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  • A young woman stare exasperatedly at a kitchen setup.

    TV
    ‘Buy your back brace now’: The Bear sidesteps the grueling physical costs of restaurant work

    The hit show shows how kitchens are pressure cookers of stress, but not how professional cooking ravages the body
  • Experts agree that the microbiome is important to human health. But many are skeptical about how useful these kits are.'

    Well actually
    Are at-home gut microbiome testing kits a scam?

  • FILE PHOTO: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris marks second anniversary of Roe v. Wade being overturned<br>FILE PHOTO: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris discusses reproductive rights on the second anniversary of Roe v. Wade being overturned, in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. June 24, 2024. REUTERS/Rebecca Noble/File Photo

    Kamala Harris
    #KHive: Harris memes abound after Joe Biden’s debate disaster

    Progressive snark over vice-president gives way to endless viral quotes and emojis, blending irony and authentic praise
  • Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) in Saltburn.

    Television
    ‘Everybody screamed when they saw it!’ The sudden rise in penises on TV

    House of the Dragon just made eyes pop with an erect penis – but it’s not the only show going to great lengths to challenge television’s nudity equality problem
    • people read books

      Books
      ‘It’s a snowball effect’: the gen Z niche reading event making waves in New York

    • Illustration of a naked man and woman kissing behind a giant flower

      This is how we do it in Japan
      ‘There is a sex crisis here. Couples stop having sex after kids’

    • Illustration of a man and a woman with their arms folded.

      Ask Annalisa Barbieri
      Our place is a mess, but my partner and I still can’t agree who does which chores

    • BESTPIX - "Despicable Me 4" Photocall In London<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 24: Steve Carell attends the "Despicable Me 4" photocall with the Mega Minions on London's Southbank on June 24, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Sama Kai/Dave Benett/WireImage)

      Film
      ‘Beyond marketing, beyond explanation’: how Inside Out and Despicable Me saved the summer

West coast

  • Farm worker wearing green top hoes field

    Weather
    US swelters on Independence Day with over 150m people under heat alerts

  • white man wearing blue suit and tie

    US elections 2024
    ‘Waiting in the wings’: as Biden stumbles, Gavin Newsom’s name is on everyone’s lips

  • two people walk past purple building with books in display window

    LGBTQ+ rights
    ‘The power of fiction’: San Francisco store sends LGBTQ+ books to states that ban them

  • A crowd outside city hall with yellow umbrellas with 'reparations now' printed on them.

    California reparations
    California to spend $12m on reparations in milestone move to address racist past

Opinion

  • Collage of Donald trump reflected in a crown

    The US supreme court utterly distorted the true threat to American democracy

    Lawrence Douglas
    According to the court, a rogue prosecutor is somehow more dangerous to US rule of law than a rogue commander-in-chief
  • Marina Hyde

    Sunak axed, the cast eviscerated: at last, it’s the Tories’ season finale

    Marina Hyde
  • Sir Keir Starmer seen from behind, facing the much smaller faces of a range of British political figures

    Editorial
    The Guardian view on Labour’s landslide: becoming the change the country needs

    Editorial: Sir Keir Starmer has the Commons strength to be daring. That means fulfilling hopes he did little to excite
  • A protest against the far right in Paris, France, 3 July 2024

    France can argue later – now everyone who cares about our democracy must unite to keep the far right out

    Rokhaya Diallo
    Time is running out, and only putting aside petty party squabbles will stop the disaster of the National Rally taking power
    • Keir Starmer enters No 10 Downing Street.

      UK
      He won the votes, now Britain's new prime minister just needs to win over the people

      Jonathan Freedland
    • Biden on the phone

      Digested week: Biden’s travails and why the UK election isn’t big news in the US

      Emma Brockes
    • Rishi Sunak in front of the black railings at No 10, with a downcast expression on his face.

      He’s beaten and humiliated, but Rishi Sunak has one final job to do – for party and country

      Simon Jenkins
    • Screenshot of women celebrating

      Sierra Leone has banned child marriage – to truly set women free it must end FGM

      Josephine Kamara

Sports

  • Coco Gauff is at full stretch to make a backhand return

    Wimbledon
    Gauff too good for spirited qualifier Kartal

    The American No 2 seed was pushed all the way in the first set by the British qualifier before sealing a comfortable win
  • Ryan Garcia has found himself in regular trouble in recent months

    Boxing
    Garcia apologizes for racist slurs and says he will go to rehab

    Ryan Garcia apologized in a series of social media posts on Friday after he used racial slurs against Black people and disparaged Muslims
    • Spain players celebrate at the final whistle after 120 minutes of high intensity in Stuttgart.

      Spain show steel in brutal spectacle before late winner floors Germany

      Barney Ronay
    • Alexi Lalas and Fox’s LED 360-degree virtual studio LA for Euros &amp; Copa.

      In a scary world, the calamity of Fox Sports’ soccer coverage offers a strange calm

      Aaron Timms
    • Emma Raducanu celebrates after repeating her US Open 2021 semi-final win over Maria Sakkari.

      Wimbledon
      Raducanu powers past Sakkari to reach fourth round as draw opens up

    • Remco Evenepoel celebrates as stage seven winner of the 2024 Tour de France in Gevrey-Chambertin, France

      Tour de France
      Evenepoel wins time trial and trims gap to Pogacar

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Climate crisis

  • Google’s data centre in the US.

    Explainer
    Can the climate survive the insatiable energy demands of the AI arms race?

  • Smoke rising from mutual aid wildfire HTZ001 which flared due to strong winds, near Indian Cabins, Alberta, Canada, in May 2024.

    Canada
    As Canada braces for a raging summer, Indigenous communities remain displaced

  • Jordan Bardella speaks to reporters at a farm

    France
    Far-right win in French election could deal blow to climate policy, say experts

  • Mountain Otemanu in Bora Bora, French Polynesia. There are many colored artificial lights in the shore reflecting in the flat calm sea water.

    Environment
    Artificial light on coastlines lures small fish to their doom, coral reef study finds

Across the country

  • People in field bend to pick bell peppers

    US economy
    206,000 June jobs added to US economy as labor market cools slightly

    Number is close to what was expected, as unemployment rate creeps above 4% for first time in two years
  • A sign reads 'stop cop city'

    Georgia
    Federal judge blocks ‘most severe’ law on bail fund restrictions

  • US Border Patrol agents help a person who was bitten by a shark on South Padre Island, Texas, on 4 July 2024.

    Texas
    Solo shark bites two and makes contact with two others at Texas beach

  • ***BESTPIX*** New York City Celebrates Independence Day With Macy's 4th Of July Fireworks<br>NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JULY 4: The Macy's 4th Of July fireworks show lights up the night sky as a backdrop to the Empire State Building on July 4, 2024 in New York City. The annual spectacle, lighting up the city since 1976, this time was launched from barges in the Hudson River, the first time in more than a decade not done from the East River. (Photo by Adam Gray/Getty Images) ***BESTPIX***

    New York
    Three dead after truck strikes group on Fourth of July in New York City park

    • Bird flu
      US reports fourth case of bird flu in humans

    • Education
      Trump and Project 2025 are attacking the Department of Education. How might they reshape US schools?

    • Democrats
      Netflix co-founder and Democratic megadonor calls for Biden to step aside

    • US
      A newly discovered letter by Thomas Jefferson shows ‘a regular guy with financial burdens’

    • Weather
      US swelters on Independence Day with over 150m people under heat alerts

    • Music
      Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs accused of grooming and coercing woman into sex work

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Around the world

  • Debris due to Hurricane Beryl damage in Quintana Roo, Mexico, on 5 July.

    Extreme weather
    Hurricane Beryl makes landfall in Mexico as category 2 storm and expected to reach Texas

  • Older man in a suit.

    Brazil
    Jair Bolsonaro could face money-laundering charges

  • Andrew Tate

    Romania
    Andrew Tate can leave Romania while awaiting trial, court rules

    • Hungary
      Viktor Orbán visits Vladimir Putin to condemnation from fellow EU leaders

    • Carlo Maria Viganò
      Vatican excommunicates its former ambassador to US

    • UK
      Nurse handed 15th whole-life jail sentence for attempted murder of baby

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Podcasts

Podcasts

  • Mikel Merino of Spain celebrates scoring his team's second goal

    Football Weekly
    Spain end Germany’s dream and France squeeze past Portugal – Football Daily

  • Photograph: JUSTIN TALLIS

    Politics Weekly UK
    Labour wins a landslide: Is this a new dawn? Politics Weekly UK - podcast

  • Parliamentary election in Britain<br>Incoming British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria arrive at Number 10 Downing Street, following the results of the election, in London, Britain, July 5, 2024. REUTERS/Phil Noble

    Today in Focus
    Politics Weekly UK – Labour wins a landslide: Is this a new dawn?

  • Britain's Labour Party leader Keir Starmer wins the general election<br>Keir Starmer, leader of Britain's Labour party, reacts as he attends a reception to celebrate his win in the election, at Tate Modern, in London, Britain, July 5, 2024. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett REFILE - QUALITY UPDATE

    Today in Focus
    Labour’s landslide victory – podcast

  • Illustration with colourful arrows representing the main political parties and black and white images of political and media figures including George Osborne, Clive Myrie and Nicola Sturgeon

    Today in Focus
    Election Extra: a guide to the night - podcast

  • Joe Bide

    Politics Weekly America
    Biden in trouble as Supreme Court hands Trump another big win

  • A close-up image of a blue-grey coloured single sperm cell on black background

    Science
    ‘Spermageddon’: is male fertility really in crisis? – podcast

Culture

  • Kevin Bacon.

    Kevin Bacon
    ‘This sucks. I want to go back to being famous’: Kevin Bacon’s experiment as a ‘regular person’

    The actor wore prosthetic teeth, nose and glasses to experiment with anonymity – but found queueing and a lack of adoration challenging
  • white woman wearing white suit gestures at white woman wearing patterned shirt as a white man wearing a black suit and bowtie looks on

    Film
    Rude awakening: when movies change their original NSFW titles

  • Tilda Swinton, left, and Julio Torres pose for a portrait in New York to promote their film "Problemista" on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024. (Photo by Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP)

    Film
    ‘I wish my parents were alive so I could tell them I’m a concept’: Tilda Swinton and Julio Torres on elves, slaps and giving dignity to toilets

  • A scene from Shōgun

    Culture
    The best culture of the year (so far)

  • The robots are coming! … AI is creeping into TV in a frightening way.

    Television
    ‘The disruption is already happening!’ Is AI about to ruin your favourite TV show?

  • Joni Mitchell photographed for Vogue in 1968.

    Book of the day
    Travelling by Ann Powers review – a dazzling life of Joni Mitchell

Lifestyle

  • Allicia Rolle in Nassau, the capital of The Bahamas.

    Experience
    I survived a plane crash without a scratch

    I didn’t hear the others screaming. I felt as if I was in a bubble
  • Judge 6th July - WEB

    You be the judge
    Should my grown-up son help me move out of our house?

  • Zoe Williams wearing Loop earplugs

    Music
    Earplugs as fashion items? I gave Loop’s hit accessories a festival test

  • Alleghe, Belluno, Dolomites, Veneto, Italy, Europe<br>P691DP Alleghe, Belluno, Dolomites, Veneto, Italy, Europe

    Travel
    ‘Stunning lakes and majestic mountains’: readers’ tips from Europe

  • ‘Rossa di Verona’ chicory.

    Gardening advice
    Sow chicory and radicchio this summer to brighten your plate (and garden) in winter

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    Fashion
    Game, set, match: what to wear to Wimbledon

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Take part

  • Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer speaks to supporters at a watch party for the election results in central London.

    UK general election 2024
    Share your reaction to the election results

  • Closeup of eye with makeup<br>Closeup image of beautiful woman eye with fashion makeup. Makeup with eyeliner. Cosmetic Eyeshadow.

    Life and style
    Tell us: have you experienced so-called ‘eyebrow blindness’?

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

    Sweltering temperatures
    How do you stay cool in extreme heat?

  • A pair of male adult hands cradles a pair of child's hands cradling a pink piggy bank

    Well actually
    US parents: tell us how much you spend on your kids a month

From our global editions

  • Woman with blond hair in front of American flag

    US politics
    ‘The claims are just outrageous’: Republican ex-governor condemns Arizona election lies

  • A man walks past graffiti in Perpignan

    France
    Police, poverty and populism: how Perpignan became a laboratory for the far right

  • A car speeding past a '40' mph highway code sign painted on the tarmac

    Cars
    ‘Hard to argue against’: mandatory speed limiters come to the EU and NI

  • Women and children sit among washing drying on the line at a camp for displaced people in Burkina Faso

    Burkina Faso
    ‘They live with fear in their stomachs’: increasing violence deepens crisis

In case you missed it

  • CANADA-POLITICS-TRUDEAU<br>Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a news conference in Montreal, Canada, on July 3, 2024. The Prime Minister was asked multiple times by media about the recent loss the Liberal Party of Canada suffered in Toronto-St-Paul's, a historic Liberal stronghold. The media also pressed the Prime Minister on his future with the party and if he would call a caucus meeting with his party. (Photo by ANDREJ IVANOV / AFP) (Photo by ANDREJ IVANOV/AFP via Getty Images)

    Canada
    After nine years in office, is it time for Justin Trudeau to go?

  • From left: Kiran Shah with Elijah Wood on the set of The Fellowship of the Ring, in costume as Superman and dressed as an Ewok.

    Film
    Superman, Frodo and Star Wars: the stunning life of Kiran Shah – the world’s smallest stuntman

    Shah has a strong claim to have appeared in more blockbuster movies than anyone else on Earth. He discusses upbraiding Brando, smoking with Christopher Reeve, slanging matches with James Cameron – and a shocking experience at a party with Freddie Mercury
  • A white woman with long brown hair and a button-up blue shirt with no pants sits on the edge of a bed, while a white man wearing jeans with no shirt lies with his back to her.

    Well actually
    Feel sad, anxious or ‘homesick’ after sex? You might have post-coital dysphoria

    Research on PCD has determined that people of all genders and sexualities have had such feelings after sex and masturbation
  • Rows of glass jars and dispensers filled with different foods

    The alternatives
    ‘It needs to stay in the loop’: German reuse schemes turn shopping upside down

  • An inhaler for the administration of chloroform or ether, circa 1848.

    Nitrous oxide
    Revolution in the air: how laughing gas changed the world

  • People line up at polling place in Caracas

    Venezuela
    Could Venezuela’s softly-spoken opposition newcomer end 25 years of Chavismo?

  • Woman tapes 'vote uncommitted' sign to stage

    Democrats
    Uncommitted voters take on added influence amid swirl over Biden future

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In pictures

  • Keir Starmer in a dark room standing next to a mirror.

    UK general election
    Keir Starmer: the path to power

    From childhood to university, and from director of public prosecutions to prime minister, we follow the life of Starmer
  • Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria outside 10 Downing Street

    Photos of the day
    A stiletto race, 4 July fireworks and the UK’s new PM

  • An exit poll is projected onto BBC Broadcasting House in London.

    World
    The week around the world in 20 pictures

  • Kestrel chicks look out from their nest on the side of a house in Rochdale, UK. They are about to take flight for the first time

    The week in wildlife
    Joyriding birds, a rare golden cat and a surprise king cobra

  • A person dressed as Abraham Lincoln

    Photos of the day
    Sunak votes and a bejewelled ‘Swiftie’

  • Puppy Pip in Putney

    UK election
    Polling place pooches: dogs on UK election day

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