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  • An aerial view of a tent camp established by Palestinians in Deir al-Balah, Gaza. Palestinians have started moving to the area from Rafah.

    Live
    White House says it wants ‘answers’ from Israel after mass graves found near hospitals in Gaza

  • A black and a white horse bolt through the streets of central London, the white horse blood-stained

    Runaway horses
    Animals in ‘serious condition’ after bolting through central London

    • Environment
      New rule compels US coal-fired power plants to capture emissions – or shut down

    • Live
      Risk of military incidents along Ukraine border quite high, says Belarus

    • McKinsey
      Company reportedly under US criminal investigation over opioid industry work

    • France
      Moulin Rouge windmill blades collapse in Paris

    • Tupac Shakur
      Estate threatens legal action against Drake over AI diss track

    • A way to make a livin’
      Jennifer Aniston set for 9 to 5 reboot

In focus

  • people wear shirts that say "end fossil fuels" and hold signs that say "Manchin is killing us"

    ‘Outrageous’ climate activists
    They're getting in the faces of politicians and oil bosses – will it work?

  • Older white man with orangey skin and poofy hair in dark suit and red tie.

    'He doesn’t have any idea what to do'
    What would Trump’s Middle East policy be if he were re-elected?

    The former US president often describes himself as the ‘best friend that Israel has ever had’, but he may not be so reliable
  • A water tower reads "Flint strong"

    ‘If we had the energy left, we’d cry’
    Flint residents grapple with water crisis a decade later

Spotlight

  • An illustration of a female stretched across in her living room holding an iPad-like device watching a show

    Well actually
    How brilliant female British TV detectives helped me understand myself

    These stunning, extremely relatable women, with nuanced facial expressions and sensible shoes, helped me outline success on my own terms
  • FILES-US-POLITICS-WOMEN-BOOKS-MELANIA<br>(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 04, 2019 US First Lady Melania Trump boards a plane at Andrews Air Force Base for a three state overnight trip in Maryland. - Melania Trump has a White House suite of her own, is less than chummy with first daughter Ivanka, and uses her wardrobe to make statements, a new biography about the US first lady says. "Free, Melania," an unauthorized look at President Donald Trump's wife by CNN reporter Kate Bennett, is set for release on Tuesday, but official Washington is already buzzing about its contents. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

    The Trump family’s latest side hustle: Melania’s selling $245 Mother’s Day necklaces

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • ‘Running tens of thousands in debt from the tour and I’m being told that it’s normal’ … Arooj Aftab performing in Brooklyn in June 2023.

    ‘The working class can’t afford it’
    The shocking truth about the money bands make on tour

    As Taylor Swift tops $1bn in tour revenue, musicians playing smaller venues are facing pitiful fees and frequent losses. Should the state step in to save our live music scene?
  • Illustration of a librarian holding out a book

    The experts
    Librarians on 20 easy, enjoyable ways to read more brilliant books

    Do you love reading – but all too often find yourself just scrolling through your phone or watching TV? Here is how to get lost in literature again
    • In the whacking trade … Liam Neeson as Finbar Murphy in In the Land of Saints and Sinners

      In the Land of Saints and Sinners review
      Liam Neeson finds cowboy spirit in Donegal

    • Natalie and Beccy in 2023.

      How we met
      ‘She accosted me and told me she’d looked me up on Facebook’

    • Back to black … St Vincent

      St Vincent: All Born Screaming review
      The unmasking of a great American songwriter

    • New York

      The lottery of life
      Real Americans by Rachel Khong

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Opinion

  • Abortion rights supporters staging a ‘die-in’ protest

    The US supreme court heard one of the most sadistic, extreme anti-abortion cases yet

    Moira Donegan
    • On a lawn surrounded on three sides by buildings, dozens of tents with handmade protest signs in red and green.

      Why we need to stop using ‘pro-Palestine’ and ‘pro-Israel’

      Judith Levine
    • Heritage Foundation: Former Prime Minister Liz Truss on Fighting the Global Left

      Fair to say America isn’t gripped by Liz Trussmania. Here’s what she can learn from Mr Bean

      Emma Brockes
    • An aerial photo shows residents of Akwidaa fishing village in Ghana erecting a makeshift sea defence

      Ministers of Germany, Brazil, South Africa and Spain: why we need a global tax on billionaires

      Svenja Schulze, Fernando Haddad, Enoch Godongwana, María Jesús Montero and Carlos Cuerpo
    • Old military vehicles arrive for a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution in Lisbon, Portugal, 25 April 2024

      In Portugal, we’re celebrating 50 years of freedom. So why is the far right creeping back?

      Vicente Valentim

Sports

  • (Left to right) North Carolina quarterback Drake Maye, Caleb Williams of the USC Trojans, LSU Tigers quarterback Jayden Daniels.

    NFL draft predictions
    The stars, the needs and the lower-round gems

    Our writers take a look at the best prospects coming out of college, and which teams needs to nail their picks over the coming days
  • An artist's rendition of new Chicago Bears lakefront stadium.

    Chicago
    Bears to seek public funding in $5bn plan for new lakefront stadium

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Climate crisis

  • An electric car parked up and plugged in at a row of charging sockets

    Energy
    Global battery rollout doubled last year – but needs to be six times faster, says IEA

  • The Aedes albopictus mosquito on human skin

    Climate crisis
    Mosquito-borne diseases spreading in Europe, says expert

  • A male gold miner holding a spade in the background observes a female gold miner in an open-pit gold mine

    Environment
    Process raw materials in Africa, urges top environmentalist

  • driftwood, lots of plastic bottles and other pollution on beach, with two figures on bikes in background

    Environment
    Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s plastic pollution

Across the country

  • Women hug on floor of legislature

    Arizona
    House votes to repeal state’s near-total ban on abortion

    Three Republicans join Democrats to support repeal of law first approved in 1864, with measure now heading to state senate
  • A section of sidewalk cut out in the shape of a rat and filled with water

    Chicago
    City’s infamous sidewalk ‘rat hole’ removed by officials

  • a man in a short sleeved t-shirt speaks on stage

    Meta
    Shares tumble as weak revenue guidance overshadows AI boom

  • a man in a glass cage makes a heart with his hands

    Evan Gershkovich
    American reporter’s appeal against his detention rejected by Moscow court

    • Illinois
      Mega-warehouses heap more pollution on hard-hit neighborhoods

    • Gateway Pundit
      Rightwing website known for election conspiracies declares bankruptcy

    • Health
      Cakes and drinks sweetener neotame can damage gut wall – experts

    • Donald Payne Jr
      New Jersey congressman dies aged 65

    • Trump Media
      Trump to receive bonus worth $1.2bn for stock performance

    • US foreign aid
      Biden signs $95bn package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan

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Around the world

  • Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vassily Nebenzia raises his hand to veto the Non-proliferation of nuclear weapons resolution bill during a meeting of UN Security Council members

    United Nations
    Russia vetos UN resolution to prevent nuclear arms race in space

    Moscow described the security council resolution, which would have called on countries not to deploy weapons of mass destruction in outer space, a ‘dirty spectacle’
  • A family amid the corrugated iron shanty house slums of Nairobi

    Inequality
    World’s billionaires should pay minimum 2% wealth tax, say G20 ministers

  • Pedro Sánchez with his wife, Begoña Gómez

    Spain
    Leader considers resigning, blaming political ‘harassment’ of wife

  • Protesters in Venice.

    ‘Are we joking?’
    Venice residents protest against charge for visitors

    • France
      National library quarantines books believed to be laced with arsenic

    • Books
      Georgians arrested over cross-Europe thefts of rare library books

    • Exclusive
      Cost of developing new drugs may be far lower than industry claims, trial reveals

    • UK
      Lack of action on Iran could lead to more threats and attacks, says journalist

    • Indonesia election
      Prabowo formally declared president-elect after court rejects legal challenges

    • Children
      Great Britain has worst rate of child alcohol consumption in world, report finds

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Podcasts

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  • Premier League - Everton v Liverpool<br>Soccer Football - Premier League - Everton v Liverpool - Goodison Park, Liverpool, Britain - April 24, 2024 Everton's Jarrad Branthwaite celebrates after Dominic Calvert-Lewin scores their second goal as Liverpool's Alisson looks on REUTERS/Carl Recine NO USE WITH UNAUTHORIZED AUDIO, VIDEO, DATA, FIXTURE LISTS, CLUB/LEAGUE LOGOS OR 'LIVE' SERVICES. ONLINE IN-MATCH USE LIMITED TO 45 IMAGES, NO VIDEO EMULATION. NO USE IN BETTING, GAMES OR SINGLE CLUB/LEAGUE/PLAYER PUBLICATIONS. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

    Football Weekly
    Have Everton dashed Liverpool’s title dreams? – Football Weekly Extra

  • Dairy cattle feeding at a farm as a bird looks on

    Science
    From birds, to cattle, to … us? Could bird flu be the next pandemic? – podcast

  • Arsenal

    Football Weekly
    Arsenal thrash Chelsea and a Football League update – Football Weekly

  • Angela Rayner in a hard hat and hi-vis jacket at a construction site

    Today in Focus
    Could a row over a council house bring down Angela Rayner?

  • Members of India’s Hindu nationalist organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) at a rally near Hyderabad. Photograph: STR/AFP via Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: How Hindu supremacists are tearing India apart – podcast

  • The Netherlands Women v Norway Women, Women's EURO 2025 Qualifiers - 09 Apr 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Hollandse Hoogte/REX/Shutterstock (14426990jc) BREDA - Victoria Pelova of Holland and Merel van Dongen of Holland after the European Championship qualifying match for women in group A1 between the Netherlands and Norway at the Rat Verlegh stadium on April 9, 2024 in Breda, the Netherlands. The Netherlands Women v Norway Women, Women's EURO 2025 Qualifiers - 09 Apr 2024

    Football Weekly
    An episode from Women’s Football Weekly – Fifpro exclusive interview

  • 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

Culture

  • Steve Carell and Alison Pill. Credit to Marc J. Franklin

    Uncle Vanya review
    Steve Carell leads excellent cast in Chekhov reimagining

    The star makes a convincing Broadway debut in a tragicomic winner staged with thought and deft flashes of modernity
  • Glicéria Tupinambá (right, with her niece Jessica) in the Brazilian pavilion at Venice, which features the Tupinambá cloak, along with letters asking for its return.

    Part protest, part rave
    The Indigenous artists stunning the Venice Biennale

  • Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes.

    28 Years Later
    Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes cast in sequel

  • Looty’s Chidi Nwaubani and Ahmed Abokor in front of the Benin brass plaques at the British Museum, London.

    ‘Can you steal back something that’s already stolen?’
    How radical art duo Looty repatriated the Rosetta Stone

  • Nasser Abu Srour

    The Tale of a Wall by Nasser Abu Srour review
    A Palestinian prisoner writes

  • Just don’t take it too seriously … Dead Boy Detectives.

    Dead Boy Detectives
    This ghost sleuth show is silly, spooky and wicked fun

Lifestyle

  • ‘Long before my son was born, I dreamed of him’ … Suzanne Scanlon and her son

    The forever wound
    How could I become a mother when my own mother died so young?

    What broke me as a child was my mother’s death from breast cancer. But around that shattering, I became a person – and learned how to parent my son
  • A man dressed as Sherlock Holmes in profile

    Thursday quiz
    Strange distances, surprise candidates and Sherlock Holmes

  • Felicity Cloake's huevos rancheros.

    How to cook the perfect ...
    Huevos rancheros – recipe

  • Sian (left) and Pam

    Dining across the divide
    ‘She felt our generation shouldn’t be held responsible for the massive imbalance between us and young people’

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    Time is your most precious commodity
    Can you ever get it back?

  • Silvia Rothlisberger sitting on her van on the roadside in New Zealand

    A moment that changed me
    Joyriders destroyed my van in New Zealand – which led to a lovely life in London

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Take part

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

    Wedding photography
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  • We’re after things that are small, genuinely useful, and inexpensive to buy (nothing over £20).

    Technology
    Tell us: what’s your favourite everyday gadget?

  • Tony and June

    Sex
    Would you and your partner like to share the story of what you get up to in the bedroom?

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

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

From our global editions

  • Spain’s socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, with his wife, Begoña Gómez, voting at the general snap election in Madrid

    Pedro Sánchez
    Why is Spain’s prime minister considering resigning from office?

  • Lisboans march in the city’s streets in the aftermath of the 25 April 1974 coup d'etat which overthrew Portugal’s Estado Novo regime.

    ‘Everyone was in the streets. I just felt happiness’
    Portugal recalls the Carnation Revolution

  • A former domestic worker in Beirut. About 250,000 African and Asian migrant women work in Lebanon. An average of two domestic workers a week die there.

    ‘Every day I cry’
    50 women talk about life as a domestic worker under the Gulf’s kafala system

  • Illustration: Ben Jennings

    Lies, confections, distortions: how the right made London the most vilified place in Britain

    Aditya Chakrabortty

In case you missed it

  • Orbán with Trump on red-carpeted steps at Mar-a-Lago

    ‘Waiting for Trump’
    Viktor Orbán hopes US election will change his political fortunes

  • Supreme Court Hears Idaho Abortion Law Challenge<br>WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 24: A group of doctors join abortion rights supporters at a rally outside the Supreme Court on April 24, 2024 in Washington, DC. The Supreme Court hears oral arguments today on Moyle v. United States and Idaho v. United States to decide if Idaho emergency rooms can provide abortions to pregnant women during an emergency using a federal law known as the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act to supersede a state law that criminalizes most abortions in Idaho. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

    US supreme court
    What’s at stake in emergency abortion care case?

    The justices must decide whether Idaho doctors can terminate a pregnancy to save a woman’s health or only if her life is at risk
  • An issue of the National Enquirer featuring President Donald Trump.

    ‘The only choice for president’
    How the National Enquirer boosted Trump and smeared his opponents

    A New York court has heard how the tabloid deployed a practice known as ‘catch and kill’ to aid Trump in 2016
  • Dr. Noa Lincoln with native Hawaiian sugarcane on the campus of the University of Hawai'i at HIlo. Undergraduate student Quinn Leggett is studying tropical ag plant production and management.

    Hawaii
    A scientist's quest to find and save the state’s native sugarcanes

  • People under red fabric with shirts saying 'Jews say ceasefire now' and 'Not in our name'

    We need an exodus from Zionism

    Naomi Klein
  • A white woman with long brown hair, dressed in a red paisley long-sleeved blouse and maroon pants, sits at a kitchen table in front of a can of Coke and a laptop, with her legs crossed and her hand on her knee, her chin resting in her other hand.

    Mary Jane review
    Rachel McAdams makes a magnetic Broadway debut

  • Dozens of tents and young protesters wearing keffiyeh, with a rainbow Pride flag in the foreground.

    Divestment
    How it became a ‘clarion call’ in anti-fossil fuel and pro-ceasefire protests

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In pictures

  • ‘Goofing around like kids’ … Mist, 2013.

    Outlaw attitude
    Skaters, saunas and spontaneous stripping

    Magdalena Wosinska spent the 1990s hanging out with bands, skateboarders and whoever else crossed her path. These photos capture blissful free spirits
  • Hampshire, UK.

    Readers' best photographs
    A littler splash and a Cuban mystery

  • Two military horses bolt through the streets near Aldwych in London, UK, after escaping during morning exercise

    Photos of the day
    A kite festival and horses bolt in London

  • Cool waves … Little West 12th August 28 2023 by Pelle Cass

    Subways, sphinxes and the Stones
    Highlights from NYC’s Photography Show

  • THRESHOLDS at the German Pavilion & La Certosa.

    A lost astronaut, looted treasure and a hit naked Turk
    The 60th Venice Biennale

  • Woman carrying vegetation on her head

    Storyteller
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