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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

    The highest grossing Black film-maker of all time is known for his superhero movies and reinventing the Rocky franchise. Now he’s made his most personal film yet – and it’s a vampire thriller
  • 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
    • 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

    • 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

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
  • US flag Times Square

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

    Van Badham
  • Illustration by Danielle Rhoda

    Trump-style book censorship is spreading – just ask British librarians

    Alison Hicks
  • two men smile next to each other in an arena

    A crack in the manosphere: Joe Rogan’s guests are revolting

    Sam Wolfson
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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
  • 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

  • Klaas Roemers, 90, and Fenny Roemers-Visser, 86, holding hands. The photograph was taken, with permission, by their son Martin moments after their deaths. They had applied to end their lives under the Netherlands' assisted dying process

    Photography
    My parents holding hands after their assisted deaths: Martin Roemers’ most personal photograph

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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    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

  • two men

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

    Justin Trudeau’s resignation as prime minister came amid deep anxiety prompted by Trump’s tariffs threats
  • 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

  • A rhino walks down a road with houses on either side

    The age of extinction
    Sauntering on streets and grazing on lawns: what happens when rhinos move into town?

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A Chornobyl scientist discovers nuclear fallout from the Soviet era in Kazakhstan – and warns of its lasting effects in a toxic future

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    Ukraine
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  • The town of Portbou in Catalonia, Spain.

    The long read
    The mystery of the nameless girl found dead in a Spanish border town

  • 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

  • Lola Hassid Angel surrounded by plants on a sunny terrace

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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

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  • 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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