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  • Emissions from an oil refinery

    Climate crisis
    Surge of new oil and gas activity threatens to wreck Paris climate goals

    World’s fossil-fuel producers on track to nearly quadruple output from newly approved projects by decade’s end, report finds
  • Ukrainian troops fire rockets towards Russian forces near a front line in Donetsk.

    Live
    Russia-Ukraine war: Putin rules out attacks on Nato countries

  • Palestinians gather to inspect damage of the destroyed building belonged to the Dhaheer family, after an Israeli attack on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip

    Live
    US?and Israel in talks to revive Washington trip to discuss Rafah

  • The French president, Emmanuel Macron, speaking at the Brazil-France economic forum in S?o Paulo on Wednesday

    Emmanuel Macron
    French president calls proposed EU-Mercosur trade pact ‘very bad deal’

    • For Women Scotland
      Transgender judge seeks leave to intervene in court case over legal definition of ‘woman’

    • Women's health
      Hormone medication could increase risk of brain tumours, French study finds

    • UK economy
      Blow for Sunak as revised figures confirm UK did go into recession last year

    • Assisted dying
      UK?membership of Dignitas soars by 24% as Scotland moves closer to approving bill

    • Spain
      Luis Rubiales faces possible 30-month jail sentence for Jenni Hermoso kiss

    • Daniel Kahneman
      Renowned psychologist and Nobel prize winner dies at 90

Europe in focus

  • A wolfdog under trees in the snow

    ‘We’d like to shoot them all’
    Growing army of wolfdogs raises hackles across Europe

  • Donald Tusk

    Rightwing populists have many countries in their grip. Come to Poland: see how they can be pushed back

    Anne McElvoy
    Donald Tusk is working on a great transformation, but it is a hugely difficult project, says writer and broadcaster Anne McElvoy
  • The Olympic Games: Mirror of Societies exhibition wall featuring blown-up pics of athletes over the decades

    Olympics exhibition in Paris reflects 20th century’s highs and lows
    Sport is never just sport

Spotlight

  • Nick Cave

    ‘It’s against nature to bury your children’
    Nick Cave on love, art and the loss of his sons

    The musician and artist discusses mercy, forgiveness, making and meaning
  • The medieval Swiss town of Gruyères

    Rail route of the month
    Cheese, chocolate and a magical ride to the Swiss town of Gruyères

  • Mykhailo Mudryk, Jude Bellingham and Florian Wirtz

    Euro 2024 power rankings
    A?look at the 24 teams going to Germany

    Our writers break down all 24 teams that have qualified for this summer’s European Championship
  • Mick Jagger, USA

    Rare and raw
    Never before seen Rolling Stones

    In 1981, photographer Brian Aris was invited to join the rock’n’roll legends at rehearsals in Boston. He captured their intense musical bond – but couldn’t corner Charlie Watts
    • Joris Hoefnagel 
Allegory for Abraham Ortelius

      ‘Every single work is a masterpiece’
      The?once-in-a-lifetime exhibition of the greatest Flemish drawings

    • a child dragging a basket of stones at a construction site in India

      India’s sandstone industry
      How?child labour makes the paving stones beneath our feet

    • Heidi Dawson inside the control suite for Studio 11, at Quay House, Salford.

      ‘Know your audience’
      BBC?5 Live chief on the station’s staying power

    • A shelf of DVDs for sale

      ‘Rental places will surge back’
      Readers on the fight to preserve physical media

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Buried

Annina van Neel's life is forever changed after encountering a vast burial ground - one of the most significant traces of the transatlantic slave trade in the world

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Buried Documentary
  • Tony Blair, Bill Clinton and Sam Bankman-Fried in 2022.

    Sam?Bankman-Fried will grow old in jail. But don’t forget those who basked in his orbit

    Aditya Chakrabortty
    If the high-rollers surrounding the disgraced FTX founder had any qualms about taking his money, they didn’t show it
  • Slave revolt in Jamaica from 1832, and a British West African Squadron war ship from 1827

    It’s not unpatriotic to tell the whole truth about Britain and the end of slavery

    Ella Sinclair
  • Illustration of woman with pram passing homeless person

    Britain seems stuck in a doom loop of poverty. I have a plan to raise billions to address that

    Gordon Brown
  • LinkedIn.

    Why?has LinkedIn become so weird?

    Coco Khan
  • Meghan, Duchess of Sussex

    Can?Meghan become the next Gwyneth Paltrow? Only if her products are equally bizarre

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Evan Gershkovich

    The Guardian view
    Evan Gershkovich’s year behind bars: Moscow should free him now

  • A person in a hi-vis jacket walking away from the camera towards a large dirt mound or hill

    'Generations of forgetting'
    My?fight to honour the Africans buried on St Helena

  • Annina Van Neel Hayes laying lilies outside the door of a brick building

    29:18

    'Perpetuating a lie'
    British overseas territory St Helena urged to return remains of 325 formerly enslaved people to Africa

  • collage of imagery pertaining to Jamaica and slavery: landscapes, statues, postage stamps, vintage illustrations, the flag, plus some abstract figures and shapes

    A historic revolt, a forgotten hero, an empty plinth
    Is?there a right way to remember slavery?

  • The remote island of St Helena, a British overseas territory, is best known for Napoleon's tomb – the island's biggest tourist attraction. While overseeing the construction of a long-awaited airport on the island, Annina van Neel learns that the remains of thousands of formerly enslaved Africans have been uncovered, unearthing one of the most significant traces of the transatlantic slave trade in the world

    29:18

    Documentary
    Buried: how we choose to remember the transatlantic slave trade

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  • Pasta with asparagus and green peas<br>Spaghetti with asparagus and green peas

    Environment
    Plant-heavy ‘flexitarian’ diets could help limit global heating, study finds

  • Illustration shows a mother and child looking out on a scene of environmental destruction, pollution, rain and other issues.

    ‘Everybody has a breaking point’
    How?the climate crisis affects our brains

  • A German floating liquid natural gas terminal

    ‘罢辞苍别-诲别补蹿’
    Fossil gas growth in Europe is speeding climate crisis, say activists

  • People walk on a dried-out riverbed

    Extreme heat
    Summit to urge leaders to act on threat from rising temperatures

  • Gabriel Attal on TF1’s 8pm show

    France
    PM?backs school head who faced death threats after Muslim veil row

  • Close-up of man wearing suit and shirt

    Joe Lieberman
    Former US senator and vice-presidential nominee, dies at 82

    • UK monarchy
      King lauds friendship ‘in time of need’ in first comments since princess’s diagnosis

    • India
      Country summons envoy after US criticises Delhi chief minister’s arrest

    • Moscow concert hall attack
      Fear death toll higher after reports of up to 100 missing

    • Netherlands
      Europe’s longest hyperloop test track revives futuristic tube transport hype

    • Slovakia
      Brown bear that attacked five people shot dead, says minister

    • Donald Trump
      Ex-Trump lawyer should be disbarred for his role in 2020 election, says judge

  • Myles Frost as Michael Jackson in MJ the Musical.

    MJ the Musical review
    Sterilised moonwalk through the King of Pop’s life

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    Martin Scorsese
    Director to host and produce religious docuseries for Fox News

  • Are you inside or outside? … A Serra work in Seattle in 2007.

    Molten magnificence
    How?Richard Serra’s giant steel sculptures bent time and space

  • The Banksy mural after it was covered with clear plastic.

    Banksy
    Mural in north London gets plastic cover after vandalism

  • Airbnb advertises its city breaks but in Toronto it was not quite the experience hoped for.

    Consumer champions
    Airbnb host increased price by 39% after booking

    We were forced to cancel when the host wanted thousands extra, but were still charged a fee
  • A young woman looking at dresses in a vintage clothing store.

    Vintage fashion
    Wearing a secondhand outfit these days is something to brag about, not whisper

  • Lon Chaney in He Who Gets Slapped, 1924.

    Shock of the old
    Nine disturbing, disruptive and demonic clowns

  • Jade Angeles Fitton on the isle of Lundy, off the Devon coast

    A moment that changed me
    My?partner drove off and left me – and in solitude I found my self-confidence

  • A bowlful of avgolemono soup, with shards of chicken, and bits of carrot, leeks and dill

    How to cook the perfect ...
    Greek avgolemono soup – recipe

  • Close-up image of a cocktail being poured into a glass by a bartender at Neon Cactus in Leeds.

    An alternative guide to Leeds
    A?UK city with an independent spirit

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  • Mykhaylo Mudryk and Maksym Talovierov celebrate after the match between Ukraine and Iceland in Wroc?aw, Poland.

    Football
    Share your reaction to Ukraine qualifying for Euro 2024

  • Sewage foam on the River Thames by Marlow Weir in Buckinghamshire.

    People in the UK
    Tell us about your local river and the environmental issues affecting it

  • Houria Ayadi / Ed Alcock / MYOP<br>The 129-apartment building where Houria Ayadi (63 yrs) has lived in Saint-Ouen, a northern suburb of Paris, since 1973, and that is due to be demolished in an effort to improve on security in the neighbourhood. She hopes to be re-lodged in one of the apartments currently under construction for the Olympic Village, where athletes will be housed during the Paris Olympics of 2024. Photo ? Ed Alcock / MYOP 25/9/2023 L'immeuble de 129 appartements où Houria Ayadi (63 ans) vit depuis 1973 à Saint-Ouen, dans la banlieue nord de Paris, et qui doit être démoli pour améliorer la sécurité dans le quartier. Elle espère être relogée dans l'un des appartements actuellement en construction pour le village olympique, où seront logés les athlètes lors des Jeux olympiques de Paris en 2024. Photo ? Ed Alcock / MYOP 25/9/2023

    Young Europeans
    Tell us about your housing situation

  • The aurora borealis, commonly known as the northern lights, are seen in the sky above Kiruna, Sweden.

    Northern lights in Europe
    Share your pictures

  • Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the Ukrainian president, inspects fortifications during a visit to Sumy oblast on Wednesday

    Ukraine war briefing
    ‘Russian terror’ as guided bombs hit Kharkiv

    Ukrainian spy chief hints at assassination of traitors; Putin claims F-16 fighter jets won’t make a difference. What we know on day 764
  • A white hand pops a white pill into another white hand.

    ‘It’s maddening’
    Women who used abortion pills on US supreme court mifepristone case

  • Man wearing suit and tie looks directly at camera

    ‘Old-fashioned embezzlement’
    Where did all of FTX’s money go?

  • The Istanbul mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu

    ‘People don’t believe they can win’
    Apathy abounds ahead of Istanbul’s mayoral election

  • burritotrail

    Economy
    How?a viral $22 burrito explains inflation in the US

  • The lighthouse on Gavdos island

    ‘Pushed to the limit'
    The?tiny Greek island in people smugglers’ sights

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  • ‘One of the key elements of the educational system is that schools have a lot of freedom’ …. Cordelia Violet Paap and Targo Tammela at Pelgulinna State Gymnasium.

    Free lunches, brain breaks and happy teachers
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  • Portrait of Brigitte H?ss. She died in October 2023, and was the last person to remember what life was like in the villa at Auschwitz.

    ‘Mum knew what was going on’
    Brigitte H?ss on living at Auschwitz, in the Zone of Interest family

  • James Bassett standing behind Charlotte with his arms around her shoulders

    ‘My child was drowning’
    Life and death on an English maternity ward

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    Science
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    Today in Focus
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  • Manchester City players celebrate during their 3-1  win over Manchester United.

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  • Graceful turn – East Rift Valley, Kenya: winner of black and white category

    From a graceful turn to a dangerous toy
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  • Annemasse, France. Spring would not be complete without a picture of cherry blossoms.

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  • A visitor takes photos of works by the British artist Mr Doodle, on display at Art Basel in Hong Kong

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  • ‘Strong parallels’ … Dorohozhychi Metro Station, Kyiv, 2 March, 2022

    From the blitz to Ukraine
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