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  • Three solemn-looking people stand outside a hospital building

    Robert Fico
    Slovakian PM stable but ‘not out of the woods’ after shooting

  • Art handlers lift Leonora Carrington's Les Distractions de Dagobert at Sotheby's auction house in New York. The painting is framed in gold and it is being placed on a black wall; the handlers wear white gloves white shirts and are seen in the shadows, while the painting's rich colours shine out.

    Leonora Carrington
    Painting auctioned for £22.5m in record for British-born female artists

    • Assisted dying
      Dutch woman, 29, granted euthanasia approval on grounds of mental suffering

    • Lucy Letby
      Inquiry should be livestreamed, families of victims say

    • Live
      Cohen admits habit of blaming others as Trump attorney leans on his desire for revenge in cross-examination

    • Early years education
      All parents, working or not, should have access to childcare, say experts in England

    • Police
      Met forced to respond to rumours of nails glued to playground equipment

    • Space
      Black holes observed colliding when universe was only 740m years old

News in focus

  • Protestesters wave flags as they pass the parliament building in Tbilisi on Tuesday.

    ‘We are very strong’
    Georgia’s gen Z drives protests against return to past

  • Couple holding boxes with packing cases in background

    Bin bags and shopping trolleys
    Homelessness museum to open in London

    Museum of Homelessness features treasured belongings and first-hand accounts of homeless people
  • A weapon on an armoured vehicle with the Russian Volunteer Corps is fired in Vovchansk.

    Analysis
    How Russia has advanced in Kharkiv despite warnings attack was coming

    Shortage of munitions, fighters and air defences leaves Ukraine unprepared to repel attack

Spotlight

  • Billy Idol

    Billy Idol
    I stole the master tapes for Rebel Yell – and gave them to my heroin dealer

    The Generation X punk turned arena rocker answers your questions on near-misses in Hollywood, his overlooked electronic period and how Marc Bolan helped launch his career
  • Keir Starmer stands in front of a screen displaying his six election pledges. He is gesticulating, and wears a white shirt with rolled-up sleeves.

    Starmer takes it step by step in the phoney war that is a general election campaign

    John Crace
  • Billie Eilish

    Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft review
    Still the great outlier of American pop

    On this deeply involving third album, Eilish once again breaks the rules for arena-filling artists: it’s subtle and understated, yet jars the listener with eerie show tunes and explosive noise
  • 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

    A mega egg in Paris, a hovering hotel in Machu Picchu, an hourglass tower in New York, a pleasure island in Baghdad … we reveal the architectural visions that were just too costly – or too weird
    • Oscar nominated actor Barry Keoghan Visits Gravesend, New Road, Gravesend, Kent, UK - 21 Jun 2023<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Fraser Gray/Shutterstock (13978364k) Oscar nominated actor Barry Keoghan is pictured covered in tattoos and riding an E-Scooter while filming took place in New Road, Gravesend, Kent. The film company took advantage of the closure of New Road to film scenes for the film "Bird" although this could be a working title. Oscar nominated actor Barry Keoghan Visits Gravesend, New Road, Gravesend, Kent, UK - 21 Jun 2023

      Bird review
      Andrea Arnold’s untamed Barry Keoghan tale is a curate’s egg

    • Jay Rayner Happy Eater illustration

      Happy eater
      Have you tried eating in a city centre hotel room recently? My advice – don’t

      Jay Rayner
    • A second act, a decade on … Lou Ye’s An Unfinished Film.

      An Unfinished Film review
      Moving and mysterious movie about China’s Covid crisis

    • Fred Astaire in Three Little Words (1950)

      The greatest dancer of all time?
      Fred Astaire’s 20 best films – ranked!

Opinion

  • Man taking daily supplements from plastic pill organiser

    Imagine getting life-saving drugs to sick people without relying on big pharma? We may have found a way

    Catriona Crombie
    An NHS trust’s attempts to bring a crucial drug to market itself is hopeful news for patients
  • A mother helping her daughter with her homework

    I’d hate to be learning English again. Apostrophes are a nightmare

    Adrian Chiles
  • Man wearing blue suit and yellow tie stands between barriers with one person behind him and a crowd of people behind them

    The Trump hush-money trial reveals a seedy world shot through with moral rot

    Robert Reich
    The former president’s orbit is a sell-or-tell, catch-and-kill society where money and power are the only true values
  • Man wearing white T-shirt sits on bed holding phone

    What’s up with ChatGPT’s new sexy persona?

    Arwa Mahdawi
    OpenAI’s updated chatbot GPT-4o is weirdly flirtatious, coquettish and sounds like Scarlett Johansson in Her. Why?
    • Dog owners legs' and a dog sitting beside them and looking off into the distance

      When you stand side by side at the dog park, you can reveal your true selves – but not your names

      Melanie Tait
    • Salvador Illa of Catalonia’s Socialist party speaking after Catalan elections in Barcelona, Spain, 12 May 2024

      Catalans once longed for freedom from Spain. Now that doesn’t look so appealing

      María Ramírez
    • Illustration: Ellie Foreman-Peck

      Our democracy desperately needs a reset – and, behind the scenes, that’s the plan

      Martin Kettle
    • Amazon workers protesting outside Amazon HQ in London in November

      Claims that British unions harm economic growth have one tiny flaw. They’re 100% wrong

      Larry Elliott

Editorials & Letters

  • Prime minister Rishi Sunak holds a press conference about his 'stop the boats' policy in Downing Street, London on 15 November 2023.

    The Guardian view
    Asylum and Northern Ireland: Rishi Sunak has sabotaged his own legacy

  • A handout photograph, shot in January 2024, shows women and babies at the Zamzam displacement camp, close to El Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan.

    The Guardian view
    Protecting Sudan’s civilians: there is no more time to be lost

  • A row of cars charging at Wetherby Services, North Yorkshire.

    Letters
    Don’t despair about the climate. Be part of the social tipping point

  • A doctor holding the hand of a female patient lying in a hospital bed

    Letters
    When doctors withhold futile treatments, that isn’t ‘assisted dying’

Sport

  • Rory McIlroy follows his shot on the 16th hole.

    Live
    US PGA Championship 2024 – first round updates

    It’s time for the second major of the season. Join our writers for full coverage of the opening day
  • George Foreman and Muhammad Ali in ‘The Rumble in the Jungle’ in 1974.

    Boxing
    Fury v Usyk clash a reminder of the epic days of heavyweights

Climate crisis

  • A worker is seen during clearing work in front of the destroyed building of the country guest house 'Jaegerstuebchen' in Laach, part of the municipality of Mayschoss, district of Ahrweiler, western Germany, on July 23, 2021.

    Environment
    I’ve seen how deadly floods are devastating Europe – we are not prepared for what’s next

  • An oil processing facility outside the Siberian town of Nefteyugansk

    Russia
    Activists sue over ‘weak’ climate policy

  • Netherlands' party leaders of the new coalition government (from left): Caroline van der Plas (Farmer-Citizen), Pieter Omtzigt (New Social Contract), Dilan Yesilgoz (Freedom and Democracy) and Geert Wilders (Party for Freedom).

    Netherlands
    New Dutch coalition aims to reintroduce 80mph limit in cull of climate goals

  • Rishi Sunak pointing right hand forward during prime ministers questions

    Green politics
    Net zero U-turns will hit UK infrastructure, say government advisers

From the UK

  • Silhouette of person pushing another person in a wheelchair against a blue sky with clouds

    Carer's allowance crisis
    MPs call for issues leaving carers with huge debts to be fixed ‘without delay’

    Committee chair says UK government has known for years about flaws in benefit system and needs to ‘get a grip’
  • A lake steamer close to shore on a large lake flanked by beautiful rolling hills

    Water industry
    United Utilities raises investor payouts a day after Windermere sewage discharge revealed

  • A Royal Mail logo on a black gate with bars and a red van in the background

    Royal Mail
    Reform will not take place before general election, says Ofcom

  • People hold placards and banners with slogans including 'Cut the rent' and 'Stop landlord profiteering'

    Housing
    Bailiff evictions of renting households at six-year high, says MoJ

    • Education
      Universities in England risk closure with 40% facing budget deficits, says report

    • Exclusive
      Blood scandal report must deliver more than just justice, says Andy Burnham

    • Education
      Pupils in England can learn about gender surgery but not ‘ideology’, says Keegan

    • London
      Boy, six, dies after falling from tower block

    • BT
      Firm reveals £3bn cuts as it passes peak full-fibre broadband spend

    • EasyJet
      CEO Johan Lundgren to step down at beginning of 2025

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  • Matthew Perry as Chandler Bing in Friends

    Technology
    Researchers build AI-driven sarcasm detector

  • Sisters of Notre-Dame-des-Neiges standing in a group and holding up their Air Des Neiges products

    Sister Pledge
    French nuns sell cleaning products to pay abbey bills

    • Donald Trump
      Alleged ‘deal’ offer from ex-president to big oil could save industry $110bn, study finds

    • ‘Nothing short of horrific’
      Amnesty criticises arrest of man in Qatar ‘trapped’ by police on Grindr

    • Live
      US politics: Biden asserts executive privilege to block Republicans from accessing his interview with special counsel

    • Meta
      EU investigates Facebook owner over child safety and mental health concerns

    • New Caledonia
      Hundreds of French police deployed as thousands join deadly rioting

    • Live
      Dow Jones Industrial Average hits 40,000 points for first time; UK reality TV stars charged over FX scheme

Culture

  • Slow, Dir: Marija Kavtaradze Press publicity film still supplied by PR

    Slow
    The Lithuanian asexual romcom that raises ‘a lot of questions’

    Marija Kavtaradze’s new film is a love story with a truly radical approach to intimacy. She reveals how she made a will they/won’t they tale that strays into little-known territory
  • 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

  • woman in a blue shirt in a house

    The Strangers: Chapter 1 review
    Unnecessary horror retread

  • Silvery sound … Barbara Hannigan.

    'Beguiling, soft-edged intimacy'
    Messiaen: Poèmes pour Mi; Chants de Terre et de Ciel album review

  • Film still: On Becoming A Guinea Fowl. Directed by Rungano Nyoni

    On Becoming a Guinea Fowl review
    Rungano Nyoni’s strange, intense tale of sexual abuse

  • Kunstsilo in Kristiansand, Norway.

    ‘An incredible phallic landmark!’
    The grain silo gallery, a gift from the trillion dollar man

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    Why boat shoes are being worn nowhere near the sea

    In this week’s newsletter: Those ‘posh dad’ shoes associated with Cape Cod and the Kings Road are cropping up everywhere. We dive deeper into what’s behind their new wave
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    Leading questions
    I’m getting married but my father isn’t invited. How can I ensure he doesn’t crash the wedding?

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    How we met
    I cried because the bar didn’t have any pizza and he comforted me

  • Clive and Jayne

    Dining across the divide
    ‘Soon there won’t be any leftwingers in Labour, just Keir Starmer clones’

  • Nemo performs during Eurovision

    Thursday quiz
    Military graffiti, surprising songs and finding Nemo

  • A woman holds a large cup of bubble tea with a plastic lid.

    ‘It’s going gangbusters!’
    How Britain fell in love with bubble tea

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  • 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?

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  • Graphic collage illustration featuring India’s minister of home affairs, Amit Shah, and the prime minister, Narendra Modi.

    ‘He likes scaring people’
    How Amit Shah, Modi’s right-hand man, runs India

    The long read: For 40 years, Amit Shah has been at Narendra Modi’s side – his confidant, consigliere and enforcer. Today he is India’s second-most powerful man, and he is reshaping the country in radical ways
  • Smoke rises above the Motor Pool district of Noumea on Wednesday.

    Like a ‘civil war’
    Nouméa residents describe terror as deadly riots sweep New Caledonia capital

  • Masked Haitian police officers carry rifles on patrol

    ‘The gangs are in charge’
    Haiti’s outgunned police fight a desperate rear defence

  • Nadiya Neschcheryakovy at her post at a railway crossing station in the Kyiv region

    Ukraine
    The families risking everything to keep the country's trains running – photo essay

  • Performers and traditional activities ongoing in the traditional tents Ausserd Refugee camp , Algeria, set up for the FiSahara film festival, held 29 April-5 May 2024. Approximately 170,00 live in the 5 Sahrawi refugee camps located in Algeria’s Hamada desert, each named after a major town in Western Sahara, The camps were begun in 1975 to offer shelter from the war of independence against Morocco . They continue to grow in people fleeing the war , reignited when Morocco broke the ceasefire in 2020 .

    The art of resistance
    Desert film festival showcases stories of the Sahrawi people

  • A lawn full of tents, with a handmade sign in the foreground that says Divest, and red spray paint on a wall beyond the tents that says All Zionists.

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    Washington is pushing policies to combat antisemitism. Critics say they could violate free speech

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