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  • Olaf Scholz

    ‘I will not dance’
    Olaf Scholz joins TikTok with a promise

  • The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Whitehall, London. The report suggests modernising the premises.

    UK
    Foreign Office is ‘elitist and rooted in the past’, says new report

    • ‘All the romance of film-making is gone’
      Woody Allen hints at retirement – again

    • ‘Hardest Geezer’
      Russ Cook enjoys a day off running after epic Africa journey

    • Immigration and asylum
      Albanians willing to be repatriated detained for weeks in UK, watchdog finds

    • Food prices
      Food inflation in world’s rich nations falls to pre-Ukraine war levels

    • Mozambique
      At least 94 dead in ferry disaster as packed vessel sinks, say officials

    • Boeing
      Investigation launched after engine cover falls off during takeoff

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Spotlight

  • Black cup of coffee on the black and brown table among spilled roasted coffee beans.

    'It has a bit of a bad boy reputation'
    How much coffee is OK for me to drink in a day? I asked the experts

    The morning brew has a ‘bad boy reputation’ but is it really harmful? A breakdown of the benefits and hazards
  • Lynne Reid Banks with Michael Morpurgo in 2017.

    ‘She was like an auntie to me’
    Lynne Reid Banks remembered by Michael Morpurgo

  • Close up of a man’s muddy hands holding earthworms in freshly dug soil from a compost heap.

    ‘A bigger soul than we ever supposed’
    UK earthworm population in decline

  • Eiko Ishibashi.

    ‘Anger compels me forward’
    Drive My Car composer Eiko Ishibashi on evil, experimentation and exploding genre

    Her score for Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s opus helped it to Oscar glory. Now the Japanese musician has reunited with its director for a collaboration unlike any other
    • Closeup of Patric Gagne

      ‘I didn’t want to hurt that girl. I just felt this pressure building'
      The sociopath who learned to behave – and found happiness

    • Rosie Holt photographed at the Guardian studio in north London, 23 February 2024. Photographed in her Conservative MP outfit

      ‘People think I’m a real MP’
      Satirist Rosie Holt on life as a fake viral politician

    • Oscar the labrador cross

      The pet I'll never forget
      Oscar the rescue dog, who stole our eggs and our hearts

    • Apple M3 MacBook Air review showing the Guardian website open in Safari.

      The laptop to beat
      Apple MacBook Air M3 review

Opinion

  • Illustration: Ellie Foreman-Peck

    The Tory party has lost the plot – and could be bad news for Labour

    John Harris
    This paranoid, belligerent rabble will never offer the effective opposition Britain needs. They could even come staggering back into power
  • ‘Larry David may hate the stop-and-chat, but I adore it.’

    Nothing beats a good chat – so long as you can walk away when things get awkward

    Nell Frizzell
  • A pro-choice protest in Whitehall, London, June 2023.

    No watering-down, no new red tape: it’s time to fully decriminalise abortion in England and Wales

    Stella Creasy
  • Children painting in a nursery

    We were excited to get ‘free’ childcare for our son. Then the government said he didn’t exist

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
  • A crowd of protesters, in the center of which is Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, chanting and holding signs.

    Republicans want to use an 1873 law to ban abortion. Congress must repeal it

    Moira Donegan
  • Jake Paul boxing against Tommy Fury in 2023.

    Angry about Jake Paul v Mike Tyson? That’s the whole point of ‘influencer boxing’

    Tom Usher

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  • Photo of six people sitting in a small open boat look ing over their shoulders at a three-masted wooden ship overlaid on an orange graphic of a woodcut from a slave ship

    ‘Hidden in plain sight’
    The European city tours of slavery and colonialism

  • A person in a hi-vis jacket walking away from the camera towards a large dirt mound or hill

    'Generations of forgetting'
    My fight to honour the Africans buried on St Helena

  • Annina Van Neel Hayes laying lilies outside the door of a brick building

    29:18

    'Perpetuating a lie'
    British overseas territory St Helena urged to return remains of 325 formerly enslaved people to Africa

  • A historical map overlayed on modern New York

    Sites of resistance
    Threatened African burial grounds around the world

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Climate crisis

  • Waves as high as street lights crash over a coastal road on which cars are travelling

    Weather tracker
    Storm Kathleen brings high winds and warm air to Europe

  • Climate activist Greta Thunberg flashes a V-sign along with another protester after being detained and driven off in a bus.

    Greta Thunberg
    Activist detained at The Hague climate demonstration

  • Young woman with long dark hair in ponytail, wearing glasses, crop top and holding large red umbrella, passes beneath digital sign that reads "40 degrees Celsius."

    Climate crisis
    Scientists confirm record highs for three most important heat-trapping gases

  • Emperor penguin chicks standing on ice

    ‘Simply mind-boggling’
    World record temperature jump in Antarctic raises fears of catastrophe

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  • Elon Musk

    Elon Musk
    Multibillionaire faces Brazil inquiry after defying X court order

    Multibillionaire called for resignation of judge who ordered platform to block far-right users
  • This undated photo provided by John Flickinger, Friday, April 5, 2024, shows Sandy Leclerc, left, and Jacob Flickinger with their son Jasper. Flickinger was one of seven World Central Kitchen aid workers unloading food from their vehicles when they were killed by Israeli airstrikes Monday, April 1, in Gaza. (John Flickinger via AP)

    World Central Kitchen
    Father of killed worker tells Blinken US should suspend aid to Israel

  • FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Trump attends a hearing on a criminal case linked to a hush money payment, in New York City<br>FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump walks outside the courtroom on the day of a court hearing on charges of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment to a porn star before the 2016 election, in New York State Supreme Court in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., February 15, 2024. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo

    US
    Donald Trump says each US state should determine different abortion laws

  • A Range Rover Sport sports utility vehicle at Tata Motors Ltd.'s Jaguar Land Rover vehicle manufacturing plant in Solihull.

    Live
    UK business: John Lewis Partnership appoints ex-Tesco exec Jason Tarry as next chair

    • Italy
      Former Uffizi director under fire for joining race to be Florence mayor

    • Russia floods
      Waters rising in two cities and thousands evacuated after dam bursts

    • Hungary
      Political challenger says his ‘vision’ can defeat Orbán

    • Total solar eclipse
      Excitement builds ahead of sight in US, Mexico and Canada

    • Defence
      Ex-ministers ‘wrong’ to say UK unprepared for war, says deputy PM

    • World Bank
      Funding of ‘hog hotel’ factory farms under fire over climate effect

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Culture

  • Woody Allen at a red carpet event for his film Coup De Chance at the 2023 Venice international film festival

    ‘All the romance of film-making is gone’
    Woody Allen hints at retirement – again

    The 88-year-old director says he is ‘on the fence’ about making another film due to the work needed to get distribution and financial backing
  • A crowd of desperate people take food from trucks in an early morning convoy heading for Nasser hospital in Khan Younis

    A WHO photographer in Gaza
    ‘There’s just an overwhelming need for peace’

  • A person standing in the snow watching two cars drive in a scene from the film Tolyatti Adrift

    Tolyatti Adrift review
    Young Lada restorers aim to escape Russia’s post-industrial angst

  • Mary Herbert, nee Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, 1561-1621. English patroness of the arts and translator.. Image shot 1806. Exact date unknown.<br>AGGYHY Mary Herbert, nee Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, 1561-1621. English patroness of the arts and translator.. Image shot 1806. Exact date unknown.

    Shakespeare’s Sisters by Ramie Targoff review
    Four women who wrote the Renaissance

  • The Booker Prize 2022 Shortlist Photocall<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 14: Percival Everett, American author of The Trees, attends the Booker Prize 2022 shortlist photocall at Shaw Theatre on October 14, 2022 in London, England. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

    James by Percival Everett review
    A gripping reimagining of Huckleberry Finn

  • Vivica A Fox and Tim Realbuto in boxing stances in a scene from the film Bobcat Moretti

    Bobcat Moretti review
    Heartfelt boxing underdog tale is short on fresh moves

Lifestyle

  • Ken Lunn.

    A new start after 60
    Meditation cured my insomnia. Now I help others cope

    Ken Lunn was having a ‘hellish’ time juggling work and childcare after his wife died. Then he found a way to catch his breath
  • Slow roast citrus chicken with cucumber and peanut salad. By Kitty Coles.

    Thai food and drink
    Kitty Coles’ recipe for slow-roast Thai citrus chicken with cucumber and peanut salad

  • Rachel Roddy's baci di gama biscuits.

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for baci di dama, or Italian hazelnut chocolate sandwich biscuits

  • HairLoss WEB

    The beauty Q&A
    I’m 40 and suffering from hair loss. How do I find the cause?

  • Bus on country road with foxgloves

    A car-free trip to the Forest of Dean
    A moss-cloaked corner of ancient England

  • Illustration: Jamie Wignall

    Fitness to finances
    Tips to help manage the menopause

Take part

  • 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

    Young Europeans
    Do you live with your parents?

  • A Hungarian flag is flying over the city of Esztergom, Hungary.

    People in Hungary
    Share your political hopes for the future

  • Young woman using DSLR camera<br>A young woman using a DSLR camera

    Guardian Weekly readers
    Share your best recent pictures with us

  • A chaffinch in the sunlight.

    Environment
    Tell us how the sound of nature is changing in your local area

From our global editions

  • A passerby looks at purple sheets spread out on the pavement covered with a variety of wares, behind which is a red screen strung between two trees covered in hangings with feminist slogans in Spanish and a Palestinian flag

    Stickers, soap and legal help
    The rise of Mexico City’s ‘feminist markets’

    In a country beset by sky-high rates of femicide, a mutual support movement has helped women seize back public spaces – and make a living
  • Hen harrier (Circus cyaneus) adult female landing on rock in moorland habitat, Glen Tanar Estate, Grampian, Scotland, UK, June<br>EG61C4 Hen harrier (Circus cyaneus) adult female landing on rock in moorland habitat, Glen Tanar Estate, Grampian, Scotland, UK, June

    ‘The Bermuda triangle for birds’
    Hen harriers face threat of UK grouse season

  • Tristan Aitchison behind the counter in Xoko

    ‘The purpose is getting lost’
    Debate obscuring point of Scottish hate law, say campaigners

  • Seen from the neck down, a woman wearing a red, white and blue sweatshirt holds a sheaf of long white ballots length-wise against a table with both hands.

    'We're seeing a lot of variation'
    Polls can’t predict the next US president this early – but they can teach us

  • Palestinians searching for survivors after Israeli airstries in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, last month.

    ‘My only wish is that he is OK’
    Relatives’ anguish over tens of thousands missing in Gaza

  • A busy commuter train comes to a halt inches away from an elephant on the track in West Bengal

    'The trains are invading their homes'
    Why are so many of India’s elephants being hit on the railways?

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    The French aristocrat who understood evolution 100 years before Darwin – and even worried about climate change

  • Children queuing for food aid in Rafah:

    ‘All we think about is how to stay alive’
    The horror of daily life for those trapped in Gaza

  • Sam Taylor Johnson shot in London Feb 2024 by Linda Brownlee for Guardian Saturday magazine. Photographer: Linda Brownlee, Styling: Melanie Wilkinson; Hair: Mike Mahoney; Make up: Emma White Turle at the Wall Group; Styling Asst: Rosaline O'Donoghue. Navy pinstripe suit, bellafreud.com Boots, jimmychoo.com Gold long chain, ateliervm.com Gold pendant, alighieri.com Other jewellery Sam’s own

    'Filming sucked me to a place I didn’t know how to get out of'
    Sam Taylor-Johnson on art, age gaps and Amy Winehouse

  • Zoe Williams and dog on a red sofa

    Texts, gloating and slip-ups
    My nearly silent morning of speech fasting like Lulu

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  • Illustration of sickle cells in blood flow. Photograph: Artur Plawgo/Science Photo Library

    The Audio Long Read
    ‘What’s the worst that could happen?’: Love in the sickle cell capital of the world – podcast

  • Sosa Henkoma (Photo by Linda Nylind/The Guardian)

    Today in Focus
    The devil walking on Earth – part 1

  • Nick Cave. Photograph: David Crotty/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

    Weekend
    Weekend podcast: Nick Cave on how grief shapes his art, Marina Hyde on the Thames Water crisis, and bread’s role in British society

  • Donald Trump raises a fist as he stands on stage. Photograph: Win McNamee/Getty Images

    Politics Weekly America
    Should Biden be worried about losing Black voters to Trump? – podcast

  • A ribbon sawtail fish in the Atlantic Ocean at a depth of around 1,000 metres. Photograph: Nature Picture Library/Alamy

    The Audio Long Read
    Radioactive waste, baby bottles and Spam: the deep ocean has become a dumping ground – podcast

  • The burnt-out remains of a World Central Kitchen vehicle that was hit by an Israeli missile

    Today in Focus
    Should the UK stop arming Israel?

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    Football Weekly
    Fantastic Foden and an easy night for Arsenal – Football Weekly Extra

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    Photos of the day
    Cannonball jellyfish and a Hairy Biker tribute

    The Guardian’s picture editors select some of the most powerful photos from around the world
  • Phil Loach's photograph, The Grand National, Brierley Hill High Street, 1976, showing the backs of a crowd of people clustered around the Granada TV shop to watch the race.

    The big picture
    Cheering Red Rum in the Grand National

  • A detail from one of Jim Fenwick’s images of the Palermo wildfires of 2023

    Red-sky warning
    Jim Fenwick’s photographs of wildfires in Sicily

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  • Waves crashing against the harbourside in Whitehead, County Antrim

    UK weather
    Storm Kathleen sweeps across west of UK and Ireland

  • A man standing right on the edge of a steep cliff, with snowy mountains in the background, in Norway

    ‘You can imagine it’s you, standing there on the edge’
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