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  • Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni

    Italy
    Measures passed to allow anti-abortion activists to enter abortion clinics

    Opposition parties say women’s rights dealt blow after package approved by Georgia Meloni’s cabinet
  • Vladimir Putin in Moscow

    Russia
    Vladimir Putin not welcome at French ceremony for 80th anniversary of D-day

Europe in focus

  • A Ukrainian serviceman in Chasiv Yar, current focal point of Russia’s slow advance into Ukraine

    Russia-Ukraine war
    Who will finance Ukraine’s defence?

  • Brussels sprouts being harvested in a flooded field in Lincolnshire, 11 January. UK growers of green winter vegetables are facing some of the worst winter conditions in recent memory.

    Explained
    Which UK foods are at risk as extreme weather causes havoc with global supplies?

    Many products consumed by Britons could be hit by floods and droughts driven by climate crisis
  • 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
    With a heavy focus on deterrence, the agreement shows how far Europe’s centre has shifted to the right

Spotlight

  • Francesco Vezzoli Le Gant d’amour (After de Chirico and Jean Genet), 2010 [Detail] Stampa su tela, ricamo metallico, bigiotteria, carta Inkjet print on canvas, metallic embroidery, custom jewelry, paper 74.5 x 61.5 cmFrancesco Vezzoli Portrait of Paulina Porizkova as a Renaissance Madonna with Holy Child crying Salvador Dalì's jewels (After Lorenzo Lotto), 2011 Stampa inkjet su tela, ricamo metallico e in cotone, stoffa, bigiotteria, acquarello, cornice d’artista Inkjet print on canvas, metallic and cotton embroidery, fabric, custom jewelry, watercolour 115 x 80 cm

    ‘It’s a queered up history of art’
    The provocateur turning Gaga and Kardashian into weeping saints

    Why are there almost no tears in great works of art? Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli is rectifying this – by embroidering balloon-shaped drops on to modern mashups of Giotto and Botticelli
  • heavily damaged building

    ‘Anything could happen’
    Gaza Strip left hanging while Israel plots response to Iran’s attack

  • Nathan Sawaya with his sculpture Big Yellow, a man made of yellow Lego opening his chest with his hands

    ‘It is a job, not a hobby’
    The Wall Street lawyer who quit to make Lego art

    Nathan Sawaya’s sculptures have been in galleries around the world – and a Lady Gaga video. He talks about art critics, auditioning to be a ‘master model builder’ and why he has no Lego at home
  • Kitchen utensils in a kitchen drawer

    ‘You’ll wonder how you lived without them’
    Eight unsung kitchen tools every home cook should own

    Elizabeth Quinn raids her cutlery drawer for the indispensable – but underrated – utensils that make cooking a breeze
    • Image of green hills and trees overlaid with sound bars

      How a haven for nature fell silent
      No birdsong, no water in the creek, no beating wings

    • Damon Albarn on stage at Coachella in California

      Tantrums of the rich and famous
      Nine acts that turned on their audience – from Elton to Bieber to Blur

    • Sexual Healing composite image of a woman, cross-legged, looking pensively to the left

      Sexual healing
      I used to love sex. But my boyfriend’s premature ejaculation is turning me off it – and him

    • Stuart Heritage scratching his bald scalp

      'Completely, permanently, irreversibly bald'
      Losing my hair made me miserable. Now I’m as bald as an egg, I couldn’t be happier

Opinion

  • An RAF Typhoon takes off from RAF Coningsby in 2022.

    Britain has no business intervening in the war in Gaza. So why did it defend Israel against Iran?

    Simon Jenkins
    Our leaders are too eager to revisit the UK’s one-time role as police officer to the world. This isn’t the way to do foreign affairs
  • Saudi activist Loujain Al-Hathloul is seen on her way to the State Security Court, in Riyadh<br>Saudi activist Loujain Al-Hathloul makes her way to the appear at a special criminal court for an appeals hearing, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia March 10, 2021. REUTERS/Ahmed Yosri

    Saudi Arabia is rebranding itself as a moderate country, but what’s the truth? Just ask our female activists

    Lina al-Hathloul
  • Damp squib? … US vice-president Kamala Harris at an event to prevent gun violence, Las Vegas, April 2024

    How did Kamala Harris go from being a rising star to a damp squib?

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • ‘The last thing Americans need is a large expansion of government surveillance.’

    The US House voted to vastly expand government surveillance. The Senate must stop it

    Caitlin Vogus
  • close-up of three Dr Martens boots, black, white and red, in the window of a store: they have red and white or red and green laces, and the yellow stitching on their soles can be seen clearly

    Dr Martens investors should be kicking themselves

    Nils Pratley
  • Katharine Birbalsingh, headteacher of Michaela community school, standing in one of her classrooms

    Michaela school will keep its prayer ban – but as a Muslim teacher I know it doesn’t have to be this way

    Nadeine Asbali

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Climate crisis

  • A flooded field of brussels sprouts

    Extreme weather
    UK facing food shortages and price rises

  • A water-bombing helicopter is seen flying past the sun during bushfires in Queensland in November 2023

    Australia
    National weather agency declares the El Niño is over and another La Niña could be on the way

  • A displaced Yemeni child carries water containers donated by Unicef at a camp on the outskirts of Sana'a, Yemen, last year.

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

  • A bull shark

    Oceans
    Climate crisis increasing frequency of deadly upswells, study finds

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Around the world

  • a side-by-side image of Charlie Kirk, Donald Trump and Stephen Miller

    US
    Powerful conservative funds hand out millions to pro-Trump far-right groups

    Groups led by Stephen Miller and Charlie Kirk among recipients of large sums from Bradley Foundation and Bradley Impact Fund
  • Man sits in court in navy suit and red tie

    Donald Trump
    Historic criminal trial enters second day as jury selection continues

  • Stock photo of black keyboard overlaid with green and red images and light.s

    Sexual exploitation
    Child sexual abuse content growing online with AI-made images, report says

  • Chris Whitty during a Covid news conference

    Exclusive
    England's chief medical officer urges MPs to pass smoking ban

    • Nato
      Undersea ‘hybrid warfare’ threatens security of 1bn people, commander warns

    • Education
      High court upholds top London school’s ban on prayer rituals

    • Truth Social
      Trump’s social media empire to launch streaming platform

    • Italy
      Artists refuse to open Israel pavilion at Venice Biennale until ceasefire is reached

    • OJ Simpson
      Ford Bronco in 1994 slow-speed police chase up for sale

    • Live
      Truss claims ‘health police’ will push for other bans if smoking rules change

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

  • Egyptian Team 02 at the startline of the Atlantic Challenge in Beyond the Raging Sea.

    Beyond the Raging Sea review
    Cross-Atlantic rowing race likened to refugees’ ordeal

    Two endurance sailors’ perilous voyage is supposed to lead them to empathy for refugees’ plight – but they sure take their time discovering that
  • Voices from the ether come and go … John Akomfrah’s British pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

    A magnificent and awful journey
    John Akomfrah’s British pavilion at Venice Biennale review

  • ‘Terrified and trapped’ … American People Series #20: Die, from 1967.

    Take that, Picasso
    The frenzied work by Faith Ringgold that took MoMa by storm

  • ‘All of the instruments on this record are from Jeff’ … Claire Rousay.

    ‘Gender and sexuality on a spectrum – I started to unravel all of that’
    Musician Claire Rousay on dating, depression and Jeff Tweedy

  • Wondrous … Maria Lukyanova in Grace.

    Grace review
    Monumentally odd father-daughter odyssey via mobile cinema

  • Crazy stunts … a still from Fantastic Machine

    Fantastic Machine review
    Whirlwind history shows how cameras dazzle and deceive us

Lifestyle

  • Graphic of people using pound sign as beds

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

    From simple lifestyle changes to choosing the right bedding and gadgets that can help
  • Eurostar's website

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

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

    ‘Super cute please like’
    The unstoppable rise of Shein

  • Ixta Belfrage's creamy saffron orzo with roasted butternut and scotch bonnet.

    Kitchen aide
    The wizards of orzo, from soups to risottos

  • 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

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

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

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Take part

  • 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?

  • 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?

  • 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

From our global editions

  • 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 UK 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
  • Closeup of teenage girl smoking cigarette

    UK anti-smoking bill explained
    What is PM Rishi Sunak’s plan and will it pass?

  • Whale trainers

    ‘I’m an endangered species myself’
    The killer whale trainers who still defend captivity

  • Bashir Alyan, a 52-year-old former employee of the Palestinian Authority

    ‘Sympathy shifted’
    Many fear Iran attack will distract aid effort

  • Men standing on a platform lowering a wall panel

    ‘A roof over our people’s heads’
    The Indigenous US tribe building hempcrete homes

  • The text AI assistants spit out is ineffably generated … ChatGPT.

    Technology
    TechScape: How cheap, outsourced labour in Africa is shaping AI English

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

  • A robot-powered fast food kitchen.

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

  • Crowds at the Acropolis

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

  • A soldier hangs an Israeli flag on an armoured personnel carrier near the border with Gaza

    Explained
    How will Israel respond to Iran’s attack and could it cope with a war?

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  • 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)

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    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

  • Who screwed millennials cover art for website. Episode 5.

    Who screwed millennials?
    Can millennials unscrew themselves? Part 5 – podcast

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    Who screwed millennials?
    Who screwed millennials out of affordable education? Part 3 – podcast

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

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  • A worker sprays water on to the statue of King Sejong in Seoul, Korea.

    Photos of the day
    King Sejong and a Dior catwalk

    The Guardian’s picture editors select some of the most powerful photos from around the world
  • 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

  • Counting Boxcars in the Cajon Pass, 2010

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

  • 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

  • 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
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