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  • Norwegians mourning King Harald V outside the Royal Palace in Oslo on Friday described the late monarch as a beloved grandfather figure who made all citizens feel at home

    Norwegians pay tribute to 'grandfather figure' King Harald V – video

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  • Back to Back Barries: How is One Nation influencing Labor’s migration policy? – podcast

    How is One Nation influencing Labor’s immigration policy? – Back to Back Barries podcast

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  • South Asia correspondent Hannah Ellis‑Petersen reports from Bidur, one of the most devastated towns in Nepal, after the deadly flash floods

    On the ground in Nepal after deadly flash floods – video

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  • Rescue workers searched through mud and debris for survivors of Wednesday’s deadly flash floods on the Nepal-Tibet border

    Survivors pulled from mud in Nepal after deadly flash floods – video

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  • Once a cheap store-cupboard staple, sardines are fast becoming a luxury food item. Last year, #SardineGirlSummer saw influencers promoting the health benefits of sardinemaxxing, while sardinecore became the must-have fashion trend. Now, demand is accelerating just as Morocco’s sardine stock has collapsed, causing shortages on supermarket shelves. The Guardian travels to Matosinhos in Portugal, the cultural home of the sardine industry, to investigate who is profiting from the boom, how it has affected local fishermen, and what sustainability looks like in an era of global heating

    Fishy business: who really profits when sardines go viral? - video

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  • For generations, support for Israel was central to Jewish-American identity. But today, amid accusations that Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza, a growing generational and political divide is reshaping views in the US Jewish community. Matthew Cassel travels to New York City – the heart of Jewish-American life – to explore how Israel’s wars across multiple fronts are challenging long-held traditions and dividing families.

    Why so many American Jews are turning away from Israel – video

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  • Chinese tourism is booming in Laos and the illegal wildlife trade is booming with it. Pangolin scales, rhino horn and elephant ivory are all being sold at secret shops and restaurants as a new high-speed rail line brings millions of visitors to the country. Working with Chinese activists, the Guardian goes undercover to investigate the criminal networks profiting from this trade and to reveal how wildlife trafficking is pushing the critically endangered pangolin ever closer to extinction

    Undercover in Laos: how Chinese tourism fuels animal trafficking – video

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  • As England prepares to take on Mexico in the Fifa World Cup, another battle is playing out just beyond the Azteca Stadium. More than 130,000 people have been forcibly disappeared in Mexico as cartel violence surges, leaving thousands of families searching for answers. They say the authorities have failed them, and they are demanding justice. The Guardian follows two families as they confront the police and challenge the government, determined to use football's biggest tournament to expose Mexico's disappearance crisis.

    Mexico’s kidnapping crisis: 'How can they hold a World Cup?’ – video

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  • The Lincolnshire seaside town is often written off by YouTubers as a place defined by deprivation and decline. But for many young people it's a place they love and are proud to call home, even though high unemployment limits their opportunities. As part of the year-long Against the tide project reporting on the lives of young people in coastal communities across England and Wales, the Guardian follows 19-year old Cohen, who is desperate to find a permanent job while running a mascot hire company and chasing his dream of becoming a professional wrestler

    Vape shops but no jobs: one young man’s search for work in Grimsby

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  • Meet Mazyouna, a 13-year-old girl from Gaza who lost the right side of her jaw in an Israeli attack on her home in Gaza. She lost two of her siblings in the attack and was denied access by Israel to life-altering surgery abroad for more than six months

    From Gaza to Texas: the race to save Mazyouna’s face - video

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  • Each spring since 2003, Jon Aars, senior scientist at the Norwegian Polar Institute, and his team have conducted an annual polar bear monitoring program on Svalbard - collaring, capturing and taking samples from as many bears as they can across several weeks.By studying polar bears they get a better understanding of what is happening in this part of the Arctic environment. The bears roam over large distances and, being apex predators, provide lots of information about what is happening lower in the food chain and across different Arctic species.The Guardian accompanied Aars on an expedition to the southern end of Spitsbergen island, the largest in the Svalbard archipelago.

    How scientists capture a polar bear – video

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  • Milford Towers is a social housing estate in Lewisham, south London, slated for demolition and described by its residents as 'hell'. The residents accuse the council of ignoring them and deliberately running it into the ground. There are frequent leaks, mould infestations, fires, stabbings and violence – and perpetually broken lifts.

    The London ‘hell’ estate fighting back: murders, fires and broken lifts

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Documentaries

Watch our series of in-depth films exploring in rich detail the stories behind the headlines
  • When Guardian Australia senior reporter Sarah Martin heard a friend’s hairdresser had invested in a scheme called HyperVerse, she decided to investigate

    Into the HyperVerse: inside a crypto scheme that cost investors millions of dollars – documentary

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  • Aiden is an unforgettable young caregiver in Walthamstow, east London, who has been looking after his mum for over half his life. Every few weeks, Aiden and other young carers get a rare night off thanks to tenacious council worker Satvinder, who fights to improve the recognition of young carers in her borough. This film joins them as they reclaim a few hours of their teenage lives back.

    Aiden's story of life as a young carer | Is Mum OK? Documentary

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  • In a time of escalating ICE raids and the ache of uncertainty, 38-year-old Abel has made a radical decision: he's leaving the United States. Not because he has to, but to escape his perpetual limbo and see the world

    Abel leaves LA: self-deportation from Trump's America - documentary

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  • Amateur conservationist and social media influencer Theerasak 'Pop' Saksritawee has a rare bond with Thailand’s critically endangered dugongs. Pop raises an urgent alarm — before Thailand’s dugongs vanish forever

    The influencer racing to save Thailand’s most endangered sea mammal

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  • The oil and gas industry is far more integrated in food production than many of us realise. Josh Toussaint-Strauss looks at the processes for meat, processed staples and fruit and vegetables

    How our food became so dependent on oil

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  • Josh Toussaint-Strauss explores the reasons why the UK is at a high risk of food shortages and how it compares with other countries 

    Why the UK has a food security problem – video

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  • GLP-1 drugs such as Mounjaro are helping millions of people rapidly lose weight. But the changes happening inside the body go far beyond the number on the scale

    'I've lost my butt': how rapid weight loss can leave you with less muscle and more fat

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  • You’re not imagining it. Smaller portions. Higher prices. Worse service. It is easy to blame inflation, but that’s not the full story

    Why your favourite brands are suddenly failing

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Explainers

  • Since the start of this year, the price of urea from the Middle East has nearly doubled, in Australian dollar terms, and is up about 75% since the start of the Iran war

    How the war in Iran could leave one Australian farmer $600,000 out of pocket – video

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  • What does it actually take to win a World Cup? Talent? Tactics? A functioning democracy? Not necessarily, as Jonathan Wilson explains

    How to win the World Cup – video explainer

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  • Guardian Australia’s Matilda Boseley breaks down the symptoms and common misconceptions about PCOS, newly named PMOS

    PCOS is now PMOS: common misconceptions about the condition explained – video

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  • Will Christou asks what the future might look like for Lebanon as Israel carries out a bombing campaign and ground invasion

    The ‘Gaza playbook’: what are Israel’s plans for Lebanon? – video explainer

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  • Andy Burnham is closing in on Downing Street after a big win in the Makerfield byelection. John Harris and John Domokos take a deep dive into a place where people's lives back up Burnham's insistence that we're living in an economy and society that need radical change – but they also find an infectious spirit of optimism

    Burnham's Britain: six days in the place that just changed our politics – video

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  • As a fierce contest takes shape between Labour, Reform UK and the Greens, John Harris and John Domokos take the temperature in an area of Manchester that feels like a microcosm of Britain - and find voters split between two completely different views of their lives, and the future

    Why this Manchester byelection is a lesson in 21st century politics – video

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  • In last week's byelection in the Welsh constituency of Caerphilly, Reform UK were the hot favourites, and the focus of huge attention. But as John Harris and John Domokos saw close-up, a Reform win failed to happen thanks to a story most of the media didn't see: how online fear and loathing were beaten back by community spirit, facts trumping fury, and everyday empathy 

    The Welsh town that saw off Nigel Farage – video

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  • After a long summer defined by flags, protests and tensions over asylum, John Harris and John Domokos go back to Liverpool to explore the lives of people dealing with a huge housing crisis, while trying to stop the issue exploding into hate and division

    The city that reveals Britain's biggest problem: there's nowhere to live – video

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  • Following the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by ICE agents in Minneapolis, the Guardian’s Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone travel to the heart of affected neighbourhoods to speak with residents who are fighting to defend their community from violence and intimidation

    The occupation of Minneapolis: how residents are resisting Trump’s ICE 'invasion' – video

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  • In the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk killing, the Guardian's Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone head to Chicago, where Donald Trump's Ice deployment, codename 'Operation Midway Blitz', has been met by a defiant wave of sustained protests

    How Chicago is resisting Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown - video

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  • Donald Trump's second presidency has led to allegations of pervasive self-dealing. From the acceptance of a luxury jet from the state of Qatar, to the creation of a Trump cryptocurrency, the president has been accused of monetizing the White House while enacting a swath of extreme policy. Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone travel across south Florida, visiting Turning Point's student action summit, meeting the Republican strategist Steve Bannon, and witnessing events at the harsh new detention centre "Alligator Alcatraz".

    Trump’s new gilded age: fearmongering, mass deportations and self-enrichment – video

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  • The world’s richest person has placed his mission to Mars in a low-income county near the US-Mexico border. As a small cluster of voters connected to SpaceX decide to incorporate their own ‘Starbase city', Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone meet environmental opponents, space enthusiasts and residents who decry the gentrification Musk's expansion has brought

    How Elon Musk ‘colonised’ a corner of Texas to build his own space city - video

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Sport

  • Savio celebrates his goal on debut for Spurs

    Sávio lands at Spurs, Celtic crash out and are Villa in crisis? | Football Weekly

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  • Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Jacob Steinberg and George Elek as Chelsea’s season starts with a win at Fulham

    Palmer purrs but Sánchez shaky as Chelsea start with a win | Football Weekly video

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  • A child invaded the pitch and interrupted a Major League Soccer match between Minnesota United and San Jose Earthquakes on 22 August

    Toddler wanders on to field and interrupts MLS game – video

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  • Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Lars Sivertsen and Sam Dalling as United and Spurs have dismal starts to their seasons

    Manchester United mauled and sorry Spurs mark Premier League kick-off | Football Weekly – video

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  • The Guardian has been working with a group of community reporters in Rochdale and Oldham who wanted to highlight the realities for women in the asylum system across Greater Manchester. Supported by the Elephants Trail, the group met women stuck in the asylum backlog, women traumatised by detention and women struggling to find housing. They were all volunteering in their communities, while reckoning with a hostile climate towards refugees and asylum seekers. This film is part of a collaborative video series called Made in Britain

    Our lives in the UK asylum system: 'the power of fear' – video

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  • The Guardian has been working with a group of community reporters in Rochdale in greater Manchester, who turned the lens on a benefits system that they have seen unfairly penalising vulnerable people in their town. The group of reporters from the Elephants Trail met friends, family and others in the community trying to navigate the system, and consider how they can use those stories to advocate for change across the country. This film is part of a collaborative video series called Made in Britain.

    Britain's broken welfare system is leaving our community on the brink – video

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  • The Guardian was working with a community reporting team called the Elephant’s Trail in Rochdale on a series about their town when a byelection was called. The contest quickly plunged into chaos after the Labour party and the Green party withdrew support for their candidates and the canvassing was dominated by smaller parties. But how did this affect the voters? The team hit the streets and found evidence of apathy, concerns about homelessness and a desire for politicians who are committed to changing their community for the better 

    A view from Rochdale: ‘Democracy has gone out of the window’ – video

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  • Homegrown was a grass roots community group that stood in the middle of a new housing development in rapidly gentrifying Tottenham in north London. The group was led by Rose and Emma whose message to the young people they helped was to be their best, and never give up. So when they were told they had to leave, there was only one thing to do: occupy.

    Occupy Tottenham: a community defends its home - video

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