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  • Ukrainian President Zelenskiy meets British Foreign Secretary Cameron in Kyiv<br>Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and British Foreign Secretary David Cameron shake hands at a joint meeting, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, May 2, 2024. Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.

    Live
    Moscow says British military facilities could be targeted after Cameron’s remarks

  • Scientist in a lab

    Immunisation
    Scientists create vaccine with potential to protect against future coronaviruses

    • Mexico
      Missing surfers died from gunshots after attempted robbery, officials say

    • Live
      UK politics: general election result not a ‘foregone conclusion,’ says Sunak

    • Namibia
      Call for port extension to be halted as genocide remains are found on Shark Island

    • Northern Ireland
      Widespread condemnation after man found nailed to fence in County Antrim

    • Germany
      Four teenagers investigated over attack on MEP

    • Caravaggio
      Lost painting that almost sold for €1,500 to go on show at Prado in Madrid

News in focus

  • Emmanuel Macron and Xi Jinping walk in the middle of a large courtyard as they review an assembly of guards during an official welcome ceremony

    Xi’s European tour
    Where is Chinese president going and what is visit’s aim?

  • Nasrin Sotoudeh and her husband Reza Khandan hold up a protest badge that reads: ‘I oppose the mandatory hijab.’

    ‘I am ready to return whenever they say’
    Nasrin Sotoudeh on prison, the hijab, and violence in Iran

    Exclusive: the human rights lawyer, temporarily released from jail on medical grounds, describes her love for her family, and why she keeps going despite brutal treatment at the hands of the regime
  • Two young women in headscarves seen on a screen

    'An increasingly hostile environment'
    Female journalists under attack as press freedom falters

    Physical and online abuse, detentions, deportations and sexual violence – a global crackdown on women in journalism is intensifying

Spotlight

  • Donald Trump is selling an edition of the Bible.

    I bought Trump’s Bible
    A blasphemous, sticky nightmare

    Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka, and various Trump casinos have all failed – but has the ex-president finally found himself a winning product?
  • ‘After two minutes, the radio switchboard was going crazy’ … Luhrmann, who turned Mary Schmich’s column into a global phenomenon.

    ‘I thought it was a speech by Kurt Vonnegut’
    Baz Luhrmann on making Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)

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    Hollywood hysteria
    The 60s movies that showed a time of madness

    During a decade of American disillusionment, a series of films, from Seconds to What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, represented a culture cracking up
  • NSW oyster farmer Bernie Connell with Australia’s largest oyster, Jill

    ‘You wouldn’t eat her – she’s one of the family’
    Meet Jill, Australia’s heaviest oyster

    Nurtured by Bernie Connell for almost a decade, the mollusc now weighs more than 3kg and is about to enter the record books
    • Clashes … officers clear a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles, campus.

      Tunnels, treehouses and tensegrity towers
      Landmarks in protest architecture, from UCLA to Hong Kong

    • A cup of espresso and a cup of cappuccino

      The synthetic coffee revolution
      Are ground date seeds really as delicious as the real thing?

    • Laure Prouvost, The Hidden Paintings Grandma Improved, In Deepth, 2023, Oil on canvas, 200 x 175 x 3.5 cm, 78 3/4 x 68 7/8 x 1 3/8 in © Laure Prouvost

      ‘A wild cocktail of emotion, politics and desire’
      The history of breasts in art

    • His disgusted/astonished face is hilarious … the Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) at Abbey Road in The Devil’s Chord.

      Doctor Who first look review
      Ncuti Gatwa will make this show far more fun than it’s been for years

Opinion

  • A protester looks on as police stand guard near a pro-Palestine encampment in the grounds of Columbia University, 30 April.

    Don’t let the sound and fury over Gaza protests drown out what the students are saying

    Nesrine Malik
    At Columbia University I saw young people who feel they have no choice but to risk their futures, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
  • Joe Biden, in a suit and tie, sitting on a leather chair at a desk in an office with his hand on the head of Commander, the secret service dog.

    Have I got this right? Does Kristi Noem really want Joe Biden to start killing dogs too?

    Zoe Williams
  • Keir Starmer meets members of the Muslim community at South Wales Islamic Centre last October.

    There is a way for Starmer’s Labour to fix the big rift with Muslim voters – if it has the will

    Miqdaad Versi
  • Young women friends browsing vintage clothes in thrift store

    Why I quit
    I stopped lying to please people – and I’ve never felt more free

    Radhika Sanghani
  • A screenshot from Another Crab’s Treasure

    Another Crab’s Treasure: this indie hit has clawed its way into my subconscious

    Sarah Maria Griffin
  • Back to school. View from the back of a happy dad escorts his sons schoolchildren to school. Parental care for children.

    How can we expect mothers to return to work if we’re so reluctant to allow fathers to stay home?

    Myke Bartlett
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Climate crisis

  • An oilfield near Baku

    Exclusive
    Poorer nations must be transparent over climate spending, says leader

  • A drone view shows brown water surrounding multi-storey buildings

    Weather tracker
    Torrential rainstorms cause death and destruction in Brazil

  • A man rides a rental bike in Baku, Azerbaijan, where the UN climate change conference will convene in November.

    Cop29
    Summit to call for peace between warring states, says host Azerbaijan

  • Thai dancers keep cool with cold drinks and a fan during the heatwaves in Thailand, where 30 people have died from heatstroke this year.

    ‘Inside an oven’
    Sweltering heat ravages crops and kills dozens in south-east Asia

Around the world

  • House speaker Mike Johnson in Washington DC on 21 March 2024. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene attends a house hearing in Washington DC on 20 March 2024.

    Live
    Mike Johnson faces Republican-led ouster vote as Congress returns this week

    Though Marjorie Taylor Greene’s effort against the House speaker is likely to fail, she plans to use the vote to show that Mike Johnson relies on Democrats to keep his job
  • Ursula von der Leyen reaches out to shake hands with Donald Tusk, who is offering up his hand

    Poland
    EU to end sanctions procedure

  • Xi Jinping shakes hands with Ursula von der Leyen at the Élysee Palace in Paris

    Xi Jinping in Europe
    EU restates readiness to launch trade war with China over cheap imports

  • Black woman in a hospital bed holding her baby

    Exclusive
    Black mothers twice as likely as white mothers to be hospitalised with perinatal mental illness

    • Spain
      Menorca village threatens to close to tourists after explosion in numbers

    • Kris Hallenga
      CoppaFeel! breast cancer charity founder dies aged 38

    • US
      Noem book contains threat against Biden dog: ‘Commander, say hello to Cricket’

    • Italy
      Rai journalists strike over ‘suffocating control’ by Meloni’s government

    • US campus protests
      University of Mississippi investigates student over Palestine counter-protest

    • France
      Paris authority slated for hiking cost of Métro and bus trips during Olympics

Culture

  • An illustration of two hands clasping each other, with Lady Justice carrying her scales beneath

    The big idea
    Why we need human rights now more than ever

    In an age of climate crisis and AI, equal treatment is nothing less than essential
  • This illustration provided by NASA depicts Voyager 1. The most distant spacecraft from Earth stopped sending back understandable data in November 2023. Flight controllers traced the blank communication to a bad computer chip and rearranged the spacecraft’s coding to work around the trouble. In mid-April 2024, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory declared success after receiving good engineering updates. The team is still working to restore transmission of the science data. (NASA via AP)

    Storms, frogs and a kiss
    How a group of scientists designed a message from humanity to aliens

  • That They May Face the Rising Sun.

    ‘It’s not that I’m against story. I like films with stories’
    Pat Collins on directing a tale without a plot

  • Bernard Hill as Yosser Hughes in Boys from the Blackstuff

    ‘Gissa job!’
    How Bernard Hill created one of TV’s most tragic and unforgettable characters

  • Black metafiction illustration - American Fiction, A Strange Loop

    Confronting the audience and breaking the fourth wall
    Why Black drama is getting meta

  • Drake and Kendrick Lamar.

    Drake
    Rapper denies allegations by Kendrick Lamar of underage sex and harbouring secret child

Lifestyle

  • Rachel Roddy's chestnut pasta with mushroom.

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for chestnut pasta with mushrooms and herbs

    Sweet chestnuts make a savoury flour that’s just perfect for this cracking, herby mushroom pasta
  • G2: How to build a better life - connect with your pain, you can't just cut it out

    How to build a better life
    We all want to cut out the bad parts of ourselves. It won’t work, and it won’t make us happier

  • Babyleaf the kitten

    The pet I'll never forget
    Babyleaf, the feral kitten who tamed me

  • The whitewashed town of Cadaqués, with sea and green hills

    Europe’s best beach holidays
    Cadaqués, Spain

  • A customer at the London Library of Things taking out a product

    Money
    How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money

  • ‘I felt like a failure… when others seemed to find it easy’: Danyah Miller.

    Dyslexia
    Being diagnosed has made me happier

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?

  • 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?

  • 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

From our global editions

  • Clockwise (left to right from top): Burberry bags in a store, Moët & Chandon champagne, Gieves & Hawkes of Savile Row, and Wilkin & Sons, which is behind the Tiptree jam brand.

    From sporrans to chandeliers
    King Charles and Queen Camilla weigh up new royal warrants

    A year after coronation, firms that were under patronage of Queen Elizabeth II or former Prince of Wales reapply, while others get in on act
  • Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer look at each other with grins on their faces as they lead a procession of politicians at Westminster

    Analysis
    Could there really be a hung parliament at the next UK general election?

  • View of Pikk Street in the Old City of Tallinn, Estonia

    Higher costs and cramped conditions
    The impact of Europe’s housing crisis

  • Children’s toys lie abandoned in a playground after a missile strike in the city of Kharkiv, north-eastern Ukraine, on Sunday

    Ukraine war briefing
    Russian attacks kill three during Orthodox Easter

  • Edward Timpson stands in a park with new leaves and flowers, leaning on a wooden rail on the top of a wire fence.

    ‘I’ve had massive highs and deep lows’
    Edward Timpson on winning for the Tories and being sacked by Liz Truss

  • Black woman in crowd wearing matching red T-shirts.

    ‘We deserve more’
    US workers’ share of the pie dwindles

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  • John Starbrook plays water polo. Hampton. London. Photograph by David Levene 28/4/24

    Fit for ever
    He’s 93, he’s run 52 marathons and he’s in the gym six days a week: can this man teach us how to age well?

  • A woman looking out of a window.

    ‘High jinks’
    Former female trainee in Royal Marines says sexual assault was dismissed

  • Margaret Atwood

    ‘I can say things other people are afraid to’
    Margaret Atwood on censorship, literary feuds and Trump

  • Guardian writer George Monbiot (on left) standing alongside artist and conspiracy theorist Jason Liosatos at Dartington House in Devon, March 2024

    ‘You’re going to call me a Holocaust denier now, are you?’
    George Monbiot comes face to face with his local conspiracy theorist

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  • A woman breaking sandstone in Rajasthan, India. Photograph: Romita Saluja

    The Audio Long Read
    How child labour in India makes the paving stones beneath our feet – podcast

  • Mark and Ros Dowey, the parents of Murray Dowey (Photo: Murdo MacLeod)

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  • Keir Starmer Votes in the Local Elections in London<br>LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - MAY 02: Leader of the Labour Party Sir Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria leave a polling station after casting their votes in the local elections in London, United Kingdom on May 02, 2024. Millions of voters across England head to the polls today to decide on thousands of council seats, and also to choose the Mayor of London, London Assembly members and 10 mayors outside the capital. (Photo by Wiktor Szymanowicz/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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    Politics Weekly Westminster: local elections special

  • A polling station sign outside a polling station (Photo by Anthony Devlin/Getty Images)

    Politics Weekly UK
    Politics Weekly Westminster: Election special – podcast

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    Weekend
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  • From left, Denmark's Queen Mary, King Frederik X, Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia wave from the balcony at the Royal Palace, in Stockholm, Sweden.

    Photos of the day
    Holocaust remembrance and a royal wave

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • A clifftop pageant during Bolster festival in St Agnes, Cornwall.

    Cornwall
    Bolster the Cornish giant stars in clifftop pageant

  • A woman poses with her snakes

    Italy
    Snake catchers festival – in pictures

  • A monochrome image of Paul Auster standing in his study with a cigarette in his hand and a number of objects on a table behind him, including a manual typewriter

    The big picture
    Author Paul Auster in his element

  • Naked man doing headstand on mauve sofa

    ‘Is this an image of a sculpture or an invitation to a sexual encounter?’
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    Photography
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