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  • Cardi B's dress brings green carpet to standstill
    Cardi B's dress brings green carpet to standstill
    Zendaya walks red carpet again
    Zendaya walks red carpet again
    Lana Del Rey in ethereal Alexander McQueen
    Lana Del Rey in ethereal Alexander McQueen
    Gigi Hadid brings the long train
    Gigi Hadid brings the long train
    Donatella Versace with Jude Law and Andrew Scott
    Donatella Versace with Jude Law and Andrew Scott

    Met Gala 2024
    Dresses made out of sand, corsets and power poses

    The theme was JG Ballard’s 1962 short story, The Garden of Time, which meant references to decay, lots of florals and more than one look that seemed to have nothing to do with anything
    • 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’

    • Ministry of Defence
      UK armed forces’ personal data hacked in MoD breach

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

    • Bournemouth
      Man found guilty over road rage incident caught on video

    • UK weather
      Met Office warns of heavy rain and thunderstorms

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

    • Property
      Savills says UK house prices will rise this year in U-turn on earlier forecast

    • Gustave Courbet
      Painting of vagina by French artist sprayed with ‘MeToo’ graffiti

News in focus

  • BJP candidates parade in a motorcade in Bangalore

    India
    Can Modi finally win over the southern states and reshape India’s electoral map?

  • John Swinney pictured facing the camera with the backs of his audience's heads in the foreground

    John Swinney
    New leader’s unfussy election reflects his esteem within SNP

    Party’s return to minority government after a year of upheaval will test his renowned negotiating skills
  • Close-up Rishi Sunsak

    Conservatives
    Tory rebels call time on leadership challenge as Sunak limps on

    Despite disastrous election results, long-threatened coup lacks numbers to force no-confidence vote

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
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    Hollywood hysteria
    The 60s movies that showed a time of madness

  • 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

  • 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
    • A cup of espresso and a cup of cappuccino

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

    • ‘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)

    • Donald Trump is selling an edition of the Bible.

      I bought Trump’s Bible
      A blasphemous, sticky nightmare

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

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

Opinion

  • Count and Declaration Takes Place For West Midlands Mayor<br>BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND - MAY 04: Conservative party candidate Andy Street and Labour candidate for West Midlands Mayor Richard Parker on stage following the declaration for West Midlands Mayor on May 04, 2024 in Birmingham, England. On the ballot for the West Midlands mayoral election, was incumbent Conservative Andy Street who was seeking a third term since his initial election in 2017, but was defeated by Richard Parker of Labour by 1,508 votes. (Photo by Anthony Devlin/Getty Images)

    England’s metro mayors make a farce of local democracy. They must be scrapped

    Simon Jenkins
    They were meant to refresh local politics, not confuse it. Keir Starmer must devolve proper powers to every city and town, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
  • A protester looks on as police stand guard near a pro-Palestine encampment in the grounds of Columbia University, 30 April.

    Don’t let the sound and fury over Gaza protests drown out what the students are saying

    Nesrine Malik
  • Police begin clearing pro-Palestine protest encampment at UCLA

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

    Judith Levine
    UCLA watched the chaos unfold in the middle of the night and did nothing until it was far too late
  • Ben Jennings on Rishi Sunak’s plan after last week’s elections results – cartoon

    Cartoon
    Ben Jennings on Rishi Sunak’s plan after last week’s elections results

    The PM has made a renewed appeal for Conservative party unity, emphasising the shared values that unify Tories
    • 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
    • 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
    • Young women friends browsing vintage clothes in thrift store

      Why I quit
      I stopped lying to please people – and I’ve never felt more free

      Radhika Sanghani

Editorials & Letters

  • Andy Street

    The Guardian view
    Local elections: an anti-Tory landslide points to the end of an era

  • Mel Stride

    The Guardian view
    Disability benefit reform: the latest proposals are dangerously out of touch

  • A voter at the polling station at Datchet Hall in Datchet, Berkshire.

    Letters
    Voter ID has a role to play in free and fair elections

  • Captain Sir Tom Moore

    Letters
    Demographics tell a different Tory story

Sport

Climate crisis

  • An oilfield near Baku

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

  • A drone view shows brown water surrounding multi-storey buildings

    Weather tracker
    Torrential rainstorms cause death and destruction in Brazil

  • 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.

    Climate crisis
    Bumblebee nests are overheating to fatal levels, study finds

From the UK

  • Two engineers in overalls working to fix a large mains pipe

    East Sussex
    About 2,000 homes in Hastings on fifth day with no water supply

  • Male and female toilets

    'Universal toilets'
    Single-sex toilets to be required in non-residential buildings in England

    • Kris Hallenga
      CoppaFeel! breast cancer charity founder dies aged 38

    • UK
      Students stage occupations at five more universities

    • M25 weekend closure
      Drivers told to stick to diversion to avoid London Ulez charges

    • Food & drink
      Heineken to pump £39m into reopening and revamping UK pubs

    • 'Significant disruption'
      Coroner issues warning over year-round ambulance delays in England

    • Rail strikes
      Aslef train drivers embark on new action

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Around the world

  • Xi Jinping shakes hands with Ursula von der Leyen at the Élysee Palace in Paris

    EU
    Bloc restates readiness to launch trade war with China over cheap imports

  • First responders near an apartment building damaged by a Russian air strike, in Kharkiv, northeastern Ukraine.

    Ukraine war briefing
    US and most EU countries to boycott Putin swearing-in ceremony

  • Police officers in riot gear on campus

    US campus protests
    UCLA creates safety role amid criticism of response to mob attack

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    Belgium
    Ghent students occupy university building in climate and Gaza protest

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

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

    • US
      Colorado cracks down on funeral homes after discovery of rotting bodies

    • Canada
      Alleged serial murderer admits killing four Indigenous women

    • US
      New York attorney general sues facilities promoting ‘abortion pill reversal’

    • Donald Trump
      Judge threatens Trump with jail time for gag order violations in hush-money trial

Culture

  • A woman carries her child after she and other migrants crossed the Rio Grande and entered the U.S. from Mexico, to be processed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. The image was part of a series by Associated Press photographers Ivan Valencia, Eduardo Verdugo, Felix Marquez, Marco Ugarte Fernando Llano, Eric Gay, Gregory Bull and Christian Chavez that won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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

    Winning books include Night Watch and King: A Life, while journalism winners focused on coverage of the Israel-Gaza war
  • 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

  • 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

  • Escaping in an unmarked car … Murray Canning (Desmond Eastwood) and Shane Bradley (Frank Blake).

    Blue Lights recap
    Series two, episode four – no, Tommy, no!

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

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

  • Rosie Holt.

    Rosie Holt: That’s Politainment review
    Tory targets are a safe seat

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    ‘Layering is where the fun begins’
    How to style a summer dress for winter

    Four stylists explain how to use knits, coats and accessories to transform a favourite frock into an all-seasons garment
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    ‘Libraries of things’
    How rentals have become the new way to save money

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    A powerful fantasy
    We all want to cut out the bad parts of ourselves. It won’t work, and it won’t make us happier

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

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  • 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?

  • NHS ambulances parked outside the accident and emergency department of St Thomas' hospital in London.

    NHS
    Share your experience of making your own way to NHS accident and emergency

  • Free Palestine<br>Over 50 students began an occupation of the Parkinson Building of Leeds University on Friday 08.03.2024 in protest of the conflict in Gaza. What was planned as a 24 hour occupation has changed into a indefination occupation after the University decided to lock the doors of the building restricting access to and from the main building. The students have built an encampment within the building and are living off water and food smuggled onto the site. Rally for Palestine by Leeds Students and University Staff. Leeds.

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  • Donald Trump, wearing blue suit and red tie, walks into court

    Trump on Trial
    Ex-president’s prosecutors push the paper trial, and judge threatens jail – again

    After weeks of testimony, Trump’s trial turned to much drier – but arguably more crucial – details on Monday
  • 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

  • Emmanuel Macron and Xi Jinping walk in the middle of a large courtyard as they review an assembly of guards during an official welcome ceremony

    Xi’s European tour
    Where is Chinese president going and what are his aims?

  • Two young women in headscarves seen on a screen

    'An increasingly hostile environment'
    Female journalists under attack as press freedom falters

  • 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

  • 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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    King Charles and Queen Camilla weigh up new royal warrants

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

    ‘Massive highs and deep lows’
    Edward Timpson on winning for the Tories and being sacked by Liz Truss

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    Former female trainee in Royal Marines says sexual assault was dismissed

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

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