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  • A Ukrainian serviceman stands near an artillery position on the outskirts of Chasiv Yar.

    Live
    Russia-Ukraine war: Poland is ready to host nuclear weapons, says president

  • Terry Anderson smiles and raises his arms in the air with two men standing behind him

    Terry Anderson
    US journalist held hostage in Lebanon in 1980s dies

    • Global defence
      Budget jumps to record high of $2440bn

    • Environment
      Europe baked in ‘extreme heat stress’ pushing temperatures to record highs

    • South China Sea
      Beijing warns against flexing of ‘gunboat muscles’ as US and Philippines begin military drills

    • UK
      Refugee who left for holiday in 2008 stranded in east Africa for 16 years

    • Venice Biennale
      ‘Luminous’ truck strap artwork wins prestigious prize in first for New Zealand

    • Japan
      ‘Horizontally’ recycled nappies go on sale in world first

News in focus

  • Large electricity generators, fuelled by diesel, in the streets of Beirut, Lebanon.

    ‘Where can you hide from pollution?’
    Cancer rises 30% in Beirut as diesel generators poison city

  • From left to right: Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Mexico's opposition presidential candidate, Xóchitl Gálvez, Mariana Mortágua, leader of Bloco de Esquerda, Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley and Claudia Sheinbaum.

    Year of elections
    More people will vote in 2024 than ever before … but where are the female candidates?

  • Ukrainian soldiers load artillery rounds

    Explainer
    How might new US aid change the war in Ukraine?

    Russian invasion has gained ground in 2024 as Ukraine ran out of artillery, but a $61bn US aid package finally looks imminent

Spotlight

  • Colorized engraving shows a portrait of British poet and writer George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824), early 1800s. (Photo by Stock Montage/Getty Images)

    'He gave us his everything, he gave us his life'
    Two centuries on, Greece loves Byron more than ever

    200 years after the revolutionary Romantic poet’s death, Greeks are celebrating his place in their national pantheon
  • ‘It was crazy and it was freezing’ … Lil Nas X’s tastefully pixelated Industry Baby video.

    ‘I want to show more crotch!’
    Sean Bankhead on his raunchy dances for Beyoncé, Cardi B, Lil Nas X and more

  • A wooden bench in the Sonian Forest in Belgium.

    ‘You can’t love something that isn’t there’
    Readers on changes to the natural world around them

    Swallows, cuckoos, curlews – so many species have dwindled or disappeared completely, and people are mourning their loss
  • A young rebel fighter in Liberia.

    ‘He could create beauty out of horror’
    The extraordinary life and photography of Tim Hetherington

    • Boy's face poking out of water

      The origin of all things
      Kyotographie 2024 – a photo essay

    • Commercial solar panels on agricultural land.

      Portugal election analysis
      Far right’s rise could threaten ambitious climate action

    • Phil Daoust, covered in electrodes for his polysomnogram.

      My insomnia hell
      Sleeplessness is a curse – but I think I finally have the answer

    • Nancy Beiman sketches a character from FurBabies

      A new start after 60
      I gave up teaching, started doodling – and became a cartoonist

Opinion

  • Ukrainian servicemen from an air defence unit at their position near Kyiv, Ukraine, November 2023

    The west defends Israel’s skies. Not doing the same for Ukraine is a deadly mistake

    Nathalie Tocci
    In Kyiv, I saw life under Russian aerial attack. If Europe doesn’t share its air defence systems now, Putin’s threat will only spread, says Guardian Europe columnist Nathalie Tocci
  • Foreign Office, London

    Ravaged by austerity, chastened by Brexit: how can Britain have influence abroad when it’s broken at home?

    Nesrine Malik
  • Only the route and ruins remain from the Denniston Incline which transported coal from a 600 meter high plateau to the coast.<br>HEH7T4 Only the route and ruins remain from the Denniston Incline which transported coal from a 600 meter high plateau to the coast.

    New Zealand plans to put big developments before the environment. That’s dangerous

    Nicola Wheen and Andrew Geddis
  • Pregnant women

    My twin babies didn’t survive their premature birth – and I’m left to wonder why

    Sara Mussa
  • woman with small child

    Why I quit
    Life as a YouTube creator was great, but 12 years in, I felt like I was trapped on a hamster wheel

    Hannah Witton
  • Message in Tel Aviv in support of hostages kidnapped on 7 October.

    My parents were taken hostage on 7 October. This Passover, we pray for leaders who bring dignity and peace

    Sharone Lifschitz

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Climate crisis

  • A woman fans herself as she and another woman walk across a street

    Weather tracker
    Mexico swelters under season’s first heatwave

  • Steve Backshall, the naturalist, scuba dives on the reefs of the Maldives for the BBC’s Our Changing Planet.

    Coral reefs
    Scientists’ experiment is ‘beacon of hope’ for ecosystems on brink of global collapse

  • EasyJet and Ryanair aircraft are parked at Luton Airport

    Airline industry
    UK airline emissions on track to reach record high in 2024

  • Beef cattle in a field

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

Around the world

  • Supporters of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro hold up a sign saying ‘Thank you Elon Musk'

    Brazil
    Bolsonaro supporters hit streets of Rio and hail new hero Elon Musk

    Owner of X has used social media platform to bash judge in charge of investigations into former president
  • A polling station that was damaged by a crowd during the first phase of elections in Manipur, India.

    India
    Manipur to rerun election at some polling booths after violence

  • A tree strewn with bras in an outback setting

    ‘An unexplained phenomenon’
    The Australian obsession for putting stuff in trees

  • man speaks at podium amid officers outdoors, with the water in the background

    Racist dog whistle
    The right wing has weaponised ‘DEI’

    • Maldives
      Pro-China party wins landslide victory in parliamentary elections

    • Australia
      ‘Overwhelming’ need for royal commission into Covid pandemic response, Senate committee finds

    • Salman Rushdie
      Author warns young people against forgetting value of free speech

    • Grindr
      Lawsuit in London to allege app shared users’ HIV status with ad firms

    • Iraq
      Militant group says it is resuming attacks on US forces as base in Syria is targeted

    • Tesla
      Car firm cuts prices around the world as sales decline in a chaotic week

Cotton Capital: ongoing series

  • Black man with very long dreads, wearing black T-shirt, cream blazer, and gray khakis poses in front of long chalkboard between two chairs.

    ‘I Gullah Geechee, too’
    The educators keeping a language of enslaved Africans alive

  • 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

  • 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

  • The Spice Girls: Melanie B, Melanie C, Geri Halliwell, Victoria Adams And Emma Bunton

    Spice Girls
    Band reunite at Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday party

    David Beckham shares video of former girl group singing their hit Stop at private club Oswald’s in London, as Mel B hints at a tour
  • A missing persons poster with the three actors who starred in The Blair Witch Project: Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard and Michael Williams

    The Blair Witch Project
    Original cast ask for retroactive payments as reboot announced

  • Kubrick looks toward camera and gestures over the top of a film camera

    ‘He erased the entire project’
    The book Stanley Kubrick didn’t want anyone to read to be published

  • Startling if morbid … Félix Bruzzone in Camouflage

    Camouflage review
    The dark past of Argentina’s dirty war detention centres

  • Jan Smuts holds the author’s mother (his granddaughter), Sibella Clark, in the doorway of Hindhayes, Street, Somerset, 1944.

    Moederland: Nine Daughters of South Africa review
    My ancestors’ role in the horror of apartheid

  • Spy x Family Code White

    Spy x Family Code: White review
    Ingenious espionage antics with special-power family

Lifestyle

  • The author, leaning out of a stable door. She has her hair in braids and wears glasses. She is smiling.

    Europe holidays
    Autism makes travel a challenge. Here’s how I learned to cope

    Busy places and unexpected events used to send me into meltdown on holiday. An autism diagnosis helped me to adapt my plans and rediscover the joy of travelling

  • Edith Pritchett's Venn diagrams
    Runners’ nipples and coastlines in extreme weather

  • Manteca in east London serves half a pig’s head, slow cooked for 14 hours, on its menu.

    ‘Everyone wants roast pig’s head’
    UK chefs put offal centre stage with ‘confrontational’ dishes

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    Ask Philippa
    As an immigrant I’m undervalued, and my wife has no sympathy

  • Baklava Cheesecake Georgina Hayden Greekish

    Greekish recipes by Georgina Hayden
    Sticky aubergine tart, sea bass with pistachio pesto, baklava cheesecake

  • Tidying and cleaning feature studio shoot

    Clean like you mean it
    The ultimate guide to spring cleaning your home

Take part

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    Taylor Swift
    Share your thoughts Swift’s new album The Tortured Poets Department

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

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

  • 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

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

    Wedding photography
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From our global editions

  • Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

    Ukraine war briefing
    Zelenskiy urges US Senate to rapidly ratify aid package

    Ukrainian president says priorities are air-defence systems and long-range missiles. What we know on day 789
  • An image of shed antlers lying in dry grass

    $18k in stolen antlers
    Poaching on the rise in Wyoming as collectors ‘cheat the system’

  • Two white men dressed in 80s-style suits sit in the back of a nice car.

    The Apprentice
    Jeremy Strong and Sebastian Stan in biography of young Trump and his mentor

  • A Black woman with chin-length twists, a kelly green short-sleeve blouse, long pearl necklaces and bracelets, leans with folded arms on a brick wall in dappled shade, looking to the right.

    Profile
    Flojaune Cofer: surprise progressive star in California capital’s mayoral race

  • US tennis doubles partners Helen Wills, left, and Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman in action during the 1924 Olympics.

    The 1924 Paris Olympics saved the Games. Can this year’s event repeat that success?

    David Goldblatt
  • Claudia de Rham sits in front of a blackboard covered with equations at Imperial College London

    Physicist Claudia de Rham
    Gravity connects everything, from a person to a planet

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    ‘We went from naive, hippyish protesters to hardcore anarchists’
    The criminal justice bill protests, 30 years on

  • Satellite image of Iran’s nuclear programme site in Isfahan, Iran.

    Analysis
    Muted Iranian reaction to attack provides short-term wins for Netanyahu

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Podcasts

  • Palestinian Hamas supporters shout anti-Israel slogans during a rally in Gaza, January 2006. Photograph: Mohammed Salem/Reuters

    The Audio Long Read
    What is the real Hamas? – podcast

  • A teengaer sits on the edge of a bed, using a laptop and wearing headphones. The blurred view from the large window in the room is dominated by skyscrapers

    Today in Focus
    Where does the Cass review leave trans teenagers?

  • Recovering former art dealer Orlando Whitfield

    Weekend
    Weekend podcast: the extraordinary story of the biggest art fraud in American history, plus Zoe Williams on Liz Truss

  • Illustration: Dakarai Akil/The Guardian/Getty/Timestamp Media

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    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

In pictures

  • Lil Uzi Vert performs at the 2nd weekend of the Coachella Valley Music

    London Marathon and Coachella
    Photos of the weekend

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • Paris 2024 kits and uniforms from Japan, USA (modelled by Sha’Carri Richardson), France, Great Britain (modelled by Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake) and Australia

    Designers, denims and diversity
    Paris Olympic and Paralympic kit unveilings

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    The big picture
    Gueorgui Pinkhassov’s shadow play in a 90s Tokyo hotel

  • A detail from a portrait of an Inuit man with his child by Beverly Bennett Dobbs.

    ‘Remarkable for their intimacy’
    Portraits of Indigenous Alaskans

  • A woman in a bright red dress on a stadium track

    Kamzy Nuel’s best phone picture
    ‘The model loved the departure from traditional portraiture’

  • The volcano in Grindavik erupts beneath the northern lights.

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