Guardian Weekly

The Guardian Weekly magazine is a round-up of the world news, opinion and long reads that have shaped the week. Inside, the past seven days' most memorable stories are reframed with striking photography and insightful companion pieces, all handpicked from The Guardian and The Observer.

Eyewitness South Africa

Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

Global report • United Kingdom

Reader’s eyewitness

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

Smoke signals • How can democracies work alongside autocracies to cut back on fossil fuel usage and reduce global greenhouse emissions?

‘Canary in the coalmine’ • When will Russia take action on the climate?

Palestinian Territories • ‘I wasn’t allowed to say goodbye’ The brother and sister killed collecting water for their family

Power play • Recognised state could develop gas resources

A knife edge • Rising unrest reveals depth of challenge facing state

The world’s oldest leader gambles on another seven years

Eyewitness Singapore

An Afghan data breach, a secret plan and a public cover-up • In 2022, an email set off a chain of events affecting the lives of thousands of Afghans, but few knew about it until last week

Ballot class • Will lowering voting age to 16 be a boost for democracy?

Competition for water in the driest place on Earth • Copper and lithium mines in the Atacama desert feed the global green transition but at what cost to parched Indigenous residents?

A retail graveyard • The demise of Tokyo’s arcades

Mind cafes aim to cure epidemic of loneliness

How Cairo’s ‘garbage people’ became eco activists

Hull of a job • Copy of historic ship battles with fungus

‘It’s always been some white dude’ The Ethiopian scholars unlocking human history • In a museum housed in an unremarkable office block in Addis Ababa, a pioneering palaeoanthropologist has inspired a generation of scientists devoted to studying the cradle of humankind

Epstein files Is Trump becoming trapped in a web of his own Maga lies? • The president broke a promise to release more details about the convicted sex offender – and his base is wondering why

How ruins offamed hotel symbolise a city on brink of collapse

‘A relentless, destructive energy’ Inside the trial of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon • An intimate account of an unprecedented trial

The fascinating science of pain • Could you play rugby with a shattered jaw, or work as your belly fills with blood? When it comes to suffering, perspective is all

Gaby Hinsliff • Why is it hard for politicians to win trust? Maybe because they lie to us

Oliver Wainwright • Corporate takeovers of London tube lines are a wrong signal

Timothy Garton Ash • Instead of just muddling through, Britain needs a full reset with Europe

The GuardianView • From Shakespeare to Radiohead, trees shape our cultural landscape

Opinion Letters

Park life • After the death of their lead vocalist in 2017, a reformed Linkin Park discuss nu-metal, nostalgia and their new frontwoman

How Netflix mastered trainwreck television • Five years after the Tiger King phenomenon, the streamer has delivered a series of documentaries fine-tuned for the modern attention economy

A game of cat and mouse • Former Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa and Edward Bluemel are charismatic rivals in a queered depiction of the relationship between Shakespeare and Marlowe

Reviews

It’s time to ban opinion polls • Does random sampling reflect public sentiment, or are polls just a kind of misinformation?

Between the lines • An inspiring account of Toni Morrison’s years as a pioneering literary...