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  • King Charles prepares to lay a wreath during the commemorative event at the British Normandy Memorial.

    D-day 80th anniversary live
    ‘We remember with the most profound sense of gratitude’: King Charles joins veterans to commemorate D-day 80th anniversary

  • A person holds a test tube labelled "Bird Flu"

    Bird flu
    Mexico man dies from first human case of strain H5N2

    • UK
      Dozens of people reportedly rescued from Channel off Kent coast

    • Ukraine
      Putin warns Russia could supply arms to other countries to strike west

    • North Korea
      Defector activists fly K-pop USB sticks into as ‘poo balloon’ row intensifies

    • UK general election live
      Tories criticised after revelation racist comment row did not halt donations from Frank Hester

    • Environment
      Secretive court system has awarded over $100bn public money to corporations, finds new analysis

    • Ben
      French artist dies aged 88, hours after wife’s death

News in focus

  • A brown trout swimming among rocks in clear water

    Meth-addict fish, aggro starlings, caffeinated minnows
    Animals radically changed by human drugs – study

  • A D-Day veteran stands to watch a fly-past by the Royal Air Force aerobatics team, "The Red Arrows" as they pass over a D-Day 80th anniversary concert in Portsmouth.

    Analysis
    D-day 80th anniversary comes at time of conflict and growing carelessness

  • A cherrypicker by a large sign reading 'European elections'

    Analysis
    The EU is braced for a rise in the hard right. What matters is how the centre responds

    27-member bloc will have to adjust to new reality as rightwing groups expected to have real influence for first time

Spotlight

  • Chris Wiegand and two Taylor Swifts

    Taylor Swift is everywhere!
    Could I avoid her and her music for the whole month of May?

    She is bringing her Eras tour to the UK this week. But just how easy is it to steer clear of the world’s biggest pop star? The Guardian’s stage editor finds out
  • Lucy Beaumont and Big Zuu in Big Zuu Eats

    ‘I’m sick of it!’
    The diabolical reality of being one of the few working-class people in TV

  • ‘I know how it feels for people around you to think you are not doing things their way, just to be annoying’ … Shappi Khorsandi.

    Has it made me creative, or held me back?
    Shaparak Khorsandi on being diagnosed with ADHD in her 40s

    People may be told their condition is a gift. But that’s little comfort when looking back at a trail of destruction
  • ∄ in Kyiv, Ukraine.

    Music
    Inside ∄ – the secret Kyiv techno club that ‘does not exist’

    Once predicted to rival Berghain, wartime has seen the queer-friendly club find new purposes as a bomb shelter and frontline fundraiser. But can it survive Ukraine’s new mobilisation drive?
    • Jane and Kristi in California in 2016.

      How we met
      ‘She was so glamorous – I was terrified’

    • Stay woke … Carrie-Anne Moss and Keanu Reeves in The Matrix.

      The Matrix review
      Barnstorming sci-fi still calling our reality into question

    • A muscular bare-chested young man seen from behind in this black and white photo almost seems to blend into the pile of tyres he is standing on as he lifts them out

      ‘In Nigeria, a tyre never quite dies’
      Reinventing the wheel in Lagos

    • Most lucrative movie quotes comp

      ‘Show me the money!’
      How unofficial merch is cashing in on movie quotes

Opinion

  • A woman's hands with lavender fingernails hold a glass trophy with the words "NYU Langone Health" and an indication the award was for 'compassionate care.'

    A US hospital fired an acclaimed nurse for talking about Gaza. Where’s the outrage?

    Bhaskar Sunkara
    Hesen Jabr’s story is a chilling reminder that employers in the US have far too much power over workers’ speech
  • Giorgia Meloni and Emmanuel Macron in Rome, Italy, 26 September 2023

    Macron and Meloni appear poles apart – but what if they joined forces to save Europe?

    Lorenzo Marsili
  • William Pitt the Younger gives a speech in a painting by Adolf Nickol of the House of Commons at the time of the American War of Independence

    General elections are a travesty of democracy – let’s give the people a real voice

    George Monbiot
  • The RAF veteran Bernard Morgan, 100, from Crewe, visits the war graves at Bayeux cemetery in France on 5 June.

    Let’s commemorate D-day – but not how Nigel Farage wants us to

    Luke Turner
  • The Welsh first minister, Vaughan Gething, on 30 May 2024.

    Vaughan Gething’s leadership crisis is a disaster – for Wales, for Labour and maybe even for devolution

    Richard Wyn Jones
  • Mother holding toddler and cooking mushrooms, older child standing by

    What’s the secret to making delicious meals? Forget about recipes and just add more butter

    Nell Frizzell

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Climate crisis

  • Partly obscured by dark gray smoke are silhouettes of about ten firefighters standing on a two-lane road pointing a hose at an orange conflagration in the trees alongside it.

    ‘Godfathers of climate chaos’
    UN chief calls for global fossil-fuel advertising ban

  • White man in black short-sleeved uniform kneels on sidewalk beside Igloo cooler, holding a bag of ice beside a large blue plastic bag with a peach-colored test dummy inside.

    Arizona
    Phoenix turns to ice-filled body bags to treat heatstroke as US south-west bakes

  • Dr Alex Hearn and his colleagues in a boat in fading light tagging a shark in the Galápagos marine reserve.

    ‘Where do sharks hang out?’
    The race to find safe spaces for the Galápagos’ ocean-going predators

  • Deep blue ocean with beautiful sky.

    ‘Triple threat’
    Oceans face extreme heat, oxygen loss and acidification

Around the world

  • Shoppers on Oxford Street pass by a closed down souvenir shop.

    UK
    Statistics watchdog to investigate Sunak’s use of term ‘economy going gangbusters’

    Sir Robert Chote to see if PM repeated ONS analyst’s comments taken out of context to exaggerate Tory economic record
  • Firefighters at the scene of a train crash in the city of Pardubice, Czech Republic

    Czech Republic
    Four killed and dozens injured after two trains collide head-on

  • The pipe end which draws sea water from the Firth of Forth with The Queensferry Crossing bridge in the background.

    ‘At heart it’s the same technology’
    The heat pump that uses water instead of air

  • Fijian prime minister Sitiveni Rabuka with his bronze medal

    'Morale booster'
    Fiji prime minister, 75, wins shot put bronze medal

    • Child hunger
      One in four young children at risk of ‘irreversible’ harm due to poor diet – report

    • UK elections
      ‘I’m not expecting a call from Nigel’: Jeremy Hunt on his fight to save his seat

    • Business live
      US ‘clears way’ for antitrust inquiries of Nvidia, Microsoft and OpenAI; ECB interest rate cut expected today

    • Jeannette Charles
      Actor who played Queen Elizabeth II in dozens of films and shows, dies aged 96

    • France
      Terror inquiry after Ukrainian-Russian man detonates explosives in hotel

    • Trump
      Court pauses Georgia election case as it mulls disqualifying prosecutor

Culture

  • Michael Richards as Seinfeld’s Kramer in 1990.

    From racist rants to spiritual guru?
    What we learned from Seinfeld star Michael Richards’s autobiography

    His career was upended after an abusive onstage tirade, but now the actor best known for playing Kramer has finally told his story. Brace yourself for Larry David, dodgy dressing gowns and extreme religious waffling
  • Delaine Le Bas, ‘Damaged Goods’, Part I, 2004,
 Mixed media, ink, embroidery, applique, beadwork, sequins on fabric, 76cm x 58cm

    ‘Language is a massive exclusionary tool’
    Delaine Le Bas, the Turner prize nominee battling Romany discrimination

  • Debbie Harry and Chris Stein in the Mediasound recording studio, New York, in 1979

    Book of the day
    Under a Rock by Chris Stein review – sex, squalor and superstardom

  • Christopher Isherwood (left) with WH Auden in 1938

    Books
    Christopher Isherwood Inside Out by Katherine Bucknell review – courage and camp

  • In Newfoundland, Clarence Hynes and Craig Avery were swapped at birth.

    Podcasts of the week
    Two men were switched at birth – and things only got weirder from there

  • Playing Kafka video game screenshot

    Games
    Playing Kafka review – a well-intentioned but sanitised attempt at adapting the unadaptable

Lifestyle

  • Yvette Mattern’s spectacular laser art installation

    Take the Thursday quiz
    Laser etchings, Chinese missions, and terrible PMs

    Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?
  • Yotam Ottolenghi's houria with eggs and coriander salsa.

    A taste of Tunisia
    Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes inspired by the northern tip of Africa

  • Dorie Greenspan’s Provencal-ish picnic squares.

    Recipes
    Provençal picnic squares and goat’s cheese loaf: Dorie Greenspan’s summer bakes

  • A graphic illustration in sepia tones of a light-skinned woman with long, dark hair, kneeling in a sexually suggestive manner wearing a bathing suit.

    The state of the bush
    How should I be styling my pubic hair?

  • Composite illustration of a man clutching the back of his head, with first aid signs

    Sexual healing
    My husband and I haven’t had sex for months. I feel undesirable and ugly

  • Women wearing traditional blouses in white with rich embroidery, pose for a photo

    Louis Vuitton
    Fashion house accused of cultural appropriation of Romanian blouse

Take part

  • Silhouettes of the 'Standing with Giants' installation at the British Normandy Memorial in Ver-sur-Mer, France.

    D-day landings 80th anniversary
    Share your stories

  • Woman using smart phone on beach.<br>GettyImages-629639551

    Reclaim your brain
    Do you struggle to stay off your phone while on vacation?

  • Police keep watch as people queue to enter a supermarket to purchase groceries and food in the Magenta district of Noumea, France's Pacific territory of New Caledonia.

    People in New Caledonia
    How have you been affected by the unrest?

  • Two best friends telling secrets lying in the grass<br>Posed by models Asturias, Spain, two best friends telling secrets lying in the grass

    Well actually
    Tell us about your best friend and your favorite things about them

From our global editions

  • A man in glasses wearing camouflage, with a camera around his neck. He's standing outside in front of some shrubs.

    ‘Sometimes I wonder if I’ll come back’
    Palestinian birdwatchers defy danger to scan the skies

    In the West Bank and Gaza, a growing number of birdwatchers are pursuing their hobby despite the violence surrounding them
  • The Pancake Rocks In Punakaiki, New Zealand<br>GettyImages-1142089273

    ‘How could they mine here?’
    New Zealand grapples with new push for resource riches

  • People give the V sign and hold up a framed photograph of Rahul Gandhi

    ‘Bit of a moment for Rahul Gandhi’
    New dawn for India’s opposition, but where to now?

  • Stephen, Alice and Gerard Fay at home in their garden.

    ‘I thought I might have to go on without you’
    A love story told in 12 D-day letters

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    The high road
    I have lifelong anorexia. MDMA and mushrooms showed me remission is possible

  • People use ropes to climb up the trunk of a giant sequoia against blue sky

    The end of the great northern forests?
    The tiny tree-killing beetle wreaking havoc on our ancient giants

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  • A scientist shows "Golden Rice" and ordinary rice at the laboratory of the International Rice Research Institute in Los Banos<br>A scientist shows "Golden Rice" (L) and ordinary rice at the laboratory of the International Rice Research Institute in Los Banos, Laguna south of Manila, August 14, 2013. Bruce Tolentino, Deputy Director of the International Rice Research Institute, said his team has been perfecting their decades-old research on “Golden Rice”, which consists of genetically-modified rice grains infused with beta-carotene, a chemical substance responsible in producing Vitamin A in the body. He also said,“ In a Vitamin A-enriched rice, what the scientists did was to select three genes out of roughly 30,000 genes in a rice plant. REUTERS/Erik De Castro (PHILIPPINES - Tags: FOOD AGRICULTURE BUSINESS)

    Science Weekly
    Golden rice: why has it been banned and what happens now? – podcast

  • Jeremy Hunt hold up a pint

    Politics Weekly UK
    The ‘blue wall’ road trip: Tories jumping ship? Politics Weekly UK – podcast

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    Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph
    Taylor Swift: cultural icon or turbo-capitalist? – podcast

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    Today in Focus
    From child refugee to Guardian reporter: one journalist’s extraordinary story

  • Rishi Sunak during the first head-to-head debate. (Photograph: Jonathan Hordle/ITV via Getty Images)

    Today in Focus
    Election Extra: Sunak’s £2,000 ‘lie’ – podcast

  • ITV News's Julie Etchingham on a TV set

    Politics Weekly UK
    Politics Weekly Westminster: The first TV debate

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    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: ‘The Silicon Valley of turf’: how the UK’s pursuit of the perfect pitch changed football – podcast

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  • ‘Personal and introspective’ … Nell in the studio, 2022

    Teenage kicks
    The bumpy ride of adolescence

    Artist duo Lola Paprocka and Pani Paul travelled the world photographing teenagers they connected with – along with their broken phones, braces and acne scars
  • Pictures are shown on a huge screen during the UK's national commemorative event for the 80th anniversary of D-Day, hosted by the Ministry of Defence on Southsea Common in Portsmouth, Hampshire

    D-day
    D-day commemorations begin for 80th anniversary

  • London, UK ‘Prince Albert alone with his thoughts in Hyde Park.’

    Readers' best photographs
    A pensive prince and petal power

  • A group of performers pose with their arms outstretched. One woman in the centre is facing forwards while the others are facing her. Their hair and outfits are in a traditional 1940s style

    Photos of the day
    D-Day events and rescued bears

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    My best shot
    A celebration of a child who never got to be born – Jair F Coll’s best photograph

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    The best of Photo Basel

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