The Syrian teenagers making a fresh start in the UK
This year’s Christmas appeal is supporting three refugee charities
Tenerife with a twist: winter sun, plus wildlife and wine
The quieter north of the Canaries’ largest island offers cloud forests, lava fields, vineyards and friendly towns – and some winter sunbathing, too
‘Who buys fish with a credit card here?’ Traders scoff at Goa’s bid to ditch cash
With the state about to be a test bed for India’s drive to digital payments, alarm bells are ringing in the city of Panjim
Russell Tovey: ‘Being gay made my career'
In his latest role, the actor tackles homophobia in football. He tells Eva Wiseman how ‘everything’s built up to the performance in this film’
Get out of my echo chamber. It's cosy in here
They keep telling us to listen to opposing views, to hear the voices of the other side. But what happens if you don’t want to? Asks Eva Wiseman
Paramedic and football coach among 13 men charged with abusing woman ‘drugged by husband’
Co-defendants in case against Stockport man in his 60s can be revealed after reporting restrictions were lifted
Clive James: ‘At 16, my dress sense was in the first full flower of its baroque glory’
It took me 50 years to learn that I should dress as plainly as possible
Ignore the miserabilists: Andy Burnham as PM is a moment when things really can get better
He’s the only person who can keep Nigel Farage out of Downing Street, so let’s embrace his unique blend of optimism and realism, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
Bringing up the bodies in Bosnia
The Long Read: In Bosnia, an international organisation is digging up mass graves and using cutting edge scientific research to give victims’ families some sense of closure and justice
Michael Frayn: ‘I longed to work for the Observer, so I wrote in claiming I could speak 12 languages’
The novelist and playwright on blagging his way on to the paper, and partying where Profumo came a cropper
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Tim Roth: ‘If you neglect the working class for so long, they will rebel against you’
The actor, who plays a serial killer in new BBC drama Rillington Place, talks about the rise of ‘fascism’ in the US, the abuse he suffered as a child and why he cares only about reviews from the staff in his local supermarket
Would you like some dope with that cute puppy?
Alongside all the cute kids and cuddly puppies, one online community has developed a digital drug den, says Eva Wiseman
Hi-tech replica to bring prehistoric art of Lascaux within reach
£48m recreation of French caves will let visitors experience magic of the ‘prehistoric Sistine chapel’ for first time in decades
Growing crisis on UK streets as rough sleeper numbers soar
Charities raise concerns for homeless people over recent deaths and falling temperatures
Jonathan Safran Foer: technology is diminishing us
Have you found yourself checking email at dinner, or skipping from book to screen, unable to focus? The closer the world gets to our fingertips, the more we stand to lose
The best nature books of 2016
Stephen Moss celebrates a man living as an animal, Chris Packham’s gripping memoir and a bracing tale of recovery in Orkney
Billionaire Leon Black to appear before House panel over ties to Jeffrey Epstein
Scrutiny of Black’s association to Epstein intensified after DoJ released millions of files last year and earlier this year