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  • A Palestinian family walks in a tent camp adjacent to destroyed buildings in Gaza City.

    Israel-Gaza
    Gaza ceasefire talks stall, as Egypt proposes long-term reconstruction plan

  • Angie Stone in 2009.

    Music
    Soul singer Angie Stone dies in a car crash at 63

    • New York
      Andrew Cuomo announces run for mayor of New York City

    • Music
      David Johansen, frontman of New York Dolls, dies aged 75

    • New Jersey
      FedEx plane catches fire after bird strike in Newark, makes emergency landing

    • Guyana
      Guyana triggers military response after Venezuelan vessel enters its waters

    • Pope Francis
      Pontiff remains in stable condition, a day after respiratory crisis

    • Nuclear power
      Ageing nuclear plant in Florida at risk from climate crisis, advocates warn

Oscars 2025

  • a man in a dimly lit room looks ahead

    No Other Land
    ‘A chilling effect’: is Hollywood too scared to touch hot-button documentaries?

  • Cynthia Erivo in Wicked, which has taken over $700m worldwide.

    Oscars
    A Wicked shame! In 2025, blockbuster success spells Oscars failure

    The Oz-set blockbuster, plus the Inside Out and Dune sequels, packed out cinemas but won’t win best picture at Sunday’s Academy Awards
  • Timothée Chalamet at the Screen Actors Guild awards.

    A Complete Unknown
    Timothée Chalamet deserves an Oscar – for his Oscar campaign

    A Complete Unknown’s best actor nominee might lose out on the prize to The Brutalist favorite Adrien Brody but his journey to the stage has been award-worthy

Trump administration

  • Gray tents in a row on flat ground with water beyond

    Trump administration
    ACLU sues to block White House from sending 10 immigrants to Guantánamo

  • Musk claimed in early February that he had ‘deleted’ 18F, the office within the General Services Administration that created the IRS Direct File program.

    Internal Revenue Service
    Email shows that Musk ally is moving to close office behind free tax filing program

  • Woman at lectern in front of crowd, speaking

    Medicaid
    Recipients fear ‘buzzsaw cuts’ for Trump’s agenda: ‘We’re not going to be alive forever’

  • A white museum building

    Culture
    ‘I was in shock’: DC gallery pulls exhibits of Black and LGBTQ+ artists amid Trump DEI crackdown

Spotlight

  • David Johansen performing with New York Dolls at Biba's Rainbow Room, London, 1973.

    David Johansen
    Wild, waspish and whip-smart, there are few rock stars as great as David Johansen

    Alexis Petridis
    He looked the part – and sounded even better. And the frontman of New York Dolls, who has died aged 75, was deeper than many gave him credit for
  • Elias Maalouf, owner of Chateau Rayak, surveys his vineyard in the Bekaa valley in central Lebanon.

    Lebanon
    ‘The grapes won’t wait’: winemakers fight to survive as war rages

  • SAT MAG ONLY Age of Diagnosis

    Health
    The number of people with chronic conditions is soaring. Are we less healthy than we used to be – or overdiagnosing illness?

    Are ordinary life experiences, bodily imperfections and normal differences being unnecessarily pathologised? One doctor argues just that
  • Thousands gather in Union Square for the National Day of Protest in New York on 17 February.

    Civil servant firings
    ‘Erased generations of talent’: US public land stewards decry firings and loss of knowledge

    In February, thousands of civil servants were fired from agencies that study the country’s soils, seas and skies
    • Daniel Craig as James Bond in Skyfall.

      James Bond
      Nightclubs, vodka, aftershave: 007 writer on the spy’s future with Amazon

    • graphic of kids with headphones on devices

      Artificial intelligence
      ‘I want him to be prepared’: why parents are teaching their gen Alpha kids to use AI

    • Rear view of a silver-grey car and its taillights. A bumper sticker illustration has been added that reads: Honk If You're Horny but the horny has been crossed out in black marker and the sticker reads: Honk If You're Lonely.

      Sex
      The truth about young men and sex: ‘We go along with things we’re uncomfortable with’

    • Multistorey hotel block by sunny tourist beach

      Croatia
      Holidays at a one-time Communist luxury beach haven? Yugoslav resort built for Tito to rise from ruins

Opinion

  • Woman holds white binder as well as white and gold Trump baseball cap.

    Even rightwingers are mocking the ‘Epstein files’ as a lot of redacted nothing

    Arwa Mahdawi
    It was yet another reminder that Trump and his associates will turn even the sex trafficking of minors into a photo op
  • Dom Mckenzie The Observer Comment Nation states web version

    With Nato adrift and Brussels snubbed, is the UK key to Europe’s response to Trump?

    Simon Tisdall
    In a fast-moving crisis, the EU hasn’t been nimble enough. The onus must fall on ‘coalitions of the willing’ to stop a US-Putin carve-up
    • An angry-looking Donald Trump points his finger at Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office.

      The Observer view on the Trump-Zelenskyy clash: a moment of dark reckoning

    • The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown. The Guardian list of the most influential books of the last decade. Commissioned

      Salman Rushdie out, Dan Brown in: why it’s time to detoxify our middle-class bookshelves

      Gareth Rubin
    • A poster in Bethnal Green, east London, shows Elon Musk making a Nazi salute from a Tesla.

      It might be a small consolation, but Elon Musk is getting poorer by the day

      John Naughton
    • U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as U.S. Vice President JD Vance reacts at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 28, 2025

      Trump’s style of petty domination was in full display with Zelenskyy

      Moira Donegan

Sports

  • Nico O'Reilly rises to score Manchester City’s second goal against Plymouth.

    FA Cup
    Manchester City survive early scare to overcome Plymouth

  • Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose reacts to a reporter’s question in March 1989, when he was under scrutiny by the baseball commissioner’s office for gambling.

    MLB
    Trump says in social media post he plans to pardon the late Pete Rose

    Donald Trump says he plans to issue ‘a complete PARDON of Pete Rose’, baseball’s late career hits leader who was banned from MLB for gambling
    • United States v Australia - 2025 SheBelieves Cup<br>GLENDALE, ARIZONA - FEBRUARY 23: Ally Sentnor #9; Yazmeen Ryan #22; Claire Hutton #16; Jaedyn Shaw #8; Michelle Cooper #21 of the United States all celebrate a goal that was made against Australia during the second half at the 2025 SheBelieves Cup at State Farm Stadium on February 23, 2025 in Glendale, Arizona. (Photo by Aryanna Frank/USSF/Getty Images for USSF)

      Two teenagers could define Emma Hayes’ USA midfield for years to come

      Kim McCauley
    • McLaren, who finished last season on a high, look to be have improved with their new car.

      Formula One
      What we learned from our first look at the class of 2025 in Bahrain

    • Sweden athlete Armand Duplantis celebrates after setting a new world record to win the men's pole vault in Clermont-Ferrand

      Track and field
      Duplantis hits high notes before soaring to 11th pole vault world record

    • Aaron Rodgers completed 63.0% of his passes for 3,897 yards with 28 touchdowns and 11 interceptions in 2024.

      NFL free agency
      Rodgers reportedly could stay in New York after all ... with lowly Giants

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Climate crisis

  • A man walks next to a damaged car in an area heavily affected by torrential rains and flash floods in Kenya, April 2024.

    Seascape
    Surge in marine heatwaves costs lives and billions in storm damage – study

  • Storms swirling over the Pacific near Australia

    Environment
    Weather tracker: six cyclones swirl simultaneously in southern hemisphere

  • Scenic view of Rhine embankment with a ferry crossing the river

    The alternatives
    ‘Green roofs deliver for biodiversity’: how Basel put nature on top

  • A fisher paddles through wetlands in Accra, Ghana.

    Climate crisis
    Cop16 nature summit agrees deal at 11th hour but critics say it is not enough

Across the country

  • Aerial view of home owned by Gene Hackman

    New Mexico
    ‘There’s something wrong about it’: Santa Fe abuzz as residents wonder what caused Gene Hackman’s death

    New Mexico town shocked by deaths of actor, wife and dog – but answers to critical questions may take time to emerge
  • a person looking at camera

    US crime
    Tortured death of trans man in western New York echoes notorious 90s killing

  • Donald Trump castigates Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office of the White House on Friday.

    ‘Bewildering’
    US media and politicians react to Trump’s televised attack on Zelenskyy

    The showdown between the US president and the Ukrainian leader dumbfounded various outlets and politicos
    • A New Orleans street with balconied buildings with movable steel barriers blocking the street

      New Orleans
      ‘Back injuries’ and ‘a tripping hazard’: New Orleans officials still resisting anti-ramming barriers after deadly vehicle attack

    • US Capitol attack
      Pardoned January 6 rioter said ‘I’m shooting myself’ before Indiana deputy fatally shot him

    • Consumers
      ‘Hit them where it hurts’: Americans boycott corporations to protest anti-DEI policies

    • 'Breathtaking'
      Trump’s ‘bald power grab’ could set US on path to dictatorship, critics fear

    • Skype
      Microsoft is shutting down Skype after over two decades

    • Democrats
      ‘Dummies for Putin’: Democrats defend Zelenskyy after ‘shameful’ Trump meeting

    • Holocaust
      Rose Girone, believed to be oldest living Holocaust survivor, dies aged 113

    • Illinois
      Illinois landlord found guilty in 2023 murder of six-year-old Palestinian boy

Around the world

  • Flames and smoke coming from a forest on a hill in Japan

    Wildfires
    Japan battles largest wildfire in decades

    More than a thousand people have been evacuated near forest of Ofunato in northern region of Iwate
  • EU foreign secretary Kaja Kallas standing in front of an EU sign

    European Union
    ‘Free world needs a new leader’, says EU foreign chief after Trump-Zelenskyy row

  • Police security and control operation in Nice<br>A police officer stands in front of a wall with inscriptions about drug prices during a police security and control operation at Les Moulins housing complex in Nice, France, January 12, 2023. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard

    France
    ‘It’s packed with dealers. Look around you’: life amid the cocaine cartels of the French Riviera

  • Detail from The Nun Jerónima de la Fuente

    Spain
    ‘She has this power’: nun’s crucifix links Michelangelo to Velázquez

    • Kurds
      PKK declares ceasefire with Turkey after more than 40 years of conflict

    • Environment
      JP Morgan’s ‘sustainable’ funds invested £200m in mining giant Glencore

    • UK
      Former Barclays boss gambles on courtroom battle over ties to Epstein

    • UK
      Ramadan display lights up Piccadilly Circus in London

    • UK
      Extreme online violence may be linked to rise of ‘0 to 100’ killers, experts say

    • Nigel Farage
      Labour steps up attacks on Farage and Reform over pro-Russia stance

Podcasts

Podcasts

  • Portrait (head only) of Aimee Lou Wood

    Weekend
    The White Lotus actor Aimee Lou Wood, Marina Hyde on Daddy Musk, and are we over-diagnosing illness? – podcast

  • Starmer and Trump in the Oval Office as journalists including Pippa Crerar ask questions

    Politics Weekly UK
    Special episode: Inside the room when Starmer met Trump – Politics Weekly Westminster

  • Germany's chancellor, Olaf Scholz (right), with Israel's PM, Benjamin Netanyahu, in March 2023. Photograph: Abdulhamid Hosbas/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    Israel and the delusions of Germany’s ‘memory culture’ – podcast

  • A man waving a flag in Syria

    Today in Focus
    Joy, hope and murder in free Syria – podcast

  • Keir Starmer places a hand on Donald Trump's shoulder

    Politics Weekly America
    Is the tide starting to turn against Trump? – podcast

Culture

  • David Johansen portrait

    David Johansen
    A life in pictures

    The New York Dolls frontman has died aged 75
  • Jeremy Pelt playing the trumpet on stage

    Jeremy Pelt: Woven review
    Accessible post-bop with a touch of electric Miles

  • Gene Hackman in The French Connection, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Firm

    Gene Hackman
    From Unforgiven to The Firm: Guardian writers pick their favorite Gene Hackman movies

  • Mel Brooks

    Mel Brooks
    ‘I said there was no reason to make it a musical!’ Mel Brooks on The Producers’ West End transfer

  • Get Millie Black - Ep1<br>Millie-Jean Black - (Tamara Lawrence)

    The watcher
    Get Millie Black: Tamara Lawrance is astonishing in Marlon James’s exemplary Jamaican detective show

  • Lisa.

    Lisa: Alter Ego review
    A focus group-tested attempt at megastar success

Lifestyle

  • ‘Cold water is physically destabilising, but mentally calming’: Selali Fiamanya.

    Self and wellbeing
    Wild swimming gave me the courage to write my own rules

  • Will and Herschel having a picnic in Bondi

    The moment I knew
    I was snot-crying through a Disney film when he placed his head on my shoulder

    Watching a kids’ movie about self-acceptance reduced Will Hopkins to a blubbering mess. But Herschel’s reaction made him feel safe and free from judgment
  • Head shot of writer Becky Barnicoat

    Parenting
    ‘Transforming into a parent is messy and primal: I drew it all’: Becky Barnicoat on turning motherhood into cartoons

Well actually

  • A person's body is covered in a rash, measles.

    Well actually
    Measles outbreak: how contagious is it and what are the symptoms?

  • Graphic illustration of woman, child and hand holding vial with dropper that says "vaccine"

    Well actually
    Formerly anti-vax parents on how they changed their minds: ‘I really made a mistake’

  • illustration of a person with a megaphone standing on lots of angry emoji faces

    Well actually
    My $30,000 health insurance claim was denied. Then I tweeted about it

  • ‘We need those people, the peaceful ones who wait for things to pass and know that they will. I wish I was, but I’m afraid I’m not.’

    Well actually
    I tried to stop rage-honking my car horn – but what am I to do with all this anger?

documentaries
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    People in Canada: what is the impact of the new Trump administration on you so far?

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    Country diary
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  • A job interviewer looks down at pieces of paper as he sits opposite an interviewee

    Work
    ‘Horrendous’: the lies British people tell on CVs, and what happens when they are discovered

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    Fitness
    ‘We’ve moved past aesthetics’: why middle-aged women are outnumbering the gym bunnies

  • Keir Starmer and Donald Trump

    Analysis
    Starmer may have weaponised the Windsors, but soft power is the royals’ great asset

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  • Close up of Gracie Abrams with dark bobbed hair against orange background

    Music
    Gracie Abrams, the year’s biggest pop star: ‘Trump has only been in office a month, and everybody is more at risk’

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    Taiwan
    Shortsighted Taiwan may have lessons for the world as a preventable disease skyrockets

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    Analysis
    Starmer tries to woo Trump – but has the US-UK relationship lost its spark?

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  • A screengrab showing a menu of drugs being offered for purchase via Snapchat.

    Snapchat
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    ‘Testing ground for Project 2025’: behind Oklahoma’s rightwing push to erode the line between church and state

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