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Old rivalries, territorial disputes and new alliances are reshaping the conflict in Ethiopia’s north.

Friday sees the start of the Orionid meteor shower as Earth passes through debris left behind by Halley’s Comet. It peaks later in October.

Friday sees the start of the Orionid meteor shower as Earth passes through debris left behind by Halley’s Comet. It peaks later in October.

Need help with your wardrobe? Guardian stylist Melanie Wilkinson will be joining us online tomorrow at 3pm BST to share he favourite tips for making any outfit pop – men’s or women’s. Ask her your questions now!

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Baggy jeans are everywhere, can I still wear my favourite straight leg style? What should I wear to a Christmas work party? I’m broke, what’s an easy styling hack to update my autumn wardrobe?

The Guardian’s fashion stylist, Mel Wilkinson, has been styling and celebrities and fashion shoots for over 15 years. She’ll be sharing all her tips and tricks, and answering all your questions at 3pm BST Friday 2 October.

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Scott Gillingham says he would add hundreds of locked garbage bins downtown to prevent unsightly trash piles if re-elected as mayor. Gillingham led a program that added about 120 locked […]

Based on a 2018 book by hugely popular, wildly polarizing author Colleen Hoover (whose novels It Ends with Us, Regretting You and Reminders of Him have also been made into […]

Host nation won having led almost from start to finish, while young English player reached a stunning landmark

Uzbekistan, the host nation, won the open gold medals at the 2026 Olympiad, the biennial chess international team tournament, at Samarkand last week in the style of the legendary Soviet grandmasters of long ago. India, the defending champions, were second, Germany a surprise third, and the top-seeded United States fourth.

The hosts led almost from start to finish, with world No 5 Nodirbek Abdusattorov and the world title challenger Javokhir Sindarov their top-board powerhouses. The team recovered swiftly from a single defeat by Germany, and were particularly impressive in crushing Armenia by 3.5-0.5 in the penultimate round. The Uzbekistan government rewarded each of the five players with $200,000 (£178,000), plus $50,000 for the coach Rustam Kasimdzhanov.

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This preposterous nonsense probably had high intentions – and then realised it’s easier to replace credible writing with gunfights, car chases and ear-bitings

A freeport is somewhere you can store imported goods and not have to pay any of the duties usually required by the bothersome authorities until you move them out of there. It’s not quite what I expected to learn when watching a new crime-caper-comedy-thriller-cum-comeback-vehicle starring Catherine Zeta-Jones, but on the other hand I didn’t expect to learn anything at all so we could consider it a bonus.

The customs benefits and tax reliefs available in certain exclusionary zones are the carefully explained means by which Jackie Price (Zeta-Jones) has established a successful art business over the last 20 years. She acquires art, puts it in a warehouse, invites rich people to come and view it, bid on it and buy it. I don’t know if they bear the cost of the taxes themselves as they ship it home, or indeed whether this is included in the bid price or not. Having been led by the early scenes to believe there would be much more in the way of financial detail, I now find myself beset by questions.

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When his son died aged 27, the director could barely bring himself to watch his old clips of the boy. When at last he did, it was the genesis of an extraordinary project

It feels crass to compliment Ross McElwee on his latest documentary, Remake, because it is not the picture he would ever have chosen to make. It is instead a grief-struck tour de force: a magnificent film about film-making and its real-world repercussions.

McElwee is a film-maker who HAS spun home movies into art, framing himself and his friends and his son, Adrian. The director used to film Adrian for a few minutes each month. He tracked the boy from infancy to adulthood, trying to catch the significant turns of his life. When tragedy struck, it back-shadowed the footage. Maybe every home movie is a ghost story at heart. McElwee filmed Adrian because he loved him, but now fears he might have hurt him. So he sifts through the material in search of clues, addressing his son as though he were still in the room. “I look at the footage to convince myself that you were alive,” he says. “But also to convince myself that you’re gone.”

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This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world

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Fighters have always provided rich material for stories on stage and screen and the appeal to audiences has not wavered

Three of my greatest joys in life are watching sport, going to the theatre and playing violin. So it felt almost embarrassing to discover a classic play that combined all three, yet I’d never heard of it before. To be fair, Golden Boy has not been performed in the UK in more than 40 years and its curious premise may be one of the reasons.

Written in 1937, it’s about a gifted young violinist in Depression-era America who also has a talent for boxing and is lured away from music by the pursuit of fame and money in the ring. In the current London production he is played by Josh O’Connor, who Knives Out fans have seen with his fists up as a boxer turned priest in Wake Up Dead Man. O’Connor is no less convincing on stage than on film, attacking a heavy bag with the kind of power that does indeed make you worry for his precious hands. Nor is that ab definition entirely the work of a makeup artist.

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Lauren Wittmann’s apartment was bright and trinket-filled, and Emily Sinclair felt nostalgia for it as soon as she walked through the door. It was 2018 or so, and as Sinclair, […]

College athletes need advocacy, before another life is lost. They need an independent voice because, as the system stands, athletes speaking out for personal safety would end their positions on […]

Did any of you happen to notice that the week of Sept. 14 marked an interesting confluence of events in Winnipeg? First up was the mayoral debate on public transit. […]

Since moving to Winnipeg earlier this year, I have come to know the city through its small businesses. As a new Exchange District resident, grabbing coffee at Little Sister, walking […]

Are clinical psychologists next? Re: Province hires 17 psychiatrists to work in Winnipeg, Selkirk (Sept. 25) Manitoba’s government has shown that it knows how to solve a specialist staffing crisis […]

The advice was not unexpected but it was surprising considering it applied to a vehicle weighing almost 6,000 pounds. “Before you let off the brake, put your head against the […]

The genie is most definitely out of the bottle. And while there’s little chance of putting it back in, we should be very concerned that the people who released it […]

DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: I ran into my sister’s husband at the bar recently. He was drinking with a bunch of people from his work. I noticed he was sitting close […]

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