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  • Trump's criminal trial on charges of falsifying business records continues in New York.

    Hush-money trial
    Donald Trump trial resumes after graphic testimony by Stormy Daniels

    Relationship between ex-president and adult actor central to case as lawyer Michael Cohen paid $130,000 to quash story about affair
  • Mark Read, CEO of WPP, the largest global advertising and public relations agency.

    Technology
    CEO of world’s biggest ad firm targeted by deepfake scam

  • An undated photo of a younger Lawrence Hecker.

    ‘It wasn’t a big deal’
    Secret deposition reveals how child molester priest was shielded by church

    Lawrence Hecker pleaded the fifth 117 times as he detailed how Catholic church protected him for more than two decades

    • Utah
      Two skiers killed and one rescued after avalanche in mountains

    • Florida
      Family of US airman killed by police dispute sheriff’s narrative

    • Brazil floods
      Horse stranded on roof is rescued as death toll rises to 107 people

    • Brian Wilson
      Judge places Beach Boys’ co-founder in conservatorship

    • Talk to the hand
      Hawaii makes shaka state’s official gesture

In focus

  • Small girl shelters from cold wind in front of Mexican and other flags at US-Mexico border

    Analysis
    Vulnerable Biden tries to straddle both sides with new asylum rules

  • A general view of Tokyo's Ginza area

    Tokuryū
    The shadowy criminal groups taking over from yakuza in Japan

    Organised in a deliberately loose fashion, tokuryū pose fresh problems for police, as years of crackdowns see the appeal of a yakuza life fade
  • Woman in pink suit cross-examines woman with blond hair in courtroom sketch

    Trump trial key takeaways
    Stormy Daniels stays consistent

    Trump attorneys sought to cast doubt on adult star’s account of alleged tryst – but she refused to concede any inconsistencies

Spotlight

  • Environmental scientist Dr Shobha Maharaj stands in front of the coastline in San Fernando, Trinidad, where coastal stabilization works have been done, in an attempt to preserve the coastline.

    ‘I am starting to panic about my child’s future’
    Climate scientists wary of starting families

    A fifth of female climate scientists who responded to Guardian survey said they had opted to have no or fewer children
  • Press shot of Jonny Greenwood, he has his fingers in his ears. Behind him are large pink/purple flowers on a bush.

    Jonny Greenwood
    ‘I’m still arsing around on instruments like when I was a kid’

  • Patrick Labossiere at the subway station where he had his accident

    Experience
    I was hit by a subway train – but have no memory of it

    The conductor saw me on the tracks, trying to get back on the platform. He pulled on the emergency brakes, but it was too late
  • Damian and Liz Hurley at an Oscars party in Beverly Hills, March 2024

    ‘I love erotic thrillers, but this so isn’t one’
    Damian Hurley on directing his mother, Elizabeth, in a ‘sensual mystery’

    At 22, Damian Hurley has made his first feature film, in which his very famous mum is snogged and fondled by her female co-star. He talks about being a nepo baby, finally getting to vote, and coping with the deaths of his father and stepfather
    • gold chain necklace with face of man with diamond beard, long hair and gold crown

      From Biggie to Nicki
      The most spectacular hip-hop jewelry

    • A woman arrives to cast her vote at a polling station

      ‘I want to decide my vote for myself’
      How women are shaping India’s political landscape

    • book cover on top of barbed wire

      America’s unseen book bans
      The long history of censorship in prisons

    • Judge 11th May - WEB

      You be the judge
      Should my girlfriend buy expensive sunglasses when she keeps losing cheap ones?

Opinion

  • two men sitting next to each other in front of israeli flags

    Will Biden finally stop enabling Netanyahu’s extremist government?

    Mohamad Bazzi
    • The new Boxberg solar park, built on a former open-pit coal mine in Nochten, Germany.

      I understand climate scientists’ despair – but stubborn optimism may be our only hope

      Christiana Figueres
    • ‘Daniels has described the sex that followed as a grim affair, performed out of a begrudging sense of obligation.’

      Stormy Daniels’s testimony paints a dark picture of Trump’s view of sex and power

      Moira Donegan
    • Kendrick Lamar performing at Glastonbury in 2022.

      Drake v Kendrick Lamar’s rap beef has turned very ugly – who is benefiting from such a spectacle?

      Nels Abbey
    • Emma Brockes

      Mockery, low tactics, sexist tropes: gloriously, Stormy Daniels is repaying Donald Trump in kind

      Emma Brockes

Sports

  • Cavan Sullivan

    Cavan Sullivan
    14-year-old signs record MLS deal that includes Man City move

    The midfielder is considered one of the best young American players of his generation and is set to join City in pre-arranged transfer when he turns 18
  • Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever looks on during a preseason game against the Dallas Wings on Friday in Arlington, Texas.

    It won’t be easy for Caitlin Clark in the world’s most unmerciful league

    Bryan Armen Graham
  • Birmingham City v Leeds United - Sky Bet Championship - St. Andrew's<br>Birmingham City co-owner Tom Brady (centre), CEO Garry Cook (left) and director Matt Alvarez (right) in the stands before the Sky Bet Championship match at St. Andrew's, Birmingham. Picture date: Saturday August 12, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story SOCCER Birmingham. Photo credit should read: Mike Egerton/PA Wire. RESTRICTIONS: EDITORIAL USE ONLY No use with unauthorised audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or "live" services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images, no video emulation. No use in betting, games or single club/league/player publications.

    Tom Brady’s Blues
    Birmingham’s relegation proves celebrity doesn’t guarantee success

    US stars have flooded English soccer on the backs of the Wrexham phenomenon. But the shimmer of fame cannot overcome ineffective ownership
  • Josip Stanisic scores for Leverkusen

    Leverkusen 2-2 Roma (agg 4-2)
    Stanisic saves unbeaten record as hosts progress to Europa League final

    A goal from Josip Stanisic in the seventh minute of injury time preserved Leverkusen’s flawless run. Join Simon Burnton for live reaction
    • Frank Vogel won the NBA title with the Lakers in 2020

      NBA
      Suns fire Vogel after early playoff exit in coach’s first season

    • Caleb Williams and Rome Odunze will be part of a revamped Chicago Bears offense

      NFL offseason winners
      From Rodgers to the Bears, via Houston

    • Everton fans hold up a protest banner

      Analysis
      Everton staring at administration threat with 777 takeover increasingly unlikely

    • Rafael Nadal drops down to play a shot

      French Open
      Nadal ready to ‘go for everything’ in push to peak

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Climate crisis

  • The Mauna Loa Observatory atmospheric research facility

    Greenhouse gas emissions
    Record-breaking increase in CO2 levels in world’s atmosphere

  • NH Trump<br>Laconia, NH - January 22 : Republican presidential candidate and former president Donald Trump shakes hands with North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and Vivek Ramaswamy, left, at a campaign rally at the The Margate Resort in Laconia, NH on Monday, January 22, 2024. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

    'On the first day'
    Trump vowed to scrap climate laws if oil bosses donated $1bn to 2024 campaign

  • Images taken from the Guardian’s climate coverage over the past decade including floods in Pakistan and forest fires in western USA

    ‘The stakes could not be higher’
    World is on edge of climate abyss, UN warns

  • two people use a canoe

    Vermont
    State poised to become first in US to charge big oil for climate damage

Across the country

  • Migrants with interviews are allowed to enter the United States at the Chaparral pedestrian border on May 16, 2023, in Tijuana, Mexico.

    US-Mexico border
    Biden officials propose denying some migrants earlier in asylum process

    New rule would restrict access sooner for people deemed to pose ‘national security or public safety risk’ in attempt to streamline
  • Collection of cultural objects on lower part of large hydraulic press

    Apple
    Company apologizes for iPad ad criticized as ‘destruction of the human experience’

  • Middle-aged white man with combover hair in dark suit.

    Hunter Biden
    President's son loses bid to dismiss gun charges, clearing way for June trial

  • Corey Briskin (left) and Nicholas Maggipinto.

    New York
    Gay couple sues city leaders over denial of IVF benefits in landmark case

  • Robert F Kennedy Jr in Brooklyn, New York, on 1 May.

    'A six-worm handicap'
    RFK Jr says he’ll eat brain worms and ‘still beat’ Biden and Trump in debate

    • Neuralink
      Elon Musk-owned company’s first implant partly detached from patient’s brain

    • Declassifying US intelligence
      Trend poses serious risks, ex-CIA officials say

    • ‘Madman in a circular room screaming’
      Ex-aide’s verdict on Trump in book

Around the world

  • Air Vanuatu, Boeing 737-800, landing at Bauerfield International Airport, Port Vila

    Air Vanuatu
    Flights cancelled and tourists stranded as airline put into voluntary liquidation

  • Eden Golan performing on stage.

    Eurovision 2024
    Israel qualifies for contest final despite protests

    • Weather tracker
      Global average temperature highest ever for April

    • India
      India says Canada has offered no evidence it was involved in death of Sikh separatist

    • UK news
      UK has moved out of recession, official figures show

    • Ukraine war briefing
      Zelenskiy fires top bodyguard after failed assassination attempt

    • Business
      Anglo American’s South African investors open to revised BHP offer

    • Scotland
      Man linked to viral dress pleads guilty to endangering wife’s life

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Podcasts

  • A march to protest against mining in El Salvador in 2017. Photograph: José Cabezas/Reuters

    The Audio Long Read
    The true cost of El Salvador’s new gold rush – podcast

  • Natalie Elphicke and Keir Starmer sitting on armchairs talking one another (Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire)

    Today in Focus
    Rishi Sunak staggers on – but for how long?

  • Champions League - Semi Final - Second Leg - Real Madrid v Bayern Munich<br>Soccer Football - Champions League - Semi Final - Second Leg - Real Madrid v Bayern Munich - Santiago Bernabeu, Madrid, Spain - May 8, 2024 Real Madrid's Jude Bellingham and Eduardo Camavinga celebrate after the match REUTERS/Juan Medina TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

    Football Weekly
    Real Madrid do it again in Champions League – Football Weekly Extra

  • G2: how to harness protein power

    Science Weekly
    How much protein is too much? – podcast

  • People flee the eastern parts of Rafah in Gaza. Photo by Aaed Baker/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock

    Today in Focus
    Escaping Rafah: on the ground in Gaza’s last refuge

  • Borussia Dortmund is in the final of the Champions League, Parc de Prince, Paris, North Rhine-Westphalia, France - 07 May 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Action Press/REX/Shutterstock (14468424le) Nico Schlotterbeck #4 (Borussia Dortmund), Paris Saint-Germain vs. Borussia Dortmund, Football, Champions League, semi-finals Borussia Dortmund is in the final of the Champions League, Parc de Prince, Paris, North Rhine-Westphalia, France - 07 May 2024

    Football Weekly
    Dortmund delight as PSG’s Champions League woes return – Football Weekly

  • Donald Trump in court

    Donald Trump
    Stormy Daniels takes the stand in Trump trial

Culture

  • MC5 at the Cinch Levis store in London. MC5 are Wayne Kramer (brown jacket), Dennis Thompson (black vesst), Michael Davis (black jacket).

    Dennis Thompson
    Drummer in rock band MC5, dies aged 75

    Thompson was the last surviving member of the group after the death of guitarist Wayne Kramer in February
  • A rally in Berlin on 28 April protesting against the death sentence given to Toomaj Salehi.

    Toomaj Salehi
    Coldplay and Sting call for release of Iranian rapper sentenced to death

  • Taylor Swift on stage dressed in a red bodysuit holding up a microphone

    Taylor Swift
    Pop star debuts new tracks as she returns to The Eras Tour

  • Leïla Slimani.

    Leïla Slimani
    ‘Salman Rushdie’s books made me feel I could become a writer’

  • Black-and-white photo of two people, one looking to the right and one looking forward

    Artist and activist LaToya Ruby Frazier
    ‘I come from community that’s been forgotten’

  • Ian MchShane in 2019.

    Ian McShane
    When I was about to get it on with Richard Burton, he said I reminded him of Elizabeth

Lifestyle

  • G2 - The experts: Therapists on body confidence (inside) WEB

    Ditch the mirror and celebrate your strengths
    Therapists on 20 ways to boost your body confidence

    Do you want to love how you look but always compare yourself with others? There are plenty of ways to overcome this, from life drawing to CBT to social media detoxes
  • Dorie Greenspan's smoked salmon dutch baby.

    Dutch baby and ricotta crostata
    Dorie Greenspan’s New York-style brunch recipes

  • A model with curly hair wears an ecru hoodie with wide leg jeans.

    Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion
    Wide jeans and a hoodie is a super-simple formula that works

  • Sculpted Dress composite

    Dada meets dresses
    Why clothes that look like sculptures are all the rage

  • Black-and-white image of two white children, perhaps from the 50s or made to look like it's from the 50s, with the little boy blowing up a balloon over the head of the little girl, who is grimacing with her eyes closed and sticking her fingers in her ears.

    'The least studied of all human emotions'
    What makes people annoying?

  • Sam Pyrah

    A moment that changed me
    I thought fitness was my superpower. Then I realised it was a ball and chain

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Take part

  • People queue outside the Hermes store in Mayfair in London, Monday, April 12, 2021.

    Tell us
    Are you splurging on luxury goods you can ill afford?

  • 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

  • UKRAINE-RUSSIA-WAR-CONFLICT<br>Gunners from 43rd Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine prepare to fire at Russian position with a 155 mm self-propelled howitzer 2C22 "Bohdana", in the Kharkiv region, on April 21, 2024, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine. (Photo by Anatolii STEPANOV / AFP) (Photo by ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP via Getty Images)

    Ukrainian men abroad
    Share your views on Poland and Lithuania’s statements on conscription

  • A young businessman riding skateboard in the city of Barcelona, Spain.

    Tell us
    How do you make your commute fun or productive?

From our global editions

  • Israeli troops with military vehicles gathering in southern Israel near the Gaza border, 9 May 2024

    Analysis
    Does Israel need more US arms for a Rafah offensive?

  • Home is in every bed space with you by Coyote Park, which appears in Queer Art: From Canvas to Club and the Spaces Between.

    ‘I did not know the life I have now was a possibility’
    Gemma Rolls-Bentley on her history of queer art

  • ‘The audience really give you the power and the energy and you give it back’ … alyona alyona and Jerry Heil perform at the first semi-final of the Eurovision song contest in Malmö.

    ‘Our children’s schools were bombed’
    The Eurovision stars fighting to rebuild Ukraine

  • Liao Yiwu in Paris in 2019.

    Two poems, four years in detention
    The Chinese dissident who smuggled his writing out of prison

In case you missed it

  • man on a stage in front of side by side pictures of a man and a woman

    Seth Meyers on Stormy Daniels testimony
    ‘How are they going to teach this era of history in high school?’

  • Lola Alexander and Ursula Finke 1946

    Holocaust
    Descendants of survivors celebrate hidden ‘queer love story’

    Lola Alexander and Ursula Finke both narrowly escaped deportation to Auschwitz – and after the war were inseparable
  • Signs and flags are seen on the property of William Denby, Ontario, Canada on April 25, 2024. (Cole Burston)

    Canada
    Is a previously unheard-of First Nation just the latest Pretendian case?

    Local chiefs claim Kawartha Lakes First Nation is part of a wave of cases in which people falsely claim Indigenous identity
  • White man wearing blue suit and orange tie opens his mouth

    Analysis
    Trump’s strategy to delay cases before the election is working

  • Out-of-focus blue 'Keep abortion legal' sign with a person holds a sign in the back

    ‘This is not a ploy’
    Abortion rights activists worry about Democrats piggybacking on the cause

  • Steve Albini at his recording studio in Chicago.

    From Big Black’s noise to Joanna Newsom’s hush
    10 of Steve Albini’s greatest recordings

  • A person holds a sign that reads 'GOP guns over people'

    Tennessee’s new, extreme laws
    From arming teachers to corporate tax breaks

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  • A shrimp startles a Mediterranean moray in the Marmara Sea in Turkey

    The week in wildlife
    An eel gets a shock, bees take Manhattan and a possum on the pitch

    The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
  • Russian service members march in columns past an honour guard during a military parade

    Photos of the day
    Parades, protests and pink clownfish

  • A line of female military cadets. Nearest the camera, one applies red lipstick to the cadet next to her

    Russia
    Vladimir Putin celebrated Victory Day

  • Two women, one carrying a child, wade through water with their belongings

    In pictures
    Pulitzer prize winner for feature photography 2024

  • A black-and-white photo of a child standing beside a washing machine in a laundrette, with a baby in a pram just outside the window

    The last gasp
    Hull life during the fishing industry’s death

  • A composite image of a flag on the moon, a woman using a payphone and a blurred photo of a car driving under a crimson sky

    Photography
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