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  • Westminster official in role of parliament's Black Rod

    'It’s a disaster'
    Tory MPs mull over their fate after Rishi Sunak’s election call

  • Lucy Letby walks out a door with her hands behind her back and two people following behind

    Lucy Letby
    Former UK nurse loses attempt to appeal against baby murder convictions

    • Pakistan
      Poet was abducted because of human rights activism, says wife

    • Papua New Guinea
      Fears up to 100 dead after landslide in remote northern region

    • Australia
      Woman has no sensation from waist down after ‘horrifying’ flight, husband says

    • Singapore Airlines
      Airline tightens seatbelt rules after turbulence flight death

    • Spain
      Four dead in Mallorca after ‘nightmarish’ building collapse

    • London
      Boy who died aged 15 to become first millennial saint

News in focus

  • A young Asian woman speaks at a lectern while giving a clenched-fist salute

    ‘Unlock the door or we’ll kick it down’
    Why South Africa’s youngest politician is in a hurry for change

  • A resident at a roadblock waves a Kanak flag in New Caledonia.

    ‘Not our president’
    After Macron’s visit, New Caledonia’s Kanak demand more say in their own future

    Electoral reform was the spark for unrest, but Indigenous protesters say they are fighting to correct years of widening inequality
  • Supporters of the republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump gather during a campaign rally in the South Bronx, in New York

    ‘Thrilled to be back’
    Trump swaps courtroom for Bronx in play for Hispanic and Black voters

    The Republican presidential candidate held a rally in the South Bronx, one of the most diverse and impoverished neighbourhoods in New York

Spotlight

  • Zoe Connor

    Experience
    I woke up with a Welsh accent

    My own family didn’t recognise me when I phoned them
  • Valeria Golino in white shirt standing outside in Cannes.

    Valeria Golino
    I’m not a man-hater. I am a lover of men

  • Jeremy Clarkson (R) holds a baby pig standing next to Kaleb Cooper in a cropless field

    ‘Funny and kind of sad’
    How UK show Clarkson’s Farm has captured Chinese viewers

    Jeremy Clarkson’s reality TV show has particular appeal for young people with no experience of farming
  • Beyoncé, Shaboozey, Post Malone and Dasha

    Ten-gallon hits!
    Why country is the biggest pop music craze of 2024

    Beyoncé and Dua Lipa have swapped mirrorballs for rhinestones, while new stars such as Shaboozey and Dasha are making hay with uptempo hoedowns. Even the UK is enjoying its first rodeo – but can it last?
    • close-up of woman look scared

      Atlas review
      Jennifer Lopez learns to love AI in silly Netflix mockbuster

    • Paul Murray.

      Paul Murray
      In some ways the T’ang poets were the original Sad Dads

    • Judge 25th May - WEB

      You be the judge
      My parents want to donate their old furniture to us – should my partner accept it?

    • Sayed Ahmed with his arm around his wife Amena Khatun by the Rupsha River in Khulna, Bangladesh

      ‘It’s in our rivers and in our cups. There’s no escape’
      The deadly spread of salt water in Bangladesh

  • Members of the Sudanese Armed Forces parading in Karima city, Northern State, in May 2024.

    It’s an open secret: the UAE is fuelling Sudan’s war – and there’ll be no peace until we call it out

    Husam Mahjoub
    The Emirates is arming and supporting one side in the conflict, but UK and US officials have shied from confronting it, writes Husam Mahjoub, co-founder of the Sudan Bukra TV channel
  • ‘The false equivalence of anti-Zionism with antisemitism is belied by the reality on the ground, in the campus anti-war encampments that have sprung up across the country and in the burgeoning young Jewish anti-Zionist movement.’

    Congress’s latest ‘antisemitism’ hearing was an ugly attack on Palestinian rights

    Moira Donegan
  • A coiled rattlesnake on dry grass

    Digested week: Snakes alive! Depardieu smacks snapper while Sunak slips up

    Emma Brockes
  • Ukrainian National Guard 'Khartiia' brigade service member and a D-20 howitzer crew commander Ivan Liashko fires towards Russian troops in a front line in Kharkiv region<br>Ivan Liashko, service member of the 13th Operative Purpose Brigade 'Khartiia' of the National Guard of Ukraine and a D-20 howitzer crew commander, fires towards Russian troops, amid Russia's attack on Ukriane, in a front line in Kharkiv Region, Ukraine May 21, 2024. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

    Ukraine can still recover with bolder western support – but right now it’s on the ropes

    Timothy Garton Ash
  • Mother and baby girl

    Why does postnatal care only last a few weeks? New data shows it should be years

    Devi Sridhar
  • General Election campaign 2024<br>Prime Minister Rishi Sunak takes part in a Q&amp;A with workers during a visit to West William Distribution in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, while on the General Election campaign trail. Picture date: Thursday May 23, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Election. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

    Allies enraged and enemies emboldened – Sunak’s campaign is already a fiasco

    Gaby Hinsliff