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  • 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

  • Marius Gustavson

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

    Marius Gustavson ran website where subscribers could watch castrations and penectomies carried out at his London flat
  • Travellers abseiling down Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa. TRV

    Interest rates
    A cut is coming - maybe as soon as next month

    It seems just matter of time before the two MPC members already in favour of a cut are joined off Table Mountain

Spotlight

  • Holly Ross and her husband, David Blackwell, AKA the Lovely Eggs

    ‘The music industry is smoke and mirrors’
    How DIY duo the Lovely Eggs are keeping the north weird

  • Home is in every bed space with you by Coyote Park, which appears in Queer Art: From Canvas to Club and the Spaces Between.

    ‘I did not know the life I have now was a possibility’
    Gemma Rolls-Bentley on her history of queer art

  • 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
  • Lola Alexander and Ursula Finke 1946

    'Swept under the rug for too long'
    Descendants of survivors celebrate hidden ‘queer love story’

    Lola Alexander and Ursula Finke both narrowly escaped deportation to Auschwitz – and after the war were inseparable
    • 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

    • Knocked Loose.

      Album of the week
      Knocked Loose: You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To review

    • 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?

    • Kevin (left) and Svein

      Dining across the divide
      I thought, Oh God, I hope I don’t get a dyed-in-the-wool Scottish Tory

Opinion

  • Illustration

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

    Celia Richardson
    Organised populists are trying to drag our cherished institution into polarising and divisive rows. We won’t let them
  • 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
  • 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 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
    I saw a voting process that was both dignified and moving – and as a member of long standing, I welcome this change
    • Stephanie Clifford,Stormy Daniels,Susan Necheles,DonaldTrump<br>In this courtroom sketch, defense attorney Susan Necheles, center, cross examines Stormy Daniels, far right, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, as former President Donald Trump, left, looks on with Judge Juan Merchan presiding during Trump's trial in Manhattan criminal court, Tuesday, May 7, 2024, in New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

      Mockery, low tactics, sexist tropes: gloriously, Stormy Daniels is repaying Donald Trump in kind

      Emma Brockes
    • Kendrick Lamar performing at Glastonbury in 2022.

      Drake v Kendrick Lamar’s rap beef has turned very ugly – who is benefiting from such a spectacle?

      Nels Abbey
    • Keir Starmer celebrates with newly elected West Midlands mayor Richard Parker in Birmingham on 4 May 2024.

      If Keir Starmer isn’t careful, Gaza could do for him what the Iraq war did for Blair

      Martin Kettle
    • Coffee splashing out of a cup

      I’ve failed at jugs, I’m worse at teapots – why can’t I ever pour anything properly?

      Adrian Chiles

Editorials & Letters

  • Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer with former Conservative MP Natalie Elphicke in his parliamentary office in the House of Commons.

    The Guardian view
    MPs crossing the floor: a triumph of political theatre over substance

  • FILE - Streets are flooded after heavy rain in Sao Sebastiao do Cai, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil.

    The Guardian view
    The climate emergency: we cannot afford to despair

  • Child reading a book

    Letters
    Bring back the pleasure of reading in classrooms

  • Demonstrators in Berlin protesting against tightening of asylum laws last year.

    Letters
    A lesson from Germany on how Britain should treat asylum seekers

Sport

Climate crisis

  • 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

  • ‘We can’t defeat nature but we can be climate-resilient’
    How plant roots can help stop landslides

  • Image of a wildfire with a temperature gauge graphic superimposed on it

    'I could not feel greater despair'
    World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target

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

    Exclusive: Man who spent 17 years in prison after wrongly being convicted of rape says he will ‘shout from the rooftops’ for UK law reform
  • David McLean in a suit outside the court building

    Winchester
    Former mayor cleared of trying to smother his dying mother

  • Nadhim Zahawi in navy suit with blue tie

    Conservatives
    Nadhim Zahawi to stand down as MP at next general election

  • The Bank of England building in London, where the MPC will set interest rates at noon

    Live
    Bank of England says it could cut faster than expected, after leaving UK interest rates on hold

    • 'Beyond critical'
      Patients at risk of death over England's drug shortages, pharmacists warn

    • ITV
      Broadcaster blames knock-on effects of Hollywood strikes for revenues hit

    • 'It felt very special'
      UK toddler has hearing restored in world first gene therapy trial

    • Universities
      UK institutions must ‘show leadership’ over Gaza protests, says Gillian Keegan

    • Counter-terrorism
      Arrests of three men in Greater Manchester on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts

    • Brexit
      England’s rivers to remain in poor state as EU laws ignored, says watchdog

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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
  • Rear view of troops with fixed bayonets in front of Xi and Sulyok with part of Hungarian flag visible

    Xi Jinping
    Hungary rolls out red carpet in final leg of European tour

  • a large group of riot police wearing helmets and high-vis jackets surround a group of protesters in a courtyard at the university, which is a historic brick building. One student is seen on the roof with a banner and some are holding cardboard placards; there is graffiti scrawled in red paint on the walls.

    Protests
    Students across Europe hold Gaza war protests in run-up to UN vote on Palestinian statehood

  • Robert F Kennedy Jr in Brooklyn, New York, on 1 May.

    Robert F Kennedy Jr
    US presidential candidate says he’ll eat brain worms and ‘still beat’ Biden and Trump in debate

    • Sudan
      Children ‘piled up and shot’: new details emerge of ethnic cleansing in Darfur

    • Malta
      Former prime minister charged with corruption over hospital scandal

    • Artificial intelligence
      OpenAI considers allowing users to create AI-generated pornography

    • Harvey Weinstein
      New York court to weigh extradition to California

    • Ukraine
      Western military trainers could be sent in, Lithuania minister says

    • China
      PR boss says sorry after glorifying work-till-you-drop culture

Culture

  • ‘The audience really give you the power and the energy and you give it back’ … alyona alyona and Jerry Heil perform at the first semi-final of the Eurovision song contest in Malmö.

    ‘Our children’s schools were bombed’
    The Eurovision stars fighting to rebuild Ukraine

    Former teacher alyona alyona and singing partner Jerry Heil are favourites at this year’s contest – and they’re using their rousing song Teresa & Maria to help children who have lost their childhood
  • Aimed at young people … TikTok’s new initiative with the NLT.

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

  • The Emily Blaster game inspired by Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin.

    Five of the best
    Books about video games

  • ‘About 80% of the time, they would catch me’ … a detail from one of Cockburn’s illustrations in Tale of Ahmed.

    ‘I know the adrenaline of escaping’
    Henry Cockburn on turning his time on the run into a refugee rap epic

  • Characterful … Viktoria Mullova.

    Beethoven: Violin Sonatas 1, 6 and 8 album review
    Characterful and infectiously gleeful

  • Part Bertie Wooster, part dissolute swindler … Kiell Smith-Bynoe with Dan Skinner in The Government Inspector at Marylebone Theatre.

    The Government Inspector review
    Ghosts stars team up for cartoonish corruption satire

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Lifestyle

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

    Celebrity how we met
    How Julian Clary and Barb Jungr met: ‘We both follow our hearts – and we both have psychic skills’

    Comedian Julian Clary and singer-songwriter Barb Jungr met in 1985 on the same cabaret bill. Friends ever since, they have performed together and speak nightly on the phone, having helped each other through bereavement
  • French bakers with a big baguette

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

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    Ditch the mirror and celebrate your strengths
    Therapists on 20 ways to boost your body confidence

  • 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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    Dada meets dresses
    Why clothes that look like sculptures are all the rage

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

  • 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?

  • Photo of a sold and for sale signs.

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

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    Millennials
    Have you recently moved back in with your parents?

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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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    ‘Hopeless and broken'
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    The IPP scandal
    Marc Conway risked his life to stop the London Bridge terror attack. Why did he fear being sent to prison for it?

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    ‘Countries are now forced to confront it’
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