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  • A line of protesters hold Georgian flags as others behind them hold up phones

    Georgia
    President vetoes ‘foreign influence’ law

    Salome Zourabichvili says bill contradicts constitution but ruling party is expected to override her action in coming days
    • Usyk and Fury trade blows during their heavyweight title fight.

      Live
      Oleksandr Usyk defeats Tyson Fury to win undisputed heavyweight championship

    • Afghanistan
      Fresh floods kill at least 60 after heavy rain brings devastation

    • Robert Fico
      Slovakian PM remains in serious condition as suspect appears in court

    • US
      Six-month-old baby shot repeatedly during Arizona standoff with child’s father

    • Leonid Volkov
      Navalny ally says he will ‘never give up’ in fight against Putin

    • Ukraine
      Zelenskiy says situation in Kharkiv under control but he fears second Russian attack

    • New York
      Man arrested in connection with assault on actor Steve Buscemi

    • Doctor of litter-ature
      Cat named Max given honorary degree by US university

News in focus

  • Luo Kuo-lin, a neighbour of Taiwan's incoming president Lai Ching-te, walks through the old mining tenement where they both group in in Wanli, Taiwan.

    Lai Ching-te
    The political brawler who went from a Taiwan mining village to the presidency

  • Policemen guard the area as they wait for the suspect in the shooting of Slovakia's prime minister, Robert Fico, to be brought to court in Pezinok, Slovakia.

    ‘The black hole of Europe’
    Suspect in court as Putin’s friends capitalise on shooting of Slovakian PM

    Media is barred from hearing as 71-year-old man appears in closed session over attempted assassination of prime minister
  • woman speaks at lectern in front of american flag

    ‘She’s in the pantheon now’
    Dog-killing Kristi Noem and the politicians who hit self-destruct

    The dog-killing South Dakota governor’s VP hopes are in tatters. But she’s not the first politician to flame out with an own goal

Spotlight

  • Wendy Brown at her Melbourne home with her portrait painted by Archibald prize-winning artist Yvette Coppersmith.

    ‘Oh my god, I am beautiful’
    The people who pay to have their portrait painted

    It’s never been easier to take a flattering image of yourself. So why do people commission professional portraits of themselves or loved ones?
  • A mural depicting author Gabriel Gárcia Márquez in Aracataca.

    Gabriel García Márquez
    Netflix’s One Hundred Years of Solitude brings fame to author’s Colombian hometown

  • Ncuti Gatwa in a tight spot with a landmine during Boom.

    Doctor Who: Boom
    Season one episode three recap

    Steven Moffat’s return to Doctor Who has alien planets, murderous AI – and Ncuti Gatwa trapped in an incredibly tense race against time
  • Actor Emma Stone, director Yorgos Lanthimos and actor Jesse Plemons in a photocall for the film Kinds Of Kindness at the Cannes Film Festival, May 2024.

    Sex, rape, cannibals
    What Yorgos Lanthimos did after Poor Things

    The maverick director and his trusted company of actors on making Kinds of Kindness, the ‘bonkers’ film causing a stir on the Croisette
    • Chelsea Reed and David Macmichael from Australian-Canadian indie band the Tryouts

      The moment I knew
      I said ‘marry me or never see me again’ – and he went straight down on one knee

    • Taylor Sam headshots 3 2024 9

      Sam Taylor
      ‘Translating is like X-raying a book. You get a deep tissue read’

    • Film Still: Emilia Pérez. Directed by Jacques Audiard

      Emilia Perez review
      Jacques Audiard’s gangster trans musical barrels along in style

    • Man wearing black jacket against purple background

      Elon Musk
      How a smear campaign against NPR led billionaire to feud with Signal

Opinion

  • A man sits near his home in Kharkiv, Ukraine, as smoke rises above the city after Russian shelling on 17 May.

    Nato’s failure to save Ukraine raises an existential question: what on earth is it for?

    Simon Tisdall
    The military alliance is turning 75. But there’s little to celebrate in Kyiv, as Putin’s forces continue their bloody advance
  • Illustration of a wounded Russian bear crushing Kharkiv

    Cartoon
    Chris Riddell on Russia’s advance on Kharkiv

  • Rachel Cooke

    Why is social media getting all churned up about cottage cheese?

    Rachel Cooke
  • The Olympic and Paralympic mascots, like red Phrygian caps on legs, pose on a quayside, with yachts in the background.

    You think Parisians grumble a lot? Don’t get them started on the Olympic Games

    Robert McLiam Wilson
  • Apple’s latest iPad ad, showing a hydraulic press crushing analogue devices.

    What would Steve Jobs think of Apple’s culture-crushing advert?

    John Naughton
  • Author Ariane Beeston has written a book about her experience with post-partum psychosis. She is a former child protection caseworker and psychologist with NSW's Department of Communities and Justice. Sydney, NSW, Australia. 15 May 2024.

    I have taken babies from their mothers. After my son was born I feared it was my turn to be punished

    Ariane Beeston

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Climate crisis

  • Climate activists sit near a Lufthansa plane as police stand nearby

    Germany
    Eight climate activists arrested over airport protest

  • A sky completely taken up with fiery clouds, above a border of trees and dry fields.

    Economies
    Damage from climate change six times worse than thought – report

  • Aerial shot of San Pedro Sula, Honduras, covered in a thick blanket of smog.

    Honduras
    Air pollution in San Pedro Sula city is almost 50 times higher than WHO guidelines

  • Silhouette of nodding donkey pumping oil with buildings in background

    Cop29
    Summit at a crossroads in Azerbaijan with focus on climate finance

Around the world

  • Helmeted and armored police confront a young woman waving a Palestinian flag.

    US
    Police arrest six student protesters at University of Pennsylvania

    Pro-Palestinian students were attempting to take over a university hall to protest school’s refusal to negotiate in ‘good faith’
  • Residents of Vovchansk and nearby villages with their possessions at an evacuation point in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine

    'Why the hell didn’t you leave earlier?'
    The battle to evacuate residents as Russia advances in Kharkiv

  • LS Lowry, On the Sands, Berwick (1959).

    ‘I put his matchstick men in the bin’
    Lowry’s lost sketches go on display for first time

  • OpenAI logo on a phone screen in front of an image of a robot looking in a mirror

    Artificial intelligence
    OpenAI putting ‘shiny products’ above safety, says departing researcher

    • US
      Virginia governor allows Confederate groups to keep tax exemptions

    • Tony O’Reilly
      One of Ireland’s leading business figures dies aged 88

    • Ohio
      Argentinian couple moves to US to allow their toddler to join gene therapy trial

    • Eye-tattooing
      Experts warn about risks of colour-changing surgery

    • Sticky trick
      New glue spray kills plant pests without chemicals

    • Gender
      Parents overestimate sons’ maths skills more than daughters’, study finds

Culture

  • Adam Driver in Francis Ford Coppola’s passion project Megalopolis.

    The Fall Guy to Megalopolis
    Is 2024 the year of the box-office megaflop?

    Last year’s Barbenheimer was hailed as saving cinema. Now takings are down and even franchises are falling flat. Can Hollywood manoeuvre itself out of this disaster zone?
  • Richard Rankin as Rebus

    Rebus review
    Richard Rankin is the most irresistible incarnation yet

  • emma barnett at the microphone in the today studioBBC handout photo of Emma Barnett during her first show presenting BBC Radio 4 Today with Amol Rajan. The journalist and broadcaster left Woman's Hour in April to join the morning news show. Issue date: Wednesday May 15, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story MEDIA Barnett. Photo credit should read: Jeff Overs/BBC/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: Not for use more than 21 days after issue. You may use this picture without charge only for the purpose of publicising or reporting on current BBC programming, personnel or other BBC output or activity within 21 days of issue. Any use after that time MUST be cleared through BBC Picture Publicity. Please credit the image to the BBC and any named photographer or independent programme maker, as described in the caption.

    The week in audio
    The Archers; Today; Death of an Artist; Gareth Gwynn Hasn’t Fin – review

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    Books for a better world
    As chosen by Lenny Henry, Geri Halliwell-Horner, Andrew O’Hagan and others

  • Film Still: Feng Liu Yi Dai (Caught By The Tides) Directed by Jia Zhang-ke

    Peter Bradshaw review
    Caught by the Tides: two-decade relationship tells story of China’s epic transformation

  • Artist Jonathan Yeo and King Charles III at the unveiling of Yeo's portrait in Buckingham Palace

    Too bald, too mad, too... red
    How royal portraits get it so wrong

Lifestyle

  • A female model holding a beige raffia bag on the beach

    Fashion
    Weaving magic: 14 of the best natural raffia bags

  • Three female models wearing different styles of blue and white striped shirts

    Trend watch
    Striped shirts

  • Nish Kumar Life on a Plate Grooming: Juliana Sergot using Bobbi Brown and Tigi

    Life on a plate
    Nish Kumar: ‘Nando’s is the only thing uniting this increasingly fragmented nation’

  • Jasper and Ellen

    This is how we do it
    ‘We’ll put on our sex playlist and change the lights to purple. It ignites a fire inside us’

Take part

  • elegant wedding cake with vintage bride and groom figurine

    Life and style
    Share your wedding disaster stories

  • College students hold placards to create awareness for citizens to vote, in Varanasi, ahead of India's upcoming general elections.

    People in India
    Share your thoughts on the election

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

    Ukrainians abroad
    Share your reaction to your country qualifying for Euro 2024

  • Houria Ayadi / Ed Alcock / MYOP<br>The 129-apartment building where Houria Ayadi (63 yrs) has lived in Saint-Ouen, a northern suburb of Paris, since 1973, and that is due to be demolished in an effort to improve on security in the neighbourhood. She hopes to be re-lodged in one of the apartments currently under construction for the Olympic Village, where athletes will be housed during the Paris Olympics of 2024. Photo © Ed Alcock / MYOP 25/9/2023 L'immeuble de 129 appartements où Houria Ayadi (63 ans) vit depuis 1973 à Saint-Ouen, dans la banlieue nord de Paris, et qui doit être démoli pour améliorer la sécurité dans le quartier. Elle espère être relogée dans l'un des appartements actuellement en construction pour le village olympique, où seront logés les athlètes lors des Jeux olympiques de Paris en 2024. Photo © Ed Alcock / MYOP 25/9/2023

    Housing
    Young Europeans: do you live with your parents?

From our global editions

  • A man wearing a gray sweatshirt holds up a sign reading "Prefer Idaho? then move there"

    ‘We don’t have a democracy’
    Why some Oregonians want to join Idaho

    Proponents of the Greater Idaho movement have argued Democrats in Portland don’t understand their way of life
  • Screengrab from a video from Chinese state-backed group called Storm-1376 showing an AI-generated newsreader.

    AI
    How China is using fake news anchors to deliver its propaganda

  • Ursula von der Leyen.

    Disappearing ink, fake polls and voter fraud
    EU fears as Russian propaganda ads target Euro elections

  • columned building stylised in red

    Red flag?
    Samuel Alito scandal casts further doubt on US supreme court’s impartiality

  • Japan’s Yonaguni island

    'Of course I’m worried'
    The quiet Japanese island paradise on the frontline of growing Taiwan-China tensions

  • Man in apron prepares beef on hot grill with customers behind

    'I’ve never seen so many gringos'
    Fans queue round the block as tiny Mexican taco stand wins Michelin star

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    ‘I’m the new Oppenheimer!’
    My soul-destroying day at Palantir’s first-ever AI warfare conference

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    How to give the humble cardigan a sexy French Girl vibe

  • Actor Tom Burke photographed at the Guardian offices, March 2024. First use film &amp; music

    ‘I did a lot of yelling’
    Tom Burke on socks, controversy and Mad Max

  • Graphic collage illustration featuring India’s minister of home affairs, Amit Shah, and the prime minister, Narendra Modi.

    ‘He likes scaring people’
    How Amit Shah, Modi’s right-hand man, runs India

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  • Russell Brand being baptised in the River Thames with Bear Grylls

    Weekend
    Marina Hyde on Russell Brand’s baptism; plus ‘deepfake’ cheerleaders: the woman wrongly accused over a viral video – podcast

  • Shein shoes at a popup store in New York in 2022. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    ‘Super cute please like’: the unstoppable rise of Shein – podcast

  • Demonstrators hold placards reading ‘It’s time #ContaminatedBlood’ and ‘Recognise all victims #ContaminatedBlood’.

    Today in Focus
    The children of the contaminated blood scandal

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    Football Weekly
    The Premier League’s fight for Europe and Celtic’s title – Football Weekly Extra

  • Happy couple texting on their smart phones

    Science Weekly
    Apps and algorithms: can dating be boiled down to a science? – podcast

  • Dr Ruth Cerezo-Mota and the planet (By Tamara Uribe, The Guardian)

    Today in Focus
    What keeps the world’s top climate scientists up at night?

  • Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images. Former Donald Trump attorney Michael Cohen departing from his home

    Politics Weekly America
    Donald Trump comes face to face with former fixer Michael Cohen

In pictures

  • photo of a family overlaid on plant

    Mythology, heritage, identity
    Student work at New York’s International Center of Photography

    These images highlighting themes of climate resilience, personal trauma and identity are part of an exhibition of the work of students from more than 25 different countries
  • Some of the images created by Tal Danino. All images © Tal Danino/Rizzoli

    Mesmerising microbes
    Bacteria as you’ve never seen it before – in pictures

  • A man appearing to row a wooden boat sitting on a large expanse of sand

    ‘I hope people wonder what the man is doing’
    Carla Vermeend’s best phone picture

  • Children are evacuated from the district of Vovchansk due to the Russian offensive in Kharkiv

    War in Gaza, the Russian offensive in Kharkiv, protests in Georgia
    The week around the world in 20 pictures

  • Girls Night by Eimear Lynch

    Girls’ night
    The teenage ritual of preparing to go out – in pictures

  • Naomi Campbell arrives for the screening of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga at the 2024 Cannes film festival.

    The Cannes red carpet so far
    From Naomi Campbell in 90s Chanel to Anya Taylor-Joy in Dior – in pictures

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