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  • Dubai
    Desert city floods as UAE hit by heaviest rainfall in 75 years

    City records over 120mm of rain in a day, about as much as it expects in a year as rain floods highways and homes

    • Julian Assange
      US provides assurances to prevent appeal against extradition

    • US supreme court
      Justices sceptical of using obstruction law in January 6 cases

    • UK
      MPs vote for smoking ban despite Tories’ division over policy

    • Italy
      Measures passed to allow anti-abortion activists to enter abortion clinics

    • Naked Gun
      Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson to star in remake

News in focus

  • NSW forensic police at Christ The Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley, western Sydney, on Tuesday.

    Sydney church stabbing
    How an alleged attack on a firebrand preacher reignited tensions

  • heavily damaged building

    ‘Anything could happen’
    Gaza Strip left hanging while Israel plots response to Iran’s attack

    The strikes ordered by Tehran may have bought Palestinians some time ahead of Israel’s planned ground invasion of Rafah
  • A Ukrainian serviceman walks past damaged buildings.

    Russia-Ukraine war
    Who will finance Ukraine’s defence?

    With US funding stalled in Congress, how else might Ukraine be armed?

Spotlight

  • The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, An American Bombing

    ‘More than just a crime story’
    The Oklahoma City bombing and a rise in domestic terrorism

    The documentary An American Bombing shows how the 1995 act of terror, which killed 168 people, spoke to an increase in US anti-government extremism
  • Sexual Healing composite image of a woman, cross-legged, looking pensively to the left

    I used to love sex
    But my boyfriend’s premature ejaculation is turning me off it – and him

  • Damon Albarn on stage at Coachella in California

    Tantrums of the rich and famous
    Nine acts that turned on their audience – from Elton to Bieber to Blur

    This week, Damon Albarn took umbrage at a Coachella crowd who failed to sing along. But he is far from the worst offender
  • Jon Stewart on Trump allegedly falling asleep during the first day of his criminal trial: “Imagine committing so many crimes, you get bored at your own trial.”

    Jon Stewart on Trump’s trial nap
    ‘Imagine committing so many crimes, you get bored at your own trial’

    Late-night hosts discuss the first day of Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York, for alleged hush-money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels
    • Archie Moore's presentation in the Australia Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

      ‘Very totemic and very Aboriginal’
      Australia’s entry at Venice Biennale is a family tree going back 65,000 years

    • Men standing on a platform lowering a wall panel

      ‘A roof over our people’s heads’
      The Indigenous tribe building hempcrete homes

    • Lego artist Nathan Sawaya with his sculpture Big Yellow

      ‘It is a job, not a hobby’
      The Wall Street lawyer who quit to make Lego art

    • Francesco Vezzoli Le Gant d’amour (After de Chirico and Jean Genet), 2010 [Detail] Stampa su tela, ricamo metallico, bigiotteria, carta Inkjet print on canvas, metallic embroidery, custom jewelry, paper 74.5 x 61.5 cmFrancesco Vezzoli Portrait of Paulina Porizkova as a Renaissance Madonna with Holy Child crying Salvador Dalì's jewels (After Lorenzo Lotto), 2011 Stampa inkjet su tela, ricamo metallico e in cotone, stoffa, bigiotteria, acquarello, cornice d’artista Inkjet print on canvas, metallic and cotton embroidery, fabric, custom jewelry, watercolour 115 x 80 cm

      ‘It’s a queered up history of art’
      The provocateur turning Gaga and Kardashian into weeping saints

Opinion

  • ‘The last thing Americans need is a large expansion of government surveillance.’

    The US isn’t just reauthorizing its surveillance laws – it’s vastly expanding them

    Caitlin Vogus
    A little-known amendment to the reauthorized version of Fisa would enlarge the government’s surveillance powers to a drastic, draconian degree
  • Damp squib? … US vice-president Kamala Harris at an event to prevent gun violence, Las Vegas, April 2024

    How did Kamala Harris go from being a rising star to a damp squib?

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Red, white, black and green Palestinian flag in front of the White House

    Civilian deaths in Gaza rival those of Darfur – which the US called a ‘genocide’

    Alan J Kuperman
  • ‘There are currently nearly 10,000 active satellites and companies are working as fast as possible to get … a projected 1m in the next three to four decades.’

    Dead satellites are filling space with trash. That could affect Earth’s magnetic field

    Sierra Solter
  • close-up of three Dr Martens boots, black, white and red, in the window of a store: they have red and white or red and green laces, and the yellow stitching on their soles can be seen clearly

    Dr Martens investors should be kicking themselves

    Nils Pratley
  • Cartoon by Martin Rowson

    Cartoon
    Martin Rowson on UK PM Rishi Sunak’s tobacco and vapes bill

Sport

  • Kylian Mbappé and his PSG teammates dance and celebrate their stunning comeback victory

    Barcelona 1-4 PSG (4-6 agg)
    Mbappé seals wild comeback win after Araújo red card

    Kylian Mbappé’s double helped PSG stun Barcelona 4-1, 6-4 overall, in their Champions League quarter-final after Ronald Araújo’s first-half dismissal
  • Marcel Sabitzer celebrates after scoring Borussia Dortmund’s aggregate winner

    Dortmund 4-2 Atlético (5-4 agg)
    Hosts win thrilling seesaw contest to reach last four

  • Phil Foden scores a spectacular second goal for Manchester City in the 3-3 draw in the Champions League quarter-final first leg in Madrid

    Champions League
    City are holders, but Madrid’s kings must still be dethroned

  • Tara Davis-Woodhall’s comments on Team USA’s Olympic uniforms attracted worldwide attention

    ‘The picture did no justice’
    US athletes retreat from criticism of ‘hoo haa’ uniform

    Several Team USA athletes said they have changed their opinion on Nike’s Olympic uniforms after reviewing the designs in more detail
    • Mikel Arteta takes a walk on the Allianz Arena pitch

      Champions League
      Arsenal arrive in Munich with destiny still in their hands

    • Real Madrid v Manchester City, UEFA Champions League, Quarter Final, First Leg, Football, Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, Madrid, Spain - 09 Apr 2024<br>EDITORIAL USE ONLY No use with unauthorised audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or "live" services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images, no video emulation. No use in betting, games or single club/league/player publications. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Javier Garcia/REX/Shutterstock (14424044fh) Ruben Dias of Manchester City and Jude Bellingham of Real Madrid Real Madrid v Manchester City, UEFA Champions League, Quarter Final, First Leg, Football, Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, Madrid, Spain - 09 Apr 2024

      Champions League
      Bellingham: joining Real Madrid was a ‘no-brainer’

    • Britain's Tom Dean reacts in disbelief after winning gold in the men's 200m freestyle at the Tokyo Games

      ‘We work as hard’
      Team GB swimmers want Olympic prize money as well

    • The Lakers' LeBron James, left, and the Warriors' Steph Curry talk with each other after a January game at Chase Center in San Francisco, California.

      LeBron James
      NBA superstar remains one of one in golden era of older talent

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Climate crisis

  • Navagio beach in Zakynthos, Greece

    Environment
    Greece becomes first European country to ban bottom trawling in marine parks

  • Two men stand with sound booms in a state park in California

    Soundscapes
    World faces ‘deathly silence’ of nature as wildlife disappears, warn experts

  • Image of green hills and trees overlaid with sound bars

    No birdsong, no water in the creek, no beating wings
    How a haven for nature fell silent

  • <strong>Rio Costilla NM Comanche Point in the Valle Vidal Geriant Smith</strong>

    New Mexico
    State’s rivers are most threatened waterways in US, report finds

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Around the world

  • US House Managers Deliver Articles of Impeachment Against US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas to the US Senate, Washington, District of Columbia, USA - 16 Apr 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by REX/Shutterstock (14438524h) United States Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (Republican of Georgia) along with other House Impeachment Managers walk back to the House side of the Capitol after having delivered the articles of impeachment of United States Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate Chamber. US House Managers Deliver Articles of Impeachment Against US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas to the US Senate, Washington, District of Columbia, USA - 16 Apr 2024

    Alejandro Mayorkas
    US House Republicans present impeachment articles to Senate

    Democratic members have argued the articles are a matter of policy dispute and not ‘high crimes’ outlined in the constitution
  • the House of Lords fairly full

    UK
    Rwanda bill delayed for at least a day after Lords pass amendments

  • A woman lights candles in her store after a programed power cut ordered by the ministry of energy, in Quito, Ecuador, Tuesday, April 16, 2024. Ecuador faces electricity rationing due to a prolonged drought and high temperatures that have reduced flows to the main hydroelectric plants. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

    Ecuador
    Country rations power as Andean drought tightens grip

  • Farage at mic with hand in air

    Brussels
    UK and Belgian PM criticise mayor’s halting of rightwing political conference

    • Georgia
      MPs agree draft of ‘repressive’ foreign agents bill amid protests

    • Ford Bronco
      Vehicle used in OJ Simpson's 1994 slow-speed police chase up for sale

    • Denmark
      Artworks carried to safety as fire blazes at Copenhagen’s old stock exchange

    • US
      Man who deflected hockey puck flying directly at boy, 4, hailed as hero

    • Federal Reserve
      Powell says high inflation likely to delay rate cuts this year

    • California
      Pilot and his dog survive plane crash after swimming to shore

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

  • Installation image of Hidden Faces

    ‘It’s very playful’
    Inside the world of hidden Renaissance portraits

    A new exhibition at the Met looks at the practice of hiding portraits attached to other portraits and the many reasons artists chose to be secretive with their work
  • Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov and translator Angela Rodel after they won the 2023 International Booker prize for translated fiction for Time Shelter.

    Books
    Survey finds generative AI proving major threat to the work of translators

Lifestyle

  • That sinking feeling … James Cameron, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet on the set of Titanic

    The Titanic drug poisoning
    Is one of the greatest mysteries in film history about to be solved?

    While filming the epic movie, 80 people – including James Cameron and Bill Paxton – were hospitalised after their food was spiked with PCP. Who was behind the psychedelic clam chowder?
  • Mary Dispenza, former nun and sexual assault survivor who now advocates for those abused by priests and nuns at her home in Bellevue, Washington on April 13, 2024.

    How we survive
    At 50, I had a flashback to a priest abusing me as a child. Then I decided to confront him

  • Graphic of people using pound sign as beds

    Give up lie-ins and buy an eye mask
    How to get better sleep

  • Shein shoes at a popup store in New York in 2022.

    ‘Super cute please like’
    The unstoppable rise of Shein

  • Stuart Heritage scratching his bald scalp

    'Thank you, male pattern baldness!'
    Losing my hair made me miserable. Now I’m as bald as an egg, I couldn’t be happier

  • A drawer full of kitchen utensils

    ‘You’ll wonder how you lived without them’
    Eight unsung kitchen tools every home cook should own:

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

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

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

    Ukrainians
    Share your reaction to your country qualifying for Euro 2024

  • A Hungarian flag is flying over the city of Esztergom, Hungary.

    People in Hungary
    Share your political hopes for the future

  • 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?

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From our global editions

  • A view of the Colorado River looking into Cibola, Arizona, US, on Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. Photographer: Caitlin O'Hara/The Guardian

    ‘Water is more valuable than oil’
    The corporation cashing in on America’s drought

    In an unprecedented deal, a private company purchased land in a tiny Arizona town – and sold its water rights to a suburb 200 miles away
  • Rishi Sunak in classroom with school students

    UK politics
    Tory rebellion against Sunak smoking ban rekindles leadership talk

  • A person reacts as their possessions are seized during a sweep of an encampment in Los Angeles in January 2021.

    Revealed
    How companies made $100m clearing California homeless camps

  • Man sits with lawyers behind desk in court

    Trump on Trial
    Seven jurors – and a warning for Trump

  • Makenson Rémy in a radio studio

    ‘The city is a jail’
    Haitian journalists get word out about gang violence

  • a woman speaks against a backdrop displaying her face and "CPAC"

    Analysis
    What does Liz Truss’s book tell us about her American ambitions?

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    ‘Why didn’t I fight? Why didn’t I run?’
    10 things we learned from Salman Rushdie’s Knife

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    Parliament rape claim was true, judge rules in case that gripped Australia

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    ‘Eat the future, pay with your face’
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    From the archive: Did Brazil’s evangelical superstar have her husband killed? – podcast

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    Liz Truss and her plan to ‘save the west’

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    Who screwed millennials?
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  • A worker sprays water on to the statue of King Sejong in Seoul, Korea.

    Photos of the day
    King Sejong and a Dior catwalk

    The Guardian’s picture editors select some of the most powerful photos from around the world
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    ‘We’d wait all day for a train’
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    ‘We do not call ourselves Tutsi or Hutu’
    The new Rwandans, three decades after the genocide – in pictures

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