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  • What was Doge?
    How Elon Musk tried to gamify government

    Elon Musk at the controls of an illustration of a joystick, sitting in a red toolbox

  • Martin Gelin
    double quotation markA watchdog says Trump is aiming for dictatorship

    Martin Gelin

  • Los Angeles
    The story of Tony Powell, the secretly gay soccer player

    Former football Tony Powell outside the Holloway Motel where he worked and lived for 25 years.

  • Photography
    The absurdist photography of Yorgos Lanthimos

    Two people sitting at a table one showing a woman's bare leg

  • Science Weekly
    What’s behind the injectable peptide craze?

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  • France holidays
    Menton, where the French and Italian rivieras meet

    A town with buildings in yellow and pink with terracotta tile roofs, surrounded by sand and blue sea

News

  • Afghanistan
    Afghanistan says 400 killed in strike by Pakistan on Kabul hospital

    Deputy government spokesman says death toll has reached 400 people ‘so far’ as Islamabad denies targeting facility for drug addicts
  • people chant while holding signs that read 'no contract, no Starbucks' and 'red cup rebellion'

    Business
    Starbucks shareholders push to oust board members over stalled union talks

  • a man in a suit looks off to the side

    US
    Federal judge blocks RFK Jr’s overhaul of vaccine recommendations

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    Food
    Cheese from largest US raw milk distributor linked to E coli outbreak

  • Kouri Richins in court

    US
    Utah woman who wrote book on grief after husband’s death found guilty of murdering him

Trump presidency

  • Tankers sailing near the Strait of Hormuz in the Gulf

    Trump news at a glance
    President threatens allies for not wading into strait of Hormuz as Iran conflict continues

  • Cargo ship in sea with smoke rising out of the rear

    China
    Trump asks China if visit to Beijing can be delayed a month due to Iran war

  • a man in a green shirt with a patch that reads 'US customs and border protection' speaks near a television screen

    Trump administration
    Gregory Bovino, who led Minnesota operation, says he’s retiring end of March

  • a woman in a pink jacket smiles while seated at a table

    US politics
    Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles diagnosed with breast cancer

In focus

  • Graves being prepared for victims of a reported strike in Minab, Iran

    Artificial intelligence
    A photo of Iran’s bombed schoolgirl graveyard went around the world. Was it real, or AI?

    Numerous faked images and a string of startlingly inaccurate responses from Gemini and Grok are part of a tidal wave of AI slop engulfing coverage of the Iran war
  • Hot metal block being heat treated at Somers Forge industrial facility

    ‘Very damaging’
    How the Iran war is hitting energy-intensive industries

  • people holding signs outside saying 'stop Asian hate' and 'say their names!'

    Building power
    Violence against Asian communities in the US spiked after Covid. What happened to the movement to stop it?

Features

  • The image shows two couples posing the same image from the Pretty Woman poster

    Film
    The secret lives of six body doubles: ‘They wanted Julia Roberts to have curvier legs’

  • Two hikers stand on opposite sides of a mountain ravine, one watching as the other exits the scene

    Relationships
    Women are being abandoned by their partners on hiking trails. What’s behind ‘alpine divorce’?

More features

  • Two people sitting at a table one showing a woman's bare leg

    Photography
    ‘Arms and legs are very expressive, especially with bruises’: the absurdist photography of Yorgos Lanthimos

  • A bright geometric illustration with a faux-Polaroid photograph at the centre showing two friends on holiday

    Social etiquette
    Don’t upstage your friends! 19 modern etiquette mistakes – and how to avoid them

  • Sarah Pidgeon as Carolyn Bessette and Paul Anthony Kelly as John F Kennedy Jr in Love Story

    Television
    Why we fell in love with Love Story: JFK Jr and Carolyn Bessette

  • Daggers Inn. Mystery Thriller An enigmatic young woman arrives in a remote English village to uncover the truth about her sister’s murder.

    Horror films
    Daggers Inn review – so-bad-it’s-almost-good fright-flick could achieve cult status

  • two images of person pouring a can of sparkling wine into glass and bottles of nonalcoholic wine

    The Filter
    The 13 best nonalcoholic wines in the US in 2026 – taste-tested and reviewed by a pro

  • Jennie Crowe holding a ‘bum nut’ and pointing to the sky.

    The Guardian picture essay
    Sky monkeys, pink tutus and bum nuts: behind the scenes at the UK's Eden Project as it turns 25

  • Elon Musk at the controls of an illustration of a joystick, sitting in a red toolbox

    What was Doge? How Elon Musk tried to gamify government

    The long read: Steeped in gaming and rightwing culture wars, Musk and his team of teenage coders set out to defeat the enemy of the United States: its people

Opinion

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    double quotation markTrump’s Iran war has cost Americans at least $11bn already. And that’s just the start

    Arwa Mahdawi
    That $11.3bn doesn’t include any estimate of repairing facilities or replacing losses
  • Martin Gelin

    double quotation mark‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog

    Martin Gelin
    Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin Gelin

More opinion

  • Zoe Williams

    double quotation markTerrorism arrests rose 1,114% last year - so why aren’t the security services more alarmed?

    Zoe Williams

  • double quotation markTrump’s FCC chair wants American media to work like Iran’s state TV

    Caitlin Vogus
  • Coco Khan

    double quotation markCould a stressed-out AI model help us win the battle against big tech? Let me ask Claude

    Coco Khan
  • Ben Jennings on Donald Trump’s plea for European support for his war on Iran – cartoon

    Cartoon
    Ben Jennings on Donald Trump’s plea for European support for his war on Iran

Editorials

  • The Guardian view
    Trump’s war with Iran: if the US is winning, why ask Nato for help?

Sports

  • Shea Ralph coaches during a December game.

    Basketball
    ‘Everyone in Nashville is a Vandy fan’: how Shea Ralph sparked a women’s basketball revival in Music City

  • Former football Tony Powell outside the Holloway Motel where he worked and lived for 25 years.

    UK soccer
    ‘I just wanted to be who I am’: the extraordinary story of Tony Powell, the secretly gay footballer

More sports

  • Jannik Sinner (right) and Daniil Medvedev

    Tennis
    Tour veterans offer timely challenge to big-two era of Sinner and Alcaraz

  • Audi Crooks of the Iowa State Cyclones reacts after scoring a basket against the Kansas State Wildcats in the second half of a March game at Bramlage Coliseum.

    College basketball
    Iowa State’s Audi Crooks is a velveteen unicorn – and March’s biggest matchup problem

  • Nemanja Matic holds a banner

    Soccer
    ‘The Premier League is surprisingly lenient’: did Chelsea get off lightly?

  • Philadelphia Union's Subaru Park.

    Soccer
    MLS suspends Union executive Tanner after misconduct investigation

More top stories

  • A general view of the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva

    Science
    Scientists discover heavier version of proton with upgraded detector

    Snappily named Xi-cc-plus, Cern physicists spotted the particle in shower of debris that lit up Large Hadron Collider
  • A black and white photograph of enslaved people owned by the British mining company St John d’El Rey

    Brazil
    ‘These connections are overlooked’: how British companies profited from slavery in Brazil long after abolition

  • a man speaks while seated alongside two men and two women at a long table

    Washington DC
    Kennedy Center board votes to close for two years during renovations

  • A man in a suit uses a motorized chair.

    Donald Trump
    Trump discloses Florida Republican’s ‘terminal’ diagnosis in meandering talk

  • A man sings in front of a microphone

    US
    867-5309: number from 1980s hit song Jenny now routes callers to cancer support

Climate crisis & environment

  • Satellite image showing the thermal imprint of a methane plume

    Revealed
    The world’s worst mega-leaks of methane driving global heating

  • A man runs through the park on a sunny day. The grass is brown

    Health and climate
    Reduced physical activity due to global heating will lead to rise in health issues, study says

  • a whale swimming underwater

    Whales
    Oldest-known whale song recording provides new insight into ocean sounds

  • A line of chimpanzees wade in water towards a person in a green uniform.

    Environment
    ‘We cannot replace USAID, but we can do big things’: conservation plots a future without American money

US news

  • US immigration
    Supreme court to consider Trump push to end protection status for Haitians and Syrians

  • New York
    US judge dismisses $100,000 suit over spiciness of New York taqueria’s sauce

  • Colorado
    Colorado funeral home owner given 18-year sentence in decaying bodies case

  • Music
    The Taylor Swift effect: US vinyl sales top $1bn for the first time since 1983

World news

  • Science
    ‘A molten, mushy state’: scientists may have found a new type of liquid planet

  • Hungary
    ‘We are the family’: low-budget thriller highlights Hungary’s election tension

  • Media
    BBC asks US court to throw out Trump’s $10bn lawsuit and avoid ‘chilling effect’

  • France
    French political parties seek alliances before final round of local elections

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    TV review
    The Plastic Detox review – a film so terrifying you will want to change your life immediately

  • Michael B Jordan as Smoke and Miles Caton as Sammie Moore.

    double quotation markSinners’ Oscar triumphs show that Black cinema is vital to Hollywood

    Steve Rose
  • Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves confront each other in a movie scene

    My feelgood movie
    ‘I watch it to be close to him’: why Point Break is my feelgood movie

  • 98th Annual OscarsHOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 15: <> Paul Thomas Anderson attends the Governors Ball for the 98th Annual Oscars at Dolby Theatre on March 15, 2026 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by John Shearer/98th Oscars/Getty Images The Academy via Getty Images)

    double quotation markPaul Thomas Anderson endured one snub after another. Now the Oscars have finally seen sense

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    How we made
    ‘We kicked Bono’s arse’: how we made Atomic Kitten’s Whole Again (with a little help from Kraftwerk)

  • Les Claypool, press, publicity photo

    Music
    ‘We did Disneyland on mind-altering substances’: Primus frontman Les Claypool on being rock’s great joker – and why Metallica rejected him

  • James Blake

    Pop
    James Blake: Trying Times review – platitudes about politics and Kanye can’t detract from an excellent album

  • Elisabeth Leonskaja sitting on a stool playing the piano

    Classical music
    Elisabeth Leonskaja review – piano legend’s unerring sense of architecture reveals connections and kinships

What to read

  • Author Jenni Fagan poses in a library

    Book of the day
    The Delusions by Jenni Fagan review – an afterlife of queues and bureaucracy

  • Michael Sheen crucified during 'The Passion' theatre production in Port Talbot, Wales

    Books
    Solidarity by Rowan Williams review – what does it really mean to stand by someone?

  • Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in a scene from Wuthering Heights (2026).

    Books
    Better than Wuthering Heights? The Brontës’ novels – ranked

  • Author Howard Jacobson

    Review
    Howl by Howard Jacobson review – a tragicomic portrait of a Jewish man’s despair

What to play

  • Cortical Labs' CL1 biological computer displaying the video game Doom on screen.

    Games
    A petri dish of human brain cells is currently playing Doom. Should we be worried?

  • tokens from The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era.

    Board games
    Less respawning, more re-rolling: six of the best board games based on video games

  • Impeccably stylish … breakout smash Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 leads the 2026 Bafta game award nominations.

    Awards
    Bafta games awards 2026: Clair Obscur and Dispatch lead the nominations

  • Marathon video game screenshot

    Games
    Marathon is a stylishly merciless video game built for cut-throat times

More culture

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    Photography
    A total hoot! Beautiful birds – in pictures

    Gallery13
  • person holding USB drive marked 'video storeage'

    Film
    ‘Like a DVD in the present tense’: are we ready for film distribution via USB drives?

  • Billy Crystal pays tribute to Rob Reiner during the 98th Academy Awards ceremony.

    In Memoriam
    Omission impossible: why the Oscars can never get their In Memoriam tribute right

  • Saturday Night Live UK cast

    Saturday Night Live
    Tina Fey, Jamie Dornan and Riz Ahmed first three guest hosts of UK Saturday Night Live

Lifestyle

  • Hannah looks at the pigeon perching on her shoulder, while the pigeon looks quizzically at the camera

    The pet I'll never forget
    double quotation markPenny, the pigeon who never left my side

  • A town with buildings in yellow and pink with terracotta tile roofs, surrounded by sand and blue sea

    France holidays
    Totally Med: exploring Menton, where the French and Italian rivieras meet

  • Screen time
    Put your phone down and focus: the four best ways to watch movies

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    An expert shares advice for tuning out distractions when screening films at home – plus our favorite movie snacks
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  • two images of person pouring a can of sparkling wine into glass and bottles of nonalcoholic wine

    Wines
    The 13 best nonalcoholic wines in the US in 2026 – taste-tested and reviewed by a pro

  • Cutting boards by Boardsmith and Asahi

    Cooking
    The six best plastic-free cutting boards in the US for 2026, tested

  • A model wearing a Drowsy Sleep Mask

    Sleep
    A perfect pillow, a ‘bargain’ Ikea mattress and more: the best sleep products on sale right now

  • A woman wearing sunglasses, a headband and a black scarf and jacket

    Fashion
    Carolyn Bessette Kennedy’s style, decoded: a stylist shares the secrets of the 90s minimalist wardrobe

Your Filter favorites

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    Sleep
    The best sleep masks: I spent six weeks testing 24 masks, and these are my favorites

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    Sleep products
    ‘The most rejuvenating sleep of my life’: 12 products our writers rely on for rest each night

  • Elemind Headband, Jabees Peace Pillow Speaker, loop earplugs, a sleep mask, and the soaak app displayed together

    Sleep tech
    I tried everything to get better sleep. These five items actually helped

  • A Mzoo sleep mask laid out on a rug

    Sleep masks
    This $30 sleep mask helps me nap anytime, anywhere

Well actually

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    Pain
    ‘I could barely think because it was so bad’: how pain changes us

  • Person looking out of a yellow-framed window in an illustration.

    Why am I like this?
    Try small steps and set the bar low: how to find the meaning of life

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    How to start
    ‘Dress for who you are’: how to start finding your personal style

  • An isolated gray woman stands in the middle of a crowd of yellow and purple people interacting with each other

    Society
    At 56, I woke to silence: the strange, sudden loss that changed everything

Relationships

  • Illustration of couple having sex clutching on to a rope

    This is how we do it
    ‘We’re more adventurous now – I’ve discovered my animalistic side’

  • Composite image of a young Morwenna Ferrier and her mum.

    Parenting
    My mother’s best advice: talk to your children like old friends

  • An illustration of a woman sitting on the floor turned away with her hands around her knees.

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    My life fell apart when my husband had an affair. How can I recover?

  • Portrait of the author in embroidered, quilted coat against a pink background

    The Q&A
    Sarah Perry: ‘I’m monstrously judgmental. It’s like talking to the pope’

Health & fitness

  • Couple with Cpap machine on side table with husband wearing Cpap mask sleeping

    Sleep
    How a ‘vacuum cleaner turned the other way’ became a popular solution to snoring disorders

  • Five progressively smaller Russian-style dolls in a row, representing various types of people with worried faces

    Psychology
    From childhood to midlife and beyond: how to handle anxiety at every age

  • Junior Hemans with close cropped hair and a grey short beard wearing glasses and a light grey zip up jumper sitting at a table in a darkening room

    Prostate cancer
    ‘I’ve been living under a shadow for 13 years’: life with prostate cancer

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    Secrets of the body
    Why is smoking so addictive – and what are the best ways to give up?

Fashion & beauty

  • Jessie Buckley arrives at the Oscars on Sunday.

    Red carpet fashion
    Oscars 2026 red carpet: Jessie Buckley, Chase Infiniti and more

    Gallery60
  • A model walks down the catwalk at Valentino during the autumn/winter collection in Rome

    Fashion
    ‘Beauty is always changing’: Alessandro Michele’s Roman tribute to Valentino

  • A woman with long dark hair in a blue and black striped rugby shirt with cream trousers and heels.

    Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion
    Rugby shirts are key to athleisure’s preppy new makeover

  • Models walk in Chanel's fashion show.

    Paris fashion week
    Matthieu Blazy’s Chanel show celebrates and plays with brand’s history

More lifestyle

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    The one change that worked
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  • Nick Buckley operates a saw

    My rookie era
    double quotation markAfter my panic attacks, woodworking became the one good thing I could count on

  • Hannah looks at the pigeon perching on her shoulder, while the pigeon looks quizzically at the camera

    The pet I'll never forget
    Penny, the pigeon who never left my side

  • Jose Pizarro’s chicken and white bean stew with saffron and hazelnut mojo verde.

    Food
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    Analysis
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