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  • three schoolgirls, seen from behind, sit with raised hands in a classroom while an anonymised adult woman, seen from the side with her head turned away, stands at a whiteboard

    Education
    Teaching assistants routinely cover lessons in England and Wales, survey finds

    Exclusive: Research shows extent to which schools are struggling to provide qualified teachers for every class
  • King Charles and Queen Camilla talk to each other, arm in arm, in a garden

    King Charles III
    Monarch to return to public duties while continuing cancer treatment

  • Heavily damaged and collapsed buildings in Khan Younis, Gaza.

    Gaza
    37m tonnes of bomb-filled debris could take 14 years to clear, says expert

  • R Kelly arrives at the Cook county criminal court in Chicago, 13 June 2008.

    R Kelly
    US court upholds singer's 20-year prison term for child sexual abuse

    • Tesla
      Autopilot feature 'involved in 13 fatal crashes in US'

    • Hush-money trial
      Trump assistant’s testimony focuses on relationship with Stormy Daniels

    • Reading
      Terror attack deaths were avoidable, inquest finds

    • Antisemitism
      CAA cancels counter-protest against London pro-Palestinian march

    • ‘It’s an expression of emotion’
      Pro-Palestine murals in London face council review and removal

    • 'I would like to be Emily'
      Emma Stone says she would like to be called by her real name

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  • Inga Rublite, right, with her twin sister Inese Briede, both smiling

    ‘It should have been safe’
    Twin of woman found under coat in A&E says death avoidable

  • Charcoal sketch of three white men

    Trump on Trial
    What we learned from David Pecker’s testimony

    We’ve now finished our first week of testimony in former president Donald Trump’s criminal trial – and have one witness in the books.
  • Rishi Sunak adjusting an earpiece at a press conference

    Analysis
    Rishi Sunak struggling to smother frenzy of election rumours

    Speculation PM could call election to forestall possible leadership challenge has its own momentum despite No 10 dismissals

Spotlight

  • Paul Mullin poses in front of a Wrexham badge.

    Wrexham’s Paul Mullin
    ‘As soon as we leave the pitch, Ryan’s first to text’

    The star striker talks achieving another promotion, potentially making goalscoring and finding acceptance in his son’s autism
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    Zendaya
    Can actor make the leap from tween idol to Hollywood heavyweight?

  • Unsympathetic - man woman illustration

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    My brother bullied me, which has had a lifelong impact. Can I build bridges with him now?

    He is the one who should be saying sorry. There’s no miracle cure, but do consider therapy, and keep good people around you
  • Silhouette of an unrecognisable person looking out of a window blind.

    ‘I felt immense shame’
    One man’s experience of a female stalker

    Tom, whose experience echoes that portrayed in Baby Reindeer, talks about the impact on him and the police response
    • visitors pore over an orange MG 4 EV electric sports car on display at the Beijing Auto Show.

      Why Elon Musk is right
      Once-booming electric car sales are starting to stall

    • Sekkoya Canterbury: ‘an impressive “mural” skylight gives the impression you’re dining in a rainforest.’

      Grace Dent on restaurants
      Sekkoya, Canterbury: ‘A prime example of why the term “pan-Asian” fills me with foreboding’

    • 20mph speed limit sign - Black 20 in white circle with a red outline and a passing car

      'The speed limit changes every few miles'
      20mph splits opinion in Welsh market town

    • Charles Guilloy cooking a kitchen.

      Bourguignon, burgers and beetroot
      Paris Olympics to make history with vegetarian offerings

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Opinion

  • Harvey Weinstein leaves a court in New York after a bail hearing in December 2019.

    How much did #MeToo change for women? Let’s ask Harvey Weinstein today – or Donald Trump

    Marina Hyde
    Both were pilloried, but that was then. Today, one has beaten a rape conviction, the other may return as president
  • Scotland's first minister Humza Yousaf in the lobby of the Scottish parliament on 29 February 2024.

    The SNP ditching its Green allies has backfired on Humza Yousaf – and set back the cause of independence

    Dani Garavelli
  • Martin Rowson on the travails of Humza Yousaf – cartoon

    Cartoon
    Martin Rowson on the travails of Humza Yousaf

    Scotland’s first minister faces motions of no confidence from Labour and the Conservatives after ending his power-sharing deal with the Green party
  • black and white picture of people sitting in an assembly room

    Biden is the graduation speaker for Martin Luther King’s alma mater. It’s a moral disaster

    Jared Loggins
    The US president continues to support Israel in its onslaught on Gaza. Morehouse College’s most famous alumnus was anti-war
    • Pro-Palestine activists on the outskirts of University Yard at George Washington University in Washington DC on Friday. Campus police officers closed off access to a protest encampment as it entered the second day.

      Most Jews and Palestinians want peace. Extremists, narcissists ​and other ‘allies’ only block the way

      Jonathan Freedland
    • Illustration: Nate Kitch

      The cost of living crisis has made the UK a poorer, more anxious nation – and worse is yet to come

      Andy Beckett
    • A herd of cows huddled together in a Texas cattle farm

      American cows now have bird flu, too – but it’s time for planning, not panic

      Devi Sridhar
    • Behind the scenes at dress and tech rehearsals with the WNO (Welsh National Opera) for Death in Venice, which also features members of NoFItState Circus who play characters, dnace and perform acrobatics as part of the show. Cardiff. Wales. Photograph by David Levene 28/2/24

      The Tories’ poisonous anti-culture politics has crushed the arts. Bring on election night

      Polly Toynbee

Editorials & Letters

  • An inmate at a cell door window in HMP Portland

    The Guardian view
    Indeterminate sentences: the legacy of a bad law lingers on

  • The Last Night of the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall

    The Guardian view
    Patriotism and the Last Night of the Proms: time for a change

  • Justice statue on the Old Bailey law courts in central London

    Letters
    Gaza, Germany, justice and reconciliation

  • Ecstasy pills in a man's hand

    Letters
    MDMA trials are showing it has promise as a psychiatric medicine

Climate crisis

  • Smoke comes out of chimneys at a refinery against a backdrop of clear blue skies.

    Exclusive
    Barclays accused of greenwashing over financing for Italian oil company

  • A girl cools off during the heat wave at the Suhrawardy Udyan water reserve in Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Asia
    Wave of exceptionally hot weather scorches south and south-east of continent

  • the muddy rain-sodden legs and shoes of two young people

    Weather tracker
    Heavy rainfall causes flooding and death in east Africa

  • UAE-WEATHER-FLOOD<br>Cars drive down a flooded motorway in Dubai on April 20, 2024. Four people died after the heaviest rainfall on record in the oil-rich UAE on April 16, including two Filipino women who suffocated inside their vehicle in Dubai's flooding. (Photo by Giuseppe CACACE / AFP) (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP via Getty Images)

    UAE
    Global heating and urbanisation to blame for severity of floods, study finds

From the UK

  • Fiona Elias and Liz Hopkin: close-up head and shoulders portraits of both. They are both blond women wearing dark-rimmed glasses; Elias has her hair tied back while Hopkin's hair falls across her forehead

    Wales
    Teachers injured in school stabbing speak of incident’s ‘enormous impact’

    Fiona Elias and Liz Hopkin thank emergency services and NHS staff and pay tribute to colleagues and ‘wonderful pupils’
  • A woman vaping

    Vaping
    Women should give up electric cigarettes if they want to get pregnant, study suggests

  • Composite of the two men each walking with building in background

    Espionage
    Two UK men charged with spying for China appear in Westminster court

  • Humza Yousaf speaking to the media in Dundee

    Humza Yousaf
    SNP leader fights to stay on as second no confidence motion tabled

    • Russia
      Briton charged with aiding Moscow and planning arson against Ukraine-linked business in UK

    • Peter Kay
      More gigs postponed amid opening week chaos at Manchester Co-op Live arena

    • Liz Truss
      Book enters bestseller list in 70th place with 2,228 copies sold

    • Telegraph
      Paul Marshall expected to bid for newspaper after quitting GB News board

    • Sadiq Khan
      Labour mayor urges young Londoners to vote or risk ‘repeat of Brexit and Trump victory’

    • Gideon Falter
      Home Office considered campaigner for counter-extremism unit

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  • Andrew Tate, who is bald-headed with a beard, speaks with one hand raised

    Andrew Tate
    Human trafficking trial can proceed, Romanian court rules

  • Pier catches fire in Southern California, Oceanside, CA, United States - 25 Apr 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Hayne Palmour IV/REX/Shutterstock (14450777l) People watch a helicopter drop water as fire crews fight a fire burning at the end of the Oceanside Municipal Pier in Oceanside, California on Thursday, April 25, 2024. The fire started at a vacant restaurant at the end of the pier causing significant damage. No injuries were reported. Pier catches fire in Southern California, Oceanside, CA, United States - 25 Apr 2024

    California
    Crews battle fire threatening longest wooden pier on US west coast

    • George Floyd
      Minneapolis backs $150,000 settlement for witness’s PTSD lawsuit

    • China
      US has seen evidence of attempts by Beijing to influence election, says Blinken

    • Harvey Weinstein
      #MeToo founder says campaign will continue after verdict overturned

    • Ukraine
      Agriculture minister detained in multimillion dollar corruption probe

    • Environment
      UN-led panel aims to tackle abuses linked to mining for ‘critical minerals’

    • France
      Aya Nakamura thanks fans for support over Olympics racism as she wins awards

Culture

  • FILE: Ellen DeGeneres Tests Positive for Coronavirus<br>FILE - DECEMBER 10: Ellen DeGeneres has tested positive for Coronavirus. Filming of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" has been put on hold. NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 08: Ellen Degeneres hosts 'The Ellen Degeneres Show' Season 13 Bi-Coastal Premiere at Rockefeller Center on September 8, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by James Devaney/GC Images)

    Ellen DeGeneres
    I was ‘kicked out of show business’ for being ‘mean’, talkshow host says

    Former talkshow host discussed her controversial exit from daytime TV after reports of a toxic workplace in new standup set
  • Author Siang Lu ahead of the publication of his new book Ghost Cities. Brisbane. Australia

    Audacious, stimulating and ‘utterly bonkers’
    Siang Lu, the thrilling new face of Australian literature

  • Taylor Swift at the 2024 Grammy awards.

    Taylor Swift
    Singer equals Madonna’s record of 12 UK No 1 albums

  • Robyn Malcolm as Penny in After the Party who is looking out a window

    ‘I’m not here to make other women feel like shit’
    Robyn Malcolm on acting, ageing and the power of art

  • Supporters of Donald Trump storm the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.

    Aaron Sorkin
    Social Network screenwriter to write film about January 6 and Facebook disinformation

  • Jonah Hauer-King photographed in London by Suki Dhanda for the Guardian.

    ‘Shaving my head became so poignant’
    Jonah Hauer-King on The Tattooist of Auschwitz and his extraordinary family story

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    ‘It’s what I always dreamed of’
    Mango deal takes Victoria Beckham’s designs to high street

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    The sweet spot
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  • Accessories hang on an orange wall next to a changing room with a green fabric curtain pulled back

    Accessories
    Coral bracelets and kitsch keyrings spell beginning of fashion backlash

  • Composite of a young heterosexual looking into each other's eyes, while in the background a man walks away.

    ‘We chose not to blow up our life’
    Readers on surviving infidelity

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    Cocktail of the week
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    'It will be around for years to come'
    Questions in rocket-hit Sderot over whether IDF can ever destroy Hamas

    People in city bordering Gaza say Israel will never be safe while Hamas exists – but worry it cannot achieve its objective
  • three side by side images: a woman with glasses; a sign reading to resist is to love; a woman speaking into a microphone

    ‘Injustice should not be accepted’
    Four US students on why they’re protesting against war in Gaza

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    Chaotic and thrilling
    Columbia’s radio station is live from the student protests

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    'This is not some new surge of interest'
    What is the real story behind Vietnamese Channel boat crossings?

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    ‘We are with them’
    Support for Hamas grows among Palestinians in Lebanon

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