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  • The fair was said to expect as many as 5,000 young people to attend

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    At least 35 children die in crowd crush at school fair in Nigeria – video

  • Six days after cyclone Chido brought widespread devastation to the island, residents in parts of Mayotte are still without water, food or shelter.

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    Mayotte resident confronts Macron over Cyclone Chido response – video

  • The prime minister decried the state in which the previous Conservative government had left the country as he was questioned by the liaison committee

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    Keir Starmer says inheritance from Tories was worse than he expected – video

  • The Russian president suggests his ballistic missile could defeat any American missile defence system

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    Putin says Russia is ready for a missile 'duel' with the US – video

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Sport

  • From animals interrupting to athletes fighting, here is a look back at some of 2024's most entertaining sporting moments

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    'What happened there?': the best of the amazing world of sport 2024 – video

  • Saka reunited with his first ever grassroots football coach to celebrate the amazing impact coaches can have on individuals

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    'He's still got it': Bukayo Saka reunites with grassroots football coach – video

  • United’s head coach insisted he wants Rashford to stay, saying 'I just want to help Marcus'.

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    'We're better with Marcus Rashford': Ruben Amorim addresses United exit talk around player – video

  • Fell running is a demanding endurance sport and Joss Naylor ran with all his heart.  Fuelled by apple cake and Guinness, the English sheep farmer broke multiple long-distance running records. He died this year at the age of 88. His indomitable spirit and unwavering resilience live on in his inspiring athletic legacy

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    King of the Fells: Joss Naylor, the shepherd with an unbeatable running record

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Documentaries

Watch our series of in-depth films exploring in rich detail the stories behind the headlines
  • A group of young adults born during or just after the 1994 genocide against Rwanda's Tutsi people gather to find the courage to break a powerful taboo. Rwanda is one of the few nations in the world providing specialist counselling for children conceived through rape, who number 10,000 across the country. Here, course leader Emilienne, a mother, therapist and genocide survivor, helps the group to imagine a future free from family secrets and societal stigma. In a circle of supportive peers, they tell their individual stories and face their struggles together, in the hope their participation will advocate for others facing similar trauma

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    The Things We Don't Say: children of the Rwandan genocide

  • Fertility tourism is booming for single Chinese women with hopes of future motherhood. China's birthrate is at a record low, yet unmarried women are not legally allowed to freeze their eggs there. We meet Lei and Abu, as they travel to the US for the procedure, battling self-doubt and scepticism along the way. What does this mean for womanhood and parenting in modern China?

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    Frozen in Time: the motherhood dilemma for single women in China

  • When Naissa tells his mother Daniela that he identifies as a trans man she struggles to understand. Through candid personal letters exchanged over three years, Dear Mamma follows Naissa as he stands firmly for his independence and identity, and Daniela as she wrestles with her fear of losing a child. As Naissa embarks on his professional dance career and proudly embodies his gender, his mother also embarks on a journey of understanding and acceptance of her son’s choices

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    Dear Mamma: a transgender man, his mother and their journey in letters

  • The remote island of St Helena, a British overseas territory, is best known for Napoleon's tomb – the island's biggest tourist attraction. While overseeing the construction of a long-awaited airport on the island, Annina van Neel learns that the remains of thousands of formerly enslaved Africans have been uncovered, unearthing one of the most significant traces of the transatlantic slave trade in the world

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    Buried: how we choose to remember the transatlantic slave trade – documentary

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Focus

  • Majdi Fathi is a freelance photojournalist living and working from al-Aqsa hospital, the only functioning facility in central Gaza. He documented his past year living and reporting from the war, travelling all around the Gaza Strip, and also looking after his young family

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    My life behind the lens
    One year reporting from the war in Gaza

  • 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.

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

  • Samah Khalid Naji is 18, and along with six other members of her family, is living in the bombed-out remains of their house in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza. It was destroyed in October by an Israeli missile strike. The Guardian spent two days with Samah and her family in December to see the remains of their house and how they are surviving the war. She told the film-maker Majdi Fathi about why they decided this was the safest place for them to be

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    Why I stay: Living inside the ruins of my Gaza home – video

  • Kuo Chiu, known as KC to his friends, teaches urban design at Tunghai University in Taiwan. He’s also one of many of the country's citizens who practises rifle skills in his spare time, in case of a Chinese invasion. The Guardian's video team spent time with KC to see how he is preparing.

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    The Taiwanese civilians training for a Chinese invasion – video

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On the ground

  • American research group Ocearch has more than 15 years’ experience in catching, tagging and tracking great white sharks all over the world, contributing to filling the many gaps in knowledge about the ocean predator. Ocearch came to Europe for the first time in the summer, hoping to study the elusive Mediterranean great white

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    The hunt for Europe's great white shark

  • Tech entrepreneur Justin Harrison is on a mission to fundamentally change how we experience loss, using artificial intelligence to recreate the essence of dead loved ones from their digital footprint. His company, You, Only Virtual is part of a growing worldwide 'grief tech' industry harnessing AI to attempt to replace what has naturally departed. The Guardian visited him and one of his clients to attempt to understand his aims, how realistic they may become as the technology develops – and what it says about humanity if we are to be so easily replicated digitally

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    Back from the dead: could AI end grief? – video

  • In the rolling hills of central Italy sits Honeydew, an eco-community created as a direct response to the isolation of the Covid pandemic, enabled by modern technology and aiming to address the profound changes the climate crisis looks set to bring. With stated aims to spread the project globally, the Guardian visited Honeydew to see how founder Benjamin Ramm's vision for the future is playing out, and to learn how sustainable such eco living projects really are.

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    Better Together: Is communal living the answer to modern malaise? – video

  • Across the West Bank, battles between the Israeli Defence Forces and various Palestinian factions have been going on for decades. The Guardian’s Bethan McKernan visited Nur Shams refugee camp to see first hand what the effects of this spiral of violence is having on its residents, and meet with those taking up arms in response.

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    'Little Gaza’: Inside the fight for the West Bank

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Explainers

  • Guardian Australia's Jonathan Barrett breaks down the major fights currently embroiling Coles and Woolworths

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    Coles and Woolworths are fighting claims of fake discounts and a lack of competition - video

  • The Sunshine state is heading to the polls on 26 October. Queensland correspondent Ben Smee sets out how things are looking in the lead-up

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    Queensland's state election is coming up. Here's five things you need to know – video

  • Without a national measurement for poverty or disadvantage, how does a country measure whether things are getting better — or worse?

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    What does it mean to be poor? The Australian government isn't sure – video

  • Chris Stokel-Walker, a technology journalist, explains the implications of Durov's arrest for the tech sector

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    Who is the Russian billionaire founder of Telegram? – video explainer

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It's complicated

  • Pharmaceutical corporations claim high prices are the cost of innovation, but the reality is far more complicated – and troubling

    How big pharma keeps affordable drugs out of reach – video

  • Neelam Tailor traces the surprising journey of ultra-processed foods from their origins in industrial waste to today's complex ingredient lists and the regulatory loopholes that paved the way

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    How we created ultra-processed food from industrial waste – video

  • Mark Townsend looks at how countries have moved away from the EU's founding commitment to human rights

    How Europe closed its borders and betrayed its values – video

  • Josh Toussaint-Strauss interrogates efforts around the world to boost birth rates, as well as the underlying political motivations, from bodily autonomy to immigration

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    How having babies became so political - video

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Anywhere but Westminster

  • On a non-stop road and rail trip, John Harris and John Domokos go from Rishi Sunak's well to-do seat in Yorkshire via County Durham and Lanarkshire to arrive amidst the new-town community spirit of Milton Keynes on election day. Everywhere people are holding places together: will a victorious Labour party soak up those vibes?

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    So what does the future look like now? | Anywhere but Westminster - video

  • In the third episode of a new series of Anywhere but Westminster, John Harris and John Domokos travel around the West Midlands, and find a fascinating political mixture: hesitant Labour voters, a new crop of independents focused on Palestine and local cuts  – and, amid deep social problems, lots of people who think the election hardly matters. Here, it seems, is the reality that all those opinion polls get nowhere near

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    Here's what you find under Labour's 'landslide': doubters, abstainers and independents - video

  • In the latest episode of Anywhere but Westminster, John Harris and John Domokos go to Woking, Guildford and Aldershot. Most of England's south-east used to be loyally Conservative - now, however, people in the "blue wall" are struggling, cuts are biting, and Toryism today is leaving younger voters behind.

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    Why are the Tories collapsing? These true-blue towns know the answers - video

  • In the first video of a new series of Anywhere but Westminster, John Harris and John Domokos revisit Stoke-on-Trent, the once-loyal Labour city that went totally Tory in 2019. Has 'levelling up' money made up for swingeing local cuts? Will Labour win again? And what do people working hard to turn the place around think  about the future? 

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    This Labour city backed Brexit and went Tory: what did it get in return? - video

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Made in Britain

  • 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

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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 

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

  • 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.

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    Occupy Tottenham: a community defends its home - video

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