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.

A region on the brink, a secret life in wartime and Jodie Foster deals with fame

Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

Tipping point • A Hamas leader killed in Beirut. Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea. A US airstrike in Baghdad. As the Israel-Gaza war bleeds across borders, is wider violence in the Middle East inevitable?

Mounting threat Does Tehran have control of its ‘axis of resistance’?

Reverberations of war Fears of a wider regional escalation miss the fact it is already happening

Spotlight • Trump surrogates swarm Iowa before first caucuses

Fighting talk Fired-up Biden shows gloves are off against ‘loser’ Trump

Lost horizons How did the Post Office destroy so many lives?

The IT scandal that became UK’s ‘broadest miscarriage of justice’

Eyewitness Colombia

Is the global aid system beyond repair? • As conflict and the climate crisis fuel humanitarian emergencies, agencies warn of an alarming funding gap

Miracle on the runway How air crew pulled off great escape

Amid strike chaos on road and rail, far right sees its chance

Trade winds The rise, rise and stagnation of the Footsie • The FTSE 100 share index was a hit on launch 40 years ago, but is showing its age as big tech stocks move elsewhere

Trains of thought After 30 years, the Channel tunnel has become a symbol of unfulfilled potential

Boy wonder Luke Littler’s stunning rise will take him from Butlin’s to Berlin

‘Dangerous to be funny’ Has India lost its sense of humour?

Deep breaths The mission to track sea gases • Scientists are studying how gases move through global waters – a phenomenon that may be crucial to managing the climate crisis

Will a rush for minerals on the moon put research in jeopardy?

Hidden secrets Epstein court files leave questions unanswered • Documents released by a judge are littered with names but mysteries remain over the disgraced financier

Spies like us • Julian Borger thought his family had survived the Holocaust almost unscathed, and that his great-aunt Malci in Vienna was a gentle oddball. Then he discovered her important role in the resistance during the second world war – and its tragic consequences for her family

The art of giving up • We give things up when we believe we can change; we give up when we believe we can’t. But both are attempts to make a different future.

V (formerly Eve Ensler) • We all see the videos of suffering in Gaza. We must not look away

Barbara Ellen • Don’t feel pity for Oscar Pistorius: the real victim is Reeva Steenkamp

George Monbiot • If Javier Milei’s plans for Argentina sound familar, it’s no surprise

The GuardianView • A closely fought election that will have repercussions beyond Taiwan’s borders

Opinion Letters

Growing pains • Jodie Foster on films, family and working out how to be famous on her own terms after 58 years in the spotlight

A new chapter for libraries • From Ghent’s De Krook to Helsinki’s Oodi, recent civic constructions across Europe share a vision of the library as a living room for the modern city

Reviews

Proof positive • An optimist’s guide to the climate crisis that of fers informative insights into reversing the emergency – but is its advice convincing?

A tsar is born • The imagined life story of a shadowy Kremlin insider employs a cast of real people as it offers a...