Warner Bros Disaster? Netflix deal for Hollywood giant follows string of flops
David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros Discovery, promised ‘everyone’ would win by combining the storied Hollywood studios with his reality TV giant. Instead, many lost
Trump wants to recreate a white America that never existed
The persecution of brown people and mass deportations will not create the white country of far-right fantasy
‘I climbed a building to get this shot’: Ahmad Mansour’s best phone picture
How the photographer captured this split image of sardine fishermen taken from above
The best fiction of 2025
Guardian fiction editor Justine Jordan picks the best of the year, from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dream Count to Thomas Pynchon’s return, David Szalay’s Booker winner and a remarkable collection of short stories
Whales, beards, mules and VIPs: the secret world of high-rolling professional gambling
How elite gamblers buy betting accounts of losing punters to bamboozle bookmakers
Gunmen kill at least 11 people including three-year-old in South African hostel
Total of 25 people shot in early morning Pretoria attack, with victims including 12-year-old boy and 16-year-old girl
US citizen chased by federal agents in New Orleans says she was targeted because ‘I’m brown’
Home security videos shows Jacelynn Guzman, 23, telling masked officers following her to ‘leave me alone’
AI deepfakes of real doctors spreading health misinformation on social media
Hundreds of videos on TikTok and elsewhere impersonate experts to sell supplements with unproven effects
‘Urgent clarity’ sought over racial bias in UK police facial recognition technology
Testing showing racial bias against black and Asian people prompts watchdog to ask Home Office for explanation
London councils have a ‘sustained reliance’ on private firms as report shows £500m spend
Exclusive: Research prompts warning that authorities rely on companies to carry out basic functions
Reform UK revokes membership of council leader accused of racism
Party removes Ian Cooper after he was alleged to have abused Sadiq Khan, David Lammy and other figures online
Ministers urged to close £2bn tax loophole in car finance scandal
Banks and specialist lenders will not pay tax on compensation payouts, sidestepping 2015 rule
Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’
Exclusive: Yinka Bankole says he felt compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to ‘dismiss’ hurt of alleged targets