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  • The Iuventa in port

    Italy
    Crew of migrant rescue boat acquitted after seven-year ordeal

  • Leonid Volkov in front of shelves of books.

    Leonid Volkov
    Belarusian held in Poland suspected of ordering hammer attack on Navalny ally

    • Germany
      Kremlin spy suspect arrests may be tip of iceberg, says former intelligence agency chief

    • Harry Styles
      Stalker jailed for sending singer 8,000 cards in a month

    • Taylor Swift
      Singer surprises fans as 15 extra songs added to new album

    • Italy
      Antifascist could be released from Hungary jail due to EU election candidacy

    • Athletics
      Beijing half marathon winner thrown out after trio slowed to let him win

    • London
      Artist evicted by landlord cuts rent by commuting from Argentina

News in focus

  • Narendra Modi addresses a crowd on Independence Day. He is looking towards the right and appears to be speaking, with one arm in the air. He is wearing a red turban and white kurta.

    ‘Messianic spell’
    How Narendra Modi created a cult of personality

  • A man in a suit poses in front of a Brazilian flag near a beach

    ‘Only in Rio’
    South Korea’s ambassador to Brazil is an unlikely samba star

    Lim Ki-mo’s first heard Brazilian music 50 years ago in his home town of Busan; now his consular crooning marks a triumph of soft power
  • A stubbed out cigarette butt

    New Zealand
    How smoking ban got stubbed out – and what the UK can learn from it

    Big tobacco ‘working in the shadows’ blamed for killing off NZ’s pioneering plan to protect future generations

Spotlight

  • Malala Yousafzai and Jennifer Lawrence, co-producers of Bread & Roses.

    ‘Why the silence? Why the inaction? It breaks my heart’
    Malala and Jennifer Lawrence take on the Taliban

    The Oscar-winner and the Nobel laureate have teamed up to make Bread & Roses, a new film about the abuse of women in Afghanistan. In an emotional interview, they warn that the west ignores its message at their peril
  • 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

  • Illustration of book titled Liz Truss: 49 Days to Make a Mess with a grotesque yellowy-green caricature of Liz Truss

    ‘Five-year-old on acid’
    Liz Truss’s Ten Years to Save the West, digested by John Crace

    Sketchwriter’s take on memoir of PM who screwed up catastrophically and quickly but thinks there’s still work to do
  • Yellow and orange silk strips hanging vertically and diagonally in a large space.

    ‘No death in Venice’
    Israel-Gaza tensions infiltrate biennale

    Protests erupt outside Israel pavilion, official Israeli artist pulls out, and Ukraine team puts up posters showing maps of nearest bomb shelter
    • ‘I cry a lot but I am so productive / It’s an art’ … Taylor Swift performing in Florida, 14 April 2023.

      Breakups, fantasies and cutting lyrics
      Inside Taylor’s Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department

    • An illustration of a man with crossly folded arms, with a seated female figure in the background.

      Ask Annalisa Barbieri
      My friend ranks his friendships in a league table – and it worries me

    • Claudia Winkleman

      Claudia Winkleman on swearing, success and secrets
      I had to sign a contract promising not to sing

    • Kyle MacLachlan stands at a podium with a microphone against a hazy orange background

      Television
      Success of Fallout proves video game adaptations have gone mainstream

Opinion

  • Duchess of Sussex 40th birthday<br>Screengrab taken from undated handout video issued by Archewell showing the Duchess of Sussex blowing out a candle on a cake during a video released on her 40th birthday to launch 40×40, a global project to encourage people around the world to commit to giving 40 minutes of their time to support women going back to work. The duchess has asked 40 activists, athletes, artists and world leaders to participate by contributing 40 minutes of mentorship to women re-entering the workforce. Issue date: Wednesday August 4, 2021. PA Photo. See PA story ROYAL Meghan . Photo credit should read: Archewell/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

    Meghan’s gone from royal upsetter to tradwife in three short years. Given what’s out there, you’d do the same

    Gaby Hinsliff
    Her cookery and lifestyle show looks like a sensible retreat from the abuse she’s suffered simply for being a modern black woman, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
  • Martin Rowson on the temptation of Benjamin Netanyahu and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – cartoon

    Cartoon
    Martin Rowson on the temptation of Benjamin Netanyahu and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – cartoon

  • A floral tribute featuring photos of the victims in Saturday's knife attack

    Is violently terrorising a community ‘terrorism’? It’s an uncomfortable debate to have

    Karen Middleton
  • NYPD police officers arresting students

    Columbia University is colluding with the far-right in its attack on students

    Moira Donegan
  • Donald Trump, an older white man with orangey skin and poofy hair, holds up what appears to be a pile of print-outs, with a picture of himself visible on the top one.

    The death of the Republican party is not a tragedy to be celebrated

    Robert Reich
  • vladimir putin

    Putin has a ‘factchecking’ operation, and so do other dictators – but they use them to twist the truth

    Maxim Alyukov

Sport

  • Ronnie O’Sullivan in action at the Tour Championship this month

    World Snooker Championship
    O’Sullivan lines up more glory as Saudi relocation threat looms

    A potential pointer to a future home arrives, Ronnie O’Sullivan lines up more glory and the champion, Luca Brecel, returns out of form
  • Thousands of runners cross Tower Bridge during the 2023 London Marathon

    ‘No limits’
    How the marathon was overtaken in sprint to stretch horizons

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Climate crisis

  • Beef cattle in a field

    Exclusive
    UN livestock emissions report seriously distorted our work, say experts

  • A steel foundry in Jamshedpur, India

    Exclusive
    India seeks UK carbon tax exemption in free trade deal talks

  • 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

Around the world

  • Two young people talk animatedly outside next to an EH Bildu sign with white letters on a green background.

    Basque election
    Leftwing coalition partly descended from Eta leads in polls

    Surveys suggest EH Bildu’s focus on health, housing and employment is attracting younger voters
  • Man with dogs walks on beach as waves crash nearby

    'Forever chemicals'
    Ocean spray emits more PFAS than industrial polluters, study finds

  • silver chunky car

    Tesla
    Firm recalls nearly 4,000 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal

  • Head and shoulders shot of Prince Harry with people behind him

    Prince Harry
    Judge rejects Sun publisher’s bid to delay phone-hacking case

    • 'Deeply troubling'
      US accused of failing to act on reports of Israeli abuses

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

    • Columbia University
      Ilhan Omar’s daughter among over 100 arrested at US protest

    • Animals
      UK rescuers deflate football-sized swollen hedgehog

    • Poland
      Man arrested over alleged Russian plot to assassinate Zelenskiy

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

Cotton Capital: ongoing series

  • Two Black women stand in front of a house beyond a massive oak tree.

    'The overall goal is to run us all out'
    They’re fighting polluters destroying historically Black towns – starting with their own

  • A historical map overlayed on modern New York

    Sites of resistance
    Threatened African burial grounds around the world

  • Annina Van Neel Hayes laying lilies outside the door of a brick building

    'Perpetuating a lie'
    British overseas territory St Helena urged to return remains of 325 formerly enslaved people to Africa

  • 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 honour the Africans buried on St Helena

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Culture

  • Monument Valley 2.

    ‘I was trying to create the sound of a really warm hug’
    The poignant story behind Monument Valley 2’s music

    Todd Baker composed the soundtrack for the indie puzzler as he was living through the loss of his mother. On the series’ 10th anniversary, he reflects on the experience
  • Jimmy Carr on stage

    Jimmy Carr: Natural Born Killer review
    A moral vacuum laughing at his own jokes

  • He won’t be back … Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Running Man, 1987

    Week in geek
    Can genre-buster Edgar Wright breathe new life into The Running Man?

  • To be, or not to be … The Chandos portrait of William Shakespeare, by John Taylor

    Books
    Questions over Shakespeare’s authorship began in his lifetime, scholar claims

  • Pearl Jam press photo

    Pearl Jam: Dark Matter review
    The faithful will rejoice

  • Andrew Scott

    1984 by George Orwell audiobook review
    A starry cast drive this powerful dramatisation

Lifestyle

  • Zapote's Zapote 70.

    Cocktail of the week
    Zapote’s Zapote 70 – recipe

    A margarita using both mezcal and tequila, with a hint of sweet almond for added depth
  • Benjamina Ebuehi's mango semifreddo with a Tajin finish.

    The sweet spot
    Benjamina Ebuehi’s recipe for mango and Tajín semifreddo

  • 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

  • Common Crane (Grus grus) in flight against sunset cloudy sky and trees, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland, Europe

    ‘A water world teeming with wildlife’
    Readers’ favourite national parks in Europe

  • Judge 20th April - WEB

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

  • A field of Blue Agave in Jalisco, Mexico. A field of Agave tequilana, commonly called blue agave (agave azul) or tequila agave, is an agave plant that is an important economic product of Jalisco, Mexico. In the background is the famous Tequila Volcano or Volcán de Tequila

    Fiona Beckett on drinks
    Tequilas and mezcals you will want to savour, not slam

Take part

  • children at prep. school gate Falmouth jamaica<br>G2P4GJ children at prep. school gate Falmouth jamaica

    Teachers
    Tell us about moving from abroad to a school in England

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

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

  • Elections for the Mayor and London Assembly under eased covid lockdown conditions, in Balham, Wandsworth, London, UK, on 06 May 2021.Covid rules and the desire to vote (with plenty of young people in evidence), led to queues at a polling station in Wandsworth.

    Young people in the UK
    How do you feel about voting?

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

    Wedding photography
    Share your experiences

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From our global editions

  • A blood donation in Lodwar town, Turkana county.

    Kenya’s ‘blood desert’
    Can walking donor banks and drones help more patients survive?

    The national blood deficit is most pressing in places like Turkana, where malaria, anaemia and violence make heavy demands on transfusion services – and doctors are pinning their hopes on innovation
  • FEB 2024 - LONDON: Researchers are testing how to listen to the sounds soil makes. Listening out for like worms/ants. Pictured; Dr Carlos Abrahams listening to the soil. (Photography by Graeme Robertson / The Guardian )

    Crunching worms, squeaking voles, drumming ants
    How scientists are learning to eavesdrop on the sounds of soil

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  • Glodi Wabelua. Photographed in London by David Levene 23/1/24

    From low-level drug dealer to human trafficker
    Are modern slavery laws catching the wrong people?

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    2024: Year of elections
    Six weeks, 969 million voters, 2,600 parties: India’s mammoth election explained

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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

In pictures

  • Los Angeles, US Uma Thurman and John Travolta

    Photos of the day
    Go Phish and Gold Beach sunrise

    The Guardian’s picture editors select some of the most powerful photos from around the world
  • 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

  • Eddo Hartmann, Netherlands, Winner, Professional competition, Landscape, Sony World Photography Awards 2024

    Nuclear fields and insect feasts
    The Sony World Photography awards

  • Ellen Geddes, a wheelchair fencer

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

  • A migrant walks over a freight train known as the beast as he arrives at Piedras Negras, in Piedras Negras, October 2023

    World Press Photo 2024
    Global winners of the competition

  • Black-and-white photo of people dancing on a dancefloor, one in a leotard

    Partying with an 8ft pink panther
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