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    double quotation markSánchez is loved everywhere – except Spain. Here's why

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  • ‘I have a lot of rage'
    Bob Odenkirk on Saul, satire and his heart attack

    Portrait of Bob Odenkirk looking thoughtful

  • Anxious about the future
    How do I take care of myself without living in a bubble?

    Painting of a woman sitting on the edge of a creek in an orange top and skirt, bathing her legs and feet.

  • The Elders
    The former world leaders practising to save the world

    Six people including Denis Mukwege and Ellen Sirleaf in hard hats stand in a warehouse with blue racking

  • ‘Per my last email’
    How email incivility can affect us at work

    Envelope with flames coming out of it

  • Ireland
    Gangland figure brings extremist views to mainstream

    Gerry Hutch on the campaign trail in the Dublin Central constituency.

News

  • Pierre Guillon de Princé, an elderly white man, stands with Dieudonné Boutrin, a middle-aged black man with grey hair, at an event to unveil a memorial. They both wear dark blue suits and open-necked pale blue shirts and hold hands to each other's backs and touch hands in front.

    Cotton Capital
    Macron says France must address issue of reparations for its role in slave trade

    French president’s use of term comes as demand grows for formal discussion on addressing legacies of enslavement
  • Péter Magyar speaks into media microphones

    Péter Magyar
    Hungary to limit PMs to eight years in office, warding off any Orbán comeback

    Péter Magyar’s draft amendment would prevent his predecessor from returning to the role
  • Man in suit grimaces.

    US
    House Republicans cancel vote on war powers resolution to end US war in Iran

  • La Coruna province, Galicia

    Spain
    Girl, two, dies after being left in car as extreme heat sweeps Spain

  • A dermatologist uses a dermatoscope to examine a patient's skin closely

    Skin cancer
    Melanoma skin cancer cases in UK hit record level, analysis finds

  • Lupita Nyong'o smiling

    Film
    Lupita Nyong’o responds to rightwing criticism of The Odyssey: ‘Our cast is representative of the world’

In focus

  • Today in Focus: The Latest
    Far-right Israeli minister condemned for taunting detained Gaza activists

    Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has triggered global outrage after sharing footage of himself taunting bound activists who had been detained as they tried to sail to Gaza with aid. Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian’s chief Middle East correspondent, Emma Graham-Harrison
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  • Aerial view of US base Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek, South Korea

    US foreign policy
    South Korea hosts America’s biggest overseas military base – but what does its future look like under Trump?

  • An AI-generated illustration shows a person in a suit with the head and antennae of a cockroach speaking from a podium. Behind the figure is the logo of the party, with a cockroach in an orange and green circle and the slogan: Together, Resilient, Unstoppable. Another sign in the image reads: Voice, Unity, Survival, Progress.

    India
    Parody Cockroach Janta political party’s rise reflects youth anger in India

Features

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    Well Actually
    ‘Per my last email’: how email incivility can affect us at work

  • Portrait of Bob Odenkirk looking thoughtful

    Reader interview
    ‘I have a lot of rage inside me’: Bob Odenkirk on Saul, satire and his heart attack

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  • The Black Ball.

    Cannes film festival
    The Black Ball review – the complicated secrets of gay sexuality in Spain are brilliantly told

  • Christian Angermayer

    Interview
    ‘We’re the good ones. I really believe that’: meet the German billionaire behind the Enhanced Games

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    Ranked
    Big science and uncanny prescience: Laurie Anderson’s greatest songs – ranked!

  • Painting of a woman sitting on the edge of a creek in an orange top and skirt, bathing her legs and feet.

    Leading questions
    I’m 21 and anxious about the future. How do I take care of myself without living in a bubble?

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    The grid unlocked: how does a greener power network actually work?

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    From Amazon to Meta: how the world’s biggest companies are securing supplies of low-carbon energy

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    The net benefits of net zero: why there’s more to renewables than tackling the climate crisis

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  • Nishimura, naked, sits on a bed showing her arms and legs covered in colourful tattoos.

    ‘The devil’s child’: the rise and fall of the only female yakuza

    The long read: Mako Nishimura fought her way into the Japanese underworld, but drug addiction and the slow demise of organised crime gangs almost destroyed her
  • María Ramírez

    double quotation markPedro Sánchez is loved everywhere – but not so much in Spain. Here’s why

    María Ramírez
    The PM’s socialist party was crushed in its former Andalusian stronghold. With a general election in 2027, time to turn things around is running out
  • A soldier and a health worker at a lab that tests suspected Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

    double quotation markEbola and hantavirus outbreaks warn us we must be better prepared if we are to prevent the next pandemic

    Helen Clark
    Surveillance that misses a haemorrhagic fever or fails to consider endemic risks at a departure port will be blind to something far more dangerous

More opinion

  • Daniela Gabor

    double quotation markBritain’s politicians need to worry less about the bond markets – and more about the Bank of England

    Daniela Gabor
  • Moira Donegan

    double quotation markTrump has created a slush fund of taxpayer money to give to his friends

    Moira Donegan

  • double quotation markFeeling the dance of age, I join a pottery class. It isn’t until I let go of expectations that I truly begin to learn how to create

    Nova Weetman
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    double quotation markCanadian prime minister Mark Carney is not the climate guy you thought

    Seth Klein

  • The Guardian view
    Grenfell prosecutions: court dates cannot come soon enough

  • The Guardian view
    Mountbatten-Windsor papers: they expose the collapse of Britain’s ‘good chap’ state

  • Jason White on the UK's prime ministerial merry-go-round

    Jason White
    UK’s prime ministerial merry-go-round

    Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting are slowly moving towards challenging Keir Starmer for the chance to govern Britain

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    Neuer declared as No 1 at World Cup after international retirement U-turn

  • Liverpool’s Andrew Robertson points whilst posing for a portrait.

    Big interview
    Andy Robertson: ‘It was easy to fall in love with Liverpool – I’m fortunate Liverpool fell in love with me’

  • Emma Raducanu on court at the Dubai Tennis Championships

    Tennis
    French Open draw: Djokovic avoids Sinner half but Raducanu faces early Sierra test

  • Aston Villa Europa League Winners ParadeAston Villa fans ahead of the Europa League winners parade in Birmingham. Aston Villa ended their 30-year wait for a trophy as they strolled to an emphatic 3-0 victory over Freiburg in the Europa League final in Istanbul last night. Picture date: Thursday May 21, 2026. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Jacob King/PA Wire. RESTRICTIONS: Use subject to restrictions. Editorial use only, no commercial use without prior consent from rights holder.

    Football Daily
    Villa face their toughest test … recovering from their parade in time to face City

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  • Özgür Özel gestures to party members during a speech in Ankara on 6 April 2025.

    Turkey
    Turkish court ruling removes head of main opposition party

    Ruling annuls 2023 CHP leadership contest and deposes Özgür Özel, the face of opposition to Erdoğan
  • Mick Jagger laughs widely, wearing a black jacket with red decorative elements

    Italy
    Italian police stop party attended by Mick Jagger over music ban

  • Malak Tantesh and her father, Amjed Tantesh, in the ruins of their home in Beit Lahia

    Media
    Guardian journalists win across categories at Press Awards in London

  • Before and after composite of a dam removal

    Environment
    Record number of dams dismantled in Europe in effort to help wildlife thrive

  • Mozambique spitting cobra ejects venom into the air while being coiled on the ground

    Snakes
    Risk of snakebites increasing as reptiles adapt to changing world, says study

  • a grey and white cat on a vet's inspection table

    Pets
    Toxic chemicals in pet flea treatments harming wildlife, UK study warns

  • Susana Muhamad gestures with her hand while speaking at a microphone

    Colombia
    Colombia’s climate crossroads: Trumpism casts shadow over presidential battle

  • UK politics
    UK chancellor tells foul-mouthed Reform UK heckler good manners matter

  • Social care
    More than 100 young care leavers in England died in past year, data shows

  • UK news
    Sadiq Khan sparks row with Met after blocking £50m AI deal with Palantir

  • Lyme disease
    Lyme disease cases in England rise by more than 20% in a year

  • Ivor Novello awards
    Scottish singer-songwriter Jacob Alon wins big at Ivor Novello awards

  • Meta
    Meta settles major social media addiction lawsuit with school district

  • AI
    Spotify and Universal Music agree deal to let subscribers create AI remixes

  • Washington DC
    Designs for 250ft arch in Washington approved by panel of Trump appointees

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    Opera
    ‘Really entertaining in a horrible way’: the indestructible appeal of Tosca

  • A skateboarder mid-trick above a paved area, with a red car and weathered buildings in the background

    Photography
    ‘It was much grittier than the US scene’: UK skateboarding in the 80s and 90s – in pictures

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  • A shirtless man leans against a bathtub edge while a hand wearing a ring touches his back

    Drama
    The Man I Love review – Rami Malek needs a lighter touch in Ira Sachs’ 80s Aids drama

  • Sandrine Blancke and Swann Arlaud in Notre Salut

    Review
    Notre Salut review – a novelistic telling of day-to-day life in Nazi-occupied France

  • Oli (Jay Lycurgo), Patrick (Anthony Boyle), and Shiv (Lola Petticrew) in I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning.

    Clio Barnard
    I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning review – sweet, sad portrait of gen Z discontent and disillusion

  • Film still: Sheep in the Box, written, edited and directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda

    Hirokazu Kore-eda
    Sheep in the Box review – a bland, baffling tale of AI children

What to watch

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    Horror films
    Passenger review – generic jumpscare horror offers bumpy journey to nowhere

  • A dark hen with a red comb perches on a white railing with ocean in the background

    Film
    Hen review – plucky chicken beats the odds in weirdly uplifting survival story

  • A man in a green shirt wearing sunglasses with a cabin in the background

    TV review
    The Boroughs review – this witty, star-packed monster show could have been made by Spielberg

  • Angourie Rice stars as Emily and Spike Fearn as Owen in director Alicia MacDonald’s FINDING EMILY, a Focus Features release. Credit: Courtesy of Focus Features / © 2026 FOCUS FEATURES LLC

    Romcom
    Finding Emily review – warm-hearted gen Z campus romcom is impossible to hate

What to listen to

  • The musician Kurt Vile sitting at a table in a bar

    Music
    Kurt Vile: Philadelphia’s Been Good to Me review – indie rock’s most easygoing dude gets existential

  • Fabio Luisi in glasses and a black shirt stands with arms crossed in profile, viewed through curved sculptural forms

    Classical music
    Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen album review – Luisi has a keen sense of the operatic architecture

  • Rozie Kelly - KingfisherRozie Kelly credit Harvey Williams-Fairley

    Audiobooks
    Kingfisher by Rozie Kelly audiobook review – smart reflections on love, desire and power

  • A dark tower rises through mist above Battersea Bridge with a small figure, with lights glimmering across water

    double quotation markFantastic visions and cosmic rhythms: how Whistler is making me see – and hear – differently

    Tom Service

What to read

  • Marcia Hutchinson

    Fiction
    The Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson review – indie debut on the Women’s prize shortlist

  • Stephen Sondheim - American Composer And LyricistStephen Sondheim, American composer and lyricist, 30th November 2000. (Photo by Eamonn McCabe/Popperfoto via Getty Images)

    Biography
    Stephen Sondheim by Daniel Okrent review – a superb biography of the musical master

  • A woman stands looking at a painting in a gallery

    Books
    Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt review – is culture the best medicine?

  • A young heterosexual couple having a heated argument sitting on bar stools by the bar in a nightclub.

    Fiction
    I Want You to Be Happy by Jem Calder review – romance for the terminally online

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  • Race cars in a rural area driving fast in Forza Horizon 6

    Pushing Buttons
    Driving sims were once all the rage – will Forza Horizon 6 get them back on track?

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  • Forza Horizon 6.'s animated racing cars compete on a track with spectators, a Horizon Festival banner, and a snow-capped mountain backdrop

    Games
    Forza Horizon 6 review – classic open world racing sim roars beautifully into Japan

  • Forza Horizon 6 screenshot

    Games
    How Forza Horizon took on Japan with deep research – and 360-degree cameras

  • A still from the video game Star Fox. Its four anthropomorphic heroes (from left to right: a falcon, a toad, a hare and a fox) walk towards the camera, off a runway and into the large opening of a space craft, wearing white space jackets. There are mountains in the distance.

    Nintendo
    Star Fox 64, a game I loved in my childhood, is returning – but I have mixed feelings

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    Art
    Wiggy stardust! The mind-blowing hair artist who astonished Rihanna and Cate Blanchett

  • Mick Jagger in New York earlier this month.

    Film
    Mick Jagger to play Josh O’Connor’s father in new film from Alice Rohrwacher

  • Liz Lawrence sat on a pedestal

    Music
    ‘People say there are no words, but there are thousands’: Liz Lawrence on making a new kind of grief album after her sister’s death

  • London, UK. 20th May, 2026. Air Package on a Ceiling, a vast, internally illuminated and suspended form - Gagosian exhibition of works by Christo. Conceived in 1968 for the ICA, Philadelphia, the installation remained unrealized due to technical constraints. Installed here for the first time in collaboration with the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation. Credit: Guy Bell/Alamy Live NewsAlamy Live News. 3EGJP91 London, UK. 20th May, 2026. Air Package on a Ceiling, a vast, internally illuminated and suspended form - Gagosian exhibition of works by Christo. Conceived in 1968 for the ICA, Philadelphia, the installation remained unrealized due to technical constraints. Installed here for the first time in collaboration with the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation. Credit: Guy Bell/Alamy Live News This is an Alamy Live News image and may not be part of your current Alamy deal . If you are unsure, please contact our sales team to check.

    Art and design
    Christo: Air review – surprisingly profound manifestation of the wrapper’s impossible dream

  • Illustration of two people mopping a wooden floor and a bucket of water

    You be the judge
    Should my husband stop telling me how to mop the floor?

  • A smiling man in glasses holds a small bowl, with a floating image of a larger food bowl beside him

    The experts
    How often should you go to the toilet? How can you get the better of wind? Experts’ tips for a healthier gut

  • plates of momos with chopsticks and sesame sprinkled on a green table

    Feast
    From momos to punchy chai, these festival favourites are great at home

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    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for ricotta and breadcrumb balls in tomato, chilli and basil sauce

  • Four triangular golden-brown samosas sit in a black pan, one split open to reveal a vegetable filling.

    Waste not
    How to turn leftover cooked new potatoes into a spicy Indian snack – recipe

  • crew members aboard navy vessel Hashidate enjoy their regular curry while docked at Yokosuka, a naval base south of Tokyo.

    Japan
    Full steam ahead: how ‘navy curry’ conquered hearts in Japan

Fashion & beauty

  • A model wears a top with Keith Haring 'New York' motif

    Fashion
    Louis Vuitton revives Keith Haring collaboration at lavish New York show

  • Adam Jay, chief executive of Vinted

    Retail industry
    ‘Give every item a long life’: Vinted boss on how the site is moving beyond fashion

  • A female model in a black leather jacket, blue cardigan and brown trousers sits on a chair against a turquoise background

    Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion
    Posh Grandpa is fashion’s new main character

  • Treated photograph of blond-haired young woman looking vaguely into the distance against a turquoise background with a shadow on her left eye area

    Sali Hughes on beauty
    Don’t be scared of acid exfoliants – they can be gentler and better than scrubs

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    This is how we do it
    double quotation markMy sex life with her is completely separate to my life as a divorced father

  • An illustration of a woman with her hand raised in front of her in the background, while a woman in the foreground looks away from her

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    double quotation markMy mum demands I take her on holiday – but favours my brother in her will

  • A man kisses his partner on the cheek on an Athens rooftop terrace at sunset, with white buildings and hills behind

    The moment I knew
    double quotation markAfter a 2,500km bike ride it clicked – marriage probably wouldn’t be the hardest thing we’d do

  • A woman in a blue jacket and a man in a navy blazer with a patterned scarf smile at each other.

    Blind date
    double quotation markDistance shouldn’t stand in the way of love … I did have to catch the last train home though

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    Can a name change transform PCOS outcomes for women? – podcast

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    A moment that changed me
    My diagnosis seemed like a death sentence – how have I survived for another 40 years?

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    Brazil
    Just what the doctor ordered: Brazil’s drive to ditch UPFs from hospital menus

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    Well actually
    ‘People should aim to get a variety’: the pros and cons of popular protein sources

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    Meghan Markle
    Meghan’s anniversary candle: who wouldn’t want to pay $64 to celebrate someone else’s marriage?

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    Thursday news quiz: Eurovision winners, Tesla swimmers and Strictly zingers

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