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  • a TikTok logo on a building

    TikTok
    Company sues US to block law forcing sale of the app

  • Elizabeth Holmes in 2023.

    Elizabeth Holmes
    Theranos fraudster has prison sentence reduced again

    • Live
      Joe Biden condemns ‘scourge of antisemitism’, saying: ‘we must give hate no safe harbor’

    • New York
      Judge blocks abortion rights amendment due to go before voters

    • ‘Magical moment’
      Fire-ravaged Brazil museum receives big fossil donation

    • ‘Buck stops with me’
      Kristi Noem rejects ‘liberal plant’ claim on dog-killing tale

    • Jack Dorsey
      Twitter co-founder quits Bluesky board and urges users to stay on Elon Musk’s X

    • UK
      British woman admits role in global monkey torture network

In focus

  • Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on Rafah.

    Analysis
    China angles for Gaza mediation role to expand influence in Middle East

  • Bryony Page, Simone Biles, and Holly Bradshaw

    Paris Olympic Games 2024
    Mental health kits and AI to help Olympians with pressure and abuse

    IOC will use Paris 2024 to promote wellness among athletes after concerns raised over mental health in sport
  • A composite image showing the three sisters.

    ‘They’ve destroyed us because of some tweets’
    Why has Saudi Arabia targeted these three sisters?

    Last week one was sentenced to 11 years, another had to flee the country, a third could be arrested at any moment. And what were Manahel, Maryam and Fawzia al-Otaibi’s ‘crimes’? A few social media posts that outraged Saudi Arabia’s conservatives

Spotlight

  • black and white photo of woman half smiling, with hazy gray and orange colors around the photo

    Anne Lamott on love, sobriety and reaching 70
    ‘All I’ve learned, I’ve learned because the abyss swallowed me’

    The American author’s 20th book reads as a series of parables on grace. In an interview, she reflects on a life she thought she wouldn’t get to live
  • image of money ring marble background

    ‘I wanted to look and feel expensive’
    Why couples take on wedding debt

  • Zendaya wearing a vintage couture Givenchy gown from 1996.

    Met Gala 2024
    Where power lies in fashion – which makes Zendaya’s choice intriguing

    Star wore two dresses by John Galliano at event cutting across fashion, celebrity and Hollywood
  • The AI contestant in The Circle.

    ‘A chilling prospect’
    Should we be scared of AI contestants on reality shows?

    Netflix’s hit show The Circle recently introduced an AI chatbot contestant, a potentially worrying sign of where we’re heading
    • Stephen Colbert: ‘Donald Trump could go to Rikers Island. My condolences to whatever prison guard has to conduct the cavity search. Wear a headlamp.’

      Stephen Colbert on Trump trial
      ‘In a twist no one saw coming, he remained conscious’

    • ‘They censored the beauty of a young girl’ … Zafreen Zairizal in Tiger Stripes, which the rest of world can see uncut.

      ‘It was terrifying – but screw it’
      The director who disowned her film in order to get an Oscar nomination

    • Hargobind Tahilramani, the so-called Hollywood Con Queen

      ‘He had a remorseless drive to punish others’
      The man who duped Hollywood

    • Man looking despondently at his watch

      Sexual healing
      My wife rarely instigates sex – and always wants to schedule it. Why can’t she be more spontaneous?

Opinion

  • Lana Del Rey wearing an elaborate headdress at the Met Gala.

    Frock horror! In these dark times, let us be grateful for the ludicrous spectacle of the Met Gala

    Marina Hyde
    Roll up for a buffet of baffling outfits, celebs scared stiff of Anna Wintour and an utter refusal to acknowledge the outside world, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
  • Displaced Palestinians flee Rafah with their belongings to safer areas in the southern Gaza Strip.

    The Guardian view
    On hope and despair in Gaza: attacking Rafah will compound this disaster

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Could you get by on a measly $43,000 a month? It seems Rudy Giuliani can’t

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Destruction in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip<br>epa11310580 A Palestinian man walks past destroyed buildings in Khan Younis after the Israeli military pulled out troops from the southern Gaza Strip, 30 April 2024. According to the United Nations, it will take years to clear the around 23 millions tonnes of rubble and unexploded weapons currently scattered across the Gaza Strip. EPA/MOHAMMED SABER

    Israel is banning Al Jazeera, America is banning TikTok. We know why

    Seth Stern
    What the two laws have in common is desire to silence Israel-Gaza war critics
    • Illustration by Lilian Darmono

      The science on endometriosis is finally breaking through – so why do treatments feel stuck in the past?

      Lucy Pasha-Robinson
    • Ranjana Srivastava

      What is the most important word in medicine? It is not what we teach doctors

      Ranjana Srivastava
    • A house in Rafah damanged by an Israeli airstrike.

      There’s one thing standing in the way of a ceasefire: Netanyahu’s refusal to compromise

      Simon Tisdall
    • BRITAIN-FRANCE-LIFESTYLE-FOOD-PRISON<br>TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY ALICE RITCHIE Prisoners work in the kitchen at the Clink Restaurant ahead of the lunch service inside Brixton Prison in south London on March 15, 2016. Accessed through three security gates and located in a courtyard ringed with high fences and barbed wire, The Clink at Brixton Prison in south London serves up to 120 members of the public for lunch each day. It is one of four such restaurants run by The Clink charity, which aims to give inmates the skills and qualifications needed to start a new life when they are released. / AFP / JUSTIN TALLIS / TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY ALICE RITCHIE (Photo credit should read JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP/Getty Images)

      Appetizing, delicious food served up to prisoners? It works for the Nordic countries

      Lucy Vincent

Sports

  • PSG

    Live
    PSG v Borussia Dortmund: Champions League semi-final, second leg

    Minute-by-minute report: Join Scott Murray for all the latest updates from Paris with a place in this year’s final up for grabs
  • Kylie McKenzie, middle, with her attorney Robert Allard, right, and victim advocate Jancy Thompson, left, speaks to reporters at a news conference in 2022

    Tennis
    USTA ordered to pay former top junior player $9m in sexual abuse case

  • Inter Miami have scored 32 goals in 12 MLS games this season.

    Inter Miami
    Record-breaking attack has eased pressure on Martino

    Early season disappointments put the Argentinian coach on the hot seat, but a resurgent Lionel Messi has shown the value of experience
  • NBA Playoffs - Minnesota Timberwolves at Denver Nuggets<br>epa11323594 Minnesota Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards celebrates after scoring and drawing a foul in the fourth quarter of game two of the Western Conference semifinal series between the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Denver Nuggets at Ball Arena in Denver, Colorado, USA, 06 May 2024. EPA/DUSTIN BRADFORD SHUTTERSTOCK OUT

    NBA playoffs
    Defending champion Nuggets reeling after Timberwolves blowout

    The Nuggets unravelled against a short-handed Minnesota team in a 106-80 defeat. Denver are now in a two-game hole in the best-of-seven series
    • Manchester United’s Lisandro Martínez grimaces in pain after sustaining an injury in February.

      Manchester United
      Staff believe lack of leadership felt in Martínez’s absence

    • Carlo Ancelotti and his Real Madrid players

      Champions League
      Bad blood can spur on Madrid to give Ancelotti revenge

    • Bryony Page, Simone Biles, and Holly Bradshaw

      Paris 2024
      Mental health kits and AI to help athletes with pressure and abuse

    • Victor Wembanyama has been a revelation in his first NBA season

      NBA
      Wembanyama named unanimous rookie of the year after stunning debut season

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Climate crisis

  • David R Boyd, United Nations special rapporteur for the environment and human rights.

    Climate crisis
    UN expert attacks ‘exploitative’ world economy in fight to save planet

  • An oilfield near Baku

    Exclusive
    Poorer nations must be transparent over climate spending, says Cop29 leader

  • A man rides a rental bike in Baku, Azerbaijan, where the UN climate change conference will convene in November.

    Cop29
    Summit to call for peace between warring states, says host Azerbaijan

  • The common carder bee (Bombus pascuorum) spotted in West Yorkshire.

    The age of extinction
    Bumblebee nests are overheating to fatal levels, study finds

Across the country

  • a tornado spins

    Weather
    Tornado kills one in Oklahoma as Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana face severe storms

    At least 16,000 without power after 17 tornadoes struck plains region on Monday with 40 homes damaged in Sooner state
  • Kathy Hochul gestures in front of a microphone

    New York
    Governor said Black kids in the Bronx do not know the word ‘computer’

  • Police tape in front of a police car.

    Missouri
    Man says he killed wife because of her costly medical treatment

  • Macklemore performs in Seattle in 2023.

    ‘Blood is on your hands, Biden’
    Macklemore gives support to Palestine and campus protests

    • Child labor
      US company agrees to fine for hiring children to clean slaughterhouses

    • Boeing
      Company faces new US investigation into ‘missed’ 787 inspections

    • Boeing
      First astronaut launch from company called off due to faulty valve

    • New York
      Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters blocked from disrupting Met Gala

    • US campus protests
      Pro-Palestinian student protesters break through police fencing at MIT

    • ‘Special treatment’
      Harvey Weinstein in private unit in New York hospital

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Around the world

  • A matador in a white costume holding a bright pink cape next to a bull in motion in a bullring

    Spain
    Bullfighting firm in Seville to give free tickets to under-eights

  • Workers install a giant Chinese national flag on a skyscraper in Belgrade.

    Xi Jinping
    Serbia prepares warm welcome for Chinese president in contrast to China-EU tensions

    • Global development
      Soaring remittances to developing nations overtake foreign direct investment

    • Swiss army knife
      Maker to produce version without a blade

    • UK
      270,000 forces records thought to have been exposed to Chinese hackers

    • Nuclear weapons
      US won’t guarantee Australia will have complete control of Aukus submarines

    • Universal Music
      CEO's £119m pay offer may provoke shareholder revolt

    • Gustave Courbet
      Painting of vulva by French artist sprayed with ‘MeToo’ graffiti

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Podcasts

Podcasts

  • Head coach of Chelsea Emma Hayes waves at the fans with her son Harry during the Barclays FA Womens Super League game between Chelsea and Bristol City.

    The Guardian's Women's Football Weekly
    Chelsea reignite WSL title hopes after City slip up – Women’s Football Weekly

  • An abandoned mosque outside the seawall in Muara Baru, Jakarta. (Photograph by Kemal Jufri for The Guardian)

    Science
    Why are the world’s cities sinking? – podcast

  • Bassim Haidar

    Today in Focus
    Non-doms are threatening to leave. Should they be convinced to stay?

  • Manchester City v Wolverhampton Wanderers, Premier League, Football, Etihad Stadium, Manchester, UK - 04 May 2024<br>EDITORIAL USE ONLY No use with unauthorised audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or "live" services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images, no video emulation. No use in betting, games or single club/league/player publications. Mandatory Credit: Photo by David Blunsden/Action Plus/REX/Shutterstock (14461108dx) Erling Haaland of Manchester City celebrates after scoring with a header past Jose Sa of Wolverhampton Wanderers for 2-0 after 35 minutes; Etihad Stadium, Manchester, England; Premier League Football, Manchester City versus Wolverhampton Wanderers. Manchester City v Wolverhampton Wanderers, Premier League, Football, Etihad Stadium, Manchester, UK - 04 May 2024

    Football Weekly
    Haaland destroys Wolves as City and Arsenal keep winning – Football Weekly

  • A woman breaking sandstone in Rajasthan, India. Photograph: Romita Saluja

    The Audio Long Read
    How child labour in India makes the paving stones beneath our feet – podcast

  • Mark and Ros Dowey, the parents of Murray Dowey (Photo: Murdo MacLeod)

    Today in Focus
    How do we protect teenagers from sextortion scams?

  • Keir Starmer Votes in the Local Elections in London<br>LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - MAY 02: Leader of the Labour Party Sir Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria leave a polling station after casting their votes in the local elections in London, United Kingdom on May 02, 2024. Millions of voters across England head to the polls today to decide on thousands of council seats, and also to choose the Mayor of London, London Assembly members and 10 mayors outside the capital. (Photo by Wiktor Szymanowicz/Anadolu via Getty Images)

    Today in Focus
    Politics Weekly Westminster: local elections special

Culture

  • This image released by 20th Century Studios/Marvel Studios shows Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool/Wade Wilson and Hugh Jackman as Wolverine/Logan in a scene from "Deadpool &amp; Wolverine." (20th Century Studios/Marvel Studios via AP)

    Film
    Disney to ‘focus on quality’ as it plans to cut output – including Marvel movies

    CEO Bob Iger says company will scale back releases in superhero franchise as it seeks to take on Netflix in streaming market
  • Robert Downey Jr.

    Broadway
    Robert Downey Jr to make stage debut this year

  • Mama Cass

    ‘The truth was just too painful’
    The highs and lows of Mama Cass

  • An oil on canvas painting of cartoon-style people fighting with police officers, with horses in the mix and a line of police officers holding batons and riot shields in the background

    Art
    Guernica-style battle of Orgreave painting stars in miners’ strikes exhibition

  • Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep in Heartburn.

    From meet-cute to marriage breakdown
    Streep and Nicholson shine in Nora Ephron’s bittersweet Heartburn

  • Anger-esque … still from Tarot, 1973, by Derek Jarman.

    Derek Jarman’s glorious Super 8 short films
    Standing stones, urban hellscapes and male nudes

Lifestyle

  • Garments on display in the Met Costume Institute's spring 2024 exhibition Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion

    Met exhibition review
    2024’s spring show is a feast for the senses

    Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion conjures the rustling of silk taffeta and the scent of a New York socialite
  • Felicity Cloake's perfect quiche.

    Unleash the quiche
    Tips for springtime tarts

  • passengers dancing on the Techno Train

    'Less abrasive than I’d expected'
    Why clubbers are raving about Germany’s cross-country Techno Train

  • Tamal Ray's kedgeree.

    Kedgeree and lamb curry
    Tamal Ray’s recipes for homely favorites

  • a woman cleans up her garden and pond

    Can I get a little more eco-friendly every day?
    Four tips for a greener mindset

  • Babyleaf the kitten

    The pet I'll never forget
    Babyleaf, the feral kitten who tamed me

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  • Dozens of students arrested at the occupied Hamilton Hall building of Columbia University in New York<br>NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - APRIL 30: New York Police Department officers detain dozens of pro-Palestinian students at Columbia University after they barricaded themselves at the Hamilton Hall building near Gaza Solidarity Encampment earlier in New York, United States on April 30, 2024. (Photo by Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

    US students
    Share your experience of the pro-Palestinian campus protests

  • People queue outside the Hermes store in Mayfair in London, Monday, April 12, 2021.

    Tell us
    Are you splurging on luxury goods you can ill afford?

  • UKRAINE-RUSSIA-WAR-CONFLICT<br>Gunners from 43rd Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine prepare to fire at Russian position with a 155 mm self-propelled howitzer 2C22 "Bohdana", in the Kharkiv region, on April 21, 2024, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine. (Photo by Anatolii STEPANOV / AFP) (Photo by ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP via Getty Images)

    Ukrainian men abroad
    Share your views on Poland and Lithuania’s statements on conscription

  • A young businessman riding skateboard in the city of Barcelona, Spain.

    Tell us
    How do you make your commute fun or productive?

From our global editions

  • Members of the Russian radical feminist group 'Pussy Riot' stage a protest performance in Red Square in Moscow<br>Members of the Russian radical feminist group 'Pussy Riot' sing a song at the so-called Lobnoye Mesto (Forehead Place), long before used for announcing Russian tsars' decrees and occasionally for carrying out public executions, in Red Square in Moscow January 20, 2012. Eight activists, who were later detained by police, staged a performance to protest against the policies conducted by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov (RUSSIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST SOCIETY)

    Russian protest punk and symphonies might seem worlds apart. But the idea is the same: weaponise your art

    Conor Mitchell
  • Egg and pants man … Teemu Keisteri, AKA Windows95man, performing No Rules! for Eurovision 2024.

    ‘He growls death metal in his pants!’
    The Eurovision 2024 bangers to watch out for

  • A man lifting a fish from the water with his hands

    Scaling up
    The app that’s transforming lives in South African fishing communities

  • A girl holds food items and looks at the camera as women look on behind her.

    ‘A colonial mindset’
    Why global aid agencies need to get out of the way

In case you missed it

  • Palestinians travel in a heavily loaded car with destroyed buildings in the background and rubble in the foreground

    Israel-Gaza war
    Why has Israel moved into Rafah and what is status of ceasefire talks?

  • Four weddings and a funeral

    ‘I thought: “I’ve engineered the death of Hugh Grant!’’’
    The inside story of Four Weddings and a Funeral

    Cast and crew share their stories – from Liz Hurley in that dress to Amber Rudd’s role as an ‘aristocracy coordinator
  • A woman stands ankle deep in murky water in a slum alleyway.

    ‘I’ve only the clothes on my back’
    Lives swept away by floods in Kenya

    People living in Nairobi’s Mathare slum fear that if catastrophic flooding does not bring down their homes, the government will
  • Cesar Aira, smiling at the camera, scratches the back of his head. Behind him are some books on a shelf.

    César Aira’s unreal magic
    How the eccentric author took over Latin American literature

  • Two large vessels sit at an angle with their hulls out of the water behind a group of small wooden fishing boats

    ‘I’ve never seen anything like it’
    Can Jamaica adapt to the Caribbean’s increasingly unpredictable weather?

  • Kevin Spacey in 2007.

    Spacey Unmasked review
    Far more than a did-he-didn’t-he exposé

  • Donald Trump is selling an edition of the Bible.

    I bought Trump’s Bible
    A blasphemous, sticky nightmare

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In pictures

  • TOPSHOT-US-ENTERTAINMENT-FASHION-METGALA-CELEBRITY-MUSEUM<br>TOPSHOT - US actress Zendaya arrives for the 2024 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 6, 2024, in New York. The Gala raises money for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute. The Gala's 2024 theme is "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion." (Photo by Angela WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

    Met Gala 2024
    Dresses made out of sand, corsets and power poses

    The theme was JG Ballard’s 1962 short story, The Garden of Time, which meant references to decay, lots of florals and more than one look that seemed to have nothing to do with anything
  • Vladimir Putin takes the oath of office during his inauguration ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow

    Photos of the day
    Putin’s big day, Swiss guards and garbage-eating pigs

  • A person puts a banner up at a ornate window

    In pictures
    Pro-Palestinian student protests around the world

  • 3) Karabo Mooki, Unified, Rockville, Soweto, 2016. Courtesy of the artist “Members of Free x Money are joined on the mic by TCIYF’s Thula 'Stroof' Sizwe. TCIYF have realised that since the shows don't come to them, they need to bring the shows to the township, bridging communities and giving birth to a cross- pollination of talents beyond racial and economic borders. Although the visit may seem taboo or unusual and new to many, there is a deep sense of hospitality and appreciation from both the hosts and the visiting residents.”

    Jumpin’ Johannesburg
    Soweto’s Afropunk skaters!

  • The singer/actor Lady Gaga wears a bright pink gown at the 2019 Met Gala event in New York City.

    The Met Gala through the years
    Lizzo’s flute, Billy Porter’s wings and Cher’s ‘naked dress’

  • A woman poses with her snakes

    Italy
    Snake catchers festival

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