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  • TOPSHOT-US-ENTERTAINMENT-FASHION-METGALA-CELEBRITY-MUSEUM<br>TOPSHOT - US actress Zendaya arrives for the 2024 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 6, 2024, in New York. The Gala raises money for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute. The Gala's 2024 theme is "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion." (Photo by Angela WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

    Met Gala 2024
    Met Gala 2024: dresses made out of sand, corsets and power poses – in pictures

  • A file photo of Gustave Courbet's 1866 The Origin of the World painting at the Musee d'Orsay in Paris

    France
    Painting of vagina by artist Gustave Courbet sprayed with ‘MeToo’ graffiti

    • Universal Music
      £119m CEO pay offer may provoke shareholder revolt

    • Canada
      Accused serial murderer admits killing four Indigenous women

    • US campus protests
      Pro-Palestinian students break through police fencing at MIT

    • Russia
      US soldier detained and accused of theft, officials say

    • Australia
      Couple sentenced to decades in prison for child sex abuse after using victims as ‘playthings’

    • Kebab subsidies
      Germans grill Olaf Scholz over soaring cost of a doner

News in focus

  • BJP candidates parade in a motorcade in Bangalore

    India
    Can Modi finally win over the southern states and reshape India’s electoral map?

  • A vehicle with mattresses piled high on its roof

    ‘Trying to escape death’
    Terrified and exhausted, thousands flee feared imminent assault on Rafah

    People displaced from elsewhere in Gaza during the war are on the move again but find their destination already packed
  • A girl holds food items and looks at the camera as women look on behind her.

    ‘A colonial mindset’
    Why global aid agencies need to get out of the way

    With the world’s humanitarian system in crisis, many NGOs now recognise that local charities can deliver much more at far less cost

Spotlight

  • Four weddings and a funeral

    The inside story of Four Weddings and a Funeral
    ‘I thought: “I’ve engineered the death of Hugh Grant!’’’

    The low-budget romcom about Britain’s upper middle classes launched the careers of its writer Richard Curtis and Grant. Cast and crew share their stories – from Liz Hurley in that dress to Amber Rudd’s role as an ‘aristocracy coordinator’
  • Garments on display in the Met Costume Institute's spring 2024 exhibition Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion

    Met exhibition review
    2024’s spring show is a feast for the senses

  • Second Rehearsal: 🇦🇺 Australia / Electric Fields - One Milkali (One Blood)<br>Electric Fields rehearsing One Milkali (One Blood) for Australia at the Second Rehearsal of the First Semi-Final at Malmö Arena

    ‘I’m super excited, but it’s bloody expensive!’
    Australia’s Eurovision megafans gather to cheer on Electric Fields in Sweden

    With 160 million watching at home, Electric Fields is about show the world 65,000 years of Indigenous culture – which ‘is already a beautiful win for Australia’
  • Cesar Aira, smiling at the camera, scratches the back of his head. Behind him are some books on a shelf.

    César Aira’s unreal magic
    How the eccentric author took over Latin American literature

    He has published more than 100 novels, gives his work away, and his surrealist books have a massive cult following. Now Argentina’s favourite rule-breaker is tipped for the Nobel prize
    • A man lifting a fish from the water with his hands

      Scaling up
      The app that’s transforming lives in South African fishing communities

    • Sung Im Her, in a three-quarters-length-sleeved shirt and with gold lipstick, a fringe and long hair, points her finger and opens her mouth next to Martha Passakopoulou and Seo Jun Lee in Tomorrowisnowtodayisyesterday

      ‘The body is everything’
      Sung Im Her’s insatiable desire for dance

    • Kevin Spacey in 2007.

      Spacey Unmasked review
      Far more than a did-he-didn’t-he exposé

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      Hollywood hysteria
      The 60s movies that showed a time of madness

Opinion

  • L to R: Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper, shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves and Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner visit a supermarket in Yarm, Teesdale, on 10 April 2024.

    Rachel Reeves is right: this Tory government is gaslighting us over the economy

    Polly Toynbee
    Tories will crow about falling inflation and Britain’s waning recession. But the public sees the reality in its shopping basket, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
  • FILE PHOTO: Protests continue on Columbia University campus in support of Palestinians<br>FILE PHOTO: Protesters link arms outside Hamilton Hall barricading students inside the building at Columbia University, despite an order to disband the protest encampment supporting Palestinians or face suspension, during the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in New York City, U.S., April 30, 2024. REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs/File Photo

    American politicians forget: disruption and disorder are the point of protests

    Patrick Gaspard
  • Joe Biden, in a suit and tie, sitting on a leather chair at a desk in an office with his hand on the head of Commander, the secret service dog.

    Have I got this right? Does Kristi Noem really want Joe Biden to start killing dogs too?

    Zoe Williams
  • Police begin clearing pro-Palestine protest encampment at UCLA

    Police let violent mobs attack UCLA students. This is what lawlessness looks like

    Judith Levine
  • Botox Treatment<br>Young woman receiving a botox injection

    Vampire facials, under-eye fillers, ‘prejuvenation’: how did cosmetic tweakments get so extreme?

    Georgina Lawton
  • Gogglebox’s Ellie and Izzi Warner.

    I love Vogue’s idea of ‘British girl energy’. But what does it involve?

    Emma Beddington
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Climate crisis

  • An oilfield near Baku

    Exclusive
    Poorer nations must be transparent over climate spending, says Cop29 leader

  • A man rides a rental bike in Baku, Azerbaijan, where the UN climate change conference will convene in November.

    Cop29
    Summit to call for peace between warring states, says host Azerbaijan

  • The common carder bee (Bombus pascuorum) spotted in West Yorkshire.

    The age of extinction
    Bumblebee nests are overheating to fatal levels, study finds

  • Thai dancers keep cool with cold drinks and a fan during the heatwaves in Thailand, where 30 people have died from heatstroke this year.

    ‘Inside an oven’
    Sweltering heat ravages crops and takes lives in south-east Asia

Around the world

  • a man in a blue suit and red tie sits in court

    Hush-money trial
    Judge threatens Trump with jail time for gag order violations

    Judge holds Trump in criminal contempt for the 10th time in response to former president’s comments on the jury
  • Closeup of Bobby Singleton in white shirt and police epaulettes

    Northern Ireland
    Widespread condemnation after man found nailed to fence in County Antrim

  • Artist Kirsha Kaechele performing outside MONA with props from her Ladies Lounge installation, following a court order to admit men to the lounge

    Tasmania
    Art museum to appeal court order letting men into ladies-only art lounge

  • A salmon underwater next to a cage with pink lice on its scales

    Salmon farming
    Scottish industry challenged over move to drop ‘farmed’ from labels

    • Ukraine war briefing
      US and most EU countries to boycott Putin swearing-in ceremony

    • Pulitzer Prize 2024
      Winners include Jayne Anne Phillips, ProPublica, AP and New York Times

    • Australia
      Erin Patterson pleads not guilty over alleged mushroom murders

    • Columbia University
      Commencement ceremony canceled following student protests

    • New Orleans
      Teens who discovered new way to prove Pythagoras’s theorem uncover even more proofs

    • Bernie Sanders
      Vermont senator to run for fourth term

Culture

  • Tara Emory in The End of Wonderland

    Film
    The End of Wonderland review – trans porn star deals with eviction and a hoarding crisis

    Laurence Turcotte-Fraser’s wistful documentary follows resourceful porn star Tara Emory’s ‘entropic’ problem with clutter
  • An oil on canvas painting of cartoon-style people fighting with police officers, with horses in the mix and a line of police officers holding batons and riot shields in the background

    Art
    Guernica-style battle of Orgreave painting stars in miners’ strikes exhibition

  • A woman pours a glass of red wine

    A month in Ambridge
    Charlotte Higgins on The Archers: poor Alice is doomed

  • Identical twins Celia and Mamaine Paget.

    Books
    The Quality of Love by Ariane Bankes review – delicious portrait of the Paget twins

  • His disgusted/astonished face is hilarious … the Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) at Abbey Road in The Devil’s Chord.

    Doctor Who first look review
    Ncuti Gatwa will make this show far more fun than it’s been for years

  • ‘After two minutes, the radio switchboard was going crazy’ … Luhrmann, who turned Mary Schmich’s column into a global phenomenon.

    ‘I thought it was a speech by Kurt Vonnegut’
    Baz Luhrmann on making Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)

Lifestyle

  • a woman cleans up her garden and pond

    Can I get a little more eco-friendly every day?
    Four tips for a greener mindset

    Developing a daily practice of sustainability can help ease your anxiety about the future – so I tried it out for a week
  • Babyleaf the kitten

    The pet I'll never forget
    Babyleaf, the feral kitten who tamed me

  • G2: How to build a better life - connect with your pain, you can't just cut it out

    How to build a better life
    We all want to cut out the bad parts of ourselves. It won’t work, and it won’t make us happier

  • A cup of espresso and a cup of cappuccino

    The synthetic coffee revolution
    Are ground date seeds really as delicious as the real thing?

  • Rachel Roddy's chestnut pasta with mushroom.

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for chestnut pasta with mushrooms and herbs

  • The whitewashed town of Cadaqués, with sea and green hills

    Europe’s best beach holidays
    Cadaqués, Spain

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

  • 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?

  • Houria Ayadi / Ed Alcock / MYOP<br>The 129-apartment building where Houria Ayadi (63 yrs) has lived in Saint-Ouen, a northern suburb of Paris, since 1973, and that is due to be demolished in an effort to improve on security in the neighbourhood. She hopes to be re-lodged in one of the apartments currently under construction for the Olympic Village, where athletes will be housed during the Paris Olympics of 2024. Photo © Ed Alcock / MYOP 25/9/2023 L'immeuble de 129 appartements où Houria Ayadi (63 ans) vit depuis 1973 à Saint-Ouen, dans la banlieue nord de Paris, et qui doit être démoli pour améliorer la sécurité dans le quartier. Elle espère être relogée dans l'un des appartements actuellement en construction pour le village olympique, où seront logés les athlètes lors des Jeux olympiques de Paris en 2024. Photo © Ed Alcock / MYOP 25/9/2023

    Housing
    Young Europeans: do you live with your parents?

  • Hands Up<br>Large party group of people holding their arms and hands high in the air during an Outdoor Concert

    Music
    Tell us your experiences of making a living from music

From our global editions

  • Man standing in a residential street facing away from the camera.

    ‘Nightmares about Rwanda’
    Iranian asylum seeker facing deportation from UK

    Engineer living in Liverpool says he fears being arrested at any moment after receiving deportation notice
  • Nasrin Sotoudeh and her husband Reza Khandan hold up a protest badge that reads: ‘I oppose the mandatory hijab.’

    ‘I am ready to return whenever they say’
    Nasrin Sotoudeh on prison, the hijab, and violence in Iran

  • A banner hanging from the upper windows of building on a busy street in Amsterdam bears the message ‘fuck the housing market’. Pedestrians and cyclists pass by in the foreground

    ‘Everything’s just … on hold’
    The Netherlands’ next-level housing crisis

  • Clockwise (left to right from top): Burberry bags in a store, Moët & Chandon champagne, Gieves & Hawkes of Savile Row, and Wilkin & Sons, which is behind the Tiptree jam brand.

    From sporrans to chandeliers
    King Charles and Queen Camilla weigh up new royal warrants

  • View of Pikk Street in the Old City of Tallinn, Estonia

    Higher costs and cramped conditions
    The impact of Europe’s housing crisis

  • Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer look at each other with grins on their faces as they lead a procession of politicians at Westminster

    Analysis
    Could there really be a hung parliament at the next UK general election?

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  • Donald Trump is selling an edition of the Bible.

    I bought Trump’s Bible
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    ‘High jinks’
    Former female trainee in Royal Marines says sexual assault was dismissed

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  • An abandoned mosque outside the seawall in Muara Baru, Jakarta. (Photograph by Kemal Jufri for The Guardian)

    Science
    Why are the world’s cities sinking? – podcast

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    Today in Focus
    Non-doms are threatening to leave. Should they be convinced to stay?

  • Manchester City v Wolverhampton Wanderers, Premier League, Football, Etihad Stadium, Manchester, UK - 04 May 2024<br>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. Mandatory Credit: Photo by David Blunsden/Action Plus/REX/Shutterstock (14461108dx) Erling Haaland of Manchester City celebrates after scoring with a header past Jose Sa of Wolverhampton Wanderers for 2-0 after 35 minutes; Etihad Stadium, Manchester, England; Premier League Football, Manchester City versus Wolverhampton Wanderers. Manchester City v Wolverhampton Wanderers, Premier League, Football, Etihad Stadium, Manchester, UK - 04 May 2024

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  • Keir Starmer Votes in the Local Elections in London<br>LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - MAY 02: Leader of the Labour Party Sir Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria leave a polling station after casting their votes in the local elections in London, United Kingdom on May 02, 2024. Millions of voters across England head to the polls today to decide on thousands of council seats, and also to choose the Mayor of London, London Assembly members and 10 mayors outside the capital. (Photo by Wiktor Szymanowicz/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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  • 3) Karabo Mooki, Unified, Rockville, Soweto, 2016. Courtesy of the artist “Members of Free x Money are joined on the mic by TCIYF’s Thula 'Stroof' Sizwe. TCIYF have realised that since the shows don't come to them, they need to bring the shows to the township, bridging communities and giving birth to a cross- pollination of talents beyond racial and economic borders. Although the visit may seem taboo or unusual and new to many, there is a deep sense of hospitality and appreciation from both the hosts and the visiting residents.”

    Jumpin’ Johannesburg
    Soweto’s Afropunk skaters!

    From beer rituals to (literally) electrifying punk shows, Karabo Mooki’s images capture the counterculture of one South African township
  • From left, Denmark's Queen Mary, King Frederik X, Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia wave from the balcony at the Royal Palace, in Stockholm, Sweden.

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  • A clifftop pageant during Bolster festival in St Agnes, Cornwall.

    Cornwall
    Bolster the Cornish giant stars in clifftop pageant

  • A woman poses with her snakes

    Italy
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  • A monochrome image of Paul Auster standing in his study with a cigarette in his hand and a number of objects on a table behind him, including a manual typewriter

    The big picture
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