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  • A woman in a headscarf looks emotional as a child grabs hold of her, in a crowd of people, some taking photographs, outside a hospital.

    Full report
    Hamas and Israel have agreed Gaza ceasefire deal, Qatari PM says

  • Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago, Florida, in July 2024.

    Analysis
    ‘A stern message’: how return of Trump loomed over Gaza ceasefire negotiations

  • Palestinians walk on a road lined with destroyed building in the Shujaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City

    Gaza
    The devastating impact of 15 months of war

  • Protesters calling for the return of hostages celebrate news of a ceasefire in Tel Aviv.

    Israel
    ‘Our fight is not over’: relatives of hostages welcome ceasefire – and vow to keep going

Headlines

  • Andrew Malkinson: he sits on a wall in a park with trees in the background. He has a neat grey beard, bald head and glasses, and wears a white T-shirt and blue jeans.

    Law
    Andrew Malkinson says miscarriage of justice watchdog should be ‘dissolved’

    Exclusive: Man jailed for 17 years for rape he did not commit says CCRC is ‘infected with a culture of denial’
  • The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, gives a speech

    Economy
    Unexpected drop in inflation lifts pressure off Rachel Reeves

  • Donald Tusk speaking in Warsaw during a joint press conference with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

    Russia
    Donald Tusk accuses Russia of planning ‘acts of terrorism’ around the world

  • Arsenal's Leandro Trossard scores his side's second goal of the game against Spurs.

    Premier League
    Arsenal reignite title bid after Trossard completes fightback against Spurs

    • US news
      Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg may sit together at Trump inauguration

    • Brexit
      UK should seek new customs union with EU, Lib Dems to say

    • Westminster
      Met police investigating alleged drink-spiking at bar in parliament

    • London
      Goldsmiths student murdered partner in ‘brutal and savage attack’, court hears

    • Italy
      Police in Brescia accused of making female activists remove underwear

    • Sport
      Conor McGregor and Miami Heat sued over alleged sexual assault at 2023 NBA finals

News in focus

  • A fistful of recently harvested vanilla crops in Bahía Solano, El Valle. They are harvested when they look ripe and green, and are then left to dry and mature over three to four months.

    Colombia
    ‘What joy! What damn joy!’: vanilla boom transforms fortunes of Colombia’s farmers

  • Kai Shannon

    London
    ‘Set up by my own gang’: man convicted of London stabbing in 2009 looks to reopen case

    Exclusive: Kai Shannon has always maintained his innocence. There is now growing pressure to re-examine evidence with a former police officer on his side
  • The flag of Ambazonia, the anglophone breakaway state in north-west and south-west Cameroon.

    Cameroon
    ‘The fight is existential’: Cameroon’s anglophone leaders lead a revolution from behind bars

    Julius Ayuk Tabe and other ‘Ambazonian’ activists speak from a prison where they still call for an independent state

Spotlight

  • Phillipa Perry photographed for Observer Magazine Styling; Jo Jones. Make Up: Juliana Sergot.

    Philippa Perry
    As an agony aunt, I know the biggest cause of unhappiness: other people. Here’s the secret to better relationships

    Looking back through her post bag, Observer Magazine’s Philippa Perry answers her readers most commonly asked question: why are other people so awful?
  • Impossible to contain … firefighters battle the Eaton blaze.

    Architecture
    Why LA’s ‘reckless’ urban sprawl made wildfires inevitable – and how it should rebuild

  • TONY SLATTERY WEARING LEOPARD SKIN FUR<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo By Rex Features TONY SLATTERY COMEDIAN

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    Tony Slattery, Whose Line Is It Anyway? actor, 1959–2025

    Comedian and actor who found television fame in the 1980s on Whose Line Is It Anyway?
  • John Crace

    Labour could hardly have written KemiKaze a better script – and she blew it

    John Crace
    • Claudia Winkleman sitting on the shoulders of two masked men in costume.

      The Traitors
      Is there a secret murderer? Is Frankie Freddie’s mum? The wildest Traitors theories so far

    • Julia Garner, Matilda Firth and Christopher Abbott in Wolf Man

      Film
      Wolf Man review – fear-free update of the lupine myth lacks bite and believability

    • Illustration featuring Kenyan protesters

      The Long Wave
      ‘How do you teargas a baddie?’: Kenya’s gen Z revolutionaries

    • In high spirits … Maria, from the series Defying the Myth.‘Defying the Myth’ is a personal photographic project which I have been working on for the last 10 years. It chronicles the untold stories of three families headed by single mothers, who are the prime carers, creating safe and enduring worlds for their progeny living with severe disabilities. Their world is little known nor understood by the general public.

      My best shot
      Maria at the beach on a perfect summer day: Carol Allen-Storey’s best photograph

Opinion

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    What do the Los Angeles fires tell us about the coming water wars?

    Judith Levine
    Will water soon be a marketable commodity or a priceless public good?
  • Martin Kettle

    Keir Starmer’s handling of the Tulip Siddiq affair forms part of a worrying pattern

    Martin Kettle
  • Ben Jennings on the preparations for Donald Trump’s inauguration – cartoon

    Cartoon
    Ben Jennings on the preparations for Donald Trump’s inauguration

    The Village People are among the musical acts set to appear on 20 January
  • Peter Krykant outside his drug consumption van in 2021.

    At last, Britain has a legal drug consumption room – thanks to one man’s civil disobedience

    Kojo Koram
    Former heroin addict Peter Krykant set up a safe consumption van during Covid, at great personal cost. But his sacrifice paved the way for real change
    • Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah

      I owe Alaa Abd el-Fattah my life, which is why I am going on a hunger strike to help free him

      Peter Greste
    • a man in a suit speaks at a podium

      Biden has paved the way for Trump’s egregious flouting of international rules

      Mohamad Bazzi
    • Adrian Chiles

      For the first time in 35 years, I’m having to use a pen and paper. Help!

      Adrian Chiles
    • A view of a burned house and car in Los Angeles

      I’m a climate scientist and my house in LA burned down. My work has never been more real

      Benjamin Hamlington

Editorials & Letters

  • Palestinians in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, celebrate the announcement of a ceasefire deal on Wednesday 15 January 2025.

    Editorial
    The Guardian view on a ceasefire in Gaza: far too late, but desperately needed

  • Two billboards on grassy verge

    Editorial
    The Guardian view on Germany’s snap election: playing for the highest of stakes

  • A road in York closed by flooding

    Letters
    UK infrastructure isn’t climate-crisis ready

  • Alexis Jay

    Letters
    Survivors of sexual abuse have been failed for too long

Sport

  • Alexander Isak shows his delight after putting Newcastle 2-0 ahead.

    Football
    Isak extends hot streak to boost Newcastle's European hopes

  • England's Zoe Aldcroft in action

    Rugby union
    New Red Roses captain Aldcroft wants England to be 'unstoppable'

    • Gabriel Martinelli (left) takes on Harry Maguire during the FA Cup third-round match between Arsenal and Manchester United

      Football
      Amorim wants Manchester United to match ‘leader’ Maguire’s commitment

    • A Chinese flag is unfurled on the podium of a swimming event final at the Tokyo Games

      Wada
      UK and EU urged to follow US and block funding for agency

    • Roman Abramovich

      Football
      Chelsea hope for deal over secret transfer payments

    • View of Headingley Stadium.

      Cricket
      Yorkshire put private ownership plans on hold as focus turns to Hundred auction

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Climate crisis

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    California
    ‘Running to danger and saving lives’: 1,100 incarcerated firefighters are on the LA frontlines

  • A firefighter monitors the spread of the Auto Fire in Oxnard, North West of Los Angeles, California

    Climate crisis
    Climate ‘whiplash’ events increasing exponentially around world

  • Exterior of Angus Fire company in Bentham, Yorkshire which was connected with highest number of PFAS in the country

    ‘High-risk sites’
    Where are the UK’s ‘forever chemical’ hotspots?

  • Dwayne Fields, the chief scout, seen against a background of trees and bushes

    Rewilding
    Scouts embrace rewilding to connect UK teenagers with nature

From the UK

  • Rachel Reeves and Emma Reynolds talk to people in an office

    Labour
    No 10 accused of having ‘revolving door’ after new Treasury minister embroiled in China row

    Emma Reynolds, who replaces Tulip Siddiq, pressed government over foreign influence rules while at lobbyist
  • A healthcare worker prepares a shot of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in La Paz, Bolivia.

    Covid inquiry
    People with Covid vaccine injuries not getting help they need, inquiry hears

  • Two windfarm engineers walk away from the door way of a wind turbine. In the background wind turbines can be seen across the landscape down to a distant city

    UK energy
    Great Britain’s energy grid operator closes connection queue

  • Luke Evans stands among the burned remains of his research facility

    Liverpool
    Clean energy pioneer’s lab destroyed in suspected arson attack in Liverpool

    • UK
      Spike in baby deaths in Lucy Letby unit warranted inquiry, says statistician

    • Science
      Iron age men left home to join wives’ families, DNA study suggests

    • Music
      Linda Nolan, singer and television personality, dies aged 65

    • Match of the Day
      Gabby Logan, Kelly Cates and Mark Chapman to host Match of the Day

    • Assisted dying
      Doctors to speak out against changes to proposed assisted dying law in England and Wales

    • Crime
      Manchester 21-year-old’s conviction quashed after rap video evidence refuted

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    Donald Trump
    Trump trying to rewrite history in battle to bury Smith report, legal experts say

    Ex-prosecutors alarmed by attempt to hide 2020 election subversion effort and by pledge to pardon January 6 rioters
    • people photograph a rocket launch

      Space
      SpaceX launches two lunar landers to the moon

    • Ireland
      Two main centre-right parties to form coalition government in Ireland

    • Europe
      Europe must take responsibility for its own security, says Polish minister

    • Media
      ‘Deeply alarmed’: Washington Post staff request meeting with Jeff Bezos

    • Global health
      Suspected outbreak of deadly Marburg virus disease kills eight in Tanzania

    • Italy
      Italy seeks to protect restaurants and hotels from fake and paid-for reviews

    • Australia
      Greater Sydney council bans ‘revealing swimwear’ sparking debate about double standards

    • South Korea
      Yoon Suk Yeol arrested after police cut wire fences to break into compound

The Filter

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    The Filter
    The best treadmills for your home: up your indoor miles with our runner-approved picks

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    The Filter
    Winter running gear: our top training essentials to help you conquer the cold

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    The Filter
    ‘Spit not rinse’: how I tested 20 electric toothbrushes (and became a toothbrushing pro)

  • Pot luck: Who stocks the best peanut butter when it comes to the crunch?

    The Filter
    Who makes the best crunchy peanut butter?

Culture

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    Film
    One of Them Days review – Keke Palmer and SZA take a bumpy but fun ride

  • Linda Nolan death<br>File photo dated 02/05/06 of Irish singer Linda Nolan in Bournemouth where she is returning to her role of Mrs Johnstone in the award winning musical Blood Brothers following her recovery from breast cancer. Singer and TV presenter Linda Nolan has died aged 65 "with her loving siblings by her bedside", her manager said. Issue date: Wednesday January 15, 2025. PA Photo. See PA story DEATH Nolan. Photo credit should read: Chris Ison/PA Wire

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    Linda Nolan obituary, 1959-2025

  • Shortlisted … (clockwise from top left) Marianne Jean-Baptiste in Hard Truths, Demi Moore in The Substance, Hugh Grant in Heretic, Ralph Fiennes in Conclave

    Baftas
    Conclave blessed with 12 Bafta nominations as Nicole Kidman and Denzel Washington shut out

  • A generous and humble improv performer … Tony Slattery on Whose Line Is It Anyway in 1988.

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    Tony Slattery: the generous improv great whose successes masked his suffering

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    How we survive
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    In an instant, Sam Pordale went from a world of privilege to becoming a refugee in imminent danger. He talks about how he lost everything and began to rebuild his life
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    Kindness of strangers
    I had a fear of flying – and as the plane shook and plummeted, she held my hand

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    Middle children: are they just straightforwardly better than everyone else?

  • A yellow road bike and a Lime bike.

    Cycling
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    California wildfires
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    Environment
    Age of the panzootic: scientists warn of more devastating diseases jumping between species

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