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  • An emergency medical helicopter takes off from the Wimereux dike after the recovery of the bodies of five people, who died overnight trying to cross the Channel from France.

    Channel
    Five people die in attempt to cross in small boat

  • A 30mph sign with the 30 crossed out.

    Wales
    Government may reverse 20mph limit on hundreds of roads – but denies U-turn

    • St George’s Day
      Police clash with protesters at rally in central London

    • Gaza
      UN rights chief ‘horrified’ by reports of mass graves at two hospitals

    • 'Difficult situation’
      Russian forces make significant gains in eastern Ukraine

    • Post Office scandal
      Ex-boss sought ‘non-emotive words’ for Horizon bugs, inquiry hears

    • Kia Joorabchian
      Top football agent ‘accosted’ by debt collectors working for another football agent, court told

    • Space
      Voyager 1 transmitting data again after Nasa remotely fixes 46-year-old probe

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Spotlight

  • Taylor Swift against black background with eyes close holding her head backwards.

    ‘Like eating too much chocolate’
    Guardian readers on Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department

    ‘Bland’ or ‘absolutely breathtaking’? Our readers are divided over Swift’s epically long, richly detailed new album
  • It could all have been prevented so easily … Richard Gadd with Jessica Gunning, who plays his stalker, in Baby Reindeer.

    The dangerous fallout from Baby Reindeer
    Should Richard Gadd have been less honest about his abusers?

  • Johnny Cash pictured in 1987.

    Jovial, randy and anything but dark
    Johnny Cash’s surprise return single Well Alright reviewed

  • John Crace

    Rude, patronising and out of his depth, Minister Mikey ticks all the boxes

    John Crace
    • Victoria Beckham looks at designs on a table with a rack of garments behind her

      Victoria Beckham
      Collaboration with Mango shows how far designer has come

    • Fern Brady Autistic Bikini Queen

      Comedy
      With her Netflix comedy special Autistic Bikini Queen, Fern Brady is a cynic to savour

    • Two women in an office environment look at a piece of paper together

      Pass notes
      The personality audit: should we ask friends for their brutally honest feedback on our flaws?

    • Hangzhou Opens First Hello Kitty Theme Restaurant<br>HANGZHOU, CHINA - JUNE 29: Two girls chat at a Hello Kitty theme restaurant on June 29, 2016 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province of China. A Hello Kitty theme restaurant was authorized opened firstly in Hangzhou. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)

      ‘Games are more important to Apple than ever’
      What’s next for Apple Arcade?

Opinion

  • Our Future, Our Choice Youth Movement For A People's Vote Lobby Parliament<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 27: Students and young people gather in Smith Square during an "Our Future, Our Choice" event to raise awareness of the desire for a further referendum on the future of Britain's membership of the European Union, on February 27, 2019 in London, England. Campaigning on the message that the effects of Brexit will impact the young, the group believes that another referendum is the fairest way to allow their voice to be heard. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

    It’s clearer than ever that Brexit has failed – let’s not inflict its miseries on young people

    Zoe Williams
    A scheme to allow British under-30s to live and work in the EU has been flatly rejected. Why punish them for older voters’ mistakes?
  • Protest against UK deportation flights to Rwanda, London, June 2022.

    Sunak and his cabinet think one packed Rwanda flight will save them. It won’t

    Enver Solomon
  • Martin Rowson on Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda mission accomplished – cartoon

    Cartoon
    Martin Rowson on Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda mission accomplished

    The PM gets through his ‘emergency legislation’ after four-and-a-half months of parliamentary ping-pong
  • Jeremy Corbyn

    Our leaders seem determined to give war a chance. Their thirst for conflict endangers us all

    Jeremy Corbyn
    • London Stock Exchange logo in front of FTSE 100 index share price information

      FTSE 100 is an international laggard despite its record high

      Nils Pratley
    • tents in front of a grand building, one with a palestinian flag

      Protesting against slaughter – as students in the US are doing – isn’t antisemitism

      Robert Reich
    • ‘He wanted it to look like a bomb shelter’, said a contractor who worked on Kanye West’s home in Malibu.

      Why are celebrities destroying multimillion dollar mansions?

      Arwa Mahdawi
    • Illustration: R Fresson

      Britain is sicker and poorer than it used to be. Sunak’s response? Attack disabled people

      Frances Ryan

Editorials & Letters

  • Rishi Sunak leaves 10 Downing Street for PMQs.

    The Guardian view
    Disability, illness and work: there is no ‘sicknote culture’ in Britain

  • Donald Trump in court on 22 April 2024

    The Guardian view
    Arming Ukraine: US Congress votes against appeasement

  • Kemi Badenoch leaves Downing Street after a cabinet meeting.

    Letters
    With her comments on slavery, Kemi Badenoch shows a poor grasp of history

  • A joint UK-US military facility on Diego Garcia, part of the Chagos Islands.

    Letters
    Britain must develop a partnership of equals with Africa

Sport

  • Erik ten Hag

    Football
    Ten Hag rails at 'disgrace' of reaction to United's FA Cup win

  • Rory McIlroy

    Golf
    McIlroy’s proposed board move ‘incredibly positive’ for PGA Tour

    • Larry Nassar, the former sports doctor who admitted molesting some of the nation's top gymnasts, appears in Michigan’s Eaton County Court in 2018.

      Sexual abuse in sport
      DoJ to pay $138.7m settlement over FBI’s botching of Nassar allegations

    • Have a little guess as to whether this was taken before or after West Ham’s match at Crystal Palace.

      Football Daily
      Moyes, West Ham and a unique brand of pragmatism

    • David Squires

      David Squires on …
      FA Cup meddling, big clubs reading the room and Luton elites

    • Emma Samways hugs a Hashtag United teammate after the Women's National League Cup final.

      Moving the Goalposts
      The harsh reality of ACL injuries outside elite women’s football

Climate crisis

  • An aerial view of hundreds of Polish farmers standing with flags outside a large building, surrounding a large bonfire billowing dark smoke into the air

    European Union
    EU green deal at ‘very high’ risk of being killed off, says Greens co-leader

  • A marine iguana swimming in the sea

    ‘Currents bring life – and plastics’
    Animals of Galápagos live amid mounds of waste

  • Claire O’Neill.

    Environment
    Sunak’s weakening of climate targets ‘retrograde’, says former Tory minister

  • Protesters walk down a street carrying a banner reading 'End the plastic era' with government buildings behind them

    Plastics
    World must come together to tackle pollution, says chair of UN talks

From the UK

  • Rachel McDaid.

    Nottinghamshire
    Man charged with murder of wife as family speak of ‘devastation’

  • John Gillibrand taking the service

    ‘Really good, not too long’
    Swansea churchgoers praise first ‘micro-service’

    • Surrey
      Family pay tribute to woman found dead in hotel as man charged with her murder

    • Tax
      Jeremy Hunt’s scope for cuts hit by higher-than-expected borrowing

    • Jane Austen
      Museum curators appeal to public for help deciphering brother’s memoir

    • 'A really nice animal'
      Boy, 9, from Derbyshire, wins gull screeching competition

    • Stephen Lawrence
      Met’s handling of new evidence to be reviewed

    • Exclusive
      Almost 600,000 women in England awaiting gynaecological treatment, figures show

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Around the world

  • Chuck Schumer

    Live
    US politics: Schumer says Senate should ‘finish the job’ with foreign aid vote as Sanders seeks to strip funding for Israel weapons

    Senate plans vote on Ukraine and Israel aid bill that would also force TikTok sale in the US
  • Police in Dresden, where the suspect was arrested on Monday night.

    Germany
    AfD politician’s aide arrested on suspicion of spying for China

  • A large container ship with the remains of a metal bridge strewn around and on it.

    Baltimore bridge collapse
    City says ship was ‘unseaworthy’ before leaving port

  • Ramzan Kadyrov using a shoulder press in a gym. His face is showing the strain from weightlifting

    Ramzan Kadyrov
    Chechen leader shows off workout amid health rumours

    • Elon Musk
      Australian PM blasts ‘arrogant billionaire who thinks he is above the law’

    • Taiwan
      Ruling party pledges to remove 760 statues of Chinese dictator Chiang Kai-shek

    • Malaysia
      Navy helicopters collide in mid-air, killing all ten onboard

    • Internet safety
      Paedophiles create nude AI images of children to extort from them, says charity

    • Freixenet
      Cava firm to furlough 80% of its workers in Catalonia due to drought

    • ‘Beacon of the world’
      Ex-Uffizi chief vows to save Florence if elected mayor

Culture

  • ‘Forget about stage and audience, to mix and experience the absurdity, with humour and sarcasm’ … Kopitchanskaja performs with the LSO in 2023.

    ‘I’m not humble. I expect miracles’
    Why violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja wants to blow you out of your seat

    She plays barefoot in jeans with a thrilling unpredictability that makes every show electric. Ahead of a performance that promises to transform the concert stage into a living room, we meet the whirlwind violinist
  • J Cole, Drake and Kendrick Lamar, just three of the players in the current beef embroiling the US rap scene.

    ‘A lot of rich guys arguing’
    Inside the rap beef of the decade with Drake, Kendrick Lamar and more

  • David Harewood

    ‘I was only able to go on stage hammered’
    David Harewood on acting, racism and his new role at Rada

  • Set It Up

    Set It Up
    The 2018 Netflix romcom that became a classic of the genre

  • Celine Dion performing in 2016.

    ‘Nothing is going to stop me’
    Celine Dion details life with stiff person syndrome

  • ‘My whole stance was world domination’ … Breakin’ Convention.

    ‘We have to have graffiti!’
    How we made the Breakin’ Convention hip-hop dance festival

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Lifestyle

  • ‘I feel so much more sexually confident with him and have a happiness I’ve never felt before.’

    Sexual healing
    The stress of cheating on my wife is making me ill – but I can no longer suppress who I am

    I love her and my children, but have fallen for another man. What can I do? I’m now suffering from gastrointestinal problems and using alcohol to get to sleep
  • The vineyards of Sancerre during autumn in the Loire Valley, France.

    David Williams on wine
    Why the Loire is France’s most exciting region

  • Tim Dowling’s trout lasagne

    ‘The trout lasagne is very good!’
    How I recreated six classic beef dishes – with oily fish

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  • Anna Jones’ squash and caramelised onion quesadillas.

    Get stuffed
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  • Nancy Gonzalez shows off her collection of handbags at Neiman Marcus in Bal Harbour, Florida in 2008.

    Nancy Gonzalez
    US designer sentenced to prison for smuggling crocodile and python handbags

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  • A badly designed system and what one MP called “shocking ineptitude” at the DWP has created hardship for thousands of carers in Britain.

    Carers in the UK
    Have you been threatened with prosecution for benefit fraud?

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  • Young mountain caribou: four are seen from behind, three with their antlers clearly visible, as they walk on light, dry grass on a mountainous landscape

    ‘If we don’t shoot wolves, we will lose caribou’
    The dilemma of saving endangered deer

    Researchers in Canada studying interventions to stem decline of mountain caribou have found wolf culls most effective
  • A bristlecone pine tree, one of the oldest living organisms on Earth.

    Mother trees and socialist forests
    Is the ‘wood-wide web’ a fantasy?

  • Student protesters on campus

    Israel, Gaza and university divestment
    What we know about the US student protests

  • A woman serves cups of coffee from a large traditional clay pot

    ‘Rude not to offer three cups’
    The lengthy, beloved coffee rituals binding Ethiopians together

  • Children sit on the ground holding posters of their loved ones.

    Pakistan
    The childhoods lost when loved ones are ‘disappeared’

  • 3D rendering of the head and face of a child robot against a futuristic space background in pink and blue.

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