The Guardian's weekly podcast roundup leads with Heart, an eight-part series hosted by Karen Kilgariff about two men who shared the same heart and the same wife and died the same way. The column also covers a series on the Agnelli family and Fiat.
A Guardian review of Blake J Harris's authorised biography of Larry David, tracing the Seinfeld co-creator from luckless standup to multi-millionaire. Single source: theguardian.com — not independently corroborated.
Amine Kessaci, 23, lives under police protection and moves between locations to avoid contract killers as a three-week hearing into his brothers' murder opens in Marseille. He hopes the trial exposes how cartel bosses allegedly order killings from jail.
Residents of Longyearbyen in Svalbard, one of the fastest-warming places in the world, have been told they must no longer drink tap water after heavy metal contamination that scientists link to thawing permafrost. The town's 2,600 residents were first alerted in September 2025, and the case carries a warning for other Arctic communities.
The Guardian reports that Ghent's new £17m design museum is built from recycled construction waste, including 62,000 bricks that continue to absorb CO2 as the lime cures.
The UN biodiversity summit in Yerevan, Armenia, aims to push governments to meet the 23 targets agreed at Cop15 in 2022, according to a Guardian explainer.
A Guardian review reports that Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities is back on Broadway at the Hudson Theatre in New York, with Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Ed Harris in the cast.
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for October 20, 2026 highlights an unusual rainbow photograph taken with a phone at sunset in Presenzano, Italy, in which the Sun appears to be in front of the viewer rather than behind — an effect created by anticrepuscular rays.
Australian Greens leader David Shoebridge has spoken out after Jordon Steele-John's explosive statement, saying it was his understanding the West Australian senator agreed to take leave while misconduct allegations are investigated.
A court has heard that Beau Lamarre-Condon, accused over the 2024 deaths of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies, called a police officer friend after his arrest to say he loved her and that 'not everything in the news is true'.
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