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 United Kingdom

Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

Global report • United Kingdom

Reader’s eyewitness

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

The rules-based world order is in retreat and violence is on the rise, forcing countries to rethink their relationships • Is a third world war upon us?

A TICKING CLOCK? • Many people think war likely within a decade, poll shows

Pope Leo XIV • An American leader with peace on his mind

Bridges and divides • Where does Leo stand on key issues?

How a fragile truce over Kashmir was hastily brokered • Amid real fears of nuclear escalation on both sides, senior US figures were drawn in reluctantly to mediate

History’s grip • If the ceasefire holds, a battle of narratives will follow

Eyewitness Antarctica

A risky reset • Starmer faces opposition over shift on immigration policy

How reforms affect sectors that rely on immigration

Small towns ‘empty out’ as record numbers opt to emigrate

Big break • Snooker mania greets China’s first champion

‘Blackouts can happen anywhere’ How power systems collapse • Questions are still being asked about what caused last month’s outage on the Iberian peninsula. Could it happen elsewhere?

Community energy is lighting up remote areas

From jungle hideout, Evo Morales ponders his next move

Into ashes • War wipes out decades of medical progress

Bite back The lab breeding six-legged agents in the war on disease • Could a ‘self-limiting’ gene that kills off mosquitoes’ female offspring reduce the spread of malaria, dengue fever and Zika?

China tariffs • Trump will claim victory – but this was a capitulation

Battle lines • Does Trump really want to redraw the border?

‘We know what is happening, we cannot walk away’ • During the war in former Yugoslavia, the major powers dithered as Serb militias carried out brutal waves of ethnic cleansing. Guardian reporters who bore witness to the horror became more and more outspoken in their condemnation

Big little lies • The dramatic results of weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic often come with a side order of stigma, as though it’s ‘cheating’ not to stick to willpower, diet and exercise alone. Is that why so many people are keeping it a secret – even from their partners?

Gaby Hinsliff • Trump’s whims still hang over the UK – and the world – economy

Marina Hyde • Once upon a time, Harry was royal and rich. Now he’s just rich

Ece Temelkuran • Can the term ‘cloud fascism’ help us to resist the hard right?

The GuardianView • At a treacherous moment for Germany, Merz must recover from a rocky start

Opinion Letters

Lights, tariffs, inaction • Donald Trump’s plan for Hollywood is full of plot holes. But when it comes to the hidden propaganda in movies, could he have a point?

Welcome to the house of love • From cruise ships to UFOs and giant whales, half the sex in Japan may happen in the architecturally astonishing world of its thousands of love hotels

Culture Reviews

Could the English language die? • For now it is dominant – but as the Romans could tell you, nothing lasts for ever

Voice of America • A definitive biography of Huck Finn’s creator, who was the world’s first literary celebrity

Paradise lost • A love triangle plays out across generations in this panoramic tale of family...