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    Middle East crisis: Hamas delegation to visit Cairo on Monday for Gaza ceasefire talks, says official

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    Exclusive
    BBC presenter’s likeness used in advert after firm tricked by AI-generated voice

    • Scotland
      Greens will not back down in Humza Yousaf row, co-leader says

    • ‘Stormy weather’
      Biden skewers Trump's legal woes at White House correspondents’ dinner

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      Tottenham v Arsenal: Premier League

    • Italy
      Pope visits women’s prison in Venice during first trip outside Rome for months

    • Devon
      Second man dies after taking ‘unusually strong’ heroin

    • David Blunkett
      Labour former home secretary says devising 99-year prison sentences is his ‘biggest regret’

News in focus

  • A family walks along the Southbank in the rain with The Palace of Westminster, home to the Houses of Parliament, in the background, in London

    Red walls and green dreams
    What are the key battlegrounds in England’s local elections?

  • Nuria Sajjad: she is seen holding the strings of a large handful of balloons and is standing in front of a dark wooden shelf unit where a vase, ornaments and family photographs are displayed; there is a large picture above it. She has long dark hair and is wearing glasses, a hairband, a white shirt and dark cardigan, and is smiling.

    ‘The what-ifs crush you’
    Parents suffer as Wimbledon school crash investigation makes slow progress

    Families of two girls killed when a Land Rover ploughed into their school are still waiting for answers, 10 months later
  • A young man sits on a wall overlooking a scene of devastated buildings

    Explainer
    Is there about to be a breakthrough in the Gaza ceasefire talks?

    Why there appears to be greater optimism about the prospect of a truce and what could an agreement look like

Spotlight

  • Observer Magazine<br>Lauren Bensted pictured with her baby - her story of a bowel disease triggered after child birth.

    ‘I felt myself split into before and after’
    How giving birth triggered a life-changing illness

    Having a baby led to an unexpected disease and then surgery that altered Lauren Bensted’s body for ever. She talks about the pain she felt in being separated from her newborn, and her journey to learn to accept her new life
  • Clockwise from left: Tom Hanks, Rosie O’Donnell and Madonna in A League of Their Own (1992), Robert De Niro in Raging Bull (1980), Bend It Like Beckham (2002), Hoop Dreams (1994), Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (2006).

    Game, set and match
    The 20 best sports movies

  • A drone’s eye view of the northern section of the redeveloped King’s Cross site, 2023.

    ‘Nervous of its own boldness’
    The (almost) radical rebirth of King’s Cross

    The two-decade transformation of the industrial site north of King’s Cross station in London, once notorious, now a pleasant enclave of offices, homes, shops, bars and boulevards, is essentially complete. It’s a huge success – and yet is there something missing?
  • The bar at Ministry of Sound nightclub

    ‘I know my limit’
    How gen Z became Britain’s ‘sober-curious’ generation

    As many as 28% of young adults in the UK do not drink. Here, three of them explain why their relationship with alcohol has changed
    • Rosemary in her garden leaning against a wall.

      ‘No one’s being honest about it’
      How NHS crisis forces patients to go private

    • ‘I sometimes found myself languishing in the romanticism of the past’: Agnes Arnold-Forster.

      That yearning feeling
      Why we need nostalgia

    • A composite image of elderly people in the foreground and a bright floral background

      A ‘longevity revolution’ is coming
      Here’s how those over 100 are making the most of their lives

    • Baby Reindeer characters Donny and Martha at the bar in a pub

      Baby Reindeer
      Why row over sleuths will change real-life drama for ever

Sport

  • Amel Majri celebrates after scoring during the Women's Champions League semi-final match between Olympique Lyonnais and Paris Saint-Germain

    Live
    PSG v Lyon: Women’s Champions League semi-final, second leg

    Minute-by-minute report: After a five-goal thriller in the first leg, which French side will book their spot in the Champions League final? Join John Brewin
  • Alessia Russo of Arsenal passes the ball under pressure from Lucy Hope of Everton.

    Live
    Everton v Arsenal: Women’s Super League

Opinion

  • Graphic by Dom Mckenzie shows a woman hitching a ride on the back of a bicycle steered by a man with a CV in his pocket

    Some are born lucky, so the left shouldn’t flinch from giving others a helping hand

    Sonia Sodha
    When we mistakenly believe we live in a meritocracy, those in need are left behind
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    Children left to drown in the Channel – is this where Britain’s drift to the right is taking us?

    John Harris
  • Father teaching his son skateboarding

    What have I learned from 20 years of parenting? Never to underestimate how wrong I can be

    Emma Beddington
    We often have as much in common with strangers as our relatives, according to studies – so why do we still love to say our children are like us, asks Emma Beddington
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    Baby Reindeer strikes a painful chord for gay and bi men, and I know why: grooming and rape are common

    Jeffrey Ingold
    Sexual violence within the queer community is rarely visible in the media, says writer and consultant Jeffrey Ingold
    • Illustration by David Foldvari of a film reel containing pictures of a person being quoted

      Context is vital. That’s why I’m filming everything I say and do from now on

      Stewart Lee
    • An inflatable dinghy carrying around 65 migrants crosses the Channel on 6 March.

      For migrants, ‘deterrence’ doesn’t deter. It’s cruelty, not compassion, Mr Sunak

      Kenan Malik
    • Total War Warhammer 3 screengrab.

      When even Warhammer nerds leave the battlefield, isn’t it time the anti-woke mob laid down their arms?

      Jasper Jackson
    • Birmingham city council building

      From welfare to warfare: Sunak’s spending shift imperils local services again

      Richard Partington

Editorials & Letters

  • Tents at Everest base camp.

    The Observer view
    Sometimes, the planet’s hotspots are best left unvisited

  • Medical staff wearing PPE on a ward for Covid patients at King's College Hospital, London, in December 2021.

    Observer letters
    We must learn the lessons of Covid before another deadly disease strikes

  • NHS ambulances wait outside a hospital in London on 5 March 2024.

    The Observer view
    Dan Poulter and the failing Conservative government

  • 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

Climate crisis

  • Sadiq Khan photographed outdoors with a blurred background of grass and trees; he is wearing a brown quilted anorak zipped up high under a dark blue jacket

    Sadiq Khan
    London's mayor says he's green - so what has he achieved?

  • 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

  • A teenage girl sitting in a dark doorway with light coming from an adjoining room

    Social care
    Vulnerable teenagers ‘dumped and abandoned’ in hotels by councils in England

    Campaigners say cash-strapped local authorities are placing young people in budget accommodation, making them targets for grooming by criminal gangs
  • Gold pocket watch and portrait of John Jacob Astor

    The Titanic
    Gold pocket watch of richest man on ship fetches record-breaking £1.2m

  • Stanton and Novelty Confectioners’ Blackpool rock.

    Blackpool rock
    Maker leads crusade to protect British seaside staple

  • Scott Rider, as a child and adult, who was convicted in 2005, said he had lost hope he would ever be freed.

    ‘Indefensible’
    UK prisoner jailed for 23 months killed himself after being held for 17 years

    • County Durham
      Man dies after parachute incident

    • Exclusive
      Top Tory MP defects to Labour in fury at NHS crisis

    • ‘Eugenics on steroids’
      The toxic and contested legacy of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute

    • Revealed
      UK government was warned of infected blood risks in 1970s

    • Lancashire
      Town locked down ‘after grenade donated to heritage centre’

    • Scotland
      Body found more than a year after man disappeared from Highlands village

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  • a person holds a sign that reads "free Palestine" with a drawing of a watermelon slice

    US universities
    Echoes of Vietnam era as pro-Palestinian student protests roil campuses

    Calls for divestment continue despite hundreds of arrests, with more demonstrations planned for Democratic national convention
  • A demonstrator holds up a sign reading 'Sánchez gets on, yes' outside the PSOE headquarters in Madrid on Saturday.

    Spain
    Opposition step up Sánchez attacks as PM decides on his future

  • Omar Sy

    Omar Sy
    It’s hard being black in France, says Lupin star after Aya Nakamura racism row

  • Two totally burnt out cars, one upside down, illuminatewd with orange light, form part of an exhibit

    ‘We are showing the world what people do’
    Grim relics of Hamas attack go on display in New York

    • ‘Australia must do better’
      PM calls urgent national cabinet meeting as thousands rally to end men’s violence against women

    • Elon Musk
      Tesla boss makes unannounced visit to China

    • Japan
      Schoolgirl impresses at gamer event with win in retro game

    • Russia
      Two journalists arrested over alleged work for Alexei Navalny foundation

    • ‘My hands went cold’
      Rio’s reporters risk death to reveal criminal ties between police, politicians and mafia

    • Japan
      Anger at party funding scandal threatens to bring down PM Kishida

Culture

  • Mohammad Barrangi stands in a gallery showing his work. He is looking off to the side of the camera.

    Leeds
    Iranian artist opening show exploring disability and migration

    Paralympian Mohammad Barrangi hopes his work will help people think of human stories behind headlines about migration
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    My Favourite Mistake by Marian Keyes review
    Love and shenanigans in a new Walsh sister story

  • Ubiquitous on TV … but Romesh Ranganathan is well worth seeing live.

    Romesh Ranganathan review
    Misanthropic midlife everyman wears his world-weariness well

  • No stranger to theatrics … Mitski’s performances have grown increasingly conceptual.

    Music
    Mitski review – unusual, enigmatic and utterly compelling

  • Lightly sketched … James Corrigan, Lucy Phelps and Freya Mavor as the Boleyn siblings.

    Stage
    The Other Boleyn Girl review – the sexual strategising of the conniving Boleyn family brought sharply to life

  • Peggy Guggenheim with her Lhasa Apsos terriers.Palazzo Venier dei Leoni; Venice, 1973 Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Venice, Photo Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche, Gift, Cassa di Risparmio di Venezia, 2005

    ‘She was trying to find herself’
    The untold story of Peggy Guggenheim, Hampshire homemaker

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    Jay Rayner on restaurants
    Medlock Canteen, Manchester: ‘Dishes that are the best versions of themselves’ – restaurant review

    Serving good things all day long, this smart Manchester canteen is a welcome haven for one and all. By Jay Rayner
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  • Even Zendaya’s shoes were tennis themed in this photocall for the film Challengers.

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