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  • Northern Lights Visible In England<br>WHITLEY BAY, ENGLAND - MAY 10: People visit St Mary's lighthouse in Whitley Bay to see the aurora borealis, commonly known as the northern lights, on May 10, 2024 in Whitley Bay, England. The UK met office said a strong solar storm may allow northern parts of the UK the chance to see displays of aurora. (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

    Northern lights
    Aurora dazzles over UK and Europe

    Aurora borealis sightings from England’s north-east coast to Berkshire while solar flares thought to be associated with sunspot 16 times diameter of Earth
    • Pro-Palestinian protesters opposing Israel's participation in the Eurovision Song Contest demonstrate in Malmo. A banner reads 'No platform for genocide' and 'Israel out of Eurovision'

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      Eurovision
      Contest struggles to keep politics out as Israel controversy hits Malmö

    • Live music
      MPs call for levy on arena concert tickets to raise funds for struggling small venues

    • Afghanistan
      At least 50 dead after flash flooding in north of country

    • Rudy Giuliani
      New York radio station suspends Trump ally over 2020 election lies

    • Education
      Goldsmiths University to keep Black British literature course open

    • London
      Man detained indefinitely for killing mobility scooter rider, 87

    • Jimmy Anderson
      Record-breaking England cricketer to end Test career this summer

News in focus

  • Fire after a Russian missile strike in Kharkiv on Friday

    Ukraine war briefing
    Focus swings to Kharkiv as Russia mounts assaults

  • Donald Trump with attorney Todd Blanche at Manhattan criminal court in New York on 10 May.

    Trump on trial
    The key takeaways from day 15

    Defense paints Trump as a distracted multitasker who signed papers without review as texts between Stormy Daniels’ ex-publicist and a former editor were shown
  • Keir Starmer, on the right, turns to look at Natalie Elphicke, who is looking straight ahead

    ‘Hard truths’
    How far will Starmer push to show Labour has changed?

    After Natalie Elphicke’s defection and tension over Gaza stance, some party insiders believe limits are being reached

Spotlight

  • Women at a production line in a factory in a photo from To Let You Understand by Franki Raffles

    Franki Raffles and Joanne Coates review
    Studies of women and class show how little things have changed

    Two exhibitions – one by a Marxist, lesbian, feminist active in the 80s and the other by a modern working-class artist – reveal the intersectionality of the female experience across space and time
  • Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt at a screening for The Fall Guy in London.

    Blunt, stunts and Gosling
    How did The Fall Guy flop – and what does that mean for cinema?

  • Banners from Manchester United (left) and Tottenham supporters taunting their rivals; Manchester City and Arsenal respectively.

    The ultimate dilemma for United and Spurs fans
    What if winning hands your rivals the title?

    City’s fiercest rivals can do them a favour, while a Tottenham victory could gift the Gunners the title. Two Guardian writers reflect on the worst of both worlds
  • Worried-01

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    I’m ignored when I try to chat to people. How can I improve my conversation skills?

    Fruitful exchanges require input from two people. Listen carefully to what others are saying and use feelings, rather than facts, to connect
    • Composite of Drake on the left ad Kendrick Lamar wearing a orange hat and black classes on the right

      Is this a ‘forever thing’?
      Drake and Kendrick’s rap beef explained

    • ‘Takes take the edge off normal life’: Apple Butter, Langham Place.

      Grace Dent on restaurants
      Apple Butter Cafe, London W1: ‘Food to make a diabetes doctor sigh anxiously’

    • Steve Albini performing with Shellac at the Scala, London, in 2004.

      Steve Albini obituary
      Frontman acclaimed for his production of albums by Nirvana, Pixies and PJ Harvey

    • ‘Grim inevitability’ … Fiona Harvey being interviewed by Piers Morgan.

      Baby Reindeer
      Piers Morgan’s interview with Fiona Harvey reeked of grubby exploitation

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Opinion

  • Joe Biden departs Air Force One on 9 May 2024.

    Joe Biden is desperate for this war to end – but neither Netanyahu nor Hamas is in any hurry

    Jonathan Freedland
    Failing to stop an all-out attack on Rafah would make the US president look weak – an unthinkable prospect in election year
  • Baby Reindeer writer and actor Richard Gadd (Donny Dunn) and Jessica Gunning, who plays Martha, in a still from the series.

    Piers Morgan won’t care where the Baby Reindeer saga goes. But Netflix should

    Marina Hyde
  • Rebecca Hendin on small boats and the Eurovision song contest – cartoon

    Cartoon
    Rebecca Hendin on small boats and the Eurovision song contest

    British politicians seem to be competing to see whose rhetoric over turning back migrants can be the harshest
  • A man paddling a kayak through flood waters in Brisbane, Australia in 2022.

    The climate crisis is no laughing matter, no matter what those on Radio 4’s Today programme think

    Bill McGuire
    As a scientist, I’m faced with indifference and a failure to understand the reality of the climate crisis every day. We must wake people up, says UCL’s Bill McGuire
    • A cluster of tents on the grass in a courtyard surrounded by old buildings.

      The students protesting in Dublin are on the right side of history – and they know it

      Owen Jones
    • Raphaël Glucksmann speaking in Paris, France, 2 May 2024

      In France, we’ve been desperate for a real alternative to Macron and Le Pen. Finally, he’s here

      Alexander Hurst
    • The newly re-elected Labour Party Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, poses for the media on the Millennium Bridge before his swearing in ceremony in London, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

      What should Labour learn from Sadiq Khan? Take a stand – and don’t back down

      John McTernan
    • Queen Camilla in blue standing beside man in red overcoat with medals holding his hat, and two men in similar garb on horses wearing their hats

      Digested week
      Kim Kardashian’s corset, dated insults – and a fuss at the Garrick

      Emma Brockes

Editorials & Letters

  • Displaced Palestinians in Deir al-Balah

    The Guardian view
    Israel’s far right: occupation of Palestinian territory feeds its extremism

  • Michael Sheen records the audiobook for Philip Pullman's La Belle Sauvage

    The Guardian view
    Audiobooks: a growing market that asks existential questions

  • Woman watering plants

    Letters
    It’s not how old you are that matters – it’s how you are old

  • Young woman carrying box while walking through doorway at back yard.

    Letters
    Charge your adult children rent – you’re doing them a favour

Climate crisis

  • Houses submerged in flood water in Germany

    ‘No alternative’
    EU climate chief urges MEPs not to use crisis as political tool

  • Images taken from the Guardian’s climate coverage over the past decade including floods in Pakistan and forest fires in western USA

    ‘The stakes could not be higher’
    World is on edge of climate abyss, UN warns

  • Top view of black and white plastic containers and utensils arranged on vivid yellow background.

    Ranked
    The best and worst takeaway packaging

  • Illustration showing a protester, a ballot box, a hamburger and an aeroplane, with a tree in silhouette behind

    The expert view
    What are the most powerful climate actions you can take?

From the UK

  • The family sitting on a red sofa

    Immigration
    Home Office U-turn lets woman stay in UK with husband and son

    Malwattege Peiris had been told to leave despite court ruling that family had right to be together under settlement scheme
  • Floral tributes to PC Sharon Beshenivsky

    Sharon Beshenivsky
    Gang ringleader jailed for life for PC's 2005 murder

  • Demonstrators against the Rwanda policy hold placards near the gates of 10 Downing Street

    Rwanda
    First UK deportation flight could take off in June, court papers suggest

  • Shadow of a child playing on a swing in a playground

    Child abuse
    Inquiry chair calls new ‘duty to report’ law deeply disappointing

    • ‘I made curtains on the train’
      The commuters livening up their journeys

    • Environment
      Farmers’ union lobbied to increase pesticide limit in UK drinking water

    • Just Stop Oil
      Two protesters in their 80s attack Magna Carta’s glass case

    • UK economy
      Country has moved out of recession, figures show

    • Scotland
      Palestinian charity CEO to stand for Labour in Fife

    • Gordon Ramsay
      Celebrity chef's restaurant empire tripled losses to £3.4m last year

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Around the world

  • Woman dressed in pink suit holds necklace and sits with man in front of Peruvian flags

    Peru
    Brother and lawyer of president held as corruption inquiry widens

  • Alienable right to life features the names of 1,039 people killed in mass shootings since the Columbine high school massacre in 1999.

    ‘A handgun in every nightstand’
    US art installation shines light on gun violence

    • Steve Bannon
      Court upholds hard-right activist's January 6 contempt of Congress conviction

    • Is AI lying to me?
      Scientists warn of growing capacity for deception

    • Germany
      Eight hundred protesters attempt to storm Tesla factory

    • Exclusive
      Abigail Disney evokes Old Yeller in plea to reject Republicans after Kristi Noem kills dog

    • US
      Michigan woman found living inside rooftop store sign with desk and coffee maker

    • Business
      Shein ‘steps up plan for London IPO’ amid US listing hurdles

Culture

  • People pose for pictures in front of a Chinese restaurant.

    ‘There’s been one winner – this restaurant’
    Toronto eatery is victor in Kendrick-Drake beef

    Hip-hop luminaries bash each other in a diss track war of war of words featuring an unlikely venue: the New Ho King restaurant
  • woman in black leotard performs

    Taylor Swift
    New Era Tours setlist with seven Tortured Poets songs added

  • Anuvab Pal

    ‘Punching up against colonialism is glorious!’
    The unstoppable rise of Indian comedy in the UK

  • A detail from Claude Monet’s The Water-Lily Pond, 1899, … on loan for the exhibition National Treasures.

    The week in art
    Treasures on tour, outsized orchids and liberated bottoms

  • Dua Lipa, Brandon Taylor and Sara Pascoe.

    A guide to the online books world
    From Dua Lipa’s book club to George Saunders’ Substack

  • Cassandra Peterson, Sarah Silverman, John Mulaney at John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s in LA for the Netflix is a Joke Festival at The Sunset Gower Studios on May 8, 2024 in Los Angeles, CA. Cr. Ryan West/Netflix © 2024

    The Guide
    Netflix was supposed to have killed live TV – so why is it now embracing it?

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Lifestyle

  • The 2024 Met Gala Celebrating "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion" - Arrivals<br>NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 06: Uma Thurman, Tory Burch, and Bruna Marquezine attend the 2024 Costume Institute Benefit for "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images)

    ‘Really dystopian’
    Why was there no mention of Gaza at the Met Gala?

    Courage of celebrities called into question as key fashion event passes devoid of political statement
  • Caroline Paul flies over the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco in a gyrocopter.

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  • People queue outside the Hermes store in Mayfair in London, Monday, April 12, 2021.

    Luxury goods sector
    Are you splurging on luxury goods you can ill afford?

  • Free Palestine<br>Over 50 students began an occupation of the Parkinson Building of Leeds University on Friday 08.03.2024 in protest of the conflict in Gaza. What was planned as a 24 hour occupation has changed into a indefination occupation after the University decided to lock the doors of the building restricting access to and from the main building. The students have built an encampment within the building and are living off water and food smuggled onto the site. Rally for Palestine by Leeds Students and University Staff. Leeds.

    Students in UK
    Share your experience of pro-Palestinian university protests

  • Photo of a sold and for sale signs.

    Housing
    Have you bought a house in the UK with your friend?

  • Posed by models Older Japanese mother and daughter near autumn leaves

    Millennials
    Have you recently moved back in with your parents?

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  • A counter-protester throws a crate at a pro-Palestinian encampment

    ‘When there’s so much attention, they show up’
    Why far-right groups are disrupting US campus protests

    Gaza counter-protesters at UCLA took part in anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-vaccine events across southern California, researchers say
  • Aerial view of the Mathias Velho neighbourhood in Canoas, a suburb of Porto Alegre, showing extensive flooding.

    Brazil
    The country’s south is reeling from catastrophic floods. What went wrong – and what does the future hold?

  • Environmental scientist Dr Shobha Maharaj stands in front of the coastline in San Fernando, Trinidad, where coastal stabilization works have been done, in an attempt to preserve the coastline.

    ‘I am starting to panic'
    Fifth of female climate scientists opting for no or fewer children

  • Ann Peetermans, (47, top left) has dinner with the three boarders, Iosif (53, top right), Etty (71, bottom left) and Luc (75, bottom right).

    Belgium
    The town where families take in people with psychiatric conditions

  • A general view of Tokyo's Ginza area

    Tokuryū
    The shadowy criminal groups taking over from yakuza in Japan

  • Sugar comes in many different forms. This blend contains sugars from Barbados, Colombia and India, which have variations in color, texture and taste.

    ‘Sugar is brown!’
    There’s more to the sweet stuff than its pure white version

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  • Aerial view of a football stadium where the pitch and all but the highest rows of seats are covered with muddy flood water. The water is also flooding the area outside the stadium,

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    War in Gaza, floods in Kenya and Brazil, the Olympic flame in Marseille and the Met Gala in New York: the last seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists
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