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Tributes paid to one of the most celebrated newspaper photographers and picture editors of his generation

Diaries and letters of the time, together with book by Observer war correspondent Ed Vulliamy, inspired music for orchestra and vocalists.

Conservative MPs urge Liz Truss’s removal from No 10 after poll reveals British public’s fury over tax plans

Organisers hail largest wave of simultaneous protests seen in Britain for years as people turn out in over 50 towns and cities

London museum bows to years of pressure and removes signs bearing name of family associated with OxyContin crisis

The award-winning Argentinian author on how the language of horror fiction merges with her country’s history, what Stephen King taught her about writing and using ‘testers’ for her male sex scenes

An Observer investigation finds Stake.com, the Australian sponsor of Everton, could be benefiting from weak controls designed to prevent British customers betting with cryptocurrency

Fed up with stoned visitors and worried by hard-drug criminality, the mayor wants to clean up the city. But will it work?

There has been a widespread outcry from the residents of Lhasa, the capital of the Chinese autonomous region of Tibet, about how local authorities are managing a Covid-19 lockdown instated on August 9. Many people have gone online to post videos showing crowded quarantine centres, which they have nicknamed 'pigsties'.…