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Yet again, released Epstein files raise more questions than answers | Moira Donegan
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My big night out: I was hungover and locked in an apartment. The only escape? A high, narrow window ledge
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The best design and architecture of 2025
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‘Unashamedly capitalist’ rewilders claim ‘Moneyball’ approach could make millions – but experts sceptical
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Five big global health wins in 2025 that will save millions of lives
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‘Teach your daughter to speak Polish’: Ukrainians in Poland face growing resentment
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Files release illuminates Maxwell’s tactics to lure teens into Epstein’s orbit
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Russian general killed by car bomb in Moscow, say investigators
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Police allege Bondi shooters had ‘tennis ball bomb’ and made IS-inspired video manifesto, court documents reveal
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Outrage after CBS pulls 60 Minutes segment on El Salvador’s Cecot prison
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Chris Rea, rock and blues singer-songwriter, dies aged 74
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You cannot annex other countries, Danish and Greenlandic leaders tell Trump
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Barry Manilow to undergo surgery for lung cancer
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Larry Ellison gives personal guarantee for Paramount takeover of Warner Bros Discovery
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France’s national post office hit by suspected cyber-attack
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‘I want that escape route’: once a sign of disloyalty, Americans seek dual citizenships under Trump
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John Updike’s best books – Ranked!
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My weirdest Christmas: my family had a picture-perfect celebration – but the presents left me distraught
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Doctor Zhivago at 60: David Lean’s sweeping romantic relic endures
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Kimchi, made in China: how South Korea’s national dish is being priced out at home
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The 50 best TV shows of 2025: No 2 – Dying for Sex
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The 10 best experimental albums of 2025
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A Gaza mass wedding and a Durbar horse procession: celebrating the agency photographers of 2025
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The EU’s deeds as much as Putin’s words will ensure the war in Ukraine continues | Rajan Menon
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Chris Rea’s Driving Home for Christmas is an evergreen, everyman anthem that captures the season’s true spirit
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The Bondi attack has desecrated our most joyful festival. My anger burns white hot | Jonathan Seidler
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Barcelona and Madrid have very different ideas on tackling Spain’s housing crisis. Which will succeed? | Jaime Palomera
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Despite his knack for slick pop, the principled and passionate Chris Rea never took the easy road
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The Guardian view on sending letters: the writing’s on the wall
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Ben Jennings on King Charles’s Christmas message this year – cartoon
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Fulham v Nottingham Forest: Premier League – live
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Six balls in Perth to Harry Brook’s drop: 10 moments that decided the Ashes
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Wolves’ freefall leaves even Derby’s dismal record low a lofty goal
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Milan’s Serie A match in Australia called off after ‘unacceptable requests’
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‘As perfect as it can get’: pole vault superstar Mondo Duplantis on his stellar 2025
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NBA moves closer to launching European men’s league with Fiba
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Rugby brain injury case suffers blow after judge rejects court appeals
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Ricky Evans mulls new walk-on music after stunning James Wade at PDC world darts
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Joshua and Paul provide pitiful spectacle and the worst is there’s more to come | Donald McRae
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Activist group says it has scraped 86m music files from Spotify
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London gets at least one new Banksy mural for Christmas
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Man in UK charged alongside five others with sexual offences against his wife
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Portugal’s far-right Chega party ordered to take down posters targeting Roma people
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Ecuador court sentences 11 air force troops over disappearance of four boys
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Organ-tuning books in English churches provide notes on a warming climate
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Weather tracker: Further flood watches issued across California
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‘Miracle’ of Zealandia: chick is born to rare takahē pair thought to be infertile
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Manchester music and football stars gather for funeral of Stone Roses’ Mani
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David Walliams dropped from Waterstones festival
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Man describes narrow escape after boats pulled into giant hole on Shropshire canal
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Chinese robotaxis due in London next year as Lyft and Uber reveal tie-ups
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Yellowstone hot spring spews forth spectacular muddy plumes
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Spanish villagers devastated by forest fire win €468m in lottery prizes
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Neo-Nazi terror group steps up US operations as FBI pulls back
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Revealed: how big businesses are rolling back public support for Pride
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State of play: who holds the power in the video games industry in 2025?
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‘Cue air punches and tears’: why Next Goal Wins is my feelgood movie
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The 50 best TV shows of 2025
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The 50 best movies of 2025 in the US
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The 50 best albums of 2025
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The 20 best video games of 2025
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Avatar Fire and Ash: harmony is no longer guaranteed in James Cameron’s threequel – discuss with spoilers
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‘You have to be ready to see it’: Abel Ferrara and Catherine Breillat on why Pasolini’s Salò is a gift that keeps giving
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Light Needs review – a blooming lovely meditation on plants and their people
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Amadeus review – this Mozart series is a pale, petty version of the movie it’s based on
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The weirdest, wildest tales of the World Cup: best podcasts of the week
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The 50 best albums of 2025: No 1 – Rosalía: Lux
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Add to playlist: the bullish confidence and versatility of JayaHadADream and the week’s best new tracks
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‘I enjoy fame. It’s very exposing and raw – though you pay a price’: Addison Rae, the Guardian’s artist of the year
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Poem of the week: Down on the canal on Christmas Day by Chris McCabe
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Palaver by Bryan Washington review – a remix of the author’s greatest hits
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The Land Trap by Mike Bird review – ground down
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From Dr Seuss to All Quiet on the Western Front: 19 books to help you find hope, sense and resistance in difficult times
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Karts, cakes and karaoke: the eight best party games to play with family this Christmas
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Inside Fallout, gaming’s most surprising TV hit
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Simogo Legacy Collection review – remember when phone games were this wonderful?
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‘If we build it, they will come’: Skövde, the tiny town powering up Sweden’s video game boom
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First footage of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey released online
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Timeless Christmas hit is the gift that keeps on giving for Wizzard
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The best art and photography of 2025
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Renate Reinsve on vomit-inducing reviews and 19-minute standing ovations: ‘You feel your face go stiff from smiling so long’
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What happened next: the night Led By Donkeys projected Trump and Epstein on to Windsor Castle
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Is it true that … you can sweat out a hangover?
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No more kitchen martyrs – a guide to sharing the load at Christmas
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Cosmopolitan Christmas: Stosie Madi’s French-African-Lebanese Christmas lunch – recipes
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From a showstopping pavlova to a £7 sherry: what top chefs bring to Christmas dinner
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Cocktail of the week: La Petite Maison’s bikini – recipe | The good mixer
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No more French ‘fashion police’: Emily in Paris costume designer relishes move to Rome
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I’m over useless skincare. But how can I take care of my face?
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How ‘showgirl’ became the sparkling look of 2025
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Jingle belles: what to wear on Christmas day
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This is how we do it: ‘Even after 16 years I only have to look at him and I’m ready to go’
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After three years of long-distance, my partner and I aren’t sure if we should stay together
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The moment I knew: ‘Sheltering under his lavender umbrella felt like pure stardust’
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I threw a potato. Mum brandished a knife … would whole-family therapy save our Christmas?
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Worried about winter? 10 ways to thrive – from socialising to Sad lamps to celebrating the new year in April
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First she got breast cancer. Then her daughter did, too
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Endings are hard, but facing them helps us to heal
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Is it true that … wearing heels changes the shape of your feet?
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Stargazing in the Lake District: a new forest observatory opens in Grizedale
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My weirdest Christmas: I took a family friend to A&E – and he went from peaky to barely responsive on the way
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Match the celeb to the panto – and other puzzlers in our bumper Christmas culture quiz
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Can you solve it? Are you ready for twenty twenty-six…seven?
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Threshold: the choir who sing to the dying – video
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‘I can’t forget the horror’: a young mother on giving birth twice during the Gaza war
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Childbirth under attack: how women and babies became targets in conflicts around the world
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Thanks to Donald Trump, 2025 was a good year … for white-collar criminals
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Tell us your favourite new podcast of 2025
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Independent businesses: have your online sales been affected by the rise of AI?
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Tell us your favourite TV shows of 2025
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Tell us: are you a UK centenarian or do you know one?
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Festive cars in South Africa and a youth protest in Nepal: photos of the day – Monday