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    France
    Three people die and 48 rescued near Calais attempting to cross Channel

  • The former Tory minister David Davis

    Assisted dying
    Up to 30 MPs who backed assisted dying bill could withdraw support at next vote

    • Premier League live
      Leicester City v Manchester City

    • Retail industry
      Nearly 170,000 UK retail staff lost their jobs this year, data shows

    • Iran
      Italian journalist’s arrest in Iran alleged to be reprisal for detention of suspected arms dealer

    • Work
      Working from roam: more people logging on from UK airports and railway stations

    • Science
      Scientist’s ‘ruthlessly imaginative’ 1925 predictions for the future come true – mostly

    • Music
      Snoop Dogg and Dr Dre sample song by London learning disabilities charity

News in focus
  • Rioters attack the hotel in Rotherham in August

    2024: what happened next?
    ‘They thought they were going to die’: the asylum seekers who survived rioters trying to burn down their accommodation

  • Man in suit holding a smiley face

    Science
    Global happiness study aims to solve mystery of what gives us a boost

    Existing evidence is dominated by western regions but researchers want to find out whether benefits are the same around the globe
  • Jack O'Sullivan smiles as he sits on a sofa

    Bristol
    ‘Find Jack’: family of student who went missing in Bristol still seeking answers

    Mother of Jack O’Sullivan, who disappeared nine months ago, raises questions over how police have handled the case
Spotlight
  • Head and shoulders portrait of Michael Mosley.

    Obituaries of 2024
    Michael Mosley remembered by Dr Phil Hammond

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    Feminism
    Welcome to the femosphere, the latest dark, toxic corner of the internet… for women

    ‘Femcel’ influencers urge their followers to give up on gender equality and use men for financial gain – in the name of feminism
    • Jeff Galloway gives the thumbs-up as he heads for the finish line in the Peachtree Road Race, Atlanta, Georgia, 2019.

      Running
      Jeffing: the run-walk method that can get you to the marathon finishing line

    • A photograph of a garden snail on a blue background, with a cartoon party hat balanced between its eye stalks

      Science
      Does life feel like it’s speeding up? How to slow down time in 2025

    • Vanessa Thorpe at Kirby Hall, Northamptonshire

      Genealogy
      Some people’s ancestors are kings or poets. I’m proud my family invented … the corridor

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      Technology
      ‘I deleted news apps’: Guardian readers on how to stop doomscrolling

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    The culture wars are coming for children with special needs – Labour must tread carefully

    John Harris
    With the yawning gap between available funding and rising demand, parents are right to fear the government’s reaction, says Guardian columnist John Harris
  • Keir Starmer  and Rachel Reeves hold drills during a visit  to UCL in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London.

    With a new year ahead there’s no better time for Keir Starmer to start playing good cop

    Isabel Hardman
  • Betty Lockwood, Baroness Lockwood (right), the first chair of the Equal Opportunities Commission, and Lady Howe, the deputy chair, at their office in London on 21 September 1976.

    Britain’s Sex Discrimination Act is turning 50, so how much longer until women have equal pay?

    Yvonne Roberts
    The 1975 legislation paved the way for important change but progress has been slow and poverty is still informed by gender
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    In hopeless times, we can never afford to lose hope

    AL Kennedy
    As democracy’s opponents peddle hate, anger and division, our job is to act like citizens of a better country
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      People have been saving more, thanks to pay growth and cooling inflation, but they need to feel the benefits

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      Wealthy parents’ greatest asset is the assets they will pass on

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    • Volodymyr Zelenskyy with Ukrainian and US flags in the background

      Less ‘European family’, more howitzers: Ukraine needs hardware, not cosy words

      Peter Pomerantsev
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  • Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury.

    Observer letters
    Churches of all types cannot be allowed to be self-policing

  • A head and shoulders picture of the UK chancellor, Rachel Reeves.

    Editorial
    The Observer view on the UK economy: don’t despair, signs of growth are emerging

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    Editorial
    The Observer view on Jane Austen’s 250th anniversary: once more unto the breeches

  • The iron ore mine at Pivdennyi Quarry, Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, in August 2022.

    Letters
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  • Campaigners protest in Parliament Square against the building of a waste incinerator in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire

    Environment
    Labour under fire over plans for 40 more ‘greenwashing’ waste incinerators

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    Society
    ‘We need dramatic social and technological changes’: is societal collapse inevitable?

  • Sea turtles swim in water

    ‘They’re stuck’
    Cape Cod seeing more whale, turtle and dolphin strandings

  • Tree branches overhang reedbeds

    Environment
    English wildlife ‘could be disappearing in the dark’ due to lack of scrutiny

  • Silhouette of a young woman looking out of a window blind

    Child protection
    Councils failing to take homeless young people into care

    Exclusive: UK teenagers placed in temporary housing until they are adults as there are fewer obligations to support them if they are not care leavers
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    Metropolitan police
    Met police pays out after arrest of teenager wrongly linked to protest

  • Pedestrians and a cyclist pass a car plugged into a charging point

    Electric vehicles
    Disparities in EV charging provision risk drop-off in UK transition, study warns

  • The Salt Stair at Somerset House.

    London
    Somerset House to reveal the restored ‘Salt Stair’ after fire renovations

    • Money
      ‘Shockingly lax’: how soaring British bank Starling had its wings clipped

    • Museums
      London museum security guards urge public to stay away in strikes over pay

    • Plants
      Kew Gardens adds over 300 wild seeds in significant boost to living collection

    • Financial sector
      City regulators to start oversight of tech firms that provide ‘critical’ services to UK

    • Media
      Market for TV streaming advertising to pass £1bn

    • Religion
      ‘The church must speak out’: Bishop Rose Hudson-Wilkin on racism, sexual abuse and asylum seekers

  • Supporters of the Georgian opposition take part in a protest action in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Saturday. Georgian lawmakers elected Mikheil Kavelashvili as the country's new president on 14 December in a controversial parliamentary vote that sparked accusations of illegitimacy and protests.

    Georgia
    Georgia’s pro-west president says she remains ‘only legitimate president’ as new leader sworn in

    Salome Zourabichvili tells protesters she will leave presidential palace as far-right successor Mikheil Kavelashvili takes power
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    Colorado
    Reporter allegedly attacked by man saying ‘This is Trump’s America now’

  • Ambulances evacuate wounded Palestinians from the Kamal Adwan hospital on 28 December.

    Israel-Gaza war
    WHO ‘appalled’ by Israel attack on northern Gaza’s last functioning major hospital

  • Rebel Wilson (R) and Ramona Agruma

    Rebel Wilson
    Rebel Wilson weds Ramona Agruma in Sydney – and this time it’s for real

    • Donald Trump
      Trump sides with Musk on support for H-1B visas for foreign tech workers

    • US
      Two killed and six injured as tornadoes hit Texas and Mississippi

    • Germany
      Senior editor at German newspaper resigns over Musk opinion piece supporting far-right AfD party

    • US
      Biden reportedly regrets ending re-election campaign and says he’d have defeated Trump

    • Australia
      Three drownings over weekend add to Australia’s growing toll as lifesavers plead for caution

    • Russia
      Putin apologises for Azerbaijan plane crash without admitting Russia at fault

  • Close-up of a woman's feet in cosy slippers as she relaxes on the sofa at home

    The Filter
    The best slippers for men and women, from cosy sheepskin mules to chic ballet shoes

  • A group of people, pictured from below, clink wine glasses.

    The Filter
    The best bubbly for New Year’s Eve: champagnes, crémants and cavas to ring in 2025, tested by our expert

  • Me+Em

    The Filter
    Five British fashion brands taking the US by storm

  • A man wearing jeans, a jumper, a cap and a beige mid-length coat walks across a rooftop with a city skyline in the background

    The Filter
    14 of the best men’s coats for winter – from puffers and parkas to trenches

  • A rubber chicken with its mouth open, forming the O in LOL

    Culture
    A laugh a day to keep the winter blues away: the 31-day comedy diet for January

    From the Two Ronnies to TikTok via near-forgotten TV classics, here’s our dose of daily fun to ring the new year in with cheer
  • Jude Law, Jurnee Smollett and Tye Sheridan in The Order.

    Film
    The Order review – Jude Law tails white supremacists in brooding true crime drama

  • The comedian Alex Edelman at the Comedy Cellar, where he continues to work out jokes, in Manhattan on June 9, 2023. (Victor Llorente/The New York Times)<br>The comedian Alex Edelman at the Comedy Cellar, where he continues to work out jokes, in Manhattan on June 9, 2023. Edelman thrives on doubt in "Just for Us" on Broadway. It's the result of years of revision and notes from Seinfeld, Birbiglia and the late Adam Brace. (Victor Llorente/The New York Times) Credit: New York Times / Redux / eyevine For further information please contact eyevine tel: +44 (0) 20 8709 8709 e-mail: info@eyevine.com www.eyevine.com

    Q&A
    Comedian Alex Edelman: ‘People think my show is about antisemitism. It’s about assimilation’

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    Film
    How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies review – tear-jerking Oscar contender from Thailand

  • Colum McCann; David Szalay; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Katie Kitamura; Eimear McBride,

    Books
    Fiction to look out for in 2025

  • John Cooper Clarke, photographed at BBC Maida Vale studios in west London, 31 January 2023. For Saturday magazine

    Sunday with John Cooper Clark
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  • Georgia’s president, Salome Zourabichvili, addresses pro-EU protesters in Tbilisi on 25 December.

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