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News in focus

  • Palestinians sit near a damaged tent

    Israel-Gaza war
    A game of football, a boom, then scattered bodies: video shows moment of Israeli strike on Gaza school

  • Liudmyla Alyokhina sits on a hospital bed with bandaged arms

    Ukraine
    ‘Soon there will be just death’: Russian shells flay away at hope in Ukraine’s frontline cities

    Residents of Kurakhove and Pokrovsk have been asked to evacuate. Most who remain want to stay to the very end
  • People cool themselves during a hot day in Athens, Greece.

    Greece
    ‘It’s about survival’: Athens mayor focuses on getting capital through extreme heat

    Haris Doukas aimed to make Athens more resilient to record temperatures by planting more trees and opening air-conditioned public spaces

Spotlight

  • Woman kissing a man on cheek in night club

    Dating
    Gen Z yearns for the pre-digital dating era – but don’t ask them out in person

    With a dating recession and app fatigue, gen Z envies face-to-face pickups – but may be ‘weirded out’ by direct gestures
  • Alicia Witt, 2024

    Film
    ‘The catharsis was profound, but I’ll never watch it’: Alicia Witt on facing her demons on film

  • Illustration showing a woman with six arms holding tools including a laptop, an iron, a dustpan and brush and a piece of paper

    Productivity
    Big, beautiful goals – but can’t be bothered? 11 great productivity tips for lazy people

    Struggling to fit everything in? Here’s how to cross off all the jobs on your list ... without really trying
  • Title of photograph: 1.5% — 28/12/2021

    My best shot
    A giant crucifix on an Argentinian beach – Andreas Billman’s best photograph

    ‘Many people are surprised by its size and someone asked if it was a real person. But for anyone from Argentina, it’s just part of the everyday’
    • ‘A generation was completely wiped out’ … Gaynor Madgwick above Aberfan.

      How we survive
      A noise like thunder – then my classroom went black. How I lost my brother, sister and stability to the Aberfan disaster

    • Felicity Cloake's macarons.

      Felicity Cloake's masterclass
      How to make chocolate macarons – recipe

    • Rebecca Watson photographed at home in London, 2023

      A moment that changed me
      My body was wedged between the train and platform – and my mortality rushed towards me

    • A Polly Pocket doll sits on a shelf in a store in Arlington<br>A "Polly Pocket" doll sits on a shelf in a store in Arlington, Virginia, August 14, 2007. Mattel Inc., the largest U.S. toy company, recalled millions more Chinese-made toys on Tuesday due to hazards from small, powerful magnets and lead paint, and warned it may recall additional products as it steps up testing on thousands of toys. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES)

      ‘I don’t think I have that in me’: what was Lena Dunham’s abandoned Polly Pocket movie actually going to involve?

      Stuart Heritage

Euro 2024

  • Ollie Watkins (left) wheels away, pursued by Kobbie Mainoo, after scoring the winner at the death

    Match report
    Netherlands 1-2 England: Watkins seals final spot with late winner

    England came from behind to beat the Netherlands with Ollie Watkins booking a final date with Spain
  • Lamine Yamal soaks up the applause of the Spain fans during the semi-final win against France

    Lamine Yamal passes football exams and earns Rodri’s respect

    Sid Lowe
  • Romania players on the pitch after their last-16 defeat by the Netherlands.

    Romania captured Euro magic: now we must follow their lead

    Philipp Lahm
  • Kylian Mbappé applauds the crowd after France’s defeat by Spain

    Mbappé taking on far right lends pride to France’s campaign

    Philippe Auclair
    • Kylian Mbappé reacts after failing to score a chance against Spain

      France played it too safe. They need to find their joie de vivre

      Eric Devin
    • Alvaro Morata is consoled as he leaves the field after being knocked over.

      Spain
      Morata hurt after being slid into by security guard in celebrations

    • The Oranje bus

      Netherlands
      ‘Silly’ Oranje bus becomes symbol for Dutch fans in Germany

    • Italy celebrate their unforgettable win over Netherlands in the Euro 2000 semi-final

      The Knowledge
      What are the most boring (and exciting) goalless draws at the Euros?

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Sport

Opinion

  • Narendra Modi and Vladimir Putin

    Why is Modi sucking up to Putin? It’s simple and cynical: China and oil

    Sergey Radchenko
    Building bridges to Russia plays to India’s strategic interest, which is to insert itself between Beijing and Moscow, says historian Sergey Radchenko
  • Protesters in Kenya hold signs reading COLONIALISM NEVER REALLY ENDED and KENYA AND HAITI ARE NOT FOR SALE.

    Why are the US and IMF imposing draconian austerity measures on Kenya?

    Fadhel Kaboub
  • Adrian Chiles

    School can be brutal. Congratulations to anyone who has just made it through another year

    Adrian Chiles
  • former US president Donald Trump.

    Why do politicians hate ‘the elite’ – when they are the elite?

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Illustration: Starmer and Reeves against a Nato symbol

    Keir Starmer has a plan to turn the populist tide – and Britain’s allies pray it works

    Rafael Behr
  • A row of voting booths at a US voting station in a gymnasium.

    For US democracy to survive, it needs progressives like Sanders and AOC

    Judith Levine
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Climate crisis

  • An idle oil pumping unit is silhouetted against the setting sun in a field south of Oakley, Kansas

    Oil
    BP predicts global oil demand will peak in 2025, bringing to end rising emissions

  • FILE PHOTO: Reuters interviews JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co. CEO Jamie Dimon in Miami, Florida<br>FILE PHOTO: Jamie Dimon, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co., pauses as he speaks during an interview with Reuters in Miami, Florida, U.S., February 8, 2023. REUTERS/Marco Bello/File Photo

    Exclusive
    Senators accuse JPMorgan CEO of backtracking on climate commitments

  • People use umbrellas to block the sun

    Extreme heat
    Las Vegas on track to set record for most consecutive days over 115F

  • A man walks through cooling mist

    Extreme heat
    Urban heat island effect making temperatures 8F hotter in 65 US cities – study

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Around the world

  • Emmanuel Macron

    France
    Macron calls on parties to ‘rise to the occasion’ and form coalition

    French president appears to exclude far-right RN and radical left LFI in call for alliance of ‘republican forces’
  • Tim Ryan,JD Vance<br>Republican U.S. Senate candidate JD Vance answers questions during a Fox News town hall debate with candidate U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Joe Maiorana)

    Donald Trump
    Bearded JD Vance remains a contender for Trump VP – by a whisker

  • The Irish embassy in the United Arab Emirates worked to help lift Tori Towey’s travel ban.

    Dubai
    Irish woman charged with ‘attempted suicide’ in Dubai has travel ban lifted

  • Actor Alec Baldwin arrives for his hearing in Santa Fe County District Court with attorney Luke Nikas, left, Wednesday, July 10, 2024, in Santa Fe, N.M. Baldwin is facing a single charge of involuntary manslaughter in the death of a cinematographer. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

    Rust film set shooting
    Rust trial prosecutors say Alec Baldwin violated ‘cardinal rules of firearm safety’

    • 'Deadly serious report'
      Democrat calls for leaders to denounce Trump loyalist’s ‘target list’

    • Texas
      Hurricane Beryl leaves 1.7m people without power amid extreme heat

    • US
      AOC launches effort to impeach Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito

    • Russia
      Russia bans Moscow Times in crackdown on independent media

    • Australia
      Chinese navy destroyer and helicopter shadowed Australian warship during high-profile standoff, documents show

    • Libya
      Armed men jump onboard small boat during rescue near Libya

Culture

  • white man wearing cowboy hat points gun

    Film
    Kevin Costner’s Horizon sequel pulled from release after first film flops

    Star’s big-budget western sequel taken off release schedule after first has struggled to pass $25m mark at the box office
  • Sasha Lane as Lily and Glen Powell as Tyler in Twisters.

    Film
    Twisters review – Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones find whirlwind romance in weather-hacking 90s sequel

  • This image released by Neon shows Maika Monroe in a scene from "Longlegs." (Neon via AP)

    Review
    Longlegs review – Nicolas Cage is a miscast killer in misfiring hokum

  • “It’s a way of life, an identity” … Las Flores del Changüí.

    Music
    ‘If the world explodes, the only survivors will be cockroaches and Cubans!’: the Guantánamo musicians defying the island’s crisis

  • Christopher Villiers and Nancy Carroll

    Stage
    Actors’ show-stopping art exhibition: ‘We’re used to rejection so nothing was turned down!’

  • Museum horse

    Museums
    From Shakespeare’s lost plays to the world’s oldest horse: the bumper Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024 quiz

Lifestyle

  • Claude Bosi’s classic French recipes For Bastille Day.

    French food and drink
    Wine-poached eggs, lemony sole and puffed potatoes: Claude Bosi’s classic French recipes for Bastille Day

    Vive la révolution with oeuf en meurette (or poached eggs with bacon, mushrooms and onion), sole fillets in a tangy, brown butter sauce, and roast mashed potato rosettes on the side
  • Aerial view of the ruins of Grosmont Castle.

    Wales holidays
    Three castles, three days, three writers in Wales’ border country

  • Though the jury is out on my colleague’s controversial avocado-slicing technique, life abounds with nice, different and unusual techniques to prepare fresh produce.

    Food
    Do these kitchen hacks cut it? Five new (and possibly improved) ways to peel, slice and juice your fruit

  • Mark Bittman’s balsamic strawberries with rocket.

    Kitchen aide
    How to make the most of a punnet of strawberries

  • Microsoft Surface Pro 11 review desktop shown on a wooden table.

    Technology
    Surface Pro 11 review: Microsoft’s big Arm leap almost pays off

  • Summer roasties: mixed vegetables with a blue-cheese dressing.

    Food
    Nigel Slater’s recipe for roast summer vegetables and blue cheese sauce

Take part

  • Closeup of eye with makeup<br>Closeup image of beautiful woman eye with fashion makeup. Makeup with eyeliner. Cosmetic Eyeshadow.

    Life and style
    Have you experienced so-called ‘eyebrow blindness’?

  • sun shines down on silhouette of person drinking from water bottle

    People in the US
    How do you stay cool in extreme heat?

  • Young Woman Wearing Dress and Waiting Outside

    Weddings
    Tell us your bridesmaid confessions

  • A young woman university student lying on her bed studying working reading writing on laptop in messy untidy bedroom at home UK<br>DRF2PB A young woman university student lying on her bed studying working reading writing on laptop in messy untidy bedroom at home UK

    Life and style
    Do you still sleep in your childhood bedroom?

From our global editions

  • A woman wearing a pink rash vest sitting on a surfboard in the sea

    Environment
    ‘All threats to the sea come from humans’: how lawyers are gearing up to fight for the oceans

    A rising number of lawsuits in courts around the world are holding governments and corporations to account for their treatment of the seas and those who rely on them
  • a tank fires rounds

    Analysis
    European leaders use Nato summit to sell military alliance to US voters

  • white man wearing sunglasses and blue suit holds microphone

    US elections 2024
    ‘What we’ve been saying all along’: where do critical voters stand on Biden dropping out?

  • Illustration with composite images from Ecuador including an Indigenous man, trains, forest and an oil can

    The Latin oil rush
    ‘This is something that divides us’: Ecuador’s turbulent transition from oil dependence

  • Jacob Rees-Mog and his family in Westminster.

    UK TV
    ‘More Fawlty Towers than Downton Abbey’: British politician Jacob Rees-Mogg’s bid to become a reality TV star

  • A stylized image of a man wearing glasses and holding a pair of binoculars against the backdrop of a US flag

    The US election operators
    The man who cries voter fraud: how Hans von Spakovsky has built a career peddling election security fears

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    From the archive: ‘Colonialism had never really ended’: my life in the shadow of Cecil Rhodes – podcast

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  • Woman monitoring herself the levels of glucose in blood using smart phone technology.<br>Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) system with sensor attached in arm controlling information and alerts with mobile phone app.

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    ZOE and personalised nutrition: does the evidence on glucose tracking add up? – podcast

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    Today in Focus
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    Photos of the day
    Digital flowers and a school in ruins

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • Early morning, Lake Atitlán, Santiago Atitlán 2019

    Photography
    Still waters run deep: Latin American Foto festival

  • A sloping sliver building on a hilltop at sunset

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    World Architecture festival 2024 shortlist – in pictures

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    Photography
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