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  • A person appearing to hold their shoes in one hand walks knee deep in water along a city street, with high rises in the background.

    Explainer
    What role did cloud seeding play in the Dubai floods?

  • ‘The ADA has a major say in how diabetes is managed globally.’

    Low-carb diets work
    Why does the American Diabetes Association push insulin instead?

    The American Diabetes Association takes millions from companies that stand to profit from our reliance on drugs. Is that affecting their guidance?
  • Former U.S. President Trump's criminal trial on charges of falsifying business records continues in New York<br>Former US President Donald Trump sits beside his lawyer Todd Blanche on the second day of jury selection in his criminal trial in Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City, New York, U.S., April 16, 2024, in this courtroom sketch. Christine Cornell/Pool via REUTERS

    'This case has nothing to do with your politics'
    Surreal scenes as jurors in New York trial tell Trump what they really think

    Dozens indicated they could not be fair and impartial to the ex-president in his home town – others were even more expressive

Spotlight

  • Danielle Mckinney in her Jersey City Studio in 2024

    ‘Women are not usually seen to be resting’
    Danielle Mckinney’s portraits of repose

    The photographer turned painter specializes in images of Black female solitude, luxuriating in the importance of relaxing
  • Alex Pettyfer and Henry Cavill in The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.

    The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare review
    Guy Ritchie’s fun wartime romp

  • Chloe Guidry and Lily Gladstone in Under the Bridge

    Under the Bridge review
    Lily Gladstone leads respectful yet bland true crime drama

    The recent Oscar nominee plays a cop investigating the brutal death of a teen in this noble but clunky retelling of a horrifying crime on Hulu
  • 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

    In her fortnightly review of fitness and wellbeing activities, comedian Jennifer Wong finds that to succeed in life and archery, it helps to aim lower
    • Shelter Pets 1

      America’s animal shelters are overwhelmed
      Pets – and staff – are at breaking point

    • ‘In late 2020 the cumulative toll hit and, after six months of working almost around the clock, I broke down at my computer mid-sentence.’

      Why am I like this?
      Is it possible to break the cycle of burnout for good?

    • Ella Purnell, the vault-leaving protagonist of the TV series.

      Pushing Buttons
      The Fallout series doesn’t just look right – it feels like it was made by gamers, too

    • Stephen Colbert on Trump’s hush money trial: “We are reminded that though the wheels of justice may turn slowly, eventually a panel of impartial citizen jurors will do the indispensable public service of listening to testimony about Donald Trump’s mushroom dong.”

      Stephen Colbert on Trump’s hush-money case
      ‘The trial of what feels like a century’

Opinion

  • Headshot AsnaTabassum

    Will the ‘cancel culture’ crowd speak up about the silencing of Asna Tabassum? Don’t hold your breath

    Arwa Mahdawi
    The University of Southern California canceled its valedictorian’s planned speech after pro-Palestinian posts. It’s no surprise
  • The Sadiq Khan attack ad produced as part of the Conservative London mayoral election campaign.

    US politics is awash with crude and misleading attack ads. Now it’s the UK’s turn

    Jonn Elledge
  • Narendra Modi holds up a mace during an election campaign rally in Agartala, India

    The Guardian view
    India’s election: fixing a win by outlawing dissent damages democracy

  • U.S. President Joe Biden visits Scranton<br>U.S. President Joe Biden speaks with supporters and volunteers attending a campaign training event at the Carpenters and Joiners Local 445 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S., April 16, 2024. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz REFILE - QUALITY REPEAT

    As a Palestinian American, I can’t vote for Joe Biden any more. And I am not alone

    Ahmed Moor
  • Anthony Williams in 2020.

    My friend, Anthony Williams, died too soon. What trauma are other Windrush survivors still going through?

    Ramya Jaidev
  • rishi sunak at PMQs

    The UK politics sketch
    Tory MPs limp into PMQs after finally accepting their fate

    John Crace

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Climate crisis

  • Dried-up pond in Vietnam

    Climate crisis
    Average world incomes to drop by nearly a fifth by 2050

  • Close up of an African elephant, Botswana.

    Botswana
    Europeans care more about elephants than people, says president

  • People walk outside the International Monetary Fund building hosting the climate talks

    Climate crisis
    Billions more in overseas aid needed to avert disaster, say economists

  • Richard Broughton has been monitoring and recording marsh tits in Monks Wood, Cambridgeshire, for 22 years.

    ‘These birds are telling us something serious is happening'
    The songbirds disappearing from Britain’s woods

Around the world

  • US-POLITICS-AEROSPACE-CONGRESS-BOEING-TRANSPORT-ACCIDENT<br>Boeing engineer Sam Salehpour is swearing in before the US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Investigations before testifying during a hearing on "Examining Boeing's Broken Safety Culture: Firsthand Accounts," at Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on April 17, 2024. Boeing critics are testifying at the hearing, including Salehpour who has characterized the aircraft company's 787 as prone to disaster. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

    Boeing
    Hundreds could die if airline fails to handle quality issues, whistleblower says

    Engineer Sam Salehpour says he fears ‘physical violence’ for going public with concerns about ‘no safety culture’ at the planemaker
  • Alejandro Mayorkas

    US politics
    House Republicans’ bid to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas fails in Senate

  • Sunset over Houses of Parliament

    UK
    Rwanda bill further delayed after Lords again votes for changes

  • Older white man wearing blue suit, no tie, cuts air with hand as he speaks into mics at lectern with presidential seal, with people lined up and holding pro-union signs on stage behind him.

    Joe Biden
    US president to triple taxes on Chinese steel and block Japanese takeover of US Steel

    • France
      Hundreds evicted from country's biggest squat months before Paris Olympics

    • Netherlands
      Heir to throne spent year in Madrid amid safety fears, reports say

    • Sweden
      Law passed lowering age to legally change gender from 18 to 16

    • US
      Nasa confirms metal chunk that crashed into Florida home was space junk

    • Elon Musk
      Tesla asks shareholders to back $56bn pay for billionaire rejected by judge

    • London
      Experts divided over implications of prayer ban ruling at school

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 rhino’s commute … Our Living World.

    Our Living World review
    Cate Blanchett’s nature show is a rare ray of hope

  • ‘An overnight sensation 11 years in the making’ … Lainey Wilson at the 2024 CMT music awards.

    ‘Maybe I wasn’t as crazy as people thought!’
    Country star Lainey Wilson on her long road to Grammy glory

  • Sean Ono Lennon and James McCartney, announcing the song Primrose Hill.

    Music
    John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s sons team up for new single

  • Liz Truss

    Shamelessly unrepentant
    Ten Years to Save the West by Liz Truss review

Lifestyle

  • Darren Edwards, pictured during an expedition across Iceland’s Vatnajokull Glacier in April 2023

    A moment that changed me
    I was paralysed on a climb. Then I made the 100-mile journey back to myself

    Seven years after a terrible fall, I teamed up with two other disabled sportsmen to scale Iceland’s highest peak. With each drive of my poles into the snow, I came closer to the man I’d once been
  • A woman in a white bathrobe enjoying a luxury spa with a swimming pool

    The longevity vacation
    Why bar-hopping holidays are out and extreme wellness breaks are in

  • Cultivated sausage on piece of bread

    Slaughter-free sausages
    Trying the latest lab-grown meat creation

  • Tim Siadatan's Springtime Pasta.

    Food
    Tim Siadatan’s recipes for Italian springtime pasta

  • Felicity Cloake's risi e bisi

    Felicity Cloake's masterclass
    How to make risi e bisi

  • 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?

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

  • Cranes at a construction site at East Talpiot

    Revealed
    Israel has sped up settlement-building in East Jerusalem since Gaza war began

    Government ministries and offices behind most contentious of projects, which will create thousands of housing units
  • A city worker planting trees

    ‘We need more shade’
    US’s hottest city turns to trees to cool those most in need

  • Hugh Grant<br>FILE - Hugh Grant arrives at the premiere of "Wonka" on Dec. 10, 2023, at Regency Village Theatre in Westwood, Calif. Hugh Grant says he received “an enormous sum of money” to settle a lawsuit accusing the publisher of The Sun tabloid of unlawfully tapping his phone, bugging his car and breaking into his home to snoop on him. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

    Analysis
    Why has Hugh Grant settled his phone hacking claim against the Sun?

  • A dark corridor in temporary housing accommodation supplied to a mother and children.

    ‘Rat bites and chronic asthma’
    Schools on frontline of UK housing crisis

  • A large crater in front of a shopping mall with no external walls or interior fixings

    Ukraine
    Kharkiv at risk of becoming ‘second Aleppo’ without US aid, mayor says

  • Maureen Gilbert with her parents

    The tragic death of Maureen Gilbert
    Why did a much-loved mother die in her flooded home?

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  • Man sits with lawyers behind desk in court

    Trump on Trial
    Seven jurors – and a warning for Trump

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    UK politics
    Tory rebellion against Sunak smoking ban rekindles leadership talk

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  • 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

  • Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Grace Dent

    Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
    S6, Ep 10: Kiell Smith-Bynoe, actor and comedian

  • A marsh tit perched on a rock (Photgraph: Lisa Geoghegan/Alamy Stock Photo)

    Science
    Soundscape ecology: a window into a disappearing world – podcast

  • One hand with finger is pointing right. A second hand with finger is pointing to top left corner

    Who screwed millennials?
    Who screwed millennials? Yanis Varoufakis on the death of capitalism – podcast

In pictures

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

    Photos of the day
    Desert floods and northern lights

    The Guardian’s picture editors select some of the most powerful photos from around the world
  • From the series Soon Will Summer be Over, 2023.

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

  • Takkunen Hong Kong3

    All aboard the ‘ding ding’!
    A wild ride through Hong Kong

  • Derek Jarman’s home at Dungeness

    Prospect Cottage
    Derek Jarman’s seaside home

  • Counting Boxcars in the Cajon Pass, 2010

    ‘We’d wait all day for a train’
    America by rail

  • New Rwandans, from left, Yvan Kambari, Esther Iranzi and

    ‘We do not call ourselves Tutsi or Hutu’
    The new Rwandans, three decades after the genocide – in pictures

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