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  • Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Kyrylo Budanov

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

  • a courtroom sketch of Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels

    Satin pyjamas and mistrial denied
    Trump trial key takeaways, day 13

    Stormy Daniels undercuts some of Trump’s defences as his lawyer suggests Daniels has a propensity to embellish
  • People hold placards with phrases such as 'no to mandatory vaccines'.

    General elections
    What conspiracy theories are UK MPs being told to look out for?

    MPs and election candidates to be given guide about conspiracy theories covering topics such as 5G and the climate crisis

Spotlight

  • 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

    The British-Indian writer relives his horrific 2022 stabbing in shocking detail – and opens up about how heading back to the scene of the crime helped him
  • Side-by-side photos of a white woman and a white man

    ‘Do you worry about STDs?’
    Stormy Daniels’ testimony on Trump affair off to cringey start

  • Rachel Reeves walks off stage with seated audience applauding to one side

    Toxic Tories doomed as Sunak hunkers down and Labour sticks the boot in

    John Crace
    While the Conservatives have given up, Rachel Reeves didn’t make the alternative sound exciting. But maybe that’s OK
  • A foreground of three high, rounded window frames and a man in silhouette, with smoke rising from an urban landscape beyond him.

    Analysis
    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
    • ‘I’m not going to get any laughs in this’ … Greig and Chris take a break from rehearsals.

      ‘You wiped the floor with me!’
      Tamsin Greig and Oliver Chris are having a riot with Rattigan

    • A road sign for St Mary’s Walk in Harrogate with its apostrophe intact in May 2022.

      Possession, contractions, plurals
      Are you better with apostrophes than a Yorkshire database? – quiz

    • Prospective Labour MP for Peckham, Miatta Fanbulleh. Peckham, south London.

      ‘Labour will surpass your expectations’
      The leftwing thinktank boss standing on Starmer’s agenda

    • 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?

Opinion

  • 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
    The Israeli PM has rejected the latest deal. Both he and Hamas’s leadership must stop playing politics with people’s lives
  • 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
  • Nicola Jennings on Rishi Sunak, desperately trying to look on the bright side – cartoon

    Cartoon
    Nicola Jennings on Rishi Sunak, desperately trying to look on the bright side

    In the wake of the Tories’ desperate showing in last week’s local elections, glimmers of hope are hard to come by for the prime minister
  • 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
    • John Swinney makes his first speech as SNP leader, Edinburgh, Scotland, 6 May 2024.

      Making John Swinney leader may be the SNP’s smartest move in years

      Dani Garavelli
    • BP boss Murray Auchincloss

      BP right to hold steady on climate targets despite below forecast profits

      Nils Pratley
    • Illustration by Lilian Darmono

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

      Lucy Pasha-Robinson
    • Medical staff holding hands with a patient in a gesture of compassion

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

      Ranjana Srivastava

Editorials & Letters

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

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

  • Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves speaking about the economy at the Association of British Insurers in the City of London.

    The Guardian view
    Labour’s big idea: organising the state effectively matters for jobs and growth

  • Placard at a protest against the introduction of zero-hours contracts at the Hovis bakery in Aspull, Wigan in 2013

    Letters
    Labour must not cave in to pressure over zero-hours contracts

  • Prime Minister Tony Blair applauding Education Secretary David Blunkett after his speech at the Labour Party conference in Brighton, Wednesday 27 September 2000.

    Letters
    David Blunkett’s mea culpa on indefinite sentences won’t wash

Sport

  • Bryony Page Simone Biles, and Holly Bradshaw

    Paris Olympics
    Mental health kits and AI to help athletes with abuse and pressure

  • Jack Draper hits a forehand on clay.

    Jack Draper
    I contemplated what my life would be without tennis

    • Rajasthan Royals' Jos Buttler is bowled by Delhi Capitals' Axar Patel

      Cricket
      Pakistan Super League may poach county players after schedule change

    • Billy Vunipola with Mark McCall at The Rec during their match with Bath

      Rugby union
      Saracens to keep team bonding trips despite Billy Vunipola incident

    • An aerial view of Everton's Goodison Park

      Football
      Everton shareholders demand end to ‘farce’ of 777 takeover

    • Bolton’s Eoin Toal celebrates putting the home side 2-1 up on the night

      Bolton 2-3 Barnsley (5-4 agg)
      Trotters reach League One playoff final

Climate crisis

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

    ‘Exploitative’
    UN expert attacks world economy in fight to save planet

  • An oilfield near Baku

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

  • A drone view shows brown water surrounding multi-storey buildings

    Weather tracker
    Torrential rainstorms cause death and destruction in Brazil

  • 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

From the UK

  • The entrance to the Windsor Legoland theme park

    Windsor
    Baby who went into cardiac arrest at Legoland has died, say police

    Boy aged five months who was taken to hospital after incident on Thursday died on Sunday
  • A middle-aged, grey-haired man in dark suit and tie sits on a green chair and speaks into a microphone

    P&O Ferries
    Boss asked if he is ‘modern-day pirate’ for paying staff £4.87 an hour

  • John Swinney (centre) with former first ministers Humza Yousaf and Nicola Sturgeon

    John Swinney
    New SNP leader to become Scottish first minister after vote by MSPs

  • Students stand among tents pitched on a lawn outside a gothic-style university building

    Campus protests
    University bosses to visit Downing Street to discuss antisemitism

    • Exclusive
      Rufus Wainwright blames UK’s ‘narrow outlook’ after Brexit for Opening Night’s flop

    • Labour
      Party must win back voters’ trust over Gaza, Reeves and Khan say

    • MoD
      About 270,000 UK forces records exposed to Chinese hackers

    • Cass review
      Report ‘absolutely’ not unfair, author tells Scottish parliament

    • Rwanda
      Home Office faces fallout from roundup as asylum seekers hide or flee

    • Sizewell C
      Project in Suffolk granted nuclear site licence

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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
  • Dmitry Khoroshev

    LockBit
    Dmitry Khoroshev named as alleged leader of ransomware gang

  • 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 for bankruptcy case

  • Holly Duhig’s 2019 book Same-Sex Parents

    Australia
    Sydney council bans same-sex parenting books from libraries for ‘safety of our children’

    • US
      Divers recover body of last missing worker killed in Baltimore bridge collapse

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

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

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

    • Drake
      Security guard ‘seriously injured’ in shooting at artist’s Toronto mansion

    • Russia
      Putin sworn in for fifth term in ceremony boycotted by US and UK

Culture

  • Closeup of the yellow Cloud 3, which has circle and arrow symbols on the fret board

    Prince
    Guitar could fetch $600,000 at auction

    Cloud 3 used at height of his stardom may beat estimate and become most expensive of late musician’s guitars
  • Robert Downey Jr.

    Robert Downey Jr
    Actor to make Broadway debut this year

  • Members of the Russian radical feminist group 'Pussy Riot' stage a protest performance in Red Square in Moscow<br>Members of the Russian radical feminist group 'Pussy Riot' sing a song at the so-called Lobnoye Mesto (Forehead Place), long before used for announcing Russian tsars' decrees and occasionally for carrying out public executions, in Red Square in Moscow January 20, 2012. Eight activists, who were later detained by police, staged a performance to protest against the policies conducted by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov (RUSSIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST SOCIETY)

    Conor Mitchell’s Riot Symphony
    ‘Russian protest punk and symphonies might seem worlds apart. But the idea is the same: weaponise your art’

  • ‘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 had to disown her film to qualify for the Oscars

  • This image released by 20th Century Studios/Marvel Studios shows Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool/Wade Wilson and Hugh Jackman as Wolverine/Logan in a scene from "Deadpool &amp; Wolverine." (20th Century Studios/Marvel Studios via AP)

    Disney
    Company to ‘focus on quality’ as it plans to cut output – including Marvel movies

  • 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

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    Unleash the quiche
    Tips for springtime tarts

    Our panel of culinary experts offers advice on seasonal quiches and tarts with an edge
  • Zendaya wearing a vintage couture Givenchy gown from 1996.

    Met Gala
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    Pass notes
    Thinking about getting married? Would £550 sweeten the deal?

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    From holidays to shopping
    Eight discounts for UK over-60s you might not know about

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

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    Consumer champions
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  • Kris Hallenga and her twin sister Maren Hallenga during a flashmob for breast cancer charity CoppaFeel!

    Breast cancer
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    Millennials
    Have you recently moved back in with your parents?

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

    Luxury goods sector
    Are you splurging on luxury goods you can ill afford?

  • Free Palestine<br>Over 50 students began an occupation of the Parkinson Building of Leeds University on Friday 08.03.2024 in protest of the conflict in Gaza. What was planned as a 24 hour occupation has changed into a indefination occupation after the University decided to lock the doors of the building restricting access to and from the main building. The students have built an encampment within the building and are living off water and food smuggled onto the site. Rally for Palestine by Leeds Students and University Staff. Leeds.

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  • Solomon Islands MP Cathy Nori.

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

    Cathy Nori is one of just three women elected to Solomon Islands’ 50-seat parliament in last month’s election
  • A composite image showing the three sisters.

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

  • Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on Rafah.

    Analysis
    China angles for Gaza mediation role to expand influence in Middle East

  • 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?

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    Four couples on why they took on wedding debt

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