Summer Britcher’s World Cup win in Sigulda lifts her atop the standings and cements her status as a leading US medal hope for Milan Cortina ...

Memoirs from Liza Minnelli and Lena Dunham, essays by David Sedaris and Alan Bennett’s diaries are among the highlights of the year ahead ...

Tyson Fury has announced he will return to boxing in 2026 nearly a year after he announced his latest retirement from the ring ...

Must-sees include Beryl Cook’s postwar brilliance, Tracey Emin’s new highs, Frida Kahlo’s confessions, plus Google’s HQ and Gaudí’s finally finished fever dream ...

The world of soccer throws up no shortage of questions every year. In today’s Pitch Points column, we address three of the big ones for 2026 ...

Father Patrick McCarthy was brutally murdered in 1988. The two half-brothers in prison for the killing say he sexually abused them for years ...

The challenges and strains have been almost too much to take. But in 2025, words of depth and courage have been an antidote to numbness, says novelist and political scientist, Elif Shafak ...

Language is constantly evolving, and it’s our job to keep up – even at Christmas, say joint editors of the Guardian style guide, Charlotte Naughton and Katy Guest ...

Revenues may be rising rapidly, but not by nearly enough to cover the wild levels of investment under way ...

Among Jews the meaning of the term has evolved – but there is still no consensus. And when people talk past one another there are real-world consequences ...

Leonardo DiCaprio is a former revolutionary searching for his daughter in Paul Thomas Anderson’s exhilaratingly audacious counterculture epic ...

From Doom and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes to Metropolis, Hollywood hasn’t predicted the most stable of years ahead ...