1+ mon, 1+ hour ago   (186+ words) Five years after the Taliban retook power, women inside the country explain how they have been silenced, while the Afghan journalist Zahra Joya asks why the world has looked away In August 2021, the Afghan journalist Zahra Joya was in Kabul,…...

1+ mon, 21+ hour ago   (159+ words) When the University of Cambridge appoints a new professor, it doesn’t usually make global headlines. But Jason Arday was different. He was just 37 in 2023 when he became Cambridge’s youngest black professor, specialising in the sociology of race and education. The…...

1+ mon, 22+ hour ago   (188+ words) Every Wednesday and Friday in August we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2026, in case you missed them, with an introduction from the editorial team to explain why we’ve chosen it.This week, from March: It…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (397+ words) Farage has taken a high risk gamble by resigning and forcing a byelection in his constituency. Nosheen Iqbal heads to Clacton to find out how voters feelClacton was once a seaside jewel on England’s east coast. But these days there’s…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (299+ words) Madeleine Finlay travels to the Rothbury estate in Northumberland, in north-east England. It’s a piece of land that has been in the same family for 700 years, but now it has been put up for sale and the UK’s Wildlife Trusts…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (164+ words) The Guardian’s Full Story podcast covers the inquest into the death of the influencer Stacey Warnecke In September 2025, a Melbourne wellness influencer, Stacey Warnecke, decided to give birth at home, free of all medical help. No one else was present…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (138+ words) An Australian man, Simon Peter Carman, 45, was charged over the weekend with the alleged murder of Thunchanok Donhomla. Her body was found in a suitcase near railway tracks in Pattaya, on Thailand’s eastern Gulf coast, in the early hours of…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (142+ words) In September 2025, Melbourne wellness influencer Stacey Warnecke decided to give birth at home, free of all medical help. No one else was present when she went into labour except her husband and a woman named Emily Lal. Warnecke later died…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (201+ words) Last week, the Reserve Bank kept interest rates on hold, but the decision was followed by a warning that a future rate rise was on the table because prices are still rising too fast. It came as the US and…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (98+ words) The UK is experiencing record-breaking temperatures in an unprecedented May heatwave, while large parts of Europe are also facing blistering conditions. As the climate crisis makes extreme heat more likely, are we prepared?Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian reporter…...