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Incarcerated people died 3.5 times more frequently at peak than those outside – report
Dubai floods
Chaos, queues and submerged cars after UAE hit by record rains
Google
Company fires 28 staff after protest against contract with Israeli government
Panama
Presidential frontrunner vows to ‘close’ Darién Gap
‘Russia doesn’t care’
Sweden sounds alarm over unsafe oil fleet
Kanye West
Artist suspected of attacking man who allegedly sexually assaulted his wife
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2024: Year of elections
Six weeks, 969 million voters, 2,600 parties: India’s mammoth election explained
The world’s most populous country prepares to go to the polls, with Narendra Modi’s BJP the frontrunner in vote that ends on 1 June
‘People are begging us to feed their children'
Gaza refugees in Cairo find little help
With no centralised relief effort in Egypt, Palestinians are relying on grassroots charities for food, rent and clothing
Spotlight
Attention home cooks
How to store half a lemon – and 17 other ways to keep leftover food fresh
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Clean energy’s dirty secret
The trail of waste left by India’s solar power boom
Ranked
Happy 90th birthday, Shirley MacLaine: her 20 best films
Kooky kid sister, romantic lead, comic turn, cantankerous old dame … we pick out her greatest roles
Partying with an 8ft pink panther
Ibiza in the 70s and 80s
Oriol Maspons’s humorous and playful photographs of the island’s beachgoers and clubbers disclose the new attitudes to nudity, sexuality and freedom of expression in the post-Franco era
Goodbye cod, hello herring
Why putting a different fish on your dish will help the planet
Happy eater
Food crazes make me want to roll my eyes. But first, pass me a crookie
Jay Rayner
From low-level drug dealer to human trafficker
Are modern slavery laws catching the wrong people?
‘Like a stray Bee Gee!’
Does Andrew Scott’s Ripley have the worst wig in TV history?
Annina van Neel's life is forever changed after encountering a vast burial ground - one of the most significant traces of the transatlantic slave trade in the world
Richard Gadd on the true story behind Baby Reindeer
The chilling, visceral, deeply compelling comedy-drama has caused shock waves worldwide since launching last weekend. But what about the experiences that inspired it?
‘David Lynch had to personally approve the screening’
The film clubs driving the celluloid revival
‘The house was small, the life was big’
How Amy Winehouse’s homes were recreated for Back to Black
The Movie Critic
Quentin Tarantino scraps plans for his final film – reports
Obituary
Eleanor Coppola
Free expressionism
A fresh look at revolutionary art collective the Blue Rider
It felt like chatting with an old friend rather than meeting for the first time
Steve, 65, and Lisa, 67, met in the mid-90s on an early online messaging system while on opposite sides of the Atlantic. They now live together near Cambridge
Dining across the divide
‘I couldn’t get on board with her equating the Taliban and the democratic government of Ukraine’
'There’s so much tension it’s like a romantic comedy’
My first time at an archery class
Science
Mentally stimulating work plays key role in staving off dementia, study finds
A moment that changed me
I was paralysed on a climb. Then I made the 100-mile journey back to myself
The longevity vacation
Why bar-hopping holidays are out and extreme wellness breaks are in
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Penguins in the pond, kiwi in the back yard
How a city brought back its birds
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The American Diabetes Association takes millions from companies that stand to profit from our reliance on drugs. Is that affecting their guidance?
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US’s hottest city turns to trees to cool those most in need
‘A roof over our people’s heads’
The Indigenous tribe building hempcrete homes
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Hanif Kureishi on staging The Buddha of Suburbia
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