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  • Demonstrators hold placards picturing victims and reading message related to the NHS infected blood scandal

    ‘Magical'
    Infected blood scandal victims join forces to share stories

  • People queue up at a Mr Whippy ice cream van that is parked on a beach

    ‘Bloody £9 for two’
    TikTok twins rage at ice-cream van prices

    • Eye-tattooing
      Experts warn about risks of colour-changing surgery

    • Sean 'Diddy' Combs
      Video shows music mogul assaulting singer Cassie in 2016

    • Sticky trick
      New glue spray kills plant pests without chemicals

    • US
      Four day care workers charged with spiking children’s food with melatonin

    • Gender
      Parents overestimate sons’ maths skills more than daughters’, study finds

    • Money
      Nationwide doubles maximum personal loan to £50k amid rising building costs

News in focus

  • Residents of Vovchansk and nearby villages with their possessions at an evacuation point in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine

    'Why the hell didn’t you leave earlier?'
    The battle to evacuate residents as Russia advances in Kharkiv

  • Jeremy Hunt gestures while speaking in front of a sign that says: "rises"

    Analysis
    How accurate are Jeremy Hunt’s claims about the UK economy?

    Chancellor seems to cherrypick data as he tries to outline how the Tories have got the country back on its feet
  • Screengrab from a video from Chinese state-backed group called Storm-1376 showing an AI-generated newsreader.

    AI
    How China is using fake news anchors to deliver its propaganda

    News avatars are proliferating on social media and experts say they will spread as the technology becomes more accessible

Spotlight

  • books

    Books for a better world
    As chosen by Lenny Henry, Geri Halliwell-Horner, Andrew O’Hagan and others

    Game-changing books that offer hope, as recommended by speakers at this year’s Hay festival, including Theresa May, Tom Holland, Helen Garner and Jon Ronson
  • Yotam ottolenghi's harissa roasted pumpkin with tahini sauce.

    Ask Ottolenghi
    Easy sauces to perk up midweek meals

    • Lil Nas X wearing a vest made of gold disks, and brown shiny trousers

      Lil Nas X
      ‘Who do I most admire and why? I have to say myself’

    • Man in apron prepares beef on hot grill with customers behind

      'I’ve never seen so many gringos'
      Fans queue round the block as tiny Mexican taco stand wins Michelin star

    • The boxer Oleksandr Usyk pictured from behind wearing a tracksuit saying 'Ukraine'

      Oleksandr Usyk
      Ukrainians divided as the world boxing champion facing Tyson Fury

    • Nicolas Cage in The Surfer.

      The Surfer review
      Beach bum Nic Cage surfs a high tide of toxic masculinity

Sport

Opinion

  • Young girl watching television with her back to us

    How can a child in care cost £281,000 a year? Ask the wealth funds that have councils over a barrel

    George Monbiot
    Children crying out for stability are paying the highest price for Britain’s chaotic and exploitative residential care, says the Guardian columnist George Monbiot
  • Tim Parker, Post Office Chairman and Paula Vennells, Post Office Chief Executive at the opening of the Nyetimber Post Office branch in Sussex, which is the 6000th branch to be transformed in the biggest modernisation programme in UK retail history.<br>G8TA7G Tim Parker, Post Office Chairman and Paula Vennells, Post Office Chief Executive at the opening of the Nyetimber Post Office branch in Sussex, which is the 6000th branch to be transformed in the biggest modernisation programme in UK retail history.

    Into Britain’s angry pulpit steps Rev Vennells, who ran the Post Office – to explain why it sent honest people to jail

    Marina Hyde
  • Jonathan Freedland

    Beware the Biden factor, Keir Starmer: you can govern well and still risk losing the country

    Jonathan Freedland
  • Elle Hunt

    Rubbish music, chatbots and online queues: welcome to your life lived on hold

    Elle Hunt
    • The European parliament in Brussels

      Political violence could benefit far right parties in the EU elections – if we let it

      Paul Taylor
    • Lucy Mangan

      Digested week: When is the summer of dumpy women who can’t wear skirts?

      Lucy Mangan
    • Martin Rowson on climate change, and the price of olive oil – cartoon

      Cartoon
      Martin Rowson on climate change, and the price of olive oil

    • Drugs From European Pharmaceuticals Companies As Stocks Outperformed The Stoxx 600 Index By 1.2 percentage Points<br>A pharmacist collects medications for prescriptions at a pharmacy in London, U.K., on Monday, Dec. 14, 2015. European pharmaceuticals stocks in 2015 have outperformed the Stoxx 600 Index by 1.2 percentage points in U.S. dollar terms. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg via Getty Images

      I love being a pharmacist, but the UK’s drug shortage makes me want to give up – and Brexit makes it worse

      Mike Hewitson

Editorials & Letters

  • Drugs in a pharmacy

    The Guardian view
    Antimicrobial resistance: we must prioritise this global health threat

  • Emma Hayes

    The Guardian view
    On footballing greats: their words reach beyond beautiful game

  • Woman in labour

    Letters
    Maternity services are failing mothers and babies, and it’s not just down to austerity

  • A passerby wearing a kippah pushes his bicycle past a banner reading "Jews for a free Palestine" at Oxford University on 7 May 2024, as a pro-Palestinian camp has been set up on the campus.

    Letters
    Jewish criticism of Israel’s actions must not be dismissed

Climate crisis

  • Inside a Facebook datacentre in Sweden

    Think before you click – and three other ways to reduce your digital carbon footprint

    Koren Helbig
  • A sky completely taken up with fiery clouds, above a border of trees and dry fields.

    'Comparable to a war'
    Economic damage from climate change six times worse than thought – report

  • Aerial shot of San Pedro Sula, Honduras, covered in a thick blanket of smog.

    Honduras
    Air pollution in San Pedro Sula city is almost 50 times higher than WHO guidelines

  • Silhouette of nodding donkey pumping oil with buildings in background

    Azerbaijan
    Cop29 at a crossroads with focus on climate finance

From the UK

  • Head and shoulders shot of Jeremy Hunt

    Jeremy Hunt
    Chancellor accused of exaggerating Tories’ economic record

    Chancellor also criticised for ‘dodgy dossier’ on Labour plans as he aims to make low tax a key election issue
  • Rebecca Joynes outside Manchester crown court

    Manchester
    ‘Sexual predator’ teacher found guilty of grooming schoolboys

  • Models recreated the image of a retired couple looking at a laptop on a kitchen island

    State pensions
    Are older retirees getting a bad deal?

  • Kulveer Ranger.

    House of Lords
    Peer faces year’s ban from bars for bullying two people while drunk

    • Met police
      Officer found guilty of assaulting female bus passenger in front of her son

    • Baby Reindeer
      MP asks Netflix to prove ‘convicted stalker’ allegation

    • Devon
      Businesses fear loss of tourism as cases of parasitic disease double

    • Exclusive
      Alcohol abuse costing £27bn a year in England

    • Paula Vennells
      Ex-Post Office boss did not believe there had been miscarriages of justice, inquiry hears

    • Country diary
      The air is rich with post-dawn birdsong

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Around the world

  • A truck trailer belonging to magician David Copperfield sits outside his warehouse in Las Vegas, Friday, Oct. 19, 2007. Copperfield has been contacted by law enforcement authorities and the FBI has conducted an investigation in Las Vegas, where the magician regularly performs, his lawyer and the FBI confirmed. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

    David Copperfield
    The FBI investigated magician for two years. The claim that he was ‘exonerated’ was widely embraced. Was he?

    A woman alleged that the magician sexually assaulted her on his private island in 2007. His lawyers said he was falsely accused
  • Taken from the top of a hill, with the hills of Oakland far in the distance, a three-story brick house on a corner, with yellow police tape in the blurred foreground.

    Nancy Pelosi
    Man who attacked former House speaker’s husband with hammer jailed for 30 years

  • A stamp featuring a photo of a baguette on a white background overdrawn with a French tricolour ribbon and the words 'La baguette de pain française'

    ‘Bakery scent’
    French post office releases scratch-and-sniff baguette stamp

  • Firefighters at the synagogue

    France
    Police kill armed man who set synagogue on fire in Rouen

    • Ukraine war briefing
      Russia’s Kharkiv offensive may only be the ‘first wave’, Zelenskiy warns

    • Afghanistan
      Three tourists and an Afghan shot dead during attack

    • Mexico
      Mayoral candidate and five others killed in shooting at campaign rally

    • US
      Trump aides plot deportation effort inspired by UK Rwanda plan – report

    • Estonia
      Putin is seeking to weaponise threat of mass migration, says PM

    • Vatican
      Rules tightened on supernatural phenomena in crackdown on hoaxes

Culture

  • Richard Rankin is Rebus on BBC One

    TV tonight
    Outlander’s Richard Rankin is the new Rebus

    Ian Rankin’s mercurial detective is back in a fresh reimagining. Plus: more fun with Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor. Here’s what to watch this evening
  • Jay and Veena sitting in a tuk tuk visiting Delhi.

    The Nevermets
    Love is weird in this evil version of First Dates

  • Still from Kinds of Kindness, with close-ups of (left to right) Margaret Qualley, Jesse Plemons and Willem Dafoe

    Kinds of Kindness review
    Sex, death and Emma Stone in Lanthimos’s disturbing triptych

  • Film Still: Scénarios. Directed by Jean-Luc Godard

    Scénarios review
    Jean-Luc Godard collage is his final love letter to cinema

  • Ryan Reynolds and Cailey Fleming in If.

    From If to Billie Eilish
    A complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  • Farmer Giles Establishment, Christmas Day, 1830.<br>ENGLAND - JUNE 19: Seven people are seated round the kitchen table brandishing knives and forks and glasses; a woman at one end is carving meat from a large roast; at the other end a man on his feet is holding up a jug. A small boy, standing on a bellows, stretches up to the table to drink from a plate; two others are eating on the floor using a stool as a table. A dog is sitting looking up at the table. Coloured etching by William Heath, published by T McLean, 1830. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

    Book of the day
    Rumbles by Elsa Richardson review – gut reaction

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    Five great reasons to visit the Westfield Good Festival

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    Six ways to tell you're ready to take your online business into the real world

  • Work colleagues celebrate landing a new business deal

    Expert advice
    How to make a memorable business pitch

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Lifestyle

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    The Tim Dowling column
    My wife has a DIY job for me, but I get to irritate her while I do it

  • A gardener is seen through a gap in flowering shrubs

    Chelsea flower show
    UK’s garden centres hope sunshine and show will help them rebound from the rain

  • Steve Backshall and family on a Wild Camper Trucks holiday in Cumbria

    Glamping on the go
    A wild ride through Cumbria in a camper truck

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    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    I’m happily remarried, but am haunted by my ex’s long-ago betrayal

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Take part

  • What did Emma Hayes’ time with the club mean to you?

    Chelsea Women fans
    Share your views on Emma Hayes’ departure

  • A badly designed system and what one MP called “shocking ineptitude” at the DWP has created hardship for thousands of carers in Britain.

    Carers in the UK
    Have you been threatened with prosecution for benefit fraud?

  • Official portrait of King Charles

    King Charles III
    Do you have a portrait of King Charles in your workplace?

  • Costa Rica, Monteverde cloud forest guide birdwatching

    Environment
    Have you recently become more engaged with the natural world?

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From our global editions

  • Remains of burned cars in Magenta. France has sent hundreds more troops to New Caledonia after days of riots.

    ‘We will fight until Kanaky is free’
    How New Caledonia caught fire

    The frustration that erupted into deadly violence in the French territory last week has been building for years
  • Japan’s Yonaguni island

    Yonaguni
    The quiet Japanese island paradise on the frontline of growing Taiwan-China tensions

  • Clockwise from top left, The swamp wallaby (Wallabia bicolor), The Common Wombat (Vombatus ursinus), The grey shrikethrush or grey shrike-thrush (Colluricincla harmonica), Common Wombat (Vombatus ursinus) and a The common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula), The short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) and The lace monitor (Varanus varius)

    A kangaroo, a possum and a bushrat walk into a burrow
    Research finds wombat homes are the supermarkets of the forest

  • FILE PHOTO: President Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Biden participate in their second debate in Nashville<br>FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden participate in their second 2020 presidential campaign debate at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., October 22, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo

    Analysis
    Biden and Trump are betting on debates to help magnify the other’s weaknesses

  • Two people look at each other as they stand in front of a grey circular structure

    ‘People got carried away’
    The artist behind the short-lived portal linking New York and Dublin

  • The Ash Carter Exchange On Innovation And National Security<br>WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 07: (L-R) Co-founder and CEO of Palantir Technologies, Alex Karp, and Admiral Tony Radakin attend the Palantir booth during the AI Expo For National Competitiveness at Walter E. Washington Convention Center on May 07, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Palantir)

    ‘I’m the new Oppenheimer!’
    My soul-destroying day at Palantir’s first-ever AI warfare conference

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    Experience
    My fiance died on our wedding day – and then I discovered his secret life

  • Andy Evans posing against garden flowers

    ‘My mum had to tell me I had HIV’
    The former blood transfusion poster boy campaigning for infected victims

  • Welcome to the Inca citadel … Miguel Rodrigo Mazuré’s Hotel in Machu Picchu, Peru, 1969.

    How the world could have looked
    The most spectacular buildings that were never made

  • composite illustration showing women working in TV

    ‘At the start you get molested and by 45 you’re too old to work’
    The secret misery of women working in TV

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  • Russell Brand being baptised in the River Thames with Bear Grylls

    Weekend
    Marina Hyde on Russell Brand’s baptism; plus ‘deepfake’ cheerleaders: the woman wrongly accused over a viral video – podcast

  • Shein shoes at a popup store in New York in 2022. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    ‘Super cute please like’: the unstoppable rise of Shein – podcast

  • Demonstrators hold placards reading ‘It’s time #ContaminatedBlood’ and ‘Recognise all victims #ContaminatedBlood’.

    Today in Focus
    The children of the contaminated blood scandal

  • Manchester United v Newcastle United - Premier League<br>MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - MAY 15: Bruno Fernandes of Manchester United celebrates during the Premier League match between Manchester United and Newcastle United at Old Trafford on May 15, 2024 in Manchester, England.(Photo by Robbie Jay Barratt - AMA/Getty Images)

    Football Weekly
    The Premier League’s fight for Europe and Celtic’s title – Football Weekly Extra

  • Happy couple texting on their smart phones

    Science Weekly
    Apps and algorithms: can dating be boiled down to a science? – podcast

  • Dr Ruth Cerezo-Mota and the planet (By Tamara Uribe, The Guardian)

    Today in Focus
    What keeps the world’s top climate scientists up at night?

  • Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images. Former Donald Trump attorney Michael Cohen departing from his home

    Politics Weekly America
    Donald Trump comes face to face with former fixer Michael Cohen

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    Girls’ night
    The teenage ritual of preparing to go out – in pictures

    For her debut book, the Irish photographer Eimear Lynch travelled around Ireland to photograph groups of girls immersed in the, often lengthy, ritual of dressing up and applying their makeup together
  • Children are evacuated from the district of Vovchansk due to the Russian offensive in Kharkiv

    Twenty photographs of the week
    Seven days around the world in pictures

  • Naomi Campbell arrives for the screening of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga at the 2024 Cannes film festival.

    The Cannes red carpet so far
    From Naomi Campbell in 90s Chanel to Anya Taylor-Joy in Dior – in pictures

  • Person running towards a spotlight as a dog runs after her.

    Photos of the day
    Billie Eilish, dogs and lift-off

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    The rise of a newfound cannabis culture – a photo essay

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