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  • Friends and supporters of Hersh Goldberg-Polin outside Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem: a woman wears a red T-shirt with the words Bring Them Home Now across it and holds a placard reading Bring Hersh Home under a picture of the hostage; a crowd of people is gathered behind her, some others with placards and signs

    Gaza
    Leaders of 18 countries urge Hamas to release hostages

  • Armed security personnel in full kit in road on patrol

    Haiti
    New government sworn in during secret ceremony

    • Ukraine
      Poland and Lithuania pledge to help repatriate Ukrainians subject to military draft

    • ‘Recipe for disaster’
      Confusion and protests on first day of Venice tourist charge

    • Spain
      Madrid prosecutors ask judge to shelve investigation into PM’s wife

    • Wimbledon
      Guaranteed Centre Court seat? That’ll be £116,000 … each

    • Jean-Luc Godard
      Cannes to premiere film finished the day before director died

    • Birds
      Noise from traffic stunts growth of baby birds, study finds

News in focus

  • a man in a blue suit speaks from behind a lectern

    ‘A political pawn to get Black votes’
    Morehouse students criticize Biden as commencement speaker

  • a banner reads "Encampment for Gaza! Divest now!"

    Student protesters are demanding universities divest from Israel
    What does that mean?

    Pro-Palestinian demonstrators are calling on universities to sell investments in companies they say are complicit in war in Gaza
  • Dr Mona Hanna-Attisha

    'Never just about Flint'
    Michigan doctor who revealed Flint water crisis now takes on child poverty

Spotlight

  • three side by side images of apartment photos that might be seen on social media, with captions advertising rooms with disclaimers like "must be ok with rabbits", "must be ok with five other housemates if anyone asks please say you are my cousin visiting on a foreign exchange program", "very cheap deal as long as you can water my plants and do my laundry"

    ‘Must love dogs and rude roommates’
    The scramble to get around New York’s Airbnb crackdown

    Strict rules have led to a wild west of rentals, with visitors choosing between huge hotel bills or word-of-mouth deals
  • ‘I learn a lot every single time I work’ … actor and director Bryce Dallas Howard

    Bryce Dallas Howard
    ‘I can’t be trusted around famous people’

  • An illustration of a female stretched across in her living room holding an iPad-like device watching a show

    Well actually
    How brilliant female British TV detectives helped me understand myself

    These stunning, extremely relatable women, with nuanced facial expressions and sensible shoes, helped me outline success on my own terms
  • ‘A changeable system’… the Study Pavilion at the Technical University of Braunschweig, designed by Berlin based Architects Gustav Düsing & Max Hacke.

    ‘It should feel like an extension of the living room’
    Radical study centre is named best building in Europe

    A ‘non-hierarchical’ university space that can be continually altered or even moved has won the EU’s biennial prize for contemporary architecture
    • black and white photo of a big building with word hippodrome on sign

      Lost New York
      Remembering the city’s forgotten landmarks

    • A woman flexes her huge muscles before an audience

      Mixed doubles
      Why queer erotic sports cinema is enjoying a grand slam

    • Nas<br>American rapper and actor Nas, London, circa 2000. (Photo by David Tonge/Getty Images)

      Furious, funny and potentially fatal
      Hip-hop’s 20 greatest diss tracks – ranked!

    • ‘Running tens of thousands in debt from the tour and I’m being told that it’s normal’ … Arooj Aftab performing in Brooklyn in June 2023.

      ‘The working class can’t afford it’
      The shocking truth about the money bands make on tour

Opinion

  • FILES-US-POLITICS-WOMEN-BOOKS-MELANIA<br>(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 04, 2019 US First Lady Melania Trump boards a plane at Andrews Air Force Base for a three state overnight trip in Maryland. - Melania Trump has a White House suite of her own, is less than chummy with first daughter Ivanka, and uses her wardrobe to make statements, a new biography about the US first lady says. "Free, Melania," an unauthorized look at President Donald Trump's wife by CNN reporter Kate Bennett, is set for release on Tuesday, but official Washington is already buzzing about its contents. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

    The Trump family’s latest side hustle: Melania’s selling $245 Mother’s Day necklaces

    Arwa Mahdawi
    With her husband on trial over hush-money payments – and desperate for cash – the ex-first lady isn’t worried about optics
  • Abortion rights supporters staging a ‘die-in’ protest

    The US supreme court heard one of the most sadistic, extreme anti-abortion cases yet

    Moira Donegan
  • Hussein Julood and his son Ali, who died of leukaemia after growing up in Rumaila, Iraq.

    I’m asking BP to take its share of responsibility for my son’s death, and will take it to UK court if I have to

    Hussein Julood
  • On a lawn surrounded on three sides by buildings, dozens of tents with handmade protest signs in red and green.

    Why we need to stop using ‘pro-Palestine’ and ‘pro-Israel’

    Judith Levine
  • Gondolas by the Sospiri Bridge, near St Mark’s Square, Venice, on 2 August 2023.

    That sinking feeling: why long-suffering Venice is quite right to make tourists pay

    Simon Jenkins
  • Conan O'Brien

    Conan O’Brien is going viral for all the right reasons – hot wings and spewed milk

    Rebecca Shaw

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Climate crisis

  • people wear shirts that say "end fossil fuels" and hold signs that say "Manchin is killing us"

    ‘Outrageous’ climate activists
    They're getting in the faces of politicians and oil bosses – will it work?

  • UAE-WEATHER-FLOOD<br>Cars drive down a flooded motorway in Dubai on April 20, 2024. Four people died after the heaviest rainfall on record in the oil-rich UAE on April 16, including two Filipino women who suffocated inside their vehicle in Dubai's flooding. (Photo by Giuseppe CACACE / AFP) (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP via Getty Images)

    Extreme weather
    Global heating and urbanization to blame for severity of Dubai floods, study finds

  • Sculpture of a giant tap, apparently hovering in mid-air without support, pouring out a stream of discarded plastic items on to the ground

    ‘Privileged access’
    Pro-plastic lobbyists at UN pollution talks increase by a third

  • The Aedes albopictus mosquito on human skin

    Climate crisis
    Mosquito-borne diseases spreading in Europe, says expert

Around the world

  • Emmanuel Macron speaking at La Sorbonne with the EU flag behind.

    Macron
    French president criticises Rwanda-style asylum schemes days after UK passes bill

  • Interior of the French national library. Books line the walls and there are desks with lamps across the room.

    France
    National library quarantines books believed to be laced with arsenic

    • New Orleans
      Police serve search warrant on archdiocese in child sex abuse case

    • European elections
      MEPs urged to fight far right as they head home to campaign

    • Germany
      MPs break taboo by backing first post-unification Veterans’ Day

    • Meta
      Value falls $190bn as investors react to plan to increase spending on AI

    • ‘We want to work freely’
      Slovakian journalists wear black to protest media overhaul

    • Exclusive
      Cost of developing new drugs may be far lower than industry claims, trial reveals

Culture

  • man in a suit on a stage

    Jimmy Kimmel on Trump
    ‘He keeps his caps lock tighter than the door to Melania’s bedroom’

    Late-night hosts talk Trump’s all-caps rants, Kanye West’s new porn venture and Mike Johnson’s delayed Ukraine aid approval
  • Laurent Cantet pictured in 2021.

    High-minded, progressive and literate, Laurent Cantet made a trio of brilliant films

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Jennifer Aniston.

    A way to make a livin’
    Jennifer Aniston set for 9 to 5 reboot

  • Miriam Rivera

    ‘She was tough, but it broke her’
    Why There’s Something About Miriam was reality TV’s most shameful low

  • Glicéria Tupinambá (right, with her niece Jessica) in the Brazilian pavilion at Venice, which features the Tupinambá cloak, along with letters asking for its return.

    Part protest, part rave
    The Indigenous artists stunning the Venice Biennale

  • Tupac Shakur pictured in 1996.

    Tupac Shakur
    Estate threatens legal action against Drake over AI diss track

Lifestyle

  • Natalie and Beccy in 2023.

    How we met
    ‘She accosted me and told me she’d looked me up on Facebook’

    Beccy, 49, and Natalie, 60, became best friends after she visited Natalie’s rescue farm in Ontario, Canada. They now run events together on the farm and love travelling together
  • Louis Vuitton NFT varsity jacket

    ‘Born cool’
    Why the varsity jacket is still leader of the pack

  • Illustration of a librarian holding out a book

    The experts
    Librarians on 20 easy, enjoyable ways to read more brilliant books

  • Harry Hunter seen on his own tackling an uphill slope in the sand

    ‘The heat is burning’
    76-year-old Harry Hunter becomes oldest Briton to complete Marathon des Sables

  • Topview of a pot of angel hair pasta tinged golden with saffron, and topped with cherry tomatoes, burrata and basil.

    Pot of gold
    Alice Zaslavsky’s recipe for one-pan angel hair pasta with tomatoes and burrata

  • ‘Long before my son was born, I dreamed of him’ … Suzanne Scanlon and her son

    The forever wound
    How could I become a mother when my own mother died so young?

Take part

  • 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

  • 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

  • Bridal couples pose on Trolltunga rock formation in Ullensvang Municipality, Vestland county, Norway.

    Wedding photography
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    Relationships
    How did you meet your close friend or partner?

From our global editions

  • Commuters line a platform as a metro train arrives

    ‘Confined to this little island’
    Britons criticise rejection of EU youth mobility deal

    Hundreds voice dismay at Sunak and Starmer, accusing them of misreading UK attitudes towards Europe
  • Orbán with Trump on red-carpeted steps at Mar-a-Lago

    ‘Waiting for Trump’
    Viktor Orbán hopes US election will change his political fortunes

  • Lisboans march in the city’s streets in the aftermath of the 25 April 1974 coup d'etat which overthrew Portugal’s Estado Novo regime.

    ‘Everyone was in the streets. I just felt happiness’
    Portugal recalls the Carnation Revolution

  • A former domestic worker in Beirut. About 250,000 African and Asian migrant women work in Lebanon. An average of two domestic workers a week die there.

    ‘Every day I cry’
    50 women talk about life as a domestic worker under the Gulf’s kafala system

  • collage illustration with Diane Abbott at the centre, surrounded by (clockwise from left): Tony Blair, a Stoke Newington sign, Diane Abbott, Ken Livingston, Hackney Town hall, Child Q protestors, Jeremy Corbyn

    ‘I’ll stay an MP for as long as I can’
    Diane Abbott’s tumultuous UK political journey

  • Detail from the cover of the book And They Lived … Ever After with a picture of Rapunzel and the subtitle 'Disabled Women Retell Fairy Tales'.

    Rapunzel reimagined
    The women retelling fairytales to challenge notions of perfection

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    ‘I may be a troll but I’m not stupid’
    Super-stan Harry Daniels on singing loudly at Biden, Dua Lipa and Anna Wintour for clout

  • An issue of the National Enquirer featuring President Donald Trump.

    ‘The only choice for president’
    How the National Enquirer boosted Trump and smeared his opponents

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    ‘It’s magical’
    Prehistoric mines in Norfolk to reopen to visitors

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    Football Weekly
    Arsenal thrash Chelsea and a Football League update – Football Weekly

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    Today in Focus
    Could a row over a council house bring down Angela Rayner?

  • Members of India’s Hindu nationalist organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) at a rally near Hyderabad. Photograph: STR/AFP via Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: How Hindu supremacists are tearing India apart – podcast

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    An episode from Women’s Football Weekly – Fifpro exclusive interview

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  • James Cleverly standing on a wooden step on a pier and holding onto a gangway that is being extended out to him from a boat

    Photos of the day
    Dancing in Haiti and a pink moon

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • ‘Goofing around like kids’ … Mist, 2013.

    Outlaw attitude
    Skaters, saunas and spontaneous stripping

  • Hampshire, UK.

    Readers' best photographs
    A littler splash and a Cuban mystery

  • On the way to Santa Paula … the road trip from LA in an old Merc.

    Adali Schell’s best shot
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  • Cool waves … Little West 12th August 28 2023 by Pelle Cass

    Subways, sphinxes and the Stones
    Highlights from NYC’s Photography Show

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    A lost astronaut, looted treasure and a hit naked Turk
    The 60th Venice Biennale

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