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  • Michael Gove

    UK election
    Betting scandal as bad for Tories as Partygate, says Michael Gove

    ‘It looks like one rule for them and one rule for us,’ the levelling up, housing and communities secretary suggests
    • Taylor Swift takes a selfie backstage with William, George and Charlotte

      UK
      Prince of Wales thanks Taylor Swift for ‘great evening’ at London show

    • Greece
      Thirteen arrested after yacht fireworks spark forest fire on Greek island

    • Euro 2024
      De Bruyne and Tielemans sink Romania to get Belgium back on track

    • Iran
      Iran court overturns death sentence of rapper Toomaj Salehi, lawyer says

    • Ukraine
      Russian bomb attack on Kharkiv kills at least three and wounds 52

    • Health
      Research reveals toxic PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ accumulate in testes

    • Ireland
      Thousands protest across Ireland after soldier who attacked woman walks free

    • Italy
      Capri lifts ban on tourists after resolving problems with water supply

News in focus

  • Kylian Mbappe wears a face mask to protect his broken nose on 20 June.

    France
    French football v the far right: how Mbappé and Les Bleus stood up to extremism

  • 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

    UK election
    ‘You asked me questions I’ve never asked myself’: 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?
  • Still from film Real of Ukrainian soldiers in unifrom and helmets in a trench

    Ukraine
    ‘War how it truly is’: Ukrainian director turns accidental footage into a film

    Oleh Sentsov’s film Real is 90 minutes of frontline action captured when he didn’t realise his camera was on

Spotlight

  • 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 colourful dating history had got me nowhere. What if I left the decision-making up to others?
  • Dries Van Noten collection show during Men's Fashion Week in Paris<br>Models present creations by designer Dries Van Noten as part of his Menswear ready-to-wear Spring Summer 2025 collection show during Men's Fashion Week in Paris, France, June 22, 2024. REUTERS/Johanna Geron

    Fashion
    Shimmering fabrics and a sparkling legacy: Dries van Noten bids farewell

  • Illustration of a baby in a cot, his head resting on money, more money and a gun hanging above his head

    Italy
    ‘These kids are violent, drunk on power’: can mafia children be saved from a life of crime?

    Meet the judge taking mini mafiosi away from their families to see if he can break the cycle
  • Erica Tremblay in New York City.

    Film
    ‘We’re really funny people’: Native American director Erica Tremblay on Lily Gladstone, laughter for survival and breaking Hollywood

    The film-maker talks about her friendship with her debut feature’s star, and why the industry has woken up to her culture’s storytelling
    • Ankle sock, running show

      Culture
      What are ‘millennial socks’ and are they really a crime against fashion?

    • Jeremy Cooper, author, photographed at his home near Taunton, Somerset

      Books interview
      Jeremy Cooper: ‘My agent strongly advised me against writing fiction’

    • Models walk around a large white floor with artworks placed in different locations

      Paris fashion week
      Of mice and models: artworks take centre stage at Loewe fashion show

    • Portrait of Puk Qvortrup standing in a field in Denmark wearing a red top and orange skirt

      Bereavement
      ‘Reality hit: I was about to give birth to a dead man’s child’: I became a widow and single mother aged 26

Euro 2024

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Sport

  • Andrea Stella

    Formula One
    ‘I am an enabler’ - Stella’s quiet style reaps rewards at McLaren

    Italian team principal has guided team into a position to challenge the dominance of Red Bull
  • Morocco fans at an Afcon match

    Africa Cup of Nations clobbered by unwanted Club World Cup

    Jonathan Wilson

Opinion

  • Protesters in western Jerusalem on 20 June demand the resignation of Benjamin Netanyahu.

    The Middle East is drifting leaderless to catastrophe. War is just an airstrike away

    Simon Tisdall
    From Netanyahu to Nasrallah, the region’s politicians are flailing. Will no one stop the lunacy?
  • Gucci - Men's Spring Summer 2025 Fashion Show - Arrivals - Milan Fashion Week - Menswear Spring/Summer 2025<br>MILAN, ITALY - JUNE 17: Paul Mescal attends the Gucci Men's Spring Summer 2025 Fashion Show during the Milan Fashion Week Menswear Spring/Summer 2025 at Triennale di Milano on June 17, 2024 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images for Gucci)

    Paul Mescal can pull off short-shorts, but can ordinary men?

    Barbara Ellen
  • Keir Starmer and Baroness Lawrence meet south London residents at the Lilian Baylis Technology School as the UK marks Windrush Day on 22 June.

    No way is Britain’s general election a done deal. Polls disguise huge uncertainty

    Pat McFadden
  • The exterior of Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters with the company's logo partly removed.

    Could big tech eventually face its USSR moment and collapse completely?

    Alex Hern
  • Kylian Mbappe wears a protective face mask after breaking his nose.

    Liberté, égalité, Mbappé! Footballer fights France’s extremists

    Agnès Poirier
  • A demonstrator in front of the US supreme court building holds a sign reading ABUSERS SHOULD NOT OWN GUNS!

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

    Moira Donegan
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Climate crisis

  • A partly sunny sky is almost completely blocked by plumes of smoke rising amid fire from a low hillside, with homes in the foreground.

    US
    ‘Multiple disasters all in one day’: New Mexico’s brutal week of fire and flood

  • 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

  • Representatives in the conference centre at climate talks

    Explained
    Key takeaways from the Bonn climate conference

Around the world

  • Brain scan

    Exclusive
    Second Canadian scientist alleges brain illness investigation was shut down

    Exclusive: Prof Samuel Weiss said in leaked email that government halted efforts to tackle mystery illness
  • Michael Mosley and Clare Bailey in a TV studio with kitchen set behind them

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

  • Closeup of a purple-gloved hand holding a chunk of metal.

    Florida
    US family sues Nasa for $80,000 in damages after space debris hits home

  • A very strange looking dog, very small and very fluffy with a very long pink tongue.

    US
    Eight-year-old pekingese Wild Thang wins World’s Ugliest Dog contest

    • UK election
      Starmer’s growth plan ‘doomed’ without access to EU markets, warn economists

    • Switzerland
      Members of Britain’s richest family sentenced to jail for exploiting staff in Swiss mansion

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

    • Spain
      Barcelona to ban apartment rentals to tourists in effort to cut housing costs

    • UK
      Thousands of cleared asylum claims to be returned to Home Office after errors

    • US
      Families and grocery workers hid in freezer to survive Arkansas mass shooting

Culture

  • Jodie Comer and Austin Butler standing beside a bike in front of a pile of logs in Bikeriders

    Film
    The Bikeriders review – sharp, seductive 60s biker drama

    Jeff Nichols adapts photographer Danny Lyon’s late-60s biker gang adventure, with stellar performances from Jodie Comer, Austin Butler and Tom Hardy
  • Detail from a portrait in pastels of Marie Nordlinger by Federico de Madrazo.

    Books
    The French rose from Manchester: in search of Proust’s forgotten muse

  • Glasto4

    Glastonbury 2024
    The greatest show on Earth: Edith Pritchett’s giant cartoon ode to Glastonbury festival

  • Nish Kumar.

    Stage
    Surprise UK election forces comedians to tear up Edinburgh festival scripts

  • Natasha Khan, known professionally as Bat for Lashes, demonstrates howling

    Music
    ‘I cast spells at the audience’: Bat for Lashes on howling, magic and new documentary on witch trials

  • Mark O’Connell.

    On my radar
    Mark O’Connell’s cultural highlights

Lifestyle

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    This much I know
    Dionne Warwick: ‘Britain has always been very good to me. I feel its wonderful embrace’

  • ‘He made me see the lighter side of life’: Heather and Rhodri in 2008

    The moment I knew
    The moment I knew: in his hospital bed, he ripped off his oxygen mask and said he loved me

  • Peter and Linda

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

  • Woman holding bouquet and wine bottle while visiting friends<br>Young woman holding bouquet and wine bottle while visiting friends for dinner party

    Socialising
    Always bring something and know when to leave: a freeloader’s guide to being the perfect dinner guest

Take part

  • A young woman university student lying on her bed studying working reading writing on laptop in messy untidy bedroom at home UK<br>DRF2PB A young woman university student lying on her bed studying working reading writing on laptop in messy untidy bedroom at home UK

    Life and style
    Tell us: do you still sleep in your childhood bedroom?

  • Tell us your nomination and why you like it below.

    Culture
    Tell us about your favourite podcasts of 2024 so far

  • sun shines down on silhouette of person drinking from water bottle

    People in the US
    How do you stay cool in extreme heat?

  • In the wake of a heavy defeat to Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party (RN) in the European elections, Emmanuel Macron has called a snap election. Here, election staff count ballots for the 2024 European Parliament election at the Bayeux Town Hall counting center, one of 11 in the city, on 9 June, 2024, in Bayeux, Normandy, France.

    People in France
    What are your biggest concerns and current political views?

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From our global editions

  • Trump in prayer at an Evangelicals for Trump meeting in Miami in January 2020.

    US elections
    In Trump we trust: religious right on crusade to make their man president

    America’s evangelicals sense a chance to impose a radical agenda and resist what they see as a tide of liberal secularism
  • Sign outside a polling station in central Westminster, London

    UK election
    Tory loss, rout, or wipeout? Three outcomes predicted by UK polls

  • A fat sunbather on the beach, covered in tattoos.

    US
    New York’s Fat Beach Day gives plus-size people a space to be themselves

  • people hold signs calling for gun control

    US gun control
    Both sides of gun issue seek to stir up US voters as NRA influence wanes

  • At the heart of the exhibition hall are the Folger’s crown jewels: its 82 copies of the First Folio, the first published collection of Shakespeare’s plays.

    US
    ‘We’re going to find the next Shakespeare’: inside Washington’s $80m library renovation

  • Pembroke Castle

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

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

  • Johnny Cash in Hendersonville, Tennessee, 1987

    Music
    ‘He’d turned into a weird old grandpa’: how Johnny Cash resurrected his career – and became an icon

  • People walk by the sea in Auckland, New Zealand

    Asia Pacific
    ‘It felt like bad news after bad news’: why record numbers are leaving New Zealand

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    Relationships
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Podcasts

  • 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
    An all too familiar England but Spain look superb – Football Daily

In pictures

  • Mr Men Works by (left to right) Euan Roberts, Rory McQueen and Will Blood.

    Art and design
    Mr Psychedelia meets Little Miss Pop Art

    The picture book characters are reimagined in a new exhibition in Brighton
  • Dries Van Noten - Runway - Spring/Summer 2023 Paris Fashion Week<br>PARIS, FRANCE - SEPTEMBER 28: A model walks the runway during the Dries Van Noten Ready to Wear Spring/Summer 2023 fashion show as part of the Paris Fashion Week on September 28, 2022 in Paris, France. (Photo by Victor VIRGILE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

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

  • Aerial view of swimmers and people on paddleboards

    Twenty photographs of the week
    War in Gaza, Putin in Pyongyang, wildfires in California and nude solstice swimming in Hobart

  • Emma Thompson, Chris Packham and Dale Vince lead the protest.

    In pictures
    Restore Nature Now march in London

  • DO NOT USE. ONE TIME USAGE SMART SHOT 14 JUNE 2024.

    Smart shot
    ‘It was strange – a girl without a hijab at an ancient religious ceremony’: Mohammad Nazari’s best phone picture

  • bears eye a salmon in Alaska, US

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

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