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  • Close up of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

    Turkey
    Country reportedly halts all trade with Israel over war in Gaza

  • People walk to the Senate gallery to watch the proceedings, Wednesday, May 1, 2024, at the Capitol in Phoenix. Democrats secured enough votes in the Arizona Senate to repeal a Civil War-era ban on abortions that the state's highest court recently allowed to take effect. (AP Photo/Matt York)

    Arizona
    Governor signs into law measure to repeal 1864 abortion ban

    • Niger
      Russian troops enter airbase where US soldiers are stationed

    • Abu Ghraib
      Mistrial in case of US military contractor accused of abuse

    • Live
      Prosecution plays Michael Cohen’s recording of conversation with Donald Trump

    • ‘They don’t want immigrants’
      Biden calls Japan and India ‘xenophobic’

    • Amazon
      CEO broke US law with anti-union comments, judge rules

    • Kevin Spacey
      Actor hits back at docuseries alleging sexual abuse

News in focus

  • Police face-off with pro-Palestinian students after destroying part of the encampment barricade on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles early on May 2.

    Visual guide
    The pro-Palestinian US campus protests in maps, videos and photos

  • lots of people with signs

    ‘Resist the state’
    Activists teach Floridians to ‘self-manage’ abortions in wake of ban

    As the state bans abortion past six weeks of pregnancy, a community care network springs to action in Gainesville
  • Two older women and one younger man in a nightclub surrounded by pink-purple lighting and colourful graphics. One of the women has both hands in the air.

    ‘We can live again’
    Belgian nursing home residents hit the nightclubs

    Papy Booom runs outings for older people, and late-night dancing is proving a successful way of socialising and staying active

Spotlight

  • Composite of wedding menu, planes and flowers.

    How to have a sustainable wedding
    Six tips for a greener ‘I do’

    From excessive travel to food waste, weddings can have a huge carbon footprint. Here’s how to plan an eco-friendly celebration
  • Bluey S2E13 Dad Baby

    The one where Bandit gives birth
    Is America ready for the banned Bluey episode?

  • 1968, PLANET OF THE APES<br>CHARLTON HESTON &amp; KIM HUNTER Film 'PLANET OF THE APES' (1968) Directed By FRANKLIN J. SCHAFFNER 08 February 1968 CTH27987 Allstar/Cinetext/20TH CENTURY FOX **WARNING** This photograph can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above film. For Editorial Use Only

    Ranked
    Go ape! Killer simians in cinema

    As Kong continues to terrorise us in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, we rate some chilling chimps
  • Ryan Gosling in The Fall Guy.

    The Fall Guy review
    Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt fun it up in goofy stuntman romance

    Gosling does the dirty work in this entertaining action film, which has moments of tenderness with Blunt among the crashes, leaps and fireballs
    • ‘Over 100 million Americans have diabetes or prediabetes, and 100,000 die from the condition annually.’

      Death by diabetes
      Does the ADA work for patients or companies? A lawsuit dared to ask

    • man in a suit on stage

      Stephen Colbert on Trump’s trial
      ‘He lasts only a few furious minutes and then nods off’

    • ‘Assembly-line jams with all the gravitas of a lift-the flap book’ … Sia Furler.

      Sia: Reasonable Woman review
      Pop reduced to motivational poster

    • the Lemon Twigs (left to right) Michael and Brian D’Addario

      ‘Who wants to stare at a computer?’
      Pop duo the Lemon Twigs on the joys of analogue life

Opinion

  • a side-by-side image of Antony Blinken, Unrwa's damaged headquarters, and Benjamin Netanyahu

    Which is worse, Israel’s lies about Gaza or its western backers who repeat those lies?

    Mehdi Hasan
    Useful idiots keep parroting provably false Israeli talking points. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me …
  • Kristi Noem at an event in January this year.

    Does shooting her puppy rule out Kristi Noem as Trump’s running mate? Don’t bet on it

    Emma Brockes
  • Messy old letters in a pile

    We know there are many benefits to writing by hand – in a digital world we risk losing them

    Nova Weetman
  • The luxury yacht Lady Moura, owned by Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego.

    Why are billionaires scared of Brazil’s plan to hit them with a global tax? Because it makes perfect sense

    Larry Elliott
  • Upset woman sitting in front of washing machine

    When my tumble dryer broke, I didn’t have high hopes of the chatbot. But the human was even less useful

    Adrian Chiles
  • a pollution warning sign at Scarborough beach, north Yorkshire

    The right’s Brexit ‘bonfire of red tape’ was just wind and smoke. And even Tories want more regulation now

    Polly Toynbee

Sport

  • Robert Andrich celebrates scoring quite brilliant second goal for Leverkusen.

    Live
    Roma v Bayer Leverkusen – Europa League semi-final, first leg

    Minute-by-minute report: Join Luke McLaughlin for updates as the new German champions visit the Italian capital
  • Ayoub El Kaabi scores from the penalty spot to complete his hat-trick as Olympiakos lead at Villa Park.

    Live
    Aston Villa v Olympiakos – Europa Conference League semi-final, first leg

  • Jadon Sancho

    No surprise Sancho is shining away from Old Trafford circus

    Barney Ronay
  • Nicolas Jackson scores the second goal for Chelsea against a lacklustre Spurs at Stamford Bridge.

    Chelsea 2-0 Spurs
    Jackson delivers big blow to Tottenham's top-four hopes

    • Sergio Pérez (left) and Red Bull teammate Max Verstappen in Miami.

      Miami thrice
      F1 returns for another blast of showbiz in Florida sun

    • West Ham manager David Moyes (right) and technical director Tim Steidten

      Football
      West Ham technical director asked to stay away from first team

    • Cindy Ngamba

      Paris Olympics
      British-based Ngamba backed to make history for refugee team

    • New York Knicks fans try to distract Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid (21) as he attempts a free throw during the second half in Game 1 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series, Saturday, April 20, 2024, at Madison Square Garden in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

      NBA
      Sixers buy 2,000 home tickets to shut out noisy Knicks fans

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Climate crisis

  • a woman files a lawsuit

    ‘Tragic and unjust’
    Court strikes down youth climate lawsuit on Biden administration request

  • Rows of white wind turbines in rows stretch back across a seascape partly lit by sunlight

    UK
    PM to allow oil and gas exploration at sites intended for offshore wind

  • Emissions rise from a smokestack

    Climate crisis
    New US rules for pollution cuts ‘probably terminal’ for coal-fired plants

  • Rooftop with path running through wildflowers and wild plants

    ‘On every roof something is possible’
    How sponge cities could change the way we handle rain

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Around the world

  • Kristen Clarke speaks during a news conference at the justice department in Washington DC in August 2022.

    Biden administration
    Top US justice department official says she is domestic abuse survivor

    Kristen Clarke also tells CNN she was once arrested for expunged offense, sparking calls from rightwingers for her resignation
  • Boris Johnson.

    Boris Johnson
    Ex-PM turned away from UK polling station after forgetting to bring photo ID

  • A Gazprom sign is seen on the facade of a business centre in St Petersburg

    Gazprom
    Kremlin-owned gas company slumps to first annual loss in 22 years as trade with Europe hit

  • Orangutan pulling Fibraurea tinctoria leaves towards itself, with a leaf hanging out of its mouth.

    Science
    Orangutan seen treating wound with medicinal herb in first for wild animals

    • UK
      David Cameron backed Israel arms sales two days after death of UK aid workers

    • Greece
      Prison release of Golden Dawn founder angers anti-fascists

    • France
      Macron hits out at ‘hidden Brexiteer’ European nationalists

    • ‘Victorious Youth’
      Italy can reclaim 2,000-year-old Greek statue from Getty Museum, court rules

    • US Republicans
      Kristi Noem calls dog shooting report ‘fake news’ but insists on need to kill animal

    • Apple
      Firm working to fix iPhone alarm problem

Culture

  • John Cleese

    John Cleese
    Actor cut N-word from Fawlty Towers revival because people ‘don’t understand irony’

    Speaking at launch for West End adaptation, Cleese complains about literal-minded viewers ‘not playing with a full deck’
  • Barry Keoghan topless in Saltburn

    Keeping it clean
    Hollywood sex scenes decline by 40%

Lifestyle

  • Zendaya in an I Told Ya T-shirt in the film Challengers.

    ‘I couldn’t bear him pulling in it’
    Writers on the clothes they pinched from their exes

    As Challengers gives us a viral spin on the T-shirt poached from a former flame, we share our stories about clothes that survived long after the relationship ended
  • Painting: Visit to a New Mother (1835) by Moritz Calisch.

    Leading questions
    My mother-in-law pushes to spend more time with our baby. How can I keep her at arm’s length?

  • Models walk along a paved area of Cité Radieuse as people sit watching at the side

    ‘We need to take risks’
    Chanel gets gritty with Marseille show

  • James (left) and Gareth.

    Dining across the divide
    The cost of student loans is dissuading those of us from working-class backgrounds from going to university

  • Les and Anna

    How we met
    From the first moment I felt a sense of happiness

  • A very old-looking book suspended on callipers

    Thursday quiz
    Poisoned books, hidden monsters and a bit of maths

Take part

  • College students hold placards to create awareness for citizens to vote, in Varanasi, ahead of India's upcoming general elections.

    People in India
    Share your thoughts on the election

  • A young businessman riding skateboard in the city of Barcelona, Spain.

    Tell us
    How do you make your commute fun or productive?

  • 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?

  • 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

From our global editions

  • woman's face in distress viewed between legs of police

    ‘I was lying on the ground beside a wall of cops’
    Student photographers’ best images of the campus protests

    Nine photojournalists from across the US tell the stories behind their most powerful shots, as pro-Palestinian protesters face police crackdowns
  • Crowds at a funeral procession in the West Bank

    ‘They hide when Israelis come’
    Palestinians despair of leadership after killing of colonel’s son

  • Saudade Kaadan

    ‘I refuse to simplify Syria for western audiences’
    Director Soudade Kaadan on making a war movie without bloodshed

  • Two people wearing blue aprons stand back-to-back in a kitchen washing dishes and handling kitchenware

    'A chop suey parlor filled with memories'
    Is America’s oldest Chinese restaurant in a tiny suburb of Sacramento?

  • A pregnant woman stands in front of two graves: one is painted black and white with a hand-lettered inscription, a wreath and a rickety wooden awning; next to it is a small square brown concrete block, To the right can be seen a small black and white painted concrete grave topped with a cross.

    Colombia
    Wayúu people live on land rich in resources. So why are their children dying of hunger?

  • Olga Rudenko on the street, photographed for a protrait with her reflection also visible in a shop window

    The fight for full press freedom in Ukraine
    We can write what we want, but bad actors try to intimidate us

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  • Man in suit and red Maga hat smirks to crowd

    Donald Trump
    Ex-president trades New York worries for hit of adulation from his Maga faithful

  • Zahra Joya poses for portrait on a bench in Elthorne Park, London.

    ‘They are trying to eradicate us completely’
    The passion and pain of telling the stories of Afghan women

  • The Kangei Maru’s range is fuelling speculation that Japan may be prepared to return to whaling in the Southern Ocean.

    Whaling
    The vast new ‘mother ship’ that Japan hopes will revive a shrinking industry

  • Two chimpanzees sitting in the forest

    'Fragmented and declining'
    Chimps are dying of the common cold. Is great ape tourism to blame?

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  • FBL-EUR-C1-DORTMUND-PSG<br>Dortmund's German forward #14 Niclas Fuellkrug (R) celebrates with Dortmund's English midfielder #10 Jadon Sancho (L) and Dortmund's German midfielder #19 Julian Brandt scoring the opening goal during the UEFA Champions League semi-final first leg football match between Borussia Dortmund and Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) on May 1, 2024 in Dortmund. (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP) (Photo by ODD ANDERSEN/AFP via Getty Images)

    Football Weekly
    Advantage Dortmund in Champions League semis? – Football Weekly Extra

  • A nurse holding a syringe gives a man an injection

    Science
    The extraordinary promise of personalised cancer vaccines

  • A transport vehicle carries three Tesla Cybertrucks on a freeway in California

    Today in Focus
    Has Elon Musk driven Tesla off track?

  • A designed image with the words 'Politics Weekly UK'

    Politics Weekly UK
    Coming 5 May: Politics Weekly Westminster – an extra podcast episode to get your political fix

  • Real Madrid's Jude Bellingham, left, runs with Bayern's Harry Kane during the Champions League semifinal first leg soccer match between Bayern Munich and Real Madrid at the Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany, Tuesday, April 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Christian Bruna)

    Football Weekly
    All square in Munich and Ipswich a point from Premier League – Football Weekly

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    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: The battle over dyslexia – podcast

  • A close up of a Labour rosette on a jacket

    Today in Focus
    Is Labour about to win a local elections landslide?

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  • Dancers perform in Circle Electric

    Photos of the day
    A dance premiere and bees on Broadway

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • A dog outside a polling station for the London mayor election

    Dog-whistle politics
    Pets at UK polling stations

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    The eyes have it
    LensCulture portrait awards 2024

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    A miraculous Magnum print sale

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