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  • Slovakia’s defence minister, Robert Kaliňák, gives an update outside Robert Fico’s hospital.

    Live
    Suspect in Slovak PM’s shooting a ‘lone wolf’; Robert Fico stable but in serious condition

  • An ambulance

    London
    Boy, six, dies after falling from tower block

    • Meta
      EU investigates Facebook owner over child safety and mental health concerns

    • Exclusive
      Blood scandal report must deliver more than just justice, says Andy Burnham

    • Live
      Zelenskiy says situation is ‘difficult’ on visit to Kharkiv; Putin calls China relationship an international ‘stabilising factor’

    • ‘Nothing short of horrific’
      Amnesty criticise arrest of man in Qatar ‘trapped’ by police on Grindr

    • Education
      Pupils in England can learn about gender surgery but not ‘ideology’, says Keegan

    • Eurovision
      Winner Nemo urges Switzerland to bring in third gender

News in focus

  • Christopher Marsh, 49, at his home in Ramsgate. He is standing in front of a red-brick house with a hanging basket of flowers behind him and a tall brick gatepost to one side. He has a short, tidy greying beard and a bald head, and is dressed smartly in a white shirt, pale green tie and navy blue waistcoat. He is looking straight at the camera without smiling and his eyes are narrowed as if he is facing the sun.

    ‘I want justice’
    Man whose brothers died in infected blood scandal awaits report

  • Mariska Iurevicz

    ‘We are very strong’
    Georgia’s gen Z drives protests against return to past

    Resolutely European young people brave violent repression to loudly reject ‘foreign agents’ law and alignment with Moscow
  • A weapon on an armoured vehicle with the Russian Volunteer Corps is fired in Vovchansk.

    Analysis
    How Russia has advanced in Kharkiv despite warnings attack was coming

    Shortage of munitions, fighters and air defences leaves Ukraine unprepared to repel attack

Spotlight

  • composite illustration showing women working in TV

    ‘At the start you get molested and by 45 you’re too old to work’
    The secret misery of women working in TV

    Younger women face a 39% gender pay gap and harassment is widespread. Insiders say it’s a wonder the industry has any women left at all
  • Welcome to the Inca citadel … Miguel Rodrigo Mazuré’s Hotel in Machu Picchu, Peru, 1969.

    How the world could have looked
    The most spectacular buildings that were never made

  • Billie Eilish

    Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft review
    Still the great outlier of American pop

    On this deeply involving third album, Eilish once again breaks the rules for arena-filling artists: it’s subtle and understated, yet jars the listener with eerie show tunes and explosive noise
  • Philippa and Jack

    How we met
    I cried because the bar didn’t have any pizza and he comforted me

    Philippa, 32, and Jack, 30, met at a post-election party in 2019. They plan to marry in September and move to Spain
    • Fred Astaire in Three Little Words (1950)

      The greatest dancer of all time?
      Fred Astaire’s 20 best films – ranked!

    • Jay Rayner Happy Eater illustration

      Happy eater
      Have you tried eating in a city centre hotel room recently? My advice – don’t

      Jay Rayner
    • Graphic collage illustration featuring India’s minister of home affairs, Amit Shah, and the prime minister, Narendra Modi.

      ‘He likes scaring people’
      How Amit Shah, Modi’s right-hand man, runs India

    • Clive and Jayne

      Dining across the divide
      ‘Soon there won’t be any leftwingers in Labour, just Keir Starmer clones’

Opinion

  • Illustration: Ellie Foreman-Peck

    Our democracy desperately needs a reset – and, behind the scenes, that’s the plan

    Martin Kettle
    As Westminster prepares for power to pass from one party to another. It will affect everything in some way
  • Salvador Illa of Catalonia’s Socialist party speaking after Catalan elections in Barcelona, Spain, 12 May 2024

    Catalans once longed for freedom from Spain. Now that doesn’t look so appealing

    María Ramírez
  • A mother helping her daughter with her homework

    I’d hate to be learning English again. Apostrophes are a nightmare

    Adrian Chiles
    Spell unlikely words, cram them into sentences: there must be a better way for kids to get the measure of a language
  • Amazon workers protesting outside Amazon HQ in London in November

    Claims that British unions harm economic growth have one tiny flaw. They’re 100% wrong

    Larry Elliott
    Restrictions on collective power led to decades of exploitation and stagnant pay for workers
    • Man taking daily supplements from plastic pill organiser

      Imagine getting life-saving drugs to sick people without relying on big pharma? We may have found a way

      Catriona Crombie
    • A mass meeting called by the Communist Party in Union Square, New York.

      I spent years studying American communism. Here’s what I learned

      Maurice Isserman
    • Man wearing white T-shirt sits on bed holding phone

      What’s up with ChatGPT’s new sexy persona?

      Arwa Mahdawi
    • BESTPIX - Former President Donald Trump's Hush Money Trial Continues In New York<br>*** BESTPIX *** NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 14: Former Donald Trump attorney Michael Cohen departs from his home to attend his second day of testimony at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 14, 2024 in New York City. Former U.S. President Donald Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first of his criminal cases to go to trial. (Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)

      It’s not pivotal that if the Donald is convicted Michael Cohen can sell his ‘Trump in jail’ T-shirts – but it’s not nothing

      Emma Brockes

Editorials & Letters

  • Prime minister Rishi Sunak holds a press conference about his 'stop the boats' policy in Downing Street, London on 15 November 2023.

    The Guardian view
    Asylum and Northern Ireland: Rishi Sunak has sabotaged his own legacy

  • A handout photograph, shot in January 2024, shows women and babies at the Zamzam displacement camp, close to El Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan.

    The Guardian view
    Protecting Sudan’s civilians: there is no more time to be lost

  • A row of cars charging at Wetherby Services, North Yorkshire.

    Letters
    Don’t despair about the climate. Be part of the social tipping point

  • A doctor holding the hand of a female patient lying in a hospital bed

    Letters
    When doctors withhold futile treatments, that isn’t ‘assisted dying’

Sport

Climate crisis

  • Rishi Sunak pointing right hand forward during prime ministers questions

    Green politics
    Net zero U-turns will hit UK infrastructure, say government advisers

  • A small bird with an orange belly, brown wings and black head with a touch of white, perches on a mossy post

    Environment
    Climate disruption to UK seasons causes problems for migratory birds

  • Trudi Warner, 68, (third from left) from Walthamstow, east London

    Exclusive
    Solicitor general to appeal over case of climate activist who held sign on jurors’ rights

  • Naomi Klein, Sally Rooney and George Monbiot.

    Fossil fuels
    More than 200 authors renew call for Baillie Gifford to divest

From the UK

  • Nurse wearing scrubs walking in a hospital ward

    NHS
    Almost nine out of 10 nurses in England work when ill, survey finds

    Nurses ‘sacrifice their health and wellbeing’ to help plug gaps in rotas, Royal College of Nurses says
  • He gestures in front of an easyJet liveried aircraft

    EasyJet
    CEO Johan Lundgren to step down at beginning of 2025

  • Police tape

    Scotland
    One-year-old girl dies after being hit by Land Rover in Aberdeenshire

  • Head and shoulders shot of Allison Kirkby smiling

    BT
    Firm reveals £3bn cuts as it passes peak full-fibre broadband spend

    • Food
      Sharp rise in cost of British lamb in UK due to rising demand and import issues

    • Nigel Farage
      WHO accuses politician of spreading misinformation about pandemic treaty

    • Food allergies
      One in 20 people in UK affected, study finds

    • Media
      Ken Bruce continues to eat into BBC’s audience at Greatest Hits Radio

    • ‘Suspicious substances’
      Bedfordshire man arrested on terror offences after items found at a property

    • ‘Local legend’
      Retired Wirral newsagent refused indefinite leave to remain by Home Office

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Around the world

  • Starlink<br>ANKARA, TURKIYE - OCTOBER 31: In this photo illustration, logo of Starlink is displayed on mobile phone screen and photo of Elon Musk is displayed on computer screen in Ankara, Turkiye on October 31, 2023. (Photo by Ismail Aslandag/Anadolu via Getty Images)

    Starlink
    Internet shutdown in Sudan will punish millions, Elon Musk warned

  • Vladimir Putin (L) and China's President Xi Jinping shake hands wearing navy suits, ties and white shirts

    Russia
    Putin and Xi announce plans to strengthen military ties in Beijing

    • Exclusive
      Meta revokes job offer to sextortion expert after he publicly criticises Instagram

    • ‘Barbaric’
      Palestinian lorry drivers recount settlers’ attack on Gaza aid convoy

    • Like a ‘civil war’
      Nouméa residents describe terror as deadly riots sweep New Caledonia capital

    • Bidzina Ivanishvili
      Georgia’s billionaire ‘puppet master’ betting the house on Moscow

    • Live
      Japan’s economy shrinks; geopolitics and global elections ‘threaten financial stability’; finfluencers charged over FX scheme

    • Donald Trump
      Alleged ‘deal’ offer from ex-president to big oil could save industry $110bn, study finds

Culture

  • Kunstsilo in Kristiansand, Norway.

    ‘An incredible phallic landmark!’
    The grain silo gallery, a gift from the trillion dollar man

    Le Corbusier called grain silos ‘the magnificent first fruits of the new age’. But what can be done with these soaring industrial cathedrals when they’re redundant? A Norwegian tycoon has the answer
  • Luke Newton as Colin Bridgerton and Nicola Coughlan as Penelope Featherington in Bridgerton.

    'Still unbearably sexy'
    Bridgerton season three review

  • Sir Mark Elder with Stephen Hough and the Hallé on Wednesday night in Manchester.

    Hough/Hallé/Elder review
    Americana, jazz and virtuosity in debut for piano concerto

  • Film Still: Pigen Med Nålen (The Girl With The Needle) Directed by Magnus Von Horn

    The Girl With the Needle review
    Horrific drama based on Denmark’s 1921 baby-killer case

  • A slice of life … English.

    English review
    Pulitzer-winning classroom play doesn’t quite make the grade

  • Affecting and enveloping … Lives Outgrown.

    Beth Gibbons: Lives Outgrown review
    Long-awaited solo debut is a gripping study of ageing and loss

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    Thursday quiz
    Military graffiti, surprising songs and finding Nemo

    Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?
  • A woman holds a large cup of bubble tea with a plastic lid.

    ‘It’s going gangbusters!’
    How Britain fell in love with bubble tea

  • Volterra, Pisa - Tuscany, Italy<br>VOLTERRA. the dome of the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta and the Baptistery of San Giovanni in Volterra, with its double walls, the Etruscan and the thirteenth-century ones, is a medieval-looking city, Province of Pisa, Tuscany, Italy

    From Ravenna to the coast of Tuscany
    A walk across Italy in Garibaldi’s footsteps

  • A child eating a meal at a table but also playing on a smartphone

    No screens at meals and insect food
    Four fresh findings about obesity

  • Four young people pulling faces while tasting red wine

    'Do you enjoy gossip?'
    Why are we so snobby about other people’s weddings?

  • Felicity Cloake's blondies.

    Felicity Cloake's masterclass
    How to make blondies

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    Do you have a portrait of King Charles in your workplace?

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    Environment
    Have you recently become more engaged with the natural world?

  • Woman in a wheelchair using a ramp.

    Disability
    Share your experience of wheelchair access in the UK

  • Photo of a sold and for sale signs.

    Housing
    Have you bought a house in the UK with your friend?

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From our global editions

  • Masked Haitian police officers carry rifles on patrol

    ‘The gangs are in charge’
    Haiti’s outgunned police fight a desperate rear defence

    With violent insurrectionists in charge of 80% of the capital, Haiti’s police cling to their mission in the face of deadly odds
  • Nadiya Neschcheryakovy at her post at a railway crossing station in the Kyiv region

    Ukraine
    The families risking everything to keep the country's trains running – photo essay

  • Performers and traditional activities ongoing in the traditional tents Ausserd Refugee camp , Algeria, set up for the FiSahara film festival, held 29 April-5 May 2024. Approximately 170,00 live in the 5 Sahrawi refugee camps located in Algeria’s Hamada desert, each named after a major town in Western Sahara, The camps were begun in 1975 to offer shelter from the war of independence against Morocco . They continue to grow in people fleeing the war , reignited when Morocco broke the ceasefire in 2020 .

    The art of resistance
    Desert film festival showcases stories of the Sahrawi people

  • A lawn full of tents, with a handmade sign in the foreground that says Divest, and red spray paint on a wall beyond the tents that says All Zionists.

    US
    Washington is pushing policies to combat antisemitism. Critics say they could violate free speech

  • A family cycling out of a tunnel

    ‘It’s unbelievable the difference a path has made’
    How volunteers are building a cycle network a yard at a time

  • A middel-aged white woman sits on a rock by the sea, wearing a wetsuit and surrounded by other wetsuits

    The search for the perfect wetsuit
    Is there one that doesn’t harm the planet?

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    ‘I believe I was drugged’
    Magician David Copperfield’s alleged victims speak out

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    Jonathan Yeo’s portrait of Charles III review
    A formulaic bit of facile flattery

  • ‘A liberated rack isn’t ashamed, it does what it wants to do’ … Sarah Thornton at home in California.

    ‘Breasts are a serious political problem’
    One woman’s quest to reclaim her chest

  • A teacher writes on a white board with three girls in a classroom with two raising their hands

    Analysis
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    Science Weekly
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  • Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images. Former Donald Trump attorney Michael Cohen departing from his home

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    Donald Trump comes face to face with former fixer Michael Cohen

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    From an AI that ‘creates’ family photos to images printed on glass – and then broken – these artists nominated for this year’s prize use radical methods to achieve groundbreaking results
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