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    The businesses looking to mine the moon

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    Yes, the rich must start paying their fair share of taxes

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  • World Cup 2026
    Which countries have qualified and how did they do it?

    Mehdi Taremi, Mohamed Salah, Luis Díaz (and Cristian Romero)

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    Is reformer pilates as amazing – or awful – as they say?

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    Rap lyrics were used to help sentence a man to death

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  • Life
    For the first time, a stranger pronounced my name correctly

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    Energy
    Asia ramps up use of dirty fuels to cover energy shortfall triggered by Iran war

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    Strait of Hormuz
    Britain to host 35 countries for strait of Hormuz talks, says Starmer

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    Iraq
    American journalist Shelly Kittleson kidnapped in Iraq, US officials say

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    Nasa
    Artemis II launch: crowds gather for glimpse of historic Nasa moon mission

  • French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a press conference with Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo.

    Europe live
    Macron praises Europe’s predictability in face of countries that ‘hurt you without even informing you’

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    Canada
    Stephen Lewis, Canadian politician and social activist, dies aged 88

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    US news
    Luigi Mangione to appear in New York court in effort to postpone federal trial

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    Books
    JD Vance announces a new memoir about his conversion to Catholicism

  • Lamine Yamal pictured during Spain’s game against Egypt

    Football
    Lamine Yamal furious with Spain fans over anti-Muslim chants against Egypt

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    ‘Raise our heads and resist’: how Europe’s civil society is fighting back against the far right

    Rightwing parties are using parliamentary queries, legal traps and policing to target NGOs and stifle dissent
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    Crowded Space
    Lunar prospectors: the businesses looking to mine the moon

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    Prosecutors used hip-hop lyrics to help sentence a man to death: ‘This only happens to rap music’

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    Film
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    World Cup 2026: which countries have qualified and how did they do it?

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    Mozambique
    ‘Guano is far more than just droppings’: scientists uncover the secrets of bat poo in Gorongosa park

  • Studio portrait of Enrique Andales, 1930s

    Art
    ‘How can you forget me’: show details Filipino Americans’ rich history

  • Group of pregnant women practising reformer pilates in a health club.

    Fitness
    ‘As soon as I left the first session I felt taller’: is reformer pilates as amazing – or awful – as they say?

  • Sarah Michelle Gellar and Shawn Hatosy in Ready or Not 2: Here I Come

    Film
    Why do this spring’s blockbusters feel so smug?

Opinion

  • I’m fighting Trump’s birthright citizenship order at the supreme court. Will we adhere to the best of our history?

    Cody Wofsy
    For 128 years, it’s been clear that if you are born in this country, you are a citizen. The court must not turn back the clock
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    Yes, the rich must start paying their fair share of taxes

    Bernie Sanders
    We need a 5% wealth tax on America’s 938 billionaires. Over a ten-year period, this bill would raise much-needed $4.4tn for public coffers

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  • Fatma Aydemir

    Why every woman can see herself in the story of a German celebrity couple’s split

    Fatma Aydemir
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Finally, the clitoris is getting the attention it deserves

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • A woman wearing a headscarf and face mask looks over the top of a protest poster, while around her other people hold posters in front of their faces.

    My year in solitary confinement has not broken me. My peaceful fight for Baloch rights in Pakistan goes on

    Mahrang Baloch
  • Owen Jones

    Tony Blair says the left is in ‘unholy alliance’ with Islamists. It’s a desperate last ploy to quell the anger over Gaza

    Owen Jones

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  • The Guardian view
    Israel’s death penalty: capital punishment is always wrong. This new law is doubly so

  • Senegal’s players hoist the Afcon trophy aloft in January

    Motsepe at a crossroads as Afcon row and Wafcon cancellation put reputations at risk

    Osasu Obayiuwana
    With controversy stalking football on the continent, the Caf president has a huge challenge on his hands

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  • Nico O'Reilly, Harry Maguire, Marc Guehi, Elliot Anderson.

    Football
    On the plane or the sofa? How England’s 2026 World Cup squad is shaping up

  • Stamford Bridge stadium exterior before Chelsea's Uefa Conference League quarter-final

    Football
    Chelsea break English record with £262.4m pre-tax loss for 2024-25 season

  • Arsenal’s Kim Little and Beth Mead battle with Manchester United's Jess Park (right) in the Women’s Super League at the Emirates Stadium

    Football
    Manchester United wage bill revealed as half that of WSL rivals Arsenal last season

  • Tiger Woods is seen leaving Martin County jail in a car

    Golf
    Woods says he will step away from golf and seek treatment after DUI charge

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    UK news
    BBC confirms it knew about Scott Mills sexual abuse allegations in 2017

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    UK
    Boy, 17, among new arrests over suspected arson attack on Jewish charity ambulances

  • Demonstrators raise their hands covered in red paint

    Israel
    ‘Discriminatory’ Israeli death penalty law would be war crime, says UN rights chief

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    April fools
    Pot Noodle pizza and Liz Truss joining Nasa were among the best April fools this year

  • A flare burns natural gas at an oil well

    Exclusive
    Invisible plumes and ‘terrible pollution’: the reality of the US gas sites rated ‘grade A’

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    US weather
    ‘On a whole other level’: rapid snow melt-off in American west stuns scientists

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    Australia
    Cyclone Narelle leaves behind a graveyard of turtles, dolphins and seabirds

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    Birds
    UK’s smallest bird of prey among 200 species at risk of extinction, study finds

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    US jibes at Royal Navy are uncomfortable because they have substance

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    Iran war shows UK needs ‘ambitious’ new EU ties, Starmer says, as Trump again criticises Nato

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    Revealed: the vast illegal casino network targeting UK gamblers

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    Why Bach’s music is indestructible, whether on the mandolin, modern piano – or soundtracking murder

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    TV review
    Dear Killer Nannies review – a surprisingly gut-punching Pablo Escobar drama

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  • Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Major Will Tranter in a scene from Fuze

    Film
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  • Daniel Bernhardt fighting red creatures with dual swords in Deathstalker (2025)

    Film
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    Film
    The Super Mario Galaxy Movie review – bland screensaver of a movie that’s actually worse than AI

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    Film
    Bone Keeper review – there’s a critter in the caves in serviceable Brit horror

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    Music
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    Classical music
    The twilight zone: Nocturnes, from piano to perfume and Russia to Richter

  • Jung Jae-il, South Korean composer

    Soundtracks
    The nightmarish sounds of Squid Game composer Jung Jae-il: ‘Having no identity very much defines my identity’

  • The musician Aja Monet photographed in a London

    Interview
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    Book of the day
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    Fiction
    Under Water by Tara Menon review – love, loss and a longing for the ocean

  • Ben Lerner.

    Fiction
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    Stop the world, I want to get off and run a video rental store in the 1990s

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  • a Nintendo Super Famicom, a 1990s era 16-bit console running the hit Capcom beat 'em up game Street Fighter II on a cathode ray tube television

    Pushing Buttons
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  • Keith Stuart

    The creator of Fortnite has laid off more than 1,000 staff – despite billions in revenue

    Keith Stuart
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    Survival horror
    Resident Evil at 30: how Capcom’s horror opus has survived and thrived

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    Art
    Women behind the lens: ‘I grew up hating my natural hair. But I transformed that pain into something empowering’

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    Photography
    Finnish up! Claire Aho’s colour revolution – in pictures

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  • Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe

    Stage
    Romeo and Juliet review – overbearing directorial stamp saved by Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe’s chemistry

  • Adrian Searle inside Jennifer Rubell's sculpture Portrait of the Artist at the Frieze London art fair in 2013.

    Art
    ‘Money! Glamour! Yachts! But not for me!’ Adrian Searle relives 30 glorious years as our chief art critic

Lifestyle

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    Fashion
    Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: spring has sprung, so put away your coat and banish the black tights

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    Life
    A moment that changed me: for the first time in my life, a stranger pronounced my name correctly

Food

  • Tom Hunt's leftover lamb Welsh cawl.

    Waste not
    How to turn a leftover roast lamb bone into Wales’ national dish – recipe

  • Tanya Bush's carrot cake with cream cheese mousse.

    Desserts
    Tanya Bush’s recipes for carrot cake with cream cheese mousse, and Neapolitan pavlova

  • Sami Tamimi's slow cooked lamb with spicy pickled lemon and Ruz mfalfal (jewelled Easter rice).

    Food
    Sami Tamimi’s recipes for slow-cooked lamb with spicy pickled lemon and jewelled Easter rice

  • women smile and laugh while seated at a table

    Black US culture
    The new crop of supper clubs for Black women

Fashion & beauty

  • A miniature champagne bottle opens against Carisa Janes’s new Outside In Silk Serum Foundation.

    Beauty
    Sali Hughes on beauty: new foundation launches come with a lot of hype. Do they deserve it?

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    Injectable peptides are touted online as a ‘glow up potion’. Here’s why experts warn against unapproved use

    Natasha May
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    Becky Barnicoat on millennial life
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  • Margot Robbie in four poses wearing the tweed jacket, white vest and stonewashed jeans

    Chanel
    Matthieu Blazy’s hit Chanel look is heading for the high street

Relationships

  • Tim Prior in Switzerland

    Relationships
    ‘I thought, what the hell have I done?’: the people who moved abroad for love – and regretted it

  • Illustration of pair of legs pointing into the air, with colorful children's alpahabet blocks floating in pink space

    This is how we do it
    My orgasms have become more intense since I had a baby

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    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    I’m 18 and don’t feel physically attracted to anyone. Will this ever change?

  • A dark-haired man with arms crossed and finger on chin, and a dark-haired woman smiling at camera with arms crossed

    Blind date
    Blind date: ‘It was truly a great first date’

Health & fitness

  • A man with a beard standing in the middle of a street with colourful vape shopfronts and parked cars

    Vaping
    ‘Everybody’s making money’: how two backstreets become the vape capital of Britain

  • Illustration of person eagerly preparing to eat a large pile of fiber-rich vegetables.

    Diet
    Is it true that … you can never eat too much fibre?

  • An athletic-looking man sits on a bench in a park.

    Fitness
    ‘The highs are extremely high – but the lows are extremely low’: when working out becomes an addiction

  • Clothes hangar in an illuminated mic stand with bright blue backdrop

    Less stuff, more joy
    Seven lessons from ‘enoughfluencers’ on how to live a happier, simpler life

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    Travel
    Mysterious Marrakech: why I never tire of Morocco’s Red City

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    Consumer champions
    Delayed by EU entry/exit system? Then travel light

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    Travel
    Wales on rails: a car-free break in Carmarthenshire

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    Technology
    MacBook Neo review: the budget Apple laptop powered by an iPhone chip

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