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  • Midwife measuring foetal heart sounds on a pregnant woman's stomach using an audio dopplex

    Maternity care
    Women having ‘harrowing’ births as hospitals hide failures, says MPs’ report

  • People in New York make the peace sign with their hands as they look at the portal, where a crowd of people are gathered at night in Dublin

    Smiles, waves – and flashed body parts
    Video portal links Dublin and New York

    • Homelessness
      Braverman plan to criminalise rough sleeping dropped after Tory criticism

    • Cancer
      Health expert Tim Spector criticised for remarks on year-round use of sunscreen

    • Gaza
      Parents of over 900 Israeli soldiers urge IDF to call off ‘death trap’ Rafah attack

    • Civil service
      Esther McVey planning crackdown on diversity initiatives

    • Ukraine
      Russians having ‘tactical success’ in advance on Kharkiv, Kyiv says

    • Maria Caulfield
      Minister faces calls to refer herself to ethics adviser over false ‘15-minute city’ claims

News in focus

  • Crystal Owen is seen in her living room; she has green eyes and straight, mid-length light brown and blond hair, and is wearing a khaki-green shirt with large pockets; she sits on a soft grey sofa with green and mustard-coloured cushions, with a window behind her. She is looking straight at the camera with a serious expression.

    ‘He couldn’t see the risks himself’
    Mother of teenager killed in Wales crash calls for graduated driving licence law

  • Michael Cohen departs home to testify in Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump's criminal trial in New York<br>Michael Cohen, former lawyer for Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump departs his home in Manhattan to testify in Trump's criminal trial over charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, in New York City, U.S., May 13, 2024. REUTERS/Mike Segar

    Michael Cohen
    Trump’s former fixer turned star witness

    Cohen was Trump’s trusted adviser but the relationship soured after Trump won in 2016 and didn’t offer Cohen a role
  • Protesters wave Georgian and EU flags outside the Georgian parliament

    ‘The whole country will strike’
    Protesters vow to keep fighting Georgia’s ‘foreign agents’ bill

    As draft law described by the US as ‘Kremlin-inspired’ nears its final vote, opposition and youth groups say they will keep defending civil liberties

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    ‘I often say the journey time is longer’
    How to make sex after 50 work for you

    Many people’s sex lives can dip in middle age – and tiredness is a real passion killer. But there are simple things that can make a difference
  • Soft-serve chocolate ice-cream cone.

    Butt seriously
    Why you might be pooing wrong – and what to do about it

  • Franklyn Addo

    Why are some critics vexed by Top Boy’s Baftas? Because it’s the Britain they don’t want to talk about

    Franklyn Addo
  • Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse at the Brit Awards 2008.

    ‘I don’t think it’s going to do well’
    The Zutons on Valerie – and Mark Ronson on covering it with Amy Winehouse

    ‘It’s about a makeup artist I met in Florida called Valerie Star, who had legal bills. When I played it to the band, they all went, “Oh, that’s good.” And I thought, “It is, isn’t it”’
    • ‘He showed me the studio could be approached like a guitar or any other instrument’ … Albini at Electrical Audio.

      ‘He’d offset the intensity by setting his feet on fire’
      PJ Harvey, Mogwai and more on Steve Albini

    • a young couple look at properties for sale in an estate agent window

      Money
      Are 25-year UK mortgages a thing of the past?

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      ‘It was a horrific night’
      30 years on from the on-set death of Brandon Lee

    • On a quest for vengeance … Melinoë in Hades II.

      Games
      Hades II’s audacious, invigorating spin on Greek myth makes it worth playing right now

Opinion

  • Resting mum with newborn baby

    The birth trauma scandal is not about one bad apple, one bad culture or one bad area – it’s about the mess of austerity

    Zoe Williams
    When I gave birth in the 00s, things were not perfect by any stretch, but unlike now, they were not broken absolutely everywhere, writes Zoe Williams
  • Rishi Sunak delivering a speech on national security

    Britain’s ‘most dangerous’ years lie ahead, warns Sunak. It’s cheap politics from a floundering PM

    Simon Jenkins
  • Deaf people gather outside the Palace of Westminster - during a second reading of a bill to declare British Sign Language (BSL) an official language of the United Kingdom, 26 January 2022.

    A ‘miracle cure’ for deafness? For people like me, here’s why that isn’t our dream

    Oliver-James Campbell
    It’s right to celebrate a groundbreaking medical trial. But what many of us really want is more support for people with hearing loss, says journalist and social media manager Oliver-James Campbell
  • A large crowd of people marching and waving Israeli flags and placards, one of which reads: "Every day I'm losing my mind."

    Israeli public opinion is shifting on the Gaza war – but this may make Netanyahu even more reckless

    Meron Rapoport
    Families of the hostages are leading calls for a ceasefire. Let us hope the roar of guns in Rafah isn’t used to drown them out, says Israeli journalist Meron Rapoport
    • Two artists, one woman, one man, paint images of children and a bomb falling from the sky on a white wall, as two young children watch them work.

      Cries of defiance are all Palestinians and their supporters have left to keep hope alive

      Nesrine Malik
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      My hunt for a missing TV episode – and what it shows about being Black in Britain

      Jason Okundaye
    • Emma Beddington

      I’m on the slippery slope to living like Stig of the Dump. Can a £12 towel rail turn things around?

      Emma Beddington
    • A young woman waving a large Palestinian flag.

      US students, once again, have led the way. Now we must all stand up for Palestinians

      Osita Nwanevu

Editorials & Letters

  • Daniel Khalife

    The Guardian view
    Dangerous prisons: Wandsworth’s failure is one of many

  • Giorgia Meloni

    The Guardian view
    Giorgia Meloni’s Italy: the politics of ‘illiberal democracy’

  • Protesters listen to speeches in front of the pro-Palestinian campsite at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London on 11 May 2024.

    Letters
    Justice, not hatred, drives student protests on Gaza

  • Birmingham Phoenix v London Spirit - The Hundred - Men's Match - Edgbaston<br>General view as Birmingham Phoenix’s Liam Livingstone fields during The Hundred match at Edgbaston, Birmingham. Picture date: Thursday August 24, 2023.

    Letters
    Profit trumps all in plans for the Hundred

Sport

Climate crisis

  • A pump jack on the landscape with mountains in the distance behind

    Climate crisis
    Banks have given almost $7tn to fossil fuel firms since Paris deal, report reveals

  • A graphic showing temperature figures – 2C, 3C, 4C – on a background of a red-tinted surface of mudcracks in the Coto Donana, Andalucia, Spain

    Brutal heatwaves and submerged cities
    What a 3C world would look like

  • A man paddling a kayak through flood waters in Brisbane, Australia in 2022.

    The climate crisis is no laughing matter, no matter what those on Radio 4’s Today programme think

    Bill McGuire
  • 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

From the UK

  • Rishi Sunak delivers his speech at the Policy Exchange, London, 13 May 2024: he is seen from the side standing at a wooden lectern with one hand raised, addressing a seated audience in a small room with a dark grey carpet and white walls. He is wearing a black suit, white shirt and blue tie; the audience members seen in this picture are mostly men and also wearing suits and ties, though the head of a woman can be seen in the background.

    ‘Who do you trust to keep you safe?’
    Sunak to fight next election on UK’s security

    Prime minister says in speech he will frame Tories as party of the future, while Labour has negative agenda
  • An older white woman wearing glasses and a purple jacket stands by a window that reflects her image

    Drug-resistant superbugs
    Rise could make Covid pandemic look ‘minor’, expert warns

  • Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend on stage

    Royal Albert Hall
    Members accused of cashing in on seats for cancer charity gigs

  • George Davis.

    ‘George Davis is innocent OK’
    Londoner recalls campaign to free him in new TV series

    • Hong Kong
      Three men accused of aiding foreign intelligence service appear in London court

    • Chris Bryant
      Labour MP being treated after skin cancer detected in his lung

    • Emma Lovell
      Australian teenager sentenced to 14 years for ‘atrocious’ murder of British woman

    • Reform UK
      Party reliant on leader Richard Tice for 80% of funding since 2021

    • Bank of England
      Jacob Rees-Mogg accuses Bank of ‘miserable incompetence’ over inflation

    • Nadhim Zahawi
      Former chancellor named chair of Very Group after quitting as MP

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  • John McEntee

    Johnny McEntee
    Outrage after ex-Trump aide claims he gave unhoused people fake money

  • British Eurovision fans arrive at the venue for the grand final in Malmo, Sweden, 11 May 2024: two men laughing and wearing union jack-patterned sunglasses and hats, and one with a blue EU flag around his neck as well; the other man is holding this out to display the yellow stars. They are standing in the square in front of the concert hall.

    Eurovision
    EU flag ban was ‘mind-blowing’, says European Commission

    • Angela Merkel
      Memoirs to be published in November

    • GameStop
      Shares double as ‘Roaring Kitty’ returns to social media

    • Ireland
      Poetry publisher toasts new home in pub after crowdfunding campaign

    • Catalonia
      Parties face coalition talks after socialists fall short of majority

    • Canada
      Thousands evacuated as intense wildfire approaches town

    • Illegal wildlife trade
      Global wildlife crime causing ‘untold harm’, UN report finds

Culture

  • Subtle but perforating … Magdalene Odundo’s works displayed in the stone hall of Houghton Hall.

    Art
    Magdalene Odundo review – quietly devastating defiance in an English stately home

    Ceramics by Odundo at this Palladian mansion sit seamlessly yet purposefully alongside existing pieces, symbols of remembrance and the venue’s legacy of slavery
  • The Coffee Table.

    The Coffee Table review
    Horror comedy takes its cue from gaudy furniture item

  • Sarah Lancashire as Catherine Cawood in Happy Valley.

    ‘Unanimous victory seemed certain’
    The biggest mistakes from the 2024 TV Baftas

  • Kathleen Hanna.

    Riot grrrl pioneer Kathleen Hanna
    ‘A lot of men really get off on watching a woman get angry’

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    The big idea
    What does progress look like on a planet at its limit?

  • Ruff justice … Kodi the fawn-maned griffon cross in Dog on Trial.

    Why has Cannes gone canine crazy?
    A dog in the dock and another doing red carpet interviews

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Lifestyle

  • Lilttle Simz for Gucci

    ‘Where people are sharing energies’
    Why Sabato de Sarno is bringing Gucci’s latest show to London

    From luggage to Princess Diana, the capital is central to this inherently Italian house’s history. And with an upcoming show at the Tate Modern, that connection is set to continue
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    Fast fashion
    It is wasteful, and thrifting is flawed. The solution: swap!

  • ‘I can action that for you going forward, my little summer squash.’

    Pass notes
    Spice up your spreadsheets! Should you run your relationship like a business?

  • Melissa Noble with brother Shawn, pictured 2023 at brother Michael's wedding

    ‘Same large forehead. Similar nose. Dad’s bulging calves’
    The day I met my long-lost brother

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    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? Gems from the vault of the National Puzzlers’ League

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    Air fryer recipe
    Honey & Co’s sesame and pine nut air fryer granola

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  • The number of women dying during pregnancy or soon after childbirth has reached its highest level in almost 20 years, according to data from a major UK study, conducted by MBRRACE-UK. Experts said the figures raise "further concern" about maternity services and called for matters such as pre-pregnancy health and personalised care to be "prioritised as a matter of urgency".

    Childbirth
    Women in the UK: share your experience of maternity care, birth trauma, and postnatal care

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

    Luxury goods sector
    Are you splurging on luxury goods you can ill afford?

  • Free Palestine<br>Over 50 students began an occupation of the Parkinson Building of Leeds University on Friday 08.03.2024 in protest of the conflict in Gaza. What was planned as a 24 hour occupation has changed into a indefination occupation after the University decided to lock the doors of the building restricting access to and from the main building. The students have built an encampment within the building and are living off water and food smuggled onto the site. Rally for Palestine by Leeds Students and University Staff. Leeds.

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    Explained
    What is antimicrobial resistance and how big a problem is it?

  • Wiwa women, in their traditional white dress, spin the yarn to weave handbags

    ‘We saw our family members cut into pieces’
    How Colombia’s Wiwa people have been forced from their mountain – again

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    Is it right to force someone into rehab?
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  • Six white men and women stand in a line in front of a row of American flags, with everyone dressed in black and dark blue except Melania, who wears a lime green dress.

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