The German town where the right has banned new ‘stumbling stones’ for Nazi victims
The Guardianby Deborah Cole in Heidenau, Germany·12d ago
The town hall of Heidenau, Germany has a freshly restored cream-coloured facade, tidy flower boxes on the windowsills and a charming shingled clocktower.
AI chatbots remove hijabs from images of Muslim women when prompted
The Guardianby Johana Bhuiyan·12d ago
When prompted, AI chat bots will edit images to remove the hijabs from Muslim women, a violation of one of the world’s most common and visible expressions of faith.
Would I want my child to study for a social media influencer degree? No, but it’s the way of the world
The Guardianby Emma Brockes·12d ago
Sometimes you read a story in the news that seems designed to wind up as many people as possible. This week, that story involves a degree in content creation from Nottingham Trent University.
‘A saving gesture’: the art exhibition spotlighting US prisoners’ creations
The Guardianby Veronica Esposito·12d ago
With nearly 2 million people behind bars, America is the global leader in incarceration. When you look at it per capita, we have the highest rate of incarceration of any independent democracy and...
20 fascinating facts about hair: why baldness is super-masculine – and a pubic bush could be a ‘cheating detector’
The Guardianby Elle Hunt·12d ago
As a PhD student at Oxford studying mating behaviour, Judy Wearing was suddenly struck by a thought: what was the purpose of pubic hair? The point of armpit hair?
‘They showed no mercy’: mapping the Rohingya villages being erased by rebel forces
The Guardianby Kaamil Ahmed, Yassin Abdumonab, Anna Leach, Prina Shah and Pablo Gutiérrez·12d ago
There are at least 10 camps like the one on the paddy fields at Hnget Thay, built after the insurgent Arakan Army (AA) took control of most of northern Rakhine state in 2024.
Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The Guardianby Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender·12d ago
Amid a barrage of news stories warning about superintelligent machines rendering humanity extinct, a CNN story describing the opposite scenario – one in which the US military’s reliance on brittle...
Beansprouts, nonya paste and kefir – whose fridge is this?
The Guardianby Helen Goh as told to Anna Berrill·12d ago
Curry leaves I used to freeze fresh curry leaves, but then [the chef] Romy Gill said you lose all the aroma when you do this. So now I fry them and you get curry leaf oil, which keeps them fresh.
RSC embraces ‘hugely challenging’ task of staging Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway
The Guardianby Chris Wiegand Stage editor·12d ago
The Royal Shakespeare Company is to stage two highly experimental novels, written almost 100 years apart and posing serious conundrums for adaptation, according to co-artistic directors Daniel...
Russia continues strikes on Ukraine as Zelenskyy visits frontline – Europe live
The Guardianby Jakub Krupa·12d ago
Estonia bans transit of Russian, Belarusian grain through its territory Meanwhile, Estonia has banned the transit of Russian and Belarusian grain through its territory, Estonian foreign minister...
East of Eden review – Florence Pugh’s soapy Steinbeck adaptation is brilliant, compelling TV
The Guardianby Lucy Mangan·12d ago
It is rarely difficult to distinguish between a John Steinbeck novel and a ray of sunshine. The new adaptation of his 1952 book East of Eden doesn’t buck the trend and wastes no time plunging us...
War, power games and impunity. I watched the farce that is the UN general assembly: what a tragedy, what a mess | Nesrine Malik
The Guardianby Nesrine Malik·12d ago
UN general assembly meetings are not usually riveting occasions. But this year’s encapsulated a world in flux and crisis, an international law and organisation structure that is falling apart, and...
Rugby union power rankings: how the teams stand a year from World Cup
The Guardianby Gerard Meagher·12d ago
1. South Africa Beaten by Australia last weekend but the manner in which they came back after Rassie Erasmus emptied his bench was emphatic.
You be the judge: should my girlfriend let me hang my football calendar in her flat?
The Guardianby Interviews by Georgina Lawton·12d ago
The prosecution: Henry It’s not a showroom; it’s a home. Both people should get a chance to display their personalities My girlfriend Kitty was preparing to buy a flat and I was so proud of her.
South Park has AI datacentres, sentient penises and a billionaire problem – in more ways than one
The Guardianby Jesse Hassenger·12d ago
A little over a year ago, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone renewed their deal with Paramount after a contentious negotiation that held up production of the 2025 season.
Stepping back in time: a historic walk along Dorset’s Jurassic Coast
The Guardianby Jon Woolcott·12d ago
Many favour a circular walk, but you can give a linear one new shape with the addition of a novel form of transport.
Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie review – terrifying and inspiring story of survival
The Guardianby Peter Bradshaw·12d ago
The terrifying, inspiring story of how Salman Rushdie survived and thrived after the assassination attempt on him in New York in 2022 is the subject of this excellent documentary from Alex Gibney.
‘Hitler was a lazy criminal who slept in until noon’: why most of what we think we know about the rise of the Nazis is wrong
The Guardianby Philip Oltermann·12d ago
With your art collective Centre for Political Beauty you famously built a replica of the Holocaust memorial on a property next to the home of an AfD politician.
Dodge City by Patrick deWitt review – a wild draft-dodging road trip
The Guardianby Keshava Guha·12d ago
Patrick deWitt broke through with a western, 2011’s Booker-shortlisted The Sisters Brothers. Now, he has taken on another hallowed American genre: the road novel.
Prisoners freed early in England and Wales risk living on the streets, say probation officers
The Guardianby Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor·12d ago
Hundreds of prisoners are due to be released early from jail on Thursday amid warnings that many will have nowhere to live and the probation system will struggle to monitor them.
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