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  • An image from the Associated Press shows a helicopter targeting a vessel near the Strait of Hormuz.

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    Middle East crisis live: Iran’s state media says vessel ‘linked to Israel’ seized by Revolutionary Guards

  • Two older women and one younger woman walking down a spiral staircase, smiling, with numerous other people walking behind them

    Global heating
    Strasbourg court’s Swiss climate ruling could have worldwide impact, say experts

    • Turkey
      One killed and 184 stranded midair after cable car collapses

    • Brussels
      Sunak urged to stop Braverman speaking alongside far right at convention

    • ‘This coast is saturated’
      Italian village braces for post-Ripley crowds

    • Gibraltar
      UK and EU ‘within kissing distance’ of post-Brexit border deal

    • Donald Trump
      Ex-president derailed Oval Office China talks with Stormy Daniels rant, book says

    • UK politics
      Liz Truss book says husband predicted premiership ‘would all end in tears’

Europe in focus

  • Sito Mendoza, left, with Ramón Álvarez in Fisterra, Galicia.

    ‘It’s eating what the sea provides’
    Galicia’s Atlantic diet eclipses Mediterranean cousin

  • José Andrés carrying a box of food from World Central Kitchen to help survivors of Hurricane Dorian, in the Bahamas, September 2019

    How did a Spanish chef gain a hotline to the White House?

    María Ramírez
    José Andrés sends cooks into disaster zones. He has led a backlash over Gaza against Netanyahu that no protest or politician could have matched, says María Ramírez of elDiario.es
  • Transgender symbol on a wooden desk

    ‘This isn’t how good scientific debate happens’
    UK academics on culture of fear in gender medicine research

    Cass review found professionals in the field are scared to discuss views amid risk of reputational damage and online abuse

Spotlight

  • Rose Cartwright with her hands held behind her head, wearing a black sweatshirt with “Freak” written above a Nike-style tick

    Society
    I was the poster girl for OCD. Then I began to question everything I’d been told about mental illness

    When I sought help for crippling invasive thoughts, I was told I had a disease like any other. But I wasn’t able to recover until I understood the fallacy at the heart of mental healthcare
  • Turner through a keyhole

    Art unlocked
    Critics on the one work that explains the great artists, from Turner to Basquiat

  • A bright cartoon of a couple from the waist down, with motorised cogs covering their groins.

    This is how we do it
    ‘My sex drive starter motor is slower than his but just as powerful’

    Being open about their mismatched libidos – and a Friday night ‘no sex date’ – helps keep Declan and Celine’s love life revved up
  • Junior members of Kazakhstan’s Cheer Republic team perform in Independence Square, Astana, in front of the Hazrat Sultan mosque.

    Jump for joy!
    How cheerleading conquered the world, from Lagos to Ho Chi Minh City

    It has gone from the sidelines of American sport to become a competitive global phenomenon that might one day make the Olympics. We meet the international teams bringing the cheer
    • Detail from an Illustration by Arthur Rackham (1909).

      ‘The anti-pet of bourgeois life’
      Why the world needs big cat energy

    • Taylor Swift singing while wearing a silver outfit in a stadium

      Taylor Swift
      European cities hope jet-setting fans will splash the cash for Eras tour

    • OJ Simpson after he is found not guilty of murdering his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, 1995

      OJ Simpson
      The day they set him free – and left America in turmoil

    • VO05131 (Oslo-sorenga-0013-4567857-Photo_Thomas_Johannessen.jpg) Name: Diving into the Oslo Fjord at Sørenga Credits: VisitOSLO/Thomas Johannessen

      Summer in Scandinavia
      Five eco-friendly ideas to holiday like a local

Opinion

  • Reesa Teesa filmed a 50-part series describing her ordeal after meeting a man she calls ‘Legion’.

    An ‘incredibly relatable’ TikTok series captivated viewers. But its success was complex

    Lottie J Joiner
    Reesa Teesa’s Who TF Did I Marry chronicled how she ‘met, dated, married and divorced’ a ‘pathological liar’ which had millions obsessed with her story
  • A protester's hand, holding the placard 'Do not abandon the hostages'

    I believe in another Israel – one not defined by Benjamin Netanyahu and his cronies

    Naama Lazimi
  • FILE - Australia's James Magnussen celebrates after winning the gold medal in the Men's 100m freestyle final at the FINA Swimming World Championships in Barcelona, Spain, on Aug. 1, 2013. Retired swimming world champion James Magnussen faces a series of potential legal and ethical issues after declaring that he will use banned doping substances in an unofficial attempt to break the 50-meter freestyle world record. “I want to approach this the right way,” Magnussen said Friday Feb. 9, 2024 in a post on his Instagram page. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza, File)

    On your marks, get set, dope! Welcome to the Enhanced Games – the sporting event no one wants

    Marina Hyde
  • A woman wearing a hijab walks near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, 2 May 2021.

    What has 20 years of banning headscarves done for France?

    Rokhaya Diallo
  • OJ Simpson (centre) and his defence attorneys react after the not guilty verdict is announced in his murder trial, on 3 October 1995

    The OJ Simpson trial was sensational – and a portent of the strife-torn America we see today

    Jonathan Freedland
  • man in suit and red baseball cap surrounded by other people in suits

    For all his bombast, Trump is plummeting – financially, legally and politically

    Lloyd Green

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  • Photo of six people sitting in a small open boat look ing over their shoulders at a three-masted wooden ship overlaid on an orange graphic of a woodcut from a slave ship

    ‘Hidden in plain sight’
    The European city tours of slavery and colonialism

  • A person in a hi-vis jacket walking away from the camera towards a large dirt mound or hill

    'Generations of forgetting'
    My fight to honour the Africans buried on St Helena

  • Annina Van Neel Hayes laying lilies outside the door of a brick building

    29:18

    'Perpetuating a lie'
    British overseas territory St Helena urged to return remains of 325 formerly enslaved people to Africa

  • A historical map overlayed on modern New York

    Sites of resistance
    Threatened African burial grounds around the world

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Climate crisis

  • Aerial view of a logging road through rainforest

    The age of extinction
    Network of ‘ghost roads’ paves the way for levelling Asia-Pacific rainforests

  • Adrian Pike, winemaker with wife Galia at their vineyard and winery near Ashford, Kent.

    ‘It’s a sun trap’
    Climate crisis brings boomtime for British wine

  • Lightning lights the sky purple in between dark clouds and a dark tree-lined horizon

    Weather tracker
    Stormy weeks for France and New Zealand

  • Fields and roads are flooded after the River Trent overflowed its banks after Storm Henk, as seen on 5 January.

    Environment
    Flooded farms in England refused compensation as ‘too far’ from river

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Around the world

  • Black and white image from 1976 showing the bullet-riddled minibus

    Northern Ireland
    Kingsmill massacre an ‘overtly sectarian attack by IRA’, coroner rules

  • Yidan by a river near her farm in Thailand

    'A country with free speech'
    The Chinese émigrés leaving the pressures of home for laid back Chiang Mai

    • US
      Eighty-five-year-old Idaho woman saves herself and son from burglar in ‘heroic act’

    • Google
      Tech giant blocking links to California news outlets from search results

    • Belgium
      Country investigates alleged Russian payments to MEPs

    • Robert MacNeil
      Co-anchor of PBS’s NewsHour segment dies aged 93

    • Niger
      Russian military trainers arrive as African nation pulls away from US

    • WhatsApp
      Anger from campaigners as Meta lowers age limit to 13 in EU

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Culture

  • Kirsten Dunst in Civil War

    From Scoop to Civil War
    Why is it so hard to portray journalism on screen?

    The character of the journalist continues to be a trusty mainstay on both the big and small screen, but noble intentions aren’t enough to overcome cliche
  • Joe Lycett.

    Fake news
    Comedian Joe Lycett discloses four untrue stories he planted in UK media

  • USA. Zendaya , Josh O'Connor in Challengers

    Challengers review
    Zendaya aces uproariously sexy tennis set love triangle

  • ‘There is something ghostly about being adopted. A set of tiny details is not much to make into a whole person’ Jackie Kay.

    Poet Jackie Kay
    ‘I could have been brought up by Tories!’

  • Leo Woodall

    ‘The new DiCaprio’
    How Leo Woodall became one of UK’s hottest exports

  • lola final

    Nicola Peltz Beckham, a billionaire’s daughter, made a movie about abject poverty. It’s as bad as you think

    Kady Ruth Ashcraft

Lifestyle

  • Indira Varma

    Indira Varma
    ‘The worst thing anyone’s said to me? Go back to where you came from’

    The actor on racist abuse, being a cocktail waitress in the ‘unwoke’ 90s and a wardrobe malfunction
  • Sonia and Stefan next to each other.

    Blind date
    Did we kiss? In public? Heavens, no, we’re British! But we did have a warm goodbye hug

Take part

  • People applaud as taoiseach Simon Harris looks on after receiving a majority parliamentary vote in Dublin, Ireland.

    People in Ireland
    What are your political hopes for new taoiseach Simon Harris?

  • Tell us about your friendship using the form below.

    Relationships
    How did you meet your close friend or partner?

  • 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

    Young Europeans
    Do you live with your parents?

  • A Hungarian flag is flying over the city of Esztergom, Hungary.

    People in Hungary
    Share your political hopes for the future

From our global editions

  • Samantha Cameron sits on a window sill while wearing a long dress

    Samantha Cameron
    ‘Public scrutiny made me obsessed with clothes that won’t let you down’

    Wife of former PM says her time in No 10 helped shape her Cefinn clothing brand, which is opening a London store
  • A young woman is browsing a rail of clothes at a street market

    Back on the rack
    The best ways to sell secondhand clothes

  • Tourists take part in a water gun battle during Songkran celebrations in Thailand.

    Thailand
    As the country revels in Songkran water fights, tourist hub Samui suffers through drought

  • Aerial shot of closely packed houses in Villa 31, one of the largest slums in Buenos Aires.

    ‘I felt pains all over my body’
    Argentina battles dengue outbreak as politicians pass up vaccine opportunity

  • Lumbricus terrestris, the common earthworm, illustration

    Earthworm
    The soil-maker without whom we’d struggle to feed ourselves

  • Collage of Michael Cohen, an illustration of Trump in court, and Stormy Daniels

    Analysis
    Trump’s New York criminal trial begins soon – but will the public care?

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    ‘I end up hugging complete strangers and crying’
    Inside the epic episode that might change Bluey forever

  • Footage shows the extent of devastation in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis after the recent withdrawal of Israeli ground troops

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    Gaza
    Before-and-after footage shows destruction of Khan Younis

  • An illustration showing a montage of an African girl in a hijab in profile, soldiers, a hand holding a photo, and the Chibok school sign

    Ten years on from Chibok
    What happened to the 276 Nigerian girls snatched from their school?

  • The UK’s representative at the Venice Biennale, John Akomfrah

    ‘War, refugees, destruction’
    Colonialism and conflict key themes of Venice Biennale

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    Weekend
    Weekend podcast: what’s it like to be a sociopath?; Gen Z’s lust for Sex and the City; and Marina Hyde on President The Rock

  • Jo Biden at desk sucking a pen with US flag and framed photos behind him

    Politics Weekly America
    How badly has US diplomacy been damaged by the war in Gaza? – podcast

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    The Audio Long Read
    Disappearing tongues: the endangered language crisis – podcast

  • Man looks into camera

    Today in Focus
    Carers scandal: why are so many being prosecuted by the UK government?

  • Paris Saint-Germain v FC Barcelona: Quarter-final First Leg - UEFA Champions League 2023/24, France - 10 Apr 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Ibrahim Ezzat/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock (14430420cw) Andreas Christensen of FC Barcelona is celebrating his goal with FC Barcelona players during the UEFA Champions League quarter-final first leg match between Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and FC Barcelona at Parc des Princes Stadium in Paris, France, on April 10, 2024. Paris Saint-Germain v FC Barcelona: Quarter-final First Leg - UEFA Champions League 2023/24, France - 10 Apr 2024

    Football Weekly
    Barça’s kids are alright and Dortmund give themselves a chance - Football Weekly Extra

  • Anne Mahrer and Rosmarie Wyder-Walti, of the Swiss elderly women group Senior Women for Climate Protection, talk to journalists after the verdict of the court in the climate case

    Science
    The senior Swiss women who went to court over climate change, and won – podcast

  • Court drawing of Donald Trump at a hearing in New York.

    Today in Focus
    Stormy Daniels, Donald Trump and the start of the hush money trial

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    Callie Eh’s best phone picture
    ‘The lone hand prompts us to ask what is going on behind the curtain’

    The photographer was in Nepal when she happened upon a wedding ceremony and a once-in-a-lifetime image
  • Anouk Garnier ascends the Eiffel Tower during a successful attempt to beat the world rope climbing record

    Twenty photographs of the week
    Seven days around the world in 20 pictures

  • A woman dressed in black and wearing a broad-brimmed hat and sunglasses smiles as she stands next to others wearing similar white and purple clothes

    Photos of the day
    Aintree fashion and the Thai new year

  • A man walks pasts schoolchildren from nearby villages waiting to be escorted to the the primary school, which serves 17 villages, in the village of Dikaia, Greece, March 29, 2024

    ‘We need to keep trying’
    Tackling Greece’s falling birthrate

  • A pelican eats a fish

    The week in wildlife
    Greedy pelican and capricorn rising

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