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  • Passengers board a train at Huddersfield railway station

    Railways
    Labour promises nationalisation within five years of coming to power

  • A riderless black and a white horse bolt through the streets of central London, the white horse blood-stained

    London
    Runaway horses in ‘serious condition’ after bolting through centre of city

    • France
      Moulin Rouge windmill blades collapse in Paris

    • Live
      White House says it wants ‘answers’ from Israel after mass graves found near hospitals in Gaza

    • Public health
      UK has worst rate of child alcohol consumption in world, report finds

    • Ofsted
      Ruth Perry family furious as single-word ratings are retained

    • Spain
      PM considers resigning, blaming political ‘harassment’ of wife

    • Tupac Shakur
      Rapper's estate threatens legal action against Drake over AI diss track

News in focus

  • A former domestic worker in Beirut. About 250,000 African and Asian migrant women work in Lebanon. An average of two domestic workers a week die there.

    ‘Every day I cry’
    50 women talk about life as a domestic worker under the Gulf’s kafala system

  • collage illustration with Diane Abbott at the centre, surrounded by (clockwise from left): Tony Blair, a Stoke Newington sign, Diane Abbott, Ken Livingston, Hackney Town hall, Child Q protestors, Jeremy Corbyn

    ‘I’ll stay an MP for as long as I can’
    Diane Abbott’s tumultuous political journey

    The long read: Britain’s first black female MP faced hostility from the media and political establishment from the start. Nearly 40 years on, she is still not giving up
  • Two people standing next to metal ladder in put below ground

    ‘It’s magical’
    Prehistoric mines in Norfolk to reopen to visitors

    English Heritage hopes new entrance at Grimes Graves will mean more people can explore neolithic site

Spotlight

  • ‘Long before my son was born, I dreamed of him’ … Suzanne Scanlon and her son

    The forever wound
    How could I become a mother when my own mother died so young?

    What broke me as a child was my mother’s death from breast cancer. But around that shattering, I became a person – and learned how to parent my son
  • Illustration of a librarian holding out a book

    The experts
    Librarians on 20 easy, enjoyable ways to read more brilliant books

  • Fleetwood United players and staff celebrate on 6 April 2024 after winning the United Arab Emirates second division

    Football’s unlikeliest global brand
    How Fleetwood made it big in the UAE

    Despite relegation to England’s fourth tier, Cod Army have cast net to be like ‘City Football Group but on a much smaller scale’
  • Looty’s Chidi Nwaubani and Ahmed Abokor in front of the Benin brass plaques at the British Museum, London.

    ‘Can you steal back something that’s already stolen?’
    How radical art duo Looty repatriated the Rosetta Stone

    Tired of colonial artefacts being hoarded, Chidi Nwaubani and Ahmed Abokor use tech to redistribute them from museums in audacious digital heists
    • Lisboans march in the city’s streets in the aftermath of the 25 April 1974 coup d'etat which overthrew Portugal’s Estado Novo regime.

      ‘Everyone was in the streets. I just felt happiness’
      Portugal recalls the Carnation Revolution

    • Matt Hicks, the star of I Wanna Marry Harry and very much not Prince Harry.

      Best podcasts of the week
      The reality show that duped women into falling for a fake Prince Harry

    • Orbán with Trump on red-carpeted steps at Mar-a-Lago

      ‘Waiting for Trump’
      Viktor Orbán hopes US election will change his political fortunes

    • It even has a cursed walrus! … Dead Boy Detectives.

      Dead Boy Detectives review
      This fun paranormal romp will make you feel young again

Opinion

  • Illustration: Ben Jennings

    Lies, confections, distortions: how the right made London the most vilified place in Britain

    Aditya Chakrabortty
    Our capital has many problems, but it is time to push back against attacks from those who neither know nor understand it
  • legislation to ban smacking of children<br>A rally was held outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh in support of the Children (Equal Protection from Assault) (Scotland) Bill which is facing its final parliamentary debate and vote today. If passed the legislation means a ban on smacking of children. PA Photo. Picture date: Thursday October 3, 2019. See PA story POLITICS Smacking. Photo credit should read: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

    Smacking a child is just an act of violence. Why do England and Northern Ireland still allow it?

    Frances Ryan
  • An aerial photo shows residents of Akwidaa fishing village in Ghana erecting a makeshift sea defence

    Ministers of Germany, Brazil, South Africa and Spain: why we need a global tax on billionaires

    Svenja Schulze, Fernando Haddad, Enoch Godongwana, María Jesús Montero and Carlos Cuerpo
    Finance chiefs say higher taxes for the super-rich are key to battling global inequality and climate crisis
  • UK's Liberal Democrats Leader Ed Davey Unveils New Campaign In Guildford<br>GUILDFORD, ENGLAND - JANUARY 03: Liberal democrat supporters wait in the rain for the arrival of the Party Leader Ed Davey on January 03, 2024 in Guildford, England. Ed Davey revealed a new campaign poster as he launched a tour of Surrey seats and held a rally with activists in Guildford. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

    Frank Field saw benefit in the Lib Dems. In this election year, Labour would be wise to do the same

    Martin Kettle
    The late elder statesman understood the need for a progressive realignment of British politics. That prize shouldn’t be lost, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle
    • Oliver Dowden at PMQs

      Down, down, deeper and Dowden: how can Rishi’s stand-in be so useless?

      John Crace
    • The Last Night of the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, London, in 2023.

      This Proms season ticks all the boxes and promises special things

      Andrew Clements
    • Adolf Hitler emerging from the party's Munich headquarters in 1931

      Everyone laughed at Hitler in the 1920s. A century on, are we making the same mistake?

      Adrian Chiles
    • Sarah Akinterinwa on Rishi Sunak’s pledge to increase defence spending – cartoon

      Cartoon
      Sarah Akinterinwa on Rishi Sunak’s pledge to increase defence spending

Editorials & Letters

  • Rishi Sunak and the chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, visit an engineering firm in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, on 25 March 2024.

    The Guardian view
    Sunak’s spending pledges: a Potemkin village of pretend policy

  • The Brics summit in Johannesburg on 23 August 2023, L to R: Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, China’s president Xi Jinping, South African president Cyril Ramaphosa, Indian PM Narendra Modi and Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov.

    The Guardian view
    Globalisation’s discontent: it’s not right for poor countries to fund the rich

  • Families being helped ashore on Dungeness beach after being rescued in the English Channel by the RNLI in 2023.

    Letters
    A grownup debate, not game-playing, is the only way to address the refugee crisis

  • Mother and child are sitting on windowsill.

    Letters
    Children in care – there’s one in every classroom

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Climate crisis

  • The Aedes albopictus mosquito on human skin

    Climate crisis
    Mosquito-borne diseases spreading in Europe, says expert

  • A male gold miner holding a spade in the background observes a female gold miner in an open-pit gold mine

    'Green industrialisation'
    Process raw materials in Africa, urges top environmentalist

  • driftwood, lots of plastic bottles and other pollution on beach, with two figures on bikes in background

    Plastics
    Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s pollution

  • Dirty liquid spilling from outfall pipe

    Pollution
    Tory duty on Ofwat protects profits over reducing sewage pollution, experts say

From the UK

  • James Cleverly walks past a sunken small boat during a visit to Lampedusa port.

    Rwanda
    Flights will deport asylum seekers ‘indefinitely’, says Cleverly

    Home secretary visits Lampedusa in Italy as National Audit Office says scheme could cost over £580m by 2030
  • A man and two children sit on a wall with a wall of speakers to their left

    Hip-hop
    Young researchers need greater access to Britain’s rich archives, says curator

  • Sima Sabet and Fardad Farahzad

    Iran
    Lack of action could lead to more threats and attacks in UK, says journalist

  • The National Memorial Arboretum

    Armed forces
    UK’s first ever memorial to LGBT personnel to be built

    • Heritage
      Fears for Queen Victoria belongings delay English coastal path completion

    • Car insurance
      Providers agree to crack down on ‘poverty premium’

    • Environment
      Nature destruction will cause bigger economic slump in UK than 2008 crisis, experts warn

    • Wales
      Girl arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after two teachers and pupil stabbed

    • Weather
      Freezing nights and snow forecast for parts of UK

    • Barclays
      Bank's profits tumble 12% as UK interest rates hit mortgage demand

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Around the world

  • The Tumela Mine , an Anglo American pit mine located in the north-western part of South Africa in Thabazimbi, Limpopo.

    Live
    Anglo American shares surge after BHP proposes £31.1bn takeover

  • Indonesian President-elect Prabowo Subianto

    Indonesia election
    Prabowo formally declared president-elect after court rejects legal challenges

    • Inequality
      World’s billionaires should pay minimum 2% wealth tax, say G20 ministers

    • Ratted out
      Chicago’s infamous sidewalk ‘rat hole’ removed by officials

    • Ukraine war briefing
      Long-range Atacms already hitting Russian forces

    • Exclusive
      West warned it must boost defence as 'era of peace in Europe is over'

    • 'Mass atrocities'
      Burkina Faso soldiers massacred 223 civilians in one day, finds rights group

    • Gaza
      Israel thought to be preparing to send troops into Rafah

Culture

  • Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes.

    28 Years Later
    Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes cast in sequel

    The new film marks the reunion of director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland, who created 2002’s 28 Days Later starring Oscar winner Cillian Murphy
  • Dylan and Ayala in Growing Up Jewish.

    Growing Up Jewish review
    Inappropriately lightweight for our times

  • Groomed for a future of political respectability … Marwan Barghouti in a still from Tomorrow's Freedom.

    Tomorrow’s Freedom review
    Does this man know the way to peace in Israel and Palestine?

  • Nasser Abu Srour

    The Tale of a Wall by Nasser Abu Srour review
    A Palestinian prisoner writes

  • Barenboim has not conducted in the UK since 2019.

    Proms
    BBC unveils 2024 lineup: Daniel Barenboim, Daleks and disco

  • Glen Matlock of the Sex Pistols in On Resistance Street.

    On Resistance Street review
    Lo-fi record of music’s long battle with racism

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    A Wild Weekend on the 42 Acres estate near Frome offers fresh air, cosy rooms, sumptuous food and a chance to get hands dirty with some land regeneration work
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    Consumer champions
    Caring for the elderly? Not with Saga’s 220% price hike

  • Silvia Rothlisberger sitting on her van on the roadside in New Zealand

    A moment that changed me
    Joyriders destroyed my van in New Zealand – which led to a lovely life in London

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    Frank Field
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    Life and style
    What’s your favourite everyday gadget?

  • 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
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    The women retelling fairytales to challenge notions of perfection

    And They Lived … Ever After is a south Asian book of reworked European classics written by women with disabilities
  • An issue of the National Enquirer featuring President Donald Trump.

    ‘The only choice for president’
    How the National Enquirer boosted Trump and smeared his opponents

  • TikTok logo on a phone in pocket of pair of jeans

    Explained
    Why is US threatening to ban TikTok, and will other countries follow suit?

  • the remains of hundreds of pairs of shoes

    ‘People would never forget these shoes’
    The fight to preserve soles of Stutthof Nazi camp

  • An elderly woman with her hands on an ancient tree killed by Xylella fastidiosa in Puglia.

    Plant apocalypse
    How new diseases are destroying EU trees and crops

  • A silver logo on the bonnet of a black Tesla in Los Angeles, California

    Explained
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