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  • England take the lead.

    Euro 2024 live
    England v Slovakia goes to extra time

  • Sunak outside No 10

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

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

    • Caribbean
      Beryl nears Caribbean as it becomes the earliest category 4 hurricane on record

    • 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

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

News in focus

  • 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

  • Viktor Orbán pulls his jacket together at an EU summit

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

    Many of bloc’s diplomats fear a six-month ‘fiasco’ with Viktor Orbán’s government overseeing the agenda
  • 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

  • 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?
  • 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 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
  • 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
    • 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

    • Solo writing retreat

      Travel
      How a solo retreat helped relight my creative fire

    • A young Johny Pitts backstage at Starlight Express in Japan.

      Stage
      Capitalism, optimism and diversity: how 80s musical Starlight Express changed my life

    • 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

Euro 2024

Sport

Opinion

  • Biden in a blue suit, speaking at a rally in Raleigh, North Carolina.

    Should Democrats stay the course or replace Biden?

    Robert Reich
    After the president’s disastrous debate performance, some want to drop him as the party nominee. But it’s not so simple
  • 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
  • Stephen Lillie on Rishi Sunak's electoral apocalypse – cartoon

    Cartoon
    Stephen Lillie on Rishi Sunak’s electoral apocalypse

  • 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
  • Emma Beddington

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

    Emma Beddington
  • 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
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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 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

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

    US
    Firefighters near Phoenix battle wildfire as temperatures surpass 38C

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Around the world

  • General view of downtown city

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

    State of emergency imposes curfew on young people and gives police powers to detain suspects for up to 90 days
  • A flooded area next to the Rhone

    Europe
    Seven dead after storms lash France, Switzerland and Italy

  • People form a line

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

  • 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

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

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

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

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

    • Society
      ‘War zone stuff’: women 14 times more likely to die during natural disasters

    • Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh
      Ireland says farewell to the ‘bard of the ballgames’

Culture

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

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

    Lupita Nyong’o stars as a poet with cancer who wants to live a little in this beefed-up disaster movie set in New York
  • 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

  • Jimmy Somerville of Bronski Beat in the video for Smalltown Boy

    LGBTQ+ rights
    Why Bronski Beat’s anthem of gay culture resonates 40 years on

  • 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

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

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

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

  • THE IMAGINARY - Studio Ponoc's The Imaginary will premiere on Netflix later this year. Cr: Netflix © 2024 Ponoc

    World cinema
    The Imaginary review – beguiling fantasy from Japan’s Studio Ponoc

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
  • The Hero Maida Vale, 55 Shirland Road, London, for Jay Rayner's restaurant review, OM, 18/06/2024. Sophia Evans for The Observer Muna with water jugs

    The Hero, London – restaurant review
    A menu of very nice, simple things

    Jay Rayner
  • Three push pins on a month calendar

    Notes and queries
    Readers reply: why does a week have seven days?

  • OM Nigel Carrot Cucumber Pickle

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

  • 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

  • A man on a rock above a beach with a wooden board in his hand

    Environment
    From swimwear to toys: how to go plastic-free for a day at the beach

Take part

  • sun shines down on silhouette of person drinking from water bottle

    People in the US
    How do you stay cool in extreme heat?

  • A young woman university student lying on her bed studying working reading writing on laptop in messy untidy bedroom at home UK<br>DRF2PB A young woman university student lying on her bed studying working reading writing on laptop in messy untidy bedroom at home UK

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

  • Tell us your nomination and why you like it below.

    Culture
    Tell us about your favourite new podcasts of 2024 so far

  • Two best friends telling secrets lying in the grass<br>Posed by models Asturias, Spain, two best friends telling secrets lying in the grass

    Well actually
    Tell us about your best friend and your favorite things about them

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

  • a close-up of a woman applying red lipstick

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

  • Mark Tilling, the headteacher of High Tunstall College of Science in Hartlepool, with some of the free beds

    Education
    The English headteacher trying to find beds for 10,000 sleep-deprived pupils

  • Archival image of the Warwick Daily News from 1974.

    Media
    ‘We don’t know what’s going on any more’: how Australia lost its rural newspapers

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    Zungenbrecher
    How viral tongue-twisters lightened up German language

  • Conor Niland after losing to Adrian Mannarino at Wimbledon 2011.

    The long read
    ‘I’m good, I promise’: the loneliness of the low-ranking tennis player

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    France
    ‘Here I found respect for who I am’: the French citizens who choose to leave

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Podcasts

  • Keir Starmer

    Weekend
    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

In pictures

  • 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

  • IMG 0509 JADE SWIM

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

  • WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrives in Canberra<br>WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange kisses his wife Stella Assange as he arrives in Canberra, Australia, June 26, 2024. REUTERS/Edgar Su

    Gallery
    Australia’s best photos of June

  • 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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