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Using high-resolution aerial photography from satellites and planes to mirror the phenomenon from which the project derives its name – the overview effect: the sensation experienced by astronauts when viewing Earth from space -
A new book celebrates the world’s 68 eagle species in all their magnificence and beguiling diversity
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From gender identity to vitiligo, from disabilities to drag queens, a new exhibition called Embracing Diversity explores what it’s like to be different -
Named after the late experimental film director Derek Jarman, the Jarman award celebrates UK-based artists who work with moving images. This year’s nominees include Daria Martin, Hardeep Pandhal and Margaret Salmon. The artists present their work in events at the Whitechapel gallery in London this weekend. The £10,000 prize is given on 24 November -
The comics legend behind such characters as Spider-Man and Black Panther has died at the age of 95. He is celebrated in The Stan Lee Story, a Taschen book with only 1,000 copies available, each signed by the man himself -
The building of the year will be announced in Amsterdam at the end of this month. 535 were shortlisted projects from 57 countries for the World Architecture Festival Awards.
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Our picture editors choose their favourite images from the past 24 hours, from demonstrations in Athens to a Latvian light festival
Exclusives
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David Squires’s latest book, Goalless Draws, is an unmissable selection of his Guardian football cartoons from 2014 to the 2018 World Cup. From the managerial roundabout to the absurdities of the transfer window, it’s a riotous reminder of the pitfalls of the modern game -
The award-winning Guardian photojournalist covered assignments across the UK, Europe, the Middle East, China, India, the Soviet Union, the US and Japan during his 23-year career based at the paper’s Manchester office -
As the 2018 Wimbledon tournament is under way, we look back at some of the best images from the Guardian’s award-winning sports photographer
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Beset by war and instability, the Democratic Republic of the Congo isn’t the ideal place to try stamping out sleeping sickness. But that is what is happening -
This centuries-old teahouse in Sichuan province and its regulars are a world away from China’s modern megacities -
In Russia’s Arctic wilderness, the remnants of one of the Soviet Union’s most notorious gulag projects lie largely forgotten
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Saffron – the spice so expensive it’s called ‘red gold’ – has brought jobs and money to a region better known for coal mines and unemployment. Most are young people who were shut out of the job market during Greece’s economic downturn. They returned to the countryside to make a living off the land -
A rounded rocky outcrop covered in metal shacks, Migingo Island rises out of Lake Victoria like an iron-plated turtle -
Since rebel-held eastern Ghouta fell in April after a five-year siege by Assad forces, some of the once vibrant city has come to life again
