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  • George Simion holding up a finger in front of his face as he speaks

    Romania
    Romania’s top court rejects far-right candidate’s attempt to annul election

    George Simion, a pro-Trump ultranationalist, had alleged foreign interference in rerun vote won by Nicușor Dan
  • Tomorrow and tomorrow’s world … still from Lili.

    Games
    ‘Shakespeare would be writing for games today’: Cannes’ first video game Lili is a retelling of Macbeth

  • Australian swimmer and former Olympian James Magnussen swimming

    Sport
    Athletes warn against potential health risks of ‘dangerous, unethical’ Enhanced Games

In focus

  • Kate Wilson next to a block-printed poster depicting a clenched fist

    Spycops scandal
    Spies, lies and betrayal: my ruinous relationship with an undercover cop

    He was the first partner Kate Wilson ever moved in with; they were together for 16 months, and friends for years afterwards. Then she found out he had been spying on her all along
  • Map of Ukraine oblasts fragmented and dispersed by a shattering in the centre.

    Explained
    What would Russia’s peace deal demands really mean for Ukraine? – visualised

  • An African woman with a traditional bead necklace poses with a tree's foliage around her face

    Environment
    How an idealistic tree-planting project turned into Kenya’s toxic, thorny nightmare

Features

  • ‘I barely want to go to my own premieres’ … Macdonald.

    Television
    ‘I’m less apologetic now’: Kelly Macdonald on her Trainspotting teen highs and hitting her stride in her 40s

  • 2018, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - FALLOUT<br>TOM CRUISE Character(s): Ethan Hunt Film 'MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - FALLOUT' (2018) Directed By CHRISTOPHER MCQUARRIE 26 July 2018 SAW90978 Allstar/PARAMOUNT PICTURES **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of PARAMOUNT PICTURES 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 PARAMOUNT PICTURES is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Film
    ‘Breath-stoppingly tense’: which Mission: Impossible film is the greatest?

More features

  • Unaffected grace and charm … Llúcia Garcia (right) in Romería.

    Cannes film festival
    Romería review – Carla Simón’s gripping pilgrimage tackles Aids, parents and the legacy of secrets

  • Quadrophenia in rehearsal at Sadler’s Wells East, London.

    Dance
    Pete Townshend remakes Quadrophenia for a new generation: ‘The world is a dangerous place at the moment’

  • You be the judge
    Should my best friend and I get matching tattoos?

  • Super-rich villain … Julianne Moore in Sirens.

    TV review
    Sirens – Julianne Moore’s utterly addictive cult drama is preposterously fun

  • Science
    The extraordinary promise of gene editing

    Podcast16:55
  • Nicole Kidman in season two of Nine Perfect Strangers.

    TV review
    Nine Perfect Strangers season two review – not even Nicole Kidman’s new wig makes this worth watching

Opinion

  • Alexander Hurst

    Volodymyr Zelenskyy has courage. Pope Francis had it too. Why are there so many cowards?

    Alexander Hurst
    Political cowardice, corruption and greed have eroded our social fabric. Powerful people who do what is right are in short supply, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst
  • Molly Conisbee

    I’ve studied the history of death. I know how we can better face up to our grief – and our own mortality

    Molly Conisbee
    How we deal with bereavement has changed hugely over the years, I’ve learned. But not all the old traditions should be forgotten

More opinion

  1. Adrian Chiles

    My signed tie is up for auction. I don’t think even my mum would buy it

    Adrian Chiles
  2. Michael Fakhri

    If aid doesn’t enter Gaza now, 14,000 babies may die. UN peacekeepers must step in

    Michael Fakhri
  3. Martin Kettle

    The UK risks falling apart. Keir Starmer can mend it now – but he doesn’t have much time

    Martin Kettle

  4. We bear the brunt of the climate crisis. A Pacific Cop could help shape the global response

    Surangel Whipps Jr

Cartoon

  • Ella Baron on Israel's destruction of Gaza – cartoon

    Ella Baron on ...
    Israel’s destruction of Gaza

    Looming famine in the territory has provoked international outrage and heavy diplomatic pressure on Israel

Editorials

  • The Guardian view
    Russia sanctions: a brittle economy is Putin’s weakness

  • The Guardian view
    Social cohesion: too many of us are still ‘bowling alone’

Sport

More sport

  1. Pacers Knicks Basketball<br>Indiana Pacers guard Tyrese Haliburton (0) is mobbed by teammates as he makes a choking motion after hitting a shot against the New York Knicks at the end of regulation to tie Game 1 of the NBA basketball Eastern Conference final, Wednesday, May 21, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)

    NBA playoffs
    Haliburton and Pacers stun Knicks with epic comeback in Game 1 of East finals

  2. Andriy Mandryk (second right) photographed with his team after winning a match

    Special report
    Kyiv’s League of the Mighty: how amputee football s Ukraine’s survivors

  3. EasyPost’s Richard Carapaz crosses the finish line in Castelnovo ne’ Monti to win stage 11

    Giro d'Italia
    Carapaz solos to stage 11 win as Del Toro stays in pink jersey

  4. Emma Raducanu

    Tennis
    Raducanu suffers injury scare before French Open in defeat by Collins

The long read

  • LiverpoolNewTrail 5x4 BOOTLE, 15 May 2025 - Former Liverpool FC captain, Jamie Carragher, who now working as a television pundit and broadcaster for Sky Sports, on Marsh Lane in Bootle where he grew up and where his father ran The Salisbury pub, known locally as The Solly. A giant mural featuring Carragher hoisting the European Cup in 2005, adorns the gable end of a neighbouring building. Christopher Thomond for The Guardian.

    Football
    Extremely loud and incredibly scouse: how Jamie Carragher conquered football punditry

    The long read: Football coverage no longer stops after the final whistle. And in this new era, the former Liverpool defender reigns supreme

More news

  • Johnathan Buma in downtown Phoenix, Arizona, on 8 May.

    FBI
    FBI whistleblower claims he tried to get to Musk to warn him he was being targeted by Russia

    Johnathan Buma, who was arrested in March and is out on bail, claims in new interview that efforts to target Musk were ‘intense’
  • South African President Ramaphosa Meets With President Donald Trump in Washington, Washington d.c., District of Columbia, United States - 21 May 2025<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Jim Lo Scalzo/UPI/Shutterstock (15313705j) President Donald Trump holds up news articles related to violence in South Africa during a meeting with South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, May 21, 2025. South African President Ramaphosa Meets With President Donald Trump in Washington, Washington d.c., District of Columbia, United States - 21 May 2025

    Trump istration
    Trump ambushes South African president with video and false claims of anti-white racism

  • Montage of images showing a data centre, a person using social media and a Brazilian street

    Southern frontlines
    Giant tech companies are queueing up to build datacentres in drought-hit Latin America

  • A woman wearing a headscarf seen from behind near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, .

    Macron’s party moots banning headscarves in public for under-15s

  • Illustration of a young women chatting on phone. The womans face is distorted by empty AI chat bubbles.

    Society
    In Taiwan and China, young people turn to AI chatbots for ‘cheaper, easier’ therapy

More climate crisis & environment

  1. a man speaks while holding a chart

    Nasa
    Godfather of climate science decries Trump plan to shut Nasa lab above Seinfeld diner: ‘It’s crazy’

  2. A bee collects pollen from a crocus

    Bees
    Plants produce more nectar when they ‘hear’ bees buzzing, scientists find

  3. Flames engulf trees in a forest wildfire

    Climate crisis
    Fires drove record loss of world’s forests last year, ‘frightening’ data shows

  4. a person's hand holding cocoa beans

    Food
    EU’s ‘chocolate crisis’ worsened by climate breakdown, researchers warn

More UK news

  1. Education
    UK government urged to introduce GCSE in Ukrainian for child refugees

  2. Business
    Government considers sale of Brexit border checkpoint in Kent – reports

  3. Environment
    TV naturalist calls sea bass labelling in UK supermarkets a ‘dereliction of duty’

  4. UK
    Sighing at a colleague in frustration could be discriminatory, tribunal rules

More world news

  1. Ireland
    European year of the Normans reopens debate over Irish identity

  2. German police arrest teenage neo-Nazis over alleged attacks on migrants

  3. North Korea
    Kim Jong-un furious as North Korea warship partly ‘crushed’ in launch gone wrong

  4. Spain
    Former Ukrainian politician shot dead outside his children’s school in Madrid

Culture

What to watch

  1. Paul Reubens in Pee-wee As Himself.

    Documentary
    ‘It was thrilling and combative’: inside a revealing Pee-wee Herman documentary

  2. Werner Herzog filming Fitzcarraldo in Burden of Dreams.

    Documentary
    Burden of Dreams review – on-location of Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo is a gruelling delight

  3. Film still: Eleanor the Great, directed by Scarlett Johannson, starring June Squibb

    Cannes
    Eleanor the Great review – June Squibb takes on Holocaust survivor trauma in Scarlett Johansson’s iffy directing debut

  4. Undated film still handout from Lilo And Stitch. Pictured: Maia Kealoha as Lilo Pelekai and Stitch. See PA Feature SHOWBIZ Film Lilo And Stitch. WARNING: This picture must only be used to accompany PA Feature SHOWBIZ Film Lilo And Stitch. PA Photo. Picture credit should read: ©Disney. All Rights Reserved. NOTE TO EDITORS: This picture must only be used to accompany PA Feature SHOWBIZ Film Lilo And Stitch.

    Film
    Lilo & Stitch review – Disney’s latest unnecessary remake is a monstrosity

What to listen to

  1. Martin Carthy at home in Robin Hood’s Bay, North Yorkshire.

    Folk music
    ‘Dylan said: teach me that!’ Martin Carthy on six decades of Scarborough Fair – and his new solo album

  2. Scissor Sisters.

    Pop
    Scissor Sisters in Glasgow review – effervescent maximalism from 00s glam-pop freaksters

  3. Astropical, AKA Beto Montenegro and Li Saumet.

    Music
    ‘We’re zombies. We’ve lost all connection to one another’: Astropical, the Latin supergroup healing our broken brains

  4. Diversity's Ashley Banjo, Jordan Banjo and Perri Kiely launch a new podcast Brothers Uncovered.

    Best podcasts of the week
    Hugely silly banter with the Banjo brothers: best podcasts of the week

What to read

  1. Rebecca Solnit

    Book of the day
    No Straight Road Takes You There by Rebecca Solnit review – an activist’s antidote to despair

  2. Yiyun Li.

    Books
    Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li review – a shattering of losing two sons

  3. Author Banu Mushtaq (left) and translator Deepa Bhasthi with their International Booker prizewinning book Heart Lamp.

    Short stories
    ‘Radical translation’ of Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq wins International Booker prize

  4. The Charging Bull statue, New York City.

    Economics books
    Capitalism and Its Critics by John Cassidy review – brilliant primer on leftwing economics

What to play

Poems to
‘He lived inside poetry’: Toby Jones and Helena Bonham Carter perform poems in memory of lost loved ones

  • George Wendt (centre) as Norm, with John Ratzenberger, Kirstie Alley, Woody Harrelson and Ted Danson, in a 1982 episode of Cheers

    Television
    A man walked into a bar – and every Cheers episode George Wendt’s Norm made funny

  • ‘There is no escape. Your life is conditioned by the system’ … Panahi in Tehran.

    Film
    ‘I think of those I left behind in prison’: Iran’s Jafar Panahi on life as a banned film-maker

    • Lifestyle

    • A miniature dachshund under a duvet

      Thursday quiz
      Winners, resigners, guest dogs and royal losers

    • Rachel Roddy's millefoglie puff pastry cream cake.

      A kitchen in Rome
      Rachel Roddy’s recipe for millefoglie, or puff pastry and cream sandwich cake

    Food

    1. Tom Hunt's tahini jar goma dare.

      Food
      How to turn the dregs of a tahini jar into a brilliant Japanese condiment – recipe

    2. Ki Soon-do inspects one of her 1,200 prized earthenware jars. She is the only person in South Korea officially designated as a grand master of jinjang (aged soy sauce).

      ‘Without time, there is no flavour’
      A South Korean grand master on the art of the perfect soy sauce

    3. tart with goat’s cheese, herbs and hazelnuts.

      Kitchen aide
      Layer up: spring fillings for filo pies

    4. Rukmini Iyer's gildas in carriages.

      Quick and easy
      Rukmini Iyer’s quick and easy recipe for gildas in carriages

    Fashion & beauty