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  • A Ukrainian police officer

    'Difficult situation’
    Russian forces make significant gains in eastern Ukraine

  • A Turning Point USA logo

    US news
    Two Turning Point USA members admit to assaulting queer professor

    • Tesla
      Company sees biggest revenue drop since 2012 but shares still surge

    • Djibouti
      At least 21 migrants dead after boat capsizes off coast

    • Baltimore bridge collapse
      City says ship was ‘unseaworthy’ before leaving port

    • Space
      Voyager 1 transmitting data again after Nasa remotely fixes 46-year-old probe

    • US Congress
      Senate close to passing $95bn aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan after key procedural vote

    • London Marathon
      ‘Wine guy’ on how he sampled 25 wines during race

News in focus

  • Man holds number of orange life jackets with others stood around next to bus

    ‘England is hope’
    Some say they will try again – despite Channel deaths

  • Abortion rights supporters protest against a ban

    ‘How sick do they have to get?’
    Doctors brace for US supreme court hearing on emergency abortions

    As states ban abortions, a federal law requires hospitals to stabilize emergency patients, creating a catch-22 for care providers
  • Young mountain caribou: four are seen from behind, three with their antlers clearly visible, as they walk on light, dry grass on a mountainous landscape

    ‘If we don’t shoot wolves, we will lose caribou’
    The dilemma of saving endangered deer

    Researchers in Canada studying interventions to stem decline of mountain caribou have found wolf culls most effective

Spotlight

  • Johnny Cash pictured in 1987.

    Jovial, randy and anything but dark
    Johnny Cash’s surprise return single Well Alright reviewed

    Rescued from Cash’s low ebb in the early 1990s, this fun, lightweight song is a long way from the moody recordings with Rick Rubin he soon turned towards
  • It could all have been prevented so easily … Richard Gadd with Jessica Gunning, who plays his stalker, in Baby Reindeer.

    The dangerous fallout from Baby Reindeer
    Should Richard Gadd have been less honest about his abusers?

  • Celine Dion performing in 2016.

    ‘Nothing is going to stop me’
    Celine Dion details life with stiff person syndrome

    The chart-topping singer’s career has been on hold since she was diagnosed with the autoimmune condition in 2022
  • Victoria Beckham looks at designs on a table with a rack of garments behind her

    Victoria Beckham
    Collaboration with Mango shows how far designer has come

    The former Spice Girl’s collection with the high street chain is likely to be a fruitful new venture
    • Taylor Swift against black background with eyes close holding her head backwards.

      ‘Like eating too much chocolate’
      Guardian readers on Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department

    • ‘Forget about stage and audience, to mix and experience the absurdity, with humour and sarcasm’ … Kopitchanskaja performs with the LSO in 2023.

      ‘I’m not humble. I expect miracles’
      Why violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja wants to blow you out of your seat

    • Hangzhou Opens First Hello Kitty Theme Restaurant<br>HANGZHOU, CHINA - JUNE 29: Two girls chat at a Hello Kitty theme restaurant on June 29, 2016 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province of China. A Hello Kitty theme restaurant was authorized opened firstly in Hangzhou. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)

      ‘Games are more important to Apple than ever’
      What’s next for Apple Arcade?

    • Two women in an office environment look at a piece of paper together

      Pass notes
      The personality audit: should we ask friends for their brutally honest feedback on our flaws?

Opinion

  • tents in front of a grand building, one with a palestinian flag

    Protesting against slaughter – as students in the US are doing – isn’t antisemitism

    Robert Reich
    Education is all about provocation. Without being provoked even young minds can remain stuck in old tracks
  • ‘He may dream of racing like Batman through Gotham, but he is facing the judge on the high bench issue a ruling about his contempt for violating the gag order.’

    On trial, Trump is a shadow of the superhero his supporters crave

    Sidney Blumenthal
  • ‘He wanted it to look like a bomb shelter’, said a contractor who worked on Kanye West’s home in Malibu.

    Why are celebrities destroying multimillion dollar mansions?

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Migrants are brought into Dover Port by a RNLI lifeboat after being picked up in the English Channel.

    The Guardian view
    Sending refugees to Rwanda: the UN is right – this law sets a bad example

  • Our Future, Our Choice Youth Movement For A People's Vote Lobby Parliament<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 27: Students and young people gather in Smith Square during an "Our Future, Our Choice" event to raise awareness of the desire for a further referendum on the future of Britain's membership of the European Union, on February 27, 2019 in London, England. Campaigning on the message that the effects of Brexit will impact the young, the group believes that another referendum is the fairest way to allow their voice to be heard. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

    It’s clearer than ever that Brexit has failed – let’s not inflict its miseries on young people

    Zoe Williams
  • A cattle-drawn hay-laden cart move down a dusty road in Segou Region, Mali, West Africa.

    The Guardian view
    The Sahel and its crises: the west can still make a difference

Sport

  • Rory McIlroy

    Golf
    McIlroy’s proposed board move ‘incredibly positive’ for PGA Tour

  • A Chinese flag is unfurled on the podium of a swimming event at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo

    'A stab in the back'
    Usada and Aquatics GB ‘extremely concerned’ by Chinese row

    • Nuggets center Nikola Jokić reacts after a call during the second half of Monday night’s Game 2 of Denver’s first-round series against the LA Lakers.

      NBA
      Jokić’s brother reportedly involved in altercation after Lakers-Nuggets game

    • Larry Nassar, the former sports doctor who admitted molesting some of the nation's top gymnasts, appears in Michigan’s Eaton County Court in 2018.

      Sexual abuse in sport
      DoJ to pay $138.7m settlement over FBI’s botching of Nassar allegations

    • Arne Slot

      Football
      Liverpool interested in choosing Feyenoord’s Slot as manager

    • Emma Samways hugs a Hashtag United teammate after the Women's National League Cup final.

      Moving the Goalposts
      The harsh reality of ACL injuries outside elite women’s football

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Climate crisis

  • An aerial view of hundreds of Polish farmers standing with flags outside a large building, surrounding a large bonfire billowing dark smoke into the air

    European Union
    EU green deal at ‘very high’ risk of being killed off, says Greens co-leader

  • Protesters walk down a street carrying a banner reading 'End the plastic era' with government buildings behind them

    Environment
    World must come together to tackle plastic pollution, says chair of UN talks

  • An electric car being charged on a street in London

    Environment
    Electric and hybrid car sales to rise to new global record in 2024

  • A marine iguana swimming in the sea

    ‘Currents bring life – and plastics’
    Animals of Galápagos live amid mounds of waste

Around the world

  • A family photo of Barnaby Webber

    UK news
    Mother of Nottingham stabbing victim criticises police officer’s comments

    Open letter says ‘callous and degrading’ police group WhatsApp message caused ‘more trauma than you can imagine’
  • 'Vote here' sign outside church

    US news
    Voters cast ballots in critical swing state of Pennsylvania

  • women cry as they hold each other

    Gaza
    US secretary of state rejects suggestion of ‘double standard’ on Israel

  • Two glass bottles containing ancient cherries were discovered in George Washington’s estate in Mount Vernon, Virginia.

    US news
    Centuries-old cherries found hidden in bottles under floor at George Washington’s home

    • Taiwan
      Ruling party pledges to remove 760 statues of Chinese dictator Chiang Kai-shek

    • Alaska
      Plane crashes into river, officials say

    • Defence
      UK to boost defence spending to 2.5% of GDP, Sunak says

    • Business
      FTSE 100 hits record high as shares rise amid hopes of interest rate cuts

    • Freixenet
      Cava firm to furlough 80% of its workers in Catalonia due to drought

    • US news
      New rule would ban employers from using ‘noncompete’ agreements

Culture

  • ‘We are no closer to ridding ourselves of these terrible predators’ … Paul Gadd in Glitter: The Popstar Paedophile.

    Glitter: The Popstar Paedophile review
    A most sickening nostalgia trip

    This relentless documentary takes us back in time to meet the women abused by glam-rock star Gary Glitter as children … and the roadies who tried to stop him (and set his wig on fire) 25 years before he finally got caught
  • Set It Up

    Set It Up
    The 2018 Netflix romcom that became a classic of the genre

  • J Cole, Drake and Kendrick Lamar, just three of the players in the current beef embroiling the US rap scene.

    ‘A lot of rich guys arguing’
    Inside the rap beef of the decade with Drake, Kendrick Lamar and more

  • David Harewood

    ‘I was only able to go on stage hammered’
    David Harewood on acting, racism and his new role at Rada

  • a still from Putin, directed by Besaleel.

    Soiled nappies and karate
    AI-rendered Putin biopic to be released

  • ‘My whole stance was world domination’ … Breakin’ Convention.

    ‘We have to have graffiti!’
    How we made the Breakin’ Convention hip-hop dance festival

Lifestyle

  • ‘I feel so much more sexually confident with him and have a happiness I’ve never felt before.’

    Sexual healing
    The stress of cheating on my wife is making me ill – but I can no longer suppress who I am

    I love her and my children, but have fallen for another man. What can I do? I’m now suffering from gastrointestinal problems and using alcohol to get to sleep
  • The vineyards of Sancerre during autumn in the Loire Valley, France.

    David Williams on wine
    Why the Loire is France’s most exciting region

  • Tim Dowling’s trout lasagne

    ‘The trout lasagne is very good!’
    How I recreated six classic beef dishes – with oily fish

  • Photo of BUZZCOCKS<br>UNITED KINGDOM - JANUARY 01: Photo of BUZZCOCKS; L-R Steve Diggle, John Maher, Pete Shelley, Steve Garvey (Photo by Fin Costello/Redferns)

    A musical tour of Manchester
    From the Hallé to the Happy Mondays

  • OM Nigel spring Vegetables Miso Broth

    Nigel Slater's midweek dinner
    Recipe for spring vegetables in miso broth

  • Anna Jones’ squash and caramelised onion quesadillas.

    Get stuffed
    The secret to vegan quesadillas

Take part

  • A woman walks past the Lisbon University of Social and Human Sciences walls, stenciled with red carnations, in Lisbon.

    People in Portugal
    Share your memories of the Carnation Revolution

  • Bridal couples pose on Trolltunga rock formation in Ullensvang Municipality, Vestland county, Norway.

    Wedding photography
    Share your experiences

  • children at prep. school gate Falmouth jamaica<br>G2P4GJ children at prep. school gate Falmouth jamaica

    Teachers
    Tell us about moving from abroad to a school in England

  • Mykhaylo Mudryk and Maksym Talovierov celebrate after the match between Ukraine and Iceland in Wrocław, Poland.

    Ukrainians
    Share your reaction to your country qualifying for Euro 2024

From our global editions

  • Rishi Sunak speaking at a lectern in front of union jack flags

    Analysis
    Europe’s political leaders have been slow to recognise financial reality of long wars

    Ukraine needs western munitions badly but it remains unclear how much more artillery the UK is prepared to produce
  • Children sit on the ground holding posters of their loved ones.

    ‘I only protest. I want to go to school’
    The childhoods lost in Pakistan when loved ones are ‘disappeared’

  • A bristlecone pine tree, one of the oldest living organisms on Earth.

    Mother trees and socialist forests
    Is the ‘wood-wide web’ a fantasy?

  • John Gillibrand taking the service

    ‘Really good, not too long’
    Welsh churchgoers praise first ‘micro-service’

  • Eike Schmidt Director of the Uffizi gallery stands in the Michelangelo and Raffaello (Raphael) hall closed to the public due to the Covid-19 Coronavirus pandemic on May 13, 2020 in Florence, Italy

    ‘Beacon of the world’
    Ex-Uffizi chief vows to save Florence if elected mayor

  • A woman serves cups of coffee from a large traditional clay pot

    ‘It’s rude not to offer three cups’
    The lengthy, beloved coffee rituals binding Ethiopians together

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  • Palestinians walk with their belongings along a dusty road between destroyed buildings

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    Israel still has no proof of terrorist claims – but damage to aid agency is done

  • Two white men dressed in 80s-style suits sit in the back of a nice car.

    The Apprentice
    Jeremy Strong and Sebastian Stan in biography of young Trump and his mentor

  • US tennis doubles partners Helen Wills, left, and Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman in action during the 1924 Olympics.

    The 1924 Paris Olympics saved the Games. Can this year’s event repeat that success?

    David Goldblatt
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  • Barcelona v Chelsea in the Women's Champions League.

    The Guardian's Women's Football Weekly
    Fifpro exclusive interview and Chelsea stifle Barça – Women’s Football Weekly

  • Young nurse in medical scrubs and gloves looking at labrador and holding him while veterinarian gives injection

    Science
    Hardwired to eat: what can our dogs teach us about obesity? – podcast

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    The Audio Long Read
    What is the real Hamas? – podcast

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  • Aerial shot of a flooded island after heavy rains – Qingyuan, China

    Photos of the day
    Rishi Sunak in Warsaw and floods in China

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  • Woman carrying vegetation on her head

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  • The Yanomami Struggle

    The origin of all things
    Kyotographie 2024 – a photo essay

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