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  • Antony Blinken shakes hands with Wang Yi in front of their respective flags

    China
    Minister warns US relations could slip into ‘downward spiral’ if red lines crossed

    Wang Yi tells Antony Blinken ‘disruptions’ could arise amid threat of sanctions over China’s support for Russia’s defence industry
  • A girl cools off during the heat wave at the Suhrawardy Udyan water reserve in Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Asia
    Wave of exceptionally hot weather scorches south and south-east of continent

  • A newborn baby lying in an incubator in a hospital

    Gaza
    Palestinian baby rescued from mother’s womb dies in hospital

  • Mykola Solskyi sits at a desk during a summit

    Ukraine
    Agriculture minister detained in multimillion dollar corruption probe

    • UK
      Man, 20, charged with conducting hostile activity to benefit Moscow

    • Japan
      Town to block Mount Fuji view after tourists overcrowd popular photo spot

    • Live
      Donald Trump hush-money trial: National Enquirer’s David Pecker to face further cross examination

    • ‘Massive and exciting impact’
      Show celebrates Spain’s first abstract art museum

    • Cancer
      ‘Real hope’ for cure as personal mRNA vaccine for melanoma trialled

    • Secret to eternal youth?
      John Cleese extols virtues of stem cell treatment

News in focus

  • three side by side images: a woman with glasses; a sign reading to resist is to love; a woman speaking into a microphone

    ‘Injustice should not be accepted’
    Four US students on why they’re protesting against war in Gaza

  • Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen speaks during a lunch meeting with Michael McCaul, Chairman of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee in April 2023

    Explainer
    What does Taiwan get from the foreign aid bill and why is the US economy among the biggest winners?

    The sweeping foreign aid package passed by congress has drawn the ire of China, but billions of dollars will actually stay in the US
  • Man in suit and glasses behind microphone

    The pro-Trump Arizona fake electors scheme
    What’s in the charging document?

    The indictment details the steps to push the concept of alternate electors in an alleged effort to overturn Biden’s victory

Spotlight

  • "Dune: Part Two" World Premiere - Arrivals<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 15: Zendaya attends the World Premiere of "Dune: Part Two" in London's Leicester Square on February 15, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Samir Hussein/WireImage)

    Zendaya
    Can actor make the leap from tween idol to Hollywood heavyweight?

    The 27-year-old American actor has gone from the Disney channel to new classy arthouse threesome drama Challengers, via a massive blockbuster and a hot-button TV series. So can she convince as an Oscar contender?
  • Guardian Eggs Title Illo

    Egg labels, egg-splained
    From cage-free to free-range, how to eat ethically and economically

  • Judge illo 27th April - WEB

    You be the judge
    Should my flatmate stop setting the clocks fast – even if I am always late?

    Fatima has taken drastic action to cure Sade’s chronic lateness. Sade says she doesn’t need her hand holding. You decide whose time is up
  • ‘What Ryan has is a lack of insecurity about teasing himself, his stardom and his masculinity.’

    Evolution of man
    How Ryan Gosling changed stardom, cinema and society

    The actor’s feminist credentials, a wholehearted embrace of comedy and being one of the most memed actors on social media has seen Gosling’s auto-satirising alpha male become white-hot box office in 2024
    • A young woman in a headscarf sits on a park bench

      Married at 10, abused and forced to flee without her children
      An Afghan woman on life under the Taliban

    • Jonah Hauer-King photographed in London by Suki Dhanda for the Guardian.

      ‘Shaving my head became so poignant’
      Jonah Hauer-King on The Tattooist of Auschwitz and his extraordinary family story

    • Charles Guilloy cooking a kitchen.

      Beetroot and beefless bourguignon
      Paris Olympics embraces vegetarian cuisine

    • visitors pore over an orange MG 4 EV electric sports car on display at the Beijing Auto Show.

      Why Elon Musk is right
      Once-booming electric car sales are starting to stall

Opinion

  • Harvey Weinstein leaves a court in New York after a bail hearing in December 2019.

    How much did #MeToo change for women? Let’s ask Harvey Weinstein today – or Donald Trump

    Marina Hyde
    Both were pilloried, but that was then. Today, one has beaten a rape conviction, the other may return as president, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
  • German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Berlin restaurateur Arif Keleş and 60kg of meat at the residence of the German ambassador in Istanbul, 22 April 2024.

    Like Germany’s president, I love a good kebab. Cosying up to autocrats like Erdoğan, less so

    Fatma Aydemir
  • People protest outside the supreme court

    The US politics sketch
    Trump immunity case suggests new role for supreme court: kingmaker

  • Illustration: Nate Kitch

    The cost of living crisis has made the UK a poorer, more anxious nation – and worse is yet to come

    Andy Beckett
  • Dream machine … the Amiga.

    My undying love for the painfully uncool Amiga

    Dominik Diamond
  • Cardboard boxes of Big Macs on a silver platter

    Digested week
    Trump’s McDonald’s bill is big, but its prices have ballooned

    Emma Brockes

Sport

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Climate crisis

  • the muddy rain-sodden legs and shoes of two young people

    Weather tracker
    Heavy rainfall causes flooding and death in east Africa

  • people wear shirts that say "end fossil fuels" and hold signs that say "Manchin is killing us"

    ‘Outrageous’ climate activists
    They're getting in the faces of politicians and oil bosses – will it work?

  • UAE-WEATHER-FLOOD<br>Cars drive down a flooded motorway in Dubai on April 20, 2024. Four people died after the heaviest rainfall on record in the oil-rich UAE on April 16, including two Filipino women who suffocated inside their vehicle in Dubai's flooding. (Photo by Giuseppe CACACE / AFP) (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP via Getty Images)

    Extreme weather
    Global heating and urbanization to blame for severity of Dubai floods, study finds

  • Sculpture of a giant tap, apparently hovering in mid-air without support, pouring out a stream of discarded plastic items on to the ground

    ‘Privileged access’
    Pro-plastic lobbyists at UN pollution talks increase by a third

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Around the world

  • Aya Nakamura, wearing a clingy, wet-look white dress, poses outside the awards

    Aya Nakamura
    French singer thanks fans for support over Olympics racism as she wins awards

  • Protest against war crimes in Ukraine, Berlin, Ukraine - 21 Apr 2022<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by snapshot-photography/F Boillot/REX/Shutterstock (12904693d) Ukrainian women from the "Vitsche" and "Voices of Ukraine" initiatives protest in front of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection in Berlin against rapes of women and girls by soldiers of the Russian army during the war in Ukraine. They call for an immediate embargo on Russian oil and gas to make financing the war more difficult./Ukrainian women of the initiatives "Vitsche" and "voices of Ukraine" protest bloodied and partially tied up in front of the Federal Ministry of Economy and Climate Protection in Berlin against rapes of women and girls by soldiers of the Russian Army during the War in Ukraine. They demand an immediate embargo on Russian oil and gas to make it harder to finance the war. Protest against war crimes in Ukraine, Berlin, Ukraine - 21 Apr 2022

    Ukraine
    Reparations to be paid to survivors of wartime sexual violence

    • Channel
      Two men charged in connection with deaths of five people trying to cross to UK

    • Kristi Noem
      Trump VP contender writes of killing dog – and goat – in new book

    • Gaza
      US troops begin construction of aid pier as questions remain over distribution

    • Pandabuy
      Police raid ‘20 football stadiums’ worth of alleged fake goods warehouses

    • Banking
      Barclays accused of greenwashing over financing for Italian oil company

    • Plants
      British succulent society chair quits over row about taking specimens from wild

Culture

  • Caleb Azumah Nelson

    Caleb Azumah Nelson
    James Baldwin ignited something in me that’s still burning today

    The British-Ghanaian author on having his mind blown by Malorie Blackman as a child, the allure of John Williams’s Stoner and why Zadie Smith made him want to write
  • Olivia Dean performing at SWG3.

    Olivia Dean review
    Pop-soul singer proves she was born for big stages

  • AG Cook

    ‘People think I hate pop’
    Super-producer AG Cook on working with Beyoncé and honouring his friend Sophie

  • Pet Shop Boys

    Pet Shop Boys: Nonetheless review
    A great, fan-pleasing album

  • Xavier de Rosnay and Gaspard Augé of Justice.

    Music
    Justice: Hyperdrama review – an uncertain return to the dancefloor

  • Yuan Yang.

    Private Revolutions by Yuan Yang review
    An intimate account of how China is changing

Lifestyle

  • A man paddleboards with his dog with kayaks in the background.

    A local’s travel guide to Austin, Texas
    What to eat, see and do in three days

    Standout spots include food truck parks, honky-tonk hangouts and Lady Bird’s wildflower sanctuary
  • Fresh asparagus with young boiled potatoes, fried egg and glass of white wine. A delicious summer vegetarian meal: fresh asparagus with young boiled potatoes, fried egg and glass of white wine. Yum.

    Fiona Beckett on drinks
    Is there any wine that goes with asparagus?

  • Two models standing together. One has black curly hair and wears a grey sleeveless knit with red tracksuit bottoms. The other has long brown hair and wears a sage green sleeveless knit with a pale blue blouse and chinos.

    Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion
    The new power sleeve? It’s the one that isn’t there at all

  • Summer flower bed

    Gardening advice
    Resist the urge to fill all gaps in your borders, but if you must, sow hardy annuals

  • Three burgundy and brown toned makeup pencils, with a burgundy raincoat as the backdrop.

    Sali Hughes on beauty
    Burgundy is having a fashion moment – and it’s a flattering makeup shade, too

  • Painting: Anthony van Dyck Wooing his Model (1827) by Gustaaf Wappers.

    Leading questions
    My partner concealed he had more than one ex-wife. Should I be nervous about our future?

Take part

  • UKRAINE-RUSSIA-WAR-CONFLICT<br>Gunners from 43rd Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine prepare to fire at Russian position with a 155 mm self-propelled howitzer 2C22 "Bohdana", in the Kharkiv region, on April 21, 2024, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine. (Photo by Anatolii STEPANOV / AFP) (Photo by ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP via Getty Images)

    Ukrainian men abroad
    Share your views on Poland and Lithuania’s statements on conscription

  • 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

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

    Wedding photography
    Share your experiences

  • Tell us about your friendship using the form below.

    Relationships
    How did you meet your close friend or partner?

From our global editions

  • A mural of parachuters on the wall of a building.

    ‘We are with them’
    Support for Hamas grows among Palestinians in Lebanon

    Aspirations for statehood revived among younger generations in refugee camps where war has consumed daily life
  • illustration of woman cradling baby as she sits on what looks like a tiny island under her

    US
    Postpartum depression soared in 2020. Four years later, has anything changed?

  • India's home minister and leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Amit Shah (C) greets supporters in Bengaluru, capital of Karnataka.

    India election
    Fears that Modi’s BJP will polarise voters in fight for key state

  • People waving flags confront police in blue helmets in a protest

    ‘Recipe for disaster’
    Confusion and protests on first day of Venice tourist charge

  • Commuters line a platform as a metro train arrives

    ‘Confined to this little island’
    Britons criticise rejection of EU youth mobility deal

  • Orbán with Trump on red-carpeted steps at Mar-a-Lago

    ‘Waiting for Trump’
    Viktor Orbán hopes US election will change his political fortunes

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  • The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington DC on 28 August 1963. Photograph: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    Solidarity and strategy: the forgotten lessons of truly effective protest – podcast

  • Biden in bow tie and shades with sign behind him saying: White House Correspondents' Association

    Politics Weekly America
    White House Correspondents’ Dinner: is there still space for humour?

  • Lines of tents at a pro-Palestine protest at Columbia University

    Today in Focus
    The US college protests and the crackdown on campuses

  • Premier League - Everton v Liverpool<br>Soccer Football - Premier League - Everton v Liverpool - Goodison Park, Liverpool, Britain - April 24, 2024 Everton's Jarrad Branthwaite celebrates after Dominic Calvert-Lewin scores their second goal as Liverpool's Alisson looks on REUTERS/Carl Recine NO USE WITH UNAUTHORIZED AUDIO, VIDEO, DATA, FIXTURE LISTS, CLUB/LEAGUE LOGOS OR 'LIVE' SERVICES. ONLINE IN-MATCH USE LIMITED TO 45 IMAGES, NO VIDEO EMULATION. NO USE IN BETTING, GAMES OR SINGLE CLUB/LEAGUE/PLAYER PUBLICATIONS. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

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    Science
    From birds, to cattle, to … us? Could bird flu be the next pandemic? – podcast

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    Football Weekly
    Arsenal thrash Chelsea and a Football League update – Football Weekly

  • Angela Rayner in a hard hat and hi-vis jacket at a construction site

    Today in Focus
    Could a row over a council house bring down Angela Rayner?

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  • David Cameron stands behind the saddle of a horse

    Photos of the day
    D-day veterans and an Indian election

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • A woman in a tutu hangs by her arm from an open shipping container stacked among other closed containers

    Hanging in there and a dichroic shopper
    Photofairs Shanghai 2024

  • A woman holds a red carnation during a military parade.

    Carnation Revolution
    Portugal commemorates 50 years since end of dictatorship

  • A giraffe walks through a rainbow at the Zimanga Private Game Reserve in Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa.

    Week in wildlife
    A lazy leopard, a moonwalking elephant and hitchhiking ducklings

  • ‘Goofing around like kids’ … Mist, 2013.

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    Skaters, saunas and spontaneous stripping

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