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  • men stand by their belongings by water

    Afghanistan
    Fresh floods kill at least 50 after heavy rain brings devastation

  • OpenAI logo on a phone screen in front of an image of a robot looking in a mirror

    Artificial intelligence
    OpenAI putting ‘shiny products’ above safety, says departing researcher

    • Robert Fico
      Slovakian PM remains in serious condition as suspect appears in court

    • Leonid Volkov
      Navalny ally says he will ‘never give up’ in fight against Putin

    • US
      Virginia governor allows Confederate groups to keep tax exemptions

    • Ukraine
      Zelenskiy says situation in Kharkiv under control but he fears second Russian attack

    • ‘Bloody £9 for two’
      TikTok twins rage at UK ice-cream van prices

    • Doctor of litter-ature
      Cat named Max given honorary degree by US university

News in focus

  • Policemen guard the area as they wait for the suspect in the shooting of Slovakia's prime minister, Robert Fico, to be brought to court in Pezinok, Slovakia.

    ‘The black hole of Europe’
    Suspect in court as Putin’s friends capitalise on shooting of Slovakian PM

  • columned building stylised in red

    Red flag?
    Samuel Alito scandal casts further doubt on US supreme court’s impartiality

    The court will play a crucial role in November’s election. Alito’s pro-Trump flag adds fuel to an already raging ethics debate
  • woman speaks at lectern in front of american flag

    ‘She’s in the pantheon now’
    Dog-killing Kristi Noem and the politicians who hit self-destruct

    The dog-killing South Dakota governor’s VP hopes are in tatters. But she’s not the first politician to flame out with an own goal

Spotlight

  • A mural depicting author Gabriel Gárcia Márquez in Aracataca.

    Gabriel García Márquez
    Netflix’s One Hundred Years of Solitude brings fame to author’s Colombian hometown

    Locals hope TV adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude will bring new life to Aracataca, birthplace of author’s magical realism
  • Actor Emma Stone, director Yorgos Lanthimos and actor Jesse Plemons in a photocall for the film Kinds Of Kindness at the Cannes Film Festival, May 2024.

    Sex, rape, cannibals
    What Yorgos Lanthimos did after Poor Things

  • photo of a family overlaid on plant

    Mythology, heritage, identity
    Student work at New York’s International Center of Photography

    These images highlighting themes of climate resilience, personal trauma and identity are part of an exhibition of the work of students from more than 25 different countries
  • Taylor Sam headshots 3 2024 9

    Sam Taylor
    ‘Translating is like X-raying a book. You get a deep tissue read’

    The US-based writer and translator on his new novel set in 1930s Vienna, his deep connection with the authors he has worked with and why he always returns to Donna Tartt’s The Secret History
    • Artist Jonathan Yeo and King Charles III at the unveiling of Yeo's portrait in Buckingham Palace

      Too bald, too mad, too... red
      How royal portraits get it so wrong

    • Adam Driver in Francis Ford Coppola’s passion project Megalopolis

      The Fall Guy to Megalopolis
      Is 2024 the year of the box-office megaflop?

    • Fashion designer Barbara Hulanicki wears large sunglasses and a leopard print jacket over a black outfit

      This much I know
      ‘Bottle grief – you don’t want to be a bore’: Barbara Hulanicki

    • Man wearing black jacket against purple background

      Elon Musk
      How a smear campaign against NPR led billionaire to feud with Signal

Opinion

  • A man sits near his home in Kharkiv, Ukraine, as smoke rises above the city after Russian shelling on 17 May.

    Nato’s failure to save Ukraine raises an existential question: what on earth is it for?

    Simon Tisdall
    The military alliance is turning 75. But there’s little to celebrate in Kyiv, as Putin’s forces continue their bloody advance
  • Illustration of a wounded Russian bear crushing Kharkiv

    Cartoon
    Chris Riddell on Russia’s advance on Kharkiv

  • Rachel Cooke

    Why is social media getting all churned up about cottage cheese?

    Rachel Cooke
  • The Olympic and Paralympic mascots, like red Phrygian caps on legs, pose on a quayside, with yachts in the background.

    You think Parisians grumble a lot? Don’t get them started on the Olympic Games

    Robert McLiam Wilson
  • Apple’s latest iPad ad, showing a hydraulic press crushing analogue devices.

    What would Steve Jobs think of Apple’s culture-crushing advert?

    John Naughton
  • football player kicks ball

    Harrison Butker’s misogynistic graduation speech shows the bigots are winning

    Arwa Mahdawi

Sport

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Climate crisis

  • Climate activists sit near a Lufthansa plane as police stand nearby

    Germany
    Eight climate activists arrested over airport protest

  • A sky completely taken up with fiery clouds, above a border of trees and dry fields.

    Economies
    Damage from climate change six times worse than thought – report

  • Aerial shot of San Pedro Sula, Honduras, covered in a thick blanket of smog.

    Honduras
    Air pollution in San Pedro Sula city is almost 50 times higher than WHO guidelines

  • Silhouette of nodding donkey pumping oil with buildings in background

    Cop29
    Summit at a crossroads in Azerbaijan with focus on climate finance

Around the world

  • men stand by their belongings by water

    Afghanistan
    Fresh floods kill at least 60 after heavy rain brings devastation

    Thousands of homes and farming land damaged in Ghor province, a week after over 300 people killed in flash floods
  • Residents of Vovchansk and nearby villages with their possessions at an evacuation point in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine

    'Why the hell didn’t you leave earlier?'
    The battle to evacuate residents as Russia advances in Kharkiv

  • Police tape saying 'Police line do not cross'

    US
    Six-month-old baby shot repeatedly during Arizona standoff with child’s father

  • Toddler wearing blue glasses and a green scarf can be seen resting his head against a fabric headrest, mouth ajar and looking to the right

    Ohio
    Argentinian couple moves to US to allow their toddler to join gene therapy trial

    • US
      Four day care workers charged with spiking children’s food with melatonin

    • Eye-tattooing
      Experts warn about risks of colour-changing surgery

    • ‘I put his matchstick men in the bin’
      Lowry’s lost sketches go on display for first time

    • California
      Teen who texted 911 rescued after she was trafficked from Mexico

    • Donald Trump
      Will Michael Cohen’s testimony sway jurors hush-money trial?

    • Oleksandr Usyk
      Ukrainians divided over the world boxing champion facing Tyson Fury

Culture

  • books

    Books for a better world
    As chosen by Lenny Henry, Geri Halliwell-Horner, Andrew O’Hagan and others

    Game-changing books that offer hope, as recommended by speakers at this year’s Hay festival, including Theresa May, Tom Holland, Helen Garner and Jon Ronson
  • emma barnett at the microphone in the today studioBBC handout photo of Emma Barnett during her first show presenting BBC Radio 4 Today with Amol Rajan. The journalist and broadcaster left Woman's Hour in April to join the morning news show. Issue date: Wednesday May 15, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story MEDIA Barnett. Photo credit should read: Jeff Overs/BBC/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: Not for use more than 21 days after issue. You may use this picture without charge only for the purpose of publicising or reporting on current BBC programming, personnel or other BBC output or activity within 21 days of issue. Any use after that time MUST be cleared through BBC Picture Publicity. Please credit the image to the BBC and any named photographer or independent programme maker, as described in the caption.

    The week in audio
    The Archers; Today; Death of an Artist; Gareth Gwynn Hasn’t Fin – review

  • Film Still: Feng Liu Yi Dai (Caught By The Tides) Directed by Jia Zhang-ke

    Peter Bradshaw review
    Caught by the Tides: two-decade relationship tells story of China’s epic transformation

  • Omar Sy, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Ebru Ceylan, Nadine Labaki, Lily Gladstone, Greta Gerwig, Juan Antonio Bayona, Eva Green and Pierfrancesco Favino taking a photograph on a boat.

    Cannes 2024
    Week one roundup: the jury’s out, the sun isn’t…

  • Jasmine Myra.

    Jasmine Myra: Rising review
    Gently insistent jazz

  • Claire Messud.

    On my radar
    Claire Messud’s cultural highlights

Lifestyle

  • Nish Kumar Life on a Plate Grooming: Juliana Sergot using Bobbi Brown and Tigi

    Life on a plate
    Nish Kumar: ‘Nando’s is the only thing uniting this increasingly fragmented nation’

  • Jasper and Ellen

    This is how we do it
    ‘We’ll put on our sex playlist and change the lights to purple. It ignites a fire inside us’

  • Lil Nas X wearing a vest made of gold disks, and brown shiny trousers

    The Q&A
    Lil Nas X: ‘Who do I most admire and why? I have to say myself’

  • Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes raise their fists in a Black Panther pose in a photograph from 1971

    Protesters, pop stars and pioneers
    38 images that changed the way we see women (for better and for worse)

Take part

  • elegant wedding cake with vintage bride and groom figurine

    Life and style
    Share your wedding disaster stories

  • 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

  • Mykhaylo Mudryk and Maksym Talovierov celebrate after the match between Ukraine and Iceland in Wrocław, Poland.

    Ukrainians abroad
    Share your reaction to your country qualifying for Euro 2024

  • 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?

From our global editions

  • A man wearing a gray sweatshirt holds up a sign reading "Prefer Idaho? then move there"

    ‘We don’t have a democracy’
    Why some Oregonians want to join Idaho

    Proponents of the Greater Idaho movement have argued Democrats in Portland don’t understand their way of life
  • Screengrab from a video from Chinese state-backed group called Storm-1376 showing an AI-generated newsreader.

    AI
    How China is using fake news anchors to deliver its propaganda

  • Ursula von der Leyen.

    Disappearing ink, fake polls and voter fraud
    EU fears as Russian propaganda ads target Euro elections

  • Japan’s Yonaguni island

    'Of course I’m worried'
    The quiet Japanese island paradise on the frontline of growing Taiwan-China tensions

  • Man in apron prepares beef on hot grill with customers behind

    'I’ve never seen so many gringos'
    Fans queue round the block as tiny Mexican taco stand wins Michelin star

  • Hospice patient Lynne Cottignies

    ‘Once you take choice away, there’s nothing left’
    Assisted dying edges closer in Jersey, but can they protect against a ‘duty to die’?

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    ‘I’m the new Oppenheimer!’
    My soul-destroying day at Palantir’s first-ever AI warfare conference

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    How to give the humble cardigan a sexy French Girl vibe

  • Actor Tom Burke photographed at the Guardian offices, March 2024. First use film &amp; music

    ‘I did a lot of yelling’
    Tom Burke on socks, controversy and Mad Max

  • Graphic collage illustration featuring India’s minister of home affairs, Amit Shah, and the prime minister, Narendra Modi.

    ‘He likes scaring people’
    How Amit Shah, Modi’s right-hand man, runs India

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Podcasts

  • Russell Brand being baptised in the River Thames with Bear Grylls

    Weekend
    Marina Hyde on Russell Brand’s baptism; plus ‘deepfake’ cheerleaders: the woman wrongly accused over a viral video – podcast

  • Shein shoes at a popup store in New York in 2022. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    ‘Super cute please like’: the unstoppable rise of Shein – podcast

  • Demonstrators hold placards reading ‘It’s time #ContaminatedBlood’ and ‘Recognise all victims #ContaminatedBlood’.

    Today in Focus
    The children of the contaminated blood scandal

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    Football Weekly
    The Premier League’s fight for Europe and Celtic’s title – Football Weekly Extra

  • Happy couple texting on their smart phones

    Science Weekly
    Apps and algorithms: can dating be boiled down to a science? – podcast

  • Dr Ruth Cerezo-Mota and the planet (By Tamara Uribe, The Guardian)

    Today in Focus
    What keeps the world’s top climate scientists up at night?

  • Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images. Former Donald Trump attorney Michael Cohen departing from his home

    Politics Weekly America
    Donald Trump comes face to face with former fixer Michael Cohen

In pictures

  • Some of the images created by Tal Danino. All images © Tal Danino/Rizzoli

    Mesmerising microbes
    Bacteria as you’ve never seen it before – in pictures

    Scientist Tal Danino’s incredible images of the microbial world
  • A man appearing to row a wooden boat sitting on a large expanse of sand

    ‘I hope people wonder what the man is doing’
    Carla Vermeend’s best phone picture

  • Children are evacuated from the district of Vovchansk due to the Russian offensive in Kharkiv

    War in Gaza, the Russian offensive in Kharkiv, protests in Georgia
    The week around the world in 20 pictures

  • Girls Night by Eimear Lynch

    Girls’ night
    The teenage ritual of preparing to go out – in pictures

  • Naomi Campbell arrives for the screening of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga at the 2024 Cannes film festival.

    The Cannes red carpet so far
    From Naomi Campbell in 90s Chanel to Anya Taylor-Joy in Dior – in pictures

  • Bangkok 2024

    Thai high
    The rise of a newfound cannabis culture – a photo essay

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