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  • Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with President Isaac Herzog on his left, 6 May 2024

    Israel
    ‘We will fight with our fingernails’ says Netanyahu after US threat to curb arms

    Israeli prime minister says country can ‘stand alone’ but later says he hopes US and Israel can overcome differences
    • Small pearl-bordered fritillary butterfly

      Environment
      Mass planting of marsh violets key to saving rare UK butterfly, says National Trust

    • Toomaj Salehi
      Coldplay and Sting call for release of Iranian rapper sentenced to death

    • Unrwa Jerusalem
      Headquarters closed after ‘Israeli extremist’ arson attack

    • NHS
      Adapted bowel cancer test developed for blind and partly sighted people

    • Eurovision
      Israel qualifies for song contest final despite protests

    • Brian Wilson
      Judge places Beach Boys’ star in conservatorship

    • London
      Man, 22, arrested on suspicion of murder after woman in 60s stabbed to death in broad daylight

    • Baby Reindeer
      ‘Inspiration’ for stalker character says she received death threats

News in focus

  • A general view of Tokyo's Ginza area

    Tokuryū
    The shadowy criminal groups taking over from yakuza in Japan

  • A woman arrives to cast her vote at a polling station

    ‘I want to decide my vote for myself’
    How women are shaping India’s political landscape

    Emboldened by the financial independence offered by self-help groups, women in rural Odisha are increasingly becoming a force politicians have to reckon with
  • Woman in pink suit cross-examines woman with blond hair in courtroom sketch

    Trump trial
    Key takewaways, day 14: Stormy Daniels stays consistent

    Trump attorneys sought to cast doubt on adult star’s account of alleged tryst – but she refused to concede any inconsistencies

Spotlight

  • Environmental scientist Dr Shobha Maharaj stands in front of the coastline in San Fernando, Trinidad, where coastal stabilization works have been done, in an attempt to preserve the coastline.

    ‘I am starting to panic about my child’s future’
    Climate scientists wary of starting families

    A fifth of female climate scientists who responded to Guardian survey said they had opted to have no or fewer children
  • Press shot of Jonny Greenwood, he has his fingers in his ears. Behind him are large pink/purple flowers on a bush.

    Jonny Greenwood
    ‘I’m still arsing around on instruments like when I was a kid’

  • Supplied images for Biodiesel story Papua new Guinea Kulili Tractors run on biodiesel to collect Cocoa

    Papua New Guinea
    How the humble coconut is starting to fuel parts of the country

    Coconut biodiesel offers a cheaper alternative to fuel imports and scientists in the Pacific country are looking at how to use it more widely
  • Ta-da! Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana in The Crown.

    The Crown to Happy Valley
    Who will win the TV Baftas … and who should?

    As the biggest night in TV approaches, can Ghost Diana really reign supreme? Will Hannah Waddingham beat Ant and Dec? And will one of the world’s greatest actors get his first gong after almost 40 years?
    • Sugar comes in many different forms. This blend contains sugars from Barbados, Colombia and India, which have variations in color, texture and taste.

      ‘Sugar is brown!’
      There’s more to the sweet stuff than its pure white version

    • John Crace

      It’s Labour’s turn to crash and burn as party can’t defend Elphicke’s defection

      John Crace
    • Rachi Weerasinghe, 56: he is pictured in the City of London, standing in front of the Bank of England, and is wearing an orange, pink and grey striped scarf over a black puffer jacket and pale blue shirt

      ‘I can’t seem to fight this off’
      Readers’ experiences of whooping cough

    • ‘Not for any price’ … The Fighting Temeraire by JMW Turner.

      Turner: Art, Industry and Nostalgia review
      Fighting Temeraire sets Tyneside ablaze

Opinion

  • Illustration: Bill Bragg

    Why is Britain’s mental health so incredibly poor? It’s because our society is spiralling backwards

    George Monbiot
    Even as neoliberalism destroys our dreams of a better life, politicians tell us ‘there is no alternative’. But there is, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
  • two men sitting next to each other in front of israeli flags

    Will Biden finally stop enabling Netanyahu’s extremist government?

    Mohamad Bazzi
  • Natalie Elphicke defects to Labour party<br>Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer with former Conservative MP Natalie Elphicke in his parliamentary office in the House of Commons, London, after it was announced she has defected to Labour, hitting out at the "broken promises of Rishi Sunak's tired and chaotic government". Picture date: Wednesday May 8, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Elphicke. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

    Keir Starmer should be embracing the Tories’ disgruntled voters – not their turncoat MPs

    Polly Toynbee
    After Natalie Elphicke’s welcome, would Labour turn any Tory dregs away? This is beneath the dignity of a party on the verge of power
  • The new Boxberg solar park, built on a former open-pit coal mine in Nochten, Germany.

    I understand climate scientists’ despair – but stubborn optimism may be our only hope

    Christiana Figueres
    Fighting spirit helped us achieve the Paris accords in 2015 – and we need it now
    • The Garrick Club, London, 4 April 2024.

      It’s as if misogyny was the vice that dared not speak its name at the Garrick. That cloud has now lifted

      Simon Jenkins
    • Illustration

      The culture warriors have come for the National Trust. This is how we take them on – and win

      Celia Richardson
    • Player Ronnie O'Sullivan at the Cazoo World Snooker Championship, Sheffield, 2023

      Cazoo car crash, skidding on a shares fall of 99.9%, ends an American dream

      Nils Pratley
    • Ben Jennings on Joe Biden’s threat to withhold some weapons sales to Israel – cartoon

      Cartoon
      Ben Jennings on Joe Biden’s threat to withhold some weapons sales to Israel

Editorials & Letters

  • Sewage and plant debris floats on the Jubilee River in Dorney Reach, Buckinghamshire.

    The Guardian view
    Britain’s dirty waterways: a failure of industry and regulation

  • First Minister of Scotland John Swinney speaks during his debut at First Minister's Questions at the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh.

    The Guardian view
    John Swinney’s Scotland: a new start but also more of the same

  • A general view of the Woking Borough Council offices in 2023

    Letters
    How savage Tory cuts hollowed out all our public services

  • Keir Starmer with former Conservative MP Natalie Elphicke in his parliamentary office in the House of Commons, London, after it was announced she has defected to Labour.

    Letters
    Should Labour be embracing the likes of Natalie Elphicke?

Sport

Climate crisis

  • Images taken from the Guardian’s climate coverage over the past decade including floods in Pakistan and forest fires in western USA

    ‘The stakes could not be higher’
    World is on edge of climate abyss, UN warns

  • Flooded fields in Tewkesbury

    'On the brink'
    UK farmers consider quitting after extreme wet weather and low profits

  • The Mauna Loa Observatory atmospheric research facility

    Greenhouse gas emissions
    Record-breaking increase in CO2 levels in world’s atmosphere

  • A man with boxes on his head walking among piles of brown boxes in a warehouse

    ‘When he is older there will be no rain’
    How southern Madagascar is coping in a climate crisis

From the UK

  • Close-up of Andrew Malkinson with greying, neat beard, glasses and cropped hair, as he puts right hand behind head

    Exclusive
    End majority jury verdicts to prevent more justice ‘horror’, says Malkinson

    Man who spent 17 years in prison after wrongly being convicted of rape says he will ‘shout from the rooftops’ for UK law reform
  • The imposing facade of a Victorian-era prison

    Exclusive
    Government triggers crisis measure to ease prison overcrowding

  • General view of the Tata Steelworks in Port Talbot, with a road sign in the foreground

    Tata
    Steelworkers vote to take industrial action over job losses

  • John Swinney walks with Kate Forbes down a corridor at the Scottish parliament in Holyrood; pale wood doorways and window frames are seen to either side of them. He wears a black suit, white shirt and tie, and she wears a black jacket over a skirt which is half bright pink and half red. They both look cheerful.

    Scotland
    Kate Forbes elected deputy first minister despite Green opposition

    • Telegraph takeover
      Zucker ‘would have done bid differently’ in hindsight

    • ‘Shaped like Table Mountain’
      Interest rates are close to a descent – maybe starting as soon as next month

    • Rwanda scheme
      Rising protests among UK asylum seekers held for deportation

    • Israel
      UK will not withhold arms sales, David Cameron says

    • ‘Gruesome’
      How ‘eunuch maker’ livestreamed extreme body modifications and sold body parts

    • Natalie Elphicke
      Tory defector ‘sorry’ for defending ex-husband jailed for sexual assault

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  • NH Trump<br>Laconia, NH - January 22 : Republican presidential candidate and former president Donald Trump shakes hands with North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and Vivek Ramaswamy, left, at a campaign rally at the The Margate Resort in Laconia, NH on Monday, January 22, 2024. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

    Donald Trump
    Ex-president promised to scrap climate laws if US oil bosses donated $1bn – report

    Trump promised to 20 executives at Mar-a-Lago dinner to increase oil drilling and reverse pollution rules among other pitches
  • Collection of cultural objects on lower part of large hydraulic press

    ‘Destruction of the human experience’
    Apple apologises for iPad ad after backlash

  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

    Ukraine war briefing
    Zelenskiy fires top bodyguard after failed assassination attempt

  • An illustration of a brain with a chip implanted in it.

    Neuralink
    Musk-owned company’s first implant partly detached from patient’s brain

    • Air Vanuatu
      Flights cancelled and tourists stranded as airline put into voluntary liquidation

    • Vladimir Putin
      Russian leader watchers military parade featuring a solitary, Soviet-era tank

    • Donald Trump
      Judge denies second request for mistrial in hush-money case

    • Brazil
      horse stranded on roof by floods is rescued as death toll rises to 107 people

    • US
      Biden officials propose denying some migrants earlier in asylum process

    • Shakira
      Spanish investigation into singer's alleged tax evasion dropped

Culture

  • Ian MchShane in 2019.

    Ian McShane
    When I was about to get it on with Richard Burton, he said I reminded him of Elizabeth

    The actor on the fate of Lovejoy’s leather jacket, appearing nude on the cover of Cosmo and how to make a perfect cup of tea
  • Portrait photograph of Shirley Conran

    Shirley Conran
    Campaigner and ‘queen of the bonkbuster’ dies aged 91

  • MC5 at the Cinch Levis store in London. MC5 are Wayne Kramer (brown jacket), Dennis Thompson (black vesst), Michael Davis (black jacket).

    MC5
    Dennis Thompson, drummer in rock band, dies aged 75

  • Taylor Swift on stage dressed in a red bodysuit holding up a microphone

    Taylor Swift
    Singer debuts new tracks as she returns to The Eras Tour

  • Peter Jackson and Andy Serkis.

    The Hunt for Gollum
    Peter Jackson and Andy Serkis to work on new Lord of the Rings film

  • Aimed at young people … TikTok’s new initiative with the NLT.

    Books
    ‘BookTok Bookshelves’ to launch in cities around the UK

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Lifestyle

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    What to wear to a spring fayre

    Will you make a beeline for the handicrafts, the homemade cakes or the plants? Here’s how to cut a dash at your local fete
  • Painting: An Old Woman Cooking Eggs (1618) by Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez

    Leading questions
    My mother spends her days serving a ‘holy man’. How can I make her see he is not a positive force?

  • Barb Jungr and Julian Clary, pictured at The Café Carlyle in 2009

    How Julian Clary and Barb Jungr met
    We both follow our hearts – and we both have psychic skills

  • French bakers with a big baguette

    Thursday quiz
    Musical riots, 1984 books, and extra-long bread

  • Black-and-white image of two white children, perhaps from the 50s or made to look like it's from the 50s, with the little boy blowing up a balloon over the head of the little girl, who is grimacing with her eyes closed and sticking her fingers in her ears.

    ‘I couldn't stand her’
    What makes people annoying?

  • A family cycles on the Strawberry Line, part of the National Cycle Network route 26, at Shute Shelve Tunnel near Axbridge in Somerset.<br>2CE88HH A family cycles on the Strawberry Line, part of the National Cycle Network route 26, at Shute Shelve Tunnel near Axbridge in Somerset.

    A ride on the Strawberry Line
    Somerset’s growing cycle network bears fruit

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  • Free Palestine<br>Over 50 students began an occupation of the Parkinson Building of Leeds University on Friday 08.03.2024 in protest of the conflict in Gaza. What was planned as a 24 hour occupation has changed into a indefination occupation after the University decided to lock the doors of the building restricting access to and from the main building. The students have built an encampment within the building and are living off water and food smuggled onto the site. Rally for Palestine by Leeds Students and University Staff. Leeds.

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    Share your experience of pro-Palestinian university protests

  • 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?

  • Kris Hallenga and her twin sister Maren Hallenga during a flashmob for breast cancer charity CoppaFeel!

    Breast cancer
    How have you been affected by the CoppaFeel! campaign?

  • Photo of a sold and for sale signs.

    Housing
    Have you bought a house in the UK with your friend?

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  • images of two students and a person sitting on a lawn surrounded by signs

    ‘A slap in the face’
    Students blast cancellation of graduation ceremonies

    Universities across the US are dropping or shrinking graduation ceremonies as pro-Palestinian protests continue
  • Yevhen Miezientsev (left) and Mykola Misechko on top of a high-rise apartment block in Kyiv.

    Judges with machine guns
    The part-time drone hunters defending Kyiv

  • Robert Ballard speaking at a conference in California.

    Robert Ballard
    I discovered hydrothermal vents, but I’m only known for finding the Titanic

  • Signs and flags are seen on the property of William Denby, Ontario, Canada on April 25, 2024. (Cole Burston)

    Canada
    Is a previously unheard-of First Nation just the latest Pretendian case?

  • Liao Yiwu in Paris in 2019.

    Two poems, four years in detention
    The long read: the Chinese dissident who smuggled his writing out of prison

  • From left to right: Kaja Kallas, Emmanuel Macron, Giorgia Meloni, Viktor Orbán.

    2024: Year of elections
    What are the EU elections and why do they matter?

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    ‘We’re firefighting’
    The pharmacists coping with record drug shortages

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    ‘Hopeless and broken'
    Why top climate scientists are terrified

  • An illustration of Marc Conway, who is serving an IPP sentence on licence

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  • Natalie Elphicke and Keir Starmer sitting on armchairs talking one another (Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire)

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    Vladimir Putin celebrated Victory Day in Russia, which marks the defeat of Nazi Germany in the second world war, with a display of patriotic pageantry. He praised his forces fighting in Ukraine and criticised the west for fuelling conflicts around the world
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  • Two women, one carrying a child, wade through water with their belongings

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