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    David Copperfield
    Former teen models accuse magician of misconduct

  • four raccoons

    Japan
    Tokyo battles surge of destructive raccoons that went from pet to pest

    • France
      Police shoot dead suspect in synagogue incident in Rouen

    • Live
      Putin visits China’s ‘Little Moscow’ as allies seek to cement economic ties

    • Donald Trump
      Michael Cohen admits to prior lies under cross-examination at hush-money trial

    • Slovakia
      Shooting could trigger media crackdown, editors fear

    • ‘Saltburn effect’
      Insurer warns stately home owners about risks of fame

    • China
      Social media companies remove posts ‘showing off wealth and worshipping money’

News in focus

  • Oliver Dowden shakes hands with Saudi officials outside a building where a large freestanding lettering saying Great Futures can be seen

    ‘Art-washing’?
    Unease as British cultural institutions lend lustre to Saudi trade push

  • Migrants sit onboard a fishing boat at the port of Paleochora, following a rescue operation off the island of Crete, Greece

    ‘The real smugglers are rarely on the boat’
    Activists in Greece question jailing asylum seekers

    Hundreds of people – including children – face lengthy prison sentences under harsh Greek anti-smuggling law
  • Slovak town of Levice where the 71-year-old former security guard and amateur poet Juraj Cintula had lived for decades: images for picture desk of neighbour and his apartment bloc --

    ‘He was not radical’
    Slovakia tries to make sense of Fico shooting

    Friends in town of Levice say 71-year-old showed no signs of planning attack, while Slovakian president says climate of hate is collective work

Spotlight

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

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

    Benediktas Gylys admits he was surprised by the rowdy behavior that came from the exhibit connecting people in the two cities
  • Judge illo 18th May - WEB

    You be the judge
    Should my mum let me drive her new car after I dented her old one?

    Abbie says the minor collision was a one-off, but her mum Jane says she should now save up to buy her own car. You decide whose argument should be bumped
    • ‘Radical chic’ … André Holland as Huey P Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther party, in The Big Cigar.

      The Big Cigar review
      Proof that Hollywood can’t be trusted to tell the stories of Black radicals

    • The balcony of this Wapping riverside flat has far-reaching views across the water to Canary Wharf.

      Fantasy house hunt
      Flats for sale with outside space in Great Britain

    • Small houses, cutout figures and tree in scene from Haufinyana

      ‘Realities of apartheid’
      South African artist wins Deutsche Börse photography prize

    • Billy Idol

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

Opinion

  • Illustration: Thomas Pullin

    Sex education is now just another political football. For the children’s sake, the adults must grow up

    Gaby Hinsliff
    Teenagers need and want good information about sex. The government’s review, and this ideological tug-of-war, is failing them
  • 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
  • A man waves the Slovak national flag outside the FD Roosevelt university hospital in Banská Bystrica, where Robert Fico is being treated after being shot on Wednesday.

    The Guardian view
    The shooting of Slovakian PM Robert Fico: an attack on democracy

  • Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico visits Budapest<br>epa11082795 Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico (L) and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban shake hands during a press conference following their meeting in the government headquarters in Budapest, Hungary, 16 January 2024. EPA/Szilard Koszticsak HUNGARY OUT

    Whether Robert Fico survives and resumes office or not, Slovakia stands on the brink

    John Kampfner
  • A mass meeting called by the Communist Party in Union Square, New York.

    I spent years studying American communism. Here’s what I learned

    Maurice Isserman
  • 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

Sport

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Climate crisis

  • A Chevron gas station sign

    Chevron
    US energy giant to sell off its remaining North Sea oil and gas fields

  • DeSantis in front of US flag.

    Florida
    Ron DeSantis signs bill scrubbing ‘climate change’ from state laws

  • Older white man, dark blue suit, red tie, looking off from a stage lit in red.

    Big oil uncovered
    Alleged ‘deal’ offer from Trump to big oil could save industry $110bn, study finds

  • 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

Around the world

  • A line of women wearing red robes.

    Nigeria
    Activists condemn mass ‘forced marriages’ of 100 girls and young women

    Petition launched to halt mass ceremony that organisers say is for 100 orphans whose parents were killed by gangs
  • Manuel Guerrero Aviña

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

  • Christian Brückner in court

    Germany
    Woman accusing Christian Brückner of rape says his eyes ‘bored into my skull’

  • A Tesla vehicle facility in Costa Mesa, California.

    Live
    Tesla must climb ‘Mount Everest’ to win shareholder vote

    • Texas
      Governor pardons man who killed Black Lives Matter protester in 2020

    • Egypt
      Scientists find buried branch of the Nile that may have carried pyramids’ stones

    • US
      Museum curator held in Turkey over spider and scorpion samples is freed

    • California
      Sea otters use tools to open hard-shelled prey, saving their teeth, research reveals

    • Russia
      Moscow expels British military attache in diplomatic tit for tat

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

Culture

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

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

  • Fred Astaire in Three Little Words (1950)

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

  • 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

  • Not meant to be ‘a demonstration of anything’ … still from The Belle from Gaza.

    ‘To escape Gaza is already an achievement. And then to be trans?'
    The women defying national and gender boundaries

  • Film Still: Pigen Med Nålen (The Girl With The Needle) Directed by Magnus Von Horn

    The Girl With the Needle review
    Horrific drama based on Denmark’s 1921 baby-killer case

Lifestyle

  • An illustration of a woman with her hands held to her head in shame

    Well actually
    Can shame make you a better person?

    Confucius and other ancient Chinese philosophers believed the feeling isn’t all bad – and can lead you toward your best self
  • man and a woman in business attire talking in a living room

    ‘You’re emptying my emotional bank account’
    Why is business jargon seeping into our relationships?

  • shoes

    All aboard!
    Why boat shoes are being worn nowhere near the sea

  • Jay Rayner Happy Eater illustration

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

    Jay Rayner
  • Clive and Jayne

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

  • Philippa and Jack

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

Take part

  • elegant wedding cake with vintage bride and groom figurine

    Life and style
    Share your wedding disaster stories

  • College students hold placards to create awareness for citizens to vote, in Varanasi, ahead of India's upcoming general elections.

    People in India
    Share your thoughts on the election

  • Mykhaylo Mudryk and Maksym Talovierov celebrate after the match between Ukraine and Iceland in Wrocław, Poland.

    Ukrainians abroad
    Share your reaction to your country qualifying for Euro 2024

  • Houria Ayadi / Ed Alcock / MYOP<br>The 129-apartment building where Houria Ayadi (63 yrs) has lived in Saint-Ouen, a northern suburb of Paris, since 1973, and that is due to be demolished in an effort to improve on security in the neighbourhood. She hopes to be re-lodged in one of the apartments currently under construction for the Olympic Village, where athletes will be housed during the Paris Olympics of 2024. Photo © Ed Alcock / MYOP 25/9/2023 L'immeuble de 129 appartements où Houria Ayadi (63 ans) vit depuis 1973 à Saint-Ouen, dans la banlieue nord de Paris, et qui doit être démoli pour améliorer la sécurité dans le quartier. Elle espère être relogée dans l'un des appartements actuellement en construction pour le village olympique, où seront logés les athlètes lors des Jeux olympiques de Paris en 2024. Photo © Ed Alcock / MYOP 25/9/2023

    Housing
    Young Europeans: do you live with your parents?

From our global editions

  • 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

    Andy Evans was injecting his own clotting protein at three, and was 13 when he found it had given him HIV. Now he campaigns for fellow survivors – and the truth about the contamination scandal
  • 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

  • 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.

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

  • 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

  • 0Leonela Moncayo, 14, sitting in a red plastic chair.

    ‘Just by breathing we are contaminated’
    Schoolgirls fight to extinguish Ecuador’s gas flares

  • A worker clears piles of spilled food parcels scattered across the ground in a lorry park.

    ‘Barbaric’
    Palestinian lorry drivers recount settlers’ attack on Gaza aid convoy

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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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Podcasts

  • 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

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    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

  • TOPSHOT-FBL-ENG-PR-TOTTENHAM-MAN CITY<br>TOPSHOT - Manchester City's Norwegian striker #09 Erling Haaland celebrates after scoring his team first goal during the English Premier League football match between Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, on May 14, 2024. (Photo by Ben Stansall / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No video emulation. Social media in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No use in betting publications, games or single club/league/player publications. / (Photo by BEN STANSALL/AFP via Getty Images)

    Football Weekly
    Manchester City have one hand on trophy and Villa into the Champions League: Football Weekly - podcast

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  • A quinceañera gets help getting ready for her party

    Photos of the day
    Art in a Zürich park and Putin in Beijing

    The Guardian’s picture editors select some of the most powerful photos from around the world
  • 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

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