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Two people killed and scores injured as car ploughs into crowd at Christmas market
Germany  
Two people killed and scores injured as car ploughs into crowd at Christmas market
Dark BMW reportedly drove into crowd in eastern German town of Magdeburg in what is being described as a terror attack
Child protection  
Sara Sharif told social worker ‘they don’t hit me’ four years before her murder
US politics  
US approves deal to avoid government shutdown - but omits Trump’s demand
Politics  
Reeves says economic turnaround will take time and Farage ‘hasn’t got a clue’
Politics  
Appointment of Peter Mandelson as ambassador to US divides Labour MPs
Best of 2024
The 50 best albums of 2024
Music  
The 50 best albums of 2024
Topped with Charli xcx’s swaggering yet vulnerable Brat, here are the year’s finest LPs as decided by 26 Guardian music writers
Film  
The 50 best films of 2024 in the UK
Television  
The 50 best TV shows of 2024: 50-2
Music  
The 10 best global albums of 2024
In focus
Could $100m of Elon Musk’s money sway a general election for Reform UK?
Politics  
Could $100m of Elon Musk’s money sway a general election for Reform UK?
Spending such a seemingly game-changing sum would face several hurdles and could even hinder the party’s chances
Ukraine  
Ukraine faces difficult decisions over acute shortage of frontline troops
Bluey  
‘It will exist for ever’: Bluey fans fearful and excited for cartoon’s future
Spotlight
The big quiz of the year  
Vance, video games and a very poor prediction: how well do you remember 2024?
Vance, video games and a very poor prediction: how well do you remember 2024?
Blind date  
He looked like a cross between Andrew Garfield and my primary school crush
What happened next?  
‘Even diehard Conservatives would not vote for her’: how Liz Truss tried to remake herself after her spectacular election defeat
Opinion
‘How do we live in this terrible world?’ a reader asked me. Here’s the only answer I have
Jonathan Freedland
‘How do we live in this terrible world?’ a reader asked me. Here’s the only answer I have
Hit TV show, tick. Millions for lawyers, tick. Now could we manage some actual justice for the subpostmasters?
Marina Hyde
Edith Pritchett on millennial life  
The not-at-all-weird reality of film star press junkets – cartoon
Sport
Boxing  
Fury channels destructive intentions for deeply personal rematch
Fury channels destructive intentions for deeply personal rematch
The top 100  
The best male footballers in the world 2024
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Football  
Postecoglou hits out at ‘offensive’ criticism of Spurs tenure