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    Personal trainers on their one essential exercise

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  • Johan Gaume
    double quotation markAvalanche deaths have surged in the Alps. Here’s why

    Johan Gaume

  • Widow’s Bay
    Matthew Rhys’s comedy-horror is an absolute blast

    Man in tweed jacket, jeans and white shirt standing in front of a sign saying 'Welcome to Widow's Bay' by a port

  • Life
    I cried about my cleft lip for the first time in my 60s

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  • Cape Verde
    African music industry weighs up AI risks and rewards

    Members of Sambaiana performing on stage

  • Today in Focus
    Siri, where does Apple go next?

    Podcast26:38
    Today in Focus

News

  • Gisele Pelicot leaves the courthouse after hearing the verdict of the court that sentenced her ex-husband to the maximum term of 20 years jail.

    Gisèle Pelicot
    France launches probe into website that enabled mass rape of Gisèle Pelicot

  • Elisabetta Magnanti and Mark Faulkner with Trinity College Dublin's copy of Bede's Ecclesiastical History.

    Poetry
    Lost copy of seventh-century poem in Old English discovered at Rome library

  • Two labradors

    Dogs
    Dogs’ brains began to shrink at least 5,000 years ago, study finds

  • Hippos float in the lagoon at Hacienda Nápoles Park

    Colombia
    Indian billionaire’s son offers to house Pablo Escobar’s hippos at his private zoo

In focus

  • An Iranian flag held aloft

    Marxists and monarchist
    The group hoping to unite Iran’s exiled opposition

    Iran Freedom Congress, which has met in London, aims to be a ‘pluralist movement’ supporting those inside country
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    Insects
    Older than the dinosaurs: scientists finally unlock secret of the mayfly’s dance

  • Full Story
    Is Sanae Takaichi the most powerful woman in the world?

    Podcast29:01

Features

  • An illustration with geometrical shapes, barbells and a woman doing lunges

    The experts
    All the right moves! 17 personal trainers on the exercise they always recommend – from planks to face pulls

  • Music trio Late Transmissions – from left, Dave Hughes, Balfe and Eve Quartermain of Late Transmissions at Arts Club nightclub in Liverpool.

    Music
    ‘It’ll be in my Guardian obituary’: David Balfe on inspiring Blur’s Britpop hit Country House and tripping on UK TV

More features

  • Man in tweed jacket, jeans and white shirt standing in front of a sign saying 'Welcome to Widow's Bay' by a port

    TV review
    Widow’s Bay review – Matthew Rhys’ intoxicating comedy-horror is an absolute blast

  • Members of Sambaiana performing on stage

    Cape Verde
    ‘It will never cover what’s authentic’: African music industry weighs up AI risks and rewards

  • A man wearing a blue shirt, blue jeans and a khaki T-shirt, and a woman wearing a light khaki shirt and dark khaki trousers. They are standing between pillars, with a wall behind them

    Life
    A moment that changed me: I cried about my cleft lip for the first time in my 60s

  • Dolores Fonzi as Adult Clara laughs in an ornate chair surrounded by people

    TV review
    The House of the Spirits review – this twee adaptation of Isabel Allende’s novel isn’t good enough

  • Nancy Holt pictured inside part of her work Sun Tunnels

    Art
    Concrete sun tunnels and shimmering pools of water: the monumental land art of Nancy Holt

  • Today in Focus
    Siri, where does Apple go next?

    Podcast26:38

Opinion

  • Rafael Behr

    double quotation markIn the coming AI future, Britain must not end up at the mercy of US tech giants

    Rafael Behr
    Trump is volatile, capricious and unreasonable – but he belongs to the old world of analogue power. What comes next will be harder to manage, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
  • Johan Gaume

    double quotation markAvalanche deaths have surged in the Alps this season. Here’s why

    Johan Gaume
    As an ex-pro snowboarder and an avalanche researcher, I know how easily people can get into trouble, says alpine mass movements professor Johan Gaume

More opinion

  • double quotation markShrugging at calamity: America is reacting in strange ways to our chaotic times

    Francine Prose
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    double quotation markIs Tucker Carlson eyeing a 2028 presidential run?

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • An illustration of a smiley face wearing a Maga hat, against a trippy, LSD-influence background

    double quotation markTurn on, tune in, cash out … The US right used to fear psychedelics. Now it wants to sell them

    Kojo Koram
  • Riccardo Alcaro

    double quotation markGiorgia Meloni clung to her relationship with Trump – now it’s starting to look like a liability

    Riccardo Alcaro

Editorials

  • The Guardian view
    The politics of central Europe: in search of a new left

  • The Guardian view
    Starmer and Mandelson: questions that won’t go away

Cartoon

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    First Dog on the Moon
    Palantir has released its terrifyingly honest (and pompous) plans for world domination

    It’s all a bit too antichristy for my liking

  • Watch now
    Classic Football Shirts: inside the vault home to their most valuable vintage gear

    Classic Football Shirts have been in business for 20 years, selling over one million shirts (so far) and keeping the most iconic match-worn pieces in their temperature-controlled vault. Michael Butler travelled to Manchester to meet the CFS founders
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More sport

  • Michael Thomas, Josh Stones, Sergio Aguero.

    The Knowledge
    Thomas, Agüero, Stones: football’s latest title-winning goals

  • Kevin Keegan let rip live on Sky Sports following Newcastle’s 1-0 victory at Leeds in April 1996 and in reaction to Sir Alex Ferguson’s ultimately successful attempt at title race mind games

    Football
    ‘I will love it. Love it’: 30 years on from Kevin Keegan’s infamous rant

  • Hailey Baptiste and Aryna Sabalenka shake hands across the net after the match

    Tennis
    Sabalenka’s Madrid Open defence ends with shock defeat by 30th seed Baptiste

  • Josh Mauro during his second season with the Cardinals in 2015

    NFL
    Cardinals ‘heartbroken’ after former defensive end Josh Mauro dies at age of 35

More top stories

  • An aerial view of Andy Donaldson swimming alongside a support kayak in the Ord River

    Swimming
    Ultramarathon swimmer sets record pace over 55km in crocodile-filled Australian river

  • Rebel Wilson outside court

    Film
    Rebel Wilson rejects ‘absolutely outrageous’ phone-dumping accusation as defamation trial continues

  • Nordic heatwave

    Extreme heat
    Nordic heatwave part of record year that saw temperatures scorch most of Europe, report finds

  • Aerial view of the humpback whale in a barge that holds sea water

    Whales
    Stranded whale Timmy swims on to barge in German rescue attempt

  • Two small children walking next to a busy street

    Air pollution
    Babies exposed to air pollution during pregnancy take longer to learn to speak, research finds

  • Two wind turbines sticking up out of an endless, uninterrupted expanse of blue ocean water.

    Wind power
    Trump administration blocks US wind energy projects in switch to oil and gas

UK news

  • Women's health
    Stress from racism may help explain why black women in the UK are more likely to die in childbirth, study finds

  • Disability
    ‘People assume we’re grifters’: disabled Britons report rise in abuse over blue badges

  • Flooding
    Urban areas host 80% of England’s homes at high risk of flooding, study finds

  • Miscarriage
    Earlier specialised care could prevent 10,000 miscarriages a year, UK study finds

World news

  • Lebanon
    Hezbollah drone strikes target Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon

  • Greece
    89-year-old man arrested over Athens double shooting

  • US crime
    US soldier pleads not guilty to charges of betting on Nicolás Maduro’s ouster

  • Sam Neill
    Sam Neill announces he is cancer-free after taking part in Australian clinical trial: ‘I’m very, very excited’

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Culture

  • Paulo Nimer Pjota’s Duplo, 2025

    Art
    ‘Street culture is about revolution’: Brazilian ‘hip-hop’ painter Paulo Nimer Pjota

  • St Peter Nolasco kneeling before apparition of crucified St Peter by Zurbarán

    Painting
    Zurbarán review – ecstatic visions, primitive surrealism … and the finest loincloths ever painted

What to watch

  • Scene from That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime movie, character running on water

    Anime
    That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: Tears of the Azure Sea review – hectic anime lives again

  • Touch Me a woman and a man lie near each other, bathed in purple light.

    Film
    Touch Me review – tentacle sex abounds in psychosexual horror that’s like live-action hentai

  • A still from Ultras, huge amounts of pink smoke and various items on fire among fans in a stadium (presumably)

    Film
    ‘An uprising against loneliness’: why have football ultras become a cultural obsession?

  • Samuel Kirchner plays a boxer with a blue padded helmet.

    Film
    Wild Foxes review – animal-obsessed fighter at elite sports academy wonders if more to life than boxing

What to listen to

  • Knats. L-R: King David Ike-Elechi, Ferg Kilsby, Stan Woodward.

    Jazz
    ‘Geordie optimism is this rigorous spirit of hard graft’: Newcastle jazz band Knats break out of the north-south divide

  • The Sheffield-based folk guitarist and singer, Jim Ghedi.

    Folk
    ‘The folk scene is very middle-class. The divide is huge’: Jim Ghedi, the Sheffield singer bringing his doomy music to the movies

  • Linett Kamala with her Basstone Maypole.

    Folk music
    Hey-nonny-bo! The woman reclaiming maypole dancing with dancehall and drum’n’bass

  • Lutes rock … Jozef van Wissem.

    Music
    ‘It needs to be loud’: Jozef Van Wissem’s one-man mission to make the lute rock again

What to read

  • Lucy Caldwell

    Short stories
    Devotions by Lucy Caldwell review – short stories that are frightening, passionate and comforting too

  • George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi party founder, leading a group of his supporters in 1967.

    Books
    ‘It’s not a story that’s over’: inside the battle against hatred in America

  • Emma Mackey as Emily Brontë in the 2022 biopic, Emily

    Book of the day
    This Dark Night by Deborah Lutz review – Emily Brontë’s world

  • Kae Tempest.

    Books
    Having Spent Life Seeking by Kae Tempest review – painfully earnest tale of trauma and transition

What to play

  • A man in a white suit and black trousers holds a briefcase and grins at the camera while standing in a subway tunnel.

    ‘Opening the hidden door within us’
    How Exit 8 took a simple game to purgatory

  • Space warrior in fancy armour kneeling on an alien planet

    Shooter games
    Saros review – you’ll strafe until your thumbs hurt in this primal alien shooter

  • Samurai on horseback among cherry blossoms in Ghost of Yotei screenshot

    Awards
    The Bafta games awards showed me again that honouring art over commerce is a win for all

    Newsletter
  • Chuckie Egg gameplay on the ZX Spectrum showing platformer level with ladders

    Retro gaming
    ‘People still remember it 40 years later’: the making of Chuckie Egg

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  • Belarus Free Theatre (BFT)08.04.2026, Warsaw, Poland. Nicolai Khalezin with his sphere sculpture made of books banned in Belarus

    Venice Biennale
    ‘The doorbell went at 5am. Six masked men were outside’: exiled artists bring totalitarian terror to Venice Biennale

  • Stray Sod by Maria Lax

    Photography
    ‘A constant quiet terror’: Getting lost in Irish folklore

    Gallery13
  • A black and white photo of someone holding a copy of I Should Be Allowed to Think

    Zines
    ‘They’re supposed to be handmade’: zine creators fight to resist AI influence

  • Loie Hollowell's soft pastel artwork 'Ten Centimeters Dilated' with blue concentric forms.

    Art
    ‘I was super horny when I made my early work’: Loie Hollowell’s abstract paintings of breasts and vaginas

Lifestyle

  • A woman smiles while using a phone. Another person is behind her, placing his hands on her shoulders.

    Is nothing sacred
    ‘A husband expects a yes’: how wife schools are shaping submissive Christian women

  • A white chateau with turrets in the distance with some cyclists on a road heading towards us

    Travel
    ‘Wheeling through vineyards and chateaux country’: an ebike tour of France’s Loire valley

Food

  • Nargisse Benkabbou's ras el hanout lamb shoulder méchoui with pistachio and apricot salsa.

    Food
    Tagine pasta and spicy, slow-cooked lamb: Nargisse Benkabbou’s recipes for a Moroccan feast

  • Georgina Hayden's Lablabi party

    Food
    Moussaka, a chickpea soup/stew and homemade vienetta: Georgina Hayden’s Mediterranean party – recipes

  • Birthday cake with candles blown out.birthday cake

    Kitchen aide
    The perfect birthday cake: tips for the best blow-out

  • GF Rukmini Iyer's Green chilli eggs with coriander and coconut

    Quick and easy
    Rukmini Iyer’s quick and easy recipe for green chilli eggs with coriander and coconut

Fashion & beauty

  • Taylor Swift wearing a silver long sleeved gown designed by Adelaide couturier Paolo Sebastian in her the Fate of Ophelia video.

    Fashion
    The Australians dressing pop’s biggest stars – from Taylor Swift to Beyoncé to Shakira

  • A model wears a pink Chanel suit

    Fashion
    Matthieu Blazy’s fifth Chanel show hits Biarritz beachfront

  • Composite/illustration of a young girl holding up a frosted piece of glass with beauty products on it.

    Skincare
    Cosmeticorexia: a worrying obsession with flawless skin or just a new term for an old problem?

  • A woman peforming in front of a black background wearing a red flamenco style dress, with cropped blond hair and red lipstick

    Fashion
    Lily Allen’s ‘revenge’, Harry Styles’ Dorothy and Debbie Harry’s T-shirt – 20 onstage dresses ranked!

Relationships

  • Orgasmic illustration on yellow background

    Life
    This is how we do it: ‘Testosterone restored my orgasms – I’m climaxing six to 10 times a session’

  • Author Amanda Craig sitting on a green chaise longue, head resting on one hand, purple drapes behind her

    Parents
    I yearned to be a mother. Why did I feel nothing when my daughter was finally born?

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    Life
    Dining across the divide: ‘In France we’d be at each other’s throats, but in the UK you say the most horrible things, smiling’

  • A young woman in a black polo neck and a young man in a khaki shirt

    Blind date
    ‘Most awkward moment? When he nearly set the menu alight’

Health & fitness

  • Antiviral composite for Zombie facials

    Cosmetic procedures
    double quotation markA dead person’s fat pumped into your body? Why the ‘zombie filler’ trend has some experts spooked

    Melissa Davey
  • An illustration of a woman with blond hair wearing a vest and holding her arms up to show off her muscles

    Life
    Is it true that … it’s harder for women to build muscle than men?

  • A man dressed up as a badger in a field full of flowers with his arms stretched out

    Running
    Am I a deluded attention-seeker? Why I’m running the London Marathon dressed as a badger

  • An illustration of green grocery aisles with a cart at the center fore

    Nutrition
    My family tried to eat fewer ultra-processed foods for five years. Here’s what we learned

More lifestyle

  • A green-and-blue version of the Tin Can phone, which has a curved back and an old-fashioned phone cord

    Pass notes
    The Tin Can phone: is this the simple secret to a screen-free childhood?

  • MacBook Pro M5 Max displaying The Guardian website homepage with news article.

    Technology
    MacBook Pro M5 review: serious power, still long battery life

  • an illustration of journal pages with the profile of a head across the pages and abstract shapes

    How to start
    ‘Subtle but powerful form of self-validation’: how to start journaling

  • Heap of activated charcoal on white background.

    Houseplant hacks
    Houseplant hacks: is activated charcoal good for pot plants?

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