkhorn corals surrounded by fish in shallow water in the Caribbean

    Environment
    Caribbean reefs have lost 48% of hard coral since 1980, study finds

  4. A Tapanuli orangutan hangs from branches in a rainforest as a baby Tapanuli clings to her

    Environment
    It’s the world’s rarest ape. Now a billion-dollar dig for gold threatens its future

US news

  1. US politics
    Organizers submit enough signatures to block gerrymandered Missouri map

  2. New York
    New York archdiocese seeks $300m to settle claims by clergy abuse survivors

  3. Analysis
    New Trump doctrine identifies ‘weak’ Europe’s problem: not enough racism

  4. Universities
    Tufts student can resume research after Trump officials revoked her visa, judge rules

World news

  1. Sudan
    US puts sanctions on network said to funnel Colombian mercenaries to Sudan

  2. Democratic Republic of the Congo
    DRC fighting forces 200,000 to flee just days after Washington peace deal

  3. Peace
    Trump says he will make a call to end hostilities as Thailand and Cambodia ‘at it again’

  4. Nobel peace prize
    Oslo appearance by Nobel peace prize winner María Corina Machado cancelled

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  • US-POLITICS-CORRESPONDENTSReporter Olivia Nuzzi arrives for the White House Correspondents' Association dinner at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC, April 29, 2023. (Photo by Stefani Reynolds / AFP) (Photo by STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

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    Best movies of 2025
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What to watch

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    Television
    Growing pains: the struggle to make a must-see gen Z TV show

  2. Avatar: Fire and Ash

    Film
    All hail Avatar! How event movies are trying to bring back the box office blockbuster

  3. a woman and a dog

    Review
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  4. ‘an odd-couple adventure bursting with humour’: Hunt for the Wilderpeople

    Stream team
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    Best music of 2025
    The 50 best albums of 2025: 50 to 31

  3. Eliza Rose.

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  4. Nate Amos of This Is Lorelei.

    Music
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What to read

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    Biography books
    It Girl by Marisa Meltzer review – how Jane Birkin became an icon

  2. picture of people on a grey background.

    Books
    On the Calculation of Volume III by Solvej Balle review – how to make a timeloop endlessly interesting

  3. Gabriele Tergit.

    Fiction
    The Effingers by Gabriele Tergit review – a vivid portrait of Berlin before the Nazis

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    The best of the best
    The best books of 2025

What to play

  1. Skate Story.

    Games
    Skate Story review – hellish premise aside, this is skateboarding paradise

  2. Horses game

    Games
    Horror game Horses has been banned from sale – but is it as controversial as you’d think?

  3. Red Dead Redemption 2, a Western-themed action-adventure video game developed and published by Rockstar Games.

    Pushing Buttons
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    Games
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    Music
    Jubilant Sykes’ son arrested after Grammy-nominated opera singer stabbed to death

  2. a man sings while playing the guitar on stage

    Music
    Raul Malo, frontman of band the Mavericks, dies aged 60

  3. Paul Dano and Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood, 2007.

    Film
    Daniel Day-Lewis defends Paul Dano after Tarantino criticism

  4. Photo London VIP Dinner To Celebrate Martin ParrLONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 09: Martin Parr and Grayson Perry attend the Photo London VIP dinner to celebrate Martin Parr, hosted by Fatima Eskandar and Kamiar Maleki, on May 9, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by Dave Benett/Getty Images for Photo London)

    Photography
    ‘I drunkenly hugged him and said I love you, Martin Parr!’ Grayson Perry, Don McCullin and more on Britain’s national photographer

The Filter

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    The Filter
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    Cat toys
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  • side by side images of dog playing with toy outside and two toys leaning against trees

    Dog toys
    The eight best eco-friendly dog toys in the US – pup-tested

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    Small business
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Lifestyle

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    The birth keepers
    ‘There’s no longer a heartbeat’: the couple whose twins were stillborn – and the ‘birth keeper’ they blame

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    Pass notes
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Well actually

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    Well actually
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    Relationships
    Is love addiction real – and what does it look like?

  3. Painting of two people sitting and looking off

    Dating
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  4. We need to be proactive and flexible about our interactions.

    Why am I like this?
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Relationships

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    ‘Her work crush led to us having clinging-on-for-dear-life sex’

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    Relationships
    The truth about the ‘gender care gap’: are men really more likely to abandon their ill wives?

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  4. Two people. one holding a mobile phone. The other being pointed at

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    Should my best friend stop trying to set me up on dates?

Health & fitness

  1. Caroline Idiens poses holding some weights

    Social media
    ‘It has to be genuine’: older influencers drive growth on social media

  2. a lemon saying 'Achoo!'

    Is it true that …
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  3. Teen with mobile

    Social media ban
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  4. Composite of a man holding his hands to his heart

    How to build a better life
    Gratitude can be truly healing – but you need more than a checklist

Fashion & beauty

  1. Michael Kors and Megan Thee Stallion at the Met Gala

    Fashion
    ‘You have to stay curious’: Michael Kors on his inclusive brand’s global rise

  2. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe at the Imperial War Museum. 28th May, 2025 - a design meeting to workshop fabric concepts for the collection, held at Liberty’s design studio in London with Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and team members from both Liberty and the Imperial War Museum.

    Fashion
    ‘They can’t take away your imagination and creativity’: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on how sewing helped her in Iran jail

  3. A man waves an LGBTQ+ pride flag while standing in the middle of a field with sheep

    Fashion
    Just not that into ewes: ‘gay sheep’ escape slaughter and take over a New York catwalk

  4. Dario Vitale

    Fashion
    Versace creative director leaves shortly after fashion house’s $1.4bn sale to Prada

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  3. Rich Baker in a black T-shirt and beanie, holding up a pizza at his restaurant, Flat Earth Pizzas.

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    I moved on to a boat, fell in love – then opened my own restaurant

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Documentary

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    The fight against superbugs starts in the driest place on Earth

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