You can get the latest from Guardian.co.uk 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. Examples are Google reader (a web service) and 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:

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, Observer Music Monthly). 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.guardian.co.uk/world/zimbabwe

you could find the feed here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/zimbabwe/rss

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

http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/firstnamelastname/rss

Some examples:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/charliebrooker/rss

http://www.guardian.co.uk/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.

Terms of service

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Further information

If you'd like to start playing with feeds, you could do worse than investigate Bloglines. Or you could read the BBC's introduction to rss, the Wikipedia entry on rss, or watch this video from Videojug.