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  • Girls wearing white dresses cover their mouths from the smog

    Environment
    Only seven countries meet WHO air quality standard, research finds

    Almost all countries failing to meet mark for PM2.5, tiny particles expelled by vehicles and industry that can cause health problems
  • Queen Elizabeth II with some of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren

    Monarchy
    Photo of Queen Elizabeth II and family was enhanced at source, agency says

  • Rishi Sunak in Downing Street last week.

    Live
    Tory party fined £10,750 by Electoral Commission for not accurately reporting non-cash donations

  • A boy watches as Palestinians search for missing people under the rubble of the destroyed house in Al Nusairat refugee camp.

    Live
    Middle East crisis: Key Hamas organiser Marwan Issa killed, US says; Mossad chief reportedly leaves Doha after ceasefire talks

    • Football
      English regulator close as government confirms ‘historic’ bill

    • Rwanda plan
      MPs vote to throw out amendments to bill

    • Society
      Black inmates at Wormwood Scrubs ‘disproportionately subjected to use of force’

    • Migration
      Families of missing say they were asked to pay hundreds for information on relatives

    • Live
      Russia-Ukraine war: Thousands of children to be evacuated from Belgorod on Russian border with Ukraine due to shelling

    • Childcare
      Expansion in England may not meet parents’ expectations, says charity

News in focus

Spotlight

  • Protesters against unscrupulous landlords gather outside the National Landlord Investment Show in London.

    The end of landlords
    The surprisingly simple solution to the UK housing crisis

    Mass-scale housebuilding isn’t necessary – there is already enough housing stock. But we need to learn the wisdom of the last century when it comes to landlordism
  • SZA Kacey Musgraves and Waxahatchee

    Why do pop stars align themselves with astrology? Heaven knows

    Elle Hunt
  • Weaver ants crawling over each other in a pile

    Empire of the ants
    What insect supercolonies can teach us

    The long read: People have long drawn comparisons between ant societies and human ones – but in fact they are a reminder of how limited our influence on the world really is
  • Ade Adepitan in front of a collection of Afrikaner busts in Orania, South Africa

    Whites Only: Ade’s Extremist Adventure review
    A woeful failure to challenge racism

    Ade Adepitan is a charming presenter, but his ‘chilled-out’ approach to entering a ‘whites-only’ South African town is utterly feeble. At points, his passivity is borderline offensive
    • A male Asian elephant with tusks stands in a road through jungle as a rickshaw skirts around it and others drivers wait for it to pass

      Sri Lanka
      Death tolls mount as elephants and people compete for land

    • Maybelle Blair beaming

      The people who started again in their 90s
      ‘I was in the closet for 95 years. Then that door blew open!’

    • 2004, ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLE<br>JIM CARREY &amp; KATE WINSLET Character(s): Joel Barish &amp; Clementine Kruczynski Film 'ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND' (2004) Directed By MICHAEL GONDRY 19 March 2004 SSC8574 Allstar/FOCUS FEATURES **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of FOCUS FEATURES and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To FOCUS FEATURES is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

      Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind at 20
      A love story that’s impossible to forget

    • Driving licence renewal application for driver aged over 70.

      Consumer champions
      After 40 years driving, DVLA now says my mother never passed a test

  • An illustration showing an ancient statue and numerous paintings on the walls, with the word 'slogan' scattered about on top.

    Arts funding has collapsed under 14 years of Tory rule. Here are three ways Labour can fix it

    Charlotte Higgins
    When access to culture is downgraded, the arts are sidelined in schools and civic spaces are neglected, we all lose out, says the Guardian’s chief culture writer Charlotte Higgins
  • Korean fans of Son Heung-min at Tottenham hold up a banner saying: 'We are from Sonny's hometown'

    The cultural division of football fans only serves those who wish to exploit it

    Jonathan Liew
  • Aya Nakamura performing on stage in 2019.

    Aya Nakamura is a proud Black woman. Is that why she’s not ‘French enough’ for the Paris Olympics?

    Rokhaya Diallo
    She is the world’s most listened-to French-speaking artist – but in France, hostility to her goes beyond the far right, says Guardian Europe columnist Rokhaya Diallo
  • 'Lorraine' TV show, London, UK - 11 Mar 2024<br>Editorial use only Mandatory Credit: Photo by Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock (14384811c) Earl Spencer 'Lorraine' TV show, London, UK - 11 Mar 2024

    Boarding schools can do tremendous harm. Charles Spencer’s bleak memoir proves it

    Gaby Hinsliff
    Many boys educated privately hand their trauma to the next generation – and, dangerously, to those who are raised to govern, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
    • An illustration showing a young girl climbing over a stile, surrounded by beautiful woodland.

      As a child, I roamed Dartmoor – and it shaped me. But across England, that freedom is being trampled on

      Rosie Jewell
    • A placard of the  Ghanaian flag above its coat of arms saying "queer Ghanaian lives matter" attached to railings outside a building

      Men enthusiastically express their heterosexuality in Ghana, so why is being queer so unacceptable?

      Elliot Kwabena Akosa
    • Children in Gaza try to get food relief.

      Famine is ‘imminent’ here in north Gaza – and I’m watching it begin to unfold

      Mahmoud Shalabi
    • Ben Jennings on Vladimir Putin’s landslide victory in the Russian election – cartoon

      Cartoon
      Ben Jennings on Vladimir Putin’s landslide victory in the Russian election

Editorials & Letters

  • Vladimir Putin

    The Guardian view
    Russia’s election: in Stalin’s footsteps

  • Vaughan Gething

    The Guardian view
    Britain’s non-white political class: supporting change by embodying it

  • Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves

    Letters
    Labour has not got long to find its moral compass

  • Bernie Grant and Diane Abbott (both standing) at the Labour party's annual conference in Blackpool in October 1988.

    Letters
    My late husband, Bernie Grant, received vicious abuse like Diane Abbott

  • Ed Miliband wearing a dark jacket and a red tie

    Net zero
    Sunak and ministers stoking division over UK target, warns Ed Miliband

  • Insulate Britain protest in London in 2021

    Environmental activism
    Climate protesters in England and Wales lose criminal damage defence

  • Cows poke their heads through fences to eat dry food from a trough

    Environment
    ‘Bewildering’ to omit meat-eating reduction from UN climate plan

  • Makeshift homes in dusty, arid conditions.

    South Sudan
    Country closes schools in preparation for 45C heatwave

  • Composite showing the Garrick Club and some of its members

    Exclusive
    Garrick Club’s men-only members list reveals roll-call of UK establishment

    Details made public for first time prompt anger over how many influential figures belong to club that bars women
  • Nicholas Boys Smith takes a notably different stance to Rishi Sunak’s recent ‘plan for drivers’.

    Transport
    Boost walking and cycling in towns and cities, urges UK government adviser

  • Wind power turbines and electricity pylons

    Electricity grid
    £58bn plan to rewire Great Britain expected to spark tensions along route

  • Man in beekeeper outfit and mask with long blue protective gloves removes bees from roof

    Heritage
    Bees move out while National Trust house in Wales gets new roof

    • ‘Jaw-droppers’
      Bentley profits top £500m as rich seek personalised cars

    • Concert tickets
      ‘Sneaky’ fees add up to 25% to price, says Which?

    • West Midlands
      Police commissioner wins case to stop his powers being given to Tory mayor

    • Rachel Reeves
      Treasury will ‘hardwire’ growth into tax and spending decisions

    • ‘Extreme road rage’
      Man jailed for ramming motorcyclist off Milton Keynes bridge

    • Counter-terrorism
      More young people being radicalised online, says senior UK officer

  • Peter Pellegrini speaking to journalists

    Slovakia
    Opposition sounds alarm over Russia tilt as election looms

    Report alleges that candidate asked Hungary to help arrange visit to Moscow in 2020 – when prime minister – to boost popularity
  • Man in blue suit with grey hair

    US election 2024 primaries
    Intrigue in down-ballot races as Trump-Biden rematch set

  • The Bank of Japan (BoJ) headquarters in central Tokyo  today.

    Live
    End of an era as Japan ends negative interest rates; Unilever cutting 7,500 jobs

  • Lines of south Asian men under lights clutching papers

    Modern slavery
    Sexual exploitation drives 37% rise in profits from forced labour, ILO says

    • Peter Navarro
      Trump ally to begin prison term after contempt conviction

    • UN security council
      US and Japan push for ban on nuclear weapons in space with resolution

    • Gaza
      Fierce clashes between IDF and Hamas after Israel takes control of key hospital

    • Elon Musk
      Billionaire replies to post by far-right Austrian linked to Christchurch terrorist after X account restored

    • China
      Killing of teenager sparks debate about ‘left behind’ children

    • France
      Michelin hails ‘cultural dynamism’ as 52 restaurants earn first stars

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  • Charles Sobhraj in The Real Serpent: Investigating a Serial Killer.Investigating a Serial Killer.

    TV tonight
    Who is The Serpent? Charles Sobhraj faces a real-life interrogation

    In this intense series, the convicted killer is asked about murders he has never been tried for. Plus: The Hairy Bikers Go West comes to a poignant end. Here’s what to watch this evening
  • Slave Play at the Noël Coward theatre in London.

    ‘What’s the big deal?’
    London Black Out night welcomed despite No 10 concerns

  • Absorbing … Imogen Poots as Rose Dugdale in Baltimore

    Film
    Baltimore review – vivid, intense biopic of heiress turned terrorist Rose Dugdale

  • RuPaul and friends, taken from his memoir, The House of Hidden Meanings.

    The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir by RuPaul review
    Poignant, egotistical and often wise

  • Images from Mandy Barker’s Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Imperfections.

    ‘People are anaesthetised to seeing rubbish everywhere’
    The book unearthing waste in our seas

  • Awestruck … Kip Anderson, a lamb and Kameron Waters in Christspiracy: The Spirtuality Secret

    Christspiracy: The Spirituality Secret review
    Jesus was a vegetarian and other entertaining tosh

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Diversity in banking

  • Young african woman writing on whiteboard during meeting in office. Business people having meeting in office.

    Social mobility in finance
    The new scheme tackling banking’s class ceiling

  • Businesspeople standing at desk in office and talking, black man looking at computer monitor. Diverse teamwork discussing strategy.

    ‘Representation matters’
    How a bank is supporting students from diverse backgrounds seeking a career in finance

  • Teamwork in creative meeting brainstorming innovative business strategy standing in boardroom.

    Ready for a comeback?
    The hiring scheme targeting workers on a career break

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    '100% the right path'
    Could an apprenticeship in finance work for you?

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    Money hacks
    How to successfully buy a home at a UK property auction

    A winning bid is legally binding, so it is crucial to do your homework and keep a cool head
  • Bike near medieval buildings in Brent Eleigh on the Wolf Way

    In the company of wolves and kings
    Suffolk’s new medieval cycle trail

  • Hake with clams, chorizo and manzanilla in an iron pot with handles on a tablecloth next to a bowlful of it, a plate of torn bread, a bowl of clam shells and a wine glass

    Spanish food and drink
    José Pizarro’s recipe for hake with clams, chorizo and manzanilla

  • Palais Galliera in Paris, mounts a retrospective of fashion photographer Paolo Roversi (pictured with Claire Foy in 2020).

    Fashion Statement
    From Barbie to Naomi to Paolo Roversi, the style shows you have to see

  • Composite image of hands holding elements of handbag restoration including cleaner and scrubbing brush

    ‘Let’s give her a relaxing spa day’
    How to restore a leather handbag at home

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    Tarunima Sinha’s spring bakes
    Lemon drizzle, pistachio and blood orange, egg-free date

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  • Composite of a woman and man closely face to face while a person at left walks away

    Intimate details
    Tell us: how did your relationship survive infidelity?

  • Fridge magnet souvenirs in a closed shop window in Bridlington in north Yorkshire.

    Life and style
    Tell us about your holiday fridge magnets

  • Employers in Britain have been cutting vacancies, as unemployment figures rose, driven by more young people and older people outside the labour force.

    Business
    UK employers: what kind of vacancies have you been struggling to fill?

  • Copyright Sarah Lee - The operating theatre of the BPAS Abortion Clinic in Streatham. Pictured are the Abortion Register, the Anesthetic machine and an ultrasound scanner.

    Abortion
    UK patients: have you waited more than two weeks for a surgical abortion?

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  • Evalina Dias, a project manager at Djass, Portugal’s Association of African Descendants.

    ‘It’s a really big threat’
    Portuguese minorities on the rise of the far right

    Chega party – whose leader’s views have been described as xenophobic and racist – appears poised to play a prominent role
  • Freedom Monument Sculpture Park

    ‘A narrative of triumph’
    A powerful 17-acre site in Alabama remembers enslavement

  • An offshore island in Kinmen, an archipelago controlled by Taiwan but just a few kilometres from China.

    Kinmen island
    In the busy waters between China and Taiwan, the de facto border is being tested

  • Noya Lee in Taipei, Taiwan. She is sitting in front of a red slippery slide in a park and gazing into the distance

    24 in 2024
    Salsa parties, stinky tofu and being queer in Taiwan

  • Silvio Berlusconi gesturing with his hands, in front of a large artwork.

    Bulletproof windows and ‘bunga bunga’
    Berlusconi’s palace to be used by world’s press

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