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  • A mural on the side of a building in Bogside, Derry, commemorates the unarmed civilian protesters shot dead by British soldiers on Bloody Sunday (30 January 1972): their faces and a cross are depicted on a bright red circle, framed by white leaves and on a darker purple background which stretches across the whole wall.

    Northern Ireland
    Legacy act will harm Britain’s reputation, rights panel warns

    Report concludes state sheltered soldiers from prosecution for Troubles-era crimes, as amnesty legislation comes into force
  • a combine harvester works in a flooded field

    ‘Washout winter’
    Price rises for UK shoppers with key crops down by a fifth

News in focus

  • A sign warning visitors not to pee into the canal in the Red Light District of Amsterdam

    ‘Urination equality’
    Amsterdam women win fight for more public toilets

  • Ukrainian soldiers fire a self-propelled howitzer in the Kherson region of Ukraine

    Ukraine war briefing
    Russian pressure forces Ukrainian retreat from three villages

    ‘Difficult but not catastrophic’ situation as Russians press for gains before US resupply of Kyiv’s forces. What we know on day 796
  • graphic image showing a school sign, ballot cards and a pencil, an ambulance, a police car, a cyclist, a pothole and a wheelie bin

    From potholes to planning
    The issues at stake in England’s 2 May local elections

Spotlight

  • ‘I’m still traumatised by Brexit’ … Ben Bradshaw.

    ‘I still think Tony was right on Iraq’
    Labour’s Ben Bradshaw on Blair, Brexit and battling homophobia

    Elected in the 1997 landslide, Westminster’s answer to Hugh Grant was one of the first openly gay MPs – and a firebrand on TV. After 27 years, he reveals why he’s leaving politics behind
  • Gillian Slovo.

    ‘Brought up among giants’
    Gillian Slovo on her revolutionary parents – and her mother’s murder

  • On track … Fred, a gap-year student from the Caribbean, who plays Labrinth’s Beneath Your Beautiful.

    The Piano review
    Cockle-warming TV with a major problem at its core

    As people play their hearts out on station platforms, this is undoubtedly stirring stuff – but there’s always been something terribly odd plaguing it too
  • Nish Kumar.

    Nish Kumar
    ‘It would be very cool if I was named the next James Bond’

    The standup on being a vibe killer, studying Richard Pryor and why comedy isn’t for good-looking people
    • Stacks of 100-yuan banknotes. China has signalled that it will slow the pace of its transition to a cashless society

      Cash is king — for now
      China signals it will slow transition to cashless society

    • A drone’s eye view of the northern section of the redeveloped King’s Cross site, 2023.

      ‘Nervous of its own boldness’
      The (almost) radical rebirth of King’s Cross

    • An illustration of a heart made of jigsaw pieces, with a missing piece and a hand holding a smartphone

      ‘The science isn’t there’
      Do dating apps really help us find our soulmate?

    • View of Hope hostel, showing balconies, staircases and walkways

      Interviews, a history lesson and football
      What awaits people sent to Rwanda?

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  • Fratelli d'Italia Programmatic Conference in Pescara, Italy - 28 Apr 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Roberto Monaldo/LaPresse/REX/Shutterstock (14453512i) Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni during the Brothers of Italy party Programmatic conference in Pescara, Sunday, April 28, 2024 Fratelli d'Italia Programmatic Conference in Pescara, Italy - 28 Apr 2024

    There’s a hard-right tidal wave about to hit Europe – and it will only make the economic crisis worse

    Gordon Brown
    Near-zero growth has crushed living standards across the EU, sending voters towards populist demagogues. But they have no solutions to offer, says former UK PM Gordon Brown
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    Baby Reindeer strikes a painful chord for gay and bi men, and I know why: grooming and rape are common

    Jeffrey Ingold
  • Nicola Jennings on Rishi Sunak and Humza Yousaf’s troubles – cartoon

    Cartoon
    Nicola Jennings on the troubles of Rishi Sunak and Humza Yousaf

    The Tory and SNP leaders are in severely weakened condition as they head towards local elections
  • Father teaching his son skateboarding

    What have I learned from 20 years of parenting? Never to underestimate how wrong I can be

    Emma Beddington
    We often have as much in common with strangers as our relatives, according to studies – so why do we still love to say our children are like us, asks Emma Beddington
    • Stock image of a woman talking to a mental health professional

      Eating disorders are not a choice, they are a disease – I wish more people knew how treatable they are

      Xavier Mulenga
    • Total War Warhammer 3 screengrab.

      When even Warhammer nerds leave the battlefield, isn’t it time the anti-woke mob laid down their arms?

      Jasper Jackson
    • OPINION WEB Cruel Cliffs migration 28-29 April 2024

      Children left to drown in the Channel – is this where Britain’s drift to the right is taking us?

      John Harris
    • Birmingham city council building

      From welfare to warfare: Sunak’s spending shift imperils local services again

      Richard Partington

Editorials & Letters

  • Former prime minister Gordon Brown.

    The Guardian view
    Rethinking economics: a discipline in disarray holds too much sway in the UK

  • A farmer holds cocoa beans at a farm in Ivory Coast.

    The Guardian view
    The price of chocolate: cocoa producers face bitter truths

  • The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson

    Letters
    Shutting the door on free movement of young people is a mistake

  • A young girl reaches for a book between bookshelves in a library.

    Letters
    A page-turner: how to get your reading groove back

Climate crisis

  • Steam rising from cooling towers at Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland, with the rest of the site lit up brightly at night-time

    Fossil fuels
    Taxing big oil and gas firms ‘could raise $900bn in climate finance by 2030’

  • Sadiq Khan photographed outdoors with a blurred background of grass and trees; he is wearing a brown quilted anorak zipped up high under a dark blue jacket

    Sadiq Khan
    London's mayor says he's green – so what has he achieved?

  • A girl cools off during the heat wave at the Suhrawardy Udyan water reserve in Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Asia
    Wave of exceptionally hot weather scorches south and south-east of continent

  • the muddy rain-sodden legs and shoes of two young people

    Weather tracker
    Heavy rainfall causes flooding and death in east Africa

From the UK

  • Box of the insulin drug Humalog

    Diabetes
    Insulin shortages ‘causing stress and anxiety’ for UK patients

    Exclusive: ‘Distressing’ scarcity sowing uncertainty among 400,000 with type 1 diabetes, experts warn
  • Large crowds at a march. Banners include 'austerity is failing', 'austerity that's enough' and 'no cuts'.

    Austerity
    Real terms average pay lower in most UK local authorities than in 2008, TUC finds

  • Five people in business clothes sit around a table

    Charities
    UK organisations hiring staff with ‘privilege not potential’, report author warns

  • A gardener using bowl of washing up water to water garden plants.

    Environment
    Rain gardens and bathwater reuse becoming trends, RHS says

    • Greater Manchester
      More human remains found in torso investigation

    • Tim Loughton
      Tory MP says he was deported from Djibouti due to criticisms of China

    • ‘Nothing like a heatwave’
      Warmer spring-like weather forecast in UK after chilly April

    • Royal Mail
      Union appears to accept proposal to cut most Saturday deliveries

    • Football
      Man charged over tragedy chanting at Man Utd v Burnley match

    • Stephen Grimason
      Tributes paid to veteran Northern Ireland journalist

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  • Composite photo of Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu

    Israel-Gaza war
    Biden and Netanyahu speak as pressure grows over Rafah and Gaza ceasefire talks

    US president and Israeli PM talk as Israel vows to invade southern Gaza city despite global concern for 1 million Palestinians sheltering there
  • Two people in uniforms near destroyed buildings

    Ukraine
    Russia makes more gains around Avdiivka as Kyiv awaits US aid

  • An aerial view of destroyed and damaged buildings after a tornado hit Guangzhou, in Southern China’s Guangdong province.

    China
    Extreme weather in Guangzhou kills five and brings destruction to industrial heartland

  • Omar Sy

    Omar Sy
    It’s hard being black in France, says Lupin star after Aya Nakamura racism row

    • Ireland
      Dublin plans to send asylum seekers back to UK under emergency law

    • Spain
      Opposition step up Sánchez attacks as PM decides on his future

    • US
      Oklahoma tornadoes kill at least four people and leave dozens injured

    • Iraq
      Human rights groups and diplomats condemn anti-LGBTQ+ law

    • ‘It affects your mental state’
      Prison officers traumatised by rate of executions in US death penalty states

    • US
      Mitch McConnell refuses to say whether he supports a national abortion ban

Culture

  • Bad news for bears … Veena Akama-Makia with teddy in Larmes de Couteau.

    Larmes de Couteau/Full Moon in March review
    Two supremely weird operas

    Bohuslav Martinů’s 1928 work is a strip-lighted nightmare whirlwind, while Harbison’s is highly stylised post-tonal sitcom unfolding around a four-poster bed
  • The Garden Against Time In Search of a Common Paradise by Olivia Laing UK - Picador. Publication date: 2 May 2024

    The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing review
    An Eden project of her own

  • Clockwise from left: Tom Hanks, Rosie O’Donnell and Madonna in A League of Their Own (1992), Robert De Niro in Raging Bull (1980), Bend It Like Beckham (2002), Hoop Dreams (1994), Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (2006).

    Game, set and match
    The 20 best sports movies

  • Nicole Kidman stands in front a board reading 'life achievement award' on the red carpet. She wears a sparkly gold dress that trails behind her.

    Nicole Kidman
    Actor given life achievement award by American Film Institute

  • Ariana DeBose as Dr Kira Foster in ISS.

    ISS review
    Ariana DeBose shines in tense if contrived International Space Station thriller

  • Baby Reindeer characters Donny and Martha at the bar in a pub

    Baby Reindeer
    Why row over sleuths will change real-life drama for ever

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    Having a baby led to an unexpected disease and then surgery that altered Lauren Bensted’s body for ever. She talks about the pain she felt in being separated from her newborn, and her journey to learn to accept her new life
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  • A fig leaf preserving the modesty on a bronze statue at the Palace of Versailles

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  • Even Zendaya’s shoes were tennis themed in this photocall for the film Challengers.

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    As many as 28% of young adults in the UK do not drink. Here, three of them explain why their relationship with alcohol has changed
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    Australia
    How the rise of autism and ADHD fractured schools

  • A woman holds up a cut diamond to her eye

    Mining
    BHP’s pursuit of Anglo American has a major obstacle: South Africa

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    Abortion
    Junk science is cited in abortion ban cases. Researchers are fighting the ‘fatally flawed’ work

  • A commercial fisherman collects sockeye salmon

    Fish
    Alaska has a plan to save its salmon but some Native leaders are wary

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