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  • Kylian Mbappe scores a second goal for Real Madrid as Man City wilt in the Bernabeu.

    Champions League live
    Real Madrid v Manchester City: Champions League playoff round, second leg

  • two flags fly outside a building

    Trump administration
    Department of Education workers brace for Trump to shut agency down: ‘Everybody is distraught’

    • US immigration
      US deportees moved from Panama City to Darién jungle region, lawyer says

    • Georgia
      Georgia woman who gave birth to someone else’s baby sues IVF clinic

    • Diversity
      Mark Zuckerberg’s charity guts DEI after assuring staff it would continue

    • US
      US aviation sector requests emergency funds after recent alarming crashes

    • New York
      Trump administration rescinds congestion pricing for New York City

    • iPhone
      Apple launches iPhone 16e and ditches home button

  • Members of the Mexican Army guard a street

    Mexico
    US adds Mexican cartels to list of foreign terrorist organizations

  • the sun sets over wetlands

    Environment
    Outrage as Trump cites ‘emergency’ to fast-track fossil fuel projects

  • a man in a suit speaks into a microphone

    Law
    Trump orders justice department to fire all US attorneys appointed by Biden

  • persons hands hold silver instruments while freezing embryos above light blue tray

    Analysis
    Trump’s IVF order: a PR move that gives pronatalists cause for cheer

In focus

  • Eli Sharabi, wearing a brown sweatshirt and looking thin and pale, is escorted by two Hamas fighters carrying machine guns

    Israel
    Israeli hostage vowed to return to his family – only to find they had been killed

  • 2024 CPAC Brazil<br>CAMBORIU, BRAZIL - JULY 7: Former President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro reacts during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on July 7, 2024 in Camboriu, Brazil. President of Argentina Javier Milei and former President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro are leading the 5th edition of the CPAC. It is considered the largest and most influential forum of conservatives and ultra liberals in the world. (Photo by Pedro H. Tesch/Getty Images)

    Analysis
    Bolsonaro indictment leaves Brazil’s tropical Trump staring at prospect of jail

    The ex-president faces charges of a murderous conspiracy while his US counterpart has surged back to power
  • a man stands with his arms crossed next to a man seated at a desk

    The US politics sketch
    Love, rockets and media attacks: Trump and Musk bring their toxic bromance to Fox News

    Sitting side by side like a couple announcing their engagement, the world’s most powerful man and Donald Trump gushed about their relationship to Sean Hannity

Spotlight

  • Girl with hair in ponytail looks down with a background of red tomatoes on vines

    Ask Ugly
    When I blush, I get so red that people point it out. What should I do?

    Going red in the face is on trend. People pay $25bn a year for the look, writes advice columnist Jessica DeFino
  • A screen in London's West End displays Spotify Wrapped, the top songs streamed by the city in 2024.

    Music
    Pay to get playlisted? The accusations against Spotify’s Discovery Mode

  • With Love, Meghan. (L to R) Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, Mindy Kaling in episode 102 of With Love, Meghan. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2024

    Meghan’s rebranded herself – and it’s another valiant attempt to flog poshness to the little people

    Emma Brockes
    The Duchess of Sussex is in that tricky position of having a large platform and not enough to fill it, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes
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    US military
    Trans military members on the feared ban: ‘I would meet Trump to show how we’ve served our country’

    As the defense secretary introduces a flurry of anti-trans policies, servicepeople fear the worst – a blanket ban – is yet to come
    • a toy monkey upside down

      Film
      The Monkey review – slapdash splatter comedy is a grating misfire

    • A man wearing glasses, a suit, and tie points and smiles on a television set

      Late-night TV roundup
      Stephen Colbert on New York mayor Eric Adams: ‘Trump has Adams by the old Turkish delights’

    • An empty office desk and chair in a bare, empty room

      Pass notes
      Career catfishing: why gen Z accept job offers – then ghost their new employers

    • fairy bread

      Explain it to me quickly
      Why are Americans toasting their fairy bread, and can the New York Times stop them?

  • a man in a suit speaks

    We are on the road for democracy and justice

    Bernie Sanders
    What we are fighting for is not ‘utopian’ or unachievable. Trumpism can and must be defeated
  • U.S. Vice President JD Vance's bilateral meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte<br>U.S. Vice President JD Vance participates in a bilateral meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the Commerzbank in Munich, Germany, February 14, 2025. REUTERS/Leah Millis

    The US and Europe are at a crossroads. A new world order is emerging

    Christopher S Chivvis
  • Zoe Williams

    James Murdoch has spilled the beans, and the reality is more miserable than we – or Succession – ever imagined

    Zoe Williams
  • Yair Wallach

    Trump’s Gaza takeover won’t happen. But it has already changed the face of Israeli politics

    Yair Wallach
    • The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, and the defence secretary, John Healey, with soldiers at a training area near Thetford, Norfolk

      Editorial
      The Guardian view on defence spending: bold ideas needed to have guns as well as butter

    • Adrian Chiles

      My dad died a year ago – and a photo of him on Google Street View brought me up short

      Adrian Chiles
    • Cas Mudde

      Europe is looking to Germany for leadership – but these elections will dash its hopes again

      Cas Mudde
    • Arwa Mahdawi

      New Zealand’s tourism campaign is not the world’s worst – and I should know

      Arwa Mahdawi
  • Trent Alexander-Arnold runs to celebrate after equalising for Liverpool.

    Premier League live
    Aston Villa v Liverpool: latest updates

    Minute-by-minute report: Join Will Unwin as Liverpool bid to extend their lead at the top of the Premier League
  • 2023 US Open - Day 2<br>NEW YORK, NEW YORK - AUGUST 29: Venus Williams returns a shot against Greet Minnen of Belgium during their Women's Singles First Round match on Day Two of the 2023 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on August 29, 2023 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images)

    Tennis
    Venus Williams given Indian Wells wildcard entry at age of 44

    Venus Williams has been given a wildcard entry for the BNP Paribas Open, which would make the tournament in Indian Wells her first event in nearly a year
    • Italy’s Filippo Ganna celebrates on the finishing line before the result was annulled.

      Cycling
      Tour of Algarve’s opening stage scrapped after peloton goes wrong way

    • Christina Lustenberger

      Christina Lustenberger
      Pioneering ski-mountaineer on life in a ‘wildly dangerous space’

    • Lewis Hamilton acknowledges the fans at the end of a session at Fiorano

      Formula One
      Hamilton bullish on title challenge with Ferrari

    • Hartford Athletic forward Deshane Beckford (31) takes a shot at the goal during a USL match between the against the Charleston Battery

      Soccer
      How USL can rival MLS: quirks, streaming and, yes, promotion and relegation

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  • Melting ice from a glacier floats in a lake of meltwater

    Glaciers
    Melting glaciers caused almost 2cm of sea level rise this century, study reveals

  • Smoke rises from a factory as a truck loaded with cars crosses a bridge in Paris

    Climate crisis
    Developing world urges rich nations to defy Trump’s ‘climate nihilism’

  • An American flag at the entrance to an oil lease

    Democracy and justice
    ‘The path forward is clear’: how Trump taking office has ‘turbocharged’ climate accountability efforts

  • The justice department in Washington.

    Trump administration
    Top US prosecutor quits over pressure to investigate Biden climate spending

  • U.S. Präsident Ronald Reagan in Berlin<br>(GERMANY OUT) RONALD REAGAN, Besuch in Berlin, am Brandenburger Tor spricht er am Vormittag des 12 Juni 1987 seine wichtigste Rede vor 400.000 Berlinern.: Mr GORBATCHEV , TEAR DOWN THIS WALL, GENERAL SECRETARY GORBATCHEV OPEN THIS GATE, Am Nachmittag gibt er einen Empfang mit Rede, im Flughafen Tempelhof, mit Luftballons , Geburtstagstorte, Fahnen , Girlanden und Konfetti zum 750 Geburtstag von Berlin (Photo by Thierlein/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

    US foreign policy
    Reagan-era Republicans aghast as Trump turns Russia policy on its head

    Officials who served under Republican president in 1980s say Trump is opposing friends and supporting enemies: ‘It makes me sick what’s going on’
  • Tanya Chutkan

    Trump administration
    Federal judge refuses to block Musk team’s access to US government data

  • a truck in a showroom

    Electric, hybrid and low-emission cars
    Troubled electric vehicle maker Nikola files for bankruptcy protection

  • a closeup of a microscope

    US
    Trump cuts threaten a ‘generation of scientists’ as many weigh leaving US

    • Technology
      Microsoft unveils chip it says could bring quantum computing within years

    • Regulators
      Trump signs order making independent regulators answerable to White House

    • New York
      DoJ prosecutors ordered to explain Eric Adams corruption indictment dismissal

    • Media
      State department orders cancellation of media subscriptions around world

    • Business
      KFC to become Texas fried chicken in HQ move to low-tax state

    • US
      Columbine shooting survivor dies 26 years after being paralyzed in massacre

  • The workshop contained fake artworks including Banksy, Warhol and Picasso.

    Italy
    Workshop producing fake Picassos and Rembrandts found in Rome

  • Very pale older man with a moustache

    UK
    Burglar jailed after being caught out by Home Alone-style bucket trap

    • Denmark
      Denmark to spend billions on defense, citing fears over Russian rearmament

    • Italy
      Journalists launch legal action against Italian government over spyware claims

    • Books
      Hundreds of books seized from stores in Kashmir as Indian police crack down on dissent

    • Cryptocurrencies
      Nigeria sues crypto giant Binance for $81.5bn in economic losses and back tax

    • Brazil
      British journalist missing in Brazil for 11 days

    • Artificial intelligence
      EU accused of leaving ‘devastating’ copyright loophole in AI Act

Podcasts

Podcasts

  • TOPSHOT-FBL-EUR-C1-MILAN-FEYENOORD<br>TOPSHOT - Polish referee Szymon Marciniak gives a red card to AC Milan's French defender #19 Theo Hernandez (R) during the UEFA Champions League knockout round play-off second leg football match between AC Milan and Feyenoord at San Siro stadium in Milan, on February 18, 2025. (Photo by Piero CRUCIATTI / AFP) (Photo by PIERO CRUCIATTI/AFP via Getty Images)

    Football Weekly
    Celtic’s heartbreak and Champions League playoff chaos – Football Weekly

  • A military facility destroyed by shelling near Kyiv, 1 March 2022. Photograph: Genya Savilov/AFP/Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: Was it inevitable? A short history of Russia’s war on Ukraine – podcast

  • British prime minister Keir Starmer and French president Emmanuel Macron shaking hands

    Today in Focus
    Will British troops be sent to Ukraine? – podcast

  • Arsenal FC v Tottenham Hotspur FC - Barclays Women's Super League<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 16: Chloe Kelly of Arsenal shoots towards goal during the Barclays Women's Super League match between Arsenal FC and Tottenham Hotspur FC at Emirates Stadium on February 16, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Ryan Pierse/Getty Images)

    The Guardian's Women's Football Weekly
    North London is red again as WSL’s top four all win – Women’s Football Weekly

  • Photograph: Sophie Harrow/The Guardian

    Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
    S9, Ep1: Gary Kemp, musician

  • a composite showing Donald Trump and the logo for the National Endowment for the Arts

    Culture
    Artists demand National Endowment for the Arts roll back Trump restrictions

  • A student midwife holds a newborn baby with the placenta still attached.

    My best shot
    ‘The energy in the delivery room was insane’: Maggie Shannon’s best photograph

  • Spaghetti-eating scene from Lady and the Tramp

    Film
    ‘You just want to rewind and watch it again and again’: readers choose the most romantic moments in cinema

  • A world turned upside down … Ella Øverbye, left, as Johanne in Drømmer (Dreams).

    Film
    Drømmer (Dreams) review – teen’s high romantic hopes throw adults into disarray

  • Polly Hudson and her husband Nick, photographed at their wedding

    A moment that changed me
    I took my husband for granted – until I met three single women at a party

  • Steve Rose peering over a table top filled with non-alcoholic spirit bottles and vegetables

    Life and style
    ‘Gaba is the off switch of the brain’: Is it also the answer to better sleep, sobriety and less anxiety?

    Products that enhance the uptake of this neurotransmitter are burgeoning - including drinks that mimic the effects of alcohol, without the hangover. Here’s what happened when I tried them
  • A woman places a pillow over head in bed.

    Sexual healing
    I muffle my cries of passion – but the noise is upsetting my partner’s teenager

    Slammed doors and avoidant behaviour have alerted me to the 18-year-old’s discomfort. How can I persuade my lover that this is a problem?
  • black and white picture of a little boy with a big valentines card looking dejected

    Well actually
    ‘I’ve ended up in the ER twice’: when Valentine’s Day goes horribly wrong

  • A person with a blanket draped over their body holds a mug and looks out the window

    Well actually
    ‘Mother Nature thinks people should shut down’: why we’re so unmotivated in winter

  • illustration of computer screen

    Well actually
    Are typos lethal in a work email? Nine digital communication tips from an expert

  • A headshot of a blonde woman smiling overlayed with peachy pink tones

    Well actually
    Prolapse, tearing, pain: a urogynecologist on what you should know before giving birth

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    US nursing home patients
    Have you or your loved one experienced coverage denials from UnitedHealthcare?

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    Childcare
    US parents: how much do you spend on childcare?

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  • External view of The Bidi Bidi Performing Arts Centre with people playing instruments outside it

    Africa
    The Ugandan arts centre bringing harmony to Africa’s biggest refugee camp

  • A large crowd gathering at the Umayyad Square in Damascus in a pro-democracy protest.

    Middle East
    A road trip through the new Syria

  • two people play drums among crowd of people

    World
    ‘Society makes us invisible’: Black Ecuadorians fight to defend their culture

  • Artist Peter Drew in a portrait for his project The Narcissist

    Art and design
    The ultimate flex? The activist artist posting his workouts in the name of narcissism

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  • paintings depict Jesus and Donald Trump

    CPAC 2025
    ‘The deification of Trump will be complete’ at CPAC 2025

  • Background of line chart showing weekly polling averages of voting intention in the 2025 German federal election. A Euro coin with an eagle and surrounded by the stars of Europe is within a black silhouette of Germany.

    Germany
    The rise of the far right, global trade and Ukraine’s future: why the German election matters – visual explainer

    Trump’s election in November last year has – as promised – sent shockwaves round the world. But next week’s German election could be almost as momentous
  • Veiled women in a radio station studio.

    Women's rights
    Off air: one by one, the Taliban are removing women’s voices from Afghan radio

    As one of the last female-run stations in the country is silenced, a former broadcaster gives an inside view of the crackdown on women working in the media
  • a boy wearing a brown shirt and jeans sits against a wall and looks ahead

    Oscars 2025
    ‘History was attempted to be buried’: the true story behind Oscar-nominated Nickel Boys

  • Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, shakes hands with US secretary of state, Marco Rubio

    Analysis
    Ukraine and Europe made to sit outside as US and Russia sharpen their carving knives

    Julian Borger in Jerusalem
  • Brightly coloured 1970s style illustration of Gen Z’s love of lowercase type

    Society
    The death of capital letters: why gen Z loves lowercase

  • art of person walking through burned wreckage with flowers sticking out of their head

    California wildfires
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    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • Seeing red … Kim Wilde in 1982

    In pictures
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    In pictures
    Runaway snakes and scooting pups: surreal street photography

  • Backstage … Adrien Brody, winner of the best actor award for The Brutalist and Mikey Madison, winner of the best actress award for Anora.

    Baftas
    Baftas 2025: Adrien Brody and Mikey Madison among big winners

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    Film
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    Spain
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