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 buoyant market

A provocative visit, looming bill rises fuel anger and a life lesson

Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

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SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

United Kingdom

Parched pitches

Beijing makes its anger clear • China showed its huge military might in response to Nancy Pelosi’s visit but in Taipei calm prevailed

Climate lobby eager for Beijing to look past Pelosi visit • Cooperation with Washington is regarded as key to spurring action by all governments to reduce greenhouse emissions

‘Reckless’ Pelosi Why did the speaker go, and what damage has her visit caused?

Taliban: ‘We didn’t know al-Zawahiri was living in our capital’

Growing threat Chief’s killing comes as terror group gains ground in Africa

‘Absolute evil’: the horrors of a Russian prison camp • Former inmate tells of the screams inside Olenivka detention centre where dozens were burned to death

Wagner suite Mercenary group’s links to Kremlin come forth from shadows

Dark cloud

Thousands vow not to pay autumn energy bills

Former PM calls for emergency budget • Gordon Brown warns of ‘financial timebomb’ as Labour plans intervention to help low-income housesholds

How Unilever’s sachets became a scourge • Environmental campaigners are taking on a global manufacturing giant over its pledge to stem a toxic tide

How flight trackers became the sleeper hit of the summer

Gay romcom boom boosts tourism but skews a far darker truth

Named and shamed Kevins fight national mockery

A mobile forest offers shades of green

AI Fact v fiction An AI insider guide • Although sentient computers aren’t here – yet – they are coming and will change our lives. But there are a few things everyone needs to know about them

Holy orders Orbán urges Christians in Europe and US to unite

Tears of joy as Kansas celebrates abortion rights win

A change of heart • Pig-to-human transplants promise to solve an organ shortage and change the way we think about human longevity, but they also raise a host of questions

Do the math • Can learning algebra in your 60s make you smarter and unlock new parts of your brain?

Putin is banking on a failure of political will in the weak west Timothy Garton Ash

It’s not just Beyoncé and Lizzo – culture is full of painful ableism Kathryn Bromwich

Global division will make this crisis worse than the 2008 recession Larry Elliott

Science shows policy lags behind the reality of climate chaos, but hope still lingers • Founded 1821 Independently owned by the Scott Trust

Letters

Partners in crime • Veteran author Denise Mina and newbie Frankie Boyle are called in for questioning about writing a good murder mystery

Inside job Crime writers unpick the clues that make a favourite

Reality is only make-believe • Comedian Nathan Fielder’s experiment in reality TV is a high stakes game that exposes the building blocks of the genre while creating its own elaborate fictions

Trainwreck: Woodstock 99 • Netflix

Das Rheingold • Bayreuth festival, Germany

Home truths • A human rights lawyer charts the history of Palestine through his murdered father’s papers and draws a line to the present

Tickled think • Humour, with its bent for surprise and dark revelation, is explored with a poet’s ear in this freewheeling, enlightening study

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