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In a viral post, the Hendrix family from Chicago lamented British bad manners. But I beg to differ – people in London are just ‘big city polite’, writes Arwa Mahdawi

Many of us tricked into relationships, and even children, by Met detectives watched Bob Lambert. It was painful and cathartic, says Alison, a founder member of Police Spies Out of Lives

Editorial: Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, has taken a political risk in signing off an agreement with Latin American countries

Just a few weeks ago the name Ahmed al-Sharaa, 42, would barely have flickered an eyebrow beyond a narrow neighbourhood of northern Syria and Iraq. Better known under his nomme de guerre Abu Mohammed al-Jolani he may now be a candidate for personality of the year, an icon on the…

Sydney Nicole Gifford has accused rival Alyssa Sheil of copying her bland style, in a $150,000 lawsuit over lost income and ‘mental anguish’. What’s behind this race to the bottom, asks Arwa Mahdawi

I tried Sora, OpenAI’s new tool, and it just left me sad. Are we ready for a world in which we can never tell what is real, asks journalist Victoria Turk

Merriam-Webster has just chosen “polarisation” as its 2024 word of the year. The venerable US dictionary defines this as “division into two sharply distinct opposites in which the opinions, beliefs, or interests of a group or society. . . become concentrated at opposing extremes.” They chose it with the state…

There is something even more wonderfully ponderous than Test cricket – the world chess championship – and this year’s showdown is exceptional

The Russian leader may be a warm and attentive host: he may also be cross that Assad is now his problem. But then life’s full of uncertainty, isn’t it, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde