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  • A Palestinian family on a truck with all their belongings seen from the back on a road with a shopping trolley and tents

    Rafah
    More than 100,000 flee as Israel steps up strikes, says UN

    Deep concern displaced people will return to rubble of former homes without ‘basic essentials necessary for life’
    • Rear view of troops with fixed bayonets in front of Xi and Sulyok with part of Hungarian flag visible

      Xi Jinping
      Hungary rolls out red carpet in final leg of European tour

    • Brian Wilson
      Judge places Beach Boys’ co-founder in conservatorship

    • Neuralink
      Elon Musk-owned company’s first implant partly detached from patient’s brain

    • Vladimir Putin
      President watches Russian military parade featuring a solitary, Soviet-era tank

    • Ukraine war briefing
      Zelenskiy fires top bodyguard after failed assassination attempt

    • 'On the first day'
      Trump vowed to scrap climate laws if oil bosses donated $1bn to 2024 campaign

    • Air Vanuatu
      Flights cancelled and tourists stranded as airline put into voluntary liquidation

    • Eurovision
      Israel qualifies for song contest final despite protests

News in focus

  • An undated photo of a younger Lawrence Hecker.

    ‘It wasn’t a big deal’
    Secret deposition reveals how a child molester priest was shielded by his church

  • Illustration showing a protester, a ballot box, a hamburger and an aeroplane, with a tree in silhouette behind

    Explainer
    What are the most powerful climate actions you can take? The expert view

    Voting tops the list for the world’s leading climate scientists in a year when billions of voters go to the polls
  • book cover on top of barbed wire

    America’s unseen book bans
    The long history of censorship in prisons

    Tens of thousands of books are banned in US prisons, in an often arbitrary process that limits education opportunities

Spotlight

  • Supplied images for Biodiesel story Papua new Guinea Kulili Tractors run on biodiesel to collect Cocoa

    Fruit fuel
    How the humble coconut is starting to power parts of Papua New Guinea

    Coconut biodiesel offers a cheaper alternative to fuel imports and scientists in the Pacific country are looking at how to use it more widely
  • Taylor Swift on stage dressed in a red bodysuit holding up a microphone

    Taylor Swift
    Pop star debuts new tracks as she returns to The Eras Tour

  • images of two students and a person sitting on a lawn surrounded by signs

    ‘A slap in the face’
    Students blast cancellation of commencements

    Universities across the US are dropping or shrinking graduation ceremonies as pro-Palestinian protests continue
  • Sugar comes in many different forms. This blend contains sugars from Barbados, Colombia and India, which have variations in color, texture and taste.

    ‘Sugar is brown!’
    There’s more to the sweet stuff than its pure white version

    Sugar’s texture and taste can be as individualistic as coffee beans or wine grapes grown in specific regions, but most of us don’t know that
    • man on a stage in front of side by side pictures of a man and a woman

      Seth Meyers on Stormy Daniels testimony
      ‘How are they going to teach this era of history in high school?’

    • Painting: An Old Woman Cooking Eggs (1618) by Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez

      Leading questions
      My mother spends her days serving a ‘holy man’. How can I make her see he is not a positive force?

    • Lola Alexander and Ursula Finke 1946

      Holocaust
      Descendants of survivors celebrate hidden ‘queer love story’

    • Ian MchShane in 2019.

      Ian McShane
      When I was about to get it on with Richard Burton, he said I reminded him of Elizabeth

Opinion

  • The new Boxberg solar park, built on a former open-pit coal mine in Nochten, Germany.

    I understand climate scientists’ despair – but stubborn optimism may be our only hope

    Christiana Figueres
    Fighting spirit helped us achieve the Paris accords in 2015 – and we need it now, says climate expert Christiana Figueres
  • two men sitting next to each other in front of israeli flags

    Will Biden finally stop enabling Netanyahu’s extremist government?

    Mohamad Bazzi
  • Stephanie Clifford,Stormy Daniels,Susan Necheles,DonaldTrump<br>In this courtroom sketch, defense attorney Susan Necheles, center, cross examines Stormy Daniels, far right, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, as former President Donald Trump, left, looks on with Judge Juan Merchan presiding during Trump's trial in Manhattan criminal court, Tuesday, May 7, 2024, in New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

    Mockery, low tactics, sexist tropes: gloriously, Stormy Daniels is repaying Donald Trump in kind

    Emma Brockes
  • AfD supporters marking German Unity Day in Berlin, Germany, 3 October 2023

    As Germany’s postwar constitution turns 75, threats to its democracy are looming

    John Kampfner
  • Moira Donegan

    Stormy Daniels’s testimony paints a dark picture of Trump’s view of sex and power

    Moira Donegan
  • Ben Jennings on Joe Biden’s threat to withhold some weapons sales to Israel – cartoon

    Cartoon
    Ben Jennings on Joe Biden’s threat to withhold some weapons sales to Israel

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Sport

  • Josip Stanisic celebrates his injury-time equaliser against Roma.

    Leverkusen 2-2 Roma (4-2 agg)
    Stanisic rescues unbeaten record as hosts reach Europa League final

    A 97th-minute goal from Josip Stanisic secured Bayer Leverkusen a 2-2 draw and a 4-2 aggregate win against Roma in their Europa League semi-final
  • Ayoub El Kaabi celebrates after scoring for Olympiakos against Aston Villa at the Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium.

    Olympiakos 2-0 Aston Villa (6-2 agg)
    El Kaabi’s double crushes Villans

Climate crisis

  • The Mauna Loa Observatory atmospheric research facility

    Greenhouse gas emissions
    Record-breaking increase in CO2 levels in world’s atmosphere

  • Images taken from the Guardian’s climate coverage over the past decade including floods in Pakistan and forest fires in western USA

    ‘The stakes could not be higher’
    World is on edge of climate abyss, UN warns

  • Researchers from Brazil's state-run Fiocruz Institute shine a light on a bat

    Environment
    Biodiversity loss is 'biggest driver of infectious disease outbreaks'

  • Image of a wildfire with a temperature gauge graphic superimposed on it

    Climate crisis
    World’s top scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target

Around the world

  • David Cameron stands at a podium

    Israel
    David Cameron says UK will not follow US in withholding arms sales

    Foreign secretary says British weapons position different to US, but UK does not support Rafah invasion without civilian protection plan
  • Diagram of a neuron with its axons

    Science
    Scientists find 57,000 cells and 150m neural connections in tiny sample of human brain

  • A person making a hand gesture with the thumb and little finger extended and curling down the middle three fingers.

    Talk to the hand
    Hawaii makes shaka state’s official gesture

  • brown horse stands on strips of land surrounded by water

    Brazil floods
    Horse stranded on roof is rescued as death toll rises to 107 people

    • Toomaj Salehi
      Coldplay and Sting call for release of Iranian rapper sentenced to death

    • US-Mexico border
      Biden officials propose denying some migrants earlier in asylum process

    • 'A six-worm handicap'
      RFK Jr says he’ll eat brain worms and ‘still beat’ Biden and Trump in debate

    • Utah
      Two skiers killed and one rescued after avalanche in mountains

    • UCLA
      More than 800 faculty and staff call for chancellor’s resignation

    • Alabama
      Nitrogen-gas execution set for man who survived botched 2022 effort

Culture

  • Dennis Shepard

    ‘There’s no forgiveness in us’
    25 years after Matthew Shepard’s murder, his parents want the world to remember

  • Peter Jackson and Andy Serkis.

    The Hunt for Gollum
    Peter Jackson and Andy Serkis to work on new Lord of the Rings film

  • Knocked Loose.

    Hardcore punk’s dark stars go supermassive
    Knocked Loose: You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To review

  • Holly Ross and her husband, David Blackwell, AKA the Lovely Eggs

    ‘The music industry is smoke and mirrors’
    How DIY duo the Lovely Eggs are keeping the north weird

Lifestyle

  • Black-and-white image of two white children, perhaps from the 50s or made to look like it's from the 50s, with the little boy blowing up a balloon over the head of the little girl, who is grimacing with her eyes closed and sticking her fingers in her ears.

    'The least studied of all human emotions'
    What makes people annoying?

    ‘Annoyance is probably the most widely experienced and least studied of all human emotions,’ say the experts – here’s what we know, and how to deal
  • G2 - The experts: Therapists on body confidence (inside) WEB

    Ditch the mirror and celebrate your strengths
    Therapists on 20 ways to boost your body confidence

  • French bakers with a big baguette

    Thursday quiz
    Musical riots, 1984 books, and extra-long bread

  • Dorie Greenspan's smoked salmon dutch baby.

    Dutch baby and ricotta crostata
    Dorie Greenspan’s New York-style brunch recipes

  • Sculpted Dress composite

    Dada meets dresses
    Why clothes that look like sculptures are all the rage

  • Barb Jungr and Julian Clary, pictured at The Café Carlyle in 2009

    Celebrity how we met
    How Julian Clary and Barb Jungr met: ‘We both follow our hearts – and we both have psychic skills’

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

  • Signs and flags are seen on the property of William Denby, Ontario, Canada on April 25, 2024. (Cole Burston)

    Canada
    Is a previously unheard-of First Nation just the latest Pretendian case?

    Local chiefs claim Kawartha Lakes First Nation is part of a wave of cases in which people falsely claim Indigenous identity
  • book cover on top of barbed wire

    America’s unseen book bans
    The long history of censorship in prisons

  • White man wearing blue suit and orange tie opens his mouth

    Analysis
    Trump’s strategy to delay cases before the election is working

  • Yevhen Miezientsev (left) and Mykola Misechko on top of a high-rise apartment block in Kyiv.

    Judges with machine guns
    The part-time drone hunters defending Kyiv

  • Out-of-focus blue 'Keep abortion legal' sign with a person holds a sign in the back

    ‘This is not a ploy’
    Abortion rights activists worry about Democrats piggybacking on the cause

  • Steve Albini at his recording studio in Chicago.

    From Big Black’s noise to Joanna Newsom’s hush
    10 of Steve Albini’s greatest recordings

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  • Natalie Elphicke and Keir Starmer sitting on armchairs talking one another (Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire)

    Today in Focus
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  • People flee the eastern parts of Rafah in Gaza. Photo by Aaed Baker/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock

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    Russia
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    Vladimir Putin celebrated Victory Day in Russia, which marks the defeat of Nazi Germany in the second world war, with a display of patriotic pageantry. He praised his forces fighting in Ukraine and criticised the west for fuelling conflicts around the world
  • Russian service members march in columns past an honour guard during a military parade

    Photos of the day
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  • A black-and-white photo of a child standing beside a washing machine in a laundrette, with a baby in a pram just outside the window

    The last gasp
    Hull life during the fishing industry’s death

  • A composite image of a flag on the moon, a woman using a payphone and a blurred photo of a car driving under a crimson sky

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