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  • the logo for "Meta" on a sign outside a building

    'We didn’t really get trained on those'
    How Facebook Messenger and Meta Pay are used to buy child sexual abuse material

  • Puyr Tembé with her team of forest guardians.

    ‘A struggle for us all’
    New film reveals light and shade of fight for Amazon

    Five years in the making, We Are Guardians takes a hard look at the complexity of the struggle between Indigenous people, loggers and ranchers
  • A woman walks past another woman in a wheelchair outside a clinic run by Unrwa at Mar Elias Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon.

    'There is no alternative'
    Funding cuts to UN aid agency threaten new crisis in Lebanon

    With 250,000 Palestinian refugees reliant on Unrwa, there are fears its collapse could lead to unrest

Spotlight

  • Illustration of lungs

    Avoid mould and ride a bike
    20 expert tips on how to look after your lungs for life

    With air quality an increasing worry, the health of our lungs has never been more important
  • Trent Reznor covered in mud, howling into a mic

    Sex, drugs and … God?
    Nine Inch Nails’ greatest songs – ranked!

  • Dominic (left) and David

    Dining across the divide
    ‘I think sport is overrated as a force for good’

    One was put off sport for life at school, while the other thinks it is positive for society as well as those who play it. Were they any closer on Starmer v Corbyn?
  • Tierra Whack holds a stylised mask of herself in front of her face, both wearing white modernist wire-rimmed circular specs with circles where the lenses should be.

    ‘Beyoncé said: you’re so silly, I love you!’
    Tierra Whack, America’s most creative rapper

    She’s a muse to megastars, a champion of Lego and raps about her imaginary friend – but behind the whimsy is a street-hardened MC confronting grief and depression
    • ‘I may have got caught up a little bit in the 90s with Men Behaving Badly thinking: “Next up – Hollywood!”’ … Neil Morrissey.

      Neil Morrissey
      Playing a woman was great. I had big hairy men flirting with me on set

    • Simon Usborne plays piano with his son.

      ‘There’s joy I haven’t felt for years!’
      How an app finally got me hooked on the piano

    • ‘We’re challenging the narrative’ … Roisin Gallagher.

      The Dry's Roisin Gallagher
      The hot new Irish star lighting up UK TV – without having to leave her home town

    • Illustration of Jay Rayner and a family member holding tongs and a bottle

      Happy eater
      No one likes my home cooking more than me (sorry, not sorry, son)

      Jay Rayner

Opinion

  • ‘Glazer wanted his film to provoke these kinds of uneasy thoughts.’

    The Zone of Interest is about the danger of ignoring atrocities – including in Gaza

    Naomi Klein
    If Jonathan Glazer’s brave Oscar acceptance speech made you uncomfortable, that was the point
  • Someone using Tinder on their phone.

    I’m not surprised people are suing a dating app company – our addiction to swiping makes us miserable

    Georgina Lawton
  • Illustration by Bill Bragg

    This ‘election’ won’t kickstart any change in Russia – but a defeat for Putin in Ukraine can

    Timothy Garton Ash
  • A businessman stands with his briefcase inside the top of the Gherkin, looking at the City of London.

    The cries from Britain’s struggling CEOs are growing louder – how can they survive on a mere £4.4m a year?

    Stefan Stern
  • Bicycle delivery woman with road bicycle standing in the hallway

    Sweaty after a bike ride? Hair wrecked by the rain? You need one of my adult changing stations

    Nell Frizzell
  • A nurse comforts an upset young woman in a hospital corridor

    Thank you, NHS England, for offering baby-loss leave. This kindness should be every employee’s right

    Kat Brown

Sport

  • From left: Barbra Banda, Racheal Kundananji and Mallory Swanson

    NWSL preview
    Record signings, a historic stadium – and a new winner?

  • Carla Ward, manager of Aston Villa.

    Football
    Ward: coach-player relationships should be sackable offence

    • Quincy Promes

      Football
      Promes arrested in Dubai at Dutch request for cocaine trafficking

    • Adelaide United footballer Josh Cavallo proposes to his partner Leighton Morrell at Coopers Stadium in Adelaide.

      Josh Cavallo
      Trailblazing footballer announces engagement after on-pitch proposal

    • Callum Walsh

      Callum Walsh
      I just want to win as much as I can, as quick as I can

    • Rick Barry was a 13-time All-Star during his NBA and ABA career.

      Pickleball
      Rick Barry and elite athletes’ endless appetite for competition

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Climate crisis

  • Workers cover a glacier with plastic sheets on the peak of Zugspitze mountain in Germany, May 2011.

    Geoengineering
    Effects must be urgently investigated, experts say

  • A Shell-operated oil platform in the North Sea.

    Shell
    Company waters down emissions cut pledge despite crucial climate decade

  • People watch the sunrise at Bondi beach in Sydney, Australia

    'Off the charts'
    Australia faces a hot autumn with sea temperatures warm enough for a tropical cyclone

  • A flare to burn excess methane from oil production in North Dakota.

    Environment
    Fossil fuel firms must plug methane leaks to meet climate targets, warns watchdog

Around the world

  • The Romanian president, Klaus Iohannis (centre), who is standing for the post, with Mark Rutte (right) and the current secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg in June 2023.

    Nato
    Mark Rutte should not be appointed as secretary general without broader discussion, says Latvia

  • Gandini and a gold Miura

    Marcello Gandini
    Lamborghini, Lancia and Alfa Romeo designer dies aged 85

    • Germany
      Former Stasi officer faces trial for 1974 Berlin border shooting

    • Technology
      EU calls on tech firms to outline plans to tackle deepfakes amid election fears

    • Sweden
      Developer contracts with Sámi reindeer herders ‘harmful’ to Indigenous people

    • Satoshi Nakamoto
      Australian computer scientist is not bitcoin creator, high court rules

    • Denmark
      Country plans to conscript women for military service for first time

    • Brexit
      UK embarks on trade talks with Turkey

Culture

  • Van Gogh’s Portrait of the Artist (1887)

    ‘The original selfie?’
    Cardiff borrows Van Gogh self-portrait for selfie show

    Musée d’Orsay in Paris lends painting in exchange for a Renoir for Welsh Art of the Selfie exhibition
  • Pyramid schemes … Dua Lipa, Coldplay's Chris Martin and SZA.

    Glastonbury
    Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA to headline 2024 festival

  • Jimmy Kimmel on the House voting to ban TikTok: “This is a big deal. This is like iPhone Footloose, and there’s no Kevin Bacon to save us.”

    Late-night US TV roundup
    Jimmy Kimmel on House vote to ban TikTok: ‘This is like iPhone Footloose’

  • Buoyant … conductor Rebecca Miller.

    Dorothy Howell: Orchestral Works album review
    Buoyant performances show off Howell’s quicksilver gifts

  • Daisy May Cooper, host of Educating Daisy.

    Best podcasts of the week
    Can anyone convince Daisy May Cooper to read even a single book?

  • Sincere commitment … The Trust Fall: Julian Assange

    The Trust Fall: Julian Assange review
    Partisan portrait of WikiLeaks man

Lifestyle

  • Anna and John in the snow in Finland

    How we met
    ‘No decent person turns away a refugee. So when she asked if she could stay, I said yes’

    John, 70, and Anna, 48, became friends on a travel website in 2008. When war broke out in Ukraine, John welcomed Anna to his home in Finland – and they’re still flatmates
    • Tell us your story of how you met someone special
  • A dog peeking around a door and looking into the camera

    Thursday quiz
    Brand new animals, awkward moments and dreadful movie awards

  • a worker slices tofu at a restaurant

    Well actually
    How do you get enough protein in a climate-friendly way?

  • Evening street sale of pesto in a trailer at the harbour, Genoa, Italy<br>2WF2MTA Evening street sale of pesto in a trailer at the harbour, Genoa, Italy

    'The city is renowned for its culinary riches'
    A street food tour of Genoa

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    Stressed out? Get chewing
    Can a wellness rebrand make Americans buy gum again?

  • M&amp;S’s bottom-enhancing shorts.

    Does my bum look bigger in these?
    M&S hopes to cash in on ‘Kim Kardashian effect’

documentaries
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Ukrainian Factory

Two years since the full scale invasion began, Vitalii, a key worker living without his family in Mykolaiv, finds solace in the rhythms of the bread factory

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Ukrainian Factory documentary

Take part

  • What was your wedding budget and how did you settle on it?

    Life and style
    Tell us: how did you afford your wedding?

  • People walking near Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, after the River Nene burst its banks, 2020.

    Environment
    Tell us: how has the climate crisis affected your relationships?

  • Composite image of two women for callout to readers on 'how do you stay friends with your exes?'

    Relationships
    How do you maintain friendships with your exes?

  • Spanish farmers blockade roads in Barcelona<br>A woman and children look at tractors during a farmers protest over price pressures, taxes and green regulation, grievances shared by farmers across Europe, at Avinguda Diagonal, in Barcelona, Spain, February 7, 2024. REUTERS/Nacho Doce

    Farmers in Europe
    Are you taking part in the protests?

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From our global editions

  • A woman poses for pictures with an art decoration featuring the map of Crimea in the colours of the Russian flag.

    ‘The fight is continuing’
    A decade of Russian rule has not silenced Ukrainian voices in Crimea

    Ten years on from Russia’s annexation, with all-out war making its dominance vulnerable, authorities are increasing a crackdown on pro-Ukrainian voices – while others simply want to live their lives
  • Fire and smoke after a Ukrainian drone strike on a refinery in Ryazan, Russia.

    Ukraine war briefing
    Refineries in Russia burn as Ukrainians go after Kremlin’s lifeline

  • Under the metal canopy of a gas station, two a beige open-roofed Hummer, which looks like a jeep, and a white Mercedes van both fill up their vehicles.

    Revealed
    How the global oil industry is fuelling Israel’s war on Gaza

  • Deo Kato, who is running from Cape Town to London.

    Muddy roads, angry farmers and civil war
    One man’s epic run from Cape Town to London

  • Survivors of sexual violence who fled the conflict in Geneina get together outside their makeshift shelters in Adré last year.

    Sudan
    Darfur rape survivors gather together after ethnically targeted campaign

  • A woman walks past another woman in a wheelchair outside a clinic run by Unrwa at Mar Elias Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon.

    'There is no alternative'
    Funding cuts to UN aid agency threaten new crisis in Lebanon

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    ‘A fishing accident blinded me but I was forced to keep working’
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    A moment that changed me
    I discovered my mother was a sex worker

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    How did Norway become the electric car superpower?
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Podcasts

  • Atletico Madrid v FC Internazionale: Round of 16 Second Leg - UEFA Champions League 2023/24, Spain - 13 Mar 2024<br>RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE Mandatory Credit: Photo by Jose Breton/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock (14388157cp) Atletico players celebrate victory after the UEFA Champions League 2023/24 round of 16 second leg match between Atlético Madrid and FC Internazionale at Civitas Metropolitano Stadium on March 13, 2024 in Madrid, Spain. Atletico Madrid v FC Internazionale: Round of 16 Second Leg - UEFA Champions League 2023/24, Spain - 13 Mar 2024

    Football Weekly
    Atlético rock Inter and Bournemouth bounce back – Football Weekly Extra

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    Black Box
    Episode four – Bing and I

  • Artist's impression of boiling sea

    Science
    A waterworld with a boiling ocean and the end of dark matter? The week in science – podcast

  • British newspapers feature news regarding image of Princess of Wales

    Today in Focus
    The princess and the pictures

  • TOPSHOT-FBL-EUR-C1-ARSENAL-PORTO<br>TOPSHOT - (From L) Arsenal's Spanish goalkeeper #22 David Raya, Arsenal's Norwegian midfielder #08 Martin Odegaard, Arsenal's English midfielder #07 Bukayo Saka, Arsenal's English defender #04 Ben White and Arsenal's English midfielder #41 Declan Rice celebrate after winning the penalty shoot-out session of the UEFA Champions League last 16 second leg football match between Arsenal and Porto FC at the Arsenal Stadium in north London, on March 12, 2024. Arsenal edged out Porto on penalties to reach the Champions League quarter-finals for the first time since 2010. (Photo by Adrian DENNIS / AFP) (Photo by ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images)

    Football Weekly
    Arsenal pip Porto, plus a night at the Belgrade derby – Football Weekly

  • Man photographing the Hunza valley, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan<br>T34JDF Man photographing the Hunza valley, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: How western travel influencers got tangled up in Pakistan’s politics – podcast

  • Take-down notice issued by a group of global intelligence to Lockbit (Photograph: Handout via Reuters)

    Today in Focus
    How an infamous ransomware gang found itself hacked

In pictures

  • An artwork by Chavis Mármol of a Tesla 3 car being crushed by a nine-tonne Olmec-inspired head

    Photos of the day
    A crushed Tesla and George W Bush’s paintings

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • Salt-N-Pepa at Radio City Music Hall, New York City in 1994.

    A who’s who of Black popular music
    From Nina Simone and Bob Marley to Goldie and Salt-N-Pepa

  • ‘Symmetry and colour at Kings Cross station.’

    Readers' best photographs
    Station symmetry and a cheeky cow

  • Four young black girls in swimming costumes posing by a poolside at Sea Point Pavilion, Cape Town, South Africa, with buildings in the background

    Sony World Photography awards
    Open competition winners

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    Photography
    A century of monochrome magic

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    Say squeeze!
    Famous photographs remade in Play-Doh

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