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  • Patriot missiles at Rzeszów-Jasionka airport.

    Ukraine
    Polish man arrested over alleged Russian plot to assassinate Zelenskiy

  • Diagram showing 20 of the snake's vertebrae.

    India
    Fossil of ‘largest snake to have ever existed’ found in Gujarat state

    • Netflix
      Profits surge as streaming service adds 9.3m subscribers in latest quarter

    • US elections 2024
      Kennedy family members endorse Biden in stinging rebuke to RFK Jr

    • Artificial intelligence
      Meta steps up AI battle with OpenAI and Google with release of Llama 3

    • France
      Two sons of world’s richest man Bernard Arnault join him on board of LVMH

    • Haiti
      France urged to repay billions of dollars to country for independence ‘ransom’

    • US
      Man arrested for allegedly throwing pipe bomb at Satanic Temple

News in focus

  • Graphic illustration of a person holding a massive bag of Splenda and pouring it onto and overflowing a bowl of cut cucumbers.

    Death by Diabetes
    She was fired after not endorsing Splenda-filled salads to people with diabetes. Why?

  • A collage of vegetables, fruits and a worker with a mask spraying them.

    Pesticides
    Six fruits and vegetables with the most chemical risk in the US

  • ‘It’s always strange in a virtual setting – it’s like you’re watching yourself take the test in the mirror.’

    Are your kids being spied on?
    The rise of anti-cheating software in US schools

    Remote proctoring tools have faced pushback at colleges over privacy and discrimination concerns, but their use in K-12 schools has attracted less scrutiny

Spotlight

  • Corky Lee in Mask 2020

    ‘I’m practicing photographic justice’
    Corky Lee’s portraits of Asian American life

    A new documentary looks back on the life and career of a photographer who documented an overlooked community
  • US Premier League fans are passionate, and thrive partly because of their distance from Europe

    A US Premier League game would be wildly popular – and demean everyone

    Aaron Timms
  • Young woman screaming, close-up<br>GettyImages-200069807-001

    Do you have an ‘emotionally immature parent’?
    How a nine-year-old book found a new, younger audience

    Therapist Lindsay Gibson’s 2015 book has sold over a million copies and its message has soared on social media. What does it mean?
  • Alisha Weir as Abigail in Abigail, directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin &amp; Tyler Gillett.

    Abigail review
    Dracula’s daughter gets kidnapped in fun-sucking horror

    There’s some low-stakes pleasure to be had in the first half of the gory new film from the team behind Ready or Not and Scream but things fall apart disastrously
    • Jimmy Kimmel on Donald Trump’s Truth Social rant about him: ‘Rant-a Claus got up bright and early to post 165 venomous words about yours truly.’

      Kimmel hits back at Trump
      ‘The only person still talking about this joke is him’

    • The German aviator Otto Lilienthal (1849 - 1896) demonstrating the first glider he invented.

      Shock of the old
      11 transport fantasies that never got off the ground – from jetpacks to swan-powered paragliders

    • ‘Nothing’s passed me by’ … Sheila E pictured at home

      ‘I’ve used hairbrushes, spatulas, car keys, apples'
      Sheila E on drumming with Prince, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson and more

    • Runner Beans Club Press publicity image Credit: Adrian Varzaru

      ‘When I wear this shirt, I feel part of a tribe’
      How running club merch became a marker of cool

Opinion

  • Nemat Shafik<br>Columbia University President Nemat Shafik testifies before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing on "Columbia in Crisis: Columbia University's Response to Antisemitism" on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

    Anti-woke Republicans attacked Columbia University. It capitulated

    Alisa Solomon, Marianne Hirsch, Sarah Haley and Helen Benedict
    In a congressional hearing, Republicans used specious charges of rampant antisemitism to advance an illiberal agenda on campuses
  • People inspect the wreckage of a partially collapsed building due to Israeli bombardment in Gaza on 18 April 2024

    The Guardian view
    The catastrophe in Gaza: it must not be overshadowed by the Iran crisis

  • An image of the NPR logo outside its headquarters in Washington DC

    NPR needs a serious critique not a politically charged parting shot

    Margaret Sullivan
  • Projection of Patriotic Millionaires' message: Extreme Wealth Destroys Democracy

    World leaders have a chance to raise taxes for rich people like me. I’m begging them to take it

    Abigail Disney
  • Paul Daley's dogs Olive (left) and Ronda

    A life without my dogs seems imponderable. Yet we do keep going after losing the animals we adore

    Paul Daley
  • NGN privacy case<br>PABest Hugh Grant arrives at the Rolls Buildings in central London for the conclusion of News Group Newspapers (NGN) phone hacking hearing. NGN, publisher of The Sun and the now-defunct News Of The World, is bringing a bid to have claims by the Duke of Sussex and Hugh Grant over alleged unlawful information gathering at The Sun thrown out. Picture date: Thursday April 27, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story COURTS Hacking. Photo credit should read: James Manning/PA Wire

    It’s sad that Hugh Grant v Rupert Murdoch won’t go to court, but good can come of it

    Jane Martinson

Sport

  • Mohamed Salah scores a penalty during the first half for Liverpool

    Atalanta 0-1 Liverpool (agg: 3-1)
    Reds comeback falls short despite early Salah goal

    Liverpool’s Europa League campaign ended after losing 3-1 on aggregate to Atalanta despite Mohamed Salah scoring in a 1-0 win in Italy
  • Jeremie Frimpong's shot is deflected before finding the net

    West Ham 1-1 Leverkusen (agg: 1-3)
    Hammers out as Frimpong’s strike saves unbeaten run

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Climate crisis

  • Parched, cracked earth with dried-out irrigation tubes under sunny, blue sky.

    Environment
    US lawmakers Elizabeth Warren and Ro Khanna seek to ban trade in water rights

  • An employee handles plastic bottles at a facility

    Exclusive
    Plastic-production emissions could triple to one-fifth of Earth’s carbon budget – report

  • A kākā at Zealandia ecosanctuary, Wellington, New Zealand.

    Penguins in the pond, kiwi in the back yard
    How a city brought back its birds

  • A hand holding shredded pieces of a thin blue material

    Clean energy’s dirty secret
    The trail of waste left by India’s solar power boom

Around the world

  • Two researchers wearing white protective suits, one carrying a blue box, walk across stony ground with penguins and water in the background

    Bird flu
    Risk of disease spreading to humans is ‘enormous concern’, says WHO

    Chief scientist voices fears about H5N1 variant that has ‘extraordinarily high’ mortality rate in humans
  • A person stands surrounded by flood water caused by heavy rains, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Wednesday.

    Dubai floods
    Chaos, queues and submerged cars after UAE hit by record rains

  • A head shot of a woman wearing a blue headscarf with a brown burqa over the top

    Nigeria
    Woman rescued 10 years after kidnap by Boko Haram in Chibok

  • Pouria Zeraati giving a V for victory sign from a hospital bed

    Exclusive
    Eastern European mercenaries suspected of stabbing Iranian journalist in London

    • Scotland
      Husband of former first minister Peter Murrell charged over embezzlement

    • Endangered species
      Two black-footed ferrets cloned from frozen tissue samples

    • Brexit
      UK to delay start of health and safety checks on EU imports – report

    • Ireland
      All 48 victims of 1981 Dublin nightclub fire unlawfully killed, inquest finds

    • Russia
      Husband of jailed blogger signs up for Ukraine war to secure her release

    • WhatsApp
      Terror watchdog condemns company for lowering UK users’ minimum age to 13

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

  • A ‘fat little wobbly maggot’, AKA a rehabilitated seal, with Sue and Tom in Wildlife Rescue.

    Wildlife Rescue review
    Totally adorable TV you’ll want to watch for years to come

    This super cute show about an animal hospital will have you crying happy tears from the off. And just wait till you meet the seal pups!
  • a man plays the guitar

    Dickey Betts
    Allman Brothers Band co-founder and guitarist dies aged 80

  • Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese at the Cannes film festival in 2023.

    Frank Sinatra biopic
    Martin Scorsese to revive film with Leonardo DiCaprio

  • Fontaines DC, with Carlos O’Connell and Grian Chatten at the front.

    Fontaines DC
    We can generate ideas that sound like they’ve been carved in stone for a thousand years

  • Tom Ripley ‘in disguise’

    ‘Like a stray Bee Gee!’
    Does Andrew Scott’s Ripley have the worst wig in TV history?

  • Film and Television<br>No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Moviestore/REX/Shutterstock (1649933a) Woman Times Seven, Shirley Maclaine Film and Television

    Happy 90th birthday, Shirley MacLaine
    Her 20 best films – ranked!

Lifestyle

  • Painting: On the Thames, A Heron by Jacques Joseph Tissot.

    Leading questions
    My close friend is a therapist but all she does is complain. Should I exit this relationship?

    There may be ways to protect yourself from her negativity without jettisoning the relationship, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. Start by creating boundaries
  • Steve and Lisa sitting in a coffee shop

    How we met
    It felt like chatting with an old friend rather than meeting for the first time

  • Jay Rayner Happy Eater illustration

    Happy eater
    Food crazes make me want to roll my eyes. But first, pass me a crookie

    Jay Rayner
  • Anna and Phil

    Dining across the divide
    ‘I couldn’t get on board with her equating the Taliban and the democratic government of Ukraine’

  • A woman prepares to shoot an arrow from a large bow, in side profile. It is a dark and rainy day.

    'There’s so much tension it’s like a romantic comedy’
    My first time at an archery class

  • Pattern of slices citrus-fruit of Lemons, oranges, grapefruit, lime on beige background. Healthy food, diet and detox concept. Flat lay, top view

    How to store half a lemon?
    18 ways to keep leftover food fresh

Take part

  • 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

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

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

  • 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?

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

    Wedding photography
    Share your experiences

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From our global editions

  • Graphic illustration of black-and-white image of white woman with long wavy hair smiling in portrait, surrounded by red, dark blue and light blue images of state seals and voter receipts.

    Exclusive
    Georgia lawmaker runs secret election-conspiracy Telegram channel

    Bridget Thorne, a Republican elected in Fulton county in 2022, has spread election fraud lies and accused county employees of crimes
  • Liz Truss raises her left hand while speaking during prime minister's questions in the Commons

    Trussonomic lessons
    What can be learned from former PM’s book?

  • cockatoo and lorikeet

    Love nest
    How a musk lorikeet fell for a red-tailed black cockatoo

  • The shortages have made one patient feel he has ‘no choice’ but to stockpile medicine by taking less than the intended dose.

    ‘I had to do an 80-mile trip’
    The stress caused by UK drug shortages

  • A guard checks the passport of a Palestinian women at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt

    ‘People are begging us to feed their children’
    Gaza refugees in Cairo find little help

  • A display of fresh fish of different sizes lying on a bed of ice

    Goodbye cod, hello herring
    Why putting a different fish on your dish will help the planet

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    ‘We can’t hunt or fish’
    The villages in Ecuador’s Amazon surrounded by abandoned explosives

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    ‘I was severely stalked and severely abused’
    Richard Gadd on the true story behind Baby Reindeer

  • Glodi Wabelua. Photographed in London by David Levene 23/1/24

    From low-level drug dealer to human trafficker
    Are modern slavery laws catching the wrong people?

  • Narendra Modi

    2024: Year of elections
    Six weeks, 969 million voters, 2,600 parties: India’s mammoth election explained

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Podcasts

Podcasts

  • Bayern Munich v Arsenal - UEFA Champions League - Quarter-Final - Second Leg - Allianz Arena<br>Bayern Munich's Harry Kane celebrates with team-mate Eric Dier at the end of the UEFA Champions League quarter-final, second leg match at the Allianz Arena, Munich. Picture date: Wednesday April 17, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story SOCCER Arsenal. Photo credit should read: Nick Potts/PA Wire. RESTRICTIONS: Use subject to restrictions. Editorial use only, no commercial use without prior consent from rights holder.

    Football Weekly
    Manchester City and Arsenal crash out of Champions League – Football Weekly Extra

  • James Magnussen celebrating a win in swimming

    Science
    Who really wins if the Enhanced Games go ahead? – podcast

  • Close-up of a person smoking a cigarette

    Today in Focus
    Can Rishi Sunak create a smoke-free generation?

  • Kylian Mbappé

    Football Weekly
    PSG and Dortmund thrill in two classic Champions League quarter-finals – Football Weekly

  • Flordelis dos Santos de Souza. Photograph: Andre Lucas/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: Did Brazil’s evangelical superstar have her husband killed? – podcast

  • Memoir from former British PM Truss.

    Today in Focus
    Liz Truss and her plan to ‘save the west’

  • Manchester United v Chelsea - Adobe Women's FA Cup Semi Final<br>LEIGH, ENGLAND - APRIL 14: Hayley Ladd, Maya Le Tissier and Millie Turner of Manchester United Women celebrate the team's victory after the Adobe Women's FA Cup Semi Final match between Manchester United Women and Chelsea Women at Leigh Sports Village on April 14, 2024 in Leigh, England. (Photo by Charlotte Tattersall - MUFC/Manchester United via Getty Images)

    The Guardian's Women's Football Weekly
    A new winner awaits after FA Cup semi-final drama – Women’s Football Weekly

In pictures

  • Ellen Geddes, a wheelchair fencer

    Photos of the day
    Record-breaking ballet dancers and protesting farmers

    The Guardian’s picture editors select some of the most powerful photos from around the world
  • A migrant walks over a freight train known as the beast as he arrives at Piedras Negras, in Piedras Negras, October 2023

    World Press Photo 2024
    Global winners of the competition

  • Black-and-white photo of people dancing on a dancefloor, one in a leotard

    Partying with an 8ft pink panther
    Ibiza in the 70s and 80s

  • A bolt of lightning crosses the sky over the terraced fields

    Photos of the day
    Desert floods and northern lights

  • From the series Soon Will Summer be Over, 2023.

    Sunshine at midnight on the arctic tundra
    Inuuteq Storch’s best photograph

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