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  • Tourists take pictures on the Rialto bridge with the canal in the background

    Italy
    Venice’s €5 tourist fee returns – and will double for last-minute day-trippers

  • Bukayo Saka after scoring for Arsenal against Real Madrid.

    Champions League
    Saka and Martinelli fire Arsenal to last four after famous win at Real Madrid

    • Russia
      Ex-UK defence minister ‘disgusted’ by Trump’s attitude to Putin and Russia

    • US
      Trump official threatens Harvard foreign student admissions as more universities rally in support

    • Business live
      Nvidia boss visits China days after Donald Trump limits AI chip exports

    • Hungary
      MEPs call for EU court to suspend Hungary’s Pride ban

    • Gaza
      Postmortems of rescue workers killed in Gaza show ‘gunshots to head and torso’

    • Food
      Move over, Med diet – plantains and cassava can be as healthy as tomatoes and olive oil, say researchers

Europe in focus

  • Keir Starmer and Donald Trump

    Can we stop pretending a trade deal with Trump will be a gamechanger for the UK. It won’t

    Martin Kettle
  • Flames reflected in smoke above a silhouetted building and trees

    Ukraine war briefing
    Zelenskyy hails ‘good progress’ on minerals deal talks

    Ukrainian president says legalities almost finalised and officials signal US concessions in talks that are progressing ‘quite fast’; deadly Shahed strike on Dnipro. What we know on day 1,149
  • Women smile and raise glasses in front of the UK supreme court building

    Explained
    What does the UK supreme court’s ruling on definition of ‘women’ mean?

    Top court’s ruling that ‘sex is binary’ in law has implications for trans people and single-sex spaces

Spotlight

  • Ryan Coogler, photographed in New York, April 2025

    Film
    ‘My heart broke’: director Ryan Coogler on mourning Chadwick Boseman, rebooting Black Panther and his new movie Sinners

  • Tionne (Akins Subair), Tiana (Chenée Taylor) and Tanika (Kaydrah Walker-Wilkie) in Just Act Normal.

    Television
    Just Act Normal review – to watch this wonderful show is to see stars being born

  • Donald Trump raising his fist in the air

    Trump administration
    Re-arm, reassure and spend big: how the Asia Pacific is responding to a new era under Trump

    The US president has upset global norms in the space of weeks, spurring a flurry of defence spending, diplomatic overtures and offers to boost trade
  • Street performer standing in a crowd with a placard

    London
    ‘This platform gave me everything’: street performers rue end of busking at Leicester Square

    Westminster Council said it was ‘left with no choice’ but to bring in a controversial ban due to noise complaints
    • person sits inside white car looking slightly uneasy while surrounded by a dense array of large surveillance cameras emerging from all sides of the car

      Technology
      Opt out: how to protect your data and privacy if you own a Tesla

    • An internet cafe in Beijing.

      The long read
      ‘Why would he take such a risk?’ How a famous Chinese author befriended his censor

    • Apple iPad Air M3 review showing the home screen stood up on a table.

      Technology
      Apple iPad Air M3 review: the premium tablet to beat

    • Author and naturalist Andrew Cleave sat on a group of rocks at Portland Bill, Dorset, UK on a blue-sky day.

      Why I'm obsessed with...
      Coastal wildflowers: they look so delicate but thrive in tough conditions

Opinion

  • Donald Trump serves chips at a McDonalds in Pennsylvania in October 2024.

    You too can have a body like Donald Trump’s. Here’s how

    Arwa Mahdawi
    The 78-year-old president is in great shape, says the official White House physician. Must be all those ‘hamberders’
  • Online Harms Bill – amended Eleanor Shakespeare illo WEB

    In Trumpland, ‘defending free speech’ means one thing: submission to the president

    Rafael Behr
  • Barista serving coffee in a takeaway paper cup

    It’s the economic end times, so obviously I’m thinking about my takeaway coffee

    Emma Brockes
  • Robert Reich

    Finally, the Trump regime has met its match

    Robert Reich
  • Adrian Chiles

    In a world full of wedgies, are you a wedger like Trump, or a wedgee like me?

    Adrian Chiles
  • US flag Times Square

    America used to fire the world’s imagination – but now the cultural conversation is being silenced

    Van Badham
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Sport

  • Jacob Murphy, Beto, Justin Kluivert, Liam Delap and Archie Gray

    Football
    Twenty unexpected stars of the season in the Premier League

  • Josip Stanisic pushes a ballboy in stoppage time of Bayern Munich’s Champions League quarter-final second leg at Inter.

    Champions League
    Stanisic admits pushing ballboy was ‘a bit stupid’ in Bayern exit at Inter

    • Ronnie O'Sullivan and Ali Carter during last year’s Masters final at Alexandra Palace

      Snooker
      O’Sullivan drawn to face Carter in grudge match at World Championship

    • Justin Rose tips his cap as he walks up to the 18th green during the final round of the 2025 Masters

      Golf
      ‘Tormented … but I don’t feel down’: Rose opens up on Masters heartache

    • Désiré Doué, Marquinhos and Gianluigi Donnarumma celebrate at full-time following PSG’s win at Aston Villa.

      Va-va-voom: PSG's pulling power on rise after Villa thriller

      David Hytner
    • Lotte Kopecky celebrates winning the second stage of the 2024 Women’s Tour of Britain

      Cycling
      Four-stage Women’s Tour of Britain set for northern England and Scotland

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Climate crisis

  • A honey bee on a white flower

    Environment
    Wildflowers could be absorbing toxic metals that pass on to bees, study finds

  • Residents look at cars piled up after being swept away by floods in Valencia, Spain.

    Europe
    Deadly floods and storms affected more than 400,000 people in Europe in 2024

  • Bleached and dead staghorn coral off Heron Island on the Great Barrier Reef

    Oceans
    Climate crisis has tripled length of deadly ocean heatwaves, study finds

  • people hold a sign that reads 'a healthy home world is job #1 nothing works without it there is no planet b'

    US
    Green groups sue Trump administration over climate webpage removals

Around the world

  • Campaigners celebrate outside the supreme court on Wednesday.

    UK politics live
    Gender ruling ‘a victory for common sense, but only if you recognise trans people exist’, says equalities watchdog

  • Students on campus at Harvard university, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

    US politics live
    Donald Trump calls Harvard a ‘joke’ and says it should be stripped of funds

    • Germany
      Berlin palliative care doctor charged with murder of 15 patients

    • Marine life
      Live colossal squid captured on video in wild for first time ever

    • Spain
      Spanish schools required to serve fruit, vegetables and fish in fight against obesity

    • US
      Michelle Trachtenberg died of diabetes complications, says medical examiner

    • China
      China tells US to ‘stop whining’ over tariffs as it reports GDP growth spurt

    • France
      French prisons hit by wave of attacks after clampdown on drug traffickers

Culture

  • Intoxicating … Super Mario Bros. Question Block

    Games
    ‘It’s allowed me to see through his eyes’: Super Mario, my dad and me

    When his mum found their old family NES covered in dust and rust, Thomas Hobbs cleaned it up, got it working and reconnected with his childhood and late father
  • Melinda Gates.

    Books
    The Next Day by Melinda French Gates review – Melinda on life, before and after Bill

  • A frog in duckweed in Ellon, Aberdeenshire.

    Book of the day
    The Elephant in the Room by Liz Kalaugher review – how we make animals sick

  • A painting showing the word 'art' in capital letters, partially obscured by stylised reflections

    Art
    Pop goes the budget: Roy Lichtenstein works expected to raise $35m at auction

  • Betsy Arakawa and Gene Hackman at the Golden Globe awards, 2003

    US
    New details of Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa’s final days released

  • a painting of people standing on the shore of a lake

    Art
    ‘A self-described art thief’: how Wayne Thiebaud channeled other artists

Lifestyle

  • Alissa Timoshkina's giant cabbage, pea and spring onion latka.

    Food
    Giant fritters and roast root veg with whipped feta: Alissa Timoshkina’s recipes for an eastern European Easter feast

    An eastern European celebration of spring: a giant, shareable fritter of cabbage, pea and spring onion, and roast new potatoes and carrots with herby whipped feta
  • Illustration of two faces with intertwined lines coming out of their mouths.

    Wellness
    Ask questions, practice and know when to make an exit: how to start a conversation

  • Rob Cowen with Ermine Street sign

    Travel
    A walk with Romans and ghosts on the Great North Road

  • Kimberly Campanello pictured in Brussels

    A moment that changed me
    I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s at 41 – and had to find a new look

  • Helen Goh's apple and rhubarb crumb bars.

    Dessert
    Chocolate pudding and apple bars: Helen Goh’s recipes for Easter desserts

  • Elle Hunt taking advice from B’Leaf’s Claire Bright

    Houseplants
    The houseplant murderer: can I become green fingered in eight easy steps?

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  • Did you confess your feelings for your best friend after watching When Harry Met Sally?

    Relationships
    Have you been inspired to declare your love inspired by a piece of art?

  • US customs and border protection sign at Newark Liberty International Airport, New Jersey.

    US immigration
    Share your views of travelling to the US

  • Senior woman turning pages of a book.

    Books
    What have you been reading this month?

  • Man and girl using telescope, illustration<br>Illustration of a young girl looking through a telescope, seen in silhouette a starry night. The girl is using a reflecting telescope. In the sky, the constellation of Orion can be seen.

    Comets
    Share your pictures of the Comet C/2025 F2 (SWAN)

From our global editions

  • A man stands in front of an old wall with plants growing from it

    Environment
    Like the Ritz for wildlife: the joy of recreating England’s ancient hedges

    Up and down the country, volunteers are coming together to plant more of these nature-rich reserves
  • two men

    Explained
    Canada elections: who are the key players and what is at stake?

  • Russian President Vladimir Putin

    Analysis
    Putin’s play for an Indonesian airbase was always likely to fail – but Russia has wider ambitions

  • Ngāti Whātua occupation of Bastion Point in a 1978 photo by Robin Morrison

    New Zealand
    Fifty years on, tribunal upholding Māori rights faces a turning point

  • Still from video of mobile bakery in Gaza sent to Julian Borger
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    Gaza
    ‘Keeping people alive’: Gaza’s last working bakery forced by Israel to keep on moving

  • Students and parents move in line

    Society
    In Sweden, I got paid time off to settle my child at school. Here’s why I want US families to have the same right

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  • The town of Portbou in Catalonia, Spain.

    The long read
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  • Aid workers pass a Sudanese refugee baby on to a truck transporting people displaced by the war in Sudan to Renk, South Sudan, on 12 February 2025.

    Sudan
    Death, displacement and devastation – two years of war in Sudan

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    Science
    RFK Jr’s mixed messages on vaccines - podcast

  • The British Steel plant in Scunthorpe

    Politics Weekly UK
    What’s next for British Steel? – Politics Weekly UK

  • A woman walking through the Christmas wholesale market in Yiwu

    Today in Focus
    Trump’s trade war: the view from China – podcast

  • A tifo banner in the stands

    Football Weekly
    Aston Villa fall short of heroic comeback against PSG – Football Weekly

  • Kilmar Ábrego García is led by force by guards through the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador.

    Today in Focus
    Trump’s deportation ‘mistake’: the man trapped in a prison in El Salvador

In pictures

  • Our impact on nature … a winning image by Zed Nelson.

    Photography
    Apes, toilets, conflicts and cowboys: Sony World Photography awards

    Artists on the moon, gods in the sea, and guns at the ready in America … here are photographs from the overall winners of this year’s professional competition
  • Penitents line a street carrying candles and crucifixes

    Photos of the day
    A sultan’s banquet, Holy Week and Welsh gold

  • Prepare to dive … research engineer Aurore Molé in a survival suit.

    Art and design
    Underwater Argonauts! The deep-sea scientists logging Med pollution

  • At Amarah’s Al-Sadr hospital, medical staff, patients and their families struggle as busy wards overheat and tempers fray.

    Global development
    Faintings, blackouts and violence: Iraq’s scorching emergency – in pictures

  • Looking out from behind the DJs' decks at the crowd under a night sky

    Music
    Lady Gaga, Green Day and Enhypen: 2025 Coachella festival

  • Christians in Jerusalem

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