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A Gaza mass wedding and a Durbar horse procession: celebrating the agency photographers of 2025

The Guardian’s picture editors highlight the work of photojournalists working for news agencies worldwide whose images have made an impact and contributed to our journalism during 2025

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Houseplants appear to make conversation and yearn for lost friends in a witty yet luminous documentary from Jesse McLean

‘You have to be ready to see it’: Abel Ferrara and Catherine Breillat on why Pasolini’s Salò is a gift that keeps giving

Pier Paolo Pasolini’s notorious film is now 50 years old, and its cavalcade of shocking cruelty and violence still leaves a stark impact on its viewers. Film-makers explain why Pasolini ‘was a saint to us’

Poem of the week: Down on the canal on Christmas Day by Chris McCabe

A melancholy December vision in Liverpool invokes a Dickensian ghost with more worldly but still warm realism

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Waymo pauses robotaxi service in San Francisco after blackout chaos

As power outages spread Saturday, videos shared on social media appeared to show multiple Waymo vehicles stalled in traffic in different parts of San Francisco.

Day 21 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: Warped Space

Day 21 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: Warped Space. This Hubble view of Galaxy Cluster Abell 209, about 2.8 billion light-years away, shows more than 100 galaxies. The incredible mass of the galaxies together warps and magnifies images of background galaxies and stars in a process called gravitational lensing, which can be seen in the stretched and smeared clumps toward the center of the image.

Massive San Francisco power outage leaves thousands in dark

San Francisco officials were working to restore power to the area after roughly a third of Pacific Gas and Electric’s customers were suffering power outages beginning Saturday.

How this 30-year-old turned her junk journaling hobby into a business after being laid off from her dream job

Nandi Owolo started junk journaling in June 2024. A year and a half later, she's turning the crafting hobby into her full-time business.

World’s Largest Aviation Giant Abandons Google Over Security Concerns

Airbus has cited US jurisdiction risks as it prepares to move sensitive systems to a European sovereign cloud

33-year-olds shuttered their $2M-a-year startup, risked running out of money—now their AI business is valued at $100M

Dhruv Amin and Marcus Lowe shut down their developer marketplace in 2023 after predicting that the AI revolution would render their business model obsolete.

Xbox is losing the console race by miles. It's part of Microsoft's big gaming pivot

Sales of Microsoft's Xbox Series S and Series X are even behind the original Nintendo Switch, which launched in 2017.