This is how we do it: ‘I was looking for a one-night stand. Now we’re married with two babies’
It started as a hook-up, but before long they were parents. Now Sofia and León are finding new ways to be intimate • How do you do it? Share the…
The right is desperate for a solution to falling birthrates. Who’s going to tell them that the answer is immigration? | John Harris
Reform and Maga are correct that ageing populations are storing up huge social problems, but our prosperity still rests on the hard work of migrants A growing mountain of reports…
The Guardian view on the splinternet: where China led, Iran and others are eagerly following | Editorial
Authoritarian states are increasingly shutting off or throttling access to the internet, creating separate spheres in a realm built on connection China boasts of having the world’s largest population of…
Our tech overlords are planning for conscious AI to conquer the cosmos. What could go wrong? | Eduardo Porter
A new belief set is uniting some of the wealthiest men in the world around a ‘transhuman’ future – actual humanity be damned Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI,…
Marcia Lucas, Star Wars’ Oscar-winning editor and unsung hero, dies at 80
‘Innovative artist’, who was married to George Lucas until 1983 and worked on several Martin Scorsese films, has died from metastatic cancer Marcia Lucas, who won an Oscar as editor…
June Oscar on family, history and the need for courage to keep the dream of reconciliation alive
The former social justice commissioner was 53 when she first spoke to her half-brother and began healing her divided family. But her aspirations for reconciliation go much further Follow our…
‘This is a tragedy’: swimming snakes open new front in battle with Balearic lizards
The insatiable horseshoe whip snake has become an existential threat to the Ibiza wall lizard Irrefutable proof of what Spanish researchers and wildlife experts had long suspected, and long feared,…
This model is not a real person: how AI is changing online shopping up – video
From digital twins to models ‘sculpted’ by programmers, generative AI has been popping up all over the fashion industry. When an Australian e-commerce retailer started using AI-generated models to sell…
Envy used to prickle me constantly. But Buddhism teaches us that if someone feels joy, we too can feel it | Jackie Bailey
If I wish myself happiness, then I might gradually become more positively disposed to the happiness of others It can be hard to be nice. When I was a kid,…
European leaders condemn Israel’s deepening incursion into Lebanon
France has requested an emergency meeting of the UN security council, after the Israeli military captured the medieval Beaufort castle European leaders have condemned Israel’s expanding incursion into Lebanon, after…