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    Nicole Kidman, Lauren Sánchez Bezos and Anna Wintour attend the 2026 Met Gala.

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    double quotation markTrump’s unpopularity won't save Democrats

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    Bitchy quips and Lady Gaga – discuss with spoilers

    Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci in The Devil Wears Prada 2.

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    Two killed and several hurt after car ploughs into crowds in German city of Leipzig

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    Austria expels three Russian embassy staff after ‘forest of antennae’ discovered

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    Narendra Modi’s BJP wins election in West Bengal for the first time

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    The Met Gala is the grandest event in the fashion calendar, but this year’s event has sparked backlash thanks to its new honorary chairs, Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos. Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian’s fashion and lifestyle editor, Morwenna Ferrier.
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    A new start after 60
    I embarked on a colourful, glamorous, life-changing new career at 72

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    double quotation markGermany’s military power is on the rise. This time it must be firmly embedded in Europe

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    As Russian aggression continues and Trump’s US threatens Nato, it is even more vital for a unified defence of the continent, says historian and Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash
  • Osita Nwanevu

    double quotation markDemocrats are counting on Trump’s unpopularity to save them. It won’t

    Osita Nwanevu
    Yes, Trump might carry them to victory in the midterms. But he can’t carry them much longer – especially not in the 2028 elections

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  • Arwa Mahdawi

    double quotation markWant a green card? Better make sure you haven’t criticized Israel on social media

    Arwa Mahdawi
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    double quotation markYes, the king’s US visit will go down in history: it marked the death throes of an old era

    Nesrine Malik
  • Florian Ranft

    double quotation markThe centre left is not dead. A progressive new counter-Trumpian movement is on the way

    Florian Ranft
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    double quotation markMore unbridled nastiness from Reform – but would it really create migrant detention centres in Green-voting areas?

    Zoe Williams

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    Politicians should speed it up – and households too

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    Trump, Merz and Europe’s security: EU countries cannot go it alone

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    Ella Baron
    Showing solidarity with Jewish communities

    In the wake of last week’s attack in Golders Green, calls have grown for the wider anti-racist movement to stand against antisemitism

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    Scottish Premiership
    Title-chasing Hearts clear crucial hurdle as Shankland shatters Rangers’ hopes

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    Champions League
    Arteta promises Arsenal will ‘go out there like beasts’ in Atlético second leg

  • Bath's Alfie Barbeary (left) and Bordeaux-Begles’s Maxime Lucu clash heads during the Champions Cup semi-final.

    Rugby union
    Champions Cup final will have independent TV director in charge

  • Michael Carrick celebrates Manchester United’s win against Liverpool

    Football
    Carrick expected to be offered head coach deal by Manchester United

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    Norway
    Norwegian fish farms polluting fjords with waste likened to ‘raw sewage of millions of people’

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    Business
    GameStop shares fall 10% after CEO skirts questions over eBay acquisition details

  • A young man in jail garb sits in court flanked by a man and a woman.

    Washington DC
    Judge ‘disturbed’ over ‘legally deficient’ treatment of Trump gala shooting suspect

  • M.I.A. performing in Paris in 2014.

    Music
    Rapper Kid Cudi fires MIA from tour after ‘offensive’ Republican rant

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    Nigeria
    Nigerian refinery accused of sacking union members is key to UK plan to tackle jet fuel shortage

  • Firefighters continued to battle the Hazen fire burning near Buckeye, Arizona, on Monday

    Wildfires
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    Weather tracker
    Cold spells in Greece and Turkey, and storms in Bangladesh

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UK news

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    Reform UK plan to set up migrant detention centres in Green-voting areas condemned by other parties

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    ‘A test of our values’: Starmer to call for whole-society response to rising antisemitism

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    Iran executes three men in relation to January anti-regime protests

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    Radical left Jean-Luc Mélenchon announces 2027 French presidential bid

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    British Gaza flotilla activists say they needed hospital care after Israeli forces’ abuse

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    ‘Point of no return’: New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds

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  • Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci in The Devil Wears Prada 2.

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    Interview
    Next stop – infinity! My transcendental experience on Japan’s ‘art island’ guided by its master Lee Ufan

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    Film
    Kokuho review – passionately male Cain-and-Abel kabuki epic of gender-crossing actors

  • A driver in a car at night in a still from Self Driver film.

    Film
    Self Driver review – cabbie who signs up for sinister app offers Travis Bickle take on the gig economy

  • A young man and woman sit in a movie theater next to a monstrous rabbit

    Film
    ‘As reassuring as a warm hug’: why Donnie Darko is my feelgood movie

  • Daniel McNamee, left, and Shaun Paul McGrath in Breakwater.

    Film
    Breakwater review – troubled souls cross class and age barriers in nicely judged debut feature

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    Classical music
    Galilee String Quartet review – Palestinian ensemble improvise their signature east-west blend

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    Music
    ‘My generation have deluded themselves’: ex-Vampire Weekender Rostam on pop, protest and life as an Iranian-American

  • Hugh Bonneville, narrator of Hound of the Baskervilles.

    Best podcasts of the week
    Hugh Bonneville takes on Sherlock Holmes: best podcasts of the week

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    Music
    Spotify has ruined mood playlists – so our critics have made some better ones instead

What to read

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    Fiction
    One Leg on Earth by ’Pemi Aguda review – a powerfully eerie portrait of Lagos

  • A bus in Tehran during the Iranian revolution, 1979

    Book of the day
    Iran and the Revolution by Homa Katouzian review – how the Islamic Republic was born

  • Sufiyaan Salam.

    Books
    ‘I wanted it to feel both Shakespearean and like Jay-Z’: debut author Sufiyaan Salam on masculinity, rap and meeting Stormzy

  • Portrait of existential therapist Emmy Van Deurzen

    Philosophy
    ‘One of the most profound encounters of my life’: could existential therapist Emmy van Deurzen change the way you think?

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  • An orange sports car skids on a country road in the new James Bond game, 007 First Light.

    James Bond
    ‘You can be any Bond you want’: the inside story of 007 First Light

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    Puzzle games
    Forbidden Solitaire review – cards flip into delirious trip back to 90s horror

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    Pushing Buttons
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    Books
    Feminism play Liberation and first world war novel Angel Down among Pulitzer winners

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    Photography
    Ready for their close-ups: celebrity passport photos

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    Dolly Parton
    Dolly Parton cancels Las Vegas residency over health issues: ‘I’ve still got some healing to do’

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    Art
    Sketches of Spain at arms: Sim, the anarchist illustrator who drew the civil war from the frontline

Lifestyle

  • Low angle shot of Palazzo dello Spagnolo in Rione Sanita, Naple, Italy

    Travel
    ‘Neighbourhood renaissance’: once noble La Sanità in Naples is open for business again

  • Cartoon illustration of two happy dancing lungs showing regeneration

    Life and style
    Is it true that … your lungs regenerate when you quit smoking?

Food

  • Thomasina Miers’ Mexican spring vegetable soup with toasted pumpkin seed salsa.

    Food
    Spring soup and bean and cheese quesadillas: Thomasina Miers’ Mexican-inspired seasonal recipes

  • Georgina Hayden's spanakopita orzo

    Quick and easy
    Georgina Hayden’s quick and easy recipe for spanakopita orzo

  • Felicity Cloake’s perfect Spanish broad bean stew.

    Food
    How to make the perfect Spanish broad bean stew – recipe

  • Meera Sodha’s spring rice with feta, harissa and pine nut sauce.

    Meera Sodha recipes
    Spring rice with feta, harissa and pine nut sauce

Fashion & beauty

  • Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez attending the 2024 Met Gala in New York

    Met Gala 2026
    Fashion’s Faustian pact: the high cost of Jeff Bezos’s Met Gala patronage

  • Rebel Wilson wears a cardigan in neutral tone with a collared white shirt as she walks past media

    Fashion
    Rebel Wilson’s courtroom makeover shows why style matters on the stand

  • Lady Gaga in a voluminous pink gown with elaborate drawn-on eyelashes and a platinum blonde wig

    Met Gala
    Omelette dresses and political statements: the most unforgettable Met Gala looks

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    Styling
    Slip into summer: what to wear with a return-to-the-90s ‘It’ dress

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Relationships

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    The moment I knew
    ‘We didn’t speak the same language but somehow we understood each other’

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    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    My mother is addicted to gaming and emotionally unavailable. What should I do?

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    Dating
    ‘Sick of swiping’: the dating event where your mates make the pitch for you

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    My partner likes open sandwiches. I prefer two slices of bread. Who is right?

Health & fitness

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    Life and style
    49 ways to have fun right now! Skydive in a wind tunnel, count dogs and run like a three-year-old

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    Health
    Puffy legs, heavy aches, rippled skin: what is lipoedema?

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    Well Actually
    Wellness culture is trying to sell you products your vagina doesn’t need

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    Mobile phones
    I’m addicted to checking my phone. Could a blocking device stop me?

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    Kindness of strangers
    I was sobbing with pain when a cashier gave me hot chocolate

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    Notes and queries
    Readers reply: The Missouri tofu spill was ‘unforgettable’ – but what are history’s greatest bad smells?

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    Anxiety
    Welcome to Anxietyland: I used alcohol to hide my fear – but booze became a very bad friend

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