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 France

Weather extremes, the Wagner puzzle and almighty Bruce

Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

DEATHS

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

Global report United Kingdom

Eyewitness

Perfect storm • Climate scientists think the El Niño effect is behind sudden Atlantic sea temperature rises. But could it be a sign of something much worse?

Hottest week on record UN warns that climate crisis is now out of control

Disaster after disaster People are dying at sea as they try to flee from climate havoc

Why it’s business as usual for Wagner in Africa

Cluster ruck The end justifies the means for Biden in sending banned bombs

Small steps Washington and Beijing are back on the line … for now

After unrest and scandal, Mongolians are steel ed for change

Holding court

Cash for teens and a four-day week: Díaz revives leftist hopes • Sumar coalition leader says practical solutions can fend off the far-right threat in snap election

Teflon Mark Rutte the everyman PM who saw the tide had turned

Macron’s uphill battle to rebuild from deep divisions

The Cornish village that’s braced for a wealthy teen invasion

Has WFH brought Canary Wharf low? • Uncertain future lies ahead for London’s docklands financial district as big firms quit

Super-rich warned of a backlash over inequality

Last dance? Istanbul nightlife in peril as 100% inflation hits

The female divers plucking waste from out the blue

Hey, suckers • Biologist David Scheel’s new study of the octopus separates misconceptions from the often more extraordinary facts

Threads threat Zuckerberg’s plan for the unravelling of Twitter

With Trump in trouble, Republicans go for justice department

Boxed in • Extreme hoarding is more than just ‘too much stuff’. It can be a distressing and dangerous condition that requires careful, targeted help

AI Utopia or dystopia? • From curing cancer to fighting the climate crisis, artificial intelligence could herald a limitless new dawn for humanity. Alternatively, it could just decide to wipe us all out. Steve Rose asks technology experts about the best and worst-case scenarios

Why is it so hard to create policies to effectively solve race inequality?

Addictive apps are bad for children’s health – it’s time for regulation

It’s only rock’n’roll, but the old timers teach us about more than music

Hong Kong’s bounty on exiles is an attempt to coerce dissidents’ silence

WRITE TO US

A WEEK IN VENNDIAGRAMS Edith Pritchett

Africa, by Africa ns • A remarkable new photography show reveals a liberated view of the continent

Why women love the Boss • Bruce Springsteen is seen as one of the quintessential writers of male experience, but as a new book explores, his connection with female listeners is just as complex

Blonde versus bombshell • In the pink corner, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie. In the other, Christopher Nolan’s epic Oppenheimer. Which will triumph in the box of fice smackdown?

Reviews

Imperial measures • This account of three South Asian nations and their journey to independence embraces food, cinema and personal history

Come undone • Class and character are brilliantly observed in this deft, absorbing collection of short stories anatomising lives unravelling

The home front • Our houses are packed with gadgets designed to...