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    Richard Drax
    Tory MP from slave-owning family set to gain £3m from sale of former plantation

  • Chelsea's Erin Cuthbert (right) tussles for the ball with Barcelona's Mariona Caldentey.

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    Barcelona v Chelsea: Women’s Champions League semi-final

    • 'Number one threat'
      Next pandemic likely to be caused by flu virus, scientists warn

    • Politics
      Hunt reportedly mulling stamp duty and NI cuts in effort to woo voters

    • ‘Outdated and offensive’
      Police barred from blaming restraint deaths on ‘excited delirium’

    • US
      Chinese students tell of ‘chilling’ interrogations and deportations

    • Dorset police
      Officer who cut earrings off recruits guilty of gross misconduct

    • London
      Fire partly destroys Grade-II listed pub

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  • Donald Trump appears at Manhattan criminal in New York on 19 April 19.

    Silenced in court
    Trump curbed by trial rules but tries to wield power outside

  • A man and a woman walking a dog walk past a branch of Lloyds on a street corner

    UK economy
    Even a ‘rate shock’ for British mortgage borrowers may not help the banks

    The prospect of home loan rates staying high for longer is not the tonic for lenders’ financial results it once was
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    ‘We went from naive, hippyish protesters to hardcore anarchists’
    The criminal justice bill protests, 30 years on

    It’s three decades since the government’s attempt to ban raves radicalised an oddball coalition of dance fans, squatters and ‘new age’ travellers. What became of the protesters who tried to kill the bill?

Spotlight

  • Cassie Werber looking over her husband David’s shoulder

    The inside story of an open marriage
    My husband is my co-parent, friend and lover – but he isn’t the only person I have sex with

    I used to think open relationships were a recipe for heartbreak – or just a bit tacky. Then we began to experiment. Could seeing other people be the secret to a happy home life?
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    Daring, audacious – but who did it?
    LA $30m cash heist has everything except clues

  • illustration of older people being intimate

    This is how we do it
    ‘I’ve had more sex in the past two years than in the rest of my life’

    Violet and Oliver met in their 70s – and are both revelling in their uninhibited, experimental sex life
  • Gaspard Augé and Xavier De Rosnay of Justice

    Dance giants Justice return
    ‘The only thing we argued over were the bongos’

    The debonair duo have remixed U2 and Britney, and angered Kanye West. Still on each other’s wavelengths after almost a decade away, they’re resuming their quest to make ‘the most dramatic music possible’
    • Basic gardening for lifestyle feature Photography: Kellie French Photographer’s assistant: Harry Brayne

      What even is mulch?
      27 of the most basic gardening questions answered

    • Black and white portrait of Taylor Swift

      A whole lotta love gone bad
      Taylor Swift: The Tortured Poets Department review

    • Sarah Perry.

      Sarah Perry
      ‘For much of my life, I loved God. The echo of that never fades’

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      Five of Europe’s best national parks
      With all the beauty but none of the crowds

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Opinion

  • Iran holds celebrations on National Army Day, Tehran - 17 Apr 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Iranian Presidency/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock (14439005au) A missile is carried on a truck during the Army Day parade at a military base in northern Tehran. Raisi described the recent attack launched towards Israel as 'limited' and 'punitive,' adding that any act of aggression against Iran will be dealt with a 'powerful and fierce' response. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) launched drones and rockets toward Israel late on 13 April. Iran holds celebrations on National Army Day, Tehran - 17 Apr 2024

    In breaking their fragile truce, Israel and Iran have opened a Pandora’s box

    Simon Tisdall
    Skirmishes between the pair have until now been muted, but last week’s tit-for-tat attack on Isfahan shows how the Gaza conflict is fuelling global tensions
  • Sean Ono Lennon with James McCartney

    Pop is awash with nepo babies – Lennon and McCartney are just the latest. But why aren’t they better at it?

    Simon Price
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    Monopoly: the Movie? Pop culture has become a series of lukewarm adverts – and it’s all so very dull

    Dan Hancox
    From films about Play-Doh and Barbie to the Shrek ‘experience’, consumer capitalism has run out of ideas, says freelance writer Dan Hancox
  • Separate lines of Indian men and women queueing under lines of bunting

    As India goes to the polls, can democracy deliver a better life for all of its people?

    Kenneth Mohammed
    Behind a veneer of progress, injustice and inequality propped up by corruption and an outdated caste system haunt the subcontinent
    • A billboard poster depicting missiles, Tehran, Iran, on 19 April.

      In this shadow war between Iran and Israel, the outline of a different future is visible

      Jonathan Freedland
    • Making cocktails

      Edith Pritchett on millennial life
      100 tiny unyielding lemons: the labour of cocktail making

    • a key held held aloft to a drawer

      Tom Gauld's cultural cartoons
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    • Headshots of Sharon Osbourne and Amanda Holden.

      Digested week
      May Sharon Osbourne and Amanda Holden’s spat keep on giving

      Lucy Mangan

Editorials & Letters

  • Military personnel at Iran’s Isfahan nuclear facility. Israel’s aim was apparently to send a message about what it could do, not to cause significant damage now.

    The Guardian view
    Escalation in the Middle East: calculation does not equate to safety

  • An installation view of Lubaina Himid’s Naming the Money (2004) at Spike Island, Bristol, in 2017. Her work is now on display at the Royal Academy.

    The Guardian view
    The Royal Academy: reframing a bloody past

  • Close up of a bald man looking up

    Letters
    Hair yesterday, gone today: why we are happily bald

  • Silhoutte of a man with clouds and water

    Letters
    Professionals know that mental health is complex – and that MDMA won’t help

Climate crisis

  • Steve Backshall, the naturalist, scuba dives on the reefs of the Maldives for the BBC’s Our Changing Planet.

    Environment
    Scientists’ experiment is ‘beacon of hope’ for coral reefs on brink of global collapse

  • Scottish Green party co-leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater listen to net zero secretary, Màiri McAllan, on 18 April as she announces scrapping of 75% carbon cut pledge.

    Scotland
    Greens to vote on power-sharing deal with SNP after carbon goal ditched

  • Three cows amid green grass

    Exclusive
    Most UK dairy farms ignoring pollution rules as manure spews into rivers

  • Beef cattle in a field

    UN
    Livestock emissions report seriously distorted our work, say experts

From the UK

  • A close-up of a street sign for Whitehall in central London

    'Inhumane'
    UK small boats policymakers referred to ‘bloody migrants’, says civil servant

    Former head of policy at illegal migration taskforce details ‘inhumane conversations’
  • Cody Fisher

    Cody Fisher
    Murder sentences considered for review

  • Josie Gibson standing in an Iceland aisle.

    Not just mums who go to Iceland
    Supermarket drops slogan to be more inclusive

  • Man in grey sweater in front of whiteboard

    Oxford
    University shuts down institute run by Elon Musk-backed philosopher

    • MP Caroline Lucas
      ‘My biggest disappointment? Not to have been joined by more Green MPs … yet’

    • ‘Dirty secret’
      Insiders say UK water firms knowingly break sewage laws

    • Labour
      Starmer targets TikTok microinfluencers ahead of election

    • Brexit
      Sunak rejects offer of youth mobility scheme between EU and UK

    • Crime
      Train driver who upskirted female passenger avoids jail sentence

    • Bournemouth
      Man who raped girl, 15, in sea sentenced to six and a half years

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    Spain
    Thousands protest against Canary islands’ ‘unsustainable’ tourism model

    Local people say archipelago’s outdated industry made life unaffordable and prompts environmental emergencies
  • Tunde Onakoya prepares to take a move as people walk past

    Chess
    Nigerian champion breaks record after playing nonstop for 58 hours

  • A teenage girl with a towel wrapped around her head, wearing a white vest, applies a white face mask, while looking in a mirror.

    Gen Z’s ageing fixation
    ‘Kardashian children are sharing skincare routines’

  • black and white image of ranch-style home under trees

    Los Angeles
    Marvel actor Chris Pratt draws ire for demolishing architecturally significant 1950s home

    • ‘It bust loose and went to Europe’
      Florida buoy washes up in Scotland

    • ‘ICU on wheels’
      24 hours with Ukraine’s combat medics in Donbas

    • ‘Proverbial loser’
      Billionaire Republican donor’s firm criticises Trump’s social media CEO

    • Australia
      Brittany Higgins hopes Bruce Lehrmann rape finding sets ‘new precedent’ for sexual assault survivors

    • Volcano
      Thousands evacuated amid spreading ash and tsunami fears in Indonesia

    • Fisa
      US Senate votes to renew surveillance program

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  • Black man with very long dreads, wearing black T-shirt, cream blazer, and gray khakis poses in front of long chalkboard between two chairs.

    ‘I Gullah Geechee, too’
    The educators keeping a language of enslaved Africans alive

  • Photo of six people sitting in a small open boat look ing over their shoulders at a three-masted wooden ship overlaid on an orange graphic of a woodcut from a slave ship

    ‘Hidden in plain sight’
    The European city tours of slavery and colonialism

  • A person in a hi-vis jacket walking away from the camera towards a large dirt mound or hill

    Scraping away generations of forgetting
    My fight to honour the Africans buried on St Helena

  • A historical map overlayed on modern New York

    Sites of resistance
    Threatened African burial grounds around the world

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Culture

  • Jimmy Carr on stage

    Jimmy Carr: Natural Born Killer review
    A moral vacuum laughing at his own jokes

    The comedian is desperate to make out his jokes about rape and domestic abuse will get him cancelled. In reality, this Netflix special is about as edgy as a Jim Davidson set
  • George the Poet

    George the Poet
    ‘Poetry is the artistic wing of politics’

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    TV tonight
    BBC Two turns 60 with Stormzy, Dolly Parton and the Rolling Stones

  • Oceania Pro Wrestling. Erika Reid aka "The Dreamtime Voodoo Witch" holds aloft her winner's belt after defeating Lizzy Evo in the OPW Women's Championship. Selkirk Stadium. Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. 12 April 2024.

    ‘We’re the main attraction’
    When women’s pro wrestling came to Ballarat

  • Just don’t take it too seriously … Dead Boy Detectives.

    Dead Boy Detectives
    This ghost sleuth show is silly, spooky and wicked fun

  • This image released by A24 shows Kirsten Dunst in a scene from "Civil War." (Murray Close/A24 via AP)

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    Jess Glynne looks back
    ‘Fame is complex. I love what it’s given me, but I hate it too’

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    Fashion
    The wheelie bag rides again as ‘nanna glamour’ takes hold

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    As militias targeted the Masalit community in a wave of ethnic violence, one man offered shelter and an escape route across the border
  • Three white people stand in a semicircle in a conference room with shades drawn, holding pieces of paper, holding their right hands up, and all appearing to speak at the same time.

    US
    Women run 80% of US elections – but are targets of misogyny-laced threats

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    New Zealand
    How smoking ban got stubbed out – and what the UK can learn from it

  • Israeli army withdraws from northern Nasirat Camp<br>DEIR AL-BALAH, GAZA - APRIL 18: Palestinians search for usable items among the rubbles of destroyed buildings as extent of destruction comes to surface following the withdrawal of Israeli army from the northern part of Gaza's en-Nasirat Refugee Camp in Deir al-Balah, Gaza on April 18, 2024. (Photo by Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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    ‘Messianic spell’
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