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  • A wall mural on a street in Kabul shows protesting women. The foremost woman has her arms raised, but her open mouth has been spraypainted black. Writing in Arabic reads: 'Afghan women will not be silent anymore'

    Afghanistan
    Video appears to show gang-rape of Afghan woman in a Taliban jail

  • A poster of missing Jay Slater behind a metal gate

    Tenerife
    Mother of Jay Slater tells of ‘pain and agony’ over teenager missing in Tenerife

    • Ukraine
      Negotiated outcome most likely result of Russia-Ukraine war, major poll says

    • US politics
      Biden to meet Democratic governors to assuage fears after debate performance

    • Israel-Gaza war live
      Israel insists campaign against Hamas will be ‘long’, after reports generals favour truce

    • India
      India deadly crush blamed on huge overcrowding as death toll passes 120

    • Japan
      Court orders Japanese government to pay damages over forced sterilisations

    • Music
      Ann Wilson, frontwoman of Heart, diagnosed with cancer

UK general election

  • Guardian Zadie Smith cover illo Ben Tallon

    Britain's future
    ‘Here comes the sun’: Zadie Smith on hope, trepidation and rebirth after 14 years of the Tories

  • Matthew Warner outside a shop in Alford

    Analysis
    Across the market towns of Britain the battle for the soul of the right is fierce

  • Graphic of people and places in UK

    Path to power
    Hope in short supply: what our election reporters found out as they travelled the UK

  • PollTracker trail v2

    Opinion polls tracker
    Labour significantly ahead of Tories as campaign continues

Europe in focus

  • Calais, France.

    Politics
    A tale of two elections: how angry voters in France and UK turned on their leaders

  • New Popular Front supporters at a rally against the far right in Paris, France, 1 July 2024

    France’s ‘hard left’ has been demonised – but its agenda is realistic, not radical

    Julia Cagé and Thomas Piketty
    The New Popular Front will improve ordinary people’s lives – and it’s an effective, economically sound alternative to the far right, say authors Julia Cagé and Thomas Piketty
  • Turkiye's Mesopotamia Express wraps up promotional tour, set to debut on April 19<br>TURKIYE - APRIL 5: Turkiye's new tourist 'Mesopotamia Express' has completed its promotional tour in Turkiye on April 5, 2024. The touristic train, which offers new experiences to travel enthusiasts along the route from Ankara to Diyarbakir, completed its promotional tour before its maiden voyage on April 19. The train tour started from Ankara, stopped in Kayseri, Malatya and Elazig and reached Diyarbakir. after about a day. Passengers enjoyed the natural landscapes along the route in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia and had the opportunity to get to know the cities where the train stopped. (Photo by Dilara Irem Sancar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

    Travel
    Across Turkey by train: riding the Mesopotamia Express

    With lengthy stops for side trips, this long-distance journey is a joyful, social experience accompanied by great food and music

Spotlight

  • A woman in black and white, screaming at the top of her voice

    Women
    All the rage: women are furious – and repressing it can ruin our lives

    By 2021, women around the world were 6% angrier than men, a gap that widened during the pandemic. Dr Jennifer Cox says it is time to let it all out
  • Zing Tsjeng holding a pink bag and wearing black shoes

    A moment that changed me
    My feet appeared on a kink website that gets 20m views a month

  • Joss Stone

    Music
    ‘I try to avoid karaoke – I get too embarrassed’: Joss Stone’s honest playlist

    The singer and songwriter on dancing with her three-year-old daughter, buying Spice Girls records and having ‘terrible taste in music’
  • Brendan O’Shea.

    Society
    Treasure hunters: the enthralling, emotional inside story of a house clearance

    They never know what they will find – from fleas to Picassos to Soviet missiles beneath the stairs. But what they do is crucial and cathartic
    • Multiple ejaculator Jonathan Meijer in The Man With 1000 Kids.

      TV review
      The Man with 1000 Kids review – yet more proof that we should raze human civilisation to the ground

    • Lily Allen at the Olivier awards in London.

      Explain it to me quickly
      Sole trader: why is Lily Allen selling feet pics on OnlyFans?

    • Stellan Skarsgård in What Remains. © CAA Media / Courtesy Everett Collection

      Film
      What Remains review – sky squid confounds Stellan Skarsgård in true-life Scandi noir

    • A hand posting a vote into a ballot box

      Iran
      ‘It’s irrelevant’: Iran’s record low election turnout shows little faith in process

Euro 2024

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Sport

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

Opinion

  • Labour supporters celebrate on the night of the party’s election victory in May 1997, outside the Royal Festival Hall in London.

    Are you suffering from symptoms of hope? Here’s how to cope with the prospect of a Labour victory

    John O'Farrell
    Friday could be one of the best days ever – but only if we vote Labour, says the author John O’Farrell
  • Caroline-shredder

    Tactical voting could wipe the Tories out for a generation. Here’s how I think it should be done

    Carol Vorderman
  • Labour Party leader Keir Starmer is bombarded with questions from journalists after hosting a Q&A in Chesterfield

    Starmer will be challenged from within Labour on many issues if he becomes PM

    Aletha Adu
  • ‘A troubling quantity of Amazon and Apple transactions’ … Rudy Giuliani.

    What do Rudy Giuliani’s Amazon purchases reveal? Appallingly bad taste – and even worse morals

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • A man wearing a tuxedo stands on a red carpet. Behind him three dancers in saris kneel, smiling and making gestures with their arms, and behind them a group of people smile and throw rose petals.

    What does a Bollywood star have to do with Indian women’s wellbeing? Everything

    Shrayana Bhattacharya
  • The US supreme court building.

    The US supreme court just completed Trump’s January 6 coup attempt

    Rebecca Solnit

Climate crisis

  • a side-by-side image of Donald Trump and wind turbines

    Donald Trump
    ‘It’s nonsensical’: how Trump is making climate the latest culture war

  • yellow, green, red and blue tubes on ceiling connecting to floor in a grey room

    Technology
    Google’s emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand

  • Close-up of man wearing white shirt, tie and jacket

    Climate crisis
    Biden attacks Republican climate deniers as he unveils extreme-heat rules

  • A firefighter in protective clothing manages a fire line in Fresno County, California

    Weather tracker
    Scorching temperatures across US threaten heat records

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Around the world

  • A US border patrol agent looks out at the US-Mexico border

    World
    US expels more than 100 Chinese migrants in rare mass deportation

    Department of Homeland Security says it plans more such ‘large charter flights’, sparking concerns for safety of migrants escaping poverty or repression
  • Xi Jinping waves to crowd of children holding flags as he walks with Kassym-Jomart Tokayev

    World
    Xi’s central Asia trip aims to cement ties as China vies for influence with Russia

  • In a street interview, Hailey Welch, left, coined “hawk tuah” – and it has upended her life, she explained in the Plan Bri Uncut podcast.

    US
    ‘Hawk tuah’ girl leans into craze she ignited but looks forward to moving on

  • Blurred motion in a hospital ward

    England
    Half of nursing students in England have considered quitting, survey finds

    • Northern Ireland
      Jeffrey Donaldson faces further seven sexual offence charges

    • Australia
      Child, 12, missing in suspected crocodile attack

    • China
      Taiwan demands return of fishing boat seized by coastguard

    • Crime
      US woman who posed as Irish heiress extradited to UK to face fraud charges

    • Business
      Shell to pause construction of huge biodiesel plant in Rotterdam

    • Business live
      Markets rise on US rate cut optimism; Tesla shares jump 10% after better-than-expected car sales

Culture

  • Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma in 2010.

    Book of the day
    All the Worst Humans by Phil Elwood review – confessions of a cleanup man

    A former PR looks back on a career spent whitewashing ‘foreign baddies’
  • Julio Torres and Tilda Swinton in Problemista

    Film
    Problemista review – quirky hipster comedy lets Tilda Swinton go for the laughs

  • Composite image of best paperbacks July 2024

    Books
    This month’s best paperbacks: Colson Whitehead, Britney Spears and more

  • Frank Cottrell-Boyce.

    Books
    Frank Cottrell-Boyce on books, kids – and the explosive power of Heidi

  • Alexia and Justina sitting in front of the castle.

    TV review
    Inheriting the Castle review – the fairytale gift that became a nightmare

  • Ros Atkins at the Stonebridge bar

    Glastonbury
    ‘A younger generation has grabbed it’: BBC pips composer on his tune’s Glastonbury remix

Lifestyle

  • illustration of person wearing blue top sits at green chair and looks to the left

    Well actually
    Why do I feel like I’m stuck in a ‘waiting room’, hoping for my life to get started?

    Joy can feel elusive in today’s economy – a counsellor talks to us about moving the needle from surviving to thriving
  • Illustration of two naked men in an embrace while listening out for anyone coming to the front door

    This is how we do it in Nigeria
    ‘Our first sexual encounter was a mess. We were so anxious, neither of us could get an erection

  • Tourists at a viewing site beneath the Acropolis in Athens, Greece

    Travel
    ‘My escape is going north’: heatwaves begin to drive tourists in Europe to cool climes

  • Illustration showing a man hugging his son

    How to build a better life
    If you care about someone, show them – and put away your phone

  • Illustration of a naked man and woman behind a DNA spiral

    This is how we do it
    It is routine in Iceland to check whether you are related to a romantic partner before you get serious

  • Thomasina Miers' valentine's Green Brunch Eggs 016

    Kitchen aide
    Up your egg game: new ideas for brunch

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    Life and style
    Have you experienced so-called ‘eyebrow blindness’?

  • Heatwave in Italy<br>epa10751450 A thermometer outside a pharmacy displays '42 degrees Celsius' in Rome, Italy, 17 July 2023. Southern Europe is experiencing a major heat wave this week with temperatures expected to climb up to 48 Celsius degrees on the islands of Sicily and Sardinia. Italy's health ministry sent on 17 July a circular letter to the country's regional governments with a series of recommendations to manage the impact of the intense heat wave the country is enduring. These recommendations include setting up a 'heat code' at emergency rooms with special, priority procedures for people suffering heat-related health issues. EPA/MASSIMO PERCOSSI

    Climate crisis
    How are you being affected by the heatwave in southern Europe?

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    Life and style
    Do you still sleep in your childhood bedroom?

From our global editions

  • a cannabis farm

    US
    Cannabis will likely soon be legally classified as medicine. But medicine for what?

    Experts say the DEA’s rescheduling of cannabis as a medication will be ‘a little bit incoherent’
  • Apple green Boeing Co 737 fuselage sections sit on the assembly floor at Spirit AeroSystems in Wichita, Kansas, US

    Business
    ‘We’re in limbo’: Boeing takeover leaves longtime Belfast factory under threat

  • Actor and model Stella Chuisse impersonates Angélique Kidjo, a singer, songwriter and composer from Benin

    Women behind the lens
    ‘I Want to Be Like Her is my way of paying tribute to 10 exceptional Africans’

  • Fatima Payman

    Australia
    The Australian senator dividing the ruling Labor party over Palestinian statehood

  • Court artist’s drawing of prosecutor cross-examining Lucy Letby

    UK crime
    A scrum of spectators and an elephant in the room during retrial of former nurse

  • a man in a suit and tie stands on stage

    Explained
    What does the immunity ruling mean for Trump’s criminal cases?

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    US elections
    ‘Waiting in the wings’: as Biden stumbles, Gavin Newsom’s name is on everyone’s lips

  • An illustration showing computer mouse clicks on a female body.

    Pornography
    The secret lives of porn addicts: ‘I am meticulous about covering my tracks’

  • Chris Martin of Coldplay on the Pyramid stage on Saturday night

    Glastonbury
    The big Glastonbury 2024 review: the Last Dinner Party justify the hype, Dua Lipa nails it and Coldplay go over the top

  • Goats belonging to Sicilian farmer Luca Cammarata drink from a muddy water pond near his drought-stricken farm

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    Today in Focus
    Marina Hyde and John Crace on the 2024 election campaign – podcast

  • Keir Starmer in glasses pointing a finger

    Today in Focus
    Election Extra: desperate times – podcast

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  • Caroline Lucas speaking in the House of Commons

    Science Weekly
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  • Keir Starmer

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  • Portugal's goalkeeper Diogo Costa saves the ball during penalties of a round of sixteen match between Portugal and Slovenia at the Euro 2024 soccer tournament in Frankfurt, Germany, Monday, July 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

    Football Weekly
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  • ‘Don’t be afraid to shine’ … Nikita Gold

    Culture
    ‘Our message? Be fabulous!’: Drag artists with Down’s syndrome

    Fierce and fantastic, the artists who make up the collective Drag Syndrome explain why performing helps them express who they really are
  • Vehicles on fire

    US
    Thompson fire spreads in Oroville, California

  • Jordan, Shuayb, Sadiq and Idris at the Other Stage

    The Guardian picture essay
    ‘Like an island separate from England’: Black joy at Glastonbury

  • Angry-looking people behind old cupboard used as barricade with smoke and fire in background

    Photos of the day
    Nairobi protests and a newborn panda

  • A local resident walks past a burning building following shelling in Ukraine

    Ukraine
    Residents flee as war arrives in Toretsk, eastern Ukraine

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    Milk and sacrifice: a rare glimpse into a Maasai rite of passage

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