Johnson's ultimatum to Putin over 'toxic' Assad

Ditch support or face fresh sanctions, warns Foreign Secretary

White House signals role in regime change in Syria

updated

Officers and tourists line the streets for PC Keith Palmer's funeral

Woman whose smile in face of EDL became famous tells how it happened

Man dragged off United plane after flight is overbooked

Nasa to hold major press conference on 'ocean worlds' in solar system

Pulitzer for journalist who exposed Donald Trump's 'pussy grabbing'

Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold honoured for his dogged investigations and three prizes for the 'failing' New York Times

Deer should be killed en masse to help woodland birds, ecologist says

Academic says the public can decide what kind of woodlands they want but only a 'drastic reduction' in deer numbers in highly populated areas will help birds and small mammals

Jelly-like creature identified as ancestor of all animal life

For nearly 100 years, scientists have thought a sponge was the first type of animal on the planet, but new genetic technique points to a creature like today's comb jellies

Corbyn woos small businesses with plan for crackdown on late payments

Labour would also scrap quarterly reporting for small firms and move to help them secure finance

talking points

Tom Peck Trump may be right on Syria, but that doesn't make backing him easy

Grace Dent Social media might be the best way to fight the war on drugs

Eric Monkman remains cult hero despite University Challenge final loss

'Faux fur' found in high street shops actually from animals

Humane Society International believe this could only be 'tip of the iceberg'

Neuron reprogramming technique 'could hold key to curing Parkinson's'

Researchers discover way to modify brain cells to address lack of dopamine

Garcia wins first major at 74th attempt with triumph at The Masters

Garcia clinched his first major title in a dramatic play-off after the pair finished on -9

drop the target

Senior Tory MPs demand five-year immigration ban

Pro-Brexit politicians tell Theresa May their hardline plan 'will deliver on the will of the electorate'

Matthew Norman Theresa May deliberately humiliated Boris Johnson this week

No one wants to become the latest poster boy for British subservience to Washington, or to wake on the Sabbath to ‘Boris the poodle’ (Moscow’s description). But May knew she couldn’t send him on a delicate mission with his counterpart Lavrov

international

Russia and Iran want 'unbiased investigation' into chemical attack

Russia warns US: We'll respond with force if 'red lines' crossed

'Scary' extent of devastation to Great Barrier Reef revealed

Neil Gorsuch sworn in as next US Supreme Court Justice

Long reads

Review

It’s not just millennials who need lessons on how to be a grown-up

It’s no secret – growing up can be hard to do. That’s why journalist Daisy Buchanan was inspired to write a book that’s part memoir and part self-help for her fellow millennials – but the final product bears a message that transcends its target demographic, making How to Be a Grown-Up a must-read for all ages

My son, my daughter – a mother’s evolution

Isabel Rose, the New York real estate heiress, decided to go public about her child’s gender transition after President Trump rescinded federal protections for transgender students

A surprisingly good place to die: Mongolia and palliative care

A campaigning doctor has helped make the Asian country a better place to spend your final days than many much wealthier nations. Andrew North finds out how

In defence of the so-called Worst Movie Ever Made

Originally called 'Grave Robbers From Out of Space' and featuring actors reading from scripts on their laps, fake trees and mics lurch into shot, it was a recipe for disaster in the golden age of B-movies. But on the 60th anniversary of its screening, is it really worthy of its title, asks David Barnett

Developing stories

Syria

Boris Johnson warns Russia of sanctions after Syria chemical attack

Brexit

Former Ukip leader Diane James considering standing for Tories

Donald Trump

Theresa May and Donald Trump urge Russia to ditch support for Assad

Scottish Referendum

Richard Dawkins says England is becoming a 'nasty little backwater'

Former model hired as first ever male editor-in-chief of British Vogue

Latest video

Pro-Trump Stephen Baldwin has not spoken to brother Alec Baldwin

Balaclava-clad police mocked over video warning to 'poison pushers'

Le Pen denies role of France in deporting Jews to Nazi death camps

Second mass bleaching in 12 months devastates Great Barrier Reef

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1/38 10 April 2017

A flower covered police car is pictured at the site where a truck drove into a department store in Stockholm, Sweden

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2/38 10 April 2017

A woman lays flowers to commemorate the victims of Friday's terror attack at a makeshift memorial near the site where a truck drove into Ahlens department store in Stockholm, Sweden

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3/38 10 April 2017

NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough being carried into a medical tent shortly after he, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos, and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos landed in their Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft in a remote area near the town of Dzhezkazgan (Zhezkazgan), Kazakhstan

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4/38 10 April 2017

The International Space Station (ISS) crew members NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, surrounded by ground personnel, rest shortly after the landing of Russia's Soyuz MS-02 space capsule near the town of Dzhezkazgan (Zhezkazgan), Kazakhstan

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5/38 10 April 2017

Egyptians carry the coffin of policewoman Brigadier Nagwa el-Haggar during her funeral, after she died during a blast that struck outside the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate headquarters in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria

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6/38 10 April 2017

Women cry outside the funeral for those killed in a Palm Sunday church attack in Alexandria Egypt, at the Mar Amina church

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7/38 10 April 2017

Mourners pray next to coffins of victims of the blast at the Coptic Christian Saint Mark's church in Alexandria the previous day during a funeral procession at the Monastery of Marmina in the city of Borg El-Arab, east of Alexandria

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8/38 9 April 2017

A person walks past posters for 'Reporters without borders' that refers to the French presidential election campaign in the district of Montmartre in Paris

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9/38 9 April 2017

A couple take a photo of the sunset from Dune of Pyla, the tallest sand dune in Europe, in Pyla-sur-Mer, southwest France

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10/38 9 April 2017

A family watch the sunset from Dune of Pyla, the tallest sand dune in Europe, in Pyla-sur-Mer

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11/38 9 April 2017

People watch a live performance under illuminated cherry blossoms on the final day of the cherry blossom festival in Yeouido, central Seoul, South Korea

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12/38 9 April 2017

Imam-i-Kaaba Saleh bin Muhammad bin Ibrahim al-Talib (Saudi Arabian Imam of the Grand Mosque in the Islamic holy city of Mecca) waves to supporters at the historical Badshahi Mosque during Maghrib prayer in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

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13/38 9 April 2017

Saleh bin Muhammad bin Ibrahim al-Talib one of the 10 Imams of the Grand mosque in the Islamic holy city of Mecca, visits Pakistan to meet Pakistani officials, Security has been high alert to avoid untoward incident around the Badshahi Mosque.

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14/38 7 April 2017

Paramedics work at the scene where a truck crashed into the Ahlens department store at Drottninggatan in central Stockholm

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15/38 7 April 2017

Reports say three people have died after a truck crashed into an Ahlens department store in Stockholm Truck drives into crowds on a street in central Stockholm

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16/38 7 April 2017

The guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) launches a tomahawk land attack missile in the Mediterranean Sea

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17/38 7 April 2017

The United States military launched at least 50 tomahawk cruise missiles at al-Shayrat military airfield near Homs, Syria, in response to the Syrian military's alleged use of chemical weapons in an airstrike in a rebel held area in Idlib province

EPA
18/38 7 April 2017

Demonstrators pray next to mock coffins during a protest against Russian and Iran in Ankara, Turkey

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19/38 7 April 2017

People carry symbolic coffins with pictures of Syrian victims and inscriptions which translates as "killer Asad" and "killer Putin" during a protest against Russia for its alleged role in a chemical attack in the Syrian province of Idlib, in front of the Russian embassy, in Ankara

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20/38 6 April 2017

A man watches a TV news program reporting about North Korea's missile firing with a file footage, at Seoul Train Station in Seoul, South Korea

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21/38 6 April 2017

Filipino villagers collect recyclable materials amongst debris following a fire at a shanty town in Bacoor, Cavite province, Philippines

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22/38 6 April 2017

According to media reports, more than a thousand familes were left homeless from the fire, which burned around seven hundred shanties. The fire marshal, Superintendent Robert Pacis, stated that the four-hour fire was likely started by children allegedly playing with matches in the house of a person named Raffy Una

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Filipino Eddito Fernandez displays his hands that are covered in dirt as he collects belongings amongst debris following a fire at a shanty town in Bacoor, Cavite province, Philippines

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24/38 6 April 2017

Israeli forces stand guard at the scene of a Palestinian car ramming attack near the Jewish settlement of Ofra near the West Bank city of Ramallah

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25/38 6 April 2017

Israeli soldiers and police arrest a Palestinian attacker at the scene of a car ramming attack near the Israeli settlement of Ofra, north of Ramallah

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26/38 6 April 2017

One Israeli was killed and another wounded in a car-ramming attack near the Ofra settlement in the occupied West Bank, the army said. The alleged attacker was arrested, an army statement said, without giving details about him

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Activists of the Basle political action committee 'March against Monsanto and Syngenta' protest in front of the Syngenta headquarters against the acquisition of Syngenta by the Chinese company ChemChina, in Basle, Switzerland

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28/38 5 April 2017

Universidad de Chile fans clash with the police during a Copa Sudamericana soccer match against Brazil's Corinthians in Sao Paulo, Brazil

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29/38 5 April 2017

Universidad de Chile fans scuffle with riot police during their match agains Corinthians at the Arena Corinthians Stadium in Sao Paulo, Brazil

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Members of the military police of Sao Paulo clash with supporters of Universidad de Chile before the Copa Sudamericana soccer match between Corinthians and Universidad de Chile at the Arena Itaquera Stadium in Sao Paulo, Brazil

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31/38 5 April 2017

Members of the military police of Sao Paulo clash with supporters of Universidad de Chile before the Copa Sudamericana soccer match between Corinthians and Universidad de Chile at the Arena Itaquera Stadium in Sao Paulo, Brazil

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Jose Adan Salazar Umana, a businessman and alleged leader of the Texis Cartel, one of the largest money laundering and drug trafficking networks in El Salvador, is presented at the headquarters of the National Civil Police in San Salvador, El Salvador

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Nikki Haley, United States' Ambassador United Nations, shows pictures of Syrian victims of chemical attacks as she addresses a meeting of the Security Council on Syria at U.N. headquarters

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Russia's deputy UN ambassador, Vladimir Safronkov attends the United Nations Security Council meet in an emergency session at the UN in New York, about the suspected deadly chemical attack that killed civilians, including children, in Syria

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Syrian children, along first aiders and civil defense volunteers, hold placards and photos showing victims of the recent alleged chemical attack Khan Sheikhoun, during a gathering to show solidarity with the victims in Douma, Syria

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Reports state 72 people, including 20 children, were killed in an alleged chemical attack on Khan Sheikhoun of Idlib province

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Destruction at a hospital room in Khan Sheikhun, a rebel-held town in the northwestern Syrian Idlib province, following a suspected toxic gas attack

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Abdul-Hamid Alyousef, 29, holds his twin babies who were killed during a suspected chemical weapons attack, in Khan Sheikhoun in the northern province of Idlib, Syria. Alyousef also lost his wife, two brothers, nephews and many other family members in the attack that claimed scores of his relatives

Alaa Alyousef via AP

sport

Football

Carragher launches damning attack on 'cowardly' Arsenal players

The visitors looked lifeless at Selhurst Park as they were outclassed and outplayed by a vastly superior Palace side who threatened with nearly each attack

Cricket

County Championship round-up: Lawrence steals the show

Surrey beat Warwickshire by an innings while newly promoted Essex secured a highly encouraging draw against Lancashire thanks to the determined defense of Lawrence

Voices

David Usborne This Syria strike is Trump's latest U-turn - but what's the endgame?

Editorial Trump’s attack arrived too late for the G7 to change Syria's course

Bashar al-Assad’s ruthless war of attrition against his divided enemies will grind on until the endgame, at which point there will be little left except rubble

culture

Film

A shot-by-shot breakdown of the Thor: Ragnarok trailer

Thor and Hulk face off in the gladiatorial ring in Taika Waititi's take on the Marvel universe

Review
Music

Grandaddy, Colston Hall, Bristol, review:Their sound has aged well

The Californian indie rock band Grandady perform tracks from all five albums including the recent 'Last Place'

Review
tv & radio

Broadchurch series 3 episode 7 review

With only one more episode to go, there was too much crammed into the penultimate instalment – and we still don't know whodunnit

books

Marvel remove X-Men artwork after hidden anti-Semitic references found

Indonesian artist Ardian Syaf made numerous references to the protests in Jakarta

lifestyle

Fashion

Why mules are this season’s It shoe

They're the perfect style to sport in springtime

Food & drink

The five best Easter egg cocktails

Treat yourself with something that's nice and naughty this Easter with the best sweet Easter-themed cocktails

travel

New app lets you eat dinner in a stranger's home

After the stratospheric rise of Airbnb, VizEat is the next big thing bringing tourists and locals together - this time with food. Introducing the platform that connects travellers with on-the-ground hosts for the ultimate authentic dining experience

Design

Dolce & Gabbana team up with Smeg to unveil bold new kitchenware

Fashion powerhouse Dolce & Gabbana have teamed up with appliance giant Smeg to release a second 'Made in Italy' colourful collection of kitchen gadgets.