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  • Ibrahim Traoré

    Burkina Faso
    Government bans more media outlets over coverage of alleged massacre

  • a cat

    'It's a total miracle!'
    Utah cat found in California after being shipped in Amazon box

    • Canada
      British Columbia abruptly drops drug decriminalization after backlash

    • Russia
      Red Cross decides against suspending branch despite links to Kremlin war machine

    • Kenya
      Dozens of people killed as dam bursts

    • France
      Gérard Depardieu questioned by police over sexual assault allegations

    • US
      Trump and DeSantis appear to try to thaw relationship with breakfast meeting

    • China
      Giant pandas to visit US zoo under conservation partnership

News in focus

  • Customers sit at tables at a cafe, some of them drinking coffee, as a TV mounted above a fridge shows Pedro Sánchez delivering an address

    Surreal claims, lawfare and abuse
    Toxic politics in Spain reflect the new Europe

  • Lift operator Mzia Sabanadze in her room next to the elevator she operates.

    Cats, cuddly toys and a portrait of Stalin
    The last lift lady guarding Tbilisi’s brutalist skybridge

    In the Georgian capital, 70-year-old Mzia Sabanadze manually operates the pay-as-you go elevator to the bridge connecting the once-futuristic Nutsubidze apartment blocks
  • Greying African man wearing a suit jacket, shirt and tie looks at camera

    ‘Stain on our humanity’
    The ‘man who repairs women’ on rape as a weapon and how the world forgot the DRC

    For the Nobel laureate Denis Mukwege, who has treated more than 80,000 survivors of sexual violence by armed groups, the west displays double standards over the ‘stain on our humanity’

Spotlight

  • Semi-naked cartoon savages … the Jarvis Mural.

    ‘One of the most racist things I’ve ever seen’
    How RIBA is decolonising its HQ

    The Royal Institute of British Architects has been taking stock of the disturbingly imperial decoration of its palatial home – with a new show telling a larger, more unsettling story
  • Ons Jabeur

    ‘Maybe I’m not ready to be a mum yet’
    Ons Jabeur on her grand slam dream

    The Wimbledon defeat and her anguish underlines the difficult choices athletes must make between work and family
    • Melbourne designer Jason Hewitt and Sydney stylist Mikey Ayoubi in their favourite knits.

      ‘It’s like a blanket’
      Five designers and stylists on their favourite knitwear

    • Michelangelo’s The Punishment of Tityus.

      'A lifelong struggle'
      Michelangelo and the most sublime declarations of gay love in art

    • Bolt from the blue … Jean Butler and Michael Flatley in Riverdance.

      ‘Michael Flatley appeared like a rockstar’
      How Riverdance gave the jig cool factor

    • A man in military uniform in a forest clearing

      ‘My example can change minds'
      Roma fighting for place in postwar Ukraine

Opinion

  • Salil Tripathi

    With India’s election in full swing, Narendra Modi is getting desperate – and dangerous

    Salil Tripathi
    The Indian PM may still be in a strong position; but incendiary, anti-Muslim rhetoric shows that all may not be going to plan, says writer Salil Tripathi
  • Supporters of Israel wave the country’s flag

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

    Jo-Ann Mort
  • two police officers arresting a young woman

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

    Joan Donovan
  • Rishi Sunak speaks to employees during a visit to the DHL Gateway port facility at Stanford Le Hope on the Thames estuary in Essex on April 29 2024

    Yes, prime minister, it’s a scandal so many of us are signed off work. Maybe you Tories should stop making us ill

    Zoe Williams
  • An art installation outside the UN plastic treaty talks in Ottawa, Canada, on 24 April 2024.

    The world has a chance to end plastic pollution – the petrochemical giants mustn’t spoil it

    Steve Fletcher
  • 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

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Climate crisis

  • Kenyan workers collect plastic waste for recycling in Nakuru. A pile of plastic items, including colourful buckets and pots, dominates the foreground of the image

    Plastics
    Countries consider pact to reduce production by 40% in 15 years

  • Woman with black curly hair and adorned with feathers stares into camera

    Murrawah Johnson
    First Nations woman one of seven global winners of prestigious Goldman prize for environmental activism

  • a woman stands in a field

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

  • 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

Around the world

  • Democratic House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries

    Live
    Top House Democrat calls for vote on legislation to counter antisemitism

  • Getir courier

    Getir
    Delivery firm to quit UK, Europe and US and focus on Turkey

    • Live
      European Commission presidential candidates battle it out in Maastricht debate

    • Meta
      EU to investigate tech giant over election misinformation before June polls

    • Spain
      Pedro Sánchez to continue as PM despite ‘bullying’ campaign

    • US
      Marjorie Taylor Greene will not drop threat to oust House speaker, aide says

    • Cryptocurrencies
      Binance founder faces possible three-year jail term over ‘wild west’ business model

    • Brexit
      Ireland reaps €700m bonanza from customs duties

Culture

  • Bolt from the blue … Jean Butler and Michael Flatley in Riverdance.

    ‘Michael Flatley appeared like a rockstar’
    How Riverdance gave the jig cool factor

    Thirty years ago, Riverdance’s groundbreaking Eurovision interval performance ignited a new generation’s devotion to Irish dancing
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    What’s the perfect movie length? Only a lightweight needs toilet or food breaks

    Peter Bradshaw
  • ‘Oh, go ahead and perm my hair’ … Donald Sutherland in Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

    ‘We used pig squeals to create their shriek’
    How we made Invasion of the Body Snatchers

  • The boombox that appears on the artwork for Everyone Knows That.

    Everyone Knows That
    Internet music mystery solved via 1986 adult movie

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    The big idea
    What would culture look like without nightlife?

  • ‘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

Lifestyle

  • Keza MacDonald and her lutino budgerigar, Brighton Yellow

    The pet I'll never forget
    Brighton Yellow, the budgie that interrupted dinner parties chirping, ‘Right! That’s enough!’

    This legendary little featherball did impressions of my mum, refused to stay in his cage and even learned to play football.
  • Honey & Co's lamb kofta with lemon and tahini sauce.

    Quick and easy
    Honey & Co’s air fryer lamb koftas with tahini sauce

  • 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

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

  • Waiter serving customers at outdoor Parisian cafe

    Pass notes
    Going for gold! Have the Olympics overturned centuries of no-tipping etiquette in France?

  • Rachel Roddy’s chicken with orange, lemon, marmalade and olives.

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for chicken with orange, lemon, marmalade and olives

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
    Tell us: 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

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From our global editions

  • 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
  • Close up of large lorry driving in Sevington Inland border facility

    Brexit
    How UK’s new border controls will affect animal and plant imports from the EU

  • 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

  • A woman holds up a cut diamond to her eye

    Mining
    BHP’s pursuit of Anglo American has a major obstacle: South Africa

  • Alicia Cook and Emerson sitting on a couch

    Australia
    How the rise of autism and ADHD fractured schools

  • A commercial fisherman collects sockeye salmon

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

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    Nobel peace prize
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    Have open marriages gone mainstream?

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

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

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  • A girl stands next to a car partially buried in mud

    Photos of the day
    A car stuck in mud and a thirsty squirrel

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    Godzilla and an Olympic voyage
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    Photography
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