World
Satellite images show extent of damage to major Saudi pipeline, amid global oil supply fears
Saudis yet to provide details about damage from drone attack to key east-west pipeline to Red Sea that could affect 4% of global oil supply
Mark Saunokonoko and agencies
Health
Peptide user tore oesophagus after using counterfeit product, Australian regulator warns
TGA issues alert after person was hospitalised after believing they were taking experimental weight loss drug retatrutide
Melissa Davey Medical editor
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Film
Israeli minister threatens to strip Israeli film-makers of citizenship over Gaza documentary NAZA
Miki Zohar accuses Oscar-winning directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor of ‘treason against the state’
Sian Cain and agencies
World
Motorcyclist’s death reignites debate over potholes on Victoria’s ‘deteriorating’ roads
Coalition says potholes must be fixed ‘as a matter of urgency’ after 71-year-old crashed and died on Western Highway at Trawalla, west of Ballarat, on Sunday
Australian Associated Press and Benita Kolovos
World
Centre-left bloc leads Swedish elections – as it happened
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Jakub Krupa in Stockholm
Sport
World’s top tennis players call truce in prize-money battle with grand slams
Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka were the most vocal of the leading players but their 18-month campaign comes to an end after the US Open
Matt Hughes
Business
Hospitality industry urges Andy Burnham to lay out VAT cut plans
More than 800 businesses ask PM to make good on pledge, or risk more closures and job losses
Julia Kollewe
UK
Hidden history of royal staff uncovered in Buckingham Palace restoration
Whist drive ticket embedded in rock and news article on Great Train Robbers among items discovered during 10-year restoration
Caroline Davies
Health
Researchers hope powerful new microscope will reveal ‘root cause’ of incurable bowel disease
No run-of-the-mill tech, ‘Curie’ operates at 10 times the resolution of conventional microscopy and could spur discoveries leading to new treatment
Nicola Davis Science correspondent
World
Swedish election: centre-left parties lead by just a single seat with most votes counted
Race too close to call and may take days to become clear despite early exit polls suggesting left bloc win
Miranda Bryant Nordic correspondent
Centre-left bloc leads Swedish elections – as it happened
This live blog has now closed
Jakub Krupa in Stockholm
Swedish election: centre-left parties lead by just a single seat with most votes counted
Race too close to call and may take days to become clear despite early exit polls suggesting left bloc win
Miranda Bryant Nordic correspondent
Train carrying Boris Johnson and ex-CIA chief may have been targeted in Russian strike, officials say
Ukrainian Railways says former British PM and David Petraeus crossed into Poland shortly before drone attack near border
Amy Hawkins and Charlotte Higgins in Kyiv
Pregnant woman among more than 10 killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza
Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem and Seham Tantesh in Gaza
‘Sweat the asset’: new development minister plots path to make UK aid count
Kirsty McNeill reaffirms Labour’s 0.7% of GDP pledge and promises value for money to allay voter concerns
Heather Stewart Economics editor
Andy Burnham to host entrepreneurs and local mayors at No 10 on Monday
Prime minister vows to ‘reindustrialise Britain’ through new partnership with business
Julia Kollewe
Trade unions, MPs and donors urge Burnham to revisit party funding rules
PM has so far declined to insert curbs on UK-based donors, despite £72m donations from billionaires to Reform UK
Jessica Elgot Deputy political editor
Leaders at Celtic summit to affirm right to seek independence from UK
Bethan McKernan and Patrick Greenfield
Hospitality industry urges Andy Burnham to lay out VAT cut plans
More than 800 businesses ask PM to make good on pledge, or risk more closures and job losses
Julia Kollewe
Mohamed Al Fayed abuse compensation claims could reach £150m, says law firm
Combined value of 275 women’s claims is far greater than amount Harrods has set aside for payouts
David Batty
A joyful harvest: the young Welsh farmers growing food for Birmingham
A charity in Powys provides the land while growers do the hard work, producing bumper crops for city children
Joanna Partridge in Powys
Surging inflation puts interest rates back in focus as policymakers meet in Japan, US and UK
Heather Stewart Economics editor
‘Too little, too late’: critics perplexed and suspicious of AI leaders’ call for a slowdown
From the Trump administration to AI experts, plans by the Anthropic boss to boost safety have spawned a largely negative response
Robert Booth UK technology editor
OpenAI boss and Elon Musk back calls to put brakes on ‘reckless’ AI development
Rare show of unity from rival developers after safety warnings from Anthropic boss and AI researchers
Robert Booth and Julia Kollewe
AI will transform capitalism – but how?
Technology is going to drastically reshape the economy, and it’s within our power to decide what that looks like
Paul Mason
‘Really helpful’: the AI bootcamps aimed at addressing UK youth unemployment
Dan Milmo Global technology editor
The AfD won a shock election in Germany. Elon Musk was thrilled
Nick Robins-Early
World’s top tennis players call truce in prize-money battle with grand slams
Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka were the most vocal of the leading players but their 18-month campaign comes to an end after the US Open
Matt Hughes
Alexander Zverev claims first US Open after four-set battle with Ben Shelton
Alexander Zverev, the No 1 seed, beat Ben Shelton 6-3, 7-6 (2), 5-7, 6-2, the American’s hopes dashed in his first grand slam final
Tumaini Carayol at Flushing Meadows
US Open 2026 men’s final: Alexander Zverev beats Ben Shelton in four sets to claim title – as it happened
Game-by-game report: Alexander Zverev secured the second grand slam title of his career in New York. Ella Brockway had updates
Ella Brockway
Burning Man at 40: the once anarchic desert festival faces a midlife crisis
The subversive bacchanal for San Francisco’s eccentric underground is ageing out amid an influx of the super-rich
Lois Beckett
Eurovision made me realise that I was autistic at 34
I had always dreamed of attending the song contest. But all that glitter brought on sensory overload – and I finally understood who I actually was
Scott Bryan
The Guide #260: From Oasis to K-pop, music is going mad for the big-screen documentary
A new wave of concert films and career retrospectives is drawing fans to cinemas – but why now?
Gwilym Mumford
‘Immature playground boasting’: Mathematicians uneasy at OpenAI’s latest scalp
As OpenAI model cracks Millennium Prize Problem that puzzled experts for decades, many feel shocked at pace of change
Ian Sample Science editor
Every day should be D-day for weather forecasters
Letter: Margaret Squires responds to an article about the wartime meteorologist James Stagg, whose work is dramatised in a new film
‘Patients’ who pay $200,000 to be frozen after death are waiting to be reborn in an Australian shed
Exclusive: Southern Cryonics operates out of a shed in Holbrook in rural NSW. Experts say reanimation is ‘a dream’ but true believers are willing to pay for a second chance at life
Catie McLeod
Indonesian foragers may have sucked on mind-altering nuts 25,000 years ago, research finds
Ian Sample Science editor
OpenAI claims to have solved maths problem that stumped humans for decades
Ian Sample and Dan Milmo
The Guardian view on the government’s corporate reforms: entrenching neoliberalism, not ending it
Editorial: A recent consultation on corporate reporting prizes the interests of shareholders over society. It’s a step in the wrong direction
Editorial
The Guardian view on Russian parliamentary elections: glimpses of weakness behind the facade
Editorial: The Kremlin’s clumsy efforts to engineer the outcome reveal growing anxiety about the public mood and a war that is failing
Editorial
Chatbots can exploit our most basic human drive for attachment. Here’s how to have healthier relationship with AI
This intimacy economy is exploiting the deepest parts of our intimate psychological infrastructure
Gaynor Parkin and Dave Winsborough
