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  • Mike Maignan slides to tackle Nico Williams.

    Live
    Spain v France: Euro 2024 semi-final

    Minute-by-minute report: Will Spain or France progress to the final? Join Daniel Harris to find out
    • The ice cream truck getting washed out to sea

      UK
      Tourists rush to save ice cream van washed out to sea in Cornwall

    • 'Spy cops' scandal
      Spy cop who led special branch admits wrongly accusing activist of bomb plot

    • Post Office Horizon scandal
      Post Office Horizon inquiry told of ‘incomplete curiosity’ and ‘toxic culture’

    • Russia
      Russia issues arrest warrant for Yulia Navalnaya, widow of Alexei Navalny

    • Israel-Gaza war
      Israeli attack on Gaza City continues as Hamas says ceasefire efforts at risk

    • Politics
      Reform UK MP accused of mounting ‘witch-hunt’ against local teachers

    • UK
      Man jailed over drunken 141mph crash that killed woman and baby

    • Wimbledon 2024
      Novak Djokovic does the splits as latest victim of Wimbledon’s slippery courts

News in focus

  • Two of them smiling

    Explainer
    What is the national wealth fund and what will it invest in?

  • Manuel Bompard and Jean-Luc Melenchon are surrounded by journalists as they arrive at the National Assembly in Paris, 9 July 2024. Bompard has one hand raised and appears to be addressing someone. He is in his late 30s and has receding dark hair; he wears an open-necked white shirt and black jacket; Mélenchon is in his early 70s and has short grey hair and glasses; he wears a royal blue suit, white shirt and red tie.

    Analysis
    France’s aversion to coalitions means any new government risks early collapse

    Snap election brings three roughly equal blocs and unwillingness to compromise or form ‘unnatural alliances’
  • Design comprising closeup pic of Lucy Letby's eyes behind the scales of justice

    Exclusive
    Lucy Letby: killer or coincidence? Why some experts question the evidence

    Exclusive: Doubts raised over safety of convictions of nurse found guilty of murdering babies

Spotlight

  • Behind the scenes with Joseph Fiennes as he prepares for his role as Gareth Southgate in Dear England, at the Prince Edward Theatre in London's West End. London. Photograph by David Levene 9/1/24

    Theatre
    The mysterious art of the casting director: ‘When you see the truth in front of you, it’s the right person’

    Is it gatekeeping or dream-making? Art or science? As the Oscars get set to award casting directors for the first time, British theatre’s finest share the secrets of their trade
  • Jacob Rees-Mogg raises both hands as he speaks behind a lectern

    The politics sketch
    PopCons reassemble and Jacob Rees-Mogg is the sanest person in the room

    John Crace
  • Svalinn dog sits with its front legs on a car tyre, in the distance are snow-capped mountains, in front of them a grassy plain. The dog seems relaxed but looks straight at the camera with a focused, intense, one could say unnerving look.

    Pass notes
    The $150,000 dog: meet the Svalinn – the gentle beast who can rip out an attacker’s throat

    They are agile, athletic, even-tempered, intelligent, loving, well-muscled and trained to be lethal bodyguards. The perfect pet, in fact, for a paranoid billionaire
  • People stroll through the streets of Durham in County Durham.

    My home town
    How Durham changed under Conservative rule

    Benjamin Myers
    As Labour takes power for the first time in 14 years, Benjamin Myers describes the legacy of neglected health and education in the city he grew up in
    • Milan Kundera.

      Books
      Where to start with: Milan Kundera

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      Child marriage
      ‘I was handed to a complete stranger’: the survivors fighting to end child marriage in 37 US states

    • A sloping sliver building on a hilltop at sunset

      Architecture
      World Architecture festival 2024 shortlist – in pictures

    • Though the jury is out on my colleague’s controversial avocado-slicing technique, life abounds with nice, different and unusual techniques to prepare fresh produce.

      Food
      Do these kitchen hacks cut it? Five new (and possibly improved) ways to peel, slice and juice your fruit

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Opinion

  • Gordon Brown

    Rage as Putin bombs a children’s hospital in Kyiv, but know there is a way to try him for his crimes

    Gordon Brown
    I support the Council of Europe plan to hold the Kremlin to account, says Gordon Brown, UN global ambassador for education
  • Martin Rowson on Keir Starmer’s new Stakhanovites

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    Martin Rowson on Keir Starmer’s new Stakhanovites

  • Kamala Harris speaks to Joe Biden

    Joe Biden now relies on instruction manuals, so here’s a good one: ‘Walk to podium, smile, wave goodbye’

    Marina Hyde
    He thinks he can run again: the signs say the opposite. Biden’s best hope for beating Trump may be to let someone else do it
  • Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

    Harry is the divisive duke – and Meghan is making jam. Can the Sussexes escape their ‘flop era’?

    Arwa Mahdawi
    In America, the Duke of Sussex is embroiled in a row over a sports award and the backlash seems to be growing. A lot rests on the Duchess’s new lifestyle brand
    • Parasol mushrooms in southern Spain

      The ‘wood wide web’ theory charmed us all – but now it’s the subject of a bitter fight among scientists

      Sophie Yeo
    • Anne Perkins

      Politicians being nice to each other won’t rescue our democracy – but civility empowers us all

      Anne Perkins
    • Parents help their little girl learn to ride a bike

      I photographed every moment of our toddlers’ lives. Now I wish I’d paid more attention instead

      Sunil Badami
    • Lisa Nandy has been appointed secretary of state for culture after shadow minister Thangam Debbonaire lost her seat.

      Nandy wasn’t supposed to head up culture, but could her level-headed approach be just the ticket?

      Charlotte Higgins

Editorials & Letters

  • BRITAIN-POLITICS-PARLIAMENT<br>A handout photograph released by the UK Parliament shows Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer addressing MPs as they meet for the first time since Britain's general election at the House of Commons in London on July 9, 2024. Britain's new lawmakers excitedly squeezed into parliament with Labour sitting on the government's side of the chamber for the first time in 14 years following last week's landslide election win. (Photo by Handout / UK PARLIAMENT / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT " AFP PHOTO / UK PARLIAMENT " - NO USE FOR ENTERTAINMENT, SATIRICAL, MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - EDITORS NOTE THE IMAGE MAY HAVE BEEN DIGITALLY ALTERED AT SOURCE TO OBSCURE VISIBLE DOCUMENTS (Photo by HANDOUT/UK PARLIAMENT/AFP via Getty Images)

    The Guardian view
    Labour’s revolution: legitimising its power requires rebuilding trust

  • James Timpson smiles as he poses for a photograph in front of a union flag at No 10 Downing Street following his appointment to cabinet by Sir Keir Starmer

    The Guardian view
    Overcrowded prisons: James Timpson’s arrival is a signal of hope

  • Bricks and mortar

    Letters
    How to access land to build more housing

  • Group of eight teen friends on their phones in front of brick wall background.

    Letters
    Youth clubs are vital. We can all help to revive them

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Climate crisis

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    Environment
    Devastation as world’s biggest wetland burns: ‘those that cannot run don’t stand a chance’

  • Illustration of composite images from Brazil

    The Latin oil rush
    Pristine forests and grinding poverty: why shouldn’t Brazil’s Amapá state embrace oil wealth?

  • A low and brown-looking river flowing underneath two bridges, with office buildings or blocks of flats in the background

    Environment
    From water to wood-burning stoves: 11 green challenges Labour must solve

  • a soldier stands near a tank by a body of water

    Nato
    Nato’s 2023 military spending produced about 233m metric tonnes of CO2 – report

From the UK

  • Close-up of Rachel Reeves smiling

    Economy
    Reeves launches £7.3bn national wealth fund

    Chancellor says government aims to attract billions of pounds of private cash for big infrastructure projects
  • Rishi Sunak in the Commons in opposition on Tuesday.

    Politics
    Rishi Sunak has no plans to move to US after election defeat, allies say

  • Steve Wright smiling at the camera at a press event, wearing yellow-tinted glasses

    Radio
    Steve Wright, former Radio 2 DJ, died from ruptured stomach ulcer

  • coffee being poured from a stovetop espresso coffee maker

    Food & drink industry
    Coffee prices will rise even higher, says Giuseppe Lavazza

    • Politics
      Keir Starmer to ‘wait until US election to name new ambassador’

    • Exeter
      Man who stabbed stranger in Exeter park found guilty of murder

    • NHS
      Junior doctors confident further strikes can be avoided after meeting Streeting

    • Military
      MoD reportedly concedes cancer death of RAF pilot related to military service

    • Environment
      Renewables firms already planning new onshore windfarms in England

    • Business
      Thames Water to tap investors for funds as it will run out of cash by next June

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  • Valdimir Putin.

    Social media
    US justice department says it disrupted Russian social media influence operation

  • person wearing gold hat with pink, blue and white castle in the background

    Business
    Disney faces strike threat as thousands of California workers vote on walkout

    • US
      ‘Like an oven’: death at US women’s prison amid heatwave sparks cries for help

    • Canada
      Grizzly bear hunting quietly reinstated in Alberta

    • Peru
      US mountaineer buried by avalanche 22 years ago found preserved in ice, police say

    • Technology
      Meta expands hate speech policy to remove more posts targeting 'Zionists'

    • Spain
      Spain sentences 15 schoolchildren over AI-generated naked images

    • Ireland
      Irish defence forces to discharge soldier who attacked woman and avoided jail

Culture

  • IV - King Estates . Snowflake’s Progress is the first solo exhibition from multi-award winning cartoonist and illustrator Ben Jennings. The project is a contemporary adaptation of William Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress, and follows a character over a series of 8 artworks that offer snapshots of British life set over the past 14 years of Tory rule.

    Illustration
    ‘It’s like Where’s Wally in broken Britain’: Ben Jennings on his Tory-era take on A Rake’s Progress

    A millennial navigates the gig economy, fights in pubs and gets kettled on a demo in Snowflake’s Progress, the Guardian’s political cartoonist’s Hogarthian epitaph for the last 14 years of Conservative rule
  • Many teens choose of their own free will to spend 10 or 20 hours a week playing games.

    It’s not them, it’s us: the real reason teens are ‘addicted’ to video games

    Keith Stuart and Keza MacDonald
  • Gladiator II film still<br>Paul Mescal plays Lucius in Gladiator II from Paramount Pictures.

    Film
    ‘Rage is your gift’: Paul Mescal battles Pedro, Denzel and a rhino in first Gladiator II trailer

  • Game of Thrones<br>Game of Thrones Jamie Sives as JORY CASSEL (left) and Sean Bean as NED STARK (right)

    Television
    Can shock deaths in the Game of Thrones universe still really shock us?

  • MJ Lenderman.

    Music
    Pixar, Catholic shame, and urine-drinking podcast bros: the mixed-up rock of MJ Lenderman

  • 30th Screen Actors Guild Awards, Backstage, Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA - 24 Feb 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by George Pimentel/REX/Shutterstock for SAG (14360611x) (L-R) Emily Blunt, Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway 30th Screen Actors Guild Awards, Backstage, Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA - 24 Feb 2024

    Film
    The Devil Wears Prada sequel in the works about declining advertising revenues for print media

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    The rise of the aggro-rithm
    Can misogynistic content be stopped?

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Lifestyle

  • Mark Bittman’s balsamic strawberries with rocket.

    Kitchen aide
    How to make the most of a punnet of strawberries

    If you find yourself with too many strawberries, try them in a sorbet, or a frangipane, roast them on a barbecue or pair underripe ones with cheese or in a pickle jar
  • Greg Louganis at home in Topanga, California.

    Fascinating Olympians
    Secrets, betrayal and shocking abuse: how Greg Louganis survived – and became the greatest diver of all time

  • Microsoft Surface Pro 11 review desktop shown on a wooden table.

    Technology
    Surface Pro 11 review: Microsoft’s big Arm leap almost pays off

  • Writer Ailsa in the cold bath

    Travel
    From a sauna to an ice bath in Scotland: my full immersion in hot and cold therapy

  • Composite of an older woman resting her head on an older man’s bare chest

    Sexual healing
    I’m struggling to enjoy foreplay – but I want more from sex than just penetration

  • Summer roasties: mixed vegetables with a blue-cheese dressing.

    Food
    Nigel Slater’s recipe for roast summer vegetables and blue cheese sauce

Take part

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    Nursing
    Students in the UK: have you considered leaving before graduating?

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    Weddings
    Tell us your bridesmaid confessions

  • Anyone who started university between 2012 and 2022 is now paying 7.6% interest on what they borrowed, meaning that almost all will see their loans go up by more than they repay this year.

    Student finance
    Are you struggling to pay off an outstanding UK university student loan?

  • Junior doctors strike. Protest at Northallerton Friarage Hospital, 27/6 2024. Photo ©: Mark Pinder +44 (0)7768 211174 pinder.photo@gmail.com

    NHS
    Junior doctors: what do you want to see from the next government?

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    Rust film set shooting
    What you need to know about Alec Baldwin’s trial

    Actor is charged with involuntary manslaughter for role in fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins in New Mexico in 2021
  • city at night over river with historical architecture.

    Canada
    Ottawa’s first ‘night mayor’ is on a mission to shed city’s boring reputation

  • Illustration of composite images from Brazil

    The Latin oil rush
    Pristine forests and grinding poverty: why shouldn’t Brazil’s Amapá state embrace oil wealth?

  • Cancer experts have warned that AI’s value and potential in healthcare has been overstated to a dangerous degree.

    TechScape
    Can AI really help fix a healthcare system in crisis?

  • hand wearing silver ring and pink watch holds white fan with words 'Project 2025' and drawing of building in blue

    US politics
    Project 2025: inside Trump’s ties to the rightwing policy playbook

  • Rescuers, volunteers and medical workers amid the the rubble of the Okhmatdyt hospital

    Ukraine
    ‘No words for this’: horror over Russian bombing of Kyiv children’s hospital

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  • A woman holding a frozen drink gasps with open mouth and scrunched eyes to cold water at a cooling station during a period of hot weather on the midway of the Calgary Stampede in Alberta, with the background obscured by mist. A man stands behind her in the queue and in the background is a Now Mini Donut stand with people in Stetsons mingling in front of it

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  • A man sitting on a wall in Tower Hamlets council estate in the 1990s

    Photography
    From protests to dancing in the street: East London’s Bengali community

  • Get On Your Bike, from Snowflake’s Progress.

    Guardian Print Shop
    Buy a Ben Jennings signed print from his exhibition - Snowflake’s Progress

  • ‘Amazing and often drunk’ … Funny Sonny packing with Zipco, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1965

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    Rebel riders: on the road with a 1960s biker gang

  • A blurred picture of people passing through a station with arrows pointing in different directions on the floor.

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