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    In pictures
    Met Gala 2025 red carpet: pinstripes, capes and pouring rain

    Anna Wintour and her co-hosts Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, A$AP Rocky and Pharrell Williams button up for the opening of the Metropolitan Museum of Fine Art exhibition Superfine: Tailoring Black Style
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      US foreign policy
      Mexico’s president tries to defuse fears of US military intervention

    • Rwanda
      Rwanda says talks underway with US to host deported migrants

    • Erin Patterson trial live:
      Ian Wilkinson, only surviving guest of lethal mushroom lunch, gives evidence on day six

    • Yemen
      Israel carries out fresh airstrikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen

    • Canada
      Search for two young children missing in Canadian forest enters fourth day

    • New Zealand
      New Zealand’s prime minister proposes social media ban for under-16s

    • Buddhism
      India tries to halt auction of Piprahwa gems found with Buddha’s remains

    • Archaeology
      X-ray reveals ancient Greek author of charred first century BC Vesuvius scroll

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Spotlight

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    Well Actually
    How to start … anything: expert tips for trying something new

    From therapy to running and conversing with strangers, we asked experts what the basics are of starting anything new
  • Bella Ramsey as Ellie in The Last of Us season two, episode four.

    Television
    The Last of Us recap: season two, episode four – now that is what you call romance

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    Pulitzer prize
    Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha wins Pulitzer prize for commentary

    Renowned poet and author wins prize for series of New Yorker essays on suffering of Palestinians in Gaza
  • A free Yoga class on the artifical grass surface ioutside the new Davis Center.

    Design a better world
    New York unveils most dramatic changes to Central Park in years – in pictures

    The $160m makeover to the park’s north side is part of a long-term project to address years of neglect
    • four mannequins dressed in clothes

      Review
      Met exhibition review: show-stopping peacockery and introspective origins

    • Kula Shaker in 1996.

      How we made
      Kula Shaker on making Govinda: ‘Crowds would sing the lyrics as, “Go cash your giro giro”’

    • Closeup of a man's eye with short eyelashes

      Pass notes
      Blinking fools? The men who think shaving off their eyelashes will make them more masculine

    • Noah Wyle in The Pitt

      Television
      The doctors will see you now! It’s the all-time top 20 TV medical dramas

Opinion

  • Prince Harry talks to the BBC about wanting a reconciliation with the royal family

    Harry’s TV interview told us everything – and nothing. Why are the royals such terrible communicators?

    Zoe Williams
    Is their motto ‘never complain, never explain’ or ‘never stop complaining, never stop explaining’? Either way, it’s not working for them, writes Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
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    Trump’s attack on the film industry is a sign of xenophobic contempt

    Jesse Hassenger
  • Trump talks to silhouetted reporters with helicopter and Washington Monument in the background

    Editorial
    The Guardian view on Trump’s shock therapy: warehouse and transport workers are the first victims of a class war

  • Biden and Trump

    Trump says Biden caused the economic downturn. That’s malarkey

    Steven Greenhouse
  • Sky News Australia 2025 election

    As Australia’s election result reminds us, News Corp no longer has the power to sway voters

    Margaret Simons
  • Friedrich Merz.

    Germany needs a unifier. In Friedrich Merz, it is getting a chancellor whose instincts are to divide

    Chris Reiter and Will Wilkes

Sport

  • Zhao Xintong celebrates his world championship win after beating Mark Williams.

    Snooker
    Zhao beats Williams to become first Chinese snooker world champion

    Zhao Xintong beat Mark Williams 18-12 to become China’s first winner of the World Snooker Championship
  • Trent Alexander-Arnold desires a new challenge after producing a glittering CV at Liverpool.

    Alexander-Arnold walks on to Madrid after living the dream

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    Trump administration
    Democratic-led states sue Trump for blocking wind energy projects

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    Climate crisis
    Two Britons to challenge UK’s ‘weak’ response to climate crisis in Strasbourg court

  • a group of young people stand on ice and play broomball outside

    Canada
    How the climate crisis threatens Indigenous traditions in Canada: ‘It’s not the way it used to be’

  • The remains of businesses destroyed in the Palisades fire in Pacific Palisades, California, seen on 18 April.

    Climate crisis
    US scientific societies to do climate assessment after Trump administration dismissed authors

Around the world

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    Economics
    UK consumer confidence at lowest level since December 2022, says Which?

  • Police forensic officers search a house in Rochdale

    UK
    Four Iranian men questioned over alleged major terror plot against British target

    • BBC
      Palestinian activist says home raided ‘in revenge’ for appearing in Louis Theroux documentary

    • Peru
      Gold mining suspended in Peru’s north after 13 miners killed

    • The papacy
      Vatican to cut phone signal during conclave to elect new pope

    • US news
      Three people killed and seven missing after boat capsizes off San Diego coast

    • Pope Francis
      Francis’s popemobile to become a mobile clinic for children in Gaza

    • Catholicism
      Pope Francis leaves mixed legacy on role of women in Catholic church

Culture

  • Film-Summer Preview<br>This image released by Paramount Pictures and Skydance shows Tom Cruise, left and Christopher McQuarrie on the set of "Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning." (Paramount Pictures and Skydance via AP)

    Analysis
    Trump’s movie tariffs are designed to destroy the international film industry

    Vague and grandstanding as the US president’s messaging may be, it has serious ramifications which could wipe out large sections of the film business
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    John Oliver recap
    John Oliver on Trump deportations: ‘usually blatantly racist and always cruel’

  • Hotel Festa Qugiela, Okayama.

    Architecture
    We’re having sex inside Moby Dick! The wild architectural world of Japan’s love hotels

  • Peg o' My Heart

    Film
    Peg o’ My Heart review – Hong Kong’s disordered dream life is focus of Lynchian thriller

  • Mick Jagger, Shaun Ryder and Kiss’s Paul Stanley.

    Music
    ‘I’m burping? At least I didn’t fart!’ Ten things I’ve learned about ageing rockers

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    Film
    ‘Pure sugar-rush mayhem’: why I Wanna Hold Your Hand is my feelgood movie

Lifestyle

  • A$AP Rocky, Lewis Hamilton, Colman Domingo and Pharrell Williams on Vogue covers

    Fashion
    Met Gala will pose question: can Vogue keep diversity in fashion in Trump’s America?

    Event where fashion and politics meet puts editor Anna Wintour, a vocal Democrat supporter, in the spotlight
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    Parents and parenting
    I’m losing my mum to young-onset dementia. Caring for my baby reminds me who she was

    Alexandra Hansen
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    The one change that worked
    I could never get fit – until I tried a 40-second plank every day

  • Rukmini Iyer's crispy chicken with zhoug and jersey royals.

    Food
    Rukmini Iyer’s quick and easy recipe for crispy chicken with zhoug and jersey royals

  • Jean-Georges Vongerichten's pea guacamole.

    Spring food and drink
    Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s pea guacamole and asparagus quesadillas

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    Edith Pritchett's Venn diagrams
    From Hegseth on Signal to a Sunday morning bargain

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    VE Day 80 years on
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  • Top Social Security Officials Exit After Clash With Musk's DOGE<br>The Arthur J. Altmeyer Social Security Administration building at the agency's headquarters in Woodlawn, Maryland, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. The acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration and her top deputy have left following a confrontation with Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency team over access to data on 70 million beneficiaries, according to people familiar with the moves. Photographer: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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    Madness, murder and rape on the Batavia: new theory on Australia’s most horrific shipwreck

    Dutch academic says an ‘unlikely story about a mad heretic’ has been repeated for 400 years – and poses an alternative
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    New York
    Is that a cat in the Cheetos? New York comedian spotlights the city’s famous bodega felines

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    US
    Maga media mob: meet the new rightwing faces in the White House briefing room

  • FILE - Cardinal Luis Tagle smiles as he listens reporters questions during a press conference on the Synod at the Vatican, Tuesday, 23 Oc, 2018.

    Papal conclave
    Who is Luis Antonio Tagle? The Philippine cardinal and ‘karaoke priest’ in the running for pope

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    Ethiopia
    Mass arrests and beatings: how Ethiopia went from celebrating journalists to jailing them

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    Global development
    From Sri Lanka to Tanzania: the pioneering hotels run entirely by women

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