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  • England take the lead.

    Euro 2024 live
    England v Slovakia goes to extra time

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    UK election
    Sunak launches defence of Tories’ 14 years in power as campaign nears end

    • Trade policy
      UK and EU horticulture firms warn of harm caused by post-Brexit border delays

    • France
      One person dead after gunmen open fire at wedding in France

    • Spain
      Jay Slater mountain search is over, say Tenerife police

    • Glastonbury live
      Sunday at the festival with SZA, Shania Twain and more

    • US
      Biden meets family amid pressures to step down after debate

    • Science
      Scientists find desert moss ‘that can survive on Mars’

Europe in focus

  • Viktor Orbán pulls his jacket together at an EU summit

    Hungary
    ‘Make Europe Great Again’: Hungary sets scene for its EU presidency

  • Michelle O'Neill talks into a microphone on stage at a conference

    Analysis
    ‘Good news for all parties’: Ireland relishes prospect of Labour victory

    Northern Ireland’s politicians and the Irish government hopeful of a post-Brexit reset and an end to Tory turmoil
  • Babies in a hospital nursery. In 2022 the fertility rate across England and Wales fell to 1.49 children per woman.

    Birthrates
    The baby bust: how Britain’s falling birthrate is creating alarm in the economy

    Costs, the climate crisis and choice are all factors in a demographic revolution presenting huge challenges for government

Spotlight

  • Lucy, the 3.2 million-year-old skeleton of an Australopithecus afarensis female, on display at the National Museum of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa.

    Science
    Fifty years on, how Lucy, the mother of humanity, changed our understanding of evolution

    In 1974, the fossilised bones of Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old hominin, were discovered in Ethiopia. How has this remarkable skeleton disproved Darwinian theory – and what links her to the Beatles?
  • Tim Jonze enjoys an ice cream at the Shepards as part of his Glastonbury food series. Photograph: Alecsandra Dragoi for the Guardian

    Glastonbury
    I ate my way around Glastonbury – from cardboard Yorkshire puds to a burger with jam

  • Illustration of a naked man and woman who are kissing while blindfolded

    This is how we do it
    ‘Most of the flirting is virtual – you sit at a computer and talk to girls online’: This is how we do it in China

    Tao grew up in a conservative family and era – so how did meeting Chen, who was younger and more experimental, change him?
  • Phil Daoust, holding an ice-cream cone, reclines in a deckchair in the park in the sunshine

    Fitness
    Do be a quitter! How I broke my exercise streak – and smashed my fitness goals

    Should you struggle on when you’re really not feeling it? As I’ve learned, sometimes it’s much better to ditch your plan
    • Solo writing retreat

      Travel
      How a solo retreat helped relight my creative fire

    • Kevin Bacon, in a pale blue shirt, arms and hands resting on a table next to his black-framed glasses

      Interview
      ‘You have to get over the me thing’: Kevin Bacon on money, marriage – and learning to live with himself

    • Take the plunge: curves and beige shades in the pool area and hammam of the Hôtel Pilgrim.

      Travel
      Retro Paris: stepping back into the 70s

    • Factor Druk printing house, after being destroyed by a Russian missile in May

      Ukraine
      ‘They burned books, like the Nazis did 80 years ago’: Russia’s deadly attack on Ukraine’s biggest printing house

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Opinion

  • A stray dog lies on the ground at the Sultanahmet Square in Istanbul, Turkey, May 26, 2024. REUTERS/Dilara Senkaya

    Erdoğan’s plan to cull Turkey’s street dogs will destroy far more than just animals

    Alexander Christie-Miller
    For centuries these strays have been looked after and respected as part of Turkish culture. Now they’ve been dragged into the president’s culture wars
  • Composite for Making sense of it series. The picture shows an Urn with flowers with colorful shapes behind.

    If you are spiritual but not religious, how do you want to die?

    Jackie Bailey
  • Stephen Lillie on Rishi Sunak's electoral apocalypse – cartoon

    Cartoon
    Stephen Lillie on Rishi Sunak’s electoral apocalypse

  • Emma Beddington

    I want to survive the apocalypse – but not if it’s just me and some terrible billionaires

    Emma Beddington
  • Angela Rayner

    If workers’ rights are a bit French, as the UK Tories suggest, then vive la révolution

    Heather Stewart
  • Julian Assange on a flight from London to Bangkok after being released from prison on 25 June.

    Julian Assange is free, but his case is a grim reminder of the fragility of press freedom

    Kenan Malik

Climate crisis

  • Thibaud van der Steen, co-founder of No Waste Army, says Dutch farmers are struggling in the face of extreme weather.

    Food
    ‘It’s not beautiful, but you can still eat it’: climate crisis leads to more wonky vegetables in Netherlands

  • An image that is half black earth, half bright orange flames and gray smoke.

    US
    Firefighters near Phoenix battle wildfire as temperatures surpass 38C

  • An artist impression of the Microsoft Park Royal datacentre, now under construction in west London.

    Technology
    AI drive brings Microsoft’s ‘green moonshot’ down to earth in west London

  • Building covered in scaffolding and hoarding sadvertising Cop29

    Azerbaijan
    Journalists refused entry to Azerbaijan energy conference ahead of Cop29

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  • At least 7 killed, 30 injured after Russian strike hits Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia<br>VILNIANSK, ZAPORIZHZHIA OBLAST, UKRAINE - JUNE 30: (----EDITORIAL USE ONLY - MANDATORY CREDIT - 'KHERSON REGIONAL MILITARY ADMINISTRATION OF UKRAINE / HANDOUT' - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS----) A view of damaged shop after a Russian missile strike hit Vilniansk city in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine on June 30, 2024. At least 7 people were killed, and more than 30 people were injured, eight of them were children after the attack. Residential buildings, shops, public buildings, critical infrastructure, and vehicles have been damaged, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine said on its social media account. (Photo by Kherson Reg.Mil. Administration/Anadolu via Getty Images)

    Ukraine
    Zelenskiy calls for more air defences after latest deadly Russian strikes

    Ukraine president says long-distance strikes and modern air defences ‘crucial to halting Russian terror’
  • u.s. Biden Trump Election Debate - 28 Jun 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Xinhua/REX/Shutterstock (14562651b) This image provided by CNN shows U.S. President Joe Biden (R) and former President Donald Trump taking the stage at CNN's Atlanta studio for the first presidential debate of the 2024 election on June 27, 2024. u.s. Biden Trump Election Debate - 28 Jun 2024

    US election
    Most voters want Biden to step down, but don’t agree on suitable alternative – poll

  • People carry an injured man from the back of a van

    Nigeria
    At least 18 people killed in series of suicide attacks in Nigeria

  • People form a line

    Sudan
    Sudan on precipice of famine ‘beyond imagination’, says outgoing UN aid chief

    • Forever chemicals
      Toxic PFAS absorbed through skin at levels higher than previously thought

    • New York
      New York police kill boy wielding replica handgun, authorities say

    • US
      Trump loyalists plan to name and shame ‘blacklist’ of federal workers

    • Bolivia
      President of Bolivia accused of plotting coup against himself to boost popularity

    • North Korea
      North Korea says drills by South Korea, US and Japan show nations have developed ‘Asian Nato’

    • Belize
      Belize crackdown on gang-related killings leads to dozens of arrests

Culture

  • Illustration by Julia Allum.

    Summer reading
    Beach books at the ready: authors pick their essential summer reads

    From newly published novels to timeless classics, Elizabeth Strout, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Irvine Welsh, Tessa Hadley and other writers choose their holiday favourites
  • A house on Long Island, with a large US flag hanging in the front porch.

    Book review
    Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner – an old-fashioned maximalist rush of storytelling

  • Lupita Nyong'o in A Quiet Place: Day One.

    Film review
    A Quiet Place: Day One – stylish and satisfying prequel

  • This image released by Searchlight Pictures shows Emma Stone, foreground left, and Jesse Plemons in a scene from "Kinds of Kindness." (Atsushi Nishijima/Searchlight Pictures via AP)

    Film review
    Kinds of Kindness – Yorgos Lanthimos reunites with Emma Stone for overlong but admirable triptych

  • FILE PHOTO: Ghislaine Maxwell trial in New York<br>FILE PHOTO: Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell sits as the guilty verdict in her sex abuse trial is read in a courtroom sketch in New York City, U.S., December 29, 2021. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg/File Photo

    Book review
    The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell by Lucia Osborne-Crowley – a voice for the powerless

  • Oleksandr Mykhed: ‘Every warm memory of home is destroyed’.

    Book review
    The Language of War by Oleksandr Mykhed – what role for the artist in times of catastrophe?

Lifestyle

  • Keir Stamer talking

    Ask Philippa
    My in-laws think Keir Starmer is ‘an idiot’. Should I pick a fight?

    Don’t fall out with these people who, apart from their political views, you really appreciate
  • OM Nigel Carrot Cucumber Pickle

    Food
    Nigel Slater’s recipes for carrot and cucumber pickle, and gooseberry flapjacks

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    Has a pet ever got in the way of your relationship or friendship?

  • Heatwave in Italy<br>epa10751450 A thermometer outside a pharmacy displays '42 degrees Celsius' in Rome, Italy, 17 July 2023. Southern Europe is experiencing a major heat wave this week with temperatures expected to climb up to 48 Celsius degrees on the islands of Sicily and Sardinia. Italy's health ministry sent on 17 July a circular letter to the country's regional governments with a series of recommendations to manage the impact of the intense heat wave the country is enduring. These recommendations include setting up a 'heat code' at emergency rooms with special, priority procedures for people suffering heat-related health issues. EPA/MASSIMO PERCOSSI

    Climate crisis
    How are you being affected by the heatwave in southern Europe?

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    Life and style
    Do you still sleep in your childhood bedroom?

From our global editions

  • Ukrainian rescuers work at the site of a missile strike in Vilniansk, in Ukraine’s south-eastern Zaporizhzhia region, that killed at least seven people on Saturday

    Ukraine war briefing
    Zelenskiy repeats plea for more weapons after Russian attack near Zaporizhzhia kills seven

  • Tyagarah beach

    Australia
    Byron Bay is to be stripped of its nudist beach – and naturists blame ‘conservative creep’

  • a close-up of a woman applying red lipstick

    US economy
    What can lipstick and underwear sales tell us about the economy?

  • A Portuguese man-of-war

    Oceans
    Neuston, we have a problem: why do we know so little about the creatures floating on the ocean surface?

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    Keir Starmer’s most personal interview yet, the woman who gave birth to her granddaughter, and why do we have the dreams we do?– podcast

  • Donald Trump (left) and Joe Biden take part in the first presidential debate (Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

    Politics Weekly America
    Debate disaster: is there a way back for Joe Biden? – podcast

  • Beneath the Baobabs, a festival in Kilifi, Kenya, over new year's 2023-2024. Photograph: Drew Kamau

    The Audio Long Read
    Nairobi to New York and back: the loneliness of the internationally educated elite – podcast

  • A still image taken from video shows Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, sitting next to Prime Minister David Cameron after presenting his Budget to the House of Common (Photograph: REUTERS/UK Parliament via REUTERS TV)

    Today in Focus
    The 14 years that broke Britain, part 1 – podcast

  • Keir Starmer in shirtsleeves standing on the doorstep of a house in North Yorkshire with Luke Charter, Labour's parliamentary candidate for York Outer

    Today in Focus
    Election Extra: will undecided voters be decisive? – podcast

  • A screenshot from Alan Wake 2

    Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph
    Are we experiencing Gamergate 2.0?

  • Insurrectionists with flags and red baseball hats, including QAnon conspiracist Jake Angeli, inside the US Capitol on 6 January 2021

    Science
    The surprising psychology behind extremism, and how politics is driving it – podcast

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  • Chris Martin of Coldplay performs on Pyramid stage. Glastonbury Festival near Pilton in Somerset.

    Photos of the weekend
    French elections, LA pet fair and Coldplay

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • From the series Rotting from Within, by Abdulhamid Kircher.

    The big picture
    Abdulhamid Kircher reflects on his traumatic family history

  • A couple embrace during the seven-minute silence held by performance artist Marina Abramovich at Pyramid stage.

    Photo essay
    Peace, love and K-pop: Glastonbury kicks off for 2024

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    Fashion
    Splashing out: 10 swim brands to know – in pictures

  • Seventeen pose for photograph beside the Pyramid stage.

    Glastonbury
    Backstage at Glastonbury with K-pop sensation Seventeen

  • Oatcake shopfrontsof the Staffordshire Potteries photographed by David Fletcher.

    Food
    Oat cuisine: celebrating the oatcake sellers of Staffordshire – in pictures

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