Paris 2024 Levelling the field

Marie-Amélie Le Fur lost a leg at the age of 15. Nine medals later this elite runner, now head of the Paralympic committee, faces an even bigger challenge – how to ensure Paris 2024 will change French people’s views on life with a disability and open doors for future competitors

'You couldn't pitch that in the US!'

Are the UK'S dating shows the wildest in the world?

We should enjoy this child's creativity rather than use it to sell stuff

If you've ever spent £40 ($50) and a whole weekend trying to paint out the scrawling of your young children from your rental walls in the futile hope that this will save your £1,300 deposit, you may greet the following news as I did: with a noise somewhere between a hotwater bottle being emptied and a cry of pain.

Audrey Tang didn't have the easiest of starts in life. THE GOOD HACKER

As an activist turned politician, Audrey Tang is used to breaking boundaries. Now, the world's first minister for digital affairs wants the world to learn how to detoxify the internet

Harris is off to a dream start-but it's too early to count out Trump Jonathan Freedland

Everything is going right for her and wrong for him. Kamala Harris has the encouraging poll numbers and the momentum. Donald Trump has the serial errors, the maudlin introspection and wobbling campaign team.

That sinking feeling

The sad Oompa-Loompa at Willy's Chocolate Experience, an elf at a lowrent Lapland, the DJ who tried to save Blobbyland and a fixer at the ill-fated Fyre festival reveal what happened next after four truly disastrous events

Guns and drugs fuel 'alarming epidemic' of violence

The last thing Raquel Rodriguez remembers of that afternoon is that she was playing with her neighbour's baby outside her home in the Trinidad and Tobago neighbourhood of Barataria in San Juan. Then came a piercingly loud explosion.

Ode to joy Harris gives Democrats a reason to reunite

Tens of thousands of Democrats descended on Chicago this week for their party's convention, bubbling with a feeling few had anticipated: pure joy.

Going viral What is mpox and why has it been declared a global health emergency?

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the latest mpox outbreak in Africa a \"public health emergency of international concern\", the category used in the past for Ebola outbreaks and Covid-19. As fears of a global spread grow, this is what we know.

'A real hero' The brave migrant who tackled a London attacker

After saving young girl, Abdullah talks about his love for the UK, despite fears during the recent riots

Scholars seek to prolong the German conversation

When Londoner Amber Tallon, 30, started learning German at the age of 12, she \"took to it like a duck to water\", she said.

Slow progress Leaders still believe there is more to gain by fighting on

With the most recent round of talks over, hopes of a ceasefire in Gaza in the immediate future look to have been dashed.

Gaza's true death toll concealed beneath the rubble

Dalia Hawas was 24 years old when in February an Israeli airstrike flattened the apartment building where she lived, burying the young mother with her 10-month-old daughter, Mona.

Flipping the narrative The Kursk attack has humiliated Putin and broken the stalemate

When video footage of the Ukrainian incursion into Russia's Kursk region began appearing on social media, a joke started doing the rounds with Vladimir Putin asking Stalin what he should do about the German tanks rolling towards Kursk.

Blame game Locals angry at army after Ukrainian incursion

Shock, disbelief and fury that the government downplayed the threat of an invasion and failed to keep its citizens safe

Zelenskiy's gamble

The Ukrainian president's hope that invading Russia's Kursk region would force Moscow to redeploy troops away from the eastern front was a risky move-and the outcome is far from clear

Maduro is unleashing 'campaign of terror', warns opposition

Venezuela's main opposition leader, María Corina Machado, has accused its strongman president, Nicolás Maduro, of unleashing a horrific \"campaign of terror\" in an attempt to cling on to power.

Second act

He is one of the world's best actors but can still grab a coffee without being recognised. He opens up about cancer, happiness and his love of cinema

Elon Musk should face justice for his role in England's far-right riots

Of course, it's good that so many of those responsible for a week of far-right violence are facing a swift and severe form of justice - but there's one extremely rich and powerful suspect who should join them in the dock. If the UK authorities truly want to hold accountable all those who unleashed riots and pogroms in Britain, they need to go after Elon Musk.

Friendship

Research shows - as most women already knowthat the quality and number of our friendships has a profound influence on both our health and happiness. But what does it mean to be a good pal? From fictional relationships and literary diaries to her own experiences, Rachel Cooke examines the nature of the female bond

Engulfed by the tide

The Cornish resort of St Ives may be the picturebook seaside town but it is also the UK's most extreme example of overtourism. Through a desolate winter and crowded summer, artists, fishers, visitors and locals reveal a community in danger of losing its soul

In too deep? The growing threat to the global undersea cable network

Deep sea data cables are the veins of the modern world. What if something, or someone, were to sever them?

'Noah's ark' in peril as cargo ships size up new routes

Plans to bring shipping to the Paraguay River threaten the world's greatest tropical wetland anda way of life

'Euphoria' - Evacuees cheer Kyiv's incursion into Russia

Last Tuesday, Oksana and her family could not escape fast enough. Though they did not know it, Ukrainian regular forces had entered Russia for the first time, and Moscow's military wasted little time in hitting back, bombing their village around 11km from the border.

Hope returns to Dhaka but new leaders told to exile old politics

The relief was palpable in Dhaka. \"It feels good that finally we have educated people running our government,\" said Zahin Ferdous, a 19-year-old university student, referring to the new interim government led by the Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus.

Left out: An Israeli politician's fight for democracy

Former IDF officer Yair Golan is a hero for his bravery on 7 October. He now heads Israel's new progressive party, which wants a plan for the future

The horrific aftermath of a deadly school attack

Early last Saturday morning, Louay Nasser decided to perform the dawn prayer in the classroom he and his family are living in at Tabeen school in Gaza City, rather than go across the courtyard to the mosque. That decision may have saved his life.

Stray dogs and parasites threaten Darwin's paradise isles

At the dream destination for bucket listers and bird watchers, there are downsides to a dependency on tourism

Canal plus: New visitor controls get a mixed reception

On his first visit to Venice, Alejandro is unimpressed with the city's latest bid to control tourism by limiting group sizes and banning loudspeakers. The tour guide's group, just shy of the new maximum limit of 25, is trudging over a bridge towards St Mark's Square, seemingly more interested in taking selfies than the history lesson being delivered through their audio devices.

Harris and Walz 'bring the joy' - can the Democrat bounce last?

When Kamala Harris and the Minnesota governor, Tim Walz, stepped onstage together for the first time last Tuesday, Philadelphia's Liacouras Center glittered red, white and blue as Beyoncé's Freedom blared and the crowd pulsed.