The Housekeeper by Rose Tremain review – a bloodless origin story for Du Maurier’s Rebecca
The Guardianby Clare Clark7d ago
The rollcall of notable novels that began life as short stories is surprisingly long and various.
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top 96%Karl review – straightforward tribute tells inside story of fashion world’s great eccentric Karl Lagerfeld
The Guardianby Cath Clarke7d ago
Karl Lagerfeld had never set foot inside a supermarket before he had one built on a catwalk in 2014, featuring models browsing aisles with baskets shopping for Chanel-branded fromage.
ICC delays plans for World Club Championship after ‘Big Three’ object
The Guardianby Exclusive by Matt Hughes7d ago
The International Cricket Council (ICC) will not introduce a World Club Championship or more international multilateral tournaments until 2031 at the earliest after resistance from England...
Putin's escalating bombing campaign won't break Ukrainians' resolve. History shows that it's doomed to fail | Rajan Menon
The Guardianby Rajan Menon7d ago
Vladimir Putin’s army hasn’t made much headway in Ukraine this year, and his territorial goals – annexing four Ukrainian provinces – remain elusive, despite more than four and a half years of war.
The terrifying, unbeaten Chiefs would like you to know your predictions were wrong
The Guardianby Doug Farrar7d ago
The rivalry between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Las Vegas Raiders goes back to the formation of the American Football League in 1960, when the Chiefs were the Dallas Texans, and the Raiders...
Is it true that … houseplants freshen the air in our homes and offices?
The Guardianby Kate Lloyd7d ago
‘Plants take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen when they photosynthesise,” says John Tregoning, a professor at Imperial College London and author of Live Forever?
Forty years of the Phantom of the Opera - the show that wouldn’t die: ‘People come back to hear the impossible’
The Guardianby Miriam Gillinson7d ago
There is something about Andrew Lloyd Webber’s masterly musical The Phantom of the Opera – celebrating 40 years on the West End this month – which seems to take hold of its fans in a special way.
Spain’s Sánchez to make statement amid speculation over early election – Europe live
The Guardianby Jakub Krupa7d ago
The very format of Sánchez’s appearance this morning – “an institutional declaration” – is in itself a very heavy hint at what we are likely to see this morning.
My search for the perfect Italian aperitivo in Verona
The Guardianby Gabriele Pasca8d ago
I arrived in Verona, I admit, without a particularly clear idea of what aperitivo meant. In Italy, the ritual – broadly, a drink and something small to eat before a meal – speaks a different...
Charlie Shaw’s Revenge review – creepy clown killer takes aim at struggling amusement park
The Guardianby Catherine Bray8d ago
The film opens with a lone figure striding into the foreground. He’s an amateur entertainer on his way to a gig, and he’s not been met at the station as planned.
Apple iPhone 18 Pro review: big changes for small differences
The Guardianby Samuel Gibbs Consumer technology editor8d ago
Apple’s smaller Pro iPhone gets the best kind of spec bump for 2026: longer battery life, faster chips and a fancy new variable aperture for the main camera.
Pasture lives: the rebel cheesemakers preserving an Alpine tradition
The Guardianby Photographs and text by Giuseppe Nucci8d ago
My journey into the world of storico ribelle began with a shared passion for photography and the mountains. A close friend of mine lives in the Orobie Alps.
Sleeping Beauties by David Byrne review – a quirky journey through the afterlife of invention
The Guardianby Sukhdev Sandhu8d ago
There’s barely been a moment in the last half-century when David Byrne hasn’t been zinging about, dancing forward, opting odd.
A new start after 60: Menopausal and out of work, I sat crying in my car. Now, I’m a standup comedian
The Guardianby Paula Cocozza8d ago
If anyone had told Barbara Scully five years ago that she would soon be enjoying her “sixth career” – this time as a standup comedian, or comic storyteller – she would have laughed in their face.
‘The future is bright’: breeding programme brings world’s heaviest insect back from the brink
The Guardianby Eva Corlett in Wellington8d ago
The population of New Zealand’s endemic wētāpunga – believed to be the world’s heaviest insect – is officially “recovering” thanks to a groundbreaking breeding programme that has overseen the...
Internet Watch Foundation reports huge rise in AI child sexual abuse material
The Guardianby Dan Milmo Global technology editor8d ago
AI-generated child sexual abuse material is proliferating online, with the amount of illegal material investigated this year already exceeding the total for 2025.
Revealed: the methane mega-leaks from UN climate summit host Turkey
The Guardianby Damian Carrington and Ruth Michaelson and Ayça Aldatmaz in Istanbul8d ago
Two or three nights each week, the smell descends. Residents of villages on the rural outskirts of Istanbul don’t know what the smell is, but they have been plagued by it for years: a smell so bad...
Nik Sharma’s recipes for spiced French onion soup and Indian-style Turkish eggs
The Guardianby Nik Sharma8d ago
While purists might scoff and find the combination of spices in my French onion soup a little blasphemous, do give it a shot.
Tom Cruise’s Digger has flopped spectacularly – but I think it is a misunderstood masterpiece
The Guardianby Sian Cain8d ago
I feel for film critics, I really do. Tom Cruise’s latest film Digger put them in an impossible position: you can’t really talk about it without spoiling what makes it, in my eyes, a masterpiece.
Ball in UK’s court: EU ambassador says Brussels will be ‘ready to engage‘ after country decides what it wants
The Guardianby Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor8d ago
Jukka Salovaara, the newly installed European Union ambassador to the UK, is likely to become a ubiquitous figure in national politics as the Andy Burnham government grapples with the question of...