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  • A motorcyclist drives past a poster of Narendra Modi in Dantewada district in Chhattisgarh

    India
    Voting begins in election with Modi widely expected to win third term

  • Joe Biden

    ‘Lost for words’
    Biden’s tale about cannibals bemuses Papua New Guinea residents

    • Columbia University
      Police arrest students protesting Israel’s war on Gaza

    • Ukraine
      Polish man arrested over alleged Russian plot to assassinate Zelenskiy

    • Prince Harry
      Duke confirms he is now a US resident

    • 2024 election
      Kennedy family members endorse Biden in stinging rebuke to RFK Jr

    • Haiti
      US resumes deportation flights despite continuing bloodshed

    • The Guardian
      Newspaper wins award for exposé of founders’ links to transatlantic slavery

In focus

  • Man in suit leaves courthouse

    The jurors
    Who is on the Trump trial jury?

  • Graphic illustration of a person holding a massive bag of Splenda and pouring it onto and overflowing a bowl of cut cucumbers.

    Death by diabetes
    She was fired after not endorsing Splenda-filled salads to people with diabetes. Why?

    Elizabeth Hanna says she was fired by the American Diabetes Association after refusing to approve recipes heaped with the additive made by a major donor
  • A collage of vegetables, fruits and a worker with a mask spraying them.

    Pesticides
    Six fruits and vegetables with the most chemical risk

    From green beans to kale, here are some foods considered to be healthy yet which test poorly for pesticides

Spotlight

  • Young woman screaming, close-up<br>GettyImages-200069807-001

    Do you have an ‘emotionally immature parent’?
    How a nine-year-old book found a new, younger audience

    Therapist Lindsay Gibson’s 2015 book has sold over a million copies and its message has soared on social media. What does it mean?
  • Alisha Weir as Abigail in Abigail, directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin &amp; Tyler Gillett.

    Abigail review
    Dracula’s daughter gets kidnapped in fun-sucking horror

    There’s some low-stakes pleasure to be had in the first half of the gory new film from the team behind Ready or Not and Scream but things fall apart disastrously
    • Samoana Matagi at a desk with recording equipment on it and a green wall behind it

      Experience
      I lost my hands after being electrocuted by 14,400 volts

    • Hicks, looking superficially like Prince Harry, is mobbed by girls taking selfies with him

      ‘It taught me about brainwashing’
      How reality show stars fell for a fake Prince Harry

    • Judge 20th April - WEB

      You be the judge
      Should my sister help me challenge our brother’s sexist views?

    • Jimmy Kimmel on Donald Trump’s Truth Social rant about him: ‘Rant-a Claus got up bright and early to post 165 venomous words about yours truly.’

      Kimmel hits back at Trump
      ‘The only person still talking about this joke is him’

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Opinion

  • Nemat Shafik<br>Columbia University President Nemat Shafik testifies before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing on "Columbia in Crisis: Columbia University's Response to Antisemitism" on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

    Anti-woke Republicans attacked Columbia University. It capitulated

    Alisa Solomon, Marianne Hirsch, Sarah Haley and Helen Benedict
    • Yearender 2022 - Ukraine War<br>epa10364901 Residents walk past destroyed Russian military machinery on the street, in Bucha, the town which was retaken by the Ukrainian army, northwest of Kyiv, Ukraine, 06 April 2022. EPA/ROMAN PILIPEY

      It’s hard to find the truth when authoritarians like Putin ‘factcheck’ their own propaganda

      Maxim Alyukov
    • Illustration: Eleanor Shakespeare

      My family’s past, and Germany’s, weighs heavily upon me. And it’s why I feel so strongly about Gaza

      Eva Ladipo
    • People inspect the wreckage of a partially collapsed building due to Israeli bombardment in Gaza on 18 April 2024

      The Guardian view
      The catastrophe in Gaza: it must not be overshadowed by the Iran crisis

    • Olive and Ronda

      A life without my dogs seems imponderable. Yet we do keep going after losing the animals we adore

      Paul Daley

Sports

  • Jayson Tatum’s Boston Celtics are the betting favorites to take the NBA title

    Basketball
    NBA playoffs 2024 predictions

    Our writers pick the winner, key players and dark horses as the NBA postseason gets into full swing
  • Lewis Hamilton arrives at the track in Shanghai before this weekend’s race.

    Formula One
    Hamilton unwilling to justify Ferrari move in face of criticism

  • US Premier League fans are passionate, and thrive partly because of their distance from Europe

    A US Premier League game would be wildly popular – and demean everyone

    Aaron Timms
    Fifa is considering a policy change that would allow leagues to play domestic matches overseas, reopening one of football’s most squalid ideas
  • FBL-USA-MLS-KANSAS-MIAMI<br>Inter Miami's Argentine forward #10 Lionel Messi (C) controls the ball during the MLS football match between Sporting Kansas City and Inter Miami CF at the Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, on April 13, 2024. (Photo by Amy KONTRAS / AFP) (Photo by AMY KONTRAS/AFP via Getty Images)

    MLS power rankings
    New rules hand an edge to Messi and Miami

    San Jose have goalkeeping problems, the Whitecaps are defending in a unique way and Miami are given a helping hand
    • Mohamed Salah scores a penalty during the first half for Liverpool

      Atalanta 0-1 Liverpool (agg: 3-1)
      Reds fall short of comeback despite early Salah goal

    • Jeremie Frimpong's shot is deflected before finding the net

      West Ham 1-1 Leverkusen
      Hammers out as Frimpong strikes

    • JJ McCarthy is known for meditating before games

      A national champion to an English giant
      The NFL draft’s most intriguing prospects

    • Chess 3916

      Chess
      Four in close contention as Candidates reaches weekend climax

Cotton Capital: ongoing series

  • Photo of six people sitting in a small open boat look ing over their shoulders at a three-masted wooden ship overlaid on an orange graphic of a woodcut from a slave ship

    ‘Hidden in plain sight’
    The European city tours of slavery and colonialism

  • A historical map overlayed on modern New York

    Sites of resistance
    Threatened African burial grounds around the world

  • A person in a hi-vis jacket walking away from the camera towards a large dirt mound or hill

    Scraping away generations of forgetting
    My fight to honor the Africans buried on St Helena

  • collage of imagery pertaining to Jamaica and slavery: landscapes, statues, postage stamps, vintage illustrations, the flag, plus some abstract figures and shapes

    A historic revolt, a forgotten hero, an empty plinth
    Is there a right way to remember slavery?

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Climate crisis

  • Parched, cracked earth with dried-out irrigation tubes under sunny, blue sky.

    Environment
    US lawmakers Elizabeth Warren and Ro Khanna seek to ban trade in water rights

  • An employee handles plastic bottles at a facility

    Exclusive
    Plastic-production emissions could triple to one-fifth of Earth’s carbon budget – report

  • A kākā at Zealandia ecosanctuary, Wellington, New Zealand.

    Penguins in the pond, kiwi in the back yard
    How a city brought back its birds

  • A hand holding shredded pieces of a thin blue material

    Clean energy’s dirty secret
    The trail of waste left by India’s solar power boom

Across the country

  • ‘It’s always strange in a virtual setting – it’s like you’re watching yourself take the test in the mirror.’

    Are your kids being spied on?
    The rise of anti-cheating software in US schools

  • a man speaks in front of a screen that says "mixed reality" "AI" and "smart glasses"

    Artificial intelligence
    Meta steps up AI battle with OpenAI and Google with release of Llama 3

    • Botched executions
      Black death row inmates suffer at twice rate of whites in US

    • Netflix
      Profits surge as streamer adds 9.3m subscribers in latest quarter

    • Massachusetts
      Man arrested for allegedly throwing pipe bomb at Satanic Temple

    • Endangered species
      Two black-footed ferrets cloned from frozen tissue samples

    • Mike Gallagher
      House Republican cites threats and swatting of family as reasons for quitting

    • T-Mobile
      US man returns home from Europe to $143,000 bill for using phone overseas

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Around the world

  • Assyrian Christ the Good Shepherd

    Australia
    Sydney church stabbing: police charge 16-year-old boy with terrorism offence

    Bishop was injured in alleged attack in Wakeley with the teenager expected to appear at a bedside court hearing on Friday
  • A head shot of a woman wearing a blue headscarf with a brown burqa over the top

    Nigeria
    Woman rescued 10 years after kidnap by Boko Haram in Chibok

  • A doctor writing a fit note

    UK
    Sunak to cite Britain’s ‘sicknote culture’ in bid to overhaul fit note system

  • A blood donation in Lodwar town, Turkana county.

    Kenya
    ‘Blood desert’: can walking donor banks and drones help more patients survive?

    • China
      Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from country's App Store

    • Haiti
      France urged to repay billions of dollars to country for independence ‘ransom’

    • Longer than a T rex
      Fossil of ‘largest snake to have ever existed’ found in western India

    • Technology
      Quarter of UK’s three- and four-year-olds own a smartphone, data shows

    • Scotland
      Husband of former first minister Peter Murrell charged over embezzlement

    • Russia
      Husband of jailed blogger signs up for Ukraine war to secure her release

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Podcasts

Podcasts

  • Illustration: Dakarai Akil/The Guardian/Getty/Timestamp Media

    The Audio Long Read
    A historic revolt, a forgotten hero, an empty plinth: is there a right way to remember slavery? – podcast

  • A woman and child hold hands as they walk on a street in the town of Tasiilaq, Greenland, with red buildings, the sea and snowy mountains in the background

    Today in Focus
    The chilling policy to cut Greenland’s high birth rate

  • Bayern Munich v Arsenal - UEFA Champions League - Quarter-Final - Second Leg - Allianz Arena<br>Bayern Munich's Harry Kane celebrates with team-mate Eric Dier at the end of the UEFA Champions League quarter-final, second leg match at the Allianz Arena, Munich. Picture date: Wednesday April 17, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story SOCCER Arsenal. Photo credit should read: Nick Potts/PA Wire. RESTRICTIONS: Use subject to restrictions. Editorial use only, no commercial use without prior consent from rights holder.

    Football Weekly
    Manchester City and Arsenal crash out of Champions League – Football Weekly Extra

  • James Magnussen celebrating a win in swimming

    Science
    Who really wins if the Enhanced Games go ahead? – podcast

  • Close-up of a person smoking a cigarette

    Today in Focus
    Can Rishi Sunak create a smoke-free generation?

  • Kylian Mbappé

    Football Weekly
    PSG and Dortmund thrill in two classic Champions League quarter-finals – Football Weekly

  • Flordelis dos Santos de Souza. Photograph: Andre Lucas/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: Did Brazil’s evangelical superstar have her husband killed? – podcast

Culture

  • a man plays the guitar

    Dickey Betts
    Allman Brothers Band co-founder and guitarist dies aged 80

    Rock & Roll Hall of Famer who wrote the band’s biggest hit, Ramblin’ Man, dies at home in Florida ‘surrounded by his whole family’
  • The hair-loss treatment industry survives by making people feel bad about themselves.

    'Hair today, gone tomorrow'
    Bald by Stuart Heritage review

  • Djimon Hounsou in Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver

    Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver review
    Zack Snyder’s bombastically fun sequel

  • Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese at the Cannes film festival in 2023.

    Frank Sinatra biopic
    Martin Scorsese to revive film with Leonardo DiCaprio

  • ‘Nothing’s passed me by’ … Sheila E pictured at home

    ‘I’ve used hairbrushes, spatulas, car keys, apples ...’
    Sheila E on drumming with Prince, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson and more

  • Fontaines DC, with Carlos O’Connell and Grian Chatten at the front.

    Fontaines DC
    We can generate ideas that sound like they’ve been carved in stone for a thousand years

Lifestyle

  • Two female models sit together, with dour expressions. One has long brown hair and wears a black, white and lilac print dress. The other has brown coils and wears a voluminous dress with a multicoloured print.

    Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion
    Ignore the fashion naysayers – you can still wear a floral dress for spring

    It may not be groundbreaking, but a flowery frock is my go-to as the weather warms – so embrace this rite of spring in style
  • Painting: On the Thames, A Heron by Jacques Joseph Tissot.

    Leading questions
    My close friend is a therapist but all she does is complain. Should I exit this relationship?

  • The German aviator Otto Lilienthal (1849 - 1896) demonstrating the first glider he invented.

    Shock of the old
    Transport fantasies that never got off the ground – from jetpacks to swan-powered paragliders

  • Steve and Lisa sitting in a coffee shop

    How we met
    It felt like chatting with an old friend rather than meeting for the first time

  • Runner Beans Club Press publicity image Credit: Adrian Varzaru

    ‘When I wear this shirt, I feel part of a tribe’
    How running club merch became a marker of cool

  • Jay Rayner Happy Eater illustration

    Happy eater
    Food crazes make me want to roll my eyes. But first, pass me a crookie

    Jay Rayner
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Take part

  • Photographer taking picture of newlywed bride and groom as they leave church.

    People in the US
    Share your ‘modern wedding etiquette’ suggestions

  • Bryce Dallas Howard at Toronto international film festival.

    Film
    Post your questions for Bryce Dallas Howard

  • a child carrying a tray of food

    Parents in the US
    Are you happy with your child’s school lunch?

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

    Wedding photography
    Share your experiences

From our global editions

  • Aftermath of a Russian missile strike in Chernihiv

    Ukraine war briefing
    Donald Trump says survival of Ukraine important to the US

  • Liz Truss raises her left hand while speaking during prime minister's questions in the Commons

    Trussonomic lessons
    What can be learned from former PM’s book?

  • The shortages have made one patient feel he has ‘no choice’ but to stockpile medicine by taking less than the intended dose.

    ‘I had to do an 80-mile trip’
    The stress caused by UK drug shortages

  • George the cockatoo beside Raphael the lorikeet

    Love nest
    How a musk lorikeet fell for a red-tailed black cockatoo

In case you missed it

  • Collage of vegetables, fruits, money and a scale.

    Pesticides
    We found unhealthy levels in 20% of US produce – here’s what you need to know

  • View of tree tops in the jungle

    ‘We can’t hunt or fish’
    The villages in Ecuador’s Amazon surrounded by abandoned explosives

    In 2002, high explosives were laid in oil wells across 20 sq km of forest. The firm has gone but the pentolite remains, despite a court ruling, putting lives and the ecosystem at risk
  • A guard checks the passport of a Palestinian women at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt

    ‘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
  • Speaker of the House Mike Johnson delivers remarks on the upcoming foreign aid package to supply emergency funding for Israel and Ukraine.

    Explainer
    What is the US speaker’s plan for Ukraine and Israel, and will it pass Congress?

  • A man stands at a podium reading from a script. Behind him hangs a large image showing a seated woman, her head bowed in grief, holding the body of a child completely wrapped in a winding-sheet

    War, grief and hope
    The stories behind the World Press Photo award-winners

  • A display of fresh fish of different sizes lying on a bed of ice

    Goodbye cod, hello herring
    Why putting a different fish on your dish will help the planet

  • Gadd portrait

    ‘I was severely stalked and severely abused’
    Richard Gadd on the true story behind Baby Reindeer

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In pictures

  • A jackal surrounded by doves leaps for a meal, South Africa

    The week in wildlife
    A hungry jackal, a cat with webbed feet and a cheeky badger

    The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
  • Black-and-white photo of people dancing on a dancefloor, one in a leotard

    Partying with an 8ft pink panther
    Ibiza in the 70s and 80s

  • Ellen Geddes, a wheelchair fencer

    Photos of the day
    Record-breaking ballet dancers and protesting farmers

  • Danielle Mckinney in her Jersey City Studio in 2024

    ‘Women are not usually seen to be resting’
    Danielle Mckinney’s portraits of repose

  • From the series Soon Will Summer be Over, 2023.

    Sunshine at midnight on the arctic tundra
    Inuuteq Storch’s best photograph

  • Takkunen Hong Kong3

    All aboard the ‘ding ding’!
    A wild ride through Hong Kong

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