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  • OpenAI logo on a phone screen in front of an image of a robot looking in a mirror

    Artificial intelligence (AI)
    OpenAI putting ‘shiny products’ above safety, says departing researcher

  • Middle-aged Black man with longish curly black hair and full beard, wearing white suit and diamond in one ear.

    Sean 'Diddy' Combs
    Video shows producer assaulting singer Cassie in 2016

    • Eye-tattooing
      Experts warn about risks of colour-changing surgery

    • Dabney Coleman
      Actor who starred in 9 to 5 and Tootsie dies aged 92

    • Alabama
      Blow to UAW as Mercedes workers vote against unionization

    • Sticky trick
      New glue spray kills plant pests without chemicals

    • New Hampshire
      Daycare workers charged with spiking children’s food with melatonin

    • Master of litters
      Cat named Max given honorary degree by US university

Behind the magic

  • A truck trailer belonging to magician David Copperfield sits outside his warehouse in Las Vegas, Friday, Oct. 19, 2007. Copperfield has been contacted by law enforcement authorities and the FBI has conducted an investigation in Las Vegas, where the magician regularly performs, his lawyer and the FBI confirmed. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

    David Copperfield
    The FBI investigated him for two years. The claim that he was ‘exonerated’ was widely embraced. Was he?

  • David Copperfield.

    ‘I honest to God believe I was drugged’
    Magician David Copperfield’s alleged victims speak out

  • Epstein head Main Image

    ‘Magic David called’
    David Copperfield repeatedly contacted Jeffrey Epstein

  • David Copperfield Slot Machine Unveiling At The MGM Grand<br>LAS VEGAS, NV - JUNE 26: A general view is seen of the video screen from the slot machine, "The Magic of David Copperfield," by Bally Technologies at the MGM Grand Hotel/Casino on June 26, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by David Becker/Getty Images)

    Revealed
    Magician David Copperfield accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women

In focus

  • Man in suit in shade obscured by shadow

    Donald Trump
    Will Michael Cohen’s testimony sway jurors in hush-money trial?

  • Joaquin Phoenix in the Spike Jonze film Her

    Artificial intelligence
    As the AI world gathers in Seoul, can an accelerating industry balance progress against safety?

  • Residents of Vovchansk and nearby villages with their possessions at an evacuation point in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine

    ‘Why the hell didn’t you leave earlier?’
    The battle to evacuate residents as Russia advances in Kharkiv

    Rescue operations become ever more dangerous in the town at the centre of Russia’s recent offensive in the Kharkiv region

Spotlight

  • books

    Books for a better world
    As chosen by Lenny Henry, Geri Halliwell-Horner, Andrew O’Hagan and others

    Game-changing books that offer hope, as recommended by speakers at this year’s Hay festival, including Theresa May, Tom Holland, Helen Garner and Jon Ronson
  • Jay and Veena sitting in a tuk tuk visiting Delhi.

    The Nevermets
    Love is weird in this evil version of First Dates

    Long-distance couples meet for the first time, including a pair who started out in a Game of Thrones roleplay chatroom. It is bizarre but strangely sweet to witness
    • Lil Nas X wearing a vest made of gold disks, and brown shiny trousers

      The Q&A
      Lil Nas X: ‘Who do I most admire and why? I have to say myself’

    • Man in apron prepares beef on hot grill with customers behind

      'I've never seen so many gringos'
      Fans queue round the block as tiny Mexican taco stand wins Michelin star

    • The Ash Carter Exchange On Innovation And National Security<br>WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 07: (L-R) Co-founder and CEO of Palantir Technologies, Alex Karp, and Admiral Tony Radakin attend the Palantir booth during the AI Expo For National Competitiveness at Walter E. Washington Convention Center on May 07, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Palantir)

      ‘I’m the new Oppenheimer!’
      My soul-destroying day at Palantir’s first AI warfare conference

    • Kaitlin Palmieri in the outfit she never got to wear.

      Experience
      My fiance died on our wedding day – and then I discovered his secret life

Opinion

  • The European parliament in Brussels

    Political violence could benefit far right parties in the EU elections – if we let it

    Paul Taylor
    • man holding child's body covered by shroud

      I’ve never felt more disillusioned as a Palestinian

      Ahmad Ibsais
    • Robert Fico at a press conference with Hungary's prime minister, Viktor Orbán, on 16 January.

      Robert Fico’s allies warn of political war – they will use it to justify the dismantling of our democracy

      Monika Kompaníková
    • Inside a Facebook datacentre in Sweden

      Think before you click – and three other ways to reduce your digital carbon footprint

    • Keir Starmer seen from the waist up, wearing a white shirt with his top button undone and black trousers. He is standing against a plain black background.

      UK Labour leader must beware the Biden factor: you can govern well and still risk losing the country

      Jonathan Freedland

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Climate crisis

  • A sky completely taken up with fiery clouds, above a border of trees and dry fields.

    Economies
    Damage from climate change six times worse than thought – report

  • Yellow and red shell logo on white sign, with blue sky in the background

    Shell
    Oil company urged to clarify climate targets as it braces for shareholder rebellion

  • Los Angeles, California— Beverly Lofton poses for a portrait in her garden in the View Park neighborhood of Los Angeles on Friday, April 26, 2024. Mrs. Lofton turned her front yard into a microfarm with the help of Crop Swap LA, a local group that creates edible food gardens to combat food insecurity and food apartheid. Photographs by Gabriella Angotti-Jones

    The DIY Climate Changers
    I swapped my south LA lawn for a verdant microfarm – now I feed the neighborhood

  • Silhouette of nodding donkey pumping oil with buildings in background

    Environment
    Cop29 at a crossroads in Azerbaijan with focus on climate finance

Across the country

  • MTG and AOC in composite photo.

    MTG v AOC
    House hearing dissolves into chaos over Republican’s insult

  • Migrants At The US-Mexico Border In California<br>The US-Mexico border wall in Jacumba, California, US, on Friday, April 5, 2024. Last week a federal judge sharply questioned the Biden administration's position that it bears no responsibility for housing and feeding migrant children while they wait in makeshift camps along the US-Mexico border, reported the AP. Photographer: Mark Abramson/Bloomberg via Getty Images

    California
    Teen who texted 911 rescued after she was trafficked from Mexico

    • San Francisco
      Man who attacked Paul Pelosi with hammer sentenced to 30 years

    • Boeing
      Shareholders vote to re-elect departing CEO to company’s board

    • Kansas City Chiefs
      Harrison Butker’s jersey sales rise as right wing lauds kicker after rant

    • 'Cop City'
      University of Georgia pulls out of lawsuit requesting public records

    • Ms Rachel
      YouTube star describes ‘bullying’ in response to fundraiser for children

    • Herbicides
      High levels of weedkiller found in more than half of sperm samples, study finds

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Around the world

  • Remains of burned cars in Magenta. France has sent hundreds more troops to New Caledonia after days of riots.

    ‘We will fight until Kanaky is free’
    How New Caledonia caught fire

    The frustration that erupted into deadly violence in the French territory last week has been building for years
  • Smoke rises over Kharkiv following a Russian bombardment

    Ukraine war briefing
    Russia’s Kharkiv offensive may only be the ‘first wave’, Zelenskiy warns

  • A stairway leading to a subway station in Buenos Aires.

    Argentina
    Buenos Aires metro fare jumps 360% amid harsh austerity measures

  • Japan’s Yonaguni island

    Japan
    The quiet island paradise on the frontline of growing Taiwan-China tensions

  • A Taliban soldier stands guard in front of the ruins of a Buddha statue in Bamiyan.

    Afghanistan
    Three tourists and an Afghan shot dead during attack

  • GUATEMALA-US-MEXICO-MIGRATION<br>In this aerial view people use makeshift rafts to illegaly cross the Suchiate river from Tecun Uman in Guatemala to Ciudad Hidalgo in Chiapas State, Mexico, on May 17, 2022. - The undocumented migrants heading for the US walk in small groups in Guatemala to evade the police and then regroup in Mexico. Some go with friends and others, like Gilberto, a 27-year-old Venezuelan, travel smiling with his dog. The US, their final destination, is on the verge of lifting Title 42, a rule that allows undocumented immigrants to be expelled for health reasons, such as the Covid-19 pandemic. (Photo by Stringer / AFP) (Photo by STRINGER/AFP via Getty Images)

    Mexico
    Mayoral candidate and five others killed in shooting at campaign rally

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Podcasts

Podcasts

  • Russell Brand being baptised in the River Thames with Bear Grylls

    Weekend
    Marina Hyde on Russell Brand’s baptism; plus ‘deepfake’ cheerleaders: the woman wrongly accused over a viral video – podcast

  • Shein shoes at a popup store in New York in 2022. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    ‘Super cute please like’: the unstoppable rise of Shein – podcast

  • Demonstrators hold placards reading ‘It’s time #ContaminatedBlood’ and ‘Recognise all victims #ContaminatedBlood’.

    Today in Focus
    The children of the contaminated blood scandal

  • Manchester United v Newcastle United - Premier League<br>MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - MAY 15: Bruno Fernandes of Manchester United celebrates during the Premier League match between Manchester United and Newcastle United at Old Trafford on May 15, 2024 in Manchester, England.(Photo by Robbie Jay Barratt - AMA/Getty Images)

    Football Weekly
    The Premier League’s fight for Europe and Celtic’s title – Football Weekly Extra

  • Happy couple texting on their smart phones

    Science Weekly
    Apps and algorithms: can dating be boiled down to a science? – podcast

  • Dr Ruth Cerezo-Mota and the planet (By Tamara Uribe, The Guardian)

    Today in Focus
    What keeps the world’s top climate scientists up at night?

  • Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images. Former Donald Trump attorney Michael Cohen departing from his home

    Politics Weekly America
    Donald Trump comes face to face with former fixer Michael Cohen

Culture

  • Ospina Cali Colombia

    Ospina Cali Colombia review
    Giant of Latin American activist cinema explains himself

    Luis Ospina, interviewed shortly before his death, recalls a fierce career that applied the lessons of the French New Wave to his work
  • a white building lit up at night

    Review
    The Darkness Has Not Overcome: limp pro-Trump piety for a second coming

  • Union members raise their fists outdoors in front of an arched building.

    ‘It felt like a historic moment’
    The Hollywood strikes one year on

  • Film Still: Scénarios. Directed by Jean-Luc Godard

    Scénarios review
    Jean-Luc Godard collage is his final love letter to cinema

  • "Megalopolis" Red Carpet - The 77th Annual Cannes Film Festival<br>CANNES, FRANCE - MAY 16: Francis Ford Co departs the "Megalopolis" Red Carpet at the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 16, 2024 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)

    Francis Ford Coppola
    US politics is at ‘the point where we might lose our republic’

  • Still from Kinds of Kindness, with close-ups of (left to right) Margaret Qualley, Jesse Plemons and Willem Dafoe

    Kinds of Kindness review
    Sex, death and Emma Stone in Lanthimos’s disturbing triptych

Lifestyle

  • Yotam Ottolenghi's shish barak with pine nut oil.

    Yotam Ottolenghi’s Lebanese-inspired recipes
    Savoury lamb pies and yoghurty flatbreads

  • Tom Hunt's bacon fat salted caramel on ice-cream

    Waste not
    How to turn cooked bacon fat into a delicious sweet treat

  • Nicolas Seydoux arrives for the screening of the film ‘Le Deuxieme Acte’ at the 77th edition of the Cannes film festival.

    From capes to plunging necklines
    All the fashion fun of Cannes film festival

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    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    I’m happily remarried, but am haunted by my ex’s long-ago betrayal

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Take part

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    Life and style
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  • Mykhaylo Mudryk and Maksym Talovierov celebrate after the match between Ukraine and Iceland in Wrocław, Poland.

    Ukrainians abroad
    Share your reaction to your country qualifying for Euro 2024

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    Share your best recent pictures with us

  • Dozens of students arrested at the occupied Hamilton Hall building of Columbia University in New York<br>NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - APRIL 30: New York Police Department officers detain dozens of pro-Palestinian students at Columbia University after they barricaded themselves at the Hamilton Hall building near Gaza Solidarity Encampment earlier in New York, United States on April 30, 2024. (Photo by Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

    US students
    Share your experience of the pro-Palestinian campus protests

From our global editions

  • A gardener is seen through a gap in flowering shrubs

    Gardens
    UK’s garden centres hope sunshine and Chelsea flower show will help them rebound from the rain

  • Robert Fico speaks at a conference in front of the Slovakian flag

    ‘The genie is out of the bottle’
    Robert Fico shooting highlights far wider crisis in Slovakia

  • Ekaterine Burkadze with her nephew Paata Kaloiani both wearing black rain jackets with goggles on their heads and she has a facemask. People in colourful rain jackets behind them

    ‘Georgia is now governed by Russia’
    How the dream of freedom unravelled

  • A group of young men carrying a banner showing two soldiers in front of a DRC flag, run through the streets

    ‘Bullet wounds are common’
    Crime rife in DRC’s rebel-besieged city of Goma

In case you missed it

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    Exclusive
    Meta revokes job offer to sextortion expert after he publicly criticizes Instagram

  • Masked Haitian police officers carry rifles on patrol

    ‘The gangs are in charge’
    Haiti’s outgunned police fight a desperate rear defense

    With violent insurrectionists in charge of 80% of the capital, Haiti’s police cling to their mission in the face of deadly odds
  • A weapon on an armoured vehicle with the Russian Volunteer Corps is fired in Vovchansk.

    Analysis
    How Russia has advanced in Kharkiv despite warnings attack was coming

    Shortage of munitions, fighters and air defences leaves Ukraine unprepared to repel attack
  • A worker clears piles of spilled food parcels scattered across the ground in a lorry park.

    ‘Barbaric’
    Palestinian truck drivers recount settlers’ attack on Gaza aid convoy

  • Smoke rises above the Motor Pool district of Noumea on Wednesday.

    Like a ‘civil war’
    Nouméa residents describe terror as deadly riots sweep New Caledonia capital

  • A child eating a meal at a table but also playing on a smartphone

    Fresh findings about obesity
    No screens at meals and insect food

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In pictures

  • A man appearing to row a wooden boat sitting on a large expanse of sand

    ‘I hope people wonder what the man is doing’
    Carla Vermeend’s best phone picture

    The photographer and her husband came across an abandoned boat while out walking and took the opportunity to float a surreal idea
  • Girls Night by Eimear Lynch

    Girls’ night
    The teenage ritual of preparing to go out

  • Naomi Campbell arrives for the screening of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga at the 2024 Cannes film festival.

    The Cannes red carpet so far
    From Naomi Campbell in 90s Chanel to Anya Taylor-Joy in Dior

  • Children are evacuated from the district of Vovchansk due to the Russian offensive in Kharkiv

    War in Gaza, the Russian offensive in Kharkiv, protests in Georgia
    The week around the world in 20 pictures

  • Person running towards a spotlight as a dog runs after her.

    Photos of the day
    Billie Eilish, dogs and lift-off

  • Tokyo Lovers, 2016

    Gold, garages and gardens
    Celebrating the female photographers of Photo London

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