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  • Gwendoline Christie arrives in dark red
    Gwendoline Christie arrives in dark red
    Anna Wintour wears a flower-embroidered coat
    Anna Wintour wears a flower-embroidered coat
    Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataki
    Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataki
    Ashley Graham arrives on green carpet
    Ashley Graham arrives on green carpet
    Zendaya poses at the Met Gala in a Maison Margiela gown
    Zendaya poses at the Met Gala in a Maison Margiela gown

    Live
    Met Gala 2024: Anna Wintour, Gwendoline Christie 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

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

    • Columbia University
      Commencement ceremony canceled following student protests

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

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

    • Bernie Sanders
      Vermont senator to run for fourth term

News 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

  • 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
    I have trespassed in peaceful protest. I have shutdown government offices in civil disobedience. I have made the powerful uncomfortable. That’s the point
  • 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
  • Police begin clearing pro-Palestine protest encampment at UCLA

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

    Judith Levine
  • 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
  • Back to school. View from the back of a happy dad escorts his sons schoolchildren to school. Parental care for children.

    How can we expect mothers to return to work if we’re so reluctant to allow fathers to stay home?

    Myke Bartlett
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Sport

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

Around the world

  • People inspect rubble.

    Lebanon
    Israeli airstrike that killed seven health workers used US munition, analysis reveals

    Human rights experts say attack was violation of international law, and that US supplying of weapon defies 1997 Leahy law
  • a side-by-side image of a dog and a woman who has killed a dog, defended the killing of that dog and threatened the president's dog

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

  • Letitia James

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

  • 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

    • Rishi Sunak
      General election result is not a foregone conclusion, PM says

    • Spain
      Menorca village threatens to close to tourists after explosion in numbers

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

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

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

    • Xi Jinping in Europe
      EU restates readiness to launch trade war with China over cheap imports

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

  • The whitewashed town of Cadaqués, with sea and green hills

    Europe’s best beach holidays
    Cadaqués, Spain

  • A customer at the London Library of Things taking out a product

    Money
    How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money

Take part

  • 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

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

    Luxury goods sector
    Are you splurging on luxury goods you can ill afford?

  • Houria Ayadi / Ed Alcock / MYOP<br>The 129-apartment building where Houria Ayadi (63 yrs) has lived in Saint-Ouen, a northern suburb of Paris, since 1973, and that is due to be demolished in an effort to improve on security in the neighbourhood. She hopes to be re-lodged in one of the apartments currently under construction for the Olympic Village, where athletes will be housed during the Paris Olympics of 2024. Photo © Ed Alcock / MYOP 25/9/2023 L'immeuble de 129 appartements où Houria Ayadi (63 ans) vit depuis 1973 à Saint-Ouen, dans la banlieue nord de Paris, et qui doit être démoli pour améliorer la sécurité dans le quartier. Elle espère être relogée dans l'un des appartements actuellement en construction pour le village olympique, où seront logés les athlètes lors des Jeux olympiques de Paris en 2024. Photo © Ed Alcock / MYOP 25/9/2023

    Housing
    Young Europeans: do you live with your parents?

  • 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

From our global editions

  • 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

    Exclusive: the human rights lawyer, temporarily released from jail on medical grounds, describes her love for her family, and why she keeps going despite brutal treatment at the hands of the regime
  • 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

  • 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

  • View of Pikk Street in the Old City of Tallinn, Estonia

    Higher costs and cramped conditions
    The impact of Europe’s housing crisis

  • Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer look at each other with grins on their faces as they lead a procession of politicians at Westminster

    Analysis
    Could there really be a hung parliament at the next UK general election?

  • 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

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  • Edward Timpson stands in a park with new leaves and flowers, leaning on a wooden rail on the top of a wire fence.

    ‘I’ve had massive highs and deep lows’
    Edward Timpson on winning for the Tories and being sacked by Liz Truss

  • A woman looking out of a window.

    ‘High jinks’
    Former female trainee in Royal Marines says sexual assault was dismissed

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    ‘Ghostly’
    Taiwan park dotted with hundreds of statues of late dictator as row rages over their fate

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  • 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

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    Politics Weekly UK
    Politics Weekly Westminster: Election special – podcast

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    Weekend
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In pictures

  • 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

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • A clifftop pageant during Bolster festival in St Agnes, Cornwall.

    Cornwall
    Bolster the Cornish giant stars in clifftop pageant

  • A woman poses with her snakes

    Italy
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  • 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

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    ‘Is this an image of a sculpture or an invitation to a sexual encounter?’
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    Photography
    Faux Native American costumes and clothing reconsidered

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