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  • a man in a blue suit and red tie sits in court

    Donald Trump
    Ex-president in court on first day of historic New York hush-money trial

  • Artist’s impression shows the orbits of both the star and the black hole around their common centre of mass.

    Science
    Astronomers discover Milky Way’s biggest stellar black hole – 33 times size of sun

    • Bondi stabbing
      Australian PM offers citizenship to French man who confronted attacker

    • Climate crisis
      UK accused of double counting £500m of aid to meet pledge

    • US
      House speaker unveils complex plan for Israel and Ukraine aid amid rising pressure

    • Technology
      Companies scrap systems that track staff amid UK data watchdog clampdown

    • Exclusive
      Andrew Malkinson says improved DNA tests could have spared him years in jail

    • Beijing half marathon
      Race hit by controversy as China’s He Jie allowed to win

Europe in focus

  • An overcrowded boat of migrants in the film Io Capitano (2023)

    The EU’s new migration pact is intended to neutralise the far right – it risks empowering it

    Daniel Trilling
  • a woman speaks against a backdrop displaying her face and "CPAC"

    Analysis
    What does Liz Truss’s book tell us about her American ambitions?

    The former prime minister spent just 49 days in office but wants to stay on the world stage. Her attacks on Biden and praise for Trump are aimed at the populist right
  • Alleged drone wreckage on the grounds of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, in a photograph provided to Reuters by the press service of the Russian-occupied power station in Ukraine.

    Ukraine war briefing
    Attacks on nuclear plant are Russian ‘false flag’, Kyiv tells UN security council

    Zaporizhzhia ‘getting dangerously close to a nuclear accident’ says IAEA chief, as Russians and Ukrainians trade accusations. What we know on day 783

Spotlight

  • Shein shoes at a popup store in New York in 2022.

    ‘Super cute please like’
    The unstoppable rise of Shein

    The long read: It is taking fast fashion to ever faster and ever cheaper extremes, and making billions from it. Why is the whole world shopping at Shein?
  • Graphic of people using pound sign as beds

    Give up lie-ins and buy an eye mask
    How to get better sleep

  • The author David Nicholls, sitting at a table.

    'Love is in the fresh air'
    You Are Here by David Nicholls review

    The One Day author’s new will-they-won’t-they tale, about two divorcees who find themselves walking the Lakes and Pennines, is a great comic novel – and superb on the landscape
  • Mary Dispenza, former nun and sexual assault survivor who now advocates for those abused by priests and nuns at her home in Bellevue, Washington on April 13, 2024.

    How we survive
    At 50, I had a flashback to a priest abusing me as a child. Then I decided to confront him

    Mary Dispenza spent years as a nun and working in the church before her buried memories rose to the surface. It was the start of her long journey towards justice and peace
    • Donald Trump at the Manhattan criminal court in New York on 15 April 2024.

      Donald Trump
      Ex-president's criminal trial for hush-money payments crawls to a start

    • Bluey Heeler from TV series Bluey

      Bluey’s blockbuster episode hit a nerve for my family by casting moving house as difficult and scary

      Chloe Booker
    • Eurostar's website

      Your problems, with Anna Tims
      Getting a final price for a Eurostar package is just pot luck

    • The Living Project’s Josh Bulpin enjoying the view on Knoydart

      We revel in the remoteness
      Wild camping and hiking in the Scottish Highlands

Opinion

  • Liz Truss speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) annual meeting in National Harbor, Maryland, U.S., February 22, 2024.

    Liz Truss has kindly offered to ‘save the west’. But who will save her from her delusions?

    Gaby Hinsliff
    The former PM’s book claims she was undermined by ‘establishment’ enemies. It instead shows exactly why her friends deserted her
  • A giant billboard in central Tehran showing Iranian ballistic missiles

    The Guardian view
    Iran and Israel: they need to step back from the brink of open warfare

  • Ben Jennings on fears over the perilous game being played between Israel and Iran – cartoon

    Cartoon
    Ben Jennings on fears over the perilous game being played between Israel and Iran

  • Thames Water sign

    Thames Water break-up is a promising idea

    Nils Pratley
  • Benjamin Netanyahu at a wartime cabinet meeting in Tel Aviv, Israel, on 14 April 2024.

    Netanyahu faces tough questions on Iran – because we Israelis don’t need any more forever wars

    Dahlia Scheindlin
  • Athletes pose at Nike’s showcase for its Olympic uniforms last week

    Nike’s ‘hoo haa’ Olympic uniforms reveal everything, including sexism in sport

    Melissa Jacobs

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Climate crisis

  • A bull shark

    Oceans
    Climate crisis increasing frequency of deadly upswells, study finds

  • Emissions from three industrial chimneys

    Climate crisis
    ‘Grownup’ leaders are pushing us towards catastrophe, says former US climate chief

  • A field of staghorn coral bleached white on the Great Barrier Reef

    Environment
    Global heating pushes coral reefs towards worst planet-wide mass bleaching on record

  • 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

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Around the world

  • Under-construction 747s at a Boeing facility

    Boeing
    Employees’ use of safety concern service up 500% after panel blowout

    Use of portal to flag safety and quality issues ‘exploded’, executive says, amid intense scrutiny following Alaska Airlines incident
  • Chris Whitty during a Covid news conference

    Exclusive
    England’s chief medical officer urges MPs to ignore lobbying and pass smoking ban bill

  • Screenshot of livestream video of Bishop Mar Mari Emmanual being allegedly stabbed

    Church attack
    Australian police treating stabbing of bishop in Sydney as terror related

  • The City of London financial skyline.

    Live
    UK unemployment rate jumps to 4.2% as labour market cools; China’s growth beats forecasts

    • Arizona
      Democrat says enshrining abortion rights in constitution best remedy to 1864 ban

    • Prince Harry
      Duke of Sussex loses initial attempt to appeal against security ruling

    • Georgia
      MP punches opponent in face in brawl over ‘foreign agents’ bill

    • Verona
      Restaurant in Italy offers free bottles of wine to customers who hand in phones

    • Belarus
      Prisoner smuggles out account of brutal jail written on toilet paper

    • Deepfake
      Creating sexually explicit images to be made offence in UK

Cotton Capital: ongoing series

  • A historical map overlayed on modern New York

    Sites of resistance
    Threatened African burial grounds around the world

  • collage of imagery pertaining to Jamaica and slavery: landscapes, statues, postage stamps, vintage illustrations, the flag, plus some abstract figures and shapes

    A historic revolt, a forgotten hero, an empty plinth
    Is there a right way to remember slavery?

  • 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

  • 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

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Culture

  • Wondrous … Maria Lukyanova in Grace.

    Grace review
    Monumentally odd father-daughter odyssey via mobile cinema

    Travelling across Russia in mostly silence, Ilya Povolotsky’s debut feature has a strange confidence in its own monumental dispiritedness
  • Hannah Waddingham on Olivier Awards red carpet

    0:36

    Don’t say ‘show a little leg’
    Hannah Waddingham rebukes photographer

  • ‘It didn’t feel dramatic, or particularly awful’ … Salman Rushdie.

    ‘Why didn’t I fight? Why didn’t I run?’
    10 things we learned from Salman Rushdie’s Knife

  • Cue jingle … Star Wars Cerveza Cristal beer edit, part of a 2003 campaign in Chile called Stop the Zapping

    May the fizz be with you
    How a $10 Chilean beer ad took on Star Wars

  • Magic Returns to Disneyland Park as Theme Parks Plan to Reopen April 30<br>ANAHEIM, CA - AUGUST 27: Mickey Mouse poses in front of Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland Park on August 27, 2019 in Anaheim, California. Disneyland plans to reopen on April 30, 2021. (Photo Joshua Sudock/Walt Disney World Resorts via Getty Images)

    A Tarzan deathtrap and an 80ft Goofy
    Prepare for your tour of scrapped Disneyland rides

  • Todd Howard, director of the Fallout game series, and Jonathan Nolan, director of the Fallout TV show.

    ‘They even got a real jetpack in there!’
    Todd Howard and Jonathan Nolan on Fallout

Lifestyle

  • Models walk the runway in clothes that are mostly coloured black

    Dior
    Marlene Dietrich is the muse for feminist retelling of maison's story

    Hollywood’s pioneer of androgyny inspires label’s latest catwalk show at New York’s Brooklyn Museum
  • Rachel Roddy’s scafata, or spring vegetable stew, with seasoned ricotta and garlic and oil toasts.

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for scafata, or Roman spring vegetable stew

  • FILE PHOTO: Singer Christina Aguilera poses with Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli at the opening of his ...<br>FILE PHOTO: Singer Christina Aguilera poses with Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli at the opening of his Boutique in Beverly Hills. Singer Christina Aguilera (R) poses with Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli at the opening of Cavalli's Boutique in Beverly Hills February 15, 2005. Aguilera has gotten engaged to her longtime boyfriend, Jordan Bratman, People magazine reported on Saturday. REUTERS/Fred Prouser/File Photo

    Roberto Cavalli obituary
    The Italian fashion designer whose style was boldly sexual and flamboyant

  • A young woman with dreadlocks and a gap-tooth smile grins widely.

    ‘We can’t escape it’
    Death doula Alua Arthur on her ancient profession

  • Gary Barlow portrait

    The boomer pause
    The sign that shows you should really get off social media

  • Kitchen scales with various sources of protein, including nuts, milk, fish and eggs

    The truth about protein
    How to get enough – at every age

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Take part

  • 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?

  • Mykhaylo Mudryk and Maksym Talovierov celebrate after the match between Ukraine and Iceland in Wrocław, Poland.

    Football
    Ukrainians: share your reaction to your country qualifying for Euro 2024

  • 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?

From our global editions

  • A woman receives an anaesthesia injection before an emergency cesarean section at Lagos Island maternity hospital.

    ‘Pregnancy is not a disease’
    Why do so many women die giving birth in one of Africa’s richest countries?

    More than 80,000 Nigerian women died from pregnancy-related complications in 2020, a statistic activists say reflects a lack of political will to fix a broken medical system
  • Makenson Rémy in a radio studio

    ‘The city is a jail’
    Haitian journalists get word out about gang violence

  • Palestinian children in Khan Younis queue for hot food.

    2:13

    ‘It’s death there’
    Babies and children hit hardest as famine tightens hold on Gaza

  • Older white man, orangey skin, dark suit, white shirt, red tie, frowning, standing in front of multiple American flags.

    Donald Trump trials
    Who are the key players in ex-president's hush-money trial?

  • Frans van der Hoff portrait

    Frans van der Hoff obituary
    The co-founder of the Fairtrade movement proved a world with more solidarity is possible

  • A robot-powered fast food kitchen.

    ‘Eat the future, pay with your face’
    My dystopian trip to an AI burger joint

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  • Crowds at the Acropolis

    ‘It’s plain elitist’
    Anger at Greek plan for €5,000 private tours of Acropolis

  • ‘Basically it’s a propaganda campaign.’

    Explained
    How to spot five of the fossil fuel industry’s biggest disinformation tactics

  • A streak of a missile trail in the sky above a brightly lit city

    ‘I hope everything is behind us’
    Israelis take stock after night of airstrikes

  • Rooftop Beatles<br>30th January 1969: British rock group the Beatles performing their last live public concert on the rooftop of the Apple Organization building for director Michael Lindsey-Hogg's film documentary, 'Let It Be,' on Savile Row, London, England. Drummer Ringo Starr sits behind his kit. Singer/songwriters Paul McCartney and John Lennon perform at their microphones, and guitarist George Harrison (1943 - 2001) stands behind them. Lennon's wife Yoko Ono sits at right. (Photo by Express/Express/Getty Images) white;format landscape;male;musical instrument;audio equipment;equipment;Music;Pop;Songwriter;Drummer;Guitarist;Film; P/BEATLES/1969;The

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

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

  • Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Grace Dent

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

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

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    Who screwed millennials?
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    Who screwed millennials out of affordable housing? Part 2 – podcast

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    Who screwed millennials?
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In pictures

  • Counting Boxcars in the Cajon Pass, 2010

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

    Justine Kurland’s images capture her unique life raising a child on the road – and offer up a joyous escape from the traditional family photo album
  • Olivier Awards 2024 at the Royal Albert Hall some members of the cast of Guys and Dolls

    Guys, dolls and an A-list cast
    Behind the curtains at the Olivier awards

  • man in a suit and tie singing

    From No Doubt to Will Smith
    Big stars and surprise guests at Coachella

  • Women in matching dresses take part in a rehearsal

    Photos of the day
    Olympics rehearsals and Kim statues

  • Bryson DeChambeau of the United States moves a sign while preparing to play his second shot on the 13th hole from the 14th fairway.

    Bushes, blazers and birdies
    The Masters 2024

  • A woman wearing a headscarf looks out of the side of a truck packed with people

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