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  • Antony Blinken shakes hands with Wang Yi in front of their respective flags

    China
    Minister warns US relations could slip into ‘downward spiral’ if red lines crossed

    Wang Yi tells Antony Blinken ‘disruptions’ could arise amid threat of sanctions over China’s 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

  • Mykola Solskyi sits at a desk during a summit

    Ukraine
    Agriculture minister detained in multimillion dollar corruption probe

  • 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

    • Live
      Egyptian delegation due in Israel seeking to kickstart Gaza ceasefire talks, say reports

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

    • Channel
      Two men charged in connection with deaths of five people trying to cross to UK

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

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

    • Kristi Noem
      Trump VP contender writes of killing dog – and goat – in new book

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
    • Caleb Azumah Nelson

      Caleb Azumah Nelson
      James Baldwin ignited something in me that’s still burning today

    • 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?

    • 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.

    How the overseas owners of the UK’s water companies clean up by polluting our rivers

    George Monbiot
  • The Cass Review<br>Retired consultant paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass speaking about the publication of the Independent Review of Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People (The Cass Review) at the PA Media offices in west London. The former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health was appointed to lead the Independent Review of Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People in 2020.&nbsp;Picture date: Tuesday April 9, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story HEALTH Gender. Photo credit should read: Yui Mok/PA Wire

    The Cass review of gender identity services marks a return to reason and evidence – it must be defended

    David Bell
  • 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
  • Dream machine … the Amiga.

    My undying love for the painfully uncool Amiga

    Dominik Diamond

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Climate crisis
  • the muddy rain-sodden legs and shoes of two young people

    Weather tracker
    Heavy rainfall causes flooding and death in east Africa

  • 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

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Around the world
  • 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

  • Protest against war crimes in Ukraine, Berlin, Ukraine - 21 Apr 2022<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by snapshot-photography/F Boillot/REX/Shutterstock (12904693d) Ukrainian women from the "Vitsche" and "Voices of Ukraine" initiatives protest in front of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection in Berlin against rapes of women and girls by soldiers of the Russian army during the war in Ukraine. They call for an immediate embargo on Russian oil and gas to make financing the war more difficult./Ukrainian women of the initiatives "Vitsche" and "voices of Ukraine" protest bloodied and partially tied up in front of the Federal Ministry of Economy and Climate Protection in Berlin against rapes of women and girls by soldiers of the Russian Army during the War in Ukraine. They demand an immediate embargo on Russian oil and gas to make it harder to finance the war. Protest against war crimes in Ukraine, Berlin, Ukraine - 21 Apr 2022

    Ukraine
    Reparations to be paid to survivors of wartime sexual violence

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

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

    • ‘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

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

  • Two models standing together. One has black curly hair and wears a grey sleeveless knit with red tracksuit bottoms. The other has long brown hair and wears a sage green sleeveless knit with a pale blue blouse and chinos.

    Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion
    The new power sleeve? It’s the one that isn’t there at all

    Sleeveless knits work brilliantly over a sleeved dress or blouse – the conversation between the two pieces is where the magic happens
  • 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

  • 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

  • Over winter, British feet remain in the dark and have evolved to protect itself from predators

    The Stephen Collins cartoon
    Spring has sprung and British feet are stepping into the light

  • Mia Hansson with her tapestry

    Experience
    I’m making a lifesize replica of the Bayeux tapestry

  • Louis Vuitton NFT varsity jacket

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

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

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

    Some residents say €5 fee aimed at curbing tourist numbers goes against principle of freedom of movement
  • Commuters line a platform as a metro train arrives

    ‘Confined to this little island’
    Britons criticise rejection of EU youth mobility deal

  • 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

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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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    Football Weekly
    Have Everton dashed Liverpool’s title dreams? – Football Weekly Extra

  • Dairy cattle feeding at a farm as a bird looks on

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

  • Arsenal

    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?

In pictures
  • 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
    Skaters, saunas and spontaneous stripping

  • Hampshire, UK.

    Readers' best photographs
    A littler splash and a Cuban mystery

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