#Photograph

From roarsome motorists to indoor beaches, these fascinating images blur fact and fiction – and are available to buy in the Magnum store

Whether you favour spooky fairtales, satanic card games or infernal hijinks at the chip shop there are all manner of fresh top scarers at large this witching season

Brazil, Israel, Serbia and the US are holding elections within the space of 10 days. Will the authoritarian right cement its global gains, or can pro-democracy forces make a comeback?

The story of the emirates’ presence in Manchester winds from the Arab Spring to some of the most deprived places in England – with complicated results

Anination studio Laika takes flight with a grownup stop-motion tale, while the Grammy-, Oscar- and everything-winner returns with a Pharell-produced 11th album

The Guardian’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Jacqui Housden and Miles Herbert

France will deploy 70,000 officers around the country, while protests are also expected in Spain, Austria, Portugal, Albania and Ireland

Violent protests in France, settler attacks in the West Bank, Russian strikes on Kyiv and wildfires in California – the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists

Always wondered what everyday stuff celebrities buy, where they shop for food and the basics they scrimp on? The comedian and musician talks medieval instruments, hiking socks and coffee rituals with the Filter

The painter of industrial England heads south, the Hockney of Soho displays all and debauched artist Filippo Lippi lays his sins at the altar

Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in a heart-poundingly original horror, while Theo James plays twins cursed by a killer wind-up monkey. Happy Halloween week!

From cosy Alpine villages to queue-free skiing, you tell us where to head to avoid the crowds

Company ordered to stop work at two sites in country, which has found itself at forefront of tech firms’ latest push

Sundays were deadly, the generation gap between parents and their kids was enormous, and a pint cost 50p. The frisson of casual violence was everywhere.…

The lost practice of hitchhiking is a subculture, an art, and a way of travel that satisfies wanderlust like no other trip. Plus, it costs nothing