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  • Russian soldiers walk between ruins

    Russia-Ukraine war
    Ukraine’s retreat from Kursk appears to mark end of audacious operation

  • Former senator Leila De Lima

    Rodrigo Duterte
    The senator, the priest, the forensic pathologist: the people who brought ex-president to justice

    For years many brave Filipinos have worked tirelessly, in and out of the spotlight, to expose the horrors of the deadly campaign
  • Triptych for methanol story (L-R): Holly Bowles, Simone White and Bianca Jones

    Laos
    Four months after daughters’ deaths, parents of Laos backpackers face ‘horror scenarios’ amid fight for answers

    As the UK, Australia and Denmark mount joint diplomatic push, grieving families fear Laos’ investigation into the suspected methanol poisonings won’t deliver justice

Spotlight

  • Robot typing

    Artificial intelligence
    ‘A computer’s joke, on us’: writers respond to the short story written by AI

    Sam Altman, the OpenAI boss, has declared its new model ‘good at creative writing’. We asked writers including Tracy Chevalier, Kamila Shamsie and David Baddiel if they agree
  • Sea Power, long-running British experimental music sextet, famed film scorers, and composers for Disco Elysium

    Games
    ‘The odd drunken detective has been sighted at gigs’: how Sea Power won legions of gamer fans

  • NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams stand at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, on the day of Boeing's Starliner-1 Crew Flight Test mission to the International Space Station, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US, 1 June 2024. Wilmore and Williams have been stranded in space for nine months, but may soon be rescued on the Nasa-SpaceX Crew-10 mission.

    Space
    Swollen eyeballs, baby-like skin, and the overview effect: how astronauts feel when they return to earth

    As Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Suni Williams prepare to come home after their unexpected nine-month ISS stay, here is what they may experience
  • Three-quarters shot of Marisa Abela wearing a dress with a sleeveless black top half and full-skirted cream bottom half

    Marisa Abela
    ‘Cancer gave me clarity’: Industry star Marisa Abela on surviving serious illness, playing posh and on-screen nudity

    She’s the breakout star of the cult banking drama who went on to play Amy Winehouse and has now been handpicked by Steven Soderbergh for his latest thriller. But at 23, a shock diagnosis changed her world
    • Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock looking up at some space-themed lights and decorations.

      Science
      ‘It’s human conceit to think we’re alone’: life must extend beyond Earth, leading space scientist says

    • Michael Jackson photographed in London, 1992.

      Television
      ‘I’ve had murderers try to find me. I’ve had armed people say they’ll shoot’ – Dan Reed on the fallout from his Michael Jackson films

    • a woman with brown overalls holds a pumpkin as pigs stand by her outside

      US
      Why I quit my homestead dream just as farmer tradwives became mainstream

    • Ludicrously vindicated … Chappell Roan.

      Music
      Chappell Roan: The Giver review – saddle up, there’s a new sheriff in town

Opinion

  • Demonstrators with activist groups Truth Tuesdays and Rise and Resist at a mock birthday party for Rupert Murdoch outside Fox News, 11 March 2025.

    Why is Donald Trump crashing the US economy? Because he’s high on his own supply of fake news

    Jonathan Freedland
    Addicted to Fox News and outlets even more extreme, the president finds justification for actions disastrous to Americans and the world, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
  • Marina Hyde

    Amazing: of all the books in all the world Mr Free Speech Zuckerberg wants to ban, it’s the one about him

    Marina Hyde
  • Kenneth Roth

    There can be no ‘Israel exception’ for free speech

    Kenneth Roth
  • musk stands next to trump outside the white house

    Musk’s entitlement remarks show Trumpworld can’t keep its story straight

    Austin Sarat
  • sign says 'release mahmoud khalil'

    Deporting speakers over supposed ‘propaganda’ is a stock authoritarian move

    Sarah McLaughlin
  • US-IRELAND-POLITICS-DIPLOMACY-TAOISEACH<br>US President Donald Trump meets with Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 12, 2025. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

    Europe is rapidly rearming. Will that leave neutral Ireland defenceless?

    Brigid Laffan

Sport

  • Sydney Leroux celebrates after scoring for Angel City against Utah Royals in October

    Exclusive
    Top women’s clubs to play in lucrative seven-a-side tournament in buildup to WCL final

  • Marcus Rashford in Aston Villa kit and Jordan Henderson in Ajax kit

    Football
    Rashford and Henderson included in Tuchel’s first England squad

    • Tommy Freeman in training

      England must be ruthless against Wales – and that is the blueprint for the future

      Ugo Monye
    • Aston Villa's team photo before the second leg of their last-16 tie against Club Brugge

      Premier League
      Five English teams in 2025-26 Champions League almost certain

    • Rocky Elsom, pictured in 2011, left Ireland in August 2024 and his whereabouts are currently unknown.

      Rugby union
      Former Australia captain Elsom handed two-year jail sentence in France

    • Jessie Holmes hugs his lead dogs Polar, left, and Hercules after winning the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

      Iditarod
      Reality TV star Holmes wins longest-ever race

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Climate crisis

  • An old fort on an island outcrop

    Weather tracker
    Cyclone Jude causes chaos in Mozambique

  • A ringed peregrine falcon perched on a wooden gatepost

    Environment
    Decades after peregrines came back from the brink, a new threat emerges

  • Donald Trump speaking in front of a screen that says ‘drill baby drill’

    Climate crisis
    UK hoping to work with China to counteract Trump’s climate-hostile policies

  • Electric charger going into a silver electric car

    Environment
    Car industry urges UK government to create new EV incentives

Around the world

  • A ship at the Balboa port on the Panama canal

    Panama canal
    China criticises Hong Kong firm’s sale of majority stake in Panama ports

  • Children run towards home

    Global development
    Fears for human rights as Peru passes ‘simply brutal’ anti-NGO law

    • UK
      Economy shrinks unexpectedly in blow to chancellor Rachel Reeves

    • Canada
      UK Liberal Democrat leader calls on Keir Starmer to back Canada against Trump attacks

    • UK
      ‘It clawed the back of my head’: the Hertfordshire village harassed by a hawk

    • Global development
      Devoted, dogged, defiant: the Mexican women who ‘sow the seeds of struggle’

    • Taiwan
      Taiwan’s president labels China a ‘foreign hostile force’ and ramps up security measures citing ‘infiltration’

    • Syria
      Syria’s leader proclaims ‘new history’ after signing constitutional declaration

Culture

  • ‘Sepulchral air’ … the gap-roofed visitor centre by cult Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati.

    Architecture
    ‘They goggled and gawped’: Bahrain gives its pearl-divers a sci-fi wonder – and four ‘filo pastry’ car parks

    The kingdom’s old capital is a world heritage site – and it has now honoured its once-biggest industry with a ‘pearling path’ wending through two miles of architectural marvels. But did its car parks really have to be so lavish?
  • Sea Power, long-running British experimental music sextet, famed film scorers, and composers for Disco Elysium

    Games
    ‘The odd drunken detective has been sighted at gigs’: how Sea Power won legions of gamer fans

  • ‘For anyone who loves an underdog story’ … Iron Maiden circa 2010.

    Music
    Iron Maiden making official documentary to mark 50th anniversary

  • california highway

    Books
    The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

  • Steven McRae as Romeo and Sarah Lamb as Juliet at the Royal Opera House in 2015.

    Ballet
    ‘My career flashed before my eyes’: Steven McRae’s devastating onstage injury and proud return as Romeo

  • Tom Lowndes aka Hot Dub Time Machine in Adelaide, South Australia. Image © Sia Duff 8/3/2025

    Music
    The rise of Hot Dub Time Machine: ‘No matter how good a DJ is, you’re still pretending to be a musician’

Lifestyle

  • a woman in a towel in a sauna

    Wellness
    I moved to the sauna capital of the US. Could I take the heat?

    A thriving sauna culture is growing in frosty Minnesota as people warm to the health benefits and sense of community
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    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    I haven’t told my parents I have cancer, as I fear they will say something hurtful

  • Ravneet Gill's traybake treacle sponge and custard.

    The sweet spot
    Ravneet Gill’s recipe for traybake treacle sponge and custard

  • Two models

    Fashion
    ‘Meal prep’ your outfits for the week ahead and you’ll feel invincible

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    You be the judge
    Should I let my boyfriend rip out the original features in our Victorian house?

  • Abandoned house with botanicals growing out the side

    Life and style
    A happy band of hippies brought life to the vacant house in my neighbourhood. I wish they could stay

Take part

  • People in a fitness class do a stretch on yoga mats

    Health & wellbeing
    How much do you spend on health and wellness a month?

  • teenage school girls on their phones

    Young people
    What rules around smartphone use should be put in place for children?

  • Close up of college students writing in notebooks at a desk

    US student debt
    How you have been impacted by the change to student loan repayments?

  • Sunlight shines through the flags of Canada and the United States, held together by a protester outside on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, 1 Febuary, 2025.

    Canadians
    How is the Trump administration affecting politics in Canada and in your community?

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From our global editions

  • A group of men are checked by guards in front of queues of men lined up in a courtyard

    Democratic Republic of the Congo
    Supermarket guards, truck drivers and ‘very big mistakes’: the failed role of western mercenaries in the fall of Goma

    An investigation into the DRC’s use of hundreds of hired Romanian fighters reveals how a disorganised operation with untrained recruits became a deadly ‘circus’
  • a woman wipes tears with her hands while sitting in front of the grave for her two sons

    Photo essay
    ‘They shouldn’t have to fight alone’: the families on the frontline of the Navajo Nation missing people crisis

  • Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong is seen during a press conference after the AUSMIN talks at Government House in Brisbane, Saturday, July 29, 2023. Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles and Foreign Minister Penny Wong are meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin for the annual AUSMIN talks. (AAP Image/Darren England) NO ARCHIVING

    Analysis
    The new reality dawning in Australia: it can no longer rely on the US

  • Tanzanian journalist and Human Rights activist Maria Sarungi.

    Kenya
    Dragged from a taxi and driven to the border: Kenya’s ‘safe’ reputation tainted by forced deportations

  • a man speaking into a microphone

    Analysis
    Andrew Tate cannot hide fury as Florida ‘welcome’ brings yet more legal trouble

  • The collective El Palomar, created by Mexican singer Vivir Quintana bringing together more than 60 Latin American singers.

    Global development
    Devoted, dogged, defiant: the Mexican women who ‘sow the seeds of struggle’

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