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    Mother of teenager missing in Tenerife says police have ‘stepped up’ search

  • Michael Mosley and Clare Bailey in a TV studio with kitchen set behind them

    Michael Mosley
    Michael Mosley’s wife plans to continue work that gave husband ‘so much joy’

    • Euro 2024
      England players not fit enough to press effectively, claims Gareth Southgate

    • Windrush scandal
      Yvette Cooper promises Labour would ‘turn the page’ on Windrush scandal

    • Health
      Some takeaway meals contain more calories than daily limit, UK study finds

    • Middle East crisis live
      ‘One miscalculation’ on Lebanon-Israel border could ‘trigger catastrophe’, UN leader warns

    • Tourism
      Barcelona to ban apartment rentals to tourists in bid to cut housing costs

    • London
      Restaurateur Jeremy King continues comeback with opening of the Park

General election 2024

  • Sign outside a polling station in central Westminster, London

    Politics
    Election loss, rout, or wipeout? Three Tory outcomes predicted by the polls

  • Reform party candidate Mark Butcher stands outside a polling station during local elections in May 2024

    Politics
    ‘Get real, wakey wakey, red pill time’: Reform candidates in their own words

  • A nursery teacher plays with three young children around a low table

    Money
    Tax giveaways, rent caps and childcare: what the manifestos would mean for your finances

  • View from neck down of person wearing a Labour badge and holding election leaflets, while another person carries a Vote Labour flag and folder

    Politics
    Labour candidates penalised for not campaigning enough in battleground seats

News in focus

  • People on a street in Whalley village

    Lancashire
    ‘At breaking point’: anger brewing in Lancashire village over booze tourism

  • Dr Tsvi Sheleg talks to a patient in the trauma unit with curtains and an Israeli flag

    Israel
    On Israel’s northern border as war with Hezbollah looms

    Doctors prepare underground hospital units, people flee their homes and in rural kibbutz tension hangs in the air
  • Trowbridge

    Media
    If local newspapers are dying, will local democracy die with them?

    Concerns over scrutiny of councils as publishers cull titles and residents turn to Facebook for local news

Spotlight

  • Keir Starmer Labour HQ 20 Rushworth Street London SE1 0SS<br>DO NOT USE BEFORE JUNE 22 2024. Keir Starmer shot at Labour HQ in London, June 2024 by Harry Borden

    General election 2024
    Keir Starmer’s most personal interview yet

    There are 12 days to go until the general election and the Labour leader is closing in on power. But who exactly is the man hoping to run Britain?
  • Lucy Holden surrounded by her nine matchmakers

    Dating
    I asked my mum, my ex and seven others to find me a date. Could I fall in love?

  • A close-up on a commentator's microphone at Euro 2024

    Euro 2024
    The five best TV pundits and commentators so far

    After week one of the tournament in Germany, who has made a winning start on the BBC and ITV microphones?
  • Illustration of Mila and Oliver being catapulted

    Sex
    This is how we do it: ‘The threesomes are on hold while we try for a baby’

    Mila and Oliver’s bedroom activity was centred on exploring their fantasies, but trying to conceive means sex is now more about fertility than kink
    • Peter and Linda

      Blind date
      His ex-wife had booked the same restaurant for her book group

    • A young woman in a lace vest, shorts, baseball cap and sunglasses holds a cloth parasol over herself and the young woman next to her, also in shorts and a baseball cap, in front of the columns of the Acropolis in Athens during a heatwave on 12 June

      Travel
      How ‘shoulder season’ became the new popular time for tourists

    • Pembroke Castle

      Archaeology
      Does a cave beneath Pembroke Castle hold key to fate of early Britons?

    • Kathy Lette

      Kathy Lette
      If you can get your kids to adulthood and they’re not voting Tory, doing drugs or collecting Nazi memorabilia, you deserve a medal

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Opinion

  • Campaigners hand in a petition at No 10 in April 2023, calling on then home secretary Suella Braverman to honour the Wendy Williams report on the Windrush scandal.

    The Tories betrayed the Windrush victims – we will stand by them

    Yvette Cooper
    Re-establishing the Windrush unit would be a real way to give families justice, says Labour’s shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper
  • Illustration: Nate Kitch

    What does Starmer’s ‘changed’ Labour party look like on the ground? In Brighton, I found out

    Andy Beckett
  • JOURNAL front - Norfolk seats election, reform - WEB

    A Labour earthquake would be a triumph for Starmer – but open up alarming new ground for Farage

    Jonathan Freedland
    The rejection of Tory big beasts like Liz Truss would be thrilling, but don’t discount the boost it would give Reform
  • The Empire Windrush arrives at Tilbury on 22 June 1948.

    In its progress and pain, Windrush brought us the birth of modern, multicultural Britain

    Guy Hewitt
    West Indians and their families have suffered at the hands of a racist system. Let us use this day to honour their contributions to this country, says the Church of England’s director of racial justice, Guy Hewitt
    • Owen Jones

      There’s a shocking absence in this election: politicians won’t mention the Israel-Gaza war

      Owen Jones
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      The Stephen Collins cartoon
      Furlough Guy and Made Up Tax Numbers play Glastonbury

    • Moira Donegan

      The US supreme court’s rightwing justices are fighting legal monsters of their making

      Moira Donegan
    • John Swinney holding a copy of the SNP manifesto

      Election diary: SNP skips costings, sheep snub Sunak and Stride struggles on

      John Crace

Editorials & Letters

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    The Guardian view
    A lopsided parliament: a deficit in democracy needs electoral reform

  • Lebanese villages are seen in the distance as smoke rises from fires in the hills

    The Guardian view
    Israel and Hezbollah: the gathering storm endangers the region

  • Assisted dying campaigners protest outside parliament in Westminster

    Letters
    The principle of assisted dying – and the practice

  • Teenagers students using smartphone on a school break.

    Letters
    Smartphones are not the biggest problem facing teenagers

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Climate crisis

  • Protesters outside the World Conference Center in Bonn with a banner against Fossil fuels as well as pro-Palestinian banners

    Climate crisis
    Climate activists bemoan scant progress on finance as Cop29 looms

  • Representatives in the conference centre at climate talks

    Explained
    Key takeaways from the Bonn climate conference

  • A firefighter runs away from a wildfire near Athens, Greece, in 2023.

    Environment
    Climate engineering off US coast could increase heatwaves in Europe, study finds

  • People direct hoses from a water truck into the holes of large plastic barrels

    Weather tracker
    Heatwaves have arrived in the northern hemisphere

From the UK

  • Nurses and medical staff in an NHS hospital ward

    NHS
    UK government weighs action against Russian hackers over NHS records theft

    National Crime Agency may take retaliatory measures after Qilin gang steals data covering 300m patient interactions
  • A medic holds a cervical smear in liquid phase

    NHS
    Women urged to accept NHS cervical screening invitations

  • Michael Lousada in blue coat with his hood up outside court

    London
    Police consider reopening inquiry into TV sex therapist Michael Lousada

  • Rishi Sunak speaking at podium with a 'stop the boats' sign

    Asylum
    New statistics call into question Sunak’s claim of clearing asylum backlog

    • Devon
      Boy guilty of attempted murders in Devon private school hammer attack

    • Education
      Next government faces hard choices on English universities, say experts

    • UK
      Boy sentenced to at least 13 years for murder of Alfie Lewis, 15, in Leeds

    • Weather
      Heatwaves forecast for parts of the UK next week after ‘greyer start to weekend’

    • Courts
      Lucy Letby suggested to police that her ward was understaffed, jury told

    • Exclusive
      Labour drafts options for wealth taxes to ‘unlock’ funds for public services

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  • Chinese soldiers stand guard at the entrance of the Forbidden City in Beijing

    World
    China threatens death penalty for Taiwan independence ‘diehards’

    Beijing ramps up pressure over ‘crime of secession’ while Taipei says China has no jurisdiction over Taiwan and urges its people not to be intimidated
  • Two men wearing suits speak at podiums with their hands raised

    US elections 2024
    No props, no notes, no audience – but Trump-Biden debate will have ad breaks

  • Ukrainian forces fire from a tank during a mission to shoot at Russian positions in Serebryanskyy forest, in eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk region

    Ukraine war briefing
    Zelenskiy hails ‘historic step’ as EU set to open Ukraine accession talks

  • Anne Lee Dozier bought the vase on the right for $4 at a thrift store in Maryland – and it turned out it was an ancient Maya relic, at least 1,200 years old, which she has now returned to Mexico.

    US
    Ancient Mayan vase purchased by US woman for $4 returned to Mexico

    • US
      Mysterious shiny monolith removed from Nevada desert

    • Science
      Weight loss drug could ease sleep apnoea in people with obesity, study says

    • US
      Diesel the escaped pet donkey found living with elk after five years

    • US
      Judge dismisses fake electors charges against Trump allies in Nevada

    • Technology
      Apple delays launch of AI-powered features in Europe, blaming EU rules

    • Science
      Easter Island study casts doubt on theory of ‘ecocide’ by early population

Culture

  • Summer reading 2024

    Books
    Your holiday reading list: chosen by Zadie Smith, David Nicholls and more

  • Hugh Bonneville and Karen Gillan in Douglas Is Cancelled.

    Television
    Douglas Is Cancelled: Hugh Bonneville’s culture war show is skin-crawling

  • A goldfish pond with lilies made from the pages of books

    Books
    Summer reading: 50 new books to dive into

  • David Naughton in An American Werewolf in London (1981); Kong in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024); Shauna Macdonald in The Descent (2005).

    Streaming: Godzilla, Kong and the best monster movies

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Lifestyle

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    Albania holidays
    ‘It’s like stepping back in time’: an eco-tour across the wilds of Albania

    With glorious national parks and a traditional way of life, the Balkan country shows how green travel can benefit locals and visitors alike
  • Edith Pritchett cartoon on social media

    Edith Pritchett on millennial life
    Have you even been to the dentist if it’s not on Tiktok?

  • A mural by Lee Miller’s husband, Roland Penrose, above the dining room fireplace at Farleys, Sussex, UK.

    Sussex holidays
    In the footsteps of Lee Miller and the surrealists: a tour of her arty Sussex retreat

  • A collage features screenshots of three different people doing quadrupedal movement training, crawling on the ground and doing handstands

    Well actually
    Is moving like an animal the secret to good health?

  • Traditional homemade harissa sauce<br>Traditional homemade Harissa sauce with red chili pepper in glass jar on grey background close up . Moroccan and Arabic cuisine

    Ask Ottolenghi: what can I use instead of preserved lemons, harissa and pomegranate molasses?

  • Tom Hunt's panzanella saves stale bread from the bin.

    Waste not
    Why stale bread is your secret salad weapon – recipe

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    NHS
    Tell us: have you been affected by London NHS hospitals data hack?

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    General election 2024
    Tell us: have UK general election candidates left messages on your smart doorbell?

  • Commuters on foot and cycling<br>City workers walking and cycling over Waterloo Bridge at the end of the working day. Crash zoom effect done in camera.

    Working from home
    Are you in a dispute with your employer over remote working in the UK?

  • British ex-pat, Julia White, 31, living in France, completes postal vote for the UK General Election on 7th May 2015.<br>ENDT87 British ex-pat, Julia White, 31, living in France, completes postal vote for the UK General Election on 7th May 2015.

    General election 2024
    UK voters: have you had any issues with your postal vote?

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From our global editions

  • Pilgrims in Mecca circle the Kaaba with buildings behind

    Hajj
    One man’s desperate search for wife as more than 1,000 hajj pilgrims die in extreme heat

    Hoda Nagib and her husband had walked 20km in the baking sun in Saudi Arabia while on Mecca pilgrimage
  • Black handguns on display

    Analysis
    Will ‘sigh of relief’ after US supreme court gun ruling be short-lived?

  • Wolf Ruck sits in his garden, which has tall grass, with a pair of binoculars

    Environment
    The gardener who took a Canadian city to court for the right to not mow his lawn

  • The electric caterpillar, Comana monomorpha

    Science
    Bugs, drugs and electric venom: is this the most deadly library in the world?

  • Sylvie Nedgar, with her daughter Amelie, standing next to a tram line

    France
    ‘They’re trying to divide us’: Muslims in France voice fears over rise of far right

  • Swimmers

    Australia
    ‘Push through the painful bit’: record 3,000 people join nude Dark Mofo swim in Derwent

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    The long read
    From Nobel peace prize to civil war: how Ethiopia’s leader beguiled the world

  • Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves face questions from journalists during a visit to Morrisons in Swindon.

    Campaign catchup
    Tax evasions, party poopers, and a political chicken

  • A brown and white bovine in the middle of the road with a queue of traffic

    Animals
    ‘We all get on well’: the town in England where cattle roam free

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  • Prince William, King Charles, Queen Camilla and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak with his wife Akshata Murty applaud at a D-Day event in Portsmouth

    Weekend
    Marina Hyde on Sunak and class, my parachute failed at at 4,000ft, my gaming-addicted son, and a new approach to quitting smoking – podcast

  • Antoine Griezmann reacts to a missed chance.

    Football Weekly
    France stall against Netherlands and Austria on the up – Football Daily

  • Keir Starmer

    Today in Focus
    Election Extra: hope (within reason) – podcast

  • Artwork by Yann Kebbi

    The Audio Long Read
    As a teenager, John was jailed for assaulting someone and stealing their bike. That was 17 years ago – will he ever be released? – podcast

  • President Joe Biden. Photograph: Drew Angerer

    Politics Weekly America
    Will Joe Biden’s immigration pledge convince or confuse the public? – podcast

  • Two women outside an amusement arcade hold up placards reading: 'Britain needs Reform' and 'Vote Reform on July 4th'. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

    Today in Focus
    Has Clacton fallen for Nigel Farage? – podcast

  • Denmark v England: Group C - UEFA EURO 2024<br>FRANKFURT AM MAIN, GERMANY - JUNE 20: England manager Gareth Southgate during the UEFA EURO 2024 group stage match between Denmark and England at Frankfurt Arena on June 20, 2024 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.(Photo by Simon Stacpoole/Offside/Offside via Getty Images)

    Football Weekly
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    Ice sculptures and David Bowie: Dries Van Noten’s best shows

    As the much loved Belgian designer prepares to take his final bow after 30 years at the centre of the fashion industry, we round up some of the many highlights from his stunning catwalks
  • Aerial view of swimmers and people on paddleboards

    Photos of the week
    The week around the world in 20 pictures

  • The Prince of Wales and his children – Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis – in shorts and beach tops holding hands and jumping in the air at the beach

    Photos of the day
    Prince William’s birthday and a sinkhole in China

  • Prada presents Spring/Summer 2025 collection at Milan Fashion Week<br>Models present creations from the Prada Spring/Summer 2025 collection during Fashion Week in Milan, Italy, June 16, 2024. REUTERS/Alessandro Garofalo

    Fashion
    Beach days, raves and flax fields: Milan men’s fashion week spring/summer 2025: the highlights – in pictures

  • bears eye a salmon in Alaska, US

    The week in wildlife
    Bears’ dinner party, a Kentish wildcat kitten and racing marmots

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