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  • US secretary of state Antony Blinken, left, meets with China's foreign minister Wang Yi at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing

    China
    Foreign minister warns Blinken relations with the US could slip into ‘downward spiral’

    Wang Yi says recent improvements in ties face ‘disruptions’ amid threats of sanctions over support for Russia’s defence industry
  • A girl cools off during the heat wave at the Suhrawardy Udyan water reserve in Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Asia
    Wave of exceptionally hot weather scorches south and south-east of continent

  • Palestinians bring cement blocks to a pier that could be used to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza in March

    Gaza
    US troops begin construction of aid pier as questions remain over distribution

  • The popular tourist spot with view of a Lawson convenience shop, with view of Mount Fuji behind at Kawaguchiko station

    Japan
    Town to block Mount Fuji view after tourists overcrowd popular photo spot

    • ‘Trump was my mentor’
      David Pecker to testify for fourth time in hush-money trial

    • Ukraine
      Reparations to be paid to survivors of wartime sexual violence

    • Cancer
      ‘Real hope’ for cure as personal mRNA vaccine for melanoma trialled

    • Pandabuy
      Police raid ‘20 football stadiums’ worth of alleged fake goods warehouses

    • US campus protests
      Police use rubber bullets and teargas to break up university demonstrations in Georgia

    • UK
      Minister appears to mix up Rwanda and Congo on BBC debate show

News in focus

  • A mural of parachuters on the wall of a building.

    ‘We are with them’
    Support for Hamas grows among Palestinians in Lebanon

  • Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen speaks during a lunch meeting with Michael McCaul, Chairman of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee in April 2023

    Explainer
    What does Taiwan get from the foreign aid bill and why is the US economy among the biggest winners?

    The sweeping foreign aid package passed by congress has drawn the ire of China, but billions of dollars will actually stay in the US
  • India's home minister and leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Amit Shah (C) greets supporters in Bengaluru, capital of Karnataka.

    India election
    Fears that Modi’s BJP will polarise voters in fight for key state

    Muslims worry Modi’s party will rely on familiar tactics of drawing on religious divisions as it battles Congress to to retain seats in Karnataka

Spotlight

  • ‘What Ryan has is a lack of insecurity about teasing himself, his stardom and his masculinity.’

    Evolution of man
    How Ryan Gosling changed stardom, cinema and society

    The actor’s feminist credentials, a wholehearted embrace of comedy and being one of the most memed actors on social media has seen Gosling’s auto-satirising alpha male become white-hot box office in 2024
  • Nia Archives with union jack tooth and red, white and blue jumper

    Mad fer it!
    The young musicians flying the flag for Britpop

  • Judge illo 27th April - WEB

    You be the judge
    Should my flatmate stop setting the clocks fast – even if I am always late?

    Fatima has taken drastic action to cure Sade’s chronic lateness. Sade says she doesn’t need her hand holding. You decide whose time is up
  • A young woman in a headscarf sits on a park bench

    Married at 10, abused and forced to flee without her children
    An Afghan woman on life under the Taliban

    Now living in comparative freedom in Iran, 26-year-old Mahtab Eftekhar describes facing motherhood at 12 and explains why seeking justice for other women means she no longer fears death
    • Painting: Anthony van Dyck Wooing his Model (1827) by Gustaaf Wappers.

      Leading questions
      My partner concealed he had more than one ex-wife. Should I be nervous about our future?

    • ‘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

    • Elegant features in a seaside apartment in Ramsgate.

      Fantasy house hunt
      City flats for sale in Great Britain for less than £500,000

    • black and white photo of a big building with word hippodrome on sign

      Lost New York
      Remembering the city’s forgotten landmarks

Opinion

  • People protest outside the supreme court

    The US politics sketch
    Trump immunity case suggests new role for supreme court: kingmaker

    Oral arguments over former president’s claim of immunity seem to have left Trump happier than the justice department
  • Andy Beckett

    The cost of living crisis has made the UK a poorer, more anxious nation – and worse is yet to come

    Andy Beckett
  • The Jubilee River in Taplow, Buckinghamshire in 2023.

    Ever get the feeling that you’re being had? Presenting: the great sewage scam

    George Monbiot
  • Conan O'Brien

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

    Rebecca Shaw
  • 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
  • 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

Sport

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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

  • Polish Parliament meets For the 10th session in Warsaw - 24 Apr 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Dominika Zarzycka/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock (14449088i) W?adys?aw Kosiniak-Kamysz, Minister of defence speaks during the 10th session of Polish Parliament in the Parliament building on Wiejska Street. The parliament discusses controversial issues of the rule of law. Polish Parliament meets For the 10th session in Warsaw - 24 Apr 2024

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

  • People waving flags confront police in blue helmets in a protest

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

    • ‘Beyond disappointed’
      Hollywood reacts to overturn of Weinstein rape conviction

    • TikTok
      ByteDance would shut down app in US rather than sell it, sources say

    • Rwanda
      UK deportation policy is ‘kneejerk reaction’ to migration, says Ireland’s deputy PM

    • E Jean Carroll
      Judge upholds $83m defamation verdict against Trump

    • Australia
      X pushes back at order to hide church stabbing footage as US user reposts video

    • Live
      Anglo American rejects BHP’s £31.1bn takeover proposal; Thoma Bravo agrees deal to buy Darktrace

Culture

  • Yuan Yang.

    Private Revolutions by Yuan Yang review
    An intimate account of how China is changing

    A social and economic revolution observed through the lives of four women in their 30s
  • David Crowell.

    David Crowell: Point/Cloud review
    Minimalism that sparkles with joy

  • He can never get back there … Jon Bon Jovi on Thank You, Goodnight.

    Thank You, Goodnight review
    Bon Jovi’s surprisingly devastating ode to lost youth

  • ISS.

    ISS review
    Ariana DeBose is ace as third world war sparks space station survival race

  • Jeff Daniels as Charlie Croker in A Man in Full.

    A Man in Full to Shardlake
    The seven best shows to stream this week

  • Miriam Rivera

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

Lifestyle

  • Three burgundy and brown toned makeup pencils, with a burgundy raincoat as the backdrop.

    Sali Hughes on beauty
    Burgundy is having a fashion moment – and it’s a flattering makeup shade, too

    From your eyelids to your toenails, this elegant red adds a bold, edgy touch
  • An aerial view of a winding road in the Tuscany landscape, Italy - stock photo<br>Sunset in the Italian countryside

    Readers’ best road trips
    Ahead lay cypress-lined Tuscan roads waiting to be discovered

  • Louis Vuitton NFT varsity jacket

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

  • 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
    Share your experiences

  • Tell us about your friendship using the form below.

    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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  • Harry Daniels and Dua Lipa.

    ‘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

  • Two people standing next to metal ladder in put below ground

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

  • Silvia Rothlisberger sitting on her van on the roadside in New Zealand

    A moment that changed me
    Joyriders destroyed my van in New Zealand – which led to a lovely life in London

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  • The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington DC on 28 August 1963. Photograph: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    Solidarity and strategy: the forgotten lessons of truly effective protest – podcast

  • Biden in bow tie and shades with sign behind him saying: White House Correspondents' Association

    Politics Weekly America
    Is there humour left in the White House? – podcast

  • Lines of tents at a pro-Palestine protest at Columbia University

    Today in Focus
    The US college protests and the crackdown on campuses

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    Science
    From birds, to cattle, to … us? Could bird flu be the next pandemic? – podcast

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

  • Angela Rayner in a hard hat and hi-vis jacket at a construction site

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

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  • A woman in a tutu hangs by her arm from an open shipping container stacked among other closed containers

    Hanging in there and a dichroic shopper
    Photofairs Shanghai 2024

    A selection of highlights from the ninth instalment of Photofairs Shanghai, the contemporary art fair for photography
  • A woman holds a red carnation during a military parade.

    Carnation Revolution
    Portugal commemorates 50 years since end of dictatorship

  • 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

  • A giraffe walks through a rainbow at the Zimanga Private Game Reserve in Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa.

    Week in wildlife
    A lazy leopard, a moonwalking elephant and hitchhiking ducklings

  • ‘Goofing around like kids’ … Mist, 2013.

    Outlaw attitude
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