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  • Edward Berger and cast and crew accept the best film award for Conclave.

    Baftas 2025
    Conclave beats The Brutalist to best picture as Mikey Madison surprises as best actress winner

    Both Edward Berger and Brady Corbet’s dramas take four awards while Demi Moore denied comeback prize as competition heats up for next month’s Oscars
    • car submerged in brown water on road

      US weather
      At least eight dead in Kentucky flooding with number expected to increase

    • Trump administration
      Trump cuts reach FDA workers focused on food safety and medical devices

    • Ukraine
      Ukraine recaptures frontline village amid signs of slowing Russian advance

    • Florida
      DeSantis urged to declare emergency over toxic red tide algae off Florida coast

    • Martin Luther King Jr
      MLK’s family fear new batch of assassination files will have FBI ‘smears’

    • Louisiana
      Republican senator who voted for RFK Jr balks at Louisiana anti-vaccine move

    • New York
      Five charged with trans man’s murder after ‘repeated acts of torture’

  • A balding man with a combover salutes a football field.

    Donald Trump
    ‘The greatest propaganda op in history’: Trump’s reshaping of US culture evokes past antidemocratic regimes

  • a person holds a sign that reads 'stop firing us'

    Politics
    Trump vowed to champion US workers - the reality has been a relentless assault

  • Eric Adams, in a suit and tie, stands near a red carpet and rope cordon, frowning

    Eric Adams
    How a faded New York hotel became a lethal political battleground

  • A mother looks on from the kitchen as two pre-teen boys use a smartphone in the living room.

    Social media
    Parents are desperate to protect kids on social media. Why did the US let a safety bill die?

In focus

  • Twila Little Brave, 47, a Barnardsville, North Carolina, resident who lost her home in the hurricane, along with flood-damaged homes and vehicles in Swannanoa, the town recently visited by Trump. David Carson, 75, a Barnardsville resident on his farm, where he hosts volunteers who help build tiny homes for hurricane victims.

    North Carolina
    ‘Everything we had floated away’: Hurricane Helene survivors help each other as disinformation swirls

  • Close-up portrait of Volodymyr Zelenskyy

    Ukraine war briefing
    Zelenskyy waves away opening US bid for critical minerals

    President says draft deal did not guarantee Ukraine’s security; diplomatic chaos as US and Russia meet in Riyadh and Macron convenes Europe crisis talks. What we know on day 1,090
  • An older man in a yellow shirt.

    Louisiana
    ‘It is going to be terrible’: a senior in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’ prepares for Trump’s dismantling of hard-won environmental progress

    Robert Taylor recently lost his wife to a long-term illness he linked to chemicals produced by a nearby plant, and now the Trump administration is preparing to scrap pollution reforms in the area

Spotlight

  • An illustration of a naked woman with long luxuriant brown hair and eyes closed sitting crossed legged with her hands in her lap with a huge bunch of roses and foliage in her arms

    Menopause
    The unspoken agony of vaginal dryness: ‘I had to give up four jobs in four years’

    Recently, there has been much more discussion of menopause. But one debilitating condition, experienced by 80% of women, remains shrouded in secrecy and misunderstanding
  • Judi Dench in Antony and Cleopatra at the Olivier Theatre, London in 1987

    Culture
    ‘The snake fell out of my wig’: why Judi Dench lost her voice when playing Cleopatra

  • TOPSHOT-CANADA-CELEBRATION<br>TOPSHOT - A man wearing Canadian flags marches during Canada Day celebrations on July 1, 2022 in Ottawa, Canada. (Photo by Dave Chan / AFP) (Photo by DAVE CHAN/AFP via Getty Images)

    Canada
    Trump’s comments prompt surge of patriotism – in a Canadian way

    Trump’s diplomatic trolling has sparked disbelief and defiance – but also revived questions of national identity
  • Absurdish sensibility … Kieran Culkin in New York last year.

    Culture
    How Kieran Culkin came out of his brother’s shadow to become a mercurial, Bafta-nominated king of sarcasm

    • Chloë Hamilton, pictured with her eldest son, Fabian, sat in the garden.

      The one change that worked
      I set my phone to ‘do not disturb’ three years ago – and have never looked back

    • Two women holding hands

      Death and dying
      ‘It can be really frightening’: knowing the common signs that a loved one is dying can help in their final days

      Lydia Hales
    • Sad woman sitting with head in hands<br>EN838N Sad woman sitting with head in hands

      Ask Philippa
      My whole life has been one dramatic crisis after another

    • Renée Zellweger returns as Bridget Jones, with Leo Woodall as Roxster in Mad About the Boy.

      Film
      Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy review – our hapless heroine is sharper, wiser and funnier

  • Trump

    Donald Trump has become master of the US Senate

    Sidney Blumenthal
    By voting in favor of nominees they knew should never be approved, Republican senators became Trump’s subjects
  • Donald Trump At Signing Ceremony - USA, Washington, United States - 20 Jan 2025<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Pool/ABACA/REX/Shutterstock (15110299o)
President Donald Trump, center, speaks to leadership in the President's Room (L-R) with Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Vice President JD Vance, First Lady Melania Trump, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and Majority Leader Steve Scalise as he signs official documents and after being sworn as the 47th president of the United States during the 60th inaugural ceremony on January 20, 2025, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, USA.
Donald Trump At Signing Ceremony - USA, Washington, United States - 20 Jan 2025

    The courts separate democracy from autocracy. Will Trump defy them?

    Amrit Singh and David Cole
  • John Healey, the defence secretary, giving a speech

    Europeans are right to be angry with Donald Trump, but they should also be furious with themselves

    Andrew Rawnsley
    The betrayal of Ukraine is a final warning to the UK and its continental allies to put a lot more energy and money into rebuilding their defences
  • a hand holding a marker signs a document

    Saying ‘women’ is not allowed, but ‘men’ and ‘white’ are OK? I’m (not) shocked

    Arwa Mahdawi
    Thanks to Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders attacking a number of terms, ‘women’ is literally being erased
    • pedestrians pass the US Department of the Treasury building

      Forget Trump’s tariffs, the president’s bond market threat is worse

      Heather Stewart
    • Woman lies asleep on a sofa, remote control in hand.

      Why is it so hard to go to bed? Maybe science has the answer

      Emma Beddington
    • Salman Rushdie wears glasses with one eye shaded out as he speaks into a microphone.

      When it’s illegal to cause distress to believers, call it for what it is: a secular version of blasphemy

      Kenan Malik
    • Illustration by David Foldvari.

      A tale of two suckers: Donald Trump’s plastic straws and Keir Starmer

      Stewart Lee
  • Canada fans cheer their team as they take to the ice ahead of their 4 Nations Face-Off hockey game against the United States in Montreal on Saturday night.

    Political tensions are redoubling Canada’s great hockey anxiety

    Colin Horgan
    Canadians have been booing the US anthem for weeks over Trump’s proposed tariffs. But it’s no wonder that tensions boiled over when the US finally met Canada on the ice
  • Nascar Cup Series driver William Byron (24) does a burn out after winning the Daytona 500 on Sunday at Daytona International Speedway.

    Nascar
    Byron wins second straight Daytona 500 after Trump takes laps

  • Spurs fans protested against Daniel Levy before the Manchester United match

    Spurs come out on top of Man Utd in theater of dysfunction

    Barney Ronay
    While Tottenham fans protested against their chairman, Manchester United still look like they are learning tactics from a leaflet
  • Baltimore Ravens v Houston Texans<br>HOUSTON, TEXAS - DECEMBER 25: Justin Tucker #9 of the Baltimore Ravens sits on the bench in the second half against the Houston Texans at NRG Stadium on December 25, 2024 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images)

    NFL
    Seven more massage therapists Ravens' kicker Tucker of sexual misconduct

    Seven more massage therapists have accused Ravens kicker Justin Tucker of sexually inappropriate conduct, the Baltimore Banner reported on Sunday
    • The Warriors’ Draymond Green, center, talks with Chris Paul, left, and Victor Wembanyama of the Spurs ahead of the Kia Skills Challenge on Saturday night at Chase Center.

      NBA All-Star weekend
      Wembanyama and Paul disqualified for attempted hack of Skills Challenge

    • Ibrahima Konaté is shown a yellow card

      Soccer
      Slot took off Konaté to avoid ‘soft’ red card in win against Wolves

    • James Sands of St. Pauli 1910 looks on prior to the Bundesliga match.

      Soccer
      USMNT midfielder Sands undergoes surgery after serious ankle injury

    • Napheesa Collier, right, drives past Aaliyah Edwards on her way to winning the Unrivaled 1-on-1 basketball final.

      Unrivaled’s 1-on-1 tournament was everything the NBA All-Star Game wants to be

      Joseph Palmer
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  • Chocolate shavings being added to cups of coffee

    Food
    Extreme weather expected to cause food price volatility in 2025 after cost of cocoa and coffee doubles

  • A Being 747-400 jumbo taking off

    Exclusive
    Revealed: ‘extremely concerning’ industry influence over UN aviation body

  • Heavy traffic on the M1

    Automotive emissions
    Brake pad dust can be more toxic than exhaust emissions, study says

  • A bald eagle lands on a branch in Kachemak Bay State Park, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska.

    Environment
    A ‘recipe for extinction’: can the US’s envied nature protections survive Trump and his ‘God squad’?

  • A sign outside of a burned down property reads 'Altadena' circled by a pink spray-painted heart

    California wildfires
    The LA fires burned down a thriving Black community. Residents are afraid of being ‘erased’

    The Eaton fire destroyed nearly half of the Black households in Altadena, wiping out businesses and wealth
  • Woman waves trans flag and hold sign that says Trans people will always be here.

    Trans rights
    US civil rights agency seeks to dismiss gender-identity discrimination cases

  • A sign welcoming people to the Sequoia national forest.SEQUOIA CALIFORNIA,USA
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    Trump administration
    US Forest Service and National Park Service to fire thousands of workers

  • a man in a suit speaks as another suited man looks ahead

    US Congress
    Democrats see potential shutdown as leverage to counter Trump

    • Missouri
      Judge strikes down license requirement for abortion providers

    • Brian Thompson shooting
      Man charged in killing of healthcare CEO responds to supporters on website

    • US crime
      Killings across three states shine spotlight on cultlike ‘Zizian’ group

    • Cleveland
      Trump threats to revoke status unsettle Ohio’s Ukrainians: ‘The stress is real’

    • Health
      ‘A scary time to be a scientist’: how medical research cuts will hurt the maternal mortality crisis

    • Defense
      Elon Musk’s ‘efficiency’ agency team at the Pentagon to meet staff

  • US secretary of state Marco Rubio (R) arrives in IsraelIsrael's Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar welcomes U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio as he arrives in Israel, on the first leg of his Middle East trip, in Tel Aviv, Israel, February 15, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/Pool

    Israel-Gaza war
    Rubio expected to push Trump plan to displace Palestinians from Gaza on trip to Israel

    US secretary of state is making his first trip to region and is expected to advocate Trump’s plan to create ‘Riviera of the Middle East’
  • Lyudmila Navalnaya touches an image of her son at his grave

    Russia
    Alexei Navalny supporters visit grave on first anniversary of his death

  • Pictures from the new NZ tourism campaign that is being ridiculed

    New Zealand
    ‘Everyone must go!’ tourism campaign ridiculed as emigration hits record high

  • John Major

    UK
    John Major: Trump’s US isolationism threatens global democracy

    • Argentina
      Contraception for capybaras: Buenos Aires suburb’s rodent plan stirs debate

    • Syria
      ‘We live in constant fear’: Alawites in Syria’s Homs terrified of reprisals

    • India
      At least 18 people die in crowd crush at Delhi railway station

    • Austria
      Stabbing that killed teenager was Islamist attack, minister says

    • UK
      Lucy Letby’s acting was Oscar-worthy if she really is guilty, former boss says

    • UK
      FBI assisting UK investigation into Southport killer Axel Rudakubana

Podcasts

Podcasts

  • Noland Arbaugh, the first human recipient of Neuralink's brain-computer interface implant, in Yuma,  Arizona for the Guardian Saturday on December 5, 2024.

    Today in Focus
    The man with Elon Musk’s chip in his brain – podcast

  • Rapper Drake at an NBA game, and Kendrick Lamar on stage during the Super Bowl half-time show

    Weekend
    Can Drake come back from Kendrick Lamar’s diss?; Marina Hyde on Starmer aping Trump; ‘I was trapped for 65 hours under 4,000 tons of rubble’; and Philippa Perry on setting boundaries with your parents – podcast

  • Donald Trump and Justin Trudeau talking

    Politics Weekly America
    Oh, Canada! Can Trump just take it? – podcast

  • Assisted-dying patient Zoë after an interview at the Centre of Expertise on Euthanasia, March 2023. Photograph: Selma van der Bijl

    The Audio Long Read
    How a young Dutch woman’s life began when she was allowed to die – podcast

  • Shon Faye photographed in London (7 January 2025, The Guardian)

    Today in Focus
    Shon Faye on love and dating as a trans woman – podcast

  • Colombian singer Shakira

    Music
    Shakira cancels Lima concert after being hospitalised during global tour

    The Colombian star went to the emergency room in Peru’s capital on Saturday night, days after launching her first worldwide tour in seven years
  • Assisted self-portrait of Lewis Carroll

    Books
    Lewis Carroll collection given to his Oxford college in surprise US donation

  • Jacques Audiard collects the Bafta for film not in the English language for Emilia Pérez.

    ‘Karla Sofía I kiss you’
    Emilia Pérez director extends Bafta olive branch to absent star

  • Zoe Saldana at the Baftas in a black gown with frilled neckline

    Fashion
    Stars sport black at goth-tinged Baftas in London

  • Illustration by Eleanor Shakespeare.

    Jane Austen
    Jane’s world: fans and admirers pick their favourite Austen characters

  • Largest Jonathan Bailey

    Culture
    ‘I’m an actor, not a mouthpiece’: Bridgerton’s Jonathan Bailey on fame and the pressure to speak out

  • Sella del Corticato, Cilento<br>2E17Y45 Sella del Corticato, Cilento

    Italy vacations
    10 reasons to visit Italy in 2025: the best new holidays and cultural events

  • ‘My son seems shocked at our vehemence, because he doesn’t quite get how blasphemy works.’

    The Séamas O’Reilly column
    When it comes to our son’s blaspheming, only divine intervention will help

    Séamas O’Reilly
    We can’t tell him not to shout ‘Jesus Christ!’ just because it’s rude, writes Séamas O’Reilly
  • William Yang and and Scott in the late 90s

    The moment I knew
    I’d had lots of lovers during our open relationship – then I realised I could trust him with my life

    Photographer William Yang and Scott had been in a long-distance relationship for 15 years. Then a family tragedy brought them closer together
  • 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

Documentary link

Is freezing my eggs the answer?

Sophia embarks on the gruelling journey of harvesting her eggs. She’s in her 30s and feels ambivalent about having kids, so will this safeguard her future? Remarkable documentary Harvest is her personal diary of this time.

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Take part

  • Person plays with plastic letters

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

  • an older person's hand in a hospital bed

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

  • Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy in Before Sunrise (1995).

    Life and style
    Tell us your favourite romantic moments in cinema

  • Photo of a woman's hands on a laptop keyboard.

    Artificial intelligence (AI)
    Tell us: how has artificial intelligence affected your work?

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From our global editions

  • Health workers roll out the vaccination campaign in the village of Tuanaimato on September 23, 2021 in Apia, Samoa. Samoa is in lockdown September 23-24, 2021 as the government conducts mass vaccination country-wide in an aim to administer first and second COVID-19 vaccine doses to the eligible population. The two-day effort will target over 32,000 people across the four islands of Samoa. (Photo by Chikara Yoshida/Getty Images)

    Pacific islands
    Explainer: what will the withdrawal of USAid mean for the Pacific?

  • Three headstones with a wreath and planted flowers stand before a stone memorial featuring a list of victims of the Lockerbie terror attack.

    Lockerbie plane bombing
    ‘You don’t see the trauma until suddenly you do’: Lockerbie bombing’s lasting impact on a ‘normal little town’

  • Pro-choice protesters gather in Parliament Square, London

    Abortion
    Prayer and prosecutions: the US ‘hate group’ waging war over Britain’s abortion clinic buffer zones

  • An initiation ceremony for new sadhus at the Kumbh Mela, the largest gathering of humanity on the planet

    India
    ‘There has been an awakening’: ancient sects on the rise in Modi’s India

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  • Affectionate mother reading book with adorable toddler daughter<br>A loving mother of Pacific Islander descent sits on the windowsill and reads a storybook to her preschool age daughter. The adorable Eurasian child is sitting on her mother's lap and is pointing with curiosity at the book's pages. Parent reading book to child

    Babies
    Why can’t we remember our lives as babies or toddlers?

  • Robbie Robson with partner Kristie Graham, her daughter Willow and their son Sefa in 2022 pictured in a field of sunflowers

    Oil rigs
    Offshore worker Robbie Robson was bludgeoned to death on an oil rig. Was it a random attack or does the industry have questions to answer?

    When the contractor started a two-month job in the Persian Gulf, he said it was his final lengthy posting. Six weeks later, he was dead, and a co-worker charged with his murder. What happened?
  • Actresses Carrie Coon, Leslie Bibb and Michelle Monaghan in a scene from season three of The White Lotus, which is shot in Thailand

    The White Lotus
    ‘A little win for us’: Thailand basks in excitement around show's season three

    This time the hit TV series features Thailand’s homegrown K-pop sensation, Lisa, and local beauty spots. The country’s tourism industry is getting ready for a boost
  • Collage shows a woman with braids surrounded by people at a white table and marchers walking in  aline, with one holding a Black Lesbians sign

    Black, atheist and unapologetic
    The rise of secularism in African American communities

  • composite image of a man in black and white pointing and a woman with her head crossed out with an X, set against the background of a cloister

    US universities
    ‘We’re like sitting ducks’: the right’s ‘war on woke’ has a well-tested playbook to take down academics

  • A camera covered in tape stationed on a utility pole

    ‘Cop City‘
    Cameras have appeared outside homes of Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ activists. Why are they there?

  • Ziegler sits in an office chair holding a framed graphic picture of Che.

    The long read
    ‘Here lives the monster’s brain’: the man who exposed Switzerland’s dirty secrets

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    Breaking bad habits: what you told us about your new year buying intentions

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

    Baftas 2025: Adrien Brody and Mikey Madison among big winners – in pictures

    Highlights from 2025’s Bafta ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall on London’s Southbank
  • A face looks up and smiles from the centre of a gold, glittering sun mask

    The weekend in pictures
    A parade and an aid convoy

  • A black and white image of child with their hand in a bubble gum machine.

    The big picture
    Hope within reach in 1970s New York

  • The Nest © Rex Zou, 100architects

    Art and design
    Swing time: playgrounds at their most artful

  • A man walking on a snowy mountain

    Photos of the day
    An Andean adventurer and banana art

  • A child plays with a ball in front of graffiti on a wall

    Art and design
    The week around the world in 20 pictures

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