The Cycle of Love review – a 6,000-mile bike ride caps a real life Swedish-Indian romance
The Guardianby Leslie Felperin·25d ago
Here is a story that on the face of it seems so wildly unlikely it can only be true. Indeed, the very concept of a romantic documentary sounds almost oxymoronic, an indication of how much...
Iranian football returns in the shadow of war and with row over last league title
The Guardianby John Duerden·25d ago
Just three months ago, Iran was one of the biggest stories in football as Team Melli arrived at the World Cup to try to play in the US, a country that had been bombing and firing missiles at Tehran...
Redwood by Ben Macintyre review – a superbly wrought tale of cold war defection
The Guardianby Oliver Bullough·25d ago
Ben Macintyre uses the acronym MICE to describe the reasons people betray their countries: Money, Ideology, Coercion or Ego.
Al-Qaida and IS-linked violence in Africa’s Sahel belt set to hit record levels this year
The Guardianby Jason Burke International security correspondent·25d ago
Islamist extremist violence in Africa’s Sahel region is set to reach historic highs after a series of sweeping offensives by groups linked to al-Qaida and Islamic State, according to new figures...
The other side of Croatia: ‘a landscape that could out-Tuscany Tuscany’
The Guardianby Mary Novakovich·25d ago
‘You’re going to Samobor? You must try kremšnita,” my Dubrovnik friends told me before I set off on my trip north. “But I’ve already had kremšnita in Zagreb,” I told them.
A moment that changed me: I felt hugely self conscious about my skin - until I had a revelation
The Guardianby Natalie Ambersley·25d ago
The microphone felt heavier than I expected. As I stood on stage at a London comedy club last December, I looked out at a room full of strangers sitting quietly, waiting for me to make them laugh.
Squid ink tomato pasta and honey and fig semifreddo: Chris Leach’s Italian recipes for the end of summer
The Guardianby Chris Leach·25d ago
The secret to late-summer/early autumn cooking is to keep things relatively low-effort, not least to assuage those back-to-work/school blues.
Drama on the trail cam – this is Somerset’s version of the snow leopard | Derek Niemann
The Guardianby Derek Niemann·25d ago
Deep into the night, and out of our sight, tiny claws rake over plastic. The animal skitters halfway through a pipe, then stops.
The girl with a will to live: the love, hope and pain of raising Elsie – my one in 163 million daughter
The Guardianby Christelle Randall·25d ago
My daughter Elsie has beautiful curls – blond like a little Botticelli cherub’s, hair that someone dark like me could only ever dream of.
To understand the threat to our real democracy, watch Putin's fake one | Rafael Behr
The Guardianby Rafael Behr·25d ago
Millions of people will participate in elections in Russia this weekend and a new parliament will be chosen, but not necessarily in that order.
Slow Horses season six review – it gets harder to enjoy Gary Oldman’s spy thriller every year
The Guardianby Jack Seale·25d ago
This is a new Slow Horses: season six is the first not to be guided by its creator, Will Smith, a writer whose previous work on The Thick of It and Veep explained why this espionage saga had an...
‘My future is in the EU’: the Ukrainian children who don’t want to go home
The Guardianby Stefania D'Ignoti. Photographs by Camilla Minnozz·25d ago
When he first arrived in his new home in a small village in the Italian Alps in March 2022, 15-year-old Denys* says he felt homesick and confused.
‘We weren’t shy. We were queers in leather!’ Sunil Gupta on his momentous photographs of gay life
The Guardianby Charlotte Jansen·25d ago
‘I’ve been very promiscuous,” Sunil Gupta says, reflecting on his experiments with photography since the 1970s.
Saudi Arabia warns of ‘red line’ after Houthi drone intercepted close to holy city of Mecca
The Guardianby Agencies·25d ago
Saudi Arabia’s air defences intercepted and destroyed a Houthi drone south of Mecca on Tuesday before it entered prohibited airspace over the holy city, according to a spokesperson for the...
The women saving Borneo: battling fire, patriarchy and super El Niño on Indonesia’s peatland frontlines
The Guardianby Guardian staff reporter·25d ago
Irma puts on her heavy rubber boots as she prepares for a volunteer firefighting shift in her village of Sungai Putri, on the Indonesian side of Borneo island.
Trump administration plans to resume deliveries of 2,000-lb bombs to Israel
The Guardianby Associated Press·25d ago
The Trump administration is planning to deliver powerful 2,000-lb bombs to Israel as part of an upcoming arms deal, weapons that prompted such concerns about the possibility of mass casualties in...
Mail-in disaster averted as Trump in angry froth after court defeat
The Guardianby Sam Levine in New York·25d ago
After the US supreme court halted Donald Trump’s efforts to make it significantly harder to vote by mail in the midterms, US election officials are redoubling their efforts to convince Americans it...
A Talent for Murder review – Helen Mirren is a viperous Patricia Highsmith in hit-and-miss thriller
The Guardianby Benjamin Lee in Toronto·25d ago
The restrictions of Covid led to an inevitable rise in safely contained chamber-piece movies, where a handful of characters find themselves in a usually remote house, dialogue taking obvious...
All supporting acts withdraw from Ed Sheeran’s tour in solidarity with Macklemore
The Guardianby Adrian Horton·25d ago
All four supporting acts for upcoming dates of Ed Sheeran’s Loop tour have withdrawn in solidarity with fellow opening act Macklemore, as backlash grows to his removal from the tour over onstage...
Trump-appointed Kennedy Center board votes to close institution indefinitely
The Guardianby Joseph Gedeon in Washington·25d ago
The Trump-appointed leaders of the Kennedy Center voted Tuesday to immediately close the institution’s performing arts building in Washington, citing safety and financial concerns.
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