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.

Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

Cost of living, corruption and war in Iran send a ‘blue-nami’ across the US in a crushing defeat for the Republicans at the ballot box • How Maga as we know it unravelled

The big story US midterms

The big story US midterms

Trump trumped

Spotlight

The light fantastic Photograph of night sky so incredible it brings accusations of being an AI fake

Fishers still reeling five years after container ship blaze • Plastic pellets and pollution destroyed marine life and livelihoods, but many affected have yet to get compensation

Gen Z at the vanguard of political change • From Serbia to Bangladesh and India to France, demands to sweep away the status quo are being led by young people

Rise in street sex work leads to call for legal overhaul

Last orders Historic cafe calls time as area gentrifies

Going deeper underground

Moscow and Kyiv united in praise for unlikely diplomat

Bolsonaro battles to stay relevant after fleeing to the US

IS THIS MEAT REALLY FIT TO EAT? • Cellular agriculture was supposed to be a panacea for the climate crisis and a way to save our food system. So why is nobody firing up the chicken vats?

Ties of blood

Opinion

I treated Sophie as if she were human. But she betrayed me

Russell Brand verdict upholds the principle that women can say no

Opinion Letters

Culture

Screen test AI film is a box office bomb • Sanxingdui: Future Past may have been shunned by Chinese audiences but the industry is still banking on a future where the plot is generated by machines

Culture Visual arts • Icons from the Byzantine empire and splendours from the Ottoman era dazzle side by side in a gorgeous, unmissable show spanning 1,600 years

Are we making the world too efficient? From road traffic to AI, optimisation can have unintended consequences

Culture Books

I quit Instagram – and embraced the joys of anonymity • I’d become obsessed with appealing to my invisible audience. But since I ditched the app, life has become more productive and meaningful

KITCHEN AIDE

COUNTRY DIARY