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  • Hassan Nasrallah headshot

    Iran vows vengeance after assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah

    Iran’s supreme leader says Israel’s killing of Nasrallah will ‘not go unavenged’, as fears grow of spiralling conflict
  • Duffield

    Rosie Duffield resigns as Labour MP with scathing attack on Keir Starmer’s leadership

News

  • In the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in Michoacan in Mexico, a single latecomer joins the others for the night.

    ‘Every tree used to be blanketed with them’: photographer captures campaign to save monarch butterfly

  • The entrance of Harrods in Knightsbridge.

    Harrods must reveal all NDAs signed by Mohamed Al Fayed’s victims, say lawyers

    As store confirms non-disclosure agreements will be waived, investigation continues into full extent of the late owner’s abuse
  • A large pile of waste food vegetables

    Force companies to report their food waste, say leading UK retailers

    More than 30 businesses have written to the environment secretary calling for mandatory reporting of wasted food

  • Cabinet ministers call for Jonathan Ashworth role at 10 Downing Street after weeks of infighting

  • Winter fuel cut savings will be far less than Reeves expected, new analysis finds

  • The UK will get hotter and drier for plants … except in Manchester

  • Starmer visit to Brussels could lead to overhaul of Brexit deal

  • Only 4.3% of stroke patients in England can access life-saving treatment

  • ‘World of horrors’: families huddle on Beirut’s streets amid the bombs

  • ‘Leave now’, Foreign Office urges Britons in Lebanon

  • Keir Starmer hits new low in personal popularity ratings

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World

  • A sleek white bullet train passes in front of snow-capped Mount Fuji, against a deep blue sky

    Japan’s magic bullet: 60 years of the train that helped rebuild the idea of a country

    Over just a few days in 1964, the launch of the shinkansen and the Tokyo Olympics trumpeted the emergence of a new economic and democratic power
  • FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl celebrates with supporters during a final election campaign event at St Stephen's square in Vienna

    ‘Moment of truth’ for Austria as far right senses election triumph

  • A queue for visas at Thailand’s embassy in Yangon in February 2024 after Myanmar's junta announced it would impose military service.

    Snatched from their beds, taken on the streets - the young men in Myanmar forced to fight the junta’s losing war

  • Dresden, Germany. 06th Dec, 2021. AfD members of the state parliament Jorg Dornau (l-r), Thomas Prantl, Jens Oberhoffner and Doreen Schwietzer stand behind plexiglass screens at the beginning of the session in the public gallery of the state parliament. On the occasion of the state parliament session to determine the epidemic situation in the Free State, the police expect a protest by opponents of the Corona policy. Credit: Sebastian Kahnert/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa/Alamy Live News<br>2H9CDEE Dresden, Germany. 06th Dec, 2021. AfD members of the state parliament Jorg Dornau (l-r), Thomas Prantl, Jens Oberhoffner and Doreen Schwietzer stand behind plexiglass screens at the beginning of the session in the public gallery of the state parliament. On the occasion of the state parliament session to determine the epidemic situation in the Free State, the police expect a protest by opponents of the Corona policy. Credit: Sebastian Kahnert/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa/Alamy Live News

    German far-right politician accused of using political prisoners as cheap labour in Belarus

  • People carry drinking water along a sandbank of the Madeira river. The water is at its lowest level since 1967.

    Brazil’s ‘Paradise’ on fire: ‘The forest is burning. Animals are burning. Everything’s burning’

  • two men in blue suits and red ties stand next to each other

    Why Trump and Vance’s strategy is ‘say anything, make up anything’

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In focus

  • Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche in character asnd in periodf costume gazing into each other's eyes

    ‘An impossible passion’: cinema’s long love affair with Wuthering Heights

    Saltburn director Emerald Fennell has caused a stir with her project to remake Brontë’s classic – but the novel has been provocative for more than 170 years
  • Robert McCrum

    My great-grandfather William McCrum, the man who invented the penalty kick

    Robert McCrum
  • Rockets are fired from Gaza City towards Israel on 7 October 2023.

    The Middle East in crisis: 7 October, the day that changed the world

  • Adam Pearson poses for a portrait on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024, in New York.

    ‘People say, just get surgery, and I’m like: Bruh, this is after surgery’

  • A paved outdoor area with benches, overhung by a large destination board by a black 1960-s station building

    Euston, we have a problem: how can London fix the ‘worst main station’?

  • Saoirse Ronan as Rona in The Outrun.

    The Outrun: My real life as an alcoholic, played out on the big screen

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Comment

  • Peter Pomerantsev

    In tackling Vladimir Putin’s web of troll farms and hackers, we have one advantage: democracy

    Peter Pomerantsev
  • Sonia Sodha

    Bringing an end to child poverty really ought to be an economic no-brainer

    Sonia Sodha
  • Martha Gill

    He cries, he forages, but redemption may still elude cast away Phillip Schofield

    Martha Gill

  • Can liberal conservatism survive the remaking of the right? We’ll soon find out

    Kenan Malik

  • Any ice-age telepaths out there? Please explain why Netflix is revisiting Ancient Apocalypse

    Catherine Bennett

  • Urgent memo from his anxious ministers to Sir Keir Starmer: you need to get a grip of No 10

    Andrew Rawnsley

  • In their inhumanity, conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine offer a shared, brutal vision of the future of war

    Simon Tisdall

  • Donald Trump meets ‘popular guy’ Keir Starmer – cartoon

  • What’s the secret of the supercentenarians? They don’t really exist

    Torsten Bell

  • It’s a pretty pass when even the Fortean Times warns of the ‘lone nut fraternity’

    Tim Adams

  • ‘Levelling up’ began five years ago. Now we’re more divided than ever. Is this the UK’s fate?

    Will Hutton
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Editorials & Letters

  • Soldiers from the Sudanese Armed Forces on a troop carrier.

    The Observer view on Sudan: decisive action is needed to avert catastrophe, but where is the will?

  • Students studying together in a cafe.

    The Observer view: youth mobility must be part of post-Brexit reset

    Keir Starmer’s parochial stance on mooted scheme is short sighted and bodes ill for resetting relationship with Brussels
  • Campaigners hold a banner that reads: 'End unnecessary suffering'.

    Assisted dying is much more than a party political issue

    If the prime minister has welcomed the debate in parliament, it is surely because he recognises changing public opinion
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Business & Cash

  • Fintan Slye stands with his hands in his pockets

    The man in charge of Labour’s green energy dream: ‘It’s at the limit of what’s achievable’

  • Exterior of Lambeth town hall

    I escaped homelessness and then Lambeth council raised my rent by £470

  • Canary Wharf in east London in the mist

    Back to the office, say bosses. Thank goodness for that, say property firms

  • Illustration of a piggy bank with cobwebs over it

    How to make the most of the forgotten thousands in child trust funds

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Sport

  • England's captain Ben Stokes shakes hands with the Pakistan wicketkeeper Mohammad Rizwan

    Pakistan have high hopes Test series with England will help calm the chaos

  • Lassana Diarra at a meeting of the French professional footballers’ union in May 2023

    Will the Lassana Diarra case bring down transfer market as we know it?

    The former Arsenal player’s legal action against Fifa’s ‘draconian’ rules could lead to the age of Bosman 2.0
  • Max Verstappen with other F1 drivers.

    Red Bull must solve Verstappen’s ‘monster’ riddle or Norris will pounce

    Break of more than four weeks before rush of final six grands prix could be decisive in the tight race for the F1 title

  • Ten Hag places faith in United’s youth revolution but the stakes are high

  • Dominic Solanke and Tottenham go to Old Trafford ‘not scared of anyone’

  • La Liga calls for arrest of Atlético Madrid fans planning to abuse Vinícius Júnior

  • Elliot Daly scores twice as Saracens run rampant against injury-stricken Sale

  • Relentless South Africa will not let up after claiming Rugby Championship

  • ‘I love and respect Pep’: Arteta tries to defuse row with Manchester City rival

  • Pep Guardiola praises ‘impossible to contain’ Newcastle after City are held

  • Romantic swirl of Villa v Ipswich four decades ago feels so quaint as to be absurd

    Jonathan Wilson
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Reviews

  • Nathalie Emmanuel and Adam Driver kiss balanced on girders high above the city in Megalopolis

    Megalopolis review – Francis Ford Coppola’s epic fail

  • A number of sheets of white fabric hung from the ceiling with various abstract images in pastel.

    Turner prize 2024 – everything, everywhere, all at once

  • Lucian Msamati and and Ben Whishaw as Estragon and Vladimir in Waiting for Godot at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London

    The week in theatre: Waiting for Godot; Coriolanus; A Face in the Crowd – review

  • SOPHIE credit Renata Raksha

    Sophie: Sophie review – shiver-inducing posthumous album from the hyperpop trailblazer

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New Review

  • Jilly Cooper photographed at her home in the Cotswolds by Gareth Iwan Jones for the Observer New Review, September 2024.

    ‘Are you good in bed?’ Jilly Cooper on horses, lefties and which fictional character she would like to sleep with

    As her much-loved story Rivals is turned into a lavish Disney+ production, the author answers questions from Observer readers and famous fans including David Tennant, Caitlin Moran and Gillian Anderson
  • Thom Yorke, US, c2016.

    ‘It commemorates collective moments’: Radiohead through the eyes of Colin Greenwood

  • Illustration by David Foldvari of sausages in handcuffs.

    Starmer’s tiny gaffe has made him a sausage to fortune

    Stewart Lee
  • Glass of water and pills on wooden spoon on blue background.

    Beetroot shots to baking soda: the science behind sport’s most popular supplements

  • Roderick Williams sitting on a bench.

    Baritone Roderick Williams: ‘I once heard a singer at a party say: “No peanuts. I’m singing in three days!”’

  • An asteroid burns up over the Philippines last month, lighting the sky up and with an orange tail. It had been spotted curving towards Earth 10 hours earlier.

    The asteroid hunters: how new technology will help save Earth from a catastrophic collision

  • ‘Once she was Jan, I never thought of her as anything other than a woman’: Jan Morris remembered by her son

  • The big picture: Consuelo Kanaga’s portrait of a young woman in the deep south, 1948

  • Stuart Murdoch: ‘I feel like this book will be the Trainspotting of ME’

  • It’s useful that the latest AI can ‘think’, but we need to know its reasoning

    John Naughton

  • On my radar: Daisy Johnson’s cultural highlights

  • One to watch: Frankie Archer

  • Streaming: the best private-eye movies

  • ‘It’s the robot we were all expecting – like C3PO’: why aren’t humanoids in our homes yet?

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Magazine

  • Elizabeth Olsen sitting on a silver velvet couch

    Elizabeth Olsen: ‘I’m not the sexy one. I’m not the nerd. I don’t know where I fit’

    She thought acting was ‘silly’, despite having A-list sisters. Her interests lay in dance, accountancy, agriculture, construction. Here she explains how she conquered her anxiety and embraced being a Hollywood star
  • ‘Going through school together would have been nice, but I don’t think it would have changed our path’: Tim and Bill.

    The adults who discovered they had a twin: ‘I’d always thought there was something missing’

  • Harry Lawtey shot for OM

    ‘It has felt so bizarre’: Industry’s Harry Lawtey on coping with sudden fame

  • Ringing the changes: a wood burner in the centre of the living, dining and kitchen area.

    To the rescue: transforming an old ambulance station in Sussex

  • The Meneghetti hotel and winery.

    From grape stomping to truffle hunting: 10 great harvest festival trips in Europe

  • TRIVELLI SARDINE BRODETTO

    Joe Trivelli’s recipes for sardine brodetto, chicken salad, grilled pumpkin and fig fritelle

  • My daughter’s new maturity means Baby Shark is out …

    Séamas O’Reilly

  • Notes on chocolate: never mind the mess, it’s time to make your own

  • Owning a pet can be complicated, but it’s a signifier like no other

    Eva Wiseman

  • Sunday with Will Poulter: ‘I leave the cooking to my mum, but we’ll do the dishes’

  • Lip glosses: 10 of the best

  • An old friend has inherited millions and become a boastful bore

  • ‘Transformed into disturbed alien creatures’: the scary world of parasomniacs, 2003

  • Booths’ wines are peppered with hidden gems

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Observer Food Monthly

  • Nigel Slater sitting at a table with plant pots on it in a garden

    Moments, memories and meal to cherish: exclusive extract from Nigel Slater’s new book

    A Thousand Feasts is a collection of stories and insights from the Observer’s food writer. Here, he reflects on simple joys that can arrive anywhere, from a beach half a world away to his own kitchen
  • Football food

    Who ate all the falafels? The changing face of football’s match-day menus

  • Rachel Cooke

    The Habitat chicken brick is back – but what’s the best way to roast a bird?

    Rachel Cooke
  • Grilled mackerel & marinated tomatoes Café Cecilia Cookbook

    Ham hock, Guinness bread, grilled mackerel: recipes from the Cafe Cecilia cookbook

  • Julie Lin's Mee Siam

    Welcome to September’s Observer Food Monthly

  • Kerabu bee hoon. Photography and prop styling: Kate Whitaker. Food Styling: Lizzie Harris

    Scissor-cut, stir-fry and ‘a hug in a bowl’: six great noodle recipes

  • Jeremy King: ‘The first time I was ever impressed by anyone was Meryl Streep’

  • Rahel Stephanie’s secret ingredient: pandan

  • Anna Jones: ‘Giving up meat and fish was the opposite of hard. You can be more creative’

  • Toasted nori on Pot Noodle, sea salt on supermarket mousse… behold, I am the king of snacks

    Jay Rayner

  • Nigel Slater’s summer tomato recipes to enrich the soul

  • Welcome to August’s Observer Food Monthly

  • A hard day’s night: life with the food workers who are up all hours

  • St John: 30 ways the ‘nose to tail’ restaurant changed the way we eat

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