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New Orleans
10 reported killed after vehicle driven into Bourbon Street crowd – live updates

A further 30 people have been reported injured after an incident on Bourbon Street

‘Trump is a little guy, Musk is a big guy’
Historian predicts trouble for president-elect

South Korea
South Korea plane crash investigators extract data from Jeju Air black box

Film
Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni file lawsuits over It Ends With Us

Europe
Russian gas flows to Europe via Ukraine cease as transit agreement expires

In focus

Interview
‘Just by existing, he’s extended this war’: Timothy Snyder on Trump, Russia and Ukraine

Historian and bestselling author of On Tyranny worries over Trump’s return to power – and the influence of Elon Musk

Latin America and the Caribbean
‘Live sick or flee’: pollution fears for El Salvador’s rivers as mining ban lifted

World
Parrots, trees and dragons: test yourself with our quiz on national flag changes

Spotlight

Life and style
‘Biceps curls while you cook!’ 101 ways to get healthier and happier – in just five minutes

Open all your windows! Sing a song! Have a hot chocolate! Guardian writers and readers reveal simple ways to lift your mood in 300 seconds or fewer

Television
‘Are you kidding me?’ How Slow Horses’ Rosalind Eleazar took on a sensational thriller

‘We can be weirdos too’
The Black mermaids creating their own fantasy worlds

Make a much shorter to-do list!
Fifteen quick, simple ways to avoid overwhelm

The Long Wave
From the Met Gala to Afcon, 2025 promises to be a bumper year

Music to listen out for in 2025
Billie Eilish, Sex Pistols and Beethoven’s skull

Opinion

This is some of what we must do to reform our dysfunctional healthcare system

Bernie Sanders

Home is where your attempts to escape cease – and at a bar in New York, I stopped running

Mona Eltahawy

Sports

US sports
LeBron to Saudi and a UK NFL team: our bold sports predictions for 2025

Chinese Super League
Eight years, three league titles and lots of money: how Oscar made a success of China stay

Culture

Film
Stockholm Bloodbath review – like Game of Thrones scripted by Guy Ritchie

Stockholm Bloodbath review – like Game of Thrones scripted by Guy Ritchie

Rocco and His Brothers review
Luchino Visconti’s operatically magnificent family epic

In case you missed it

Fashion photography
‘Every night was Halloween’ – how one ‘camera girl’ captured the madcap style of 80s New York

Grace Jones, David Bowie and Debbie Harry feature alongside lesser known dancers in Sharon Smith’s Polaroids of the city’s club scene, where dressing up was your passport into the creative world

The long read
10 years of the long read: a selection of great stories

The millennium
How a batch of tinned meat fostered fears of the millennium bug

Sports
‘There are so many crazy stories’: the hunt for every sports statue in world

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