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.

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Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

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Reader’s eyewitness

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

Own goals • The fallout from Fifa president Gianni Infantino’s plan to sell off the World Cup continues to spread, but the roots of the controversy go back to a decision made in 2010

Fever pitch • How Infantino’s grip on Fifa has unravelled, day by day

A president under siege • Infantino is getting his karmic kicking, but why did football take so long?

‘Pray for me’ • How Taliban law lets husbands kill wives

Crews still stuck as Hormuz standoff continues

Peace price • Netanyahu incapable of placating US and far-right

Jurassic gold The fossil hunters who are chasing fortunes • Social media and soaring prices are fuelling a hunting boom, but valuable rare finds are being sold overseas

Cambridge dons call for wider review of Arday affair

Eyewitness Europe

Running on fumes The complex health burden of wildfire smoke • As fires are more prevalent, scientists are racing to analyse the far-reaching effects of exposure to tiny airborne particulates

‘We are not properly seen’ How Sydney’s rich and powerful profited from the slave trade • A new book retraces Australia’s often overlooked legacy of using enslaved labour, specifically through the 19th-century kidnapping of Pacific Islanders known as ‘blackbirding’

‘Free up the ganja’ • Rastafarians stand up for their rights

The white elephant activist who became a senator

Is AI going rogue? • The UK’s AI Security Institute test says OpenAI and Anthropic models have indulged in unprecedented cyber hacking attempts

Step to the left • Will Michigan primary force Democrats to accept shift?

Dark defying • Supporters rally to keep revolution flame alight

The body snatchers • When a young Nigerian was lured to London from his job on a Lagos market stall, he had no idea he had been targeted for organ harvesting

THE LANGUAGE OF WAR • Soon after my first visit to Ukraine, I decided to take Ukrainian lessons. It taught me more than I ever expected

Rafael Behr • We need a far-sighted US president to stand up for global AI regulation

Andy Beckett • Are freewheeling Lime bikes a dispossessed generation’s revenge?

Felicity Lawrence • Why are food firms panicking? They know time is running out

The GuardianView • One academic’s failings at one university must not undermine diversity’s goals

Opinion Letters

BECKY BARNICOAT ON MILLENNIAL LIFE

Now he’s cooking • Actor Dominic Sessa on portraying celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain, 70s nostalgia and escaping modern life

Womack Sisters keep the family affair alive • Following in the footsteps of soul music royalty, the trio are determinedly forging their own path to success in a changing industry

All hands on deck • Once the domain of crooners and sequinned entertainers, modern cruise ships are becoming an unlikely new home for world class theatre shows

Reviews

We know sleep, exercise and diet are vital. But why? • The benefits of all three come down to a crucial piece of cellular kit

Out of control • A magisterial and graceful account of the chaos and absurdity of the USSR’s collapse

In Flanders fields • A US army veteran’s gripping tale of war and friendship filled with unsettling violence

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