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  • A motorcyclist drives past a poster of Narendra Modi in Dantewada district in Chhattisgarh

    India elections
    Voting begins with Modi widely expected to win third term

    First phase in world’s largest democratic exercise begins, with 969 million people eligible to vote over six-week period
  • Patriot missiles at Rzeszów-Jasionka airport.

    Poland
    Man arrested over alleged Russian plot to assassinate Zelenskiy

  • Joe Biden

    ‘Lost for words’
    Joe Biden’s tale about cannibals bemuses Papua New Guinea residents

  • Donald Trump sits in the courtroom in New York City on 18 April.

    Trump hush-money trial
    All 12 jurors seated after two dismissals

    • India
      Fossil of ‘largest snake to have ever existed’ found in Gujarat state

    • Doping
      Australian Olympian's case prompts Wada to reform synthetic EPO testing processes

    • Australia
      Teenager dies after suspected crocodile attack in the Torres Strait

    • US elections 2024
      Kennedy family members endorse Biden in stinging rebuke to RFK Jr

    • Basque election
      Leftwing coalition partly descended from Eta leads in polls

    • Prince Harry
      British royal confirms he is now a US resident

News in focus

  • The audience at the Complexe Culturel Leopold Sedar Senghor watches the film in Pikine, Senegal.

    Moving pictures
    Travelling cinema takes stories of ‘departures and dreams’ to Senegal

  • People walk past the House of Parliament and over Westminster Bridge in London with the sunsetting in the background.

    Rwanda bill
    What does the latest delay mean?

    Flights have been pushed back to summer after the House of Lords spoke up for Afghans and refugees – here’s what to expect over the coming weeks
  • Aftermath of a Russian missile strike in Chernihiv

    Ukraine war briefing
    Donald Trump says survival of Ukraine important to the US

Spotlight

  • Young woman screaming, close-up<br>GettyImages-200069807-001

    Do you have an ‘emotionally immature parent’?
    How a nine-year-old book found a new, younger audience

    Therapist Lindsay Gibson’s 2015 book has sold over a million copies and its message has soared on social media. What does it mean?
  • Refreshing, nonjudgmental frankness … Do Aur Do Pyaar (Two Plus Two Is Love)

    Do Aur Do Pyaar (Two Plus Two Is Love) review
    Refreshingly nonjudgmental infidelity romcom

    Vidya Balan shines in this witty remake that sees a married couple, both cheating on each other, on the verge of breaking up
    • A street sign for Cherry Orchard Lane fixed to a brick wall

      'Ghosts' of lost flowers
      Lost orchards and blossom flourish in placenames across England and Wales

    • Jimmy Kimmel on Donald Trump’s Truth Social rant about him: ‘Rant-a Claus got up bright and early to post 165 venomous words about yours truly.’

      Kimmel hits back at Trump
      ‘The only person still talking about this joke is him’

    • A collage of vegetables, fruits and a worker with a mask spraying them.

      Pesticides
      Six fruits and vegetables with the most chemical risk in the US

    • Runner Beans Club Press publicity image Credit: Adrian Varzaru

      ‘When I wear this shirt, I feel part of a tribe’
      How running club merch became a marker of cool

Opinion

  • Muscician and climate activist Marcus Decker and partner concert pianist Holly Cullen-Davies at thier East london home. Marcus is facing deportation due to the long sentance he recieved for climbing the Queen Elizabeth Bridge in Dartford. It would be the first time Britain has deported someone for peaceful protest. He and Holly are fighting for him to be able to stay with their family.

    Victimise people who raise a voice in Britain? Then destroy their families? Not in my name

    George Monbiot
    Marcus Decker dared to protest the climate crisis and was punished. Now he could be deported, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
  • Nemat Shafik<br>Columbia University President Nemat Shafik testifies before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing on "Columbia in Crisis: Columbia University's Response to Antisemitism" on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

    Anti-woke Republicans attacked Columbia University. It capitulated

    Alisa Solomon, Marianne Hirsch, Sarah Haley and Helen Benedict
  • People inspect the wreckage of a partially collapsed building due to Israeli bombardment in Gaza on 18 April 2024

    The Guardian view
    The catastrophe in Gaza: it must not be overshadowed by the Iran crisis

  • An image of the NPR logo outside its headquarters in Washington DC

    NPR needs a serious critique not a politically charged parting shot

    Margaret Sullivan
  • Projection of Patriotic Millionaires' message: Extreme Wealth Destroys Democracy

    World leaders have a chance to raise taxes for rich people like me. I’m begging them to take it

    Abigail Disney
  • Olive and Ronda

    A life without my dogs seems imponderable. Yet we do keep going after losing the animals we adore

    Paul Daley

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Climate crisis

  • Parched, cracked earth with dried-out irrigation tubes under sunny, blue sky.

    Environment
    US lawmakers Elizabeth Warren and Ro Khanna seek to ban trade in water rights

  • An employee handles plastic bottles at a facility

    Exclusive
    Plastic-production emissions could triple to one-fifth of Earth’s carbon budget – report

  • A kākā at Zealandia ecosanctuary, Wellington, New Zealand.

    Penguins in the pond, kiwi in the back yard
    How a city brought back its birds

  • A hand holding shredded pieces of a thin blue material

    Clean energy’s dirty secret
    The trail of waste left by India’s solar power boom

Around the world

  • Two researchers wearing white protective suits, one carrying a blue box, walk across stony ground with penguins and water in the background

    Bird flu
    Risk of disease spreading to humans is ‘enormous concern’, says WHO

    Chief scientist voices fears about H5N1 variant that has ‘extraordinarily high’ mortality rate in humans
  • A person stands surrounded by flood water caused by heavy rains, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Wednesday.

    Dubai floods
    Chaos, queues and submerged cars after UAE hit by record rains

  • Three cows amid green grass

    Exclusive
    Most UK dairy farms ignoring pollution rules as manure spews into rivers

  • Pouria Zeraati giving a V for victory sign from a hospital bed

    Exclusive
    Eastern European mercenaries suspected of stabbing Iranian journalist in London

    • Haiti
      France urged to repay billions of dollars to country for independence ‘ransom’

    • Netflix
      Profits surge as streaming service adds 9.3m subscribers in latest quarter

    • Nigeria
      Woman rescued 10 years after kidnap by Boko Haram in Chibok

    • Scotland
      Husband of former first minister Peter Murrell charged over embezzlement

    • Endangered species
      Two black-footed ferrets cloned from frozen tissue samples

    • Brexit
      UK to delay start of health and safety checks on EU imports – report

Cotton Capital: ongoing series

  • Two Black women stand in front of a house beyond a massive oak tree.

    'The overall goal is to run us all out'
    They’re fighting polluters destroying historically Black towns – starting with their own

  • A historical map overlayed on modern New York

    Sites of resistance
    Threatened African burial grounds around the world

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

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

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

    Scraping away generations of forgetting
    My fight to honour the Africans buried on St Helena

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Culture

  • A ‘fat little wobbly maggot’, AKA a rehabilitated seal, with Sue and Tom in Wildlife Rescue.

    Wildlife Rescue review
    Totally adorable TV you’ll want to watch for years to come

    This super cute show about an animal hospital will have you crying happy tears from the off. And just wait till you meet the seal pups!
  • a man plays the guitar

    Dickey Betts
    Allman Brothers Band co-founder and guitarist dies aged 80

  • ‘Nothing’s passed me by’ … Sheila E pictured at home

    ‘I’ve used hairbrushes, spatulas, car keys, apples'
    Sheila E on drumming with Prince, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson and more

  • Corky Lee in Mask 2020

    ‘I’m practicing photographic justice’
    Corky Lee’s portraits of Asian American life

  • Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese at the Cannes film festival in 2023.

    Frank Sinatra biopic
    Martin Scorsese to revive film with Leonardo DiCaprio

  • ‘Forced the decisions on to authors’ … PEN America

    PEN America
    Writers withdraw from awards in support of Gaza

Lifestyle

  • The German aviator Otto Lilienthal (1849 - 1896) demonstrating the first glider he invented.

    Shock of the old
    11 transport fantasies that never got off the ground – from jetpacks to swan-powered paragliders

  • Painting: On the Thames, A Heron by Jacques Joseph Tissot.

    Leading questions
    My close friend is a therapist but all she does is complain. Should I exit this relationship?

  • Steve and Lisa sitting in a coffee shop

    How we met
    It felt like chatting with an old friend rather than meeting for the first time

  • Jay Rayner Happy Eater illustration

    Happy eater
    Food crazes make me want to roll my eyes. But first, pass me a crookie

    Jay Rayner
  • Anna and Phil

    Dining across the divide
    ‘I couldn’t get on board with her equating the Taliban and the democratic government of Ukraine’

  • Pattern of slices citrus-fruit of Lemons, oranges, grapefruit, lime on beige background. Healthy food, diet and detox concept. Flat lay, top view

    How to store half a lemon?
    18 ways to keep leftover food fresh

Take part

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    Teachers
    Tell us about moving from abroad to a school in England

  • Photographer taking picture of newlywed bride and groom as they leave church.

    People in the US
    Share your ‘modern wedding etiquette’ suggestions

  • Elections for the Mayor and London Assembly under eased covid lockdown conditions, in Balham, Wandsworth, London, UK, on 06 May 2021.Covid rules and the desire to vote (with plenty of young people in evidence), led to queues at a polling station in Wandsworth.

    Young people in the UK
    How do you feel about voting?

  • Bridal couples pose on Trolltunga rock formation in Ullensvang Municipality, Vestland county, Norway.

    Wedding photography
    Share your experiences

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From our global editions

  • Graphic illustration of black-and-white image of white woman with long wavy hair smiling in portrait, surrounded by red, dark blue and light blue images of state seals and voter receipts.

    Exclusive
    Georgia lawmaker runs secret election-conspiracy Telegram channel

    Bridget Thorne, a Republican elected in Fulton county in 2022, has spread election fraud lies and accused county employees of crimes
  • Liz Truss raises her left hand while speaking during prime minister's questions in the Commons

    Trussonomic lessons
    What can be learned from former PM’s book?

  • George the cockatoo beside Raphael the lorikeet

    Love nest
    How a musk lorikeet fell for a red-tailed black cockatoo

  • The shortages have made one patient feel he has ‘no choice’ but to stockpile medicine by taking less than the intended dose.

    ‘I had to do an 80-mile trip’
    The stress caused by UK drug shortages

  • A guard checks the passport of a Palestinian women at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt

    ‘People are begging us to feed their children’
    Gaza refugees in Cairo find little help

  • A display of fresh fish of different sizes lying on a bed of ice

    Goodbye cod, hello herring
    Why putting a different fish on your dish will help the planet

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    ‘We can’t hunt or fish’
    The villages in Ecuador’s Amazon surrounded by abandoned explosives

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    ‘I was severely stalked and severely abused’
    Richard Gadd on the true story behind Baby Reindeer

  • Glodi Wabelua. Photographed in London by David Levene 23/1/24

    From low-level drug dealer to human trafficker
    Are modern slavery laws catching the wrong people?

  • Narendra Modi

    2024: Year of elections
    Six weeks, 969 million voters, 2,600 parties: India’s mammoth election explained

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    The Audio Long Read
    A historic revolt, a forgotten hero, an empty plinth: is there a right way to remember slavery? – podcast

  • A woman and child hold hands as they walk on a street in the town of Tasiilaq, Greenland, with red buildings, the sea and snowy mountains in the background

    Today in Focus
    The chilling policy to cut Greenland’s high birth rate

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    Football Weekly
    Manchester City and Arsenal crash out of Champions League – Football Weekly Extra

  • James Magnussen celebrating a win in swimming

    Science
    Who really wins if the Enhanced Games go ahead? – podcast

  • Close-up of a person smoking a cigarette

    Today in Focus
    Can Rishi Sunak create a smoke-free generation?

  • Kylian Mbappé

    Football Weekly
    PSG and Dortmund thrill in two classic Champions League quarter-finals – Football Weekly

  • Flordelis dos Santos de Souza. Photograph: Andre Lucas/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: Did Brazil’s evangelical superstar have her husband killed? – podcast

In pictures

  • Ellen Geddes, a wheelchair fencer

    Photos of the day
    Record-breaking ballet dancers and protesting farmers

    The Guardian’s picture editors select some of the most powerful photos from around the world
  • A migrant walks over a freight train known as the beast as he arrives at Piedras Negras, in Piedras Negras, October 2023

    World Press Photo 2024
    Global winners of the competition

  • Black-and-white photo of people dancing on a dancefloor, one in a leotard

    Partying with an 8ft pink panther
    Ibiza in the 70s and 80s

  • A bolt of lightning crosses the sky over the terraced fields

    Photos of the day
    Desert floods and northern lights

  • From the series Soon Will Summer be Over, 2023.

    Sunshine at midnight on the arctic tundra
    Inuuteq Storch’s best photograph

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    All aboard the ‘ding ding’!
    A wild ride through Hong Kong

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