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  • American artist Frank Stella

    Frank Stella
    Influential American artist dies aged 87

  • Madonna performs during a concert at the Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro

    Madonna
    Free concert draws crowd of 1.6m to Brazil’s Copacabana beach

    • Ukraine
      Shadow of war hangs over Orthodox Easter as Zelenskiy and Putin mark holiday

    • Kevin Spacey
      Actor hits back at fresh allegations in UK documentary

    • Cop29
      Summit to call for peace between warring states, says host Azerbaijan

    • Apple
      Warren Buffett backs company after firm sells millions of shares in iPhone maker

    • European elections
      EU at risk of ‘implosion’ as far-right seeks scapegoats, minister warns

    • Dick Rutan
      Co-pilot of historic round-the-world flight dies aged 85

In focus

  • Three students united at the University of California, San Diego

    ‘Like family’
    Three women – two Palestinian, one Jewish – find peace amid campus chaos

  • a side-by-side image of Joe Biden and Donald Trump

    Biden v Trump
    It’s six months until the US election. Do pollsters know where their candidates are?

    Depending on the expert, either Biden or Trump is likely to pull ahead, but nothing about this election – especially events – is predictable
  • Cardi B in a spectacular red dress with a long, wide, ruffled train making her way up the steps to the gala.

    The Big Apple blossoms
    From red carpet to Trump courthouse, New York lives again

    Emerging from Covid’s shadow, the city is resonating with glamour, politics and power – and the traffic jams are building up too

Spotlight

  • Older white man, dark suit, aviator sunglasses, waves as he departs a white building.

    US elections
    The Democrats lost the White House in 1968 amid anti-war protests. What will 2024 bring?

    Biden’s call for order after on-campus clashes and mass arrests of pro-Palestinian protesters further threatens the youth vote
  • Jennifer Connelly

    ‘I get a little stir-crazy’
    Jennifer Connelly on David Bowie, working with family and going back to college

  • The singer/actor Lady Gaga wears a bright pink gown at the 2019 Met Gala event in New York City.

    The Met Gala through the years
    Lizzo’s flute, Billy Porter’s wings and Cher’s ‘naked dress’

    As this year’s event at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City draws nearer, we look back at some of the biggest, boldest and most iconic looks to ascend its steps
  • Prisoner Polaroids all untitled / no captions. These are Sean's favourites / 5 are exclusive

    ‘My role was to be a truthful witness’
    Photographer Jack Lueders-Booth’s Polaroids of American female prisoners

    In the 1970s, the photographer began teaching in a progressive US women’s prison and made moving portraits of many of the inmates. Looking back, he sees how many of them actually felt safer in prison
    • A covered stadium full of people, with multiple, giant side-by-side screens of an older white man in a suit speaking from what appears to be an office.

      Warren Buffett
      They wait in the rain to see him. Will they still flock to Omaha when he’s gone?

    • The US supreme court is seen at sunset in Washington.

      Minority Rule review
      Ari Berman's rich history of America’s undemocratic democracy

    • A brown hen and an egg isolated on a white background

      Chicken or egg?
      One zoologist’s attempt to solve the conundrum of which came first

    • Cara Delevingne attends the Emporio Armani fashion show during the Milan Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 on September 21, 2023 in Milan, Italy. Photo by Marco Piovanotto/ABACAPRESS:COM Credit: Abaca Press/Alamy Live News<br>2RX0AGH Cara Delevingne attends the Emporio Armani fashion show during the Milan Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 on September 21, 2023 in Milan, Italy. Photo by Marco Piovanotto/ABACAPRESS:COM Credit: Abaca Press/Alamy Live News

      Cara Delevingne
      It’s a lot easier now I’m not the new hot young thing

Opinion

  • Nighttime view of police in helmets and riot gear on urban street.

    I remember the 1960s crackdowns against war protesters. This is a repeat

    Robert Reich
    The mistakes made at one point in time have an eerie way of re-emerging as memories fade
  • Pro-Palestinian protesters wave flags on campus

    We Columbia University students urge you to listen to our voices

    Columbia College Student Council
  • A still from Baby Reindeer by Richard Gadd.

    Baby Reindeer and how a compelling TV drama reflects the stalkers in us all

    Eva Wiseman
    Raised as we now are on social media and true crime, we need to fight the impulse to always find out more
  • A mayor with a question mark for a face

    From mayoral elections to Rwanda removals, Sunak won’t let the truth jeopardise his mission

    Stewart Lee
    Last week, Conservative campaigning gave a chilling indication of the depths to which they will sink to retain power
    • FILE - As light rain falls, New York City police officers take people into custody near the Columbia University campus in New York, Tuesday, April 30, 2024, after a building taken over by protesters earlier in the day was cleared, along with a tent encampment. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)

      I teach democracy at Princeton. Student protesters are getting an education like no other

      Razia Iqbal
    • Manahel al-Otaibi, pictured in 2019 in a Riyadh mall wearing ripped dungarees.

      With a bit of Saudi topspin, tennis fans can overlook its brutal repression of women

      Catherine Bennett
    • According to UNGRIPP, 287 people who received IPPs have died in prison, 90 having taken their own life.

      Unfair jail sentences – one more example of demonising society’s ‘morally unfit’

      Kenan Malik
    • World wide web inventor Tim Berners-Lee beside a work station in the early 1990s

      The internet is in decline – it needs rewilding

      John Naughton

Sports

  • Inter Miami forward Lionel Messi (10) passes during the second half against the New York Red Bulls at Chase Stadium on Saturday night.

    MLS
    Messi scores and adds record five assists in Inter Miami rout of Red Bulls

    Lionel Messi scored a goal and had five assists as Inter Miami trounced the New York Red Bulls 6-2 on Saturday night
  • Mystik Dan, rear, with jockey Brian Hernandez Jr, crosses the finish line at Churchill Downs first ahead of Sierra Leone and Forever Young in the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby on Saturday.

    Kentucky Derby
    Mystik Dan wins 150th running in epic three-horse photo finish

    Mystik Dan has won the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby in a dramatic three-horse photo finish at Churchill Downs
    • Erling Haaland shows Pep Guardiola his frustration at being substituted.

      'Back to business'
      Guardiola hails Haaland after four-goal haul in rout of Wolves

    • Iga Swiatek celebrates adding the final clay title missing from her collection in Madrid

      Tennis
      Swiatek wins thriller against Sabalenka to take Madrid crown

    • Max Verstappen during qualifying for the Miami GP.

      Miami F1 grand prix
      Verstappen takes pole after sprint race victory

    • Turki Alalshikh, chairman of the General Entertainment Authority, watches a March boxing card alongside Portuguese football manager Jose Mourinho at Riyadh’s Kingdom Arena.

      Boxing has a drug problem. Turki Alalshikh can make fixing it his legacy

      Thomas Hauser

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Climate crisis

  • The common carder bee (Bombus pascuorum) spotted in West Yorkshire.

    The age of extinction
    Bumblebee nests are overheating to fatal levels, study finds

  • Thai dancers keep cool with cold drinks and a fan during the heatwaves in Thailand, where 30 people have died from heatstroke this year.

    ‘Inside an oven’
    Sweltering heat ravages crops and takes lives in south-east Asia

  • ‘It’s moving throughout our whole home much faster than we expected,’ said Rob Jackson, co-author of the study.

    Gas stoves
    Appliances increase nitrogen dioxide exposure above WHO standards – study

  • A portion of the Florida wildlife corridor

    Florida
    State could have thriving future if climate resilience managed, research finds

Across the country

  • Police line up with black armor, helmets and clubs at the ready.

    ‘They’re sending a message’
    Harsh police tactics questioned amid campus protest crackdowns

  • Kristi Noem and Kim Jong-un

    South Dakota
    Governor Kristi Noem continues to be plagued by book controversies

    • Shug on the run
      Zebra running wild in Washington state for six days finally captured

    • Hawaii
      State to limit vacation rentals in response to tight housing market

    • ‘Don’t die, I will be back’
      Oklahoma boy saves parents after tornado tosses truck

    • New Mexico
      FBI looks into thrill-seeking teachers alleged to have been global art thieves

    • US elections 2024
      Wilmington: how a once-red district is a window on North Carolina politics

    • Alabama
      Supreme court declines to revisit frozen embryos ruling

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Around the world

  • Long March-3B rocket carrying the Chang'e 4 lunar probe takes off

    The new ‘space race’
    What are China’s ambitions and why is the US so concerned?

    As China launches its Chang’e-6 mission to the far side of the moon, US officials have expressed alarm at the pace of its advancements
  • Suella Braverman outside the BBC after appearing on television.

    Live
    Braverman tells Sunak to ‘own’ dismal election results and ‘fix it’ but says it’s too late for Tories to change leader– UK politics live

  • People with goggles and gas masks wrapped in Georgia flags

    ‘I’m in awe of our young people’
    Gen Z take the initiative as Georgia protesters face down Tbilisi government

  • A man is rescued by military firefighters after the floods in Canoas, at the Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil.

    Brazil
    Death toll from rains rises to 57 as 69,000 people displaced

    • Mexico
      ‘High degree of probability’ bodies found in northern Mexico are missing Australian brothers

    • ‘I’m happy we’re not killing them any more’
      Ireland’s last basking shark hunter on the return of the giants

    • China
      Xi Jinping to visit France, Hungary and Serbia amid EU trade tariff row

    • Ukraine
      Village of Ocheretyne left in ruins after Russian barrage

    • ‘Our culture is dying’
      Vulture shortage threatens Zoroastrian burial rites

    • UK jails
      Prisons ‘sleepwalking into crisis’ as inmates forced to share single cells

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Podcasts

Podcasts

  • Sofie Hagen portrait

    Weekend
    Weekend Podcast: comedian Sofie Hagen on eight years of celibacy, the £5 coffee is coming, and Philippa Perry offers advice on reconnecting with a sibling

  • Illustration: Daniel Liévano

    The Audio Long Read
    Solar storms, ice cores and nuns’ teeth: the new science of history – podcast

  • People inspect damage and recover items from their homes after Israeli airstrikes

    Today in Focus
    Are we on the brink of a ceasefire deal for Gaza?

  • FBL-EUR-C1-DORTMUND-PSG<br>Dortmund's German forward #14 Niclas Fuellkrug (R) celebrates with Dortmund's English midfielder #10 Jadon Sancho (L) and Dortmund's German midfielder #19 Julian Brandt scoring the opening goal during the UEFA Champions League semi-final first leg football match between Borussia Dortmund and Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) on May 1, 2024 in Dortmund. (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP) (Photo by ODD ANDERSEN/AFP via Getty Images)

    Football Weekly
    Advantage Dortmund in Champions League semis? – Football Weekly Extra

  • A nurse holding a syringe gives a man an injection

    Science
    The extraordinary promise of personalised cancer vaccines

  • A transport vehicle carries three Tesla Cybertrucks on a freeway in California

    Today in Focus
    Has Elon Musk driven Tesla off track?

  • A designed image with the words 'Politics Weekly UK'

    Politics Weekly UK
    Coming 5 May: Politics Weekly Westminster – an extra podcast episode to get your political fix

Culture

  • Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian leaning against a pick-up.

    Love Lies Bleeding review
    Kristen Stewart keeps it real in deliciously lurid outlaw romance

    Rose Glass’s follow-up to her acclaimed Saint Maud is a scorchingly sexy, darkly violent tale of a gym manager’s love affair with a bodybuilder
  • Josh O'Connor in a striped top, holding one hand to his head

    ‘I love work but I also love tending to my plants’
    Actor Josh O’Connor on gardening, reluctant stardom and getting ripped for Challengers

  • Hala Zein in Nezouh.

    Nezouh review
    Magic realism amid the ruins of Damascus under siege

  • Nicholas Galitzine and Anne Hathaway in The Idea of You.

    The Idea of You review
    Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine spark in crowd-pleasing romcom

  • 1980s airbrush-style illustration of a man catching a drink can against a California landscape in silhouette

    ‘Every Dylan song could be improved’
    Is perfection possible, or even desirable?

  • Margaret Atwood

    ‘I can say things other people are afraid to’
    Margaret Atwood on censorship, literary feuds and Trump

Lifestyle

  • Some teenagers were angry adults dodged uncomfortable conversations about sex.

    From doomscrolling to sex
    Being a boy in 2024

    I travelled the country interviewing teenage boys. I found openness, thoughtfulness, honesty and vulnerability on topics from sex, to pornography, feelings and isolation
  • Bare human steps<br>Steps of bare human feet on wet sand of sea beach

    Ask Philippa
    I have no children and have started to fear for my legacy. What can I do?

  • The view from the bedroom to a ‘junglette’ balcony.

    ‘It was a one-way journey’
    The couple whose flat changed with their life

  • Tant pis: the dining room at Public House, Paris.

    Jay Rayner on restaurants
    Public House, Paris: ‘A calamitous experience’

  • A plate of food on a board including picanha steak, roast potatoes, carrots and yorkshire pudding, with a gravy boat

    Peruvian steak and Yorkshire pudding with mint?
    How the British Sunday roast went global

  • Fort in Berlenga island - Portugal.

    Europe’s best beach holidays
    Peniche, Portugal

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Take part

  • People queue outside the Hermes store in Mayfair in London, Monday, April 12, 2021.

    Tell us
    Are you splurging on luxury goods you can ill afford?

  • Dozens of students arrested at the occupied Hamilton Hall building of Columbia University in New York<br>NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - APRIL 30: New York Police Department officers detain dozens of pro-Palestinian students at Columbia University after they barricaded themselves at the Hamilton Hall building near Gaza Solidarity Encampment earlier in New York, United States on April 30, 2024. (Photo by Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

    US students
    Share your experience of the pro-Palestinian campus protests

  • Hands Up<br>Large party group of people holding their arms and hands high in the air during an Outdoor Concert

    Music
    Tell us your experiences of making a living from music

  • A young businessman riding skateboard in the city of Barcelona, Spain.

    Tell us
    How do you make your commute fun or productive?

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From our global editions

  • People attend a rally to a call for action to end violence against women, in Canberra, Australia

    Horror and fury
    Epidemic of violence against women sweeps across Australia

  • Maj Maksym Taran of Ukraine's national guard said that it would ‘take 100 years’ to win the war without western weapons.

    Putin on our doorstep
    Ukrainians watch as the frontline edges closer

  • Robbie Mason was thrown out of home at just 10 years old and left to fend for himself. He has been a Heroin user and recently to part in a drug trail at St Vincent hospital using hydromorphone. It is the only trial of this type of opioid replacement therapy in Australia. He said the trail had been very usefully for him but ended stopping the trail a few months ago. He helps to inform people about drug addiction from his lived experience. 2 May 2024. Sydney. Australia

    ‘A complete 180’
    How a trial treatment in Australia for heroin addiction is changing lives

  • The Garrick Club exterior and entrance in London

    UK
    The Garrick Club needs women. But try telling that to the members with the locker-room bants

    Anonymous

In case you missed it

  • A worker cleans a sidewalk during a heat wave

    ‘My body would tremble’
    Florida workers brace for summer with no protections

  • A car with signs on it in front of people in masks holding up signs stand in front of building

    Domestic violence
    Victims are often criminalized. A California bill wants to change that

    Many say the bill would help survivors be heard, broadening the range of people able to petition to see their sentence reviewed
  • A Brood X cicada in Washington DC in May 2004 .

    ‘Be in awe’
    Everything you need to know about the US cicada-geddon

    The emergence of trillions of cicadas is under way in parts of the US – what should you do when they’re around, and what on earth are ‘zombie’ cicadas?
  • A man playing a piano

    New Orleans
    Musical spirit of city reminds African and Caribbean artists of home

  • Nemat (Minouche) Shafik testifies before Congress Columbia University's response to antisemitism

    Minouche Shafik
    The Columbia president facing choppy waters over Gaza protests

  • A black and white scan of the unfurled scroll

    ‘Second renaissance’
    Tech uncovers ancient scroll secrets of Plato and co

  • A teenage boy sits in a dark room, covering his eyes with his hand

    Explainer
    How can parents protect their children from sextortion?

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In pictures

  • A monochrome image of Paul Auster standing in his study with a cigarette in his hand and a number of objects on a table behind him, including a manual typewriter

    The big picture
    Author Paul Auster in his element

    The celebrated ​writer, who died last week, is captured​ by Arnold Newman in his study ​in 1993​ with his trusty Olympia manual typewriter​
  • A girl stands next to a damaged car buried in mud at an area heavily affected by torrential rains and flash floods in the village of Kamuchiri

    The week
    20 pictures from around the world

  • Star Wars fans dressed as stormtroopers at a cinema in The Hague

    Photos of the day
    A Star Wars marathon and a heatwave in Asia

  • A field hamster looks out of its burrow in a field. in Euskirchen, Germany.

    The week in wildlife
    A giant hamster, a moustachioed deer and a zebra on the run

  • A fake Native Amerian headdress, tunic and mask

    Photography
    Faux Native American costumes and clothing reconsidered

  • Naked man doing headstand on mauve sofa

    Esteban Kuriel’s best phone picture
    ‘Is this an image of a sculpture or an invitation to a sexual encounter?’

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