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  • Rishi Sunak and Grant Shapps walking off a plane

    Rishi Sunak
    Tories must let PM ‘get on with the job’, says minister, as election rumours grow

    Defence secretary says MPs must give the PM space as Tory figures appear to be vying for leadership
  • Sadiq Khan

    Housing
    Leaseholders should have the right to withhold service charges, says Khan

  • A woman looking out of her window.

    England
    Man who raped wife tried to convince court he was victim of domestic abuse

  • Jarrod Bowen leaps in celebration after giving the Hammers a half-time lead over Liverpool.

    Live
    West Ham United v Liverpool: Premier League

    • London
      Army unsure if injured runaway horses will return to duties

    • Live
      Middle East crisis: Hamas ‘reviewing new Israeli ceasefire proposal’

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

    • Scotland
      Humza Yousaf invites other Scottish parties to talks to find ‘common ground’

    • The prince, the plotters and the would-be putsch
      Germany to try far-right coup gang

    • Tobago
      British man in critical care after shark attack

News in focus

  • A soldier stands in a dilapidated building looking at the camera

    Azov brigade
    Elite force bucks trend of Ukrainian losses on eastern front

  • UK lorry having checks at Calais

    Brexit
    Three and a bit years after the UK left the EU, are border checks finally here?

    Sort of: this week will see inspections of some goods. But the hit to businesses and inflation will be inescapable
  • 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?

    The professor on his famous 13 ‘keys’ to the White House, a method for predicting election results that’s been right nine times out of 10

Spotlight

  • Sean and Emily with their birth mother, Sara, outside her house in Santiago, Chile

    She was told her babies were dead
    Instead they were sold abroad. What happened when she met them 40 years on?

    Four families torn apart by Chile’s illegal adoption scandal finally found each other decades later. They describe the emotional moment they met – and how they pieced together the lives they had spent apart
  • 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

  • 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

    They had only been married for 11 months when the world-famous novelist was attacked by a frenzied knifeman. His wife remembers the intense drama of hearing the news, and the traumatic aftermath
  • Artist’s illustration of a hypothetical uneven ring of dust orbiting Boyajian's star that could explain strange dimming of light.

    ‘Is it aliens?’
    How a mysterious star could help the search for extraterrestrial life

    Scientists hope studies into Boyajian’s star could lead to enhanced techniques for identifying distant planetary civilisations
    • Sebastian and Teresa

      This is how we do it
      ‘Since having prostate cancer I can’t get an erection, but I still get just as much pleasure’

    • 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 cast of Auf Wiedersehen Pet

      ‘The producers thought it was too crude, too manly’
      40 years of comedy classic Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

    • Michelle Collins

      Michelle Collins
      ‘When I was 45, I was told I was too old to work in Hollywood’

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Opinion

  • National Trust scones

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

    Gaby Hinsliff
    When even the Met police and National Trust scones are apparently ‘peak wokerati’, it’s become the establishment norm, says Guardian columnist 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 next election, they could be right

    Samuel Earle
  • Freddy McConnell

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

    Freddy McConnell
  • Group of teenagers using mobile phones in hallway at high school.<br>High school student and her friends using their smart phones in a hallway.

    The Anxious Generation wants to save teens. But the bestseller’s anti-tech logic is skewed

    Blake Montgomery
    There’s no doubt about the mental health crisis facing young people. Jonathan Haidt blames our devices – which oversimplifies the problem
    • 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
    • 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
    • Restaurant

      Edith Pritchett on millennial life
      They were very attentive: eating in an empty restaurant

    • Harvey Weinstein leaves a court in New York after a bail hearing in December 2019.

      How much did #MeToo change for women? Let’s ask Harvey Weinstein today – or Donald Trump

      Marina Hyde

Editorials & Letters

  • An inmate at a cell door window in HMP Portland

    The Guardian view
    Indeterminate sentences: the legacy of a bad law lingers on

  • The Last Night of the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall

    The Guardian view
    Patriotism and the Last Night of the Proms: time for a change

  • Justice statue on the Old Bailey law courts in central London

    Letters
    Gaza, Germany, justice and reconciliation

  • Ecstasy pills in a man's hand

    Letters
    MDMA trials are showing it has promise as a psychiatric medicine

Climate crisis

  • 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

    Sadiq Khan
    London's mayor says he's green - so what has he achieved?

  • 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

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

    Weather tracker
    Heavy rainfall causes flooding and death in east Africa

  • UAE-WEATHER-FLOOD<br>Cars drive down a flooded motorway in Dubai on April 20, 2024. Four people died after the heaviest rainfall on record in the oil-rich UAE on April 16, including two Filipino women who suffocated inside their vehicle in Dubai's flooding. (Photo by Giuseppe CACACE / AFP) (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP via Getty Images)

    UAE
    Global heating and urbanisation to blame for severity of floods, study finds

From the UK

  • A mash-up of mobile phones with emojis.

    Politics
    What happens when an ex-Daily Star 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?
  • Sign on a wall saying: 'NCA National Crime Agency' with a picture of a crown

    London
    Four Vietnamese nationals arrested over people smuggling

  • Inga Rublite, right, with her twin sister Inese Briede, both smiling

    ‘It should have been safe’
    Twin of woman found under coat in A&E says death avoidable

  • White police van with Devon and Cornwall police written on the side

    Devon
    Man dies after after taking ‘unusually strong batch’ of heroin

    • Consumer affairs
      Remote working and whiffy workout wear fuel laundry revolution

    • Carers' scandal
      Ministers told to 'immediately' fix carer’s allowance issues

    • Wales
      Teachers injured in school stabbing speak of incident’s ‘enormous impact’

    • Campaign Against Antisemitism
      Group cancels counter-protest against London pro-Palestinian march

    • Liz Truss
      Book enters bestseller list in 70th place with 2,228 copies sold

    • Animals
      ‘It was wet. It was filthy. It was aggressive. I said, I’ll take the racoon. But keeping exotic pets is cruel’

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  • Woman in red-orange suit sits on stage in front of blue background

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

    Revelation in new book that possible Trump running mate killed ‘untrainable’ hunting dog prompts widespread revulsion
  • Om Fahed appears to be dancing holding a flag over her head

    Iraq
    TikTok star Om Fahad shot dead outside Baghdad home

  • Polish border guards patrol near a metal wall

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

  • Land crab in defensive posture

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

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

    • R Kelly
      US court upholds singer's 20-year prison term for child sexual abuse

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

    • Andrew Tate
      Human trafficking trial can proceed, Romanian court rules

    • Tesla
      Autopilot feature 'involved in 13 fatal crashes in US'

    • California
      Crews battle fire threatening longest wooden pier on US west coast

Culture

  • Olivia Laing garden for Books

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

    From manicured, exclusive retreats built on slave money to common ground in which to seed utopian dreams, gardens occupy a fertile space in our lives and imaginations
  • 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

  • Lucia di Lammermoor directed by Katie Mitchell, staring Nadine Sierra

    The week in classical
    Lucia di Lammermoor; Nash Ensemble; Anthony McGill and Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective – review

  • Emily Henry - credit Emily Henry

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

  • Arthur Hughes in Shardlake.

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

  • Have You Got it Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd on Sky Arts

    TV tonight
    The trippy story of Pink Floyd’s lost member Syd Barrett

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    T’Pau’s Carol Decker looks back
    ‘We went ballistic when we got to No 1. Our screaming annoyed Bryan Adams’

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

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    Money
    ‘HMRC harassed me for money I had paid weeks earlier’

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    The Tim Dowling column
    My banjo is out of tune, and the gig is falling apart

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    ‘Demolishing democracy’
    How much danger does Christian nationalism pose in the US?

    Documentary Bad Faith looks at the history of a group trying to affect and corrupt politics under the guise of religion
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    Trump on Trial
    What we learned from David Pecker’s testimony

  • 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

  • Charles Guilloy cooking a kitchen.

    Bourguignon, burgers and beetroot
    Paris Olympics to make history with vegetarian offerings

  • visitors pore over an orange MG 4 EV electric sports car on display at the Beijing Auto Show.

    Why Elon Musk is right
    Once-booming electric car sales are starting to stall

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    ‘Injustice should not be accepted’
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