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  • Morgan Spurlock pictured in 2013

    Morgan Spurlock
    Super Size Me director dies aged 53

  • A screengrab of a man at the party on Sylt.

    Germany
    Outrage at footage of people singing Nazi slogan at party on North Sea island

    • Spain
      Excess weight may have caused Mallorca building collapse, officials say

    • Kelly Rowland
      Singer alleges racial profiling in Cannes film festival usher incident

    • Live
      UK politics: Sunak’s election tour branded shambolic after Titanic Quarter visit inspires sinking ship comparison

    • Elon Musk
      Tesla boss criticises US tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles during Paris conference

    • Olympic Games
      €1.4bn clean-up aims to leave Parisians swimming in the Seine

    • Scottish folds
      Taylor Swift’s cats have condition that causes constant pain, say experts

News in focus

  • A man wearing a brown plaid shirt, jeans, and a baseball hat poses in front of a cityscape.

    Peru
    Reporter is target of smear campaign after taking on political elite

  • Small boats carry people up and down a flooded street

    ‘I’ve seen things no one should go through’
    The overwhelming scale of loss in Brazil’s floods

    In the state of Rio Grande do Sul, authorities are struggling to find shelter for half a million displaced people as a health crisis looms
  • Bella Hadid, wearing a red and white dress, walking with other people

    ‘We are very emotional’
    Keffiyeh-maker’s bittersweet reaction to surge in demand

    Global desire to show solidarity for Palestinian cause boosts demand for traditional scarf

Spotlight

  • Different antiperspirant deodorant with cotton on purple background. Skin care concept. copy space, top view<br>Different antiperspirant deodorant with cotton on purple background. Skin care concept. copy space

    Don’t sweat it
    How to find an effective deodorant

    From pit stains to Botox and natural formulas, specialists demystify myths and answer questions about the best BO busters
  • Popular with fashion houses … the seashore chapel in Beidaihe.

    ‘Our parents did all the hard work. We don’t have to’
    China’s seaside haven for the ‘lying flat’ generation

  • Boy on a clifftop at Bournemouth looking out to sea

    How to rewild your teenagers
    A parents’ guide to reconnecting them with nature

    Young children often love wildlife and nature but find them boring, uncool or ‘icky’ in their teens
  • Woman wearing a blindfold and holding a piece of paper in the air.

    Cannes: The Seed of the Sacred Fig review
    Mohammad Rasoulof’s arresting tale of violence and paranoia in Iran

    The exiled director’s story of officialdom’s misogyny and theocracy in his home country may be flawed, but its importance is beyond doubt
    • a football player holds his hands up in prayer wearing an orange mask with a spiral pattern on it and a black and red top

      ‘Quitting is the devil’s fruit!’
      Why anime is firing up sports stars

    • Mackerel fish on a grill

      Fish oil
      Is omega-3 oil good or bad for us – and does it matter where it is from?

    • Sad couple-01

      Ask Annalisa Barbieri
      I’m yearning for a third child to recreate the large, loving family I grew up in

    • Chris Pine, Paul Wesley and William Shatner as Star Trek character Captain Kirk

      Shatner, Pine, or a Kirk triple whammy
      Where should Star Trek boldly go next?

Opinion

  • Rishi Sunak visits Belfast on Friday.

    Sunak seems convinced that Who Dares Wins. Spoiler alert: sometimes they lose really badly

    Marina Hyde
    A drowned-rat PM, a blank page contender and frit Farage refusing to stand at all. All in the first 48 hours – are you not entertained, asks Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
  • Members of the Sudanese Armed Forces parading in Karima city, Northern State, in May 2024.

    It’s an open secret: the UAE is fuelling Sudan’s war – and there’ll be no peace until we call it out

    Husam Mahjoub
  • ‘The false equivalence of anti-Zionism with antisemitism is belied by the reality on the ground, in the campus anti-war encampments that have sprung up across the country and in the burgeoning young Jewish anti-Zionist movement.’

    Congress’s latest ‘antisemitism’ hearing was an ugly attack on Palestinian rights

    Moira Donegan
  • Journal Front comp | Usual suspects | DIGI

    Make this the UK punishment election – damning the Tories for 14 years of tragedy and waste

    Jonathan Freedland
  • A coiled rattlesnake on dry grass

    Digested week: Snakes alive! Depardieu smacks snapper while Sunak slips up

    Emma Brockes
  • man in striped shirt looks down with people around him

    Texas’s pardon of the killer of a Black Lives Matter protester sends a chilling message

    Tayo Bero

Sport

  • Andre Agassi of the United States in action on the way to winning the French Open at Roland Garros on 6 June 1999.

    Stuck in the dirt
    No end in sight as US men’s French Open slump hits 25

  • Xavi.

    Football
    Barcelona plan to hire Flick after telling Xavi his time is up

    • Toulouse’s Antoine Dupont (left) and Leinster's Jamison Gibson-Park are supreme scrum-halves.

      Dupont or Gibson-Park at scrum-half in my fantasy team? There’s no contest

      Ugo Monye
    • Kaiserslautern fans bounce in the stands

      ‘Absolute underdogs’
      Kaiserslautern seek epic upset against Leverkusen

    • Australian Olympic gold medallist Chelsea Hodges with her 4x100 medley relay teammates

      Swimming
      Olympic champion Hodges forced to retire at age of 22

    • Mark Cuban’s Dallas Mavericks are currently playing in the Western Conference finals

      The big bet
      Cuban backs Biden. Why was he so keen to sell the Mavs to Trump megadonors?

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Climate crisis

  • A Pakistani security official offers cold drinks to people in Karachi.

    Weather tracker
    Pakistan heatwave continues wild changes in weather patterns

  • TOPSHOT-US-CUBA-MEXICO-WEATHER<br>TOPSHOT - A flooded house is seen in Crystal River, Florida on August 31, 2023, after Hurricane Idalia made landfall. Idalia barreled into the northwest Florida coast as a powerful Category 3 hurricane on Wednesday morning, the US National Hurricane Center said. "Extremely dangerous Category 3 Hurricane #Idalia makes landfall in the Florida Big Bend," it posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, adding that Idalia was causing "catastrophic storm surge and damaging winds." (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP) (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

    US
    Summer of natural disasters may be ahead with ‘above normal’ hurricane season

  • A police officer carries materials gathered during the search of a building in Berlin after a Letzte Generation protest in 2023.

    Germany
    Alarm as climate activists charged with ‘forming a criminal organisation’

  • A view shows Anemones at the Jan Mayen Vent Fields on the Arctic Mid-Oceanic Ridge at a depth of around 500m, in this undated handout picture. University of Bergen, Centre for Deep Sea Research

    Environment
    Norway sued over deep-sea mining plans

Around the world

  • People searching among mud and rocks

    Papua New Guinea
    More than 300 dead in landslide, local MP says

    Emergency response teams sent in to village in remote Enga province, but blocked road is hampering efforts
  • Lucy Letby walks out a door with her hands behind her back and two people following behind

    Lucy Letby
    Former UK nurse loses attempt to appeal against baby murder convictions

  • Migrants hold hands as they stride towards a gap in the border wall

    US-Mexico border
    Irregular crossings fall by half after December’s record high

  • Dogecoin

    ‘Doge’
    Dog that inspired meme and became the face of Dogecoin dies

    • UK
      Hay literary festival drops main sponsor after boycotts over Israel and fossil fuel links

    • Robbie Robertson
      Children of musician sue late musician’s widow, alleging elder abuse

    • Barcelona
      Police criticised for baton charge at protest over fashion show

    • Sean 'Diddy' Combs
      Rapper accused of sexual assault in seventh such lawsuit in recent months

    • Taiwan
      China testing ability to ‘seize power’ in second day of military drills

    • Australia
      Woman has no sensation from waist down after ‘horrifying’ flight, husband says

Culture

  • Nasty - More Than Just Tennis.

    ‘I paid for it’
    Tennis bad boy Ilie Năstase revisits confrontional career

    Fifty years on, a documentary premiering on Friday revisits the Romanian player’s stroppy ascent to international stardom
  • Sean Cotter, left, and Mircea Cărtărescu will share the €100,000 prize.

    Ireland
    €100,000 Dublin literary award won by Romanian author Mircea Cărtărescu

  • Benedict Cumberbatch as Vincent in Eric.

    ‘It’s been a crazy five years’
    Abi Morgan on surviving cancer ... and giving Benedict Cumberbatch his most monstrous role yet

  • Lauryn Hill performs during "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" 25th anniversary tour on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023, at Barclays Center in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

    The Guide
    Why it doesn’t really matter if you disagree with Apple’s top 100 album list

  • Bring Me the Horizon, with Oli Sykes second left

    Bring Me the Horizon: Post Human: Nex Gen review
    A defining album of our digitally overloaded era

  • Janelle Monáe performing at I Made Rock ‘N’ Roll festival in Indianapolis

    The reader interview
    Post your questions for Janelle Monáe

Lifestyle

  • Zoe Coles

    Experience
    I woke up with a Welsh accent

    My own family didn’t recognise me when I phoned them
  • Ravneet Gill's Elderflower Lemon Pudding 012

    The sweet spot
    Ravneet Gill’s recipe for self-saucing elderflower and lemon pudding

Take part

  • Police keep watch as people queue to enter a supermarket to purchase groceries and food in the Magenta district of Noumea, France's Pacific territory of New Caledonia.

    People in New Caledonia
    How have you been affected by the unrest?

  • Mykhaylo Mudryk and Maksym Talovierov celebrate after the match between Ukraine and Iceland in Wrocław, Poland.

    Ukrainians abroad
    Share your reaction to your country qualifying for Euro 2024

  • elegant wedding cake with vintage bride and groom figurine

    Life and style
    Share your wedding disaster stories

  • 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

From our global editions

  • Keir Starmer at the launch of Scottish Labour’s general election campaign in Glasgow on Friday.

    A guide to the six main parties in the UK general election
    What will be their campaign messages?

    Tories say stick to the plan, Labour wants change and Lib Dems, SNP, Greens and Reform fight for attention
  • Sayed Ahmed with his arm around his wife Amena Khatun by the Rupsha River in Khulna, Bangladesh

    ‘It’s in our rivers and in our cups. There’s no escape’
    The deadly spread of salt water in Bangladesh

  • A young Asian woman speaks at a lectern while giving a clenched-fist salute

    ‘Unlock the door or we’ll kick it down’
    Why South Africa’s youngest politician is in a hurry for change

  • Angela Rayner and Keir Starmer smile at a campaign event in front of placards saying 'change'

    Extensive vetting and a battlebus
    Labour ready to hit campaign trail in UK

  • an anarcho-capitalist with mutton chops who happens to lead a country dances on stage

    1:30

    ‘I’m the king and I will destroy you!’
    Argentinian president stages frenetic stadium appearance

  • Photo of the World Health Organization (WHO) logo displayed on screen with medical syringes and vaccine vials

    'A torrent of fake news'
    What is the WHO pandemic accord and why have negotiations been so difficult?

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  • ‘We love a good villain, especially a “foreign” one’ … the Vespa velutina AKA the Asian hornet.

    The truth about Asian hornets
    How terrified should humans and honeybees actually be?

  • The then chancellor, Rishi Sunak, holds a green ministerial documents box at the Cop26 summit in Glasgow, 2021.

    UK general election
    PM backtracked on climate policies – and voters may punish him

  • Volunteers gather food into bags

    ‘It’s not just giving out food parcels’
    The volunteers helping families – photo essay

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    Climate displacement
    Ageing Americans struggle to find housing

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Podcasts

  • Andy Burnham speaking into a microphone

    Contaminated blood scandal
    Andy Burnham on the infected blood scandal - Politics Weekly UK – podcast

  • A baby awaiting adoption near Guatemala City. Photograph: Peter Casolino/Alamy

    The Audio Long Read
    Guatemala’s baby brokers: how thousands of children were stolen for adoption – podcast

  • A student writes with a pink pen in an exercise book at a school desk in a classroom

    Today in Focus
    What should kids be taught about sex and relationships?

  • Atalanta v Bayer Leverkusen - UEFA Europa League Final - Aviva Stadium<br>Atalanta's Ademola Lookman celebrates with his Auntie and the match ball after the UEFA Europa League final at the Aviva Stadium, Dublin. Picture date: Wednesday May 22, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story SOCCER Final. Photo credit should read: Brian Lawless/PA Wire. RESTRICTIONS: Use subject to restrictions. Editorial use only, no commercial use without prior consent from rights holder.

    Football Weekly
    Atalanta’s huge night and Mauricio Pochettino moves on – Football Weekly Extra

  • A Singapore Airlines airplane in the sky

    Science
    Why is air turbulence getting worse? – podcast

  • Photograph by REUTERS/Toby Melville

    Politics Weekly UK
    UK general election called – Politics Weekly UK – podcast

  • Prime Minister Rishi Sunak making a statement outside 10 Downing Street, London

    Today in Focus
    Rishi Sunak’s big election gamble

In pictures

  • Closeup of the face of a smiling Adèle Exarchopoulos. Other people at the photo call can be seen in the mirrored lenses of her sunglasses, as well as a scrum of photographers

    Photos of the day
    Roman emperor and Cannes reflections

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • Lighthouse, Execution Rock, 2023

    Photography
    The inaccessible and abandoned islands of New York

  • Three young parrots patiently wait for their parents to return with food in Chandigarh, India.

    Week in wildlife
    Dormouse gets a checkup, a lucky kingfisher and a waving seal pup

  • Visitors holding umbrellas or in raincoats with hoods up stand at the other side of a rope that separates them from a garden at the show

    A hardy bunch
    Visitors at wet Chelsea flower show

  • Fulani families of semi-nomadic herders in a tent

    ‘I pray to you not to shoot us’
    Mali’s Fulani herders languish in camps after violence

  • A single ballerina in focus at the centre of a group of dancers in motion

    Assignments 2024
    The best of British press photography

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