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  • Columbia faculty members join students in the protest encampment on Columbia’s west lawn on Monday.

    Live
    Tensions high at Columbia University after protesters defy deadline to leave

    Pro-Palestinian protesters joined by Columbia faculty after 2pm ET ultimatum to leave or face suspension passes
    • a zebra

      Washington state
      Rodeo workers help police round up runaway zebras on interstate

    • BHP
      Mining firm offers $25.7bn settlement for Brazil dam disaster

    • Elon Musk
      X owner still needs lawyer approval to tweet about Tesla, says supreme court

    • France
      Gérard Depardieu to appear in criminal court over sexual assault allegations

    • Canada
      British Columbia abruptly drops drug decriminalization after backlash

    • 'A total miracle'
      Utah cat found safe in California after sneaking into Amazon return box

    • Plato
      Final hours recounted in scroll found in Vesuvius ash

In focus

  • Customers sit at tables at a cafe, some of them drinking coffee, as a TV mounted above a fridge shows Pedro Sánchez delivering an address

    Surreal claims, lawfare and abuse
    Toxic politics in Spain reflect the new Europe

  • Greying African man wearing a suit jacket, shirt and tie looks at camera

    ‘Stain on our humanity’
    The ‘man who repairs women’ on rape as a weapon and how the world forgot the DRC

    For the Nobel laureate Denis Mukwege, who has treated more than 80,000 survivors of sexual violence by armed groups, the west displays double standards over the ‘stain on our humanity’
  • Lift operator Mzia Sabanadze in her room next to the elevator she operates.

    Cats, cuddly toys and a portrait of Stalin
    The last lift lady guarding Tbilisi’s brutalist skybridge

    In the Georgian capital, 70-year-old Mzia Sabanadze manually operates the pay-as-you go elevator to the bridge connecting the once-futuristic Nutsubidze apartment blocks

Spotlight

  • Michelangelo’s The Punishment of Tityus.

    'A lifelong struggle'
    Michelangelo and the most sublime declarations of gay love in art

    Michelangelo announced his love for a young upper-class gentleman in verse and prose, but he also gave Tommaso de’ Cavalieri some of the greatest homoerotic drawings ever created – now taking centre stage at the British Museum
  • a man in a suit and tie speaks from behind a lectern

    Waffles, caviar, fish and chips
    The top White House correspondents’ dinner parties - ranked by the food they served

  • portrait of a man

    He led a strike at Kellogg’s
    Now he’s aiming for a Nebraska Senate seat

    Dan Osborn is challenging incumbent Deb Fischer in a ‘long shot’ bid to prove the state still has an ‘independent spirit’
  • Mark and Ros Dowey

    ‘It can happen to any child’
    Parents of sextortion victim send out warning

    • a man with dark hair in a suit holds a microphone

      No Jerry Seinfeld, the ‘extreme left’ hasn’t killed comedy

      Stuart Heritage
    • ‘Take a fraction of what you’d spend on Le Labo Rose 31 and buy yourself a bouquet; meditate on your own impermanence as it wilts.’

      Ask Ugly
      Signature scents are deeply appealing – but how else can I express ‘the self’?

    • Semi-naked cartoon savages … the Jarvis Mural.

      ‘One of the most racist things I’ve ever seen’
      How Royal Institute of British Architects is decolonizing its HQ

    • Someone's knees with faces drawn on, which are looking at each other through the corners of their eyes in comedic fashion.

      ‘Don’t push into pain!’
      How to rescue your knees from everything from torn ligaments to injured tendons

Opinion

  • Close-up of man wearing suit

    What will happen if the ICC charges Netanyahu with war crimes?

    Kenneth Roth
    • two police officers arresting a young woman

      Stunning police brutality will ignite a student anti-war movement in America

      Joan Donovan
    • Election campaign rally by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Balurghat<br>India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses his supporters during an election campaign rally in Balurghat in the eastern state of West Bengal, India, April 16, 2024. REUTERS/Stringer

      With India’s election in full swing, Narendra Modi is getting desperate – and dangerous

      Salil Tripathi
    • Humza Yousaf and his wife, Nadia El-Nakla, leave Bute House after he announced his resignation as SNP leader.

      Humza Yousaf’s clumsiness meant he had to jump – but Westminster also gave him a push

      Rory Scothorne
    • Supporters of Israel wave the country’s flag

      Zionism can – and must – be about liberation of Jews and Palestinians

      Jo-Ann Mort

Sports

  • Joel Embiid scored 27 points and grabbed 10 boards in the 76ers’ Game 4 defeat to the Knicks.

    ‘It pisses me off’
    Embiid frustrated by Knicks fans’ takeover of Sixers arena

  • Caleb Williams celebrates with Bears fans after being selected first overall by Chicago during the first round of the 2024 NFL draft on Thursday in Detroit.

    NFL draft 2024 winners and losers
    Chicago shine as Denver disappoint

    Time will tell who got the best haul of players in Detroit this year, there were promising signs from the Bears, Vikings and Steelers
    • This image released by FX shows Rob McElhenney, Ryan Reynolds, right, in a scene from the second season of "Welcome to Wrexham." premiering Sept. 12. (FX via AP)

      Wrexham
      Club owners buy stake in Liga MX club Necaxa

    • Rory McIlroy celebrates winning the Zurich Classic with Shane Lowry on Sunday.

      PGA Tour shunning McIlroy would be epic embarrassment

      Ewan Murray
    • Candace Parker became the only player in WNBA history to win a championship with three different teams last season with the Las Vegas Aces.

      ‘It’s time’
      Candace Parker, two-time WNBA MVP, announces retirement

    • Sixteen clubs voted in favour of subjecting ‘anchoring’ proposals to a full economic and legal analysis.

      Premier League
      Spending cap plan gets backing despite trio voting against

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Climate crisis

  • a woman stands in a field

    California
    Activist wins Goldman prize for effort to clean up trucking and railway sectors

  • Kenyan workers collect plastic waste for recycling in Nakuru. A pile of plastic items, including colourful buckets and pots, dominates the foreground of the image

    Environment
    Countries consider pact to reduce plastic production by 40% in 15 years

  • Woman with black curly hair and adorned with feathers stares into camera

    Murrawah Johnson
    First Nations woman one of seven global winners of prestigious Goldman prize for environmental activism

  • A gardener using bowl of washing up water to water garden plants.

    Environment
    Rain gardens and bathwater reuse becoming trends, UK gardening charity says

Across the country

  • woman wearing white talks to man wearing glasses

    Marjorie Taylor Greene
    Congresswoman won't drop threat to oust House speaker

  • Patricia smiles as she sits in a window seat on a plane

    ‘They thought I was a child’
    US airline repeatedly registers 101-year-old as baby

    • ‘I’ve missed it since the day I left’
      Dan Rather on life after CBS News

    • Weather tracker
      US experts predict one of most active hurricane seasons on record

    • ‘Cricket had shown aggressive behavior’
      Kristi Noem defends killing dog

    • New Mexico
      Three women diagnosed with HIV after getting ‘vampire facials'

    • ‘Do not bow’
      Ex-Black Panther praises pro-Palestinian student protesters from prison

    • Harvey Weinstein
      Disgraced former Hollywood producer hospitalized

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Around the world

  • Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk, left, dressed in dark suit and white shirt and tie, sits at a table with besuited Chinese Premier Li Qiang (right) in Beijing

    Elon Musk
    ‘Watershed moment’ for Tesla as CEO’s visit to China reaps quick reward

    Deal to use mapping data from web search giant Baidu is a big step towards launching driver assistance tech in world’s biggest car market
  • Protesters hold signs with photographs of the Iranian rapper and banners reading: 'Stop executions in Iran'

    Iran
    Death sentence for rapper sparks protests and undermines criticism of US

  • David Cameron

    UK
    David Cameron urges Hamas to agree to 40-day Gaza ceasefire deal

  • In this image taken from video, outgoing Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare speaks during a news conference, Monday, April 29, 2024, in Honiara, Solomon Islands. Sogavare on Monday withdrew from the contest to remain head of the strategically important South Pacific island nation’s government following general elections two weeks ago that are central to the U.S.-China rivalry in the region. (Australian Broadcasting Corporation via AP)

    Solomon Islands
    PM Manasseh Sogavare to stand down after poor election result

    • ‘The Guardian lights very well’
      How newspaper came to aid of geologist stranded in UK

    • Russia
      Red Cross decides against suspending Russian branch despite links to Kremlin war machine

    • Burkina Faso
      Country bans more media outlets over coverage of alleged massacre

    • Couriers/delivery industry
      Delivery firm Getir to quit UK, Europe and US and focus on Turkey

    • Scottish politics
      Humza Yousaf steps down as first minister; John Swinney favored to replace him

    • European Union
      EU to investigate Meta over election misinformation before June polls

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    Football Weekly
    Arsenal and Manchester City set up a two-horse race – Football Weekly

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    The Audio Long Read
    The new science of death: ‘There’s something happening in the brain that makes no sense’ – podcast

  • Molly Roden Winter

    Today in Focus
    Have open marriages gone mainstream?

  • David Harewood portrait

    Weekend
    Weekend podcast: ‘I was hammered on stage’ – David Harewood on racism and success; John Crace on ‘tetchy’ Rishi; the answer to insomnia hell; and Baby Reindeer fall out

  • The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington DC on 28 August 1963. Photograph: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    Solidarity and strategy: the forgotten lessons of truly effective protest – podcast

  • Biden in bow tie and shades with sign behind him saying: White House Correspondents' Association

    Politics Weekly America
    White House Correspondents’ Dinner: is there still space for humour?

  • Lines of tents at a pro-Palestine protest at Columbia University

    Today in Focus
    The US college protests and the crackdown on campuses

Culture

  • 1988, BEETLEJUICE<br>MICHAEL KEATON Character(s): Beetlejuice Film 'BEETLEJUICE' (1988) Directed By TIM BURTON 29 March 1988 SSB5103 Allstar/WARNER BROS. (USA 1988) / Titel auch: "Lottergeist Beetlejuice" **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of WARNER BROS. and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To WARNER BROS. is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    What’s the perfect movie length? Only a lightweight needs toilet or food breaks

    Peter Bradshaw
    US research suggests that 92 minutes is the optimum length for a film. But I have sat through long films that felt short and short films that felt buttock-annihilatingly long
  • Illinoise on Broadway

    ‘A silent film of dance underscored by an album’
    Inside the audacious Sufjan Stevens musical

  • ‘Oh, go ahead and perm my hair’ … Donald Sutherland in Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

    ‘We used pig squeals to create their shriek’
    How we made Invasion of the Body Snatchers

  • Elia Barbieri - The Guardian Saturday - Big Idea - 27th April 2024 - NIghtlife-01

    The big idea
    What would culture look like without nightlife?

  • ‘He loathed injustice and had contempt for bullies’ said his agent … CJ Sansom.

    CJ Sansom
    Author of the Shardlake novels dies aged 71

  • The boombox that appears on the artwork for Everyone Knows That.

    Everyone Knows That
    Internet music mystery solved via 1986 adult movie

Lifestyle

  • Honey & Co's lamb kofta with lemon and tahini sauce.

    Quick and easy
    Honey & Co’s air fryer lamb koftas with tahini sauce

    It’s high time you accepted the air fryer into your life – Honey & Co have, and can attest to these lamb koftas with peppers, cabbage and tahini sauce
  • Waiter serving customers at outdoor Parisian cafe

    Going for gold!
    Have the Olympics overturned centuries of no-tipping etiquette in France?

  • Keza MacDonald and her lutino budgerigar, Brighton Yellow

    The pet I'll never forget
    Brighton Yellow, the budgie that interrupted dinner parties chirping, ‘Right! That’s enough!’

  • Melanie Cantor, Author, A New Start at 60<br>Melanie Cantor, author, Fuck It, photographed with her dog Mabel in East Stour, Dorset by Millie Pilkington for the Guardian, A New Start after 60

    A new start after 60
    After a decade of rejections, I got my first novel published. Now I’ve got my dream, I won’t stop!

  • Rachel Roddy’s chicken with orange, lemon, marmalade and olives.

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for chicken with orange, lemon, marmalade and olives

  • Preprepared meals for the week ahead in containers

    Nutrition
    ‘Meal prepping’ is booming – but beware the health dangers

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  • People queue outside the Hermes store in Mayfair in London, Monday, April 12, 2021.

    Tell us
    Are you splurging on luxury goods you can ill afford?

  • A young businessman riding skateboard in the city of Barcelona, Spain.

    Tell us
    How do you make your commute fun or productive?

  • UKRAINE-RUSSIA-WAR-CONFLICT<br>Gunners from 43rd Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine prepare to fire at Russian position with a 155 mm self-propelled howitzer 2C22 "Bohdana", in the Kharkiv region, on April 21, 2024, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine. (Photo by Anatolii STEPANOV / AFP) (Photo by ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP via Getty Images)

    Ukrainian men abroad
    Share your views on Poland and Lithuania’s statements on conscription

  • We’re after things that are small, genuinely useful, and inexpensive to buy (nothing over £20).

    Technology
    What’s your favourite everyday gadget?

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From our global editions

  • Friday prayers at Ahmadiyya Mosque, Huddersfield.

    ‘The hot topic is the war’
    West Yorkshire’s Muslim voters feel politically homeless

  • Humza Yousaf arrives at Bute House in Edinburgh before his press conference

    Humza Yousaf quits
    What happens in Scotland now?

  • A sign warning visitors not to pee into the canal in the Red Light District of Amsterdam

    ‘Urination equality’
    Amsterdam women win fight for more public toilets

  • ‘I’m still traumatised by Brexit’ … Ben Bradshaw.

    ‘I still think Tony was right on Iraq’
    Labour’s Ben Bradshaw on Blair, Brexit and battling homophobia

In case you missed it

  • Stacks of 100-yuan banknotes. China has signalled that it will slow the pace of its transition to a cashless society

    Cash is king — for now
    China signals it will slow transition to cashless society

  • A sign warning visitors not to pee into the canal in the Red Light District of Amsterdam

    ‘Urination equality’
    Amsterdam women win fight for more public toilets

    Years of pressure by those fined for urinating in street due to lack of facilities pays off with €4m plans
  • An illustration of a heart made of jigsaw pieces, with a missing piece and a hand holding a smartphone

    ‘The science isn’t there’
    Do dating apps really help us find our soulmate?

    The effectiveness of Tinder and Hinge are hard to judge without access to their data. But now researchers are creating a free alternative with full transparency
  • A young Black woman with long brown and white braids screams as two police officers in blue shirts and black hats hold her arms behind her.

    ‘Like a war zone’
    Emory University grapples with fallout from police response to protest

  • A composite of two images, with a Black man in a suit and red tie on the left, and a white man in a suit and blue tie on the right, both appearing to speak into microphones.

    'He really should not be a politician'
    The culture war in North Carolina plays out in the race for governor

  • Mike Faist, Zendaya and Josh O'Connor in Challengers, sitting on a bed smiling

    Challengers review
    Zendaya holds court in absurdly sexy three-way tennis romance

  • Close up white paper desk calendar with blurred bokeh background appointment and business meeting concept

    US small business
    Less work for the same pay won’t fly – but here’s a four-day week that might

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    Photos of the day
    A car stuck in mud and a thirsty squirrel

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
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    The big picture
    Lydia Goldblatt’s reflection on family and absence

  • Khanyisa Mtulu and her friend, Azasakhe Manxeba attend the Matric dance in Cape Town January 2018

    In pictures
    Joan Wakelin Bursary Prize at 20

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    We love
    Fashion fixes for the week ahead

  • Some of the vibrant textile works created by British artist Ptolemy Mann.

    Dyeing art
    Ptolemy Mann’s vibrant thread paintings

  • Image of children playing by jumping off a boat in the Sunda Kelapa harbour, in North Jakarta, Indonesia, with the sun nearly setting. Entitled Break the Limit it was shot in 2023 on a Xiaomi 11 Lite 5G NE.Jelly Fabrian is shortlisted in the Open Competition, Sony World Photography Awards 2024, exhibition at Somerset House 19 April – 6 May, worldphoto.org

    ‘There aren’t many fields, so the children play around the pier’
    Jelly Febrian’s best phone picture

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