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  • Red-coloured robotic arms work on the car assembly line of new energy vehicles at a factory

    International trade
    Biden announces 100% tariff on Chinese-made electric vehicles

  • Bambie Thug<br>Joost Klein of Netherlands arrives on stage for the introducing of the artists at the dress rehearsal for the final at the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden, Friday, May 10, 2024. Klein's performance was cancelled for unknown reasons, he was supposed to perform before Israel. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

    Eurovision
    Disqualified contestant Joost Klein likely to face charges, say Swedish police

    • Revealed
      US university lecturer behind far-right Twitter account and publishing house

    • Donald Trump
      Michael Cohen to continue testimony at hush-money trial

    • New Caledonia
      Curfew imposed after day of violent protests against constitutional change

    • UK
      Woman who punched crocodile to receive civilian gallantry medal

    • Myanmar
      Rohingya being forcibly conscripted in battle between junta and rebels

    • Baby Reindeer’s Richard Gadd
      ‘If I wanted the real people to be found, I would’ve made a documentary’

News in focus

  • Defence Minister Andrei Belousov speaks during a meeting with a Russian flag to his left

    Andrei Belousov
    Putin picks trusted technocrat to run defence ministry

  • Views her work as defying a state that condones a war against women ... Cristina Rivera Garza.

    ‘The only healing will be through justice’
    Pulitzer winner Cristina Rivera Garza on femicide in Mexico

    Through writing about her sister Liliana’s murder 30 years ago, the author found a community of those whose female friends and family members had also been killed. Yet the authorities still fail to act
  • Rajesh Maurya and Sumitra Maurya

    ‘Pressured to withdraw’
    BJP accused of intimidation tactics in India polls

    Opposition say ruling party undermining democracy by using police to harass candidates into not contesting in elections

Spotlight

  • Adam Driver in a scene from the trailer for Megalopolis

    ‘Has this guy ever made a movie before?’
    Francis Ford Coppola’s 40-year battle to film Megalopolis

    The director has spent half his life and $120m of his own money to make his sci-fi epic. Just days ahead of its debut in Cannes, some of his crew members are questioning his methods
  • abstract illustration of a smudged face with a melancholy expression

    The long read
    As a teenager, John was jailed for assaulting someone and stealing their bike. That was 17 years ago – will he ever be released?

  • illustration of bride and groom in a box with a shadowy hand reaching towards them

    ‘People literally lost their lives’
    Inside the rise and fall of Ashley Madison

    A new Netflix docuseries explores how the site that enabled married people to have affairs devolved into chaos back in 2015
  • Dylan Thomas<br>1st May 1952: Welsh author Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953) standing in front of a bookshelf at the Gotham Book Shop during a reception held in his honor, New York City. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) white;format landscape;male;Roles Occupations;Personality;Welsh;British;North America;G2282/008

    ‘He was the rock star poet’
    Matthew Rhys on Dylan Thomas

    The actor is playing the writer in a dramatic reading of a one-act play that carries a special meaning for those involved
    • Caroline Eden food in the Baltics Riga central market 2

      Why I love Baltic cuisine
      ‘Flavours as vivid as the scent of pine forests’

    • Liz Carr in her documentary about assisted dying, Better Off Dead?

      ‘I’m fighting for the right to live’
      Liz Carr on acting, friendship and her campaign against assisted dying

    • I was at my desk thinking ‘what is my job?’ … the fog of work.

      ‘I felt like I was losing my mind’
      How to keep your career on track during menopause

    • Architect's drawing of a cooperative housing project in Amsterdam called De Torteltuin

      ‘What if we built our own?’
      Young Amsterdammers fight housing crisis with cooperative build

Opinion

  • Man wearing blue suit and blue tie walks in front of people

    Trump’s hush-money case has proven he’s a low-life. Can it prove he’s a criminal?

    Margaret Sullivan
    This is likely the only Trump trial before the election – and the only hope for a shred of accountability for his endless misdeeds
  • A person with a European Union flag ahead of Europe Day celebrations in Brussels, Belgium, 4 May 2024

    As Europe’s power shrinks, its fear is growing – and the result is huge mistakes

    Nathalie Tocci
  • Richard Gadd and Jessica Gunning in Netflix’s Baby Reindeer.

    Should Baby Reindeer’s creator have written about his alleged stalker? I did the same thing – and it helped me heal

    Paul Burston
  • Former army lawyer David McBride

    The jailing of David McBride is a dark day for democracy and press freedom in Australia

    Kieran Pender and Peter Greste
  • illustration: Eleanor Shakespeare

    Millions of British children born since 2010 have only known poverty. My £3bn plan would give them hope

    Gordon Brown
  • Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez

    The Guardian view
    Catalonia’s election: moving on from nationalism’s high tide

Sport

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Climate crisis

  • A woman placing a sign reading 'Life Without Plastic Is Fantastic' on an installation of plastic bottles in Ottawa, Canada

    Fossil fuels
    Firms forcing countries to compensate them, Mary Robinson says

  • huge red fire photographed from the air at night

    Canada
    Thousands evacuated as intense wildfire approaches town

  • Climate protesters holding up banners reading 'green energy is cheap energy'

    Environment
    UK ‘net zero’ project will produce 20m tonnes of carbon pollution, say experts

  • Two Colombian police officers taking away cages of small birds

    Illegal wildlife trade
    Global wildlife crime causing ‘untold harm’, UN report finds

Around the world

  • Dozens of war-displaced people stand in the courtyard of an elementary school where they have taken refuge in Minova, South Kivu province, in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo

    'Lives torn apart'
    Global violence causing record numbers of internally displaced people

    Conflicts in Gaza, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have led to a total of 68m IDPs across the world
  • A crowd of men, some holding up guns

    Yemen
    US gives Saudis green light to try to revive peace deal with Houthis

  • Students pictured from behind while sitting in a lecture at university

    UK
    No evidence foreign students are abusing graduate visas, review finds

  • Box and tube of Ozempic drug

    Heart attacks
    Weight loss drug could reduce risk by 20%, study finds

    • Australia
      Former army lawyer sentenced to five years for leaking Afghanistan war documents

    • European Union
      Ministers mount last-ditch attempt to save laws on restoring nature

    • 'Eliminating our reliance on Russia'
      Biden signs bipartisan bill banning imports of Russian uranium

    • Vodafone
      Firm hails turnaround progress as Germany returns to growth

    • Baltimore bridge collapse
      Army blows up largest damaged section of Francis Scott Key Bridge – video

    • US military
      Ex-intelligence official says he quit over ‘moral injury’ of Gaza war

Culture

  • July Miranda c Elizabeth Weinberg high res

    Book of the day
    All Fours by Miranda July review – a miraculous midlife road trip

    The US film-maker and artist’s wide-ranging second novel is a funny, sad and revealing journey of maternal self-discovery
  • Debonair yet untamed … David Sanborn in 1980.

    David Sanborn
    Jazz saxophonist known for work with David Bowie and more dies aged 78

  • Illustration of a character with a raven

    Charles Dickens
    Pets that inspired author lionised in London exhibition

  • Jazzara Jaslyn and Adrian Galley in A Family Affair

    A Family Affair review
    Wellness-retreat comedy goes lowest common denominator

  • Judi Dench

    Judi Dench
    Actor on trigger warnings: if you’re that sensitive, avoid the theatre

  • Man wearing cap, leather jacket and white T-shirt

    US charts
    Kendrick Lamar’s Drake diss track debuts at No 1

Lifestyle

  • a collage of photos of Kayla King, including pictures from her tiktok and pictures of her with her fiance

    'Just sharing the wealth’
    The bride-to-be proving you don’t have to be an influencer to get free stuff

    Kayla King figured it couldn’t hurt to ask brands for a little help. Now she’s saved a bundle, and she’s ‘sharing the wealth’
  • ‘I can action that for you going forward, my little summer squash.’

    Pass notes
    Spice up your spreadsheets! Should you run your relationship like a business?

  • Lilttle Simz for Gucci

    ‘Where people are sharing energies’
    Why Sabato de Sarno is bringing Gucci’s latest show to London

  • black and white photo of a man and woman cuddling

    ‘I often say the journey time is longer’
    How to make sex after 50 work for you

  • Climate Heroes Radical Clothing Swap 1

    Fast fashion
    It is wasteful, and thrifting is flawed. The solution: swap!

  • ‘It’s such a joyous experience’ … Margaret Bending.

    A new start after 60
    I’ve been a rocket scientist and a teacher – but I love being an actor

Take part

  • 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

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

    Luxury goods sector
    Are you splurging on luxury goods you can ill afford?

  • Hands Up<br>Large party group of people holding their arms and hands high in the air during an Outdoor Concert

    Music
    Tell us your experiences of making a living from music

  • 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

  • Four African women talk in a dimly lit communal area

    Celebrate, remember and reframe
    The therapy sessions healing South Africa’s women

    As the trauma of apartheid, crime and violence continue to ripple through society, a counselling initiative by Tree of Life creator Ncazelo Ncube-Mlilo is helping ease the pain
  • Paul Marshall

    Sir Paul Marshall
    How faith drives bidder for UK's Daily Telegraph who wields growing influence on Tories

  • A kindergarten recently flattened by a Russian missile

    ‘We tell them to go’
    Civilian life on the edge of Russia’s advance in eastern Ukraine

  • Six white men and women stand in a line in front of a row of American flags, with everyone dressed in black and dark blue except Melania, who wears a lime green dress.

    Analysis
    Florida is a prime example of Trump’s vise grip on state Republican parties

  • Heat pump illustration

    Heat pump mythbusters
    Are heat pumps more expensive to run than gas boilers?

  • Guardian G2<br>Labour MP Margaret Hodge photographed at&nbsp;Portcullis House. Feature on MP retiring.

    ‘We had money! It was brilliant!’
    Margaret Hodge on Labour governments, life as a migrant and quitting as an MP

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  • Soft-serve chocolate ice-cream cone.

    Butt seriously
    Why you might be pooing wrong – and what to do about it

  • Protesters wave Georgian and EU flags outside the Georgian parliament

    ‘Whole country will strike’
    Protesters vow to keep fighting Georgia’s ‘foreign agents’ bill

  • Wiwa women, in their traditional white dress, spin the yarn to weave handbags

    ‘We saw our family members cut into pieces’
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  • Rishi Sunak speaking at an AI safety summit

    Science
    Backstabbing, bluffing and playing dead: has AI learned to deceive? – podcast

  • Anti-immigrant protesters wave Irish flags while confronting line of police officers

    Today in Focus
    The growing tensions over immigration in Ireland

  • Rishi Sunak

    Rishi Sunak
    Politics Weekly Westminster: Rishi Sunak’s big security pitch – podcast

  • Manchester United v Arsenal FC - Premier League<br>MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - MAY 12: Leandro Trossard of Arsenal celebrates scoring his team's first goal during the Premier League match between Manchester United and Arsenal FC at Old Trafford on May 12, 2024 in Manchester, England. (Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images)

    Football Weekly
    The Premier League title race goes to final day – Football Weekly podcast

  • Palestinians in residential buildings in Rafah, February 2024. Photograph: Fatima Shbair/AP

    The Audio Long Read
    ‘A new abyss’: Gaza and the hundred years’ war on Palestine – podcast

  • Young girl using an iPhone

    Today in Focus
    Put it down! Should children be allowed smartphones?

  • Josh O'Connor portrait photographed for the Observer New Review

    Weekend
    Weekend podcast: Josh O’Connor on Zendaya and gardening; Marina Hyde on the Met Gala; being a boy in 2024; and Philippa Perry offers advice on leaving a legacy

In pictures

  • Meticulous re-creations … Plate 1, Astrup’s Horn by Tonje Bøe Birkeland.

    See things differently
    The best of Photo London

    From naked Japanese bathing to mesmerising mountain expeditions, these fantastic images light up this year’s photography extravaganza
  • A man sits in front of a digital screen displaying the portraits of more than 1,500 people

    Photos of the day
    A memorial in Israel and mourning in Gaza

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