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  • Antony Blinken, left, and Prince Faisal bin Farhan sit at a table in front of their nation's flags

    Live
    ‘Measurable progress’ on aid but ceasefire ‘most effective’ to address Gaza suffering, says Blinken

    Secretary of state says Iran is biggest source of instability in region but adds many nations interested in ‘path of greater peace’
  • vials labeled with a bunch of science jargon and also "PFAS"

    Health
    PFAS increase likelihood of death by cardiovascular disease, study shows

  • a woman stands in a field

    California
    Activist wins Goldman prize for effort to clean up trucking and railway sectors

  • Students Maintain Encampment At City College, CUNY, New York, New York, United States - 26 Apr 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Jesus King/REX/Shutterstock (14452059f) Pro-Palestinian protesters maintain their encampment on the lawn on the campus of CUNY City College, while barricades were being offloaded on the sidewalk by the NYPD's barrier unit. Widespread encampments in support of Palestinians have popped up across the U.S. on college campuses, resulting in arrests and academic repercussions for some students. Students Maintain Encampment At City College, CUNY, New York, New York, United States - 26 Apr 2024

    ‘Do not bow’
    Ex-Black Panther praises pro-Palestinian student protesters from prison

    • Oklahoma
      Tornadoes kill at least four people and leave dozens injured

    • Live
      Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez says he is staying on in role

    • Abortion
      Mitch McConnell refuses to say whether he supports a US national ban

    • Live
      Ukraine says it has foiled 55 Russian attacks after admitting worsening situation on frontline

    • New Mexico
      Three women diagnosed with HIV after getting ‘vampire facials'

    • Robert F Kennedy Jr
      Independent dismisses Trump as ‘unhinged’ after being called a ‘Democrat plant’

In focus

  • FILE - CBS News anchor Dan Rather reads from cue cards during a dress rehearsal of CBS News' election night 2000 coverage Friday, Nov. 3, 2000, in New York. Rather returned to the CBS News airwaves Sunday, April 28, 2024, for the first time since his bitter exit 18 years ago, appearing in a reflective interview on “CBS Sunday Morning” days before the debut of a Netflix documentary on the 92-year-old newsman's life. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

    ‘I’ve missed it since the day I left’
    Dan Rather on life after CBS News

  • Stacks of 100-yuan banknotes. China has signalled that it will slow the pace of its transition to a cashless society

    Cash is king — for now
    China signals it will slow transition to cashless society

    With tourists struggling to access the two primary digital payment apps, Alipay and WeChat pay, Beijing has put measures in place to make cash payments easier
  • A sign warning visitors not to pee into the canal in the Red Light District of Amsterdam

    ‘Urination equality’
    Amsterdam women win fight for more public toilets

    Years of pressure by those fined for urinating in street due to lack of facilities pays off with €4m plans

Spotlight

  • Illinoise on Broadway

    ‘A silent film of dance underscored by an album’
    Inside the audacious Sufjan Stevens musical

    Illinoise sees the artist’s 2005 album transform into an ambitious and eye-opening modern dance show like nothing else on Broadway
  • Someone's knees with faces drawn on, which are looking at each other through the corners of their eyes in comedic fashion.

    ‘Don’t push into pain!’
    How to rescue your knees from everything from torn ligaments to injured tendons

  • An illustration of a heart made of jigsaw pieces, with a missing piece and a hand holding a smartphone

    ‘The science isn’t there’
    Do dating apps really help us find our soulmate?

    The effectiveness of Tinder and Hinge are hard to judge without access to their data. But now researchers are creating a free alternative with full transparency
  • Melanie Cantor, Author, A New Start at 60<br>Melanie Cantor, author, Fuck It, photographed with her dog Mabel in East Stour, Dorset by Millie Pilkington for the Guardian, A New Start after 60

    A new start after 60
    After a decade of rejections, I got my first novel published. Now I’ve got my dream, I won’t stop!

    After a successful career as a talent agent – representing Michael Parkinson, Ulrika Jonsson and Adam Ant – Melanie Cantor became disillusioned with TV. So she took up writing – and refused to give up on her passion.
    • ‘For all the anonymous outlaws’ … Dean Sameshima, Anonymous Homosexual (2020).

      Police busts, porn cinemas and glory holes
      The wild art of sexual outlaw Dean Sameshima

    • Zoh Amba, Central Park, New York, NY.

      ‘Scalding emotional intensity’
      Geoff Dyer on the spiritual power of saxophonist Zoh Amba

    • A composite image of elderly people in the foreground and a bright floral background

      A ‘longevity revolution’ is coming
      Here’s how those over 100 are making the most of their lives

    • Close up white paper desk calendar with blurred bokeh background appointment and business meeting concept

      US small business
      Less work for the same pay won’t fly – but here’s a four-day week that might

Opinion

  • Supporters of Israel wave the country’s flag

    Zionism can – and must – be about liberation of Jews and Palestinians

    Jo-Ann Mort
    We are entwined and must be liberated together. We must work together to end the war and bring safety and security to both peoples
  • two police officers arresting a young woman

    Stunning police brutality will ignite a student anti-war movement in America

    Joan Donovan
  • Phineas Harper

    The EU’s ‘right to repair’ rule is truly radical – British builders should copy it wholesale

    Phineas Harper
  • Woman makes dangerous jump over gap between two tall buildings<br>Female with bare feet runs and jumps from one tall building to another. She looks down as she is right a above the gap between the buildings. Big city in the background with skyscapers. Concept of taking a change even though there is a big risk.

    As a stunt performer, I lived on the edge of danger – but I had to step back from the precipice

    Janine Parkinson
    Yes, I revelled in the thrill of film-making, but a fear of failure nagged at me. Behind it lay a truth I’d been ignoring
    • Fratelli d'Italia Programmatic Conference in Pescara, Italy - 28 Apr 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Roberto Monaldo/LaPresse/REX/Shutterstock (14453512i) Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni during the Brothers of Italy party Programmatic conference in Pescara, Sunday, April 28, 2024 Fratelli d'Italia Programmatic Conference in Pescara, Italy - 28 Apr 2024

      There’s a hard-right tidal wave about to hit Europe – and it will only make the economic crisis worse

      Gordon Brown
    • Two young hikers walking along a coastal path

      From hiking to birdwatching to early nights – gen Z are coming for my hobbies, and they’re much better at them

      Emma Beddington
    • n older Latina woman with black hair and glasses, smiling and lit with a microphone attached to her blouse as if on a stage.

      Discussing Sonia Sotomayor’s retirement is not sexist – it’s strategic

      Arwa Mahdawi
    • The Toys N Tuck Toy shop<br>Rhys Medorth and his 2 year old daughter along with their baby brother shop at the toy shop. The Toys N Tuck Toy shop in Southend

      Shelf life: why are toy shops full of horrors these days?

      Eva Wiseman

Sports

  • Candace Parker became the only player in WNBA history to win a championship with three different teams last season with the Las Vegas Aces.

    ‘It’s time’
    Candace Parker, two-time WNBA MVP, announces retirement

    Three-time WNBA champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist Candace Parker announced Sunday she’s retiring after 16 seasons
  • Rory McIlroy celebrates winning the Zurich Classic with Shane Lowry on Sunday.

    PGA Tour shunning McIlroy would be epic embarrassment

    Ewan Murray
    • Carlos Alcaraz, with his protective sleeve, in action against Thiago Seyboth Wild

      Tennis
      Alcaraz passes ‘litmus test’ with third-round win at Madrid Open

    • Jeffrey Schlupp and Erling Haaland enjoyed goalscoring weekends while Dyche delivered again.

      Premier League
      10 talking points from the weekend’s football action

    • Bukayo Saka celebrates with William Saliba, Declan Rice and Thomas Partey.

      Tottenham 2-3 Arsenal
      Nick Ames' player ratings from the north London derby

    • Lionel Messi scored twice in Inter Miami’s 4-1 win over New England Revolution.

      MLS
      Lionel Messi makes league history in front of 65,000

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Climate crisis

  • 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

  • smoke emerging from a plant at sunset

    Coal
    New rule compels US coal-fired power plants to capture emissions – or shut down

  • Series of trucks driving along a winding road at an open-pit copper mine

    Environment
    UN-led panel aims to tackle abuses linked to mining for ‘critical minerals’

  • a flood sign during a storm

    Environment
    Trump will dismantle key US weather and science agency, climate experts fear

Across the country

  • An arm restraint on the gurney in the execution chamber

    'Non-stop executions'
    Prison officers traumatized by rate of judicial killings in death penalty states

  • Two people walk among debris on an RV park in Fort Myers beach, Florida, US, in 2022 after Hurricane Ian swept across the area.

    Weather tracker
    US experts predict one of most active hurricane seasons on record

    • ‘Like a war zone’
      Emory University grapples with fallout from police response to protest

    • Kristi Noem
      South Dakota governor defends killing dog: ‘Cricket had shown aggressive behavior’

    • Alaska
      Body of climber who died after 1,000ft fall recovered from mountain

    • Arizona
      Woman pleads guilty to stealing parts of corpses and trying to sell them

    • Weather
      Destructive tornadoes wreak havoc in US midwest as storm threat continues

    • Baltimore
      Teacher accused of using AI to create fake, racist recording of principal

Around the world

  • Robert Fico

    Press freedom
    ‘Perilously close to breaking point’ in several EU countries

    Civil liberties network warns of decline across the bloc as a result of harm or neglect by governments
  • A gate that prevents the public to catch a glimpse into Herbertstraße, a street in the red light district paved with brothels and reserved to men only, that was torn down by topless members of feminist movement Femen on Women's Day is seen in Hamburg, northern Germany.

    Germany
    Hamburg’s sex workers persecuted under Hitler to be commemorated

  • Humza Yousaf arrives at Bute House ahead of his press conference.

    Live
    Humza Yousaf poised to quit as Scotland’s first minister and will hold press conference at noon

  • An aerial view of destroyed and damaged buildings after a tornado hit Guangzhou, in Southern China’s Guangdong province.

    China
    Extreme weather in Guangzhou kills five and brings destruction to industrial heartland

    • Philippines
      Jeepney strike under way as deadline to modernise nears

    • Spain
      Opposition step up Sánchez attacks as PM decides on his future

    • Omar Sy
      It’s hard being black in France, says Lupin star after Aya Nakamura racism row

    • Iraq
      Human rights groups and diplomats condemn anti-LGBT law

    • Ireland
      Dublin plans to send asylum seekers back to UK under emergency law

    • Titanic
      Gold pocket watch of richest man on doomed ship fetches record-breaking £1.2m

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Podcasts

Podcasts

  • Photograph: Gaia Moments/Alamy

    The Audio Long Read
    The new science of death: ‘There’s something happening in the brain that makes no sense’ – podcast

  • Molly Roden Winter

    Today in Focus
    Have open marriages gone mainstream?

  • David Harewood portrait

    Weekend
    Weekend podcast: ‘I was hammered on stage’ – David Harewood on racism and success; John Crace on ‘tetchy’ Rishi; the answer to insomnia hell; and Baby Reindeer fall out

  • The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington DC on 28 August 1963. Photograph: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    Solidarity and strategy: the forgotten lessons of truly effective protest – podcast

  • Biden in bow tie and shades with sign behind him saying: White House Correspondents' Association

    Politics Weekly America
    White House Correspondents’ Dinner: is there still space for humour?

  • Lines of tents at a pro-Palestine protest at Columbia University

    Today in Focus
    The US college protests and the crackdown on campuses

  • Premier League - Everton v Liverpool<br>Soccer Football - Premier League - Everton v Liverpool - Goodison Park, Liverpool, Britain - April 24, 2024 Everton's Jarrad Branthwaite celebrates after Dominic Calvert-Lewin scores their second goal as Liverpool's Alisson looks on REUTERS/Carl Recine NO USE WITH UNAUTHORIZED AUDIO, VIDEO, DATA, FIXTURE LISTS, CLUB/LEAGUE LOGOS OR 'LIVE' SERVICES. ONLINE IN-MATCH USE LIMITED TO 45 IMAGES, NO VIDEO EMULATION. NO USE IN BETTING, GAMES OR SINGLE CLUB/LEAGUE/PLAYER PUBLICATIONS. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

    Football Weekly
    Have Everton dashed Liverpool’s title dreams? – Football Weekly Extra

Culture

  • Christos Papadopoulos’s Larsen C.

    Choreography
    Shortlist unveiled for dance’s answer to the Turner prize

    Choreographers from the US, Brazil, Greece and Portugal in the running for the £40,000 inaugural Rose international dance prize
  • Mike Faist, Zendaya and Josh O'Connor in Challengers, sitting on a bed smiling

    Challengers review
    Zendaya holds court in absurdly sexy three-way tennis romance

  • Baby Reindeer characters Donny and Martha at the bar in a pub

    Baby Reindeer
    Why row over sleuths will change real-life drama for ever

  • Actor Daniel Mays photographed by Alun Callender for the Observer Magazine at The Mildmay Club, London.

    ‘I was always able to get away with things’
    Daniel Mays on playing bent coppers, acting opposite Michael Douglas, and working-class bias

  • Gabrielle

    ‘The song I wish I’d written? Wonderwall’
    Gabrielle’s honest playlist

  • Ernest Hemingway, in a slightly wrinkled shirt and wearing a leather-strapped watch – his beard dark and long and with grey streaks – holds his hand near his face and smiles slightly

    ‘Generous and reflective’
    Letters show other sides to macho Ernest Hemingway

Lifestyle

  • Taylor Swift<br>FILE - Taylor Swift arrives at the world premiere of the concert film "Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour" in Los Angeles on Oct. 11, 2023. Swift’s Instagram message encouraging her 283 million followers to register to vote was nominated for a Webby in the best creator or influencer category. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Can you solve it? Tiler swift

    The tortured puzzlers department
  • A cartoon of a woman with red curly hair rubbing a scrub into her skin.

    The beauty Q&A
    Should I use an acid-based exfoliant – or a simple face scrub?

  • Preprepared meals for the week ahead in containers

    Household bills
    ‘Meal prepping’ is booming – but beware the health dangers

  • Istanbul views, including Galata tower.

    Turkey’s melting pot
    A foodie break in Istanbul

  • As socks have become the main event, sock snobbery has emerged with style lovers.

    Best foot forward
    The humble sock is finally stepping into the spotlight

  • Even Zendaya’s shoes were tennis themed in this photocall for the film Challengers.

    Tenniscore
    Centre-court chic smashes it this fashion season

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    Technology
    What’s your favourite everyday gadget?

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

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

  • 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

  • Photographer taking picture of newlywed bride and groom as they leave church.

    People in the US
    Share your ‘modern wedding etiquette’ suggestions

From our global editions

  • ‘I’m still traumatised by Brexit’ … Ben Bradshaw.

    ‘I still think Tony was right on Iraq’
    Labour’s Ben Bradshaw on Blair, Brexit and battling homophobia

  • Gillian Slovo.

    ‘Brought up among giants’
    Gillian Slovo on her revolutionary parents – and her mother’s murder

  • Posters showing councilwoman Marielle Franco, whose murder has inspired a generation of journalists to probe Rio’s underworld and its ties to police and politicians.

    ‘My hands went cold’
    Rio’s reporters risk death to reveal criminal ties between police, politicians and mafia

  • The philosopher Nick Bostrom in Oxford

    ‘Eugenics on steroids’
    The toxic and contested legacy of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute

In case you missed it

  • A commercial fisherman collects sockeye salmon

    Fish
    Alaska has a plan to save its salmon but some Native leaders are wary

  • Man in suit and glasses closes his eyes in prayer

    Mike Johnson’s busy week
    Ukraine aid and threats to protesters – what next?

    Speaker’s crude interventions on campus have forced many to question if his motives on Ukraine were quite so heroic
  • Michael Cohen, Trump’s former attorney, in March last year.

    They’re back
    Cohen and Avenatti return to spotlight at Trump trial

    Trump’s former fixer to appear as prosecution witness, while Avenatti, serving prison sentence, willing to testify for defense
  • Crowd of people with one young women holding red and white sign that says Stop the Steal.

    A physician, a lawyer, a CEO
    The 84 fake electors who allegedly tried to steal the 2020 election

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    ‘We live in a golden time of exploration’
    Astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger on the hunt for signs of extraterrestrial life

  • Emily Oster

    ‘Why has my uterus fallen into my vagina?’
    Emily Oster’s new book demystifies common pregnancy complications

  • three side by side images: a woman with glasses; a sign reading to resist is to love; a woman speaking into a microphone

    'Urgency'
    Four students on why they’re protesting

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    Godzilla and Palm Sunday
    Photos of the weekend

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    The big picture
    Lydia Goldblatt’s reflection on family and absence

  • Khanyisa Mtulu and her friend, Azasakhe Manxeba attend the Matric dance in Cape Town January 2018

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  • Some of the vibrant textile works created by British artist Ptolemy Mann.

    Dyeing art
    Ptolemy Mann’s vibrant thread paintings

  • Image of children playing by jumping off a boat in the Sunda Kelapa harbour, in North Jakarta, Indonesia, with the sun nearly setting. Entitled Break the Limit it was shot in 2023 on a Xiaomi 11 Lite 5G NE.Jelly Fabrian is shortlisted in the Open Competition, Sony World Photography Awards 2024, exhibition at Somerset House 19 April – 6 May, worldphoto.org

    ‘There aren’t many fields, so the children play around the pier’
    Jelly Febrian’s best phone picture

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