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  • Stars photographed by the James Webb space telescope, with an inset picture of a magnified galaxy

    Space
    James Webb telescope photographs most distant known galaxy

  • Medical MRI Scan on digital screen lung cancer

    Lung cancer
    Trial results for new drug are ‘off the charts’, say doctors

    • Pope Francis
      Pontiff allegedly tells group of young priests ‘gossip is a women’s thing’

    • Yemen
      Houthis say at least 16 killed in UK and US strikes

    • Germany
      Tennis player Alexander Zverev pushed and strangled partner, court told

    • Budget airlines
      Spain fines firms €150m over ‘abusive’ cabin bag and seat charges

    • Mushrooms
      Fungi-growing boom could cause biodiversity crisis, warn UK experts

    • Madonna
      Artist sued for ‘pornography without warning’ at LA concert performance

News in focus

  • A group of activists link arms while standing on a road, as settlers stand behind them

    ‘Solidarity over hatred’
    The small band of Israelis stopping settlers obstructing aid trucks

  • Conceptual illustration of a needle going into a tumour

    Explainer
    What are cancer vaccines and have scientists finally found a cure?

    The NHS in England is recruiting for the first large-scale trial of its kind, with hopes high that the personalised jabs could be a gamechanger
  • Alice Kuhnke speaks at a podium behind two microphones, with flags in the background

    ‘People ask me to use another door’
    MEPs on bias, whiteness and rise of far right

    From being repeatedly asked for ID to feeling threatened by harmful rhetoric, politicians say lack of diversity is undermining work of EU
  • An illustration showing different people of different ages, a ‘welcome to Ladywood’ sign, a campaign flyer and old building on a red and white background

    ‘Labour will struggle’
    Birmingham voters in a bind – and not just over Gaza

  • Iain Dale leaning against a wooden fence

    Iain Dale
    Radio presenter quits bid to run for Tories over past comments about Tunbridge Wells

  • The three politicians smiling in front of a crowd of people holding Lib Dem posters

    Lib Dems
    Party would extend free school meals to nearly 1m more children, says Ed Davey

  • Theresa May outside No 10

    'The polls suggest a Labour government'
    If the pollsters have it right, the Conservatives need a miracle

Spotlight

  • Candice Carty-Williams and Dionne Brown.

    ‘I wanted Queenie in everyone’s house’
    Candice Carty-Williams’s era-defining novel explodes on to TV

    The author talks breakups, Bridget Jones and why Ian McEwan gets an easier ride than she does
  • Roe London E14: The menu screams “crowdpleasers cooked as you’ve never seen them before”.

    Grace Dent on restaurants
    Roe, London E14: ‘Kind of mad, but also sheer bloody genius’

  • Wigan fans.

    ‘Your defence is terrified!’
    How Freed from Desire became a football, darts and protest anthem

    Gala’s 1996 song has gone from forgotten rave classic to football terrace anthem – and was even used to protest against Rishi Sunak. The song’s creator and fans explain an unlikely revival
  • ‘At his very best, Boscoe gets close to Degas’ … Boscoe Holder’s Fret Work, 1988.

    ‘To represent blackness as beautiful was radical’
    The astonishing art – and lives – of the Holder brothers

    From ballet-dancing in New York to playing a Bond villain, Trinidad-born brothers Boscoe and Geoffrey Holder led extraordinary lives. But it’s as trailblazing painters of black portraits and nudes that they will be remembered
    • A screenshot of Fable's Showrunner homepage showing various prompts and posters for user AI-generated content

      Alarming next step or a fleeting novelty?
      A new AI service allows viewers to create TV shows. Are we doomed?

    • A wedding cake is dropped on the floor as two hands covered in frosting try to clean it up.

      Missing rings and an uninvited dog
      Four readers share their wedding disasters

    • An illustration of a woman with her back facing us, arms folded.

      Ask Annalisa Barbieri
      Why am I so afraid to accept that it’s time for me to retire?

    • Jacket pocket with three foldback binder clips

      ‘This small, cheap item transformed my life’
      26 surprisingly useful gadgets you didn’t know you needed

  • Labour's parliamentary candidate Faiza Shaheen attends a rally in Chingford, London, Britain September 28, 2019. REUTERS/Simon Dawson

    Power-drunk and arrogant: if this is how Starmer’s Labour treats its MPs, what will his party be like in power?

    Owen Jones
    Labour’s purge of Faiza Shaheen and Diane Abbott increases my fear about how it will behave in office
  • Donald Trump holds up a fist after returning to Trump Tower following his conviction on 30 May 2024.

    So Trump moves closer to jail and nearer to the White House. This is our world in 2024

    Marina Hyde
  • INDIA-VOTE<br>An Indian voter shows her inked-marked finger after casting her vote in the Ghoramara island around 110 km south of Kolkata on May 19, 2019, during the 7th and final phase of India's general election. - Voting in one of India's most acrimonious elections in decades entered its final day on May 19 as Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi scrambled to hang on to his overall majority. (Photo by DIBYANGSHU SARKAR / AFP)DIBYANGSHU SARKAR/AFP/Getty Images

    Tomorrow I will cast my vote in India’s elections. Democracy itself is at stake

    Amit Chaudhuri
    There have been highs and lows during the country’s long voting period. Now pessimism is setting in
  • A protest over cuts to legal aid outside the Old Bailey in London

    The world is getting its first Sikh court in London. That’s a threat to women’s rights

    Pragna Patel
    With the UK judicial system cut to breaking point, conservative religious forces are moving into a space vacated by the state
    • Giorgia Meloni and Marine Le Pen on TV in 2015.

      The AfD’s obsession with the Third Reich is driving a realignment of Europe’s far right

      Mariam Lau
    • Keir Starmer, Diane Abbott and John McDonnell wait for Jeremy Corbyn to take to the stage on September 24, 2019 in Brighton, England. After the Supreme Court ruled the prorogation of Parliament was unlawful, the House of Commons Speaker John Bercow announced that Parliament would re-convene at 11.30am Wednesday morning. Jeremy Corbyn's keynote speech to Labour Conference was brought forward to Tuesday afternoon in place of Deputy Leader Tom Watson's speech which was cancelled. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

      Memo to Labour amid the Diane Abbott debacle: stop the pointless rows, stop making enemies

      Polly Toynbee
    • man wearing blue suit and blue tie waves as other people stand behind him

      At long last, ‘Teflon Don’ Trump couldn’t unstick himself from the legal system

      Margaret Sullivan
    • Illustration by Thomas Pullin

      It’s the Tories who broke Britain, but now they want teenagers to pay for it

      Gaby Hinsliff

Editorials & Letters

  • A boy with cuts on his face and a distressed look on his face stands in front of a burned car and debris from the explosion at the camp

    Letters
    An arresting picture of a child in Rafah that should end the supply of arms to Israel

  • Diane Abbott joins pro-Palestine protestors in Trafalgar Square, London.

    Letters
    Labour’s treatment of Diane Abbott shows the party at its most cruel

  • Stack of Evening Standard papers

    The Guardian view
    The London press: the capital needs its own news

  • Narendra Modi participating in a roadshow during an election campaign ahead of India's election

    The Guardian view
    India’s election: Narendra Modi’s audacity of hate

  • Luke Littler poses on Wednesday at Madison Square Garden ahead of the US Darts Masters.

    Wide-eyed in New York
    Littler lives American Dream as World Series heads to the US

  • USA swing bowler Ali Khan and wicketkeeper-batter Monank Patel at Grand Prairie Cricket Stadium

    T20 World Cup
    Tournament is about to start – has anyone in Dallas noticed?

    • A screengrab taken from CCTV footage at the Emirates shows Micah Richards grappling with Scott Law (right).

      Football
      Richards ‘grappled’ with man accused of Keane assault, court told

    • Gareth Southgate overseeing England training at Rockliffe Park

      Will it take England winning Euro 2024 for Southgate to stay on?

      David Hytner
    • Ben Curry in action for Sale Sharks against Leicester.

      ‘It’s perfect’
      Sale’s Ben Curry feeds on underdog status before spicy playoff

    • Megha Ganne, Champions League trophy, Iga Swiatek.

      Quiz of the week
      Test your knowledge on the big stories around the sporting world

  • Richard Tice

    Factcheck
    No, Richard Tice, volcanoes are not to blame for climate change

  • Aerial view showing deforested areas near the Pira Parana River, Vaupes province, Colombia

    Carbon offsetting
    Market value of projects drops 61%, report finds

  • General view of Birmingham city centre skyline.

    West Midlands
    Cleaner air could prevent 2,000 deaths a year, study finds

  • Cruise ship with smoke pouring from its funnel

    ‘Termination shock’
    Cut in ship pollution sparked global heating spurt

  • Coloured houses in Bristol

    Housing market
    UK prices return to growth as market ‘shows signs of resilience’

    Rate more than doubles to 1.3% in May and average property price rises to £264,249, Nationwide says
  • A postal worker pushes a crate towards some Royal Mail vans

    Royal Mail
    Postal workers union wants staff to have stake in business

  • The Facebook logo reflected on a phone screen

    ‘Show this to everyone’
    UK political ads move away from microtargeting

  • Packs of the fruit with Tesco XL laser-etched on to them

    Unholy guacamole
    Tesco is tattooing its avocados to cut waste

    • Thames Water
      Firm tells hundreds of Surrey households not to drink tap water

    • Cancer research
      NHS patients in England to be offered trials for world-first vaccine

    • Penguins
      Endangered chicks hatched at Chester zoo named after plants

    • London
      Two held after man assaulted in robbery of jewellers dies

    • Winston Churchill
      Unsent letter that could have changed the course of history

    • Nationwide
      CMA to investigate £2.9bn takeover of Virgin Money

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    New York
    Hospital fires nurse after calling Gaza war a ‘genocide’ in speech

    Hesen Jabr says New York University’s Langone hospital fired her after she made remarks while accepting award for her work
  • Hospital building and people with flowers and flag

    Slovakia
    PM Robert Fico discharged from hospital after shooting

  • A crowd of activists stand behind two large banners that say 'democracy on the streets' and 'together for climate justice'. Some people hold large yellow stars with slogans including 'defend democracy', 'climate justice' and 'protect human rights'. Signs advertising the European elections are visible on buildings in the background

    EU elections 2024
    Activists hold three-day protest in run-up as green agenda slips

  • Adela Rubiano Hurtado and her granddaughter, Adriana, in their living room.

    Colombia
    How Bogotá is changing the lives of unpaid carers

    • US campus protests
      Police break up pro-Palestinian demonstration in California and Detroit

    • ICC
      Dutch MPs call for inquiry into reports Israel spied on lawyers

    • Papua New Guinea
      PM makes first visit to site of deadly landslide

    • ‘So are you single?’
      TikToker interviews Baz Luhrmann without knowing who he is

    • European Union
      MEPs’ lack of racial diversity has caused identity crisis, campaigners say

    • South Africa
      ANC looks set to lose majority in watershed moment

  • Rhianna-Dorris-Melissa-Milcote-Louisa-Binder-Young-Alexander-in-Coram-Boy-at-Chichester-Festival-Theatre-Photo-Manuel-Harlan-128

    Coram Boy review
    A show that buries the plot along with the foundling babies

    The performances are strong and the music is beautiful, but they cannot rescue this convoluted adaptation of Jamila Gavin’s award-winning children’s novel
  • Worry, A Lover's Discourse and Yellowface book covers comp

    What we’re reading
    Writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in May

  • The LSO conducted by Thomas Adès, with Anne-Sophie Mutter on violin.

    LSO/Adès review
    Adès’s violin concerto beguiles in Mutter’s silvery sound

  • David Baddiel sitting on bench among trees.

    Hay festival
    David Baddiel: trauma passed on from Holocaust is why I do comedy

  • A thing of extremes … Andrea Chénier at the Royal Opera House.

    Andrea Chénier review
    Pappano ends on a high with this sensational, thrilling revival

  • Lots more to explore … Anya Taylor-Joy in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.

    Why should Furiosa’s disappointing box office stop a new Mad Max movie?

    Ben Child
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    Mexico
    She is poised to become country's first female president. Can she escape Amlo’s shadow?

    Claudia Sheinbaum has capitalized on the president’s popularity throughout her campaign, but will the climate scientist be able to pursue her own agenda once elected?
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    How aid packages feed diabetes and heart disease in the Pacific islands

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    Trump’s conviction on all 34 counts is a full-blown victory for DA

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    He found the American Dream on China’s TikTok. The reality was more complicated

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    ‘Teahupo’o is for the women after all’
    Flawless surfing vindicates push for gender equality

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    Delhi’s residents struggle to cope in record-breaking heat

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