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  • Polish border guards patrol near a metal wall

    Poland
    Border ‘pushbacks’ back in spotlight after pregnant woman’s ordeal

  • Om Fahed appears to be dancing holding a flag over her head

    Iraq
    TikTok star Om Fahad shot dead outside Baghdad home

    • Italy
      Towns split over moves to end honorary citizenship of Mussolini

    • India election
      Modi and rivals trade accusations as voter turnout slumps in second phase

    • London
      Four Vietnamese nationals arrested after joint UK-French people-smuggling investigation

    • US politics
      Conservatives condemn Trump VP hopeful's ‘twisted’ admission of killing dog

    • UK
      News presenter Rageh Omaar receiving care after becoming unwell on air, channel says

    • And now for the pinchline
      Competition crowns world’s funniest crab joke

News in focus

  • a side-by-side image of Joe Biden and Donald Trump

    ‘A lot would have to go wrong for Biden to lose’
    Can Allan Lichtman predict the 2024 election?

  • An underwater view shows swimmers reflected in the lens of an underwater robotic camera

    Poison in the pool
    Why the latest Chinese doping row is proving so toxic

    Vocal swimmers are the tip of a wave as the sport grapples with trust issues over anti-doping in the run-up to Paris 2024
  • A mash-up of mobile phones with emojis.

    UK politics
    What happens when an ex-tabloid journalist applies clickbait tactics to running for election?

    Keane Duncan is trying to win the mayorship of North Yorks with policies such as nationalising a hotel. But is there substance behind the headline-grabbing stunts?

Spotlight

  • Salman Rushdie and Rachel Eliza Griffiths

    ‘Ours was a love story, not an attempted murder story’
    Rachel Eliza Griffiths on the day her husband, Salman Rushdie, was stabbed

  • Trisha and Neil

    Blind date
    I warned him if he was less than complimentary, my girls would hunt him down

  • Jeremy Clarkson photographed at his farm, March 2024, surrounded by goats

    ‘Dismissing global warming? That was a joke'
    Jeremy Clarkson on fury, farming and why he’s a changed man

    The former Top Gear presenter claims his controversialist persona was just a caricature, and he’s really a reformed character living the good life. But do old habits die hard?
  • Mishal Husain, wearing a green headscarf and coat, and standing next to her mother, Shama, who is also wearing a coat and headscarf, and sitting on an upholstered bench outside a domed and decorated mausoleum

    ‘A sense of wonder enveloped my mother and me’
    Mishal Husain on her eye-opening journey through Uzbekistan in search of an ancestor

    The broadcaster knew she had a link to the central Asian country she first visited on her gap year 30 years ago. But retracing her steps, this time with her mother in tow, she made a big discovery about their family
    • Emily Henry - credit Emily Henry

      ‘My favourite stories are love stories’
      Emily Henry on her enemies-to-lovers relationship with romance fiction

    • Friendships

      10 ways to revitalise flagging friendships
      Meet regularly, invest time – and don’t hold grudges

    • Olivia Laing garden for Books

      Safe haven or symbol of injustice?
      What our gardens tell us about the world we live in

    • Minor characters for the win! … Knuckles, voiced by Idris Elba.

      Knuckles review
      Idris Elba’s Sonic spin-off is ludicrous, hilarious and actually rather moving

Sport

Opinion

  • Charcoal sketch of a large white man in a suit in a wheelchair, with a person in a blue uniform standing behind him.

    The overturning of Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction is an affront to women

    Moira Donegan
    #MeToo’s real legacy may not be ending predators’ impunity so much as highlighting the tenacity of that impunity
  • Illustration showing three people round a drawing of a rainbow.

    We may have equal marriage – but LGBTQ+ people are still locked out of equal parenthood

    Freddy McConnell
  • Former TOP 09 MP Dominik Feri, centre, who was given a three-year prison sentence for raping two women and attempted to rape another.

    A celebrity politician has been jailed for rape. Will Czech women be listened to now?

    Apolena Rychlíková and Jakub Zelenka
  • National Trust scones

    ‘Woke’ isn’t dead – it’s entered the mainstream. No wonder the right is furious

    Gaby Hinsliff
  • Prime Minister Rishi Sunak holds weekly Cabinet meeting<br>16/01/2024. London, United Kingdom. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak holds his weekly Cabinet meeting in 10 Downing Street. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street

    Tories have always had a fear of political extinction. After the UK's next election, they could be right

    Samuel Earle
  • TGbooks126illusion

    Tom Gauld's cultural cartoons
    The two authors illusion

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Climate crisis

  • 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

  • Series of trucks driving along a winding road at an open-pit copper mine

    Environment
    UN-led panel aims to tackle abuses linked to mining for ‘critical minerals’

  • a flood sign during a storm

    Environment
    Trump will dismantle key US weather and science agency, climate experts fear

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

    Weather tracker
    Heavy rainfall causes flooding and death in east Africa

Around the world

  • Former U.S. President Trump's criminal trial on charges of falsifying business records continues in New York<br>Rhona Graff testifies as former U.S. President Donald Trump looks on during Trump's criminal trial on charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, in Manhattan state court in New York City, U.S. April 26, 2024, in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg

    Hush-money trial
    Trump assistant’s testimony focuses on relationship with Stormy Daniels

  • King Charles and Queen Camilla talk to each other, arm in arm, in a garden

    King Charles
    British monarch to return to public duties while continuing cancer treatment

  • File photo of Victoria police tape restricting access to a crime scene

    Australia
    Two people die after glider crashes near Mount Beauty airport

  • A sunny empty coast in Tobago with palm trees, beach, boats and huts

    Trinidad and Tobago
    British man in critical care after ‘unusual’ shark attack

    • ‘I don’t smoke on the uphills’
      Lazarus Lake walks across America (again)

    • US
      Columbia University calls for inquiry as student protests sweep 40 campuses

    • UK
      Rishi Sunak struggling to smother frenzy of election rumours

    • Tesla
      Autopilot feature was involved in 13 fatal crashes, US regulator says

    • Secret to eternal youth?
      John Cleese extols virtues of stem cell treatment

    • Canada
      Orca calf successfully returned to open water after bold rescue

Culture

  • The museum on a cliff

    ‘Massive and exciting impact’
    Show celebrates Spain’s first abstract art museum

    Exhibition explores how a Spanish-Filipino artist in 1966 opened a trailblazing cultural outpost in Cuenca’s ‘hanging houses’
  • St Vincent in a white-lit stage set doorway in a yellow coat

    St Vincent: All Born Screaming review
    Magnificently dark, heavy and loud

  • Arthur Hughes in Shardlake.

    Shardlake
    Murder mysteries don’t get more fantastically creepy than this

  • Jonah Hauer-King photographed in London by Suki Dhanda for the Guardian.

    ‘Shaving my head became so poignant’
    Jonah Hauer-King on The Tattooist of Auschwitz and his extraordinary family story

  • Emma Stone in Poor Things

    'I would like to be Emily'
    Emma Stone says she would like to be called by her real name

  • "Dune: Part Two" World Premiere - Arrivals<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 15: Zendaya attends the World Premiere of "Dune: Part Two" in London's Leicester Square on February 15, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Samir Hussein/WireImage)

    Zendaya
    Can the actor make the leap from tween idol to Hollywood heavyweight?

Lifestyle

Take part

  • 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

  • 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

  • Bridal couples pose on Trolltunga rock formation in Ullensvang Municipality, Vestland county, Norway.

    Wedding photography
    Share your experiences

  • Tell us about your friendship using the form below.

    Relationships
    How did you meet your close friend or partner?

From our global editions

  • A mannequin outside a shop with a badge on it reading 'sale £15'

    Littler India
    Why Britain’s south Asian garment stores are struggling

    They have been resilient amid wider high street decline – but units are now emptying in areas such as Southall, west London
  • 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

    Analysis
    Sadiq Khan’s green credentials may be critical in London mayoral election

  • Australia’s immigration minister Andrew Giles and home affairs minister Clare O’Neil at a press conference in Canberra

    Operation Zufolo
    Australia deployed a ‘charade’ to sustain indefinite immigration detention – it failed

  • Guardian Eggs Title Illo

    Egg labels, egg-splained
    From cage-free to free-range, how to eat ethically and economically

  • A crowd is gathered in front of a detailed mural on the side of a building showing the police station being blown up.

    'It will be around for years to come'
    Questions in rocket-hit Sderot over whether IDF can ever destroy Hamas

  • ‘What Ryan has is a lack of insecurity about teasing himself, his stardom and his masculinity.’

    Evolution of man
    How Ryan Gosling changed stardom, cinema and society

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Pressure and Release

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    Robyn Malcolm on acting, ageing and the power of art

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    One man’s experience of a female stalker

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    Chaotic and thrilling
    Columbia’s radio station is live from the student protests

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Podcasts

  • David Harewood portrait

    Weekend
    Weekend podcast: ‘I was hammered on stage’ – David Harewood on racism and success; John Crace on ‘tetchy’ Rishi; the answer to insomnia hell; and Baby Reindeer fall out

  • The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington DC on 28 August 1963. Photograph: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    Solidarity and strategy: the forgotten lessons of truly effective protest – podcast

  • Biden in bow tie and shades with sign behind him saying: White House Correspondents' Association

    Politics Weekly America
    White House Correspondents’ Dinner: is there still space for humour?

  • Lines of tents at a pro-Palestine protest at Columbia University

    Today in Focus
    The US college protests and the crackdown on campuses

  • Premier League - Everton v Liverpool<br>Soccer Football - Premier League - Everton v Liverpool - Goodison Park, Liverpool, Britain - April 24, 2024 Everton's Jarrad Branthwaite celebrates after Dominic Calvert-Lewin scores their second goal as Liverpool's Alisson looks on REUTERS/Carl Recine NO USE WITH UNAUTHORIZED AUDIO, VIDEO, DATA, FIXTURE LISTS, CLUB/LEAGUE LOGOS OR 'LIVE' SERVICES. ONLINE IN-MATCH USE LIMITED TO 45 IMAGES, NO VIDEO EMULATION. NO USE IN BETTING, GAMES OR SINGLE CLUB/LEAGUE/PLAYER PUBLICATIONS. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

    Football Weekly
    Have Everton dashed Liverpool’s title dreams? – Football Weekly Extra

  • Dairy cattle feeding at a farm as a bird looks on

    Science
    From birds, to cattle, to … us? Could bird flu be the next pandemic? – podcast

  • Arsenal

    Football Weekly
    Arsenal thrash Chelsea and a Football League update – Football Weekly

In pictures

  • Hamad Abu Aliah stands in his torched home at al-Mughayier&nbsp;village in&nbsp;the&nbsp;West Bank.

    From murals to food shops
    Original Observer Photography

    From a mural in Birmingham commemorating poet Benjamin Zephaniah to the Observer’s favourite food shops: the best original photographs from the Observer commissioned in April 2024
  • Image of children playing by jumping off a boat in the Sunda Kelapa harbour, in North Jakarta, Indonesia, with the sun nearly setting. Entitled Break the Limit it was shot in 2023 on a Xiaomi 11 Lite 5G NE.Jelly Fabrian is shortlisted in the Open Competition, Sony World Photography Awards 2024, exhibition at Somerset House 19 April – 6 May, worldphoto.org

    ‘There aren’t many fields, so the children play around the pier’
    Jelly Febrian’s best phone picture

  • A person slumps on a beach

    Twenty photographs of the week
    War, election, clouds and a marathon

  • David Cameron stands behind the saddle of a horse

    Photos of the day
    D-day veterans and an Indian election

  • LL Cool J

    Uncropped
    James Hamilton on the decay of alt-journalism and street photography

  • A woman in a tutu hangs by her arm from an open shipping container stacked among other closed containers

    Hanging in there and a dichroic shopper
    Photofairs Shanghai 2024

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