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  • 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

  • Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Kyrylo Budanov

    Ukraine war briefing
    ‘Rocket, drone, rocket’ – alleged plots to kill Zelenskiy, Budanov

    Russian continues air raids on Ukraine’s energy networks; ‘about half’ of North Korean missiles duds. What we know on day 804
  • 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?

    It’s a moment of truth for Biden’s policy on Israel and the Palestinians – and at the least will make continued prevarication harder to disguise

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
  • 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

  • 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

    The death of a Christian political leader has sparked a wave of vigilante attacks on Syrians, fuelled by political scapegoating
  • 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?

    He tackled a murderer to the ground to protect the public. But the draconian licence conditions of his ‘99-year sentence’ meant that the first person he called was his probation officer
    • 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

    • Sphynx cat

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

    • ‘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

    • Sam Pyrah

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

Opinion

  • 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
  • Ranjana Srivastava

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

    Ranjana Srivastava
  • 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

    Editorial: Israel’s evacuation orders and seizure of the key crossing are exacerbating the suffering of Palestinians and endangering hostages
  • 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
    Roll up for a buffet of baffling outfits, celebs scared stiff of Anna Wintour and an utter refusal to acknowledge the outside world, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
    • 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
    • Illustration by Lilian Darmono

      The science on endometriosis is finally breaking through – so why do treatments feel stuck in the past?

      Lucy Pasha-Robinson
    • A house in Rafah damanged by an Israeli airstrike.

      There’s one thing standing in the way of a ceasefire: Netanyahu’s refusal to compromise

      Simon Tisdall

Sports

  • 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

    Basketball
    Larry Sanders had a $44m contract – and he walked away from the NBA

    • 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

    • 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

    • Erik ten Hag looks at the roof of the dugout prior to the FA Cup match between Nottingham Forest and Manchester United

      Ten Hag’s exit may be near but when will the Man Utd cycle stop?

      Jonathan Liew
    • Kylie McKenzie, middle, with her attorney Robert Allard, right, and victim advocate Jancy Thompson, left, speaks to reporters at a news conference in 2022

      Tennis
      USTA ordered to pay former top junior player $9m in sexual abuse case

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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

  • A Boy Scouts uniform.

    Boy Scouts
    Organization changes name following bankruptcy and sexual abuse claims

  • Palestine Rally at Columbia University in New York, US - 23 Apr 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Jimin Kim/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock (14447472p) Former New York City mayor, Rudy Giuliani, is seen in a vehicle that is driving past a pro-Palestine rally at Columbia University. Pro-Palestine demonstrators rallied at one of the entrances at Columbia University in Manhattan, New York City condemning the Israel Defense Forces' military operations in Gaza. Since last week, students and pro-Palestine activists inside the university have held a sit-in protest on the lawn, forming a "Gaza Solidarity Encampment." Students in other universities have been forming similar encampments in campuses nationwide in support of Palestine. Since the war started on October 7, 2023, Gaza's health ministry said more than 34,000 people have been killed in Gaza, a territory ruled by Hamas. The death toll does not differentiate between civilians and combatants. Palestine Rally at Columbia University in New York, US - 23 Apr 2024

    ‘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

    • Weather
      Tornado kills one in Oklahoma as Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana face severe storms

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
  • Plane on water with city landscape in the back

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

  • A little boy cracks peanuts

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

  • Garrick Club member Stephen Fry shakes hands with a well-wisher after the vote to allow women to join.

    London
    Garrick Club votes to accept female members for first time

    • 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

    • Ukraine
      Zelenskiy assassination plot foiled by security service, says country

    • UK
      E-gates ‘back online’ after chaos at Heathrow and other UK airports

    • ‘Magical moment’
      Fire-ravaged Brazil museum receives big fossil donation

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Podcasts

Podcasts

  • Donald Trump in court

    Donald Trump
    Stormy Daniels takes the stand in Trump trial

  • Illustration: Guardian Design/Christophe Gowans

    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
  • 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’

  • Jason Parham

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

  • Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep in Heartburn.

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

  • Ian Gelder as Kevan Lannister in Game of Thrones

    Television
    Game of Thrones actor Ian Gelder dies aged 74

  • Toronto Police investigate a shooting outside the mansion of rapper Drake in Toronto's Bridle Path neighborhood, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. Paramedics said a security guard working outside the home was taken to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries in an overnight shooting. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)

    Canada
    Drake’s security guard ‘seriously injured’ in shooting at Toronto mansion

Lifestyle

  • 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’

    The American author’s 20th book reads as a series of parables on grace. In an interview, she reflects on a life she thought she wouldn’t get to live
  • Tuna mornay

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

  • image of money ring marble background

    ‘I wanted to look and feel expensive’
    Four couples on why they took on wedding debt

  • Garments on display in the Met Costume Institute's spring 2024 exhibition Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion

    Met exhibition review
    2024’s spring show is a feast for the senses

  • Man looking despondently at his watch

    Sexual healing
    My wife rarely instigates sex – and always wants to schedule it. Why can’t she be more spontaneous?

  • passengers dancing on the Techno Train

    'Less abrasive than I’d expected'
    Why clubbers are raving about Germany’s cross-country Techno Train

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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

  • 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

  • Egg and pants man … Teemu Keisteri, AKA Windows95man, performing No Rules! for Eurovision 2024.

    ‘He growls death metal in his pants!’
    The Eurovision 2024 bangers to watch out for

In case you missed it

  • A composite image showing the three sisters.

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

  • 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

    People living in Nairobi’s Mathare slum fear that if catastrophic flooding does not bring down their homes, the government will
  • 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

  • BJP candidates parade in a motorcade in Bangalore

    India
    Can Modi finally win over the southern states and reshape India’s electoral map?

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In pictures

  • Satellite image

    Then and now
    Flooding in Brazil

    Devastating floods across the state of Rio Grande do Sul have about 90 dead and 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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