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California fires live:
Progress made against some LA fires but thickening smoke prompts ‘health emergency’

Palisades and Eaton fires start coming under control as fierce winds ease but forecasters predict another red flag warning for Monday

Exclusive
Grooming gang rhetoric risks inciting mass violence, says Wes Streeting

China
Rachel Reeves arrives in Beijing and touts importance of economic ties

Ukraine
Ukraine’s highest profile combat unit to recruit English-speaking soldiers

Reform UK
Pressure on Nigel Farage as Reform UK councillors resign over his leadership

In focus

Exclusive
Caroline Darian, daughter of Gisèle Pelicot, speaks: ‘How can you rebuild when your father is the worst sexual predator in decades?’

Last month, her father was sentenced to 20 years for drugging and inviting dozens of strangers to rape her mother. Now she tells of the ‘crushing double burden’ of being the child of both victim and perpetrator – and the mental torture of not knowing what he did to her

EU
Twin-headed Trump-Musk onslaught leaves Europe floundering for response

Football
‘Win the league? It feels possible’: Nottingham Forest fans dare to dream

Spotlight

Nutrition
From iced buns to brussel sprouts: nine nutritionists on what they really eat (it may surprise you)

Blind date
‘Would I introduce him to my friends? Definitely. They’d probably all fancy him’

The watcher
Severance: it’s a gorgeously odd return for this surreal drama – if you can work out what’s happening

Opinion

Trump, Musk and Zuckerberg have declared war on facts and truth. The pushback must start now

Emily Bell

The image that speaks a thousand words about our inhumane migration debate

Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

My best friend and I married each other as kids on holiday at the beach. It would be the closest she would come to a real wedding

Caitlin Cassidy

Sport

Alexander-Arnold could douse fire around him but Liverpool owners deserve heat too

Barney Ronay

Football
Potter starts with defeat as Villa battle back to beat West Ham in Cup

Cricket
Women’s Ashes excitement tempered by schedule concerns

Podcast

Today in Focus
It was a wildlife conservation triumph, then came the corpses – podcast

Biodiversity writer Phoebe Weston hears from farmers on the west coast of Scotland who claim they are losing hundreds of lambs a year in a case of rewilding gone wrong

Climate crisis

Climate crisis
2024 was hottest year on record for world’s land and oceans, US scientists confirm

Explainer
What are the unprecedented conditions facing LA firefighters?

Business

Economy
Fears over UK borrowing costs as US jobs figures prompt bond market volatility

Energy
No 10 insists UK has sufficient energy supply despite ‘concerningly low’ gas storage levels

In pictures

Los Angeles
California wildfire victims pick up pieces as blazes rage on

Photos of the week
The week around the world in 20 pictures

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