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 Czech Republic

Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

United Kingdom

Reader’s eyewitness

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

A tide of horror • Residents of Utiel in the Valencia region describe how they escaped rising waters, and the devastation left behind by unprecedented rain

WHY WERE THE FLOODS IN SPAIN SO BAD?

An ‘ everyday apocalypse’ • Cop must face up to climate car crash

A predictable result Here’s how the winner of the election did it • Whether Donald Trump or Kamala Harris prevails in the contest, it won’t feel hard to explain why the outcome was inevitable

Hey big spenders • This election at least solved the riddle of how to fritter away $1bn

Ban on vital Unrwa aid could spell disaster • Legislation will sever UN services for 2.3 million people, unless Benjamin Netanyahu can be convinced to veto it

Total siege • Fears Israel plans to seize land in Gaza

Eyewitness France

A brave investment? • Rachel Reeves’s first budget is a radical departure after years of constraint

Deep blue • Badenoch faces multiple challenges as Tory leader

A new enemy • Inexperienced North Korean troops prepare to enter conflict

‘It’s better not to try our luck again’ • Why voters back political forces that favour closer ties with Moscow, despite seeing their nations’ future in the EU

Reality bites in the Himalayan ‘kingdom of happiness’ • High emigration and youth unemployment levels belie the mountain nation’s global reputation for cheeriness

‘ A civil war’ Gangs step up assault on capital • Armed fighters advance into neighbourhoods at the heart of Port-au-Prince as authorities try to restore order

Lost Maya city revealed through laser mapping

The science behind hugs • An international airport has limited goodbye cuddles to three minutes – but does such a rule make sense? Here’s a guide to different embraces and their positive effects

Trudeau faces ‘iceberg revolt’ as calls grow for PM to quit

Rumbled • How Ali ran rings around apartheid, 50 years ago

I see you • What happens when people with acute psychosis meet the voices in their heads? A new clinical trial reveals some surprising results

‘What will people think? I don’t care any more’ • At 90, Alan Bennett has written a sex-fuelled novella set in a home for the elderly. He talks about mourning Maggie Smith, turning down a knighthood and what he makes of the new UK prime minister

Zoe Williams • A surplus of billionaires is destabilising our democracies

Mike Watson • I hoped Finland would be a progressive dream. I’ve had to think again

Hugh Muir • Taking the ‘empire’ out of the British honours system is long overdue

The GuardianView • Zelenskyy must be given free rein now North Korea has joined spiralling war

Letters

Culture • Warrior woman Lucy Lawless on her film about Margaret Moth, a heroic and adventurous photojournalist

Finn family murals • The optimism that runs through Finnish artist Tove Jansson’s Moomin stories also appears in her public works, now on show in a Helsinki exhibition

Reviews

Signs of the times • Forced to leave their home and mother, two children must decode their own past in a chilling ref inement of Orwellian dystopia

Animal magnetism • A writer takes in a leveret in this allegorical tale of companionship that asks the...