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Paradise lost

A year spent bearing witness to the destruction of the Amazon forest

Girl power Women take on a high wire act

A groundbreaking line school is expanding the workforce and challenging attitudesin amale-dominated field

Digging it Archaeology pioneers break new ground

Young African excavators want to bury the notion that uncovering their past is awhite, western, male job

Fury at plan for real-term pay cut for NHS staff next year

NHS strikes could continue for many months amid anger at UK government plans to raise staff salaries by only 2% next year, which health unions have condemned as more \"real-terms pay cut misery\".

Benedict's death eases way for retirement of Francis

Pope Benedict XVI, who served as leader of the Catholic church from 2005 until his resignation in 2013, died last Saturday aged 95, three days after his successor, Pope Francis, warned the world that he was gravely ill. His funeral was due to be held this week.

Bugged out: What can we expect after Beijing ends Covid rules?

After long pursing a zero-Covid policy, China has relaxed many restrictions including quarantine rules for travellers. But some experts have raised concerns the U-turn may cause problems. We take a look at why.

As hospitals overflow, Xi fights to save face over Covid U-turn

China's leader Xi Jinping told his country it stands on \"the right side of history\" in a new year address last Saturday, but experts have warned that the president starts 2023 diminished by his chaotic U-turn on Covid strategy.

What To Expect In 2023

A near-inevitable global recession sparked by a lengthening war in Europe's frozen east; an energy crisis coupled with soaring inflation Covid-19 running rampant in China... predictions for 2023 are grim. Still, there are reasons to be hopeful. The energy crisis has spurred an unprecedented demand for renewables, which are expected to boom. In Brazil, a new president has sworn to protect the Amazon. Repressive regimes, meanwhile, will be nervously looking at Iran, where hardline clerics are locked in a struggle with a pro-democracy uprising that threatens to overwhelm them. Guardian correspondents around the world share their takes on what to watch out for in 2023...

Election ID laws are voter suppression and an attack on the young

It slipped out quietly last month in the brouhaha of the approaching budget.

THEY/THEM ... she/her, he/him - the quiet revolution over pronouns

The way we address people is changing, and behind it lies a surprising linguistic, social and political history...

Humans versus nature

The story of biodiversity loss is a tale of decline spanning thousands of years. This month, the world will get a chance to change the narrative at Cop15 in Montreal

Covid leaves labourers with less money and fewer rights

When Ram Yadav fled India's strict countrywide lockdown imposed in March 2020, he was one of the lucky ones, managing to hitch rides from Delhi on trucks going in the direction of his village near Kanpur, 400km away.

Horse power

The streets echo again to the sound of hooves

Search for evidence of lost Amazon civilisation falls flat

Deforestation backed by government damages the environment and obliterates archaeological remains

Gold diggers

The fight to protect forests from mining

Migration hits record high with jump in student levels

Net migration to the UK has reached a record level of 504,000 after the arrival of Ukrainians and Hongkongers under government schemes and a jump in the number of international students.

'My heart is already dead' Hope meets despair in Calais camps

A year after 27 people died trying to cross the Channel, people are still drawn by the dream of a better life in Britain

Khamenei's niece calls on nations to shun regime

A niece of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has called on foreign governments to cut all links with Tehran's \"murderous and child-killing\" regime in a video posted online two days after she was arrested.

On manoeuvres Wounded Khan takes on the army

The highly popular former prime minister says the military was behind an attempt on his life but could he still make a pact with the generals?

Power shift Yerevan snub shows Putin losing grip on regional allies

Armenia has asked the French president, Emmanuel Macron, to chair peace talks with Azerbaijan in a fresh challenge to Vladimir Putin's increasingly loose grip on Russia's regional allies in the wake of the war in Ukraine.

'We can get through it'

Kyiv citizens brace for a harsh winter

A dangerous moment

Dissent is a blow to Xi's global prestige which he is unlikely to tolerate for long

Locked and loaded

Rare protests have highlighted intense public frustration over Beijing's zero-Covid policy, with blank pieces of white paper becoming symbols of dissent. But wherever it leads, few envisage a serious challenge to Xi Jinping's authority.

Is petrol on a Picasso next? Threatening art won't fix climate crisis

Another day, another gallery: the attacks on art in the name of climate action have become a headline-hogging obsession with a hideous escalating logic.

I hate the idea of this World Cup in Qatar-but I'm still watching

I must have been 10 when I went to a football match with my parents and realised that the game resonated far beyond the field of play.

Out! And so am I, by £40,000

The UK gambling industry is worth billions. But just 5% of customers are responsible for 70% of that revenue. Those are people like Hannah Jane Parkinson, desperate and deluded, watching their lives fallapart. Here she tells how she lost tens of thousands to date) and investigates an industry beset by corruption and organised crime

THE LAST MESSAGE FROM SNAKE ISLAND

When Putin's forces approached Sea outpost, demanding its Ukrainian defenders surrender or die, their expletive-laden response became a symbol of resistance. How did the men on the island live to tell the tale?

Will Trump evade justice thanks to his 2024 White House run?

The law is clear. The politics less so. If Donald Trump's third run for the White House is propelled by large doses of narcissism and revenge, the former US president must also be hoping that a high-profile political campaign may help keep his myriad legal problems at bay before they bury him.

O come, all ye frugal Christmas markets scaled back

European Christmas markets and illuminations are scaling back due to the energy crisis and climate breakdown - ditching ice rinks for rollerskating and switching on lights for less time.

Bear dens and ancient trees face onslaught

The future of wildlife in the eastern Carpathians is under threat from the destruction of habitat by rampant logging