Stay up to date with our RSS feeds

You can get the latest from theguardian.com using RSS feeds, a simple way to keep up with the news or with the subjects that matter most to you.

You can use these feeds - of which there are hundreds of thousands - in a number of ways. Some web browsers and some mobile phones will allow you to monitor the feeds as a simple way of keeping up with the latest developments.

There are also specialised web services and software applications which let you monitor our feeds alongside feeds from other websites. An examples of this is FeedDemon (a piece of software).

But you can also use these feeds to power widgets on a variety of other sites. As a simple example, you could add a box containing articles by your favourite Guardian columnist to your Facebook profile. Or you could add a feed of stories about Zimbabwe to your Google or Yahoo homepage.

How to find the feeds

The main page for every subject we cover, and many other pages, have a link to the relevant RSS feed at the top of the page next to an orange icon, like this:

Screenshot showing location of webfeed link

There are feeds by subject matter (World news, France, Economics, Microsoft, Tottenham Hotspur), by journalist (Michael White, Charlie Brooker, Steve Bell, Polly Toynbee) and for a variety of other types of information (most popular stories, G2, obituaries. You can use the a-z of subjects, the a-z of contributors, or the newspaper view to find the ones that interest you most. When you get to the page you are interested in, look for the webfeed icon at top right. This links to the related feed.

How to locate the feeds by url

Or, you can find the feed for any index page simply by adding /rss to the url. So if you were looking at the Zimbabwe page:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/zimbabwe

you could find the feed here:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/zimbabwe/rss

There are feeds for every contributor to the Guardian and Observer, on this pattern:

http://www.theguardian.com/profile/firstnamelastname/rss

Some examples:

http://www.theguardian.com/profile/charliebrooker/rss

http://www.theguardian.com/profile/stevebell/rss

Lastly, with a little ingenuity, it is possible to create your own feeds. For instance, you might want a feed of Marina Hyde articles about sport, or music coverage in G2. Here's a fuller explanation of the combination magic.

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