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    In pictures
    Met Gala 2025 red carpet: pinstripes, capes and pouring rain

    Anna Wintour and her co-hosts Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, A$AP Rocky and Pharrell Williams button up for the opening of the Metropolitan Museum of Fine Art exhibition Superfine: Tailoring Black Style
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      Israel-Gaza war
      Netanyahu says new offensive in Gaza focused on consolidating seizure of territory

    • VE Day
      Many in US and western Europe think ‘third world war likely within five to 10 years’

    • Vatican
      Vatican to cut phone signal during conclave to elect new pope

    • Pulitzer prize
      Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha wins Pulitzer prize for commentary

    • Australia mushroom trial live
      Mushroom cook was ‘very reluctant’ for guests to look in pantry, surviving guest tells court

    • Germany
      Scholz to hand over power in Germany to sound of feminist anthem Respect

    • India
      India tries to halt auction of Piprahwa gems found with Buddha’s remains

    • Archaeology
      X-ray reveals ancient Greek author of charred first century BC Vesuvius scroll

News in focus

  • The table where Germany signed an unconditional surrender in the early hours of 7 May 1945.

    VE Day
    ‘You feel the huge weight of history’: the room where Nazi Germany surrendered

  • Football pitches turned into cemeteries in Sarajevo, 1992. This image was used on the cover of the first G2 section, 12 October 1992.

    The long read
    ‘We know what is happening, we cannot walk away’: how the Guardian bore witness to horror in former Yugoslavia

    The long read: During the decade-long conflicts, the major powers dithered as Serb militias carried out their brutal campaigns of ethnic cleansing. Guardian reporters became more passionate and more outspoken in their condemnation, attracting praise and criticism
  • Israeli tanks driving in the deserted outskirts of Gaza, with destroyed building in the background.

    Analysis
    Announcement of Israel’s Gaza occupation plan is carefully timed

    By going public now Benjamin Netanyahu hopes to squeeze Hamas for concessions and please the far right

Spotlight

  • Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni

    Film
    ‘It’s the misogyny slop ecosystem!’ How Candace Owens and the American right declared war on Blake Lively

    Remember Johnny Depp v Amber Heard? If you thought that was ugly, wait till you see Blake Lively v Justin Baldoni. As the stars of It Ends With Us swap lawsuits over claims of sexual harassment, the conservative media has picked its side – and it’s not pulling any punches
  • Whistles store in Covent Garden, London

    Fashion
    ‘Women designing for women’: the new wave dominating UK high street

  • Sergio Agüero

    Football
    Sergio Agüero: ‘Dad never said I played well. He didn’t want me to become cocky’

    Now the subject of a new documentary, the former striker opens up on his strict upbringing in Argentina, the heart troubles that ended his career and that Manchester City goal
  • Hotel Festa Qugiela, Okayama.

    Architecture
    We’re having sex inside Moby Dick! The wild architectural world of Japan’s love hotels

    From cruise ships to UFOs, from King Kong to a giant whale, half the sex in Japan may take place in its dazzlingly imaginative love hotels. But have some become just too seedy? Our writer checks in
    • Closeup of a man's eye with short eyelashes

      Pass notes
      Blinking fools? The men who think shaving off their eyelashes will make them more masculine

    • An illustration depicting meditation, budgeting, therapy and running.

      Wellness
      How to start … anything: expert tips for trying something new

    • Bella Ramsey as Ellie in The Last of Us season two, episode four.

      Television
      The Last of Us recap: season two, episode four – now that is what you call romance

    • Katherine Ryan holding a pomeranian dog in her arms in Silence is Golden, with Dermot O'Leary blurred out in the background

      TV
      Silence is Golden review – Katherine Ryan would definitely kill your dog for cash

Opinion

  • A soldier fires a rifle in woodland.

    Why Europe needs a common defence fund – outside the EU

    Simon Nixon
    It would be open to the UK, Norway and Switzerland, and give governments more bang for their buck as the continent rearms, says economics commentator Simon Nixon
  • Prince Harry talks to the BBC about wanting a reconciliation with the royal family

    Harry’s TV interview told us everything – and nothing. Why are the royals such terrible communicators?

    Zoe Williams
  • Trump talks to silhouetted reporters with helicopter and Washington Monument in the background

    Editorial
    The Guardian view on Trump’s shock therapy: warehouse and transport workers are the first victims of a class war

  • Friedrich Merz.

    Germany needs a unifier. In Friedrich Merz, it is getting a chancellor whose instincts are to divide

    Chris Reiter and Will Wilkes
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    Trump’s attack on the film industry is a sign of xenophobic contempt

    Jesse Hassenger
  • A clock and cleaning products on a blue background

    I watched a woman clear her shower drain – and realised I had to get my own life in order

    Emma Beddington

Sport

  • Zhao Xintong celebrates his world championship win after beating Mark Williams.

    Snooker
    Zhao beats Williams to become first Chinese snooker world champion

    Zhao Xintong beat Mark Williams 18-12 to become China’s first winner of the World Snooker Championship
  • Robert Lewandowski (left) trains with Barcelona teammate Lamine Yamal on Monday after proving he is back to full fitness.

    Football
    Barcelona boosted by Lewandowski return for face-off with Inter

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Climate crisis

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    Climate crisis
    Two Britons to challenge UK’s ‘weak’ response to climate crisis in Strasbourg court

  • a group of young people stand on ice and play broomball outside

    Canada
    How the climate crisis threatens Indigenous traditions in Canada: ‘It’s not the way it used to be’

  • an aerial view of an island resort

    Hawaii
    First-of-its-kind Hawaii bill raises tourist taxes to fund climate relief

  • wind turbines

    US
    Democratic-led states sue Trump for blocking wind energy projects

Around the world

  • teenage school girls on their phones

    New Zealand
    New Zealand’s prime minister proposes social media ban for under-16s

  • Two adults with a several younger gorillas, one of which is being groomed

    Primatology
    Gorillas offer clues to how social relationships work in humans – study

    • Romania
      Romania’s pro-EU prime minister resigns as Trump ally eyes presidency

    • Trump administration
      Trump blocks grant funding for Harvard until it meets president’s demands

    • Trump administration
      Trump to continue Biden's court defense of abortion drug mifepristone

    • United Arab Emirates
      Sudan fails in attempt to make UAE accountable for acts of genocide

    • Peru
      Gold mining suspended in Peru’s north after 13 miners killed

    • Canada
      Search for two young children missing in Canadian forest enters fourth day

Culture

  • Film-Summer Preview<br>This image released by Paramount Pictures and Skydance shows Tom Cruise, left and Christopher McQuarrie on the set of "Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning." (Paramount Pictures and Skydance via AP)

    Analysis
    Trump’s movie tariffs are designed to destroy the international film industry

    Vague and grandstanding as the US president’s messaging may be, it has serious ramifications which could wipe out large sections of the film business
  • Elisabeth Moss, eyes closed, cuddles a baby who is sucking her thumb

    Television
    ‘It normalises the abhorrent’: is The Handmaid’s Tale the most frustrating show on TV?

  • Noah Wyle in The Pitt

    Television
    The doctors will see you now! It’s the all-time top 20 TV medical dramas

  • Kula Shaker in 1996.

    How we made
    Kula Shaker on making Govinda: ‘Crowds would sing the lyrics as, “Go cash your giro giro”’

  • Mick Jagger, Shaun Ryder and Kiss’s Paul Stanley.

    Music
    ‘I’m burping? At least I didn’t fart!’ Ten things I’ve learned about ageing rockers

  • Peg o' My Heart

    Film
    Peg o’ My Heart review – Hong Kong’s disordered dream life is focus of Lynchian thriller

Lifestyle

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    Pass notes
    Blinking fools? The men who think shaving off their eyelashes will make them more masculine

    What could possibly go wrong with taking a razor to your lashes? Apart from irritation, infections and ‘eye boogers’, that is
  • Emily Bratt pictured last month doing a plank outside on the grass.

    The one change that worked
    I could never get fit – until I tried a 40-second plank every day

  • G2: How to build a better life - If people-pleasing leaves you feeling empty, you may be hiding from yourself

    How to build a better life
    Are you a people pleaser? It’s time to find out what you really want

  • Mother with baby looking out the window

    Parents and parenting
    I’m losing my mum to young-onset dementia. Caring for my baby reminds me who she was

    Alexandra Hansen
  • Rukmini Iyer's crispy chicken with zhoug and jersey royals.

    Food
    Rukmini Iyer’s quick and easy recipe for crispy chicken with zhoug and jersey royals

  • A$AP Rocky, Lewis Hamilton, Colman Domingo and Pharrell Williams on Vogue covers

    Vogue
    Met Gala will pose question: can Vogue keep diversity in fashion in Trump’s America?

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From our global editions

  • Two men in suits stand and talk in front of a white wall outside

    Analysis
    Loyalty matters most in race to become Trump’s next national security adviser

    Marco Rubio and Stephen Miller, White House cronies with very different backgrounds, are up for Mike Waltz’s old post
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    Australia
    Madness, murder and rape on the Batavia: new theory on Australia’s most horrific shipwreck

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    Catholicism
    Pope Francis leaves mixed legacy on role of women in Catholic church

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