Sport
Ryan Garcia v Conor Benn: WBC welterweight championship – live updates
Round-by-round report: Join Bryan Graham for live updates as Ryan Garcia defends his WBC welterweight title against Conor Benn in Las Vegas
Bryan Armen Graham
World
One dead and more than 30 missing after ferry sinks off Vanuatu coast in rough seas
Prime minister’s office tells families of those missing ‘the nation stands with you’ as search and rescue efforts continue
Guardian staff and agencies
Top stories
Sport
South Africa 43-28 New Zealand: fourth and final rugby union Test – as it happened
Kurt-Lee Arendse scores from his own half to swing a 10-try thriller in Baltimore as South Africa win the series with New Zealand by three Tests to one.
Daniel Gallan
US
Ron DeSantis offers ‘asylum’ to holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy trial
Governor believes Florida would ‘welcome’ juror if under harassment after alleged domestic violence incident in 2021
Edward Helmore
Sport
Elena Rybakina beats Aryna Sabalenka to win US Open for first time – as it happened
The new No 1 underlined her status as the best player in the world by ending the two-time defending champion’s reign with a 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 victory
Katy Murrells
Sport
Elena Rybakina beats Aryna Sabalenka to seal dramatic US Open title triumph
Elena Rybakina battled to a 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 victory over Aryna Sabalenka to succeed her rival as the US Open champion
Tumaini Carayol at Flushing Meadows
Music
Céline Dion performs first live show in more than six years
The singer’s triumphant return to the stage comes after health problems forced her to take a lengthy break
Raphael Boyd
Football
Mikel Arteta says penalty given to Sunderland ‘unacceptable at this level’
Mikel Arteta’s delight at Arsenal’s latest win was tempered by his fury with the referee John Brooks for giving Sunderland a penalty
Louise Taylor at the Stadium of Light
US
Surrogate mother who fled to Texas appeals custody case to supreme court
McKenna West requests emergency block on order naming biological parents as four-week-old baby’s legal parents
Edward Helmore
Film
Woman Unknown wins Venice film festival as NAZA takes special jury prize
May el-Toukhy becomes eighth female director to take Golden Lion as Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love and Guardian-produced exposé of Israel’s Gaza killings also awarded
Philip Oltermann European culture editor
Ukraine war briefing: Nine killed and dozens wounded in Russian strikes as Kyiv braces for harsh winter
Zelenskyy says ‘Russia wants to kill the Ukrainian economy’ as Moscow steps up attacks on infrastructure.
Guardian staff and agencies
Donald Trump says he would ‘love’ to see united Ireland
US president says on visit to republic that unification will happen eventually so ‘may as well happen now’
Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent
Number of UK anti-migrant vigilante groups surges in last 18 months
Exclusive: Many ‘use community protection as a cover for racist thuggery’, raising concerns about fresh disorder
Patrick Greenfield and Michael Goodier
Saudi Arabia shuts down key oil pipeline, blaming drones from Iraq
Oliver Holmes and agencies
IDF soldier filmed shooting Palestinian in leg amid West Bank settler standoff
Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem
Portsmouth experiences second weekend of anti-immigration protests
Rightwing activists faced a heavy police presence and counter-demonstrations to their march against small boat crossings
Sammy Gecsoyler and Raphael Boyd
Donations of £72m make Reform’s prospects both rosier and riskier
Party can boost its campaign power with funds from billionaire backers, but it can also lose support from ordinary Britons
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent
Christopher Harborne matches £36m Reform donation of Ben Delo
Party leader, Nigel Farage, ‘humbled’ by contributions from billionaires as Harborne addresses ‘media speculation’
Geraldine McKelvie
Reform UK given record £36m donation by British crypto billionaire
Rowena Mason Whitehall editor
MPs reject assisted dying bill after tense debate – as it happened
Tom Ambrose (now) and Taz Ali (earlier)
‘We can see into the other room’: insurers face surge in subsidence claims
Stressed UK homeowners tell of cracks opening up in the walls around them after two record-hot summers
Julia Kollewe
Extra fishy: your tinned mackerel may not be what you think it is
Substitution with jack mackerel, a different species, because of dwindling stocks is criticised by consumer group Which?
Zoe Wood
Gasoline prices drive up US monthly inflation; four UK interest rate hikes expected by next summer – as it happened
US monthly inflation rate rises to 0.4% in August, though annual rate unchanged at 3.4% and core inflation dips a little
Graeme Wearden
‘We must slow the pace’: CEO of Anthropic calls for an AI slowdown
In a social media post, Dario Amodei proposed a plan including third-party evaluations of AI systems
Edward Helmore
Deepfakes are wrecking influencers’ credibility, one fake ad at a time
Influencers aren’t just battling competitors for brand deals. They’re now battling AI versions of themselves
Arielle Pardes
Can chatbots feel – or even dream? Meet the man leading the fight for AI rights
Cattle rancher and tech CEO Michael Samadi is convinced these artificial minds are far from just tools. Has he glimpsed digital consciousness – or simply been seduced by an algorithm?
Michael Safi
UK lawmakers urge Burnham to back ban on superintelligent AI after chilling warnings
Robert Booth UK technology editor
South Africa 43-28 New Zealand: fourth and final rugby union Test – as it happened
Kurt-Lee Arendse scores from his own half to swing a 10-try thriller in Baltimore as South Africa win the series with New Zealand by three Tests to one.
Daniel Gallan
Elena Rybakina beats Aryna Sabalenka to win US Open for first time – as it happened
The new No 1 underlined her status as the best player in the world by ending the two-time defending champion’s reign with a 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 victory
Katy Murrells
Elena Rybakina beats Aryna Sabalenka to seal dramatic US Open title triumph
Elena Rybakina battled to a 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 victory over Aryna Sabalenka to succeed her rival as the US Open champion
Tumaini Carayol at Flushing Meadows
Keely Hodgkinson has to settle for silver as Audrey Werro takes Ultimate gold
Sean Ingle in Budapest
USA survive Spain scare to set up Olympic final rematch with France at Fiba World Cup
Guardian sport and agencies
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
From Practical Magic 2 to Saturday Night Live UK: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
Bullock and Kidman try to put a second spell on you in the fantasy comedy sequel, while the topical sketch show returns after a well-regarded debut
‘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
Why is Trump’s $5,000 offer to voters ‘like a woman’? Ask Fox News
Host Jesse Watters says Trump’s offer to Americans if Republicans retain Congress is ‘an enticement’, not a bribe
Arwa Mahdawi
Bayeux tapestrymania has gripped Britain. But what does it say about our own age of war and upheaval?
The tapestry is drawing crowds to the British Museum – and each person who sees it will draw a different meaning from this epic, vivid artwork, says the Guardian’s chief culture writer Charlotte Higgins
Charlotte Higgins
Call it the Miliband doctrine. Let’s hope the new Israeli settlement boycott is just the start
This week’s bold move suggests that Britain will once again have an ‘ethical dimension’ to its foreign policy. That’s good for the world, says former Observer international editor Steve Bloomfield
Steve Bloomfield
