Would an ‘Unsexiest Women Alive’ list be published today? Maybe not – but body-shaming is definitely back

The 90s and 00s were a toxic time to be a woman in the public eye, as Victoria Beckham has recently reminded us. Trouble is, spite and cruelty towards women never went out of fashion, writes Arwa Mahdawi

Joe Caroff, designer of James Bond 007 logo and countless iconic film posters, dies aged 103

The artist, whose work can be also seen in posters from West Side Story to Cabaret, Manhattan and A Hard Day’s Night, worked on more than 300 campaigns, often uncredited

We are gen Z – and AI is our future. Will that be good or bad?

The more we know about this technology, the more it is the source of hope and worry, say Sumaiya Motara and others

‘Kept fighting despite the odds’: the Russian journalists who risked everything to report the truth

In an expansive five-hour documentary, young journalists are branded ‘foreign agents’ for continuing to report independently as authoritarianism spreads

‘We thought with The Crown: “Is anyone going to watch this?”’ director Benjamin Caron on risk, realism – and royalty

A ‘safe pair of hands’ in high end TV, Caron now reunites with Vanessa Kirby for hyperactive Netflix thriller Night Always Comes

British sports teams and bodies ‘failing to safeguard’ women from online abuse

Most of Britain’s leading sports teams and governing bodies ‘still have no specific safeguarding policies’ to protect women from online abuse, research has found

UK traffic to popular porn sites slumps after age checks introduced

Figures from digital data company show effect of strict rules brought in last month under Online Safety Act

Routinely disclosing the ethnicity of police suspects is a very dangerous step to take

Supporters say more ‘transparency’ will prevent malign forces from flourishing – but the argument is profoundly flawed, says Nasar Meer of the University of Edinburgh

Use of AI could worsen racism and sexism in Australia, human rights commissioner warns

Labor divided on how to respond to the emerging technology as media and arts groups fear ‘rampant theft’ of intellectual property

Cat soap operas and babies trapped in space: the ‘AI slop’ taking over YouTube

Nearly one in 10 of the fastest growing channels globally consist of mass-produced, surreal AI-generated videos

FBI and NSPCC alarmed at ‘shocking’ rise in online sextortion of children

Snapchat logged about 20,000 cases last year of adults grooming children online, more than other social media platforms combined

Why ‘grifter’ has become the go-to political insult of 2025

These days it’s not enough to disagree with opponents – it seems we have to accuse them of being con artists too, says Britain editor of the New Statesman, Anoosh Chakelian

‘1 Progressive vs 20 Far-Right Conservatives’ – Mehdi Hasan on why he went on Surrounded

The two-hour debate propelled Jubilee Media into the mainstream and has been viewed 10m times, but some worry about the embrace of rage-fuelled content

Eight Postcards from Utopia review – found-footage fever dream of post-Ceauşescu Romania

Diverting mosaic of moments from 1990s TV ads, frantically flogging everything from sausages to laxatives, shows Romania’s newfound passion for capitalism

‘I must document everything’: the film about the Palestinian photographer killed by Israeli missiles in Gaza

Fatma Hassona used poetry and photography to record the death and devastation she saw daily. Was she targeted by the IDF? We speak to the director of Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, a film about the journalist