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  • The aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, glow on the horizon at St Mary's Lighthouse in Whitley Bay

    Northern lights
    Aurora dazzles over UK, Europe and across the hemisphere

    Aurora borealis sightings further south than usual from Ireland and Britain to Czech Republic and Germany as solar storm hits Earth’s atmosphere
    • The Mona Lisa

      Mona Lisa
      Mystery of where masterpiece was painted has been solved, geologist claims

    • ‘Radical-left lunatics’
      Campus protests give Trump a target for his violent rhetoric of vengeance

    • Arizona
      US woman charged with concealing bleach in husband’s coffee avoids jail

    • Bird flu
      Strain found in US cows flown to UK lab for testing

    • China
      Woman jailed for reporting on Covid in Wuhan to be freed after four years

    • London
      Two women charged over Magna Carta protest

    • Rudy Giuliani
      Trump ally suspended by New York radio station over 2020 election lies

    • Kristi Noem
      Abigail Disney evokes Old Yeller in plea to reject Republicans

In focus

  • A graphic showing temperature figures – 2C, 3C, 4C – on a background of a red-tinted surface of mudcracks in the Coto Donana, Andalucia, Spain

    Brutal heatwaves and submerged cities
    What a 3C world would look like

  • A smattering of 'manly green vitamin capsules'

    Poor reviews, missing product
    Firms’ anti-woke offerings soak consumers

    A thriving retail niche caters to the performative masculinity of the right wing, oftentimes bilking its chauvinistic client base
  • a side-by-side image of Kerry Kennedy and her brother Robert F Kennedy Jr, who once had a worm in his brain

    ‘There’s so much at stake’
    Kerry Kennedy on the family political split

    Kerry Kennedy discusses the collective decision to back Joe Biden over brother Robert F Kennedy Jr and how his impact on the election will be ‘dangerous’

Spotlight

  • Raffaella Spone shot in Doylestown Pennsylvania in April 2024 for The Guardian Saturday Magazine

    Accused of 'deepfake' video of teen cheerleaders, arrested and condemned
    The problem? Nothing was fake

    Raffaella Spone talks for the first time about being the centre of a story in which nothing was as it seemed
  • Penny and Peter

    This is how we do it
    ‘I can only orgasm fantasising about other men. My husband loves it’

  • Beabadoobee.

    Beabadoobee
    ‘I don’t have time for death threats. I’ve got a mortgage to pay’

    A support slot on Taylor Swift’s Eras tour and a Rick Rubin produced album has given the former TikTok-viral musician a new sense of self-confidence. Not even the internet trolls can stop her
  • Bodkin actors

    ‘Irish cliche bingo’
    Critics pan Obamas’ Netflix comedy drama Bodkin

    Seven-part series set in fictional Cork village is couple’s first foray into scripted television for streaming service
    • Roman Kemp sitting on Martin Kemp's shoulders outside with a dramatic sky in 1997 and 2024.

      Martin and Roman Kemp look back
      ‘I didn’t want a parent v kid relationship. I wanted us to be equal’

    • Steve Albini and Will Oldham.

      Will Oldham on Steve Albini
      ‘He elevated the quality of the human experience’

    • Efficient people main image

      How efficient people get stuff done
      Batch cook, set fake deadlines – and delegate

    • Maz and Gianluca Blind Date composite photo

      Blind date
      ‘She yawned when I was talking – but she told me she was just tired’

Opinion

  • George Washington University Students Continue To Protest Against The War In Gaza<br>WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 9: George Washington University police officers stand on the steps of The F Street House, which has long served as the home of the President, as Pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched from H Street near the now fenced off University Yard at George Washington University on May 9, 2024 in Washington, DC. The Pro-Palestinian encampment that occupied GWU's University Yard for two weeks was cleared by police officers from the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia in the pre-dawn hours of May 8th, with more than 30 people being arrested, hours before DC Mayor Muriel Bowser was scheduled to testify before the House Oversight Committee. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

    Campus protest crackdowns claim to be about antisemitism – but they’re part of a rightwing plan

    Arielle Angel
    • Joe Biden departs Air Force One on 9 May 2024.

      Joe Biden is desperate for this war to end – but neither Netanyahu nor Hamas is in any hurry

      Jonathan Freedland
    • Edith Pritchett cartoon on forgetting her phone

      Edith Pritchett on millennial life
      I’m phoneless – can I enjoy this alone time?

    • Talbot Street, Dublin, after car bombs rocked the city on 17 May 1974.

      On an island still tormented by the Troubles, Britain’s Legacy Act is making things worse

      Fintan O’Toole
    • Raphaël Glucksmann speaking in Paris, France, 2 May 2024

      In France, we’ve been desperate for a real alternative to Macron and Le Pen. Finally, he’s here

      Alexander Hurst

Sports

  • Birmingham City v Leeds United - Sky Bet Championship - St. Andrew's<br>Birmingham City co-owner Tom Brady (centre), CEO Garry Cook (left) and director Matt Alvarez (right) in the stands before the Sky Bet Championship match at St. Andrew's, Birmingham. Picture date: Saturday August 12, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story SOCCER Birmingham. Photo credit should read: Mike Egerton/PA Wire. RESTRICTIONS: 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.

    Tom Brady’s Blues
    Birmingham’s relegation proves celebrity doesn’t guarantee success

    US stars have flooded English soccer on the backs of the Wrexham phenomenon. But the shimmer of fame cannot overcome ineffective ownership
  • Erik ten Hag alongside Mason Mount during Manchester United

    Football
    Lack of alternatives could lead to Ten Hag staying at United

    • Fabio Silva goes close for Rangers.

      Live
      Celtic v Rangers – Scottish Premiership

    • A banner reading “Standard on strike!” appears outside the club’s Stade Maurice Dufrasne home on Friday.

      Soccer
      US-owned Standard Liège game off after fans block team bus in protest

    • Novak Djokovic signs autographs for fans shortly before being struck by a metal bottle.

      Tennis
      Djokovic injured by falling bottle after easing past Moutet

    • A grab taken from a video released by Kylian Mbappé .

      ‘A lot of emotions’
      Kylian Mbappé announces he is leaving PSG

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Climate crisis

  • Environmental scientist Dr Shobha Maharaj stands in front of the coastline in San Fernando, Trinidad, where coastal stabilization works have been done, in an attempt to preserve the coastline.

    ‘I am starting to panic about my child’s future’
    Climate scientists wary of starting families

  • Illustration showing a protester, a ballot box, a hamburger and an aeroplane, with a tree in silhouette behind

    Explained
    What are the most powerful climate actions you can take? The expert view

  • The Mauna Loa Observatory atmospheric research facility

    Greenhouse gas emissions
    Record-breaking increase in CO2 levels in world’s atmosphere

  • Images taken from the Guardian’s climate coverage over the past decade including floods in Pakistan and forest fires in western USA

    ‘The stakes could not be higher’
    World is on edge of climate abyss, UN warns

Across the country

  • A Family Fare store is shown in Midland, Mich., Thursday, May 9, 2024. Contractors curious about an extension cord on the roof of a Michigan grocery store made a startling discovery: A 34-year-old woman was living inside the business sign, with enough space for a computer, printer and coffee maker, police said. (Dave Clark/Midland Daily News via AP)

    Michigan
    Woman found living inside rooftop store sign with desk and coffee maker

    The woman told police she had been living inside the grocery store sign for roughly a year, and had been able to get electricity
  • Trump's criminal trial on charges of falsifying business records continues in New York.

    Hush-money trial
    Trump appears frustrated in court while possible Cohen testimony looms

  • The Louisiana supreme court will reconsider its previous decision striking down a low that had allowed victims to sue over long-ago abuse.

    Louisiana
    State supreme court to rehear case on letting child sexual abuse victims sue

  • dark clouds in the sky and a person standing on a car reflected in the side mirror of another car

    Texas
    Baseball-sized hailstones fall as southern US hit by severe storms

    • US politics
      Pro-Israel Pac pours millions into surprise candidate in Maryland primary

    • Steve Bannon
      Court upholds Trump ally’s January 6 contempt of Congress conviction

    • Michael Cohen
      Coming soon to a Trump trial near you

    • Connecticut
      Rescue workers rappel into rock quarry to rescue missing dog

    • HBCUs
      Student newsrooms to receive $200,000 in boost for journalism

    • Virginia
      School board votes to restore Confederate names to two public schools

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Around the world

  • In a selfie taken in July 2014, Johnathan Walton poses with Marianne Smyth during a vacation in Palm Springs, California.

    ‘Queen of the Con’
    Woman found in Maine ordered to be extradited to Northern Ireland

    Police had arrested Marianne ‘Mair’ Smyth at a rental home after a podcast on her crimes prompted a listener to reveal her location
  • Fire after a Russian missile strike in Kharkiv on Friday

    Ukraine war briefing
    Focus swings to Kharkiv as Russia mounts assaults

  • people clash with police

    Germany
    Eight hundred protesters attempt to storm Tesla factory

  • Street view of the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, a pub on the bottom floor of an old brick building with flower baskets and event posters hanging on the facade

    Eurovision
    Viewing parties in England cancelled over Israel’s participation

    • LGBTQ
      World Bank and IMF 'can press Ghana to rethink punitive law'

    • United Nations
      General assembly votes to back Palestinian bid

    • Peru
      Brother and lawyer of president held as corruption inquiry widens

    • London
      Remaining men-only gentlemen’s clubs discuss admitting women

    • Afghanistan
      At least 50 dead after flash flooding in northern region

    • Cannes film festival
      Strike disruption over seasonal workers’ rights looms

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Podcasts

Podcasts

  • Josh O'Connor portrait photographed for the Observer New Review

    Weekend
    Weekend podcast: Josh O’Connor on Zendaya and gardening; Marina Hyde on the Met Gala; being a boy in 2024; and Philippa Perry offers advice on leaving a legacy

  • A march to protest against mining in El Salvador in 2017. Photograph: José Cabezas/Reuters

    The Audio Long Read
    The true cost of El Salvador’s new gold rush – podcast

  • Natalie Elphicke and Keir Starmer sitting on armchairs talking one another (Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire)

    Today in Focus
    Rishi Sunak staggers on – but for how long?

  • Champions League - Semi Final - Second Leg - Real Madrid v Bayern Munich<br>Soccer Football - Champions League - Semi Final - Second Leg - Real Madrid v Bayern Munich - Santiago Bernabeu, Madrid, Spain - May 8, 2024 Real Madrid's Jude Bellingham and Eduardo Camavinga celebrate after the match REUTERS/Juan Medina TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

    Football Weekly
    Real Madrid do it again in Champions League – Football Weekly Extra

  • G2: how to harness protein power

    Science Weekly
    How much protein is too much? – podcast

  • People flee the eastern parts of Rafah in Gaza. Photo by Aaed Baker/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock

    Today in Focus
    Escaping Rafah: on the ground in Gaza’s last refuge

  • Borussia Dortmund is in the final of the Champions League, Parc de Prince, Paris, North Rhine-Westphalia, France - 07 May 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Action Press/REX/Shutterstock (14468424le) Nico Schlotterbeck #4 (Borussia Dortmund), Paris Saint-Germain vs. Borussia Dortmund, Football, Champions League, semi-finals Borussia Dortmund is in the final of the Champions League, Parc de Prince, Paris, North Rhine-Westphalia, France - 07 May 2024

    Football Weekly
    Dortmund delight as PSG’s Champions League woes return – Football Weekly

Culture

  • 475612,Doctor Who S1<br>Doctor Who S1,11-05-2024,2,The Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson),*NOT FOR PUBLICATION UNTIIL 00:01HRS, SUNDAY 5TH MAY, 2024*,BBC STUDIOS 2023,James Pardon

    Doctor Who
    Even the haters will find it impossible to resist Ncuti Gatwa

    The Fifteenth Doctor is magnetic and charming as he flashes great knowing smiles and explains sci-fi nonsense elegantly. Consider me a convert!
  • Chaka Khan

    Chaka Khan
    ‘Someone said there were too many black people in our band. He put some white guys on stage with us’

  • Demonstrators take part in a protest in Rochester, New York, in September 2020.

    Morning After the Revolution review
    A bad faith attack on ‘woke’

  • Woman wearing red stand in front of US flag and White House sign

    Say More review
    Jen Psaki on Biden, Trump and how to make your point

  • Kaliane Bradley

    ‘It was just so much fun’
    The Ministry of Time author Kaliane Bradley

  • person with short hair and glasses wearing a light green jacket

    ‘I want to make movies for my people’
    Jane Schoenbrun on making a soon-to-be cult classic

Lifestyle

  • Hot flushes are experienced by 85% of women.

    The hot years
    The truth about what happens during menopause – and the best ways to get through it

  • Worried-01

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    I’m ignored when I try to chat to people. How can I improve my conversation skills?

  • Caroline Paul flies over the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco in a gyrocopter.

    I wanted to fly a gyrocopter – so I learned how to, at 57

    Caroline Paul
  • The 2024 Met Gala Celebrating "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion" - Arrivals<br>NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 06: Uma Thurman, Tory Burch, and Bruna Marquezine attend the 2024 Costume Institute Benefit for "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images)

    ‘Really dystopian’
    Why was there no mention of Gaza at the Met Gala?

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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

  • Ponomarenko in Kyiv’s Independence Square

    ‘I have my iPhone, X and a brain in my head’
    Ukrainian journalist and social media star Illia Ponomarenko

  • The legs of a woman in blue skates

    ‘I made curtains on the train’
    The commuters livening up their journeys

  • Grand Final - 63rd Eurovision Song Contest<br>epa06732491 A fan invades the stage during the performance of SuRie (R) representing the United Kingdom with 'Storm' during the Grand Final of the 63rd annual Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) at the Altice Arena in Lisbon, Portugal, 12 May 2018. Twenty-six finalists are competing to win the ESC 2018. EPA/JOSE SENA GOULAO *** Local Caption *** 50359766

    Song and dance
    Eurovision’s history of controversy

  • Ann Peetermans, (47, top left) has dinner with the three boarders, Iosif (53, top right), Etty (71, bottom left) and Luc (75, bottom right).

    Belgium
    The town where families take in people with psychiatric conditions

In case you missed it

  • Pictures of Callum and Jake Robinson and Jack Carther Rohad by a bush of flowers by the beach

    Mexico
    Tourist killings expose fragmentation of organized crime at the heart of country's extraordinary violence

  • a composite image of people in hazmat suits, a syringe, a cow and birds flying in the sky

    ‘When to pull the trigger’
    How prepared are we for human bird flu?

    The H5N1 virus has been devastating bird populations, and is now infecting mammals too. Is human-to-human transmission next? And are we ready for another pandemic?
  • Alienable right to life features the names of 1,039 people killed in mass shootings since the Columbine high school massacre in 1999.

    ‘A handgun in every nightstand’
    US art installation shines light on gun violence

    Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg’s artwork features a US flag bearing names of 1,039 people killed in mass shootings since Columbine
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In pictures

  • A man puts water on his face on a packed Ipanema beach

    ‘Rio is beautiful, democratic and welcoming. It has this spell’
    Adriano Brodbeck’s best phone picture

    The São Paulo-based photographer captures the end of a hot day on the beach
  • Pillared monument with people in silhouette against northern lights

    From Edinburgh to Vienna
    Best pictures as Northern lights dazzle the UK and Europe

  • Aerial view of a football stadium where the pitch and all but the highest rows of seats are covered with muddy flood water. The water is also flooding the area outside the stadium,

    Photographs of the week
    Around the world in 20 pictures

  • A woman wading through brown flood water in a residential area

    Photos of the day
    Floods in Brazil and the Sussexes in Nigeria

  • gold chain necklace with face of man with diamond beard, long hair and gold crown

    From Biggie to Nicki
    The most spectacular hip-hop jewelry

  • A cat staring at a soft toy lion

    Animals
    The 2024 Comedy Pet Photo awards

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