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Careful what you wish for

Geoffrey Hinton made it his life's work to develop machine learning, but the Google guru has stepped back and he has a warning for the rest of us

Zelenskiy call: Xi Keeps Peace With Europe While Holding To His Own Aims

A long-awaited phone call between Xi Jinping and Volodymyr Zelenskiy has been cautiously welcomed, but China analysts say the timing suggests it could be partly an act of damage control after controversial comments by China's ambassador to France

Play it again

The entertainer behind the musicals Groundhog Day and Matilda talks about dashed Hollywood hopes and feeling out of step with liberal progressives

Team steam lay their cards on the table-why cook any other way?

Every recipe in the Guardian's Feast begins with \"boil the vegetable(s)\"

Double trouble

A pianist abandons her instrument on stage and runs away only to find herself in pursuit of a doppelganger

Grand theft video

After years of mining comic books for superheroes, film and TV companies have turned their sights on gamers’ favourites to build new universes

I back activists, but I won't blow up a pipeline myself. Here's why: George Monbiot

There's a fundamental principle that should apply to every conflict. Don't urge others to do what you are not prepared to do yourself

Troubled waters

Thirteen years ago, workers helped clean up after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Now some are suing BP, saying it made them sick

Fall of the Old Lady

A series of financial scandals have rocked Juventus, Italy's most glamorous football club. But is the trouble in Turin symptomatic of a deeper rot in the beautiful game?

Old white men: Voters weary at prospect of a Trump-Biden sequel

It is the envy of the world for its diversity and vitality. Yet America is on course for a presidential election between a white man in his 80s and a white man in his 70s. And yes, they're the same guys as last time

Death on the streets as citizens rise against crime gangs

As Vélina Élysée Charlier ventured on to the streets of her conflict-stricken city last week, she encountered scenes that will haunt her for years

Volcanic microbe devours CO2, say scientists

A microbe discovered in a volcanic hot spring gobbles up carbon dioxide \"astonishingly quickly\", say the scientists who found it

Carbon dioxide removal: The tech that's dividing climate scientists

Carbon capture technology could be a key tool in tackling global heating. But could it also damagingly shift research focus away from renewables?

Backlash as Bali cracks down on antisocial tourists

Luiza Kosykh claims she didn't know the 700-year-old tree she posed naked in front of was sacred

Mucking in Rewilding first sees dung beetles back in fields

In a forest clearing filled with cowpats, French history is being made: the country's first translocation of dung beetles in a nature reserve near Bordeaux

Ripple effects: Without a swift end to fighting, consequences will travel far

Fears remain that Sudan riven by fighting between the Sudanese army and its paramilitary rival, the Rapid Support Forces - could plunge into a protracted crisis, prompting a humanitarian disaster with broad geopolitical implications

Refugees find little welcome at Egyptian border

People fleeing fighting face hunger and hostility at sparsely staffed crossing

Fraying ties-Bond endures but country at a crossroads as king's big day looms

Canadians are increasingly indifferent towards the monarchy, but Indigenous peoples see Charles as key ally

Tea, bunting but no magic: King's appeal shrinks amid debate over colonisation

As the coronation approaches there is some fascination with the monarchy but its role in the country’s future is uncertain

The silver sovereign

Charles III is the oldest British monarch ever to be crowned. But his reign begins in a kingdom under a cloud

Beacon of free media moves to Costa Rica in survival bid

El Faro has survived many pressures in its 25 years of reporting on El Salvador's bloody drug wars, crime and institutional corruption

Dig down Stalin-era bunkers dusted off

Although a missile attack deep into Russia is unlikely, historic bomb shelters are being made ready for use

War has forced people living on the border to choose their identity

Where do you call home? I've travelled and lived in so many places, the question sometimes confused me

Sudan's outsider general

How the leader of a powerful militia fell out with the Sudanese army and plunged the country into civil war

Indigenous peoples fear toxic leaks from oil industry

Alice Rigney was born on the northern shores of the Athabasca River, a mighty body of water that flows from Canada's western ice fields to the far reaches of Alberta province

Governors act to halt 'turning back clock' on abortion

Despite receiving a reprieve from the supreme court that halted an abortion pill ban, Democratic states are stockpiling the drug as the legal fight for access continues

Whodunnit? Brexit kills London leg of the Orient Express

When the Orient Express began operating in the 19th century, passports were optional - the only paperwork required by British travellers was a copy of the Thomas Cook Continental Timetable

The shunned communist heroine who sailed the world solo

For a short while in the late 1970s, Krystyna ChojnowskaLiskiewicz was probably the most famous woman in communist Poland

Raab's furious exit offers little respite to mandarins

Bullying report forced the deputy prime minister's hand, but tensions between the government and civil servants are high

All the people India's rise is accompanied by China's contraction

India has overtaken China as the most populous country, the most significant shift in global demographics since records began more than 70 years ago