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  • Middle-aged white man in white shirt with Texas emblem on left breast gestures and speaks into microphone with rows of people in casual uniform standing behind him.

    Texas
    Governor pardons man who killed Black Lives Matter protester in 2020

    Greg Abbott on Thursday pardoned Daniel Perry, who has been serving a 25-year sentence since 2023 murder conviction
  • Google maps screengrab of Rouen synagogue where a man was killed by police.

    Live
    French police shoot dead armed man who set fire to synagogue, officials say

In focus

  • Smoke rises during riots in Noumea, New Caledonia, Wednesday 15 May 2024

    ‘This isn’t a fantasy’
    Why is distant Azerbaijan being linked to deadly New Caledonia riots?

  • Satellite image released by Maxar Technologies on 16 May shows what are assessed as being a MiG-31 fighter aircraft and fuel storage facility destroyed by Ukrainian strikes on the Russian-held Belbek airbase near Sevastopol, Crimea

    Ukraine war briefing
    Kharkiv campaign won’t deliver major Russian breakthrough – Nato general

    Ukraine accuses invaders of killing civilians and setting up human shields; sanctions over North Korean arms supply to Russia. What we know on day 814
  • A woman takes photos as traditional Lion dance performers dance

    China
    Social media companies remove posts ‘showing off wealth and worshipping money’

    Targeting posts boasting of personal wealth appears to be part of campaign to ‘purify the internet cultural environment’

Spotlight

  • Film still: Megalopolis directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Adam Driver

    Megalopolis review
    Coppola’s passion project is megabloated and megaboring

    Francis Ford Coppola’s question – can the US empire last forever? – may be valid but flashes of humour cannot rescue this conspiracy thriller from awful acting and dull effects
  • Actor Tom Burke photographed at the Guardian offices, March 2024. First use film & music

    ‘I did a lot of yelling’
    Tom Burke on socks, controversy and Mad Max

  • An illustration of a woman with her hands held to her head in shame

    Well actually
    Can shame make you a better person?

    Confucius and other ancient Chinese philosophers believed the feeling isn’t all bad – and can lead you toward your best self
  • Billy Idol

    Billy Idol
    ‘I stole the master tapes for Rebel Yell – and gave them to my heroin dealer’

    The Generation X punk turned arena rocker answers your questions on near-misses in Hollywood, his overlooked electronic period and how Marc Bolan helped launch his career
    • Judge illo 18th May - WEB

      You be the judge
      Should my mum let me drive her new car after I dented her old one?

    • A worker is seen during clearing work in front of the destroyed building of the country guest house 'Jaegerstuebchen' in Laach, part of the municipality of Mayschoss, district of Ahrweiler, western Germany, on July 23, 2021.

      Environment
      I’ve seen how deadly floods are devastating Europe – we are not prepared for what’s next

    • Slovak town of Levice where the 71-year-old former security guard and amateur poet Juraj Cintula had lived for decades: images for picture desk of neighbour and his apartment bloc --

      ‘He was not radical’
      Slovakia tries to make sense of Fico shooting

    • Slow, Dir: Marija Kavtaradze Press publicity film still supplied by PR

      Slow
      The Lithuanian asexual romcom that raises ‘a lot of questions’

Opinion

  • A mass meeting called by the Communist Party in Union Square, New York.

    I spent years studying American communism. Here’s what I learned

    Maurice Isserman
    I was struck by the mystery of why so many intelligent and admirable people remained so loyal for so long to a fundamentally flawed movement
  • Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico visits Budapest<br>epa11082795 Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico (L) and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban shake hands during a press conference following their meeting in the government headquarters in Budapest, Hungary, 16 January 2024. EPA/Szilard Koszticsak HUNGARY OUT

    Whether Robert Fico survives and resumes office or not, Slovakia stands on the brink

    John Kampfner
  • A man waves the Slovak national flag outside the FD Roosevelt university hospital in Banská Bystrica, where Robert Fico is being treated after being shot on Wednesday.

    The Guardian view
    The shooting of Slovakian PM Robert Fico: an attack on democracy

    Editorial: The assassination attempt has shocked the country, but reflects deep divisions there and across Europe
  • Man wearing white T-shirt sits on bed holding phone

    What’s up with ChatGPT’s new sexy persona?

    Arwa Mahdawi
    OpenAI’s updated chatbot GPT-4o is weirdly flirtatious, coquettish and sounds like Scarlett Johansson in Her. Why?
    • Gaby Hinsliff

      Sex education is now just another political football. For the children’s sake, the adults must grow up

      Gaby Hinsliff
    • Dog owners legs' and a dog sitting beside them and looking off into the distance

      When you stand side by side at the dog park, you can reveal your true selves – but not your names

      Melanie Tait
    • Man wearing blue suit and yellow tie stands between barriers with one person behind him and a crowd of people behind them

      The Trump hush-money trial reveals a seedy world shot through with moral rot

      Robert Reich
    • A mother helping her daughter with her homework

      I’d hate to be learning English again. Apostrophes are a nightmare

      Adrian Chiles

Sports

  • Xander Schauffele plays out of a bunker at Valhalla

    US PGA
    McIlroy in the frame after searing 62 by Schauffele

  • Harrison Butker said women have been told ‘diabolical lies’ about their place in the world

    Don’t tell Butker working women helped him win three Super Bowls

    Melissa Jacobs
    The Chiefs kicker thinks women are best advised to stay at home. He won’t be happy that female employees have become a crucial part of the NFL
    • Members of the Brazilian delegation celebrate after Fifa awarded them the 2027 World Cup.

      Women’s World Cup
      Brazil to host 2027 tournament after seeing off European bid

    • Puerto Rican recording artist Bad Bunny, left, sits courtside during the first half of an NBA playoff game last month in Dallas.

      MLB
      Bad Bunny agency sues baseball players’ union over ‘death penalty’ ban

    • Lionel Messi also has lucrative off-field earnings in addition to his MLS salary

      Inter Miami
      Messi’s $20.4m income exceeds payrolls of all but four MLS teams

    • Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk

      ‘I’ll say a prayer’
      Fury and Usyk eschew trash talk before heavyweight battle

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Climate crisis

  • A Chevron gas station sign

    Chevron
    US energy giant to sell off its remaining North Sea oil and gas fields

  • DeSantis in front of US flag.

    Florida
    Ron DeSantis signs bill scrubbing ‘climate change’ from state laws

  • Older white man, dark blue suit, red tie, looking off from a stage lit in red.

    Big oil uncovered
    Alleged ‘deal’ offer from Trump to big oil could save industry $110bn, study finds

  • Netherlands' party leaders of the new coalition government (from left): Caroline van der Plas (Farmer-Citizen), Pieter Omtzigt (New Social Contract), Dilan Yesilgoz (Freedom and Democracy) and Geert Wilders (Party for Freedom).

    Netherlands
    New Dutch coalition aims to reintroduce 80mph limit in cull of climate goals

Across the country

  • Pay Day Loan Operations Tend to Have More Offices in Urban Areas<br>GAITHERSBURG, MD FEB 12: A customer leaves a payday loan store on Frederick Rd. in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The check cashing and payday loan services industry has thousands of branch offices all over the U.S. There are more payday lenders in the U.S. than McDonald's restaurants. There are various companies that offer payday loans for recurring expenses, unexpected expenses and paycheck cashing. The stores tend to be in urban and/or lower income areas. (Photo by Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

    US supreme court
    Justices side with agency curbing predatory lending despite conservative challenge

    Court upholds funding design of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which was under challenge by payday loan industry
  • man in a hospital bed

    West Virginia
    Candidate in hospital after snake bite as he removed election signs

  • JD Vance crosses arms as Donald Trump chats in foreground.

    Trump hush-money trial
    Republican ‘veepstakes’ heats up as contenders court Trump at court

  • White man wearing blue suit and striped tie stands at podium

    Georgia
    Morehouse College faculty votes to give Biden honorary doctorate in split vote

    • Climate crisis
      Biden proposes end to new leases in US’s largest coal-producing region

    • Missouri
      Tiny fire department using 1980s gear surprised by $500,000 donation

    • Joe Biden
      President asserts executive privilege to block release of special counsel interviews

    • Florida
      Former T-Mobile chief denied bid to dismiss $100m defamation suit from Trump ally

    • ‘Excellent swimmers’
      New York mayor says migrants can fix lifeguard shortage

    • California
      University president on leave after agreeing to campus protesters’ demands

Around the world

  • Vladimir Putin (L) and China's President Xi Jinping shake hands wearing navy suits, ties and white shirts

    Russia
    Putin and Xi announce plans to strengthen military ties in Beijing

  • Museum director from US detained in smuggling operation in Istanbul<br>ISTANBUL, TURKIYE - MAY 13: A view of various scorpion, tarantula and spider species, endemic to Turkiye, in plastic bottles and clip-on bags, found in a smuggling operation organized at Istanbul Airport in Istanbul, Turkiye on May 13, 2024. Lorenzo Prendini, Director of the American National Museum of Natural History, was detained in the operation, allegedly trying to smuggle endemic species of poisonous animals living in Anatolia abroad. (Photo by Bunyamin Çelik/Anadolu via Getty Images)

    US
    Museum curator held in Turkey over spider and scorpion samples is freed

    • Egypt
      Scientists find buried branch of the Nile that may have carried pyramids’ stones

    • Art
      Painting by surrealist painter Leonora Carrington fetches $28m at auction

    • Nigeria
      Activists condemn mass ‘forced marriages’ of 100 girls and young women

    • Lucy Letby
      Inquiry should be livestreamed to public, families of her victims say

    • Space
      Black holes observed colliding when universe was only 740m years old

    • Artificial sentiment?
      Researchers build AI-driven sarcasm detector

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  • Shein shoes at a popup store in New York in 2022. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    ‘Super cute please like’: the unstoppable rise of Shein – podcast

  • Demonstrators hold placards reading ‘It’s time #ContaminatedBlood’ and ‘Recognise all victims #ContaminatedBlood’.

    Today in Focus
    The children of the contaminated blood scandal

  • Manchester United v Newcastle United - Premier League<br>MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - MAY 15: Bruno Fernandes of Manchester United celebrates during the Premier League match between Manchester United and Newcastle United at Old Trafford on May 15, 2024 in Manchester, England.(Photo by Robbie Jay Barratt - AMA/Getty Images)

    Football Weekly
    The Premier League’s fight for Europe and Celtic’s title – Football Weekly Extra

  • Happy couple texting on their smart phones

    Science Weekly
    Apps and algorithms: can dating be boiled down to a science? – podcast

  • Dr Ruth Cerezo-Mota and the planet (By Tamara Uribe, The Guardian)

    Today in Focus
    What keeps the world’s top climate scientists up at night?

  • Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images. Former Donald Trump attorney Michael Cohen departing from his home

    Politics Weekly America
    Donald Trump comes face to face with former fixer Michael Cohen

  • TOPSHOT-FBL-ENG-PR-TOTTENHAM-MAN CITY<br>TOPSHOT - Manchester City's Norwegian striker #09 Erling Haaland celebrates after scoring his team first goal during the English Premier League football match between Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, on May 14, 2024. (Photo by Ben Stansall / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No video emulation. Social media in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No use in betting publications, games or single club/league/player publications. / (Photo by BEN STANSALL/AFP via Getty Images)

    Football Weekly
    Manchester City have one hand on trophy and Villa into the Champions League: Football Weekly - podcast

Culture

  • "Megalopolis" Red Carpet - The 77th Annual Cannes Film Festival<br>CANNES, FRANCE - MAY 16: (L-R) Giancarlo Esposito, Aubrey Plaza, Francis Ford Coppola, Romy Croquet Mars, Adam Driver, Nathalie Emmanuel, Laurence Fishburne, Kathryn Hunter and Talia Shire attend the "Megalopolis" Red Carpet at the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 16, 2024 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Gisela Schober/Getty Images)

    ‘Bafflingly shallow’ or ‘staggeringly ambitious’?
    Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis splits critics

    Coppola’s passion project screens at Cannes film festival to seven-minute standing ovation, but reviews have been polarising
  • Cartoon image of man wearing black glasses whispering to a pink unicorn

    ‘World domination is a big thing for me’
    Sunny Netflix cartoon offers simple pleasures

  • Cartoon still of nine poeple looking forward

    A marvel
    How did X-Men ’97 become one of the year’s best shows?

  • ‘I’ve got to make sure that I can knock on doors and knock down doors’ … Becky Hill.

    ‘World domination is a big thing for me’
    Pop superstar Becky Hill on raving to the top – and her new album’s dark past

  • Welcome to the Inca citadel … Miguel Rodrigo Mazuré’s Hotel in Machu Picchu, Peru, 1969.

    How the world could have looked
    The most spectacular buildings that were never made

  • Oliver Dowden shakes hands with Saudi officials outside a building where a large freestanding lettering saying Great Futures can be seen

    ‘Art-washing’?
    Unease as British cultural institutions lend lustre to Saudi trade push

Lifestyle

  • An antique painting of a bride with her hands covering her face, with family members standing behind her

    Leading questions
    I’m getting married but my father isn’t invited. How can I ensure he doesn’t crash the wedding?

    You can’t cordon off every weird dynamic on the big day, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. But you can be clear you won’t accept trespasses without consequence
  • Philippa and Jack

    How we met
    I cried because the bar didn’t have any pizza and he comforted me

  • shoes

    All aboard!
    Why boat shoes are being worn nowhere near the sea

  • Jay Rayner Happy Eater illustration

    Have you tried eating in a city centre hotel room recently? My advice – don’t

    Jay Rayner
  • Nemo performs during Eurovision

    Thursday quiz
    Military graffiti, surprising songs and finding Nemo

  • Clive and Jayne

    Dining across the divide
    ‘Soon there won’t be any leftwingers in Labour, just Keir Starmer clones’

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    Life and style
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  • Mykhaylo Mudryk and Maksym Talovierov celebrate after the match between Ukraine and Iceland in Wrocław, Poland.

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  • Dozens of students arrested at the occupied Hamilton Hall building of Columbia University in New York<br>NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - APRIL 30: New York Police Department officers detain dozens of pro-Palestinian students at Columbia University after they barricaded themselves at the Hamilton Hall building near Gaza Solidarity Encampment earlier in New York, United States on April 30, 2024. (Photo by Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

    US students
    Share your experience of the pro-Palestinian campus protests

From our global editions

  • A lawn full of tents, with a handmade sign in the foreground that says Divest, and red spray paint on a wall beyond the tents that says All Zionists.

    Washington is pushing policies to combat antisemitism
    Critics say they could violate free speech

  • Andy Evans posing against garden flowers

    ‘My mum had to tell me I had HIV’
    The former blood transfusion poster boy campaigning for infected victims

  • Keir Starmer speaking on a stage: he is seen illuminated against a black background. He is holding one hand out and is wearing a white open-necked shirt with the sleeves rolled up and black trousers. Members of the audience can be seen in the background.

    Analysis
    Starmer’s gear change shows inevitability of Labour election victory

  • Protestesters wave flags as they pass the parliament building in Tbilisi on Tuesday.

    ‘We are very strong’
    Georgia’s gen Z drives protests against return to past

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    Exclusive
    Meta revokes job offer to sextortion expert after he publicly criticizes Instagram

  • Otter with rock anvil feeding on sea animal.

    'Clam dunk'
    Sea otters use tools to open hard-shelled prey, saving their teeth, research reveals

    The behavior, documented in footage from researcher Chris Law, is most seen in females and sheds light on the threatened species
  • Masked Haitian police officers carry rifles on patrol

    ‘The gangs are in charge’
    Haiti’s outgunned police fight a desperate rear defense

    With violent insurrectionists in charge of 80% of the capital, Haiti’s police cling to their mission in the face of deadly odds
  • A weapon on an armoured vehicle with the Russian Volunteer Corps is fired in Vovchansk.

    Analysis
    How Russia has advanced in Kharkiv despite warnings attack was coming

  • A worker clears piles of spilled food parcels scattered across the ground in a lorry park.

    ‘Barbaric’
    Palestinian truck drivers recount settlers’ attack on Gaza aid convoy

  • Smoke rises above the Motor Pool district of Noumea on Wednesday.

    Like a ‘civil war’
    Nouméa residents describe terror as deadly riots sweep New Caledonia capital

  • A child eating a meal at a table but also playing on a smartphone

    Fresh findings about obesity
    No screens at meals and insect food

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  • Women travel in – and three men on – a battered car as the smoke from airstrikes are seen in the distance

    A snapshot of Gaza
    ‘Smoke and chaos’

    One of the first foreign photographers in Gaza, Sean Sutton – who was travelling with an NGO called UK-Med – met Palestinians on the streets of the destroyed city of Khan Younis, in hospitals and in the Israeli-designated ‘humanitarian zone’
  • Green frog with inflated vocal sacs mate in a pond in Rosny Sous Bois near Paris, France.

    The week in wildlife
    Amorous frogs, battling stallions and an overaffectionate jaguar

  • A quinceañera gets help getting ready for her party

    Photos of the day
    Art in a Zürich park and Putin in Beijing

  • ‘Creating space through trickery’ … Aisha Seriki’s Orí Inú, 2024

    Bowled over
    Photo London’s best emerging photographers

  • Nadiya Neschcheryakovy at her post at a railway crossing station in the Kyiv region

    Ukraine
    The families risking everything to keep trains running – photo essay

  • Photographer Diop worked with The Anonymous Project, founded by Lee Shulman, a collection of nearly a million Kodachrome slides taken by amateurs, made from the 1940s onwards.

    Time traveller
    One Senegalese man’s journey to the past

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