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  • Image of a wildfire with a temperature gauge graphic superimposed on it

    'I could not feel greater despair'
    World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target

    Exclusive: Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results for humanity
  • Fake shops illustration

    Exclusive
    Chinese network behind one of world’s ‘largest online scams’

In focus

  • Nashville mayor Freddie O'Connell

    ‘Keep the door open’
    Nashville’s mayor on governing a blue island in a sea of red

  • Half the image shows a Chinese flag hanging from a building; the other half shows the Belgrade skyline and busy motorway

    ‘Countries are now forced to confront it’
    Rise in Chinese espionage arrests alarms Europe

    Increase in cases reflects changing mood across continent towards Chinese threats, say experts
  • A person holds a sign that reads 'GOP guns over people'

    Tennessee’s new, extreme laws
    From arming teachers to corporate tax breaks

    Republican lawmakers passed laws criminalizing helping minors get abortions and handed billions of dollars to corporations

Spotlight

  • Flannery O'Connor<br>American writer Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) with her book 'Wise Blood' 1952 (Photo by APIC/Getty Images)

    ‘Acid humour was a big part’
    The life and legacy of Flannery O’Connor

    A new biopic, starring Maya Hawke, sheds more light on the short but impressive life of the American writer
  • Nighttime view of tents, students and walkways covered with pro-Palestine chalk signs.

    From Iran to California
    This professor protests for human rights – but at what cost?

  • Jason Parham

    ‘That open tweet is the canvas’
    Behind the highs, lows and memes of Black Twitter

    A new docuseries, from Insecure showrunner Prentice Penny, explores how a section of Twitter became an inventive and impactful community
  • Model dressed in clothes salvaged from waste fashion poses at a vast dump in the desert

    Castoffs to catwalk
    Fashion show shines light on vast Chile clothes dump visible from space

    The Atacama desert has become a ‘global sacrifice zone’ of used fast fashion. Activists and designers organised an event to raise awareness of the devastation to the land and local people
    • An illustration of Marc Conway, who is serving an IPP sentence on licence

      Prison in Britain
      Marc Conway risked his life to stop the London Bridge terror attack. Why did he fear being sent to prison for it?

    • Stores with smells

      ‘It’s the brand speaking to you’
      The scent firms making smells for Subway, Abercrombie and more

    • 90s MTV with silver-screen glamour … Olivia Rodrigo at the Glasgow OVO Hydro.

      Olivia Rodrigo review
      Raging rock opera from a gen Z powerhouse

    • Hamado Dipama, who is from Burkina Faso, realised he had overlooked the line in the newspaper advert saying: ‘Germans only.’

      ‘Double punishment’
      The racial discrimination in Europe’s rental housing market

Opinion

  • ‘The job, of course, has a few downsides. As Mike Pence found out on 6 January 2021, being Trump’s VP could result in … violent rioters calling for you to be hanged.’

    Just how low will Republican politicians stoop to be Trump’s running mate?

    Margaret Sullivan
    The ‘veepstakes’ see prominent Republicans discarding any last shreds of integrity to impress Trump. It’s a grim omen
  • ‘The Kremlin on Monday issued an angry statement announcing that Russia would soon conduct a tactical nuclear weapons exercise near Ukraine.’

    The world must reject Russia’s nuclear posturing – but not ignore the danger

    Christopher S Chivvis
  • Ranjana Srivastava

    What is the most important word in medicine? It is not what we teach doctors

    Ranjana Srivastava
  • Rudy Giuliani in 2020.

    Could you get by on a measly $43,000 a month? It seems Rudy Giuliani can’t

    Arwa Mahdawi
    Trump’s disgraced former attorney somehow frittered away almost $120,000 in January. As a cash-strapped millennial, Arwa Mahdawi is delighted to share some money-saving tips
    • Lana Del Rey wearing an elaborate headdress at the Met Gala.

      Frock horror! In these dark times, let us be grateful for the ludicrous spectacle of the Met Gala

      Marina Hyde
    • Displaced Palestinians flee Rafah with their belongings to safer areas in the southern Gaza Strip.

      The Guardian view
      On hope and despair in Gaza: attacking Rafah will compound this disaster

    • As a woman living with ongoing domestic violence the federal government’s new policy to support women falls dangerously short.

      Ten years after ending an abusive relationship my ex-partner is still trying to destroy me financially

      Anonymous
    • Destruction in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip<br>epa11310580 A Palestinian man walks past destroyed buildings in Khan Younis after the Israeli military pulled out troops from the southern Gaza Strip, 30 April 2024. According to the United Nations, it will take years to clear the around 23 millions tonnes of rubble and unexploded weapons currently scattered across the Gaza Strip. EPA/MOHAMMED SABER

      Israel is banning Al Jazeera, America is banning TikTok. We know why

      Seth Stern

Sports

  • National Hockey League deputy commissioner Bill Daly announces the San Jose Sharks’ No 1 overall draft position during the NHL draft lottery on Tuesday in Secaucus, New Jersey.

    NHL draft lottery
    San Jose Sharks win No 1 pick with eye on Macklin Celebrini

    The San Jose Sharks won the No 1 overall pick at Tuesday night’s NHL draft lottery and tipped their hand on their preferred choice
  • The wait for full-time charter flights for WNBA teams finally is over with commissioner Cathy Engelbert announcing on Tuesday the league's plans to start the program this season.

    WNBA
    League to begin full-time charter flights this season, commissioner says

  • christian mcfarlane nycfc defender

    Christian McFarlane
    Could England gain a US-raised star?

    The English-born left back is the latest graduate to draw interest from Europe’s elite clubs
  • Larry Sanders during his short-lived return with the Cleveland Cavaliers

    'All the power’s in the present'
    Larry Sanders had a $44m contract – and he walked away from the NBA

    The center was a dominant defensive force at his peak but mental and physical problems took their toll while he was still in his prime playing years
    • Kylian Mbappé applauds supporters.

      Dortmund bring down curtain on Mbappé’s lost years

      Barney Ronay
    • Actor Mary Mina, playing an ancient Greek high priestess, holds the torch carrying the Olympic flame at a ceremony in Athens before it began its sea journey to France.

      Paris Games
      Olympic torch to make 400 stops on path to opening ceremony

    • Andy Murray celebrates against Alexandre Muller in his round of 32 singles match during the Qatar Open at the Khalifa International Tennis Complex in Doha, Qatar on 20 February 2024

      Tennis
      Murray to make return from injury in Geneva before French Open

    • Faisal Halim in action for Malaysia in March. He was left in critical condition after being splashed with acid at a shopping mall.

      Malaysia
      Footballers advised to hire bodyguards after spate of attacks

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Climate crisis

  • Workers installing solar panels in India

    Environment
    Renewable energy passes 30% of world’s electricity supply

  • David R Boyd, United Nations special rapporteur for the environment and human rights.

    Climate crisis
    UN expert attacks ‘exploitative’ world economy in fight to save planet

  • An oilfield near Baku

    Exclusive
    Poorer nations must be transparent over climate spending, says Cop29 leader

  • A man rides a rental bike in Baku, Azerbaijan, where the UN climate change conference will convene in November.

    Cop29
    Summit to call for peace between warring states, says host Azerbaijan

Across the country

  • Aerial view of cargo ship loaded with container with a crumpled iron-truss bridge of top of it and severed in two.

    Baltimore bridge collapse
    Body of last missing worker recovered

  • A Boy Scouts uniform.

    Boy Scouts
    Organization changes name following bankruptcy and sexual abuse claims

    • ‘Nobody seems interested’
      Rudy Giuliani struggles to find an accountant

    • Joe Biden
      US president warns against ‘surge of antisemitism’ at Holocaust event

    • Ron DeSantis
      Florida ex-cop with ‘patterns of abuse and bias’ joins state guard

    • Reddit
      Shares rise more than 15% in first quarterly earnings since going public

    • Charged Lemonade
      Panera to pull caffeinated beverages connected to at least two deaths

    • Elizabeth Holmes
      Theranos fraudster has prison sentence reduced again

Around the world

  • Al-Hawl refugee camp - Jabal Baghouz, or Baghouz Mountain. US officials describe Isis as active inside, using the camp as an incubator for the next generation of extremists

    Syria
    US repatriates two dozen westerners from Islamic State camp

    Group includes 11 US citizens, including five minors, but tens of thousands of people remained detained five years after defeat of IS
  • North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (front centre) pays tribute to former propaganda chief Kim Ki Nam, who has died aged 94, at a funeral hall in Pyongyang.

    'North Korean Goebbels'
    Kim Ki-nam, propaganda chief who shaped dynasty’s personality cult, dies aged 94

  • Berlin Mayor Franziska Giffey.

    Live
    Berlin senator attacked amid trend of assaults on German politicians

  • A little boy cracks peanuts

    ‘Life-transforming’
    Food allergy therapy lets children have peanuts and milk daily for first time

    • London
      Garrick Club votes to accept female members for first time

    • Brazil
      Flooding death toll rises to 90 as more than 155,000 people displaced

    • Vaping
      Chemicals in vapes could be highly toxic when heated, research finds

    • Fake art
      Monet and Renoir on eBay among 40 counterfeits identified using AI

    • Spain
      Bullfighting firm in Seville to give free tickets to under-eights

    • Australia
      Conspiracy theorist accused of links to Queensland shootings offered plea deal by US prosecutors

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Podcasts

  • Donald Trump in court

    Donald Trump
    Stormy Daniels takes the stand in Trump trial

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    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: The age of perpetual crisis: how the 2010s disrupted everything but resolved nothing – podcast

  • Picture of Marc Conway with beard against dark background with shaft of light running through

    Today in Focus
    The London Bridge ‘hero’ who could go to prison for 99 years

  • Head coach of Chelsea Emma Hayes waves at the fans with her son Harry during the Barclays FA Womens Super League game between Chelsea and Bristol City.

    The Guardian's Women's Football Weekly
    Chelsea reignite WSL title hopes after City slip up – Women’s Football Weekly

  • An abandoned mosque outside the seawall in Muara Baru, Jakarta. (Photograph by Kemal Jufri for The Guardian)

    Science
    Why are the world’s cities sinking? – podcast

  • Bassim Haidar

    Today in Focus
    Non-doms are threatening to leave. Should they be convinced to stay?

  • Manchester City v Wolverhampton Wanderers, Premier League, Football, Etihad Stadium, Manchester, UK - 04 May 2024<br>EDITORIAL USE ONLY No use with unauthorised audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or "live" services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images, no video emulation. No use in betting, games or single club/league/player publications. Mandatory Credit: Photo by David Blunsden/Action Plus/REX/Shutterstock (14461108dx) Erling Haaland of Manchester City celebrates after scoring with a header past Jose Sa of Wolverhampton Wanderers for 2-0 after 35 minutes; Etihad Stadium, Manchester, England; Premier League Football, Manchester City versus Wolverhampton Wanderers. Manchester City v Wolverhampton Wanderers, Premier League, Football, Etihad Stadium, Manchester, UK - 04 May 2024

    Football Weekly
    Haaland destroys Wolves as City and Arsenal keep winning – Football Weekly

Culture

  • Joel Edgerton in Dark Matter.

    Dark Matter review
    Joel Edgerton abducts himself in fun multiverse thriller

    It’s a fascinating premise – a physics genius creates a way to go to a parallel universe and switch places with his less successful self. If only this series weren’t about five universes too long
  • Steve Albini.

    The reader interview
    Post your questions for Steve Albini

  • Stephen Colbert: ‘Donald Trump could go to Rikers Island. My condolences to whatever prison guard has to conduct the cavity search. Wear a headlamp.’

    Stephen Colbert on Trump trial
    ‘In a twist no one saw coming, he remained conscious’

  • In a scene from Let It Be, Paul McCartney plays the guitar next to John Lennon, also with a guitar, opposite Ringo Starr on drums and George Harrison, all of them seated

    Let It Be review
    Reissued Beatles film takes long and winding road to eventual acclaim

  • Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep in Heartburn.

    From meet-cute to marriage breakdown
    Streep and Nicholson shine in Nora Ephron’s bittersweet Heartburn

  • ‘They censored the beauty of a young girl’ … Zafreen Zairizal in Tiger Stripes, which the rest of world can see uncut.

    ‘It was terrifying – but screw it’
    The director who disowned her film in order to get an Oscar nomination

Lifestyle

  • Jeremy Strong wearing a baseball cap and a suit as Kendall Roy in HBO's Succession

    Fashion
    Why regenerative garments are the ultimate status symbol

    Sustainably grown fibres, traceable from farm to garment, could be the antidote to climate-destroying fast fashion. But can this trend ever reach the high street?
  • Sam Pyrah

    A moment that changed me
    I thought fitness was my superpower. Then I realised it was a ball and chain

  • Venezia fans in the Curva Sud stand last Sunday.

    Italy
    How did I avoid paying Venice’s new ‘entrance fee’? By joining the local Venezia FC fans

  • black and white photo of woman half smiling, with hazy gray and orange colors around the photo

    Anne Lamott on love, sobriety and reaching 70
    ‘All I’ve learned, I’ve learned because the abyss swallowed me’

  • Sphynx cat

    Cats
    Sphynx has lowest life expectancy of domestic cat breeds, research finds

  • Tuna mornay

    That’s a mornay
    Sarah Pound’s simple tinned tuna recipes

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Take part

  • People queue outside the Hermes store in Mayfair in London, Monday, April 12, 2021.

    Tell us
    Are you splurging on luxury goods you can ill afford?

  • Dozens of students arrested at the occupied Hamilton Hall building of Columbia University in New York<br>NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - APRIL 30: New York Police Department officers detain dozens of pro-Palestinian students at Columbia University after they barricaded themselves at the Hamilton Hall building near Gaza Solidarity Encampment earlier in New York, United States on April 30, 2024. (Photo by Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

    US students
    Share your experience of the pro-Palestinian campus protests

  • UKRAINE-RUSSIA-WAR-CONFLICT<br>Gunners from 43rd Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine prepare to fire at Russian position with a 155 mm self-propelled howitzer 2C22 "Bohdana", in the Kharkiv region, on April 21, 2024, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine. (Photo by Anatolii STEPANOV / AFP) (Photo by ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP via Getty Images)

    Ukrainian men abroad
    Share your views on Poland and Lithuania’s statements on conscription

  • A young businessman riding skateboard in the city of Barcelona, Spain.

    Tell us
    How do you make your commute fun or productive?

From our global editions

  • Syrian children pose for a photo on a narrow street in the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp on the southern outskirts of Beirut

    ‘If they see a Syrian, they beat them up’
    The refugees living in fear in Lebanon

  • Solomon Islands MP Cathy Nori.

    ‘I can rise above expectations’
    The woman breaking barriers in Pacific politics

  • Salman Rushdie in a shirt and jacket, with a moustache and goatee and glasses that have the righthand frame darkened, looking serious

    Salman Rushdie: Through A Glass Darkly review
    A harrowing first-person account of a knife attack

  • Men walk down the steps of a building. They wear matching pink and blue ties

    ‘No longer remotely defensible’
    British men-only club's decision to admit women shows times have changed

In case you missed it

  • A foreground of three high, rounded window frames and a man in silhouette, with smoke rising from an urban landscape beyond him.

    Joe Biden’s ‘red line’ is an invasion of Rafah
    So what happens if Israel attacks?

  • A composite image showing the three sisters.

    ‘They’ve destroyed us because of some tweets’
    Why has Saudi Arabia targeted these three sisters?

    Last week one was sentenced to 11 years, another had to flee the country, a third could be arrested at any moment. And what were Manahel, Maryam and Fawzia al-Otaibi’s ‘crimes’? A few social media posts that outraged Saudi Arabia’s conservatives
  • Four weddings and a funeral

    ‘I thought: “I’ve engineered the death of Hugh Grant!’’’
    The inside story of Four Weddings and a Funeral

    Cast and crew share their stories – from Liz Hurley in that dress to Amber Rudd’s role as an ‘aristocracy coordinator
  • A woman stands ankle deep in murky water in a slum alleyway.

    ‘I’ve only the clothes on my back’
    Lives swept away by floods in Kenya

  • Cesar Aira, smiling at the camera, scratches the back of his head. Behind him are some books on a shelf.

    César Aira’s unreal magic
    How the eccentric author took over Latin American literature

  • Two large vessels sit at an angle with their hulls out of the water behind a group of small wooden fishing boats

    ‘I’ve never seen anything like it’
    Can Jamaica adapt to the Caribbean’s increasingly unpredictable weather?

  • Donald Trump is selling an edition of the Bible.

    I bought Trump’s Bible
    A blasphemous, sticky nightmare

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    Then and now
    Flooding in Brazil

    Devastating floods in Rio Grande do Sul state have about left 90 dead with survivors seeking food and shelter
  • TOPSHOT-US-ENTERTAINMENT-FASHION-METGALA-CELEBRITY-MUSEUM<br>TOPSHOT - US actress Zendaya arrives for the 2024 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 6, 2024, in New York. The Gala raises money for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute. The Gala's 2024 theme is "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion." (Photo by Angela WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

    Met Gala 2024
    Dresses made out of sand, corsets and power poses

  • ‘I was fascinated by the sheer volume of people’ … Street corner, Sydney, Australia

    ‘My monument to humankind’
    Earth, but not as you know it

  • Vladimir Putin takes the oath of office during his inauguration ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow

    Photos of the day
    Putin’s big day, Swiss guards and garbage-eating pigs

  • A person puts a banner up at a ornate window

    From Baghdad to Copenhagen
    Pro-Palestinian student protests around the world

  • 3) Karabo Mooki, Unified, Rockville, Soweto, 2016. Courtesy of the artist “Members of Free x Money are joined on the mic by TCIYF’s Thula 'Stroof' Sizwe. TCIYF have realised that since the shows don't come to them, they need to bring the shows to the township, bridging communities and giving birth to a cross- pollination of talents beyond racial and economic borders. Although the visit may seem taboo or unusual and new to many, there is a deep sense of hospitality and appreciation from both the hosts and the visiting residents.”

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    Soweto’s Afropunk skaters!

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