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  • Zendaya arrives at Met Gala
    Zendaya arrives at Met Gala
    Gigi Hadid brings the long train
    Gigi Hadid brings the long train
    Anna Wintour wears a flower-embroidered coat
    Anna Wintour wears a flower-embroidered coat
    Gwendoline Christie arrives in dark red
    Gwendoline Christie arrives in dark red
    Sienna Miller, Chemena Kamali, Greta Gerwig, Emma Mackey and Zoe Saldana
    Sienna Miller, Chemena Kamali, Greta Gerwig, Emma Mackey and Zoe Saldana

    Live
    Met Gala 2024: Zendaya, Gigi Hadid, Gwendoline Christie, Anna Wintour and a green red carpet

    Sarah Jessica Parker, Jennifer Lopez and Ayo Edibiri among stars arriving at fashion’s biggest night at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Follow latest updates
    • Letitia James

      Abortion pill
      New York attorney general sues facilities promoting ‘reversal’ procedures

    • Russia
      US soldier detained and accused of theft, officials say

    • Canada
      Accused serial murderer admits killing four Indigenous women

    • UCLA
      University creates campus safety role amid condemnation of response to mob attack

    • Colorado
      State cracks down on funeral homes after discoveries of rotting bodies

    • ‘Special treatment’
      Harvey Weinstein in private unit in New York hospital

    • ‘Commander, say hello to Cricket’
      Noem book contains threat against Biden dog

    • Pulitzer Prize 2024
      Winners include Jayne Anne Phillips, ProPublica, AP and New York Times

In focus

  • Man in suit holds up papers outside court

    Paper trail and judge’s warning
    Trump trial key takeaways, day 12

  • A vehicle with mattresses piled high on its roof

    ‘Trying to escape death’
    Terrified and exhausted, thousands flee feared imminent assault on Rafah

    People displaced from elsewhere in Gaza during the war are on the move again but find their destination already packed
  • Black woman in crowd wearing matching red T-shirts.

    ‘We deserve more’
    US workers’ share of the pie dwindles

    Bureau of Labor Statistics releases latest estimate of how much labor receives of national income, showing bleak decline

Spotlight

  • Kevin Spacey in 2007.

    Spacey Unmasked review
    Far more than a did-he-didn’t-he exposé

    Ten men, including a boxer and an ex-marine, make allegations of sexually inappropriate behaviour against the star who was once box office dynamite. Then this documentary goes even further
  • Donald Trump is selling an edition of the Bible.

    I bought Trump’s Bible
    A blasphemous, sticky nightmare

  • a woman cleans up her garden and pond

    Can I get a little more eco-friendly every day?
    Four tips for a greener mindset

    Developing a daily practice of sustainability can help ease your anxiety about the future – so I tried it out for a week
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    Hollywood hysteria
    The 60s movies that showed a time of madness

    During a decade of American disillusionment, a series of films, from Seconds to What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, represented a culture cracking up
    • His disgusted/astonished face is hilarious … the Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) at Abbey Road in The Devil’s Chord.

      Doctor Who first look review
      Ncuti Gatwa will make this show far more fun than it’s been for years

    • John Oliver on attacks on libraries: ‘This is all madness, and it speaks to the need for libraries to be vigorously defended.’

      John Oliver on public libraries
      ‘Another front in the ongoing culture war’

    • NSW oyster farmer Bernie Connell with Australia’s largest oyster, Jill

      Meet Jill, Australia’s heaviest oyster
      ‘You wouldn’t eat her – she’s one of the family’

    • ‘After two minutes, the radio switchboard was going crazy’ … Luhrmann, who turned Mary Schmich’s column into a global phenomenon.

      ‘I thought it was a speech by Kurt Vonnegut’
      Baz Luhrmann on making Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)

Opinion

  • Police begin clearing pro-Palestine protest encampment at UCLA

    Police let violent mobs attack UCLA students. This is what lawlessness looks like

    Judith Levine
    • FILE PHOTO: Protests continue on Columbia University campus in support of Palestinians<br>FILE PHOTO: Protesters link arms outside Hamilton Hall barricading students inside the building at Columbia University, despite an order to disband the protest encampment supporting Palestinians or face suspension, during the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in New York City, U.S., April 30, 2024. REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs/File Photo

      American politicians forget: disruption and disorder are the point of protests

      Patrick Gaspard
    • Joe Biden, in a suit and tie, sitting on a leather chair at a desk in an office with his hand on the head of Commander, the secret service dog.

      Have I got this right? Does Kristi Noem really want Joe Biden to start killing dogs too?

      Zoe Williams
    • Botox Treatment<br>Young woman receiving a botox injection

      Vampire facials, under-eye fillers, ‘prejuvenation’: how did cosmetic tweakments get so extreme?

      Georgina Lawton
    • Gogglebox’s Ellie and Izzi Warner.

      I love Vogue’s idea of ‘British girl energy’. But what does it involve?

      Emma Beddington

Sports

  • Michael Olise celebrates.

    Crystal Palace 4-0 Manchester United
    Olise works magic to deepen Ten Hag's misery

    Michael Olise’s double, Jean-Philippe Mateta and Tyrick Mitchell gave Crystal Palace a 4-0 win against Manchester United, adding to Erik ten Hag’s woes
  • Roger Bannister's record breaking run

    ‘Greatest sporting feat in last 100 years’
    Bannister’s sub four-minute mile

  • David Moyes on the touchline at West Ham.

    West Ham United
    Moyes to leave club at end of this season by mutual consent

    West Ham have announced that David Moyes will leave at the end of the season, with Julen Lopetegui expected to replace him
  • Tom Brady was the main act in a three-hour comedy roast on Sunday

    Tom Brady
    Jokes about massages, OJ and Gisele divorce fly in comedy roast

    Tom Brady took his share of barbs from comedians, former teammates and his longtime coach on Sunday night during a comedy roast on Netflix on Sunday
    • Naoya Inoue celebrates a knockdown of Luis Nery in the second round of their title fight

      Boxing
      Inoue boosts claim as world’s best fight with destruction of Nery

    • Lando Norris celebrates his victory in Miami

      Nice guy finishes first
      Norris' long road to top of Formula One

    • Oleksandr Pielieshenko of Ukraine

      Oleksandr Pielieshenko
      Ukraine’s former Olympian weightlifter killed in action

    • Micky Van de Ven, Heung-Min Son and Ange Postecogolou.

      Postecoglou has reinvented Spurs. But the path forward is murky

      Jonathan Wilson

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Climate crisis

  • An oilfield near Baku

    Exclusive
    Poorer nations must be transparent over climate spending, says Cop29 leader

  • A man rides a rental bike in Baku, Azerbaijan, where the UN climate change conference will convene in November.

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

  • 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

Across the country

  • A weather system over the continental United States on 6 May 2024.

    Weather
    Nearly 10 million people in central US under threat of severe weather, agency warns

    National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center issued a rare high risk for central Oklahoma and southern Kansas
  • Bernie Sanders at an event to mark Earth Day in Virginia last month

    Bernie Sanders
    Vermont senator to run for fourth term

  • Ne’Kiya Jackson, left, and Calcea Johnson on CBS’ 60 Minutes on 5 May 2024.

    New Orleans
    Teens who discovered new way to prove Pythagoras’s theorem uncover even more proofs

  • Claire Woodall-Vogg, executive director of the City of Milwaukee Election Commission, teaches a class to poll workers Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022, in Milwaukee. Milwaukee's election leader has been ousted by the mayor in a surprise move that comes just six months before Wisconsin's largest city will be in the spotlight in the presidential swing state. Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson announced Monday, May 6, 2024, that he would be replacing Milwaukee Election Commission Executive Director Woodall with her deputy, Paulina Gutierrez. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

    Wisconsin
    Milwaukee replaces top election official six months before presidential vote

    • Condé Nast
      Vogue owner averts union walkout with deal on day of Met Gala

    • Pennsylvania
      Pastor survives shooting attempt during sermon after gun jams

    • Republicans
      House set to vote on Marjorie Taylor Greene effort to remove Mike Johnson

    • Boeing
      Company hopes to polish its reputation with Starliner crew capsule launch

    • ‘Incredible but not surprising’
      James Clyburn hits out at Trump over Gestapo comment

    • Louisiana
      Man has brain damage, mother says, after allegedly being pushed into lake

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Around the world

  • Two figures in white either side of a miltary-style green missile hanging against a blue sky

    Russia
    Putin threatens UK military and orders nuclear drills after ‘provocation’

    Vladimir Putin responds to recent statements from David Cameron and Emmanuel Macron over Ukraine war
  • Jose Raul Mulino wins Panama's presidential election<br>epaselect epa11320878 Presidential candidate Jose Raul Mulino gestures during a speech at his campaign headquarters in Panama City, Panama, 05 May 2024. With more than 85 percent of the ballots being accounted for, Mulino leads with 34.44 percent followed by Other Path Movement's Ricardo Lombana with 25 percent, former president Martin Torrijos of the Popular Party with 16 percent, and Romulo Roux of Cambio Democratico with 11.29 percent. EPA/Bienvenido Velasco

    Panama
    Country elects former security minister José Raúl Mulino as next president

  • Closeup of Bobby Singleton in white shirt and police epaulettes

    Northern Ireland
    Widespread condemnation after man found nailed to fence in County Antrim

  • A doctor points to PET scan results that are part of a previous study on Alzheimer's disease.

    Alzheimer's
    Scientists claim to have found another distinct genetic form

    • UK
      Students stage pro-Palestine occupations at five more universities

    • Vaccines
      Scientists create immunization with potential to protect against future coronaviruses

    • 'Europe will not waver'
      EU restates readiness to launch trade war with China over cheap imports

    • Italy
      Rai journalists strike over ‘suffocating control’ by Meloni’s government

    • Caravaggio
      Lost painting that almost sold for €1,500 to go on show at Prado in Madrid

    • Namibia
      Call for port extension to be halted as genocide remains are found on Shark Island

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Podcasts

  • Manchester City v Wolverhampton Wanderers, Premier League, Football, Etihad Stadium, Manchester, UK - 04 May 2024<br>EDITORIAL USE ONLY No use with unauthorised audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or "live" services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images, no video emulation. No use in betting, games or single club/league/player publications. Mandatory Credit: Photo by David Blunsden/Action Plus/REX/Shutterstock (14461108dx) Erling Haaland of Manchester City celebrates after scoring with a header past Jose Sa of Wolverhampton Wanderers for 2-0 after 35 minutes; Etihad Stadium, Manchester, England; Premier League Football, Manchester City versus Wolverhampton Wanderers. Manchester City v Wolverhampton Wanderers, Premier League, Football, Etihad Stadium, Manchester, UK - 04 May 2024

    Football Weekly
    Haaland destroys Wolves as City and Arsenal keep winning – Football Weekly

  • A woman breaking sandstone in Rajasthan, India. Photograph: Romita Saluja

    The Audio Long Read
    How child labour in India makes the paving stones beneath our feet – podcast

  • Mark and Ros Dowey, the parents of Murray Dowey (Photo: Murdo MacLeod)

    Today in Focus
    How do we protect teenagers from sextortion scams?

  • Keir Starmer Votes in the Local Elections in London<br>LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - MAY 02: Leader of the Labour Party Sir Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria leave a polling station after casting their votes in the local elections in London, United Kingdom on May 02, 2024. Millions of voters across England head to the polls today to decide on thousands of council seats, and also to choose the Mayor of London, London Assembly members and 10 mayors outside the capital. (Photo by Wiktor Szymanowicz/Anadolu via Getty Images)

    Today in Focus
    Politics Weekly Westminster: local elections special

  • A polling station sign outside a polling station (Photo by Anthony Devlin/Getty Images)

    Politics Weekly UK
    Politics Weekly Westminster: Election special – podcast

  • 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

Culture

  • Bernard Hill as Yosser Hughes in Boys from the Blackstuff

    ‘Gissa job!’
    How Bernard Hill created one of TV’s most tragic and unforgettable characters

    Playing unhinged head-butting Yosser Hughes in Boys from the Blackstuff made Hill a legend. But, from Titanic to The Lord of the Rings, his entire 50-year career was outstanding
  • a young man and woman sit across from each other at a table, eating food

    Double fault
    Challengers is as bad in the bedroom as it is on the tennis court

  • Drake and Kendrick Lamar.

    'I’d have been arrested'
    Drake denies Kendrick Lamar's allegations of underage sex and harboring secret child

  • Clashes … officers clear a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles, campus.

    Tunnels, treehouses and tensegrity towers
    Landmarks in protest architecture, from UCLA to Hong Kong

  • This illustration provided by NASA depicts Voyager 1. The most distant spacecraft from Earth stopped sending back understandable data in November 2023. Flight controllers traced the blank communication to a bad computer chip and rearranged the spacecraft’s coding to work around the trouble. In mid-April 2024, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory declared success after receiving good engineering updates. The team is still working to restore transmission of the science data. (NASA via AP)

    Storms, frogs and a kiss
    How a group of scientists designed a message from humanity to aliens

  • Laure Prouvost, The Hidden Paintings Grandma Improved, In Deepth, 2023, Oil on canvas, 200 x 175 x 3.5 cm, 78 3/4 x 68 7/8 x 1 3/8 in © Laure Prouvost

    ‘A wild cocktail of emotion, politics and desire’
    The history of breasts in art

Lifestyle

  • Babyleaf the kitten

    The pet I'll never forget
    Babyleaf, the feral kitten who tamed me

    She came into my life just when I needed her, and together we worked on our traumas. But it could not last …
  • G2: How to build a better life - connect with your pain, you can't just cut it out

    How to build a better life
    We all want to cut out the bad parts of ourselves. It won’t work, and it won’t make us happier

  • A cup of espresso and a cup of cappuccino

    The synthetic coffee revolution
    Are ground date seeds really as delicious as the real thing?

  • Rachel Roddy's chestnut pasta with mushroom.

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for chestnut pasta with mushrooms and herbs

  • ‘I felt like a failure… when others seemed to find it easy’: Danyah Miller.

    Self and wellbeing
    Being diagnosed with dyslexia has made me happier

  • John Starbrook plays water polo. Hampton. London. Photograph by David Levene 28/4/24

    Fit for ever
    He’s 93, he’s run 52 marathons and he’s in the gym six days a week: can this man teach us how to age well?

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  • 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

  • Clockwise (left to right from top): Burberry bags in a store, Moët & Chandon champagne, Gieves & Hawkes of Savile Row, and Wilkin & Sons, which is behind the Tiptree jam brand.

    From sporrans to chandeliers
    King Charles and Queen Camilla weigh up new royal warrants

  • Nasrin Sotoudeh and her husband Reza Khandan hold up a protest badge that reads: ‘I oppose the mandatory hijab.’

    ‘I am ready to return whenever they say’
    Nasrin Sotoudeh on prison, the hijab, and violence in Iran

  • A banner hanging from the upper windows of building on a busy street in Amsterdam bears the message ‘fuck the housing market’. Pedestrians and cyclists pass by in the foreground

    ‘Everything’s just … on hold’
    The Netherlands’ next-level housing crisis

  • Martin Kanja stands in a road, wearing sunglasses and a white top with the name of his record label, Haekalu, on the sleeve

    ‘People think it’s just for emo or gothic kids’
    The Kenyan metalhead leading a new wave of African rock

In case you missed it

  • A banner hanging from the upper windows of building on a busy street in Amsterdam bears the message ‘fuck the housing market’. Pedestrians and cyclists pass by in the foreground

    ‘Everything’s just … on hold’
    The Netherlands’ next-level housing crisis

  • Logos for Republican and Democratic parties

    Explainer
    What happens if a US presidential candidate dies?

    Joe Biden and Donald Trump are the two oldest candidates in US history. If either needs to be replaced, what next?
  • A national guardsman patrols the US-Mexico border atop a shipping container.

    ‘Why doesn’t anybody care?’
    Texas-Mexico border devastated by anti-migrant operation

    Greg Abbott’s strategy to deter immigration isn’t just harming people and costing billions – it’s ruining the Rio Grande’s ecosystem
  • The TikTok office

    ‘It’s just not hitting like it used to’
    TikTok was in its flop era before it got banned in the US

  • 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?

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

    Biden v Trump
    With six months to go, the US election is more unpredictable than ever

  • an "open" sign

    Difficult to define
    What is a US small business? One owner explains

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In pictures

  • 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
  • From left, Denmark's Queen Mary, King Frederik X, Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia wave from the balcony at the Royal Palace, in Stockholm, Sweden.

    Photos of the day
    Holocaust remembrance and a royal wave

  • A woman poses with her snakes

    Italy
    Snake catchers festival

  • US singer Madonna performs during a free concert on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

    Photos of the weekend
    Madonna in Rio and a battle between Greek churches

  • 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

  • A fake Native Amerian headdress, tunic and mask

    Photography
    Faux Native American costumes and clothing reconsidered

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