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  • Chris Marriott with his wife Bryony Marriott.

    Sheffield
    Father-of-two killed helping stranger amid wedding feud violence, court hears

  • Ian McKellen as Falstaff in Player Kings

    Ian McKellen
    Actor ‘recovering well’ after falling off stage

    • Euro 2024 live
      Turkey v Georgia

    • Parkinson's
      AI-enhanced blood test may detect disease years before onset

    • Post Office Horizon scandal
      Scandal investigator tells inquiry Post Office was ‘sabotaging our efforts’

    • France
      Far-right leader condemns Mbappé’s anti-extremism remarks

    • Devon
      Girl, 14, fatally fell from sea wall with missing safety features, inquest told

    • 'I'm truly ashamed'
      Vermont Republican secretly poured water into colleague’s bag over months

General election 2024

  • Chris Philp.

    General election live
    Chris Philp and Nick Thomas-Symonds among political figures debating crime and immigration

  • Marina Hyde

    Clearing the airwaves: Starmer gives woolly performance on LBC phone-in

    Marina Hyde
  • Keir Starmer holds a blue Bristol Rovers football shirt with ‘Change’ printed on that back

    Exclusive
    Keir Starmer calls for review of late kick-offs at football matches

  • Black and white cutout image of Ed Davey on a pinboard, alongside a map of Great Britain featuring Liberal Democrats pins on Tory and Labour constituencies

    Visualised
    How the Lib Dems might double their seats despite fewer votes

News in focus

  • Damien Jordan, headteacher at Fairlight primary and nursery School in Brighton.

    'We have to be all things to our children'
    How a school made sure its children got time to play

  • Participants at a press conference to launch the competition who are sitting on toilets.

    Germany
    Summit aims to flush away bad school toilet experiences

    Pupils have won prizes for proposals to improve facilities that in some cases were so filthy they wouldn’t use them
  • A group of people cheering, some holding Germany flags

    Populist, nativist, neofascist?
    A lexicon of Europe’s far right

    There are numerous terms to describe the wide array of far right parties, but what do all they mean – and do we always use the right ones?

Spotlight

  • ‘Yasmine has an athlete’s mindset – very sharp, very powerful’ … Yasmine Naghdi and Britt Tajet-Foxell.

    ‘If you slip, it hurts your soul’
    The stressed ballerina who asked a sports psychologist for help

    Huge audiences and even larger livestreams are putting a whole new type of pressure on dancers. Yasmine Haghdi, principal of the Royal Ballet, tell us how Britt Tajet-Foxell fixed more than just her fouettés
  • United States military personnel remove American bodies from Jonestown for repatriation back to the US

    ‘It wasn’t suicide … they were murdered’
    Inside the Jonestown cult massacre

  • Jumped-up Instagram theme parks

    Pass notes
    ‘Beware of locals, we are angry’: the Mallorcans battling tourists to protect their beautiful beach

    What happens when a beach goes viral on social media? Thousands of people start visiting, leaving tampons, toilet paper and countless cigarette butts ...
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    Anouk Aimée was an entrancing 60s movie icon with an air of glamorous unknowability

    Peter Bradshaw
    • The Cimarons performing at the Rainbow theatre, Finsbury Park, 24 October 1979

      ‘The way they’ve been exploited is obscene’
      The untold story of forgotten UK reggae heroes Cimarons

    • ‘Historical fancy dress’ … one of the AI-assisted new town designs produced for Labour by Create Streets.

      Change? If only. Labour’s housing plans are built on flimsy foundations, fantasies and fudge

      Oliver Wainwright
    • Julien Eltinge plays a "bathing beauty."

      ‘He was a perfect, beautiful woman’
      The US female impersonator who became a 1920s star

    • The iPhone 15 Pro is shown after its introduction on the Apple campus, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, in Cupertino, Calif. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

      TechScape
      Does what happens on your iPhone still stay on your iPhone?

Euro 2024

Sport

  • Rosallion and Sean Levey (right, in yellow) on their way to winning the St James's Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot.

    Royal Ascot
    Rosallion rules roost for Hannon in St James’s Palace Stakes

    Richard Hannon’s unshakeable faith in his colt Rosallion was rewarded with victory by a neck in the feature race on day one of the royal meeting
  • Reading Women warm up ahead of a WSL match in January 2021

    Exclusive
    Fears mount for Reading's Women’s Championship future

Opinion

  • Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak in 2020.

    Dear Tory voter: I see you’re getting an emergency letter from Boris Johnson. Things can only get worse

    Hugh Muir
    Humiliated on the campaign trail, Sunak looks to his predecessor for help. Truly, the lost and the damned, says Guardian columnist Hugh Muir
  • Coco Khan

    ‘Genny lec’ and ‘cozzie livs’. And who can afford ‘savvy b’? British slang is daft, but it is breaking taboos

    Coco Khan
  • Martin Rowson on Nigel Farage’s eighth bid to become an MP – cartoon

    Cartoon
    Martin Rowson on Nigel Farage’s eighth bid to become an MP

    The Reform UK leader sets out his stall amid the debris of the Conservative party, with Sunak et al left in his wake
  • hands of a sous chef at work

    Restaurants are dying and the Tories won’t save them. That’s why they won’t get my vote

    Tom Kerridge
    Food prices and lack of experienced staff are pushing the hospitality industry to ruin – we need fresh thinking, says chef Tom Kerridge
    • A room filled with tables and people sitting around them. At the front of the room, Keir Starmer stands on a stage delivering a speech. A projector behind the stage shows his image in larger form.

      Macron cosied up to consultants and lobbyists and lost voters – Starmer’s Labour risks doing the same

      Oliver Haynes
    • Mandu Reid, Sandi Toksvig, Siân Berry, Catherine Mayer and Caroline Lucas

      This should be the climate election. Instead we are in a frustrating, Farage-obsessed fantasyland

      Zoe Williams
    • Untouchable? … Elon Musk attending the Breakthrough Prize awards in Los Angeles, California in April

      Will Elon Musk’s incessant innuendo ever catch up with him?

      Arwa Mahdawi
    • Blyth pier in Northumberland

      Labour is fixated on winning back the ‘red wall’. The only problem? It doesn’t exist

      Alex Niven

Editorials & Letters

  • Distant view of Dulwich College in London from playing field and cricket nets.

    The Guardian view
    Children and green space: private schools need to open up

  • Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally, March 9, 2024.

    The Guardian view
    The US and vaccine disinformation: a stupid, shocking and deadly game

  • A child under a duvet in pyjamas

    Letters
    Concern over children with long Covid and theories on its cause

  • Child walking hand in hand with adults

    Letters
    There are too many children in care who could be looked after by their families

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Climate crisis

  • Workers unload water bottles from a truck

    India
    Engineers warn of prolonged blackouts amid searing heatwave

  • Pedestrians walk on the campus at Stanford University in California.

    Big oil uncovered
    Stanford disappoints critics of fossil fuel donations by hiring PR firm with big oil ties

  • Paramedics carry a pilgrim

    Hajj
    At least 14 pilgrims die during pilgrimage amid soaring temperatures

  • Actors on stage. The backdrop is plastic sheeting and ivy. The actors wear dishevelled shirts, blazers and trouser under pieces of armour.

    From LED bulbs to living plants
    German theatre tackles climate crisis on and off stage

From the UK

  • A group of children play ring a roses outdoors during their school break

    Access to green space
    Alarming lack of access to green space fuelling UK child obesity crisis, doctors warn

    Exclusive: Medics say children with poor access to outdoor play at school at higher risk of developing lifelong health problems
  • Anas Sarwar gesticulates as he holds Scottish Labour's manifesto which has him and Keir Starmer on the front cover. Sarwar is standing against a red background with a 'vote for change' Labour logo

    Scottish politics
    Sarwar effectively starts Scottish Labour’s Holyrood campaign with tax pledge

  • Joey Barton in a dark coat and sunglasses

    Joey Barton
    Former footballer to pay Jeremy Vine £75,000 after calling him a ‘bike nonce’

  • Thorpe Park in Surrey. The three children who went missing at the theme park have been found.

    Surrey
    Children who went missing after Thorpe Park trip found safe and well

    • BBC
      Presenters 'reminded of guidelines' after Lineker appears to wear own clothing range on screen

    • Nottingham stabbings
      Keir Starmer commits to judge-led inquiry

    • Consumer spending
      Britons cut back on summer spending amid poor weather

    • Rail industry
      Season ticket use in Great Britain falls to record low

    • Hargreaves Lansdown
      Investment fund says it will accept private equity buyout offer

    • Sexual harassment
      Still ‘rife’ in UK schools, poll of female staff finds

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  • Marlene Engelhorn stands with a placard reading ‘Tax the rich!"’

    The super-rich
    Green and social groups to benefit from €25m fortune of Austrian heiress

  • Justin Timberlake

    Justin Timberlake
    Pop star arrested on driving while intoxicated charge in the Hamptons

    • Technology
      Nvidia becomes world’s most valuable company amid AI boom

    • US politics live
      Trump campaign and congressional Republicans slam Biden’s latest immigration move

    • Morocco
      Authorities pushed asylum seekers into ‘death trap’, NGO claims

    • Space
      Astronomers detect sudden awakening of black hole 1m times mass of sun

    • Global health
      Failure to prepare for pandemics ‘gambling with children’s future’

    • HSBC
      Swiss private banking arm breached money-laundering rules, regulator finds

Culture

  • Ian McKellen as Falstaff, with Geoffrey Freshwater, in Player Kings (adapted by Robert Icke from Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2).

    I was Ian McKellen’s understudy – I know how he must feel after his accident

    David Weston
    Sir Ian prides himself on never missing a performance. I too fell off stage in a version of Henry IV and was taken to hospital – I didn’t want to go in case my understudy was better than me
  • Lee Hye-ri in Agents of Mystery.

    Television
    Agents of Mystery review – a gameshow that is pure escapist joy

  • Enjoyably silly … Russell Crowe in Sleeping Dogs.

    Film
    Sleeping Dogs review – not quite total recall for Russell Crowe in over-the-top pulp-noir

  • Cillian Murphy threatens Rachel McAdams in the thriller Red Eye

    Stream team
    Red Eye: Wes Craven’s flight from hell is piloted brilliantly from start to end

  • Amy Beth Hayes, Hannah Saxby, Witney White, Sirine Saba, Joshua James and Leah Brotherhead in Some Demon.

    Stage
    Some Demon review – secrets and cynicism in an adult eating disorder unit

  • David and Victoria Beckham are seen wearing cream coloured outfits in Versailles, France.

    Stinginess, sexts and a Nazi tee
    Six revelations from The House of Beckham

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    From Lebanon to Spain, around the Med in wine

    There’s no single Mediterranean style but many of my favourites evoke “stone, vine and sun”
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    Paris can wait
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  • A model in short shorts carrying a handbag walks the runway at Gucci men’s spring/summer 2025 show during Milan Fashion Week.

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    ‘This country gave me a lot’
    The Vietnamese people staying in Ukraine

    People across Ukraine have united in the face of the Russian threat and its Vietnamese community is no exception
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    ‘Will I ever retire?’
    Millennials wonder what’s on the other side of middle age

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    Extreme heat
    What is a heat dome and how is it contributing to the heatwave in the US

  • A teenaged African girl poses for a photo clasping hands with a bald European man in a dark suit

    From Silicon Valley to Silicon Savannah
    Climate expert Patrick Verkooijen on why this is Africa’s century

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    Hair trade
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