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8 September 2024

  • Nicole Kidman as Greer Winbury, with her son Will, played by Sam Nivola, in new Netflix series The Perfect Couple.

    ‘She just unravels so beautifully’: how Nicole Kidman conquered the world – then kept on going

    The mercurial actor, who has won best actress award at Venice film festival for Babygirl, continues to be feted for her genre-jumping roles. Happily, her artistic journey is far from over
  • Jenk Oz sits on a sofa with a dog in a trendy modern office

    Meet the ‘gen Z whisperers’: the young advisers helping companies understand their employees

    A new wave of consultants are out to persuade employers their generation doesn’t deserve its bad reputation
  • Friedrich Merz addresses the audience during a campaign event for Brandenburg's regional state elections on 4 September.

    Friedrich Merz looks likely to be Germany’s next leader but how will he defuse the AfD?

    The CDU chief has had a smooth lead but he must act to halt the march of far-right voters before the general election, writes Deborah Cole

7 September 2024

  • Alternative for Germany (AfD) Campaigns In Erfurt Day Before State Elections<br>ERFURT, GERMANY - AUGUST 31: Supporters of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) political party wave German flags, including one adorned with an Iron Cross, at the final AfD campaign rally ahead of tomorrow's Thuringia state elections on August 31, 2024 in Erfurt, Germany. The AfD is currently leading in polls in Thuringia and is in a tight second place in Saxony ahead of state elections scheduled for Sunday in both states. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

    Everyone is terrified of a far-right return in Germany. Here’s why it won’t happen

  • Kamala Harris

    How the lessons of the UK election could help Kamala Harris defeat Donald Trump

    Deborah Mattinson and Claire Ainsley

1 September 2024

  • Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin looking through a telescope

    ‘She was right and they were wrong’: the female astronomers hidden by science’s male elite

    As a new play examines the work of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, we celebrate the women whose crucial discoveries were ignored or suppressed
  • A painting of the Indian astronomer Aryabhata

    ‘In Britain, we are still astonishingly ignorant’: the hidden story of how ancient India shaped the west

    The flow of knowledge from India to Europe on everything from maths to astronomy has gone unacknowledged by historians
  • Keir Starmer delivers a speech in the Rose Garden of 10 Downing Street on 27 August 2024.

    ‘We are in danger of being the doom and gloom government’: can Starmer’s hardline strategy actually work?

    The PM’s grim rose-garden message hasn’t impressed voters and some MPs fear ‘tough decisions’ show a lack of empathy – and no promise they’ll pay off

31 August 2024

  • Keir Starmer gives a speech in Downing Street garden.

    Voters believe Labour on UK’s woes, but not on its proposed fixes

  • Liam (left) and Noel Gallagher.

    Oasis are back. So why all the hatred?

25 August 2024

  • The historian Serhii Plokhy in Kopachi, an abandoned village close to Chernobyl, in 2019.

    Putin’s war is raising risk of another Chernobyl, says historian who inspired hit TV show

  • A smiling Kamala Harris raises her hand.

    As Republicans flail from ‘one stupid jackass thing to another’, Harris strives to define vision

24 August 2024

  • Ben Affleck, left, and Jennifer Lopez at the premiere of This Is Me... Now: A Love Story in February 2024.

    From Bennifer to Burton-Taylor: why some couples can’t stop making and breaking up

    As Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck go their separate ways again, why won’t some just call time on doomed affairs?
  • A teenage boy (Gus Walz) cries as he points his finger ahead in a crowd

    Backlash erupts over criticism of Tim Walz’s emotional son: ‘families are everything’

    The vice-presidential nominee’s son, Gus, was unrestrained in his reactions at the Democratic convention
  • Salvator Mundi

    Salvator Mundi, Saudi Arabia and the saga of the missing masterpiece

    In 2017, the portrait, attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, sold for a record £360m and vanished. Now, it is claimed, it will reappear as the star exhibit in a Saudi branch of the Louvre

18 August 2024

  • The Stonhenge altar stone lies flush with the ground, hidden beneath two fallen sarsen stones.

    Does Stonehenge stone’s Scottish source reveal a project uniting ancient Britain?

  • Ukrainian soldiers training at a shooting range in the Sumy region.

    Zelenskiy’s gamble: success of shock Russia offensive hangs in the balance

17 August 2024

  • Nobuyuki Matsuhisa in a chef's jacket, with his arm around Robert De Niro, wearing a leather jacket, puts his hand up to De Niro's face as they are seated on high chairs in front of a sushi bar

    Nobu at 30: the abiding coolness of the restaurant that changed UK dining

    Robert De Niro was so taken by Nobuyuki Matsuhisa’s cuisine that they went into business … the rest is notoriety
  • National guard soldiers face off with demonstrators at Grant Park in Chicago on 26 August 1968.

    ‘The world is watching’: 1968 protests set stage for Democratic convention

    On Monday Democrats return to Chicago to prepare to anoint Kamala Harris as their candidate – amid striking parallels with the events 56 years ago
  • Ukrainian servicemen repair a tank that was damaged during the offensive into Russia.

    Ukraine’s extraordinary incursion into Kursk has changed the narrative of the war – but is a high-risk strategy

    After months of being pushed steadily back – short of troops and ammunition – Kyiv’s offensive to occupy a chunk of Russian territory took the Kremlin by surprise. The move has a clear political logic but is fraught with military danger
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