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  • An emergency medical helicopter takes off from the Wimereux dike after the recovery of the bodies of five people, who died overnight trying to cross the Channel from France.

    France
    Five people die in attempt to cross Channel in small boat

  • Nasa depiction of Voyager 1 operating in space

    Space
    Voyager 1 transmitting data again after Nasa remotely fixes 46-year-old probe

    • US universities
      Tensions rise as police arrest 150 pro-Palestinian protesters at Yale and NYU

    • ‘Nothing is going to stop me’
      Celine Dion details life with stiff person syndrome

    • Ramzan Kadyrov
      Chechen leader shows off workout amid health rumours

    • Live
      Defence spending in UK to be put ‘on war footing’, Rishi Sunak says

    • Baltimore bridge collapse
      City says ship was ‘unseaworthy’ before leaving port

    • Johnny Cash
      Lost songs from 1993 to be released as a new album

News in focus

  • Student protesters on campus

    Israel, Gaza and divestment
    Why are Columbia students protesting?

  • Abortion rights supporters protest against a ban

    ‘Pitting patients against physicians’
    Doctors brace for US supreme court verdict on emergency abortions

    As states ban abortions, a 1968 federal law requires hospitals that receive Medicaid dollars to stabilize patients in a medical emergency, creating a catch-22 for care providers
  • Children sit on the ground holding posters of their loved ones.

    ‘I only protest. I want to go to school’
    The childhoods lost in Pakistan when loved ones are ‘disappeared’

    The families of thousands of people who have gone missing in Balochistan province spend their lives in sit-ins and rallies

Spotlight

  • It could all have been prevented so easily … Richard Gadd with Jessica Gunning, who plays his stalker, in Baby Reindeer.

    The dangerous fallout from Baby Reindeer
    Should Richard Gadd have been less honest about his abusers?

    Is this show about exploitation starting to seem uncomfortably careless – even exploitative?
  • ‘Forget about stage and audience, to mix and experience the absurdity, with humour and sarcasm’ … Kopitchanskaja performs with the LSO in 2023.

    ‘I’m not humble. I expect miracles’
    Why violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja wants to blow you out of your seat

  • Hangzhou Opens First Hello Kitty Theme Restaurant<br>HANGZHOU, CHINA - JUNE 29: Two girls chat at a Hello Kitty theme restaurant on June 29, 2016 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province of China. A Hello Kitty theme restaurant was authorized opened firstly in Hangzhou. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)

    ‘Games are more important to Apple than ever’
    What’s next for Apple Arcade?

    The head of the company’s gaming subscription service explains its priorities as it anticipates the Vision Pro revolution, and tries to bring originality to a market still dominated by free to play mobile titles
  • Victoria Beckham looks at designs on a table with a rack of garments behind her

    Victoria Beckham
    Collaboration with Mango shows how far designer has come

    The former Spice Girl’s collection with the high street chain is likely to be a fruitful new venture
    • ‘My whole stance was world domination’ … Breakin’ Convention.

      ‘We have to have graffiti!’
      How we made the Breakin’ Convention hip-hop dance festival

    • J Cole, Drake and Kendrick Lamar, just three of the players in the current beef embroiling the US rap scene.

      ‘A lot of rich guys arguing’
      Inside the rap beef of the decade with Drake, Kendrick Lamar and more

    • A marine iguana swimming in the sea

      ‘Currents bring life – and plastics’
      Animals of Galápagos live amid mounds of waste

    • ‘I feel so much more sexually confident with him and have a happiness I’ve never felt before.’

      Sexual healing
      The stress of cheating on my wife is making me ill – but I can no longer suppress who I am

Opinion

  • tents in front of a grand building, one with a palestinian flag

    Protesting slaughter – like students in the US are doing – isn’t antisemitism

    Robert Reich
    Education is all about provocation. Without being provoked even young minds can remain stuck in old tracks
  • ‘He may dream of racing like Batman through Gotham, but he is facing the judge on the high bench issue a ruling about his contempt for violating the gag order.’

    On trial, Trump is a shadow of the superhero his supporters crave

    Sidney Blumenthal
  • ‘He wanted it to look like a bomb shelter’, said a contractor who worked on Kanye West’s home in Malibu.

    Why are celebrities destroying multimillion dollar mansions?

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Our Future, Our Choice Youth Movement For A People's Vote Lobby Parliament<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 27: Students and young people gather in Smith Square during an "Our Future, Our Choice" event to raise awareness of the desire for a further referendum on the future of Britain's membership of the European Union, on February 27, 2019 in London, England. Campaigning on the message that the effects of Brexit will impact the young, the group believes that another referendum is the fairest way to allow their voice to be heard. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

    It’s clearer than ever that Brexit has failed – let’s not inflict its miseries on young people

    Zoe Williams
  • Man in suit holds out hands

    Elon Musk’s battle over the Sydney church stabbing video is not about freedom of speech. It’s to titillate his followers

    Belinda Barnet
  • woman with pink hair on a screen

    ‘Miss AI’ is billed as a leap forward – but feels like a monumental step backwards

    Arwa Mahdawi

Sport

  • Arne Slot

    Football
    Liverpool interested in appointing Feyenoord’s Slot as new manager

    Feyenoord’s Arne Slot has emerged as a strong candidate to succeed Jürgen Klopp in the recruitment process at Anfield
  • David Squires

    David Squires on …
    FA Cup meddling, big clubs reading the room and Luton elites

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Climate crisis

  • An aerial view of hundreds of Polish farmers standing with flags outside a large building, surrounding a large bonfire billowing dark smoke into the air

    European Union
    EU green deal at ‘very high’ risk of being killed off, says Greens co-leader

  • Protesters walk down a street carrying a banner reading 'End the plastic era' with government buildings behind them

    Environment
    World must come together to tackle plastic pollution, says chair of UN talks

  • Workers install solar panels on a rooftop

    ‘Solar for all’
    Biden marks Earth Day with $7bn investment amid week of climate action

  • Fishers working with a net

    ‘Children won’t be able to survive’
    Inter-American court to hear from climate victims

Around the world

  • The El Penedés area had been hit hard in 2023, said Freixenet.

    Freixenet
    Cava firm to furlough 80% of its workers in Catalonia due to drought

  • woman's face turned to the side

    Tulsi Gabbard
    Ex-Democrat repeats false Hillary Clinton ‘grooming’ claim in new book

    • Germany
      AfD politician’s aide arrested on suspicion of spying for China

    • Gaza
      US secretary of state rejects suggestion of ‘double standard’ on Israel

    • Australia
      Prime minister labels Elon Musk ‘an arrogant billionaire who thinks he is above the law’

    • Malaysia
      Navy helicopters collide in mid-air, killing all ten onboard

    • Environment
      Electric and hybrid car sales to rise to new global record in 2024

    • Tanzania
      World Bank suspends tourism funding after claims of killings and evictions

Culture

  • still image from stage performance of My Neighbour Totoro: a small girl in a pink dress is seen in the centre of a mythical forest with trees curving around her, lit in green, blue and purple

    'Archetypal, mythical'
    Studio Ghibli’s work ‘like Shakespeare’, says My Neighbour Totoro stage show’s director

    Hayao Miyazaki’s animations praised by Phelim McDermott as new production in West End announced
  • Set It Up

    Set It Up
    The 2018 Netflix romcom that became a classic of the genre

  • J Cole, Drake and Kendrick Lamar, just three of the players in the current beef embroiling the US rap scene.

    ‘A lot of rich guys arguing’
    Inside the rap beef of the decade with Drake, Kendrick Lamar and more

  • David Harewood

    ‘I was only able to go on stage hammered’
    David Harewood on acting, racism and his new role at Rada

  • a still from Putin, directed by Besaleel.

    Soiled nappies and karate
    AI-rendered Putin biopic to be released

  • Museum officer Rebecca Wood holding open the manuscript by Frank Austen, with handwritten pages of text visible within

    Jane Austen
    Museum appeals to public for help deciphering brother’s memoir

Lifestyle

  • The vineyards of Sancerre during autumn in the Loire Valley, France.

    David Williams on wine
    Why the Loire is France’s most exciting region

    From the Massif Central to Nantes, it’s home to freethinking winemakers making elegant drinks – including thrillingly reinvigorated muscadet
  • Tim Dowling’s trout lasagne

    ‘The trout lasagne is very good!’
    How I recreated six classic beef dishes – with oily fish

  • Photo of BUZZCOCKS<br>UNITED KINGDOM - JANUARY 01: Photo of BUZZCOCKS; L-R Steve Diggle, John Maher, Pete Shelley, Steve Garvey (Photo by Fin Costello/Redferns)

    A musical tour of Manchester
    From the Hallé to the Happy Mondays

  • OM Nigel spring Vegetables Miso Broth

    Nigel Slater's midweek dinner
    Recipe for spring vegetables in miso broth

  • Anna Jones’ squash and caramelised onion quesadillas.

    Get stuffed
    The secret to vegan quesadillas

  • Thomasina Miers' roast chicken with charred tomato and hibiscus tinga.

    Thomasina Miers recipes
    Chicken with charred tomato and hibiscus tinga, and coffee flan

Take part

  • A woman walks past the Lisbon University of Social and Human Sciences walls, stenciled with red carnations, in Lisbon.

    People in Portugal
    Share your memories of the Carnation Revolution

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

    Wedding photography
    Share your experiences

  • 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

  • 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

From our global editions

  • A bristlecone pine tree, one of the oldest living organisms on Earth.

    Mother trees and socialist forests
    Is the ‘wood-wide web’ a fantasy?

    The long read: In the past 10 years the idea that trees communicate with and look after each other has gained widespread currency. But have these claims outstripped the evidence?
  • John Gillibrand taking the service

    ‘Really good, not too long’
    Welsh churchgoers praise first ‘micro-service’

  • Eike Schmidt Director of the Uffizi gallery stands in the Michelangelo and Raffaello (Raphael) hall closed to the public due to the Covid-19 Coronavirus pandemic on May 13, 2020 in Florence, Italy

    ‘Beacon of the world’
    Ex-Uffizi chief vows to save Florence if elected mayor

  • A woman serves cups of coffee from a large traditional clay pot

    ‘It’s rude not to offer three cups’
    The lengthy, beloved coffee rituals binding Ethiopians together

  • 3D rendering of the head and face of a child robot against a futuristic space background in pink and blue.

    Analysis
    Can AI image generators be policed to prevent explicit deepfakes of children?

  • Composite image of Keir Starmer, David Cameron and Tony Blair

    UK general election analysis
    Labour are ahead in the polls, but have they won hearts and minds? These charts suggest not

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

  • 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?

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    Football Weekly
    An episode from Women’s Football Weekly – Fifpro exclusive interview

  • Barcelona v Chelsea in the Women's Champions League.

    The Guardian's Women's Football Weekly
    Fifpro exclusive interview and Chelsea stifle Barça – Women’s Football Weekly

  • Young nurse in medical scrubs and gloves looking at labrador and holding him while veterinarian gives injection

    Science
    Hardwired to eat: what can our dogs teach us about obesity? – podcast

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  • 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

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  • Aerial shot of a flooded island after heavy rains – Qingyuan, China

    Photos of the day
    Rishi Sunak in Warsaw and floods in China

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  • THRESHOLDS at the German Pavilion & La Certosa.

    A lost astronaut, looted treasure and a hit naked Turk
    The 60th Venice Biennale

  • Woman carrying vegetation on her head

    Storyteller
    Photography by Tim Hetherington

  • The Yanomami Struggle

    The origin of all things
    Kyotographie 2024 – a photo essay

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    London Marathon and Coachella
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