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Fear and sympathy in small town divided over asylum camp

A year after anti-immigration riots, a site for asylum seekers faces hostility while some locals try to help new arrivals

Collapsing landscapes How climate change is tearing apart an Arctic isle

Last summer, the western Arctic was uncomfortably hot. Smoke from Canada's wildfires hung thick in the air, and swarms of mosquitoes searched for exposed skin.

Cop29 summit Bitter battles could follow controversial $300bn a year deal

It was only on the last scheduled day of two weeks of negotiations at the UN Cop29 climate summit that developed countries put a financial commitment on the table for the first time.

Climate is 'the big loser' in huge year of elections

An unprecedented year of elections around the world has underscored a sobering trend - in many countries the commitment to act on the climate crisis has either stalled or is eroding, even as disasters and record temperatures continue to mount.

John Prescott 1938-2024

The UK's longest-serving deputy PM was a vital bridge between Labour's past and future during the Blair years

Western first PM's war crime charge is landmark moment

The international criminal court's decision to issue arrest warrants for Israeli leaders over the war in Gaza has been welcomed by Palestinians as a landmark moment in their decade-long fight to challenge the Israeli occupation through international institutions.

Rhapsody in red In Trumpworld, radical selections go down a storm

In the American heartland, they're excited. Finally, say voters who put Donald Trump into the White House for a second time, they are about to get the president they wanted all along.

Does lame duck Biden have time to Trump-proof democracy?

The skies above the White House were cold and grey. Joe Biden greeted the championship-winning Boston Celtics team, quipping about his Irish ancestry and tossing a basketball into the crowd. But the US president could not resist drawing a wider lesson.

Change of heart Will the missile crisis affect the course of the war?

In Kyiv, as autumn turns fast to winter, Ukrainians in the government describe a vacuum before the arrival of Donald Trump in the White House on 20 January.

Wire cutters How the world's undersea cables are being targeted

The lead-clad telegraphic cable seemed to weigh tons, according to US navy lieutenant Cameron Winslow, and the weather wasn't helping their attempts to lift it up from the seabed and sever it.

Behind enemy lines

Tensions rose as long-range missiles flew from and into Russia last week. But in truth, the west has been under attack from hybrid warfare since the Ukraine invasion began

Friendship interrupted

They were best mates. Then one had a baby, while the other struggled to conceive. They share their brutally honest takes on what happens when motherhood affects friendship

KERNELS OF HOPE

During the siege of Leningrad, botanists in charge of an irreplaceable seed collection, the first of its kind, had to protect it from fire, rodents-and hunger

A new horizon' The inverse link between cancer and dementia

Scientists have long been aware of a curious connection between these common and feared diseases. At last, a clearer picture is emerging

Across the universe

Samantha Harvey won the Booker prize with a novel set in space. Yet, she says, Orbital is actually 'a celebration of Earth's beauty with a pang of loss'

Frank Auerbach 1931 -2024

Saved from the Holocaust, this artist captured the devastation of postwar Britain as ifits wounds were his own but he ultimately found salvation in painting

Seven lessons I've learned after 28 years as economics editor

Margaret Thatcher was Britain's prime minister and Neil Kinnock was leader of the Labour party.

Droughtstricken dam leaves economies powerless

A ll is not well with the waters of Lake Kariba, the world's human-made lake largest A punishing drought has drained the huge reservoir close to record lows, raising the prospect that the Kariba Dam, which powers the economies of Zambia and Zimbabwe, may have to shut down for the first time in its 65-year history.

Let this be the end of these excruciating celebrity endorsements

I wish celebrities would learn the art of the French exit. But they can't, which is why Eva Longoria has announced she no longer lives in America. \"I get to escape and go somewhere,\" she explained.

Alive, but unable to thrive under absolute patriarchy

Since the Taliban returned to power, women and girls have tried defiance, but despair at their harshly restricted lives

‘It's tragic’ Reflection in the wake of Amsterdam violence

Carrying signs scrawled with messages urging unity, they laid white roses at the statue of Anne Frank, steps away from the home where her family had hidden from Nazi persecution.

US 'dream team' is welcomed by settlers

Palestinian groups shocked by Trump's selection of outspoken supporters of far-right activists in the region

Trump's flurry of extremist staff picks spark fears

'Welcome back,\" Joe Biden told Donald Trump, his predecessor and successor, as the pair shook hands in the Oval Office.

Unfinished business Welby’s resignation speaks of deeperissues in the Church

WHEN YOU LOOK AT A HIGH-UP CLERIC someone like Justin Welby, say, dressed in all his finery, vestments trimmed with gold thread and a bejeweled clasp on his cope it's hard to believe this has any connection with a wandering rabbi on the shores of the Sea of Galilee with his band of 12 followers.

‘Directly responsible’ Abuse victim blames C of E for suffering

Rocky Leanders, then 15, was beaten witha paddle by John Smyth at a camp where boys were made to swim naked

Can the Church of England recover?

Shock waves triggered by the archbishop of Canterbury's resignation are the culmination of years of simmering rage among churchgoers and survivors of abuse

What Can America Expect From Trump 2.0

THE 45TH AND 47TH commander-in-chief will face fewer limits on his ambition when he is sworn in again in January.

New World Order How Will Trump Reshape US Foreign Policy?

DURING THE FIRST TRUMP TERM, Richard Moore, then the political director of the UK Foreign Offi ce and now the head of MI6, has admitted that half of Britain’s diplomats woke up each morning dreading what they might read on the president’s Twitter feed.

Seed drill: what can I make with tahini beyond just hummus?

'Tahini has a beautiful versatility,\" says Fadi Kattan, chef/co-founder of Akub in London and author of Bethlehem, \"from a drizzle over your morning toast or granola, to an earthy background flavour in a sauce, to all sorts of cakes and cookies.\"

Trump unleashed will be even worse than last time's dress rehearsal Jonathan Freedland

Are you ready for Trump unbound? You may have thought the former and future president was already pretty unrestrained, not least because Donald Trump has never shown anything but brazen disrespect for boundaries or limits of any kind. And you would be right. But, as an earlier entertainer turned president – and Trump combines the two roles – liked to say: You ain’t seen nothing yet.