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  • Chris Packham and Emma Thompson take part in the Restore Nature Now protest in London.

    Protest
    Thousands march in London to urge leaders to tackle wildlife crisis

    Protest features 350 environmental groups demanding more robust action on UK wildlife loss
    • Taylor Swift takes a selfie backstage with William, George and Charlotte

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

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

    • Israel-Gaza war
      Israeli forces strap wounded Palestinian man to hood of military jeep

    • Education
      Flagship free school that cost £35m closes due to lack of pupils

    • UK weather
      Heat health alert for most of England as temperature set to soar

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

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

    • Anthony Joshua
      Heavyweight champion wants to open care home for retired boxers

General election 2024

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

  • HMS Victory in Portsmouth, against a slightly cloudy sky, with tourists in shorts walking towards the gangplank

    Royal Navy
    Nelson’s HMS Victory gives scientists vital DNA for battle against deathwatch beetle

    Insects from the famous Royal Navy flagship are helping experts plot the genome of the notorious timber pest
  • At least three people killed in Russian glide bombs attacks in Kharkiv.

    Ukraine war briefing
    Zelenskiy calls for more military aid after strike on Kharkiv apartment block

    Three dead and dozens more injured after Kharkiv attack; Rishi Sunak says Nigel Farage’s Ukraine comments play ‘into Putin’s hands. What we know on day 851

Spotlight

  • ‘Someone genuinely extraordinary’ … Ncuti Gatwa as Doctor Who

    Doctor Who
    Radiant charm, scene-stealing tears and steamy kisses – Ncuti Gatwa is the new golden age of Doctor Who

    The star made history as the first Black, queer Time Lord – and it has been pure televisual dopamine. Any haters have missed out on something genuinely extraordinary
  • 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 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
  • Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer with either Zac or Buster as Colin from Accounts

    Television
    The stars of Colin from Accounts: ‘As I tapped Ewan McGregor’s shoulder, I knew I’d made the wrong decision’

    Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer share the weirdest thing they’ve done for love, the ideal length of men’s shorts, and dirt on their pooch costars
    • Ankle sock, running show

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

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

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

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

      Books
      Summer reading: 50 of the best new books to dive into

    • 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

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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?
  • Mrs Brown (Brendan O'Carroll) raises a fist and makes a face as she sits at a kitchen table

    The sitcom isn’t endangered. We can all find something to laugh at – even Mrs Brown’s Boys

    Michael Hogan
  • 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
    I’m preparing to avert my gaze from the victims of this summer’s fashion fad, championed by the young actor
  • A hand reaching out of a grave throwing away torn-up betting slips, with the words on the headstone reading: ‘Tory party, gambled and lost, 4th July, 2024’

    Observer comment cartoon
    Chris Riddell on the imminent demise of the Tory party and its election betting scandal – cartoon

    Will bets on the general election date be the final nail in the coffin for Rishi Sunak’s poll gamble?
    • 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
    • Yvette Cooper

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

      Yvette Cooper
    • Illustration: Nate Kitch

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

      Andy Beckett
    • 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

Editorials & Letters

  • Daniel Abed Khalife court case<br>Lorries queue for the Port of Dover along the A20 in Kent as security checks are being carried out amid an ongoing effort to track down an escaped terrorism suspect, Daniel Abed Khalife. Picture date: Thursday September 7, 2023. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire

    Editorial
    The Observer view on Labour’s economic strategy: EU is the key to growth

  • Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg<br>For use in UK, Ireland or Benelux countries only BBC handout photo of panellist Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, appearing on the BBC1 current affairs programme, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. Issue date: Sunday June 16, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Election. Photo credit should read: Jeff Overs/BBC/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: Not for use more than 21 days after issue. You may use this picture without charge only for the purpose of publicising or reporting on current BBC programming, personnel or other BBC output or activity within 21 days of issue. Any use after that time MUST be cleared through BBC Picture Publicity. Please credit the image to the BBC and any named photographer or independent programme maker, as described in the caption.

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

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

From the UK

  • A white Home Office sign on one of the department's building in London

    Immigration and asylum
    Thousands of cleared asylum claims to be returned to Home Office after errors

    Legal challenges have soared after mistakes occurred in the department’s rush to fulfil the PM’s pledge to clear backlog
  • Jay Slater

    Lancashire
    Mother of Jay Slater, missing in Tenerife, says police have ‘stepped up’ search

  • Sir Howard Bernstein in 2017 facing camera, smiling.

    Manchester
    Sir Howard Bernstein, catalyst of Manchester regeneration, dies aged 71

  • The Park restaurant interior

    London
    Restaurateur Jeremy King continues comeback with opening of the Park

    • NHS
      Women urged to accept NHS cervical screening invitations

    • Women
      Starmer says he is proud of Labour record on women’s rights after JK Rowling criticism

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

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

    • Environment
      In the race for new energy strategies, why does home insulation always lag behind?

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

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Around the world

  • People walk through the rubble of destroyed buildings in al-Shati in Gaza City on Saturday

    Israel-Gaza war
    Dozens killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City

    Israeli forces said strikes on densely populated locations were aimed at killing senior Hamas commander
  • A rescue worker with a dog search for victims in a damaged apartment building after it was hit by Russian air bomb in Kharkiv, Ukraine

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

  • A Muslim pilgrim prays at dawn on Mount Arafat during the annual hajj pilgrimage.

    Hajj
    Egypt to prosecute travel agents for ‘fraudulent’ hajj trips

  • 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Culture

  • 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

    Natasha Khan joins Suranne Jones to speak out for women persecuted in the infamous trials – and channels their powers on stage
  • Jeremy Cooper, author, photographed at his home near Taunton, Somerset

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

  • Tom Sharpe as a photographer in South Africa, c 1960.

    Comedy
    Revealed: the secret love story behind the slapstick of author Tom Sharpe

  • Nish Kumar.

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

  • 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

  • Sir Keir Starmer on Nick Ferrari’s breakfast show

    The week in audio
    Nick Ferrari; The News Agents; The Rest Is Politics; Oh God, What Now?; Electoral Dysfunction; The Turnout With GK Barry – review

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  • Peter and Linda

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

  • 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

  • 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

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    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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    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?

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  • 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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    Explained
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  • Abiy Ahmed, with close-cropped hair and in a short-sleeved shirt and sunglasses, grinning at Khartoum airport with men around him and a plane labelled "Ethiopia" behind them

    The long read
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  • Bruno Fernandes celebrates with Cristiano Ronaldo after scoring Portugal's third goal during their Euro 2024 victory over Turkey.

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    Portugal win Group F and Belgium get off the mark – Football Daily

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

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

    Environment
    Restore Nature Now march in London – in pictures

  • 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)

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  • Aerial view of swimmers and people on paddleboards

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  • 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
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  • 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

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