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  • Jeffrey Donaldson

    Northern Ireland
    Sir Jeffrey Donaldson resigns as Democratic Unionist party leader

    Lagan Valley MP makes abrupt announcement after being charged over ‘allegations of a historical nature’
  • Mohamed Mansour

    Conservatives
    Donor’s knighthood is sign Sunak ‘believes he’s on way out’, Labour says

  • A red and white post office sign

    Post Office Horizon scandal
    Company had flawed court defence, leaked internal report shows

  • Olly Alexander at an audience with Kylie in December 2023.

    Eurovision
    Olly Alexander and other competitors reject calls to boycott over Israel participation

    • John Boyega
      Actor tells of ‘life-changing’ friendship with Damilola Taylor

    • Syria
      Israeli airstrike kills dozens of soldiers near Aleppo, says war monitor

    • Reform UK
      Labour urges Rishi Sunak to rule out offering Nigel Farage US ambassador job

    • Live
      Romania finds ‘drone fragments’ on farm near Ukraine border

    • Labour
      Khan tells party mayoral election still a two-horse race

    • Louis Gossett Jr
      First Black man to win supporting actor Oscar dies aged 87

News in focus

  • The Restore team standing on a lane surrounded by fields

    ‘Enormously exciting’
    Farm to create biggest natural grassland in southern England

  • Copies of the Daily Telegraph on display

    'It is a genuine issue of freedom of the press'
    Inside the battle for ‘trophy asset’ the Telegraph – and for the soul of Tory Britain

    Traditional affinity between Conservatives and the newspaper has given way to a complex, splintered drama, and the attempted acquisition by Gulf-backed RedBird IMI lies in limbo
  • A tank drives along a dirt road past yellow flowers

    ‘Ecocide in Gaza’
    Does scale of environmental destruction amount to a war crime?

    Exclusive: Satellite analysis revealed to the Guardian shows farms devastated and nearly half of the territory’s trees razed. Alongside mounting air and water pollution, experts says Israel’s onslaught on Gaza’s ecosystems has made the area unlivable

Spotlight

  • The Cambridge University Boat Club women’s blue boat during a training session in freezing fog on the River Great Ouse in Cambridgeshire during February 2024.

    Pulling together
    How Cambridge came to dominate the Boat Race

    Our photographer has been spending time with the Cambridge University Boat Club over the past few months as they prepare for 2024’s races
  • Hannah and Izzy in Dublin in 2005.

    How we met
    ‘I tell her things I’ll never tell anyone else – what we have is so special’

  • The Shed restaurant in Swansea. Interior. Day.

    Grace Dent on restaurants
    The Shed, Swansea: ‘A place to eat every mooing, baa-ing tasty thing’

    This is essentially 16 years of the chef’s homesickness for Wales on a plate, complete with a laverbread garnish
  • Resonating across the years … Paul McCartney and Beyoncé.

    A new moment to arise
    Beyoncé’s cover of the Beatles’ Blackbird is a timely masterstroke

    Penned by Paul McCartney as tribute to the civil rights movement, and featuring Black female country artists, it makes perfect sense for the superstar to feature it on Cowboy Carter
    • ‘The antidote to a brain rotted by TikTok’ … Levi Brown stars as Dante Williams in the BBC’s This Town.

      This Town
      Steven Knight’s 80s-set drama is so confused scenes may as well be shown at random

    • Boy Blue founders Michael Asante and Kenrick Sandy.

      ‘You have to add the flavour, the butter, the jam’
      Boy Blue on bringing hip hop energy to the dance world

    • Bright murals on the walls of the Afro-Mexican museum in Cuajinicuilapa, Mexico.

      ‘There are children here who do not want to be black'
      One woman’s bid to save Mexico’s only Afro-Mexican museum

    • Two women wearing face masks walk by an Oppenheimer film poster

      ‘There wasn’t enough about the horror’
      Hiroshima survivors react to Oppenheimer

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  • ‘The more education you receive, it seems, the more likely you are to live away from your home town; the less education you have, the more likely you stay put.’

    Do you leave your home town or stay behind? It’s a question at the heart of British politics

    John Merrick
    Graduates are more likely to migrate to the big cities. But any political benefits from this are decidedly mixed, says writer and editor John Merrick
  • Lola Okolosie

    Chaos in the classroom? Take it from someone on the frontline, this is the result of Tory neglect

    Lola Okolosie
  • Dachshund at Crufts 2024

    Digested week
    Germany has the right idea on dachshunds. Dogs should be cuddly

    Lucy Mangan
    Germans want to ban ‘torture breeding’ for extreme characteristics. Plus: don’t even think about swimming in British waters this Easter
  • Mayor of London Sadiq Khan with Pride attendees in July 2023

    On the 10-year anniversary of equal marriage in Britain, I’m thinking of my dad, and the long road to acceptance

    Gary Nunn
    He was a tough bouncer from Kent who, like the country around him, grew to accept social progress, says writer Gary Nunn
    • Manchester Metropolitan University students in their halls of residence during lockdown in September 2020.

      Young people like me are still feeling the effects of Covid – and they’re not all bad

      Isabel Brooks
    • A person holds a sign in favour of legalising cannabis in Germany in 2022.

      With Germany legalising cannabis, Europe is reaching a tipping point. Britain, take note

      Steve Rolles
    • two students at graduation day at coventry university

      Britain’s universities are in freefall – and saving them will take more than funding

      Gaby Hinsliff
    • Nothing but trouble? … Zelda in prayer in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

      If life is one giant computer simulation, God is a rubbish player

      Dominik Diamond

Editorials & Letters

  • Rachel Reeves

    The Guardian view
    Public spending: governments should invest in people as well as things

  • Tim Davie

    The Guardian view
    The future of the BBC: uncertain but necessary and all to play for

  • John Crace

    Letters
    Wishing John Crace and the NHS a good recovery

  • Senior man playing hopscotch in the park

    Letters
    Dementia is not a living death – I’m very much alive

  • A historical map overlayed on modern New York

    Sites of resistance
    Threatened African burial grounds around the world

  • A person in a hi-vis jacket walking away from the camera towards a large dirt mound or hill

    Scraping away generations of forgetting
    My fight to honour the Africans buried on St Helena

  • Annina Van Neel Hayes laying lilies outside the door of a brick building

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    'Perpetuating a lie'
    British overseas territory St Helena urged to return remains of 325 formerly enslaved people to Africa

  • The remote island of St Helena, a British overseas territory, is best known for Napoleon's tomb – the island's biggest tourist attraction. While overseeing the construction of a long-awaited airport on the island, Annina van Neel learns that the remains of thousands of formerly enslaved Africans have been uncovered, unearthing one of the most significant traces of the transatlantic slave trade in the world

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    Documentary
    Buried: how we choose to remember the transatlantic slave trade

  • Anis Mehmeti opens the scoring for Bristol City against Leicester.

    Live
    Bristol City v Leicester, Kane fit for Klassiker – football news

    Join our writers for all the latest news on a packed Good Friday programme in the Football League
  • Xabi Alonso

    'The place for me'
    Alonso confirms he will stay at Leverkusen next season

  • Palm trees during hurricane.

    Weather tracker
    Cyclone Gamane unexpectedly veers into Madagascar

  • Bushes and trees burn with a church and telephone poles in the background

    Weatherwatch
    Copernicus online portal offers terrifying view of climate emergency

  • Person holds bag of vegetables and fruit and picks up a vegetable from a crate

    Environment
    Vegetables are losing their nutrients. Can the decline be reversed?

  • Emissions from an oil refinery

    Fossil fuels
    Surge of new US-led oil and gas activity threatens to wreck Paris climate goals

  • Two boys playing online games

    Loot boxes
    Video game firms found to have broken own UK industry rules

    Government criticised over decision to let companies self-regulate gambling-style features after expert finds numerous breaches
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    London
    Teenager charged with attempted murder after train stabbing

  • Queues of cars in morning light at the Port of Dover

    UK Easter weather and travel
    Ferries hit by winds as getaway begins for millions

  • The Thames Water logo at pipe replacement work site in London, Britain, 28 March 2024

    Thames Water
    Firm on road to state rescue amid investor standoff with Ofwat

    • Politics
      Andrew Bridgen must pay Matt Hancock legal fees of £40,000 in libel claim

    • Garrick Club
      Challenge to consider membership for seven leading women

    • Mohammed Mansour
      Businessman who donated £5m knighted

    • Scotland
      Girl, 10, ‘left inoperable’ after planned NHS surgery cancelled seven times

    • Housing
      Sunak and Gove accused of caving in to lobbying in favour of landlords

    • Goldsmiths
      Academics to strike over ‘incomprehensible’ redundancies

  • Woman wearing facemask in crowd with placard saying: I am a teacher I think of you, Samuel

    France
    Sister of beheaded teacher accuses government of failing to protect school staff

    Mickaëlle Paty, whose brother Samuel was killed by an extremist, speaks out after Paris head resigns following alleged death threats
  • Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapses After Being Struck By Cargo Ship<br>BALTIMORE, MARYLAND - MARCH 29:  A crane works on the debris of the Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 29, 2024 in Baltimore, Maryland. The bridge collapsed on Tuesday at 1:30AM , after being struck by the massive cargo ship Dali. Two members of a road repair crew were pulled from the Patapsco River immediately after the collision, while two other bodies were pulled from the water on Wednesday and four people remain missing and are presumed dead after the Coast Guard called off rescue efforts. The accident has temporarily closed the Port of Baltimore, one of the largest and busiest on the East Coast of the U.S. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

    Baltimore bridge collapse
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  • Three presidents: Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Bill Clinton during fundraising event at New York’s Radio City Music Hall on Thursday night.

    Live
    Joe Biden needled Trump and raised $26m at New York fundraiser as protesters gathered outside

  • Valérie Hayer, president of Renew Europe, during a briefing about European security in Kyiv on 27 March.

    Live
    Calls for European parliament to investigate possible Russian interference in elections

    • Storm Nelson
      Easter processions cancelled in southern Spain due to rainstorms

    • Brazil
      Lula dismays relatives of dictatorship’s victims by ignoring coup anniversary

    • Exclusive
      Danish minister urged to meet Greenland coil scandal women

    • Afghanistan
      Taliban edict to resume stoning women to death met with horror

    • South Africa
      45 dead as bus plunges from bridge into ravine

    • UN
      Russia criticised for using veto to end monitoring of North Korea sanctions

  • ‘What I look for in a script is a feeling. A nervous feeling. But good nervous’ ... Shirley Henderson.

    Shirley Henderson
    I start off thinking: ‘How will I ever be able to do this?’

    The Harry Potter and Bridget Jones star is a dazzlingly versatile performer, with a string of Michael Winterbottom films under her belt. She explains how she keeps on top of it all
  • Tom Holland in Spider-Man: No Way Home.

    Week in geek
    Where can Marvel take Tom Holland’s fourth Spider-Man film?

  • Somewhat surprising … Jungle Book.

    Jungle Book review
    Kipling’s mancub tale as you’ve never seen it before

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  • You Are Here by David Nicholls; Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys; Day by Michael Cunningham.

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

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  • Sewage foam on the River Thames by Marlow Weir in Buckinghamshire.

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  • A letting and estate agent in Frome, Somerset, UK.

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  • Vivien Sansour at Hudson Valley Seed Co farm in Accord, New York on March 20, 2024.

    ‘They kept us alive for thousands of years’
    Could saving Palestinian seeds also save the world?

    Vivien Sansour, founder of the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library, believes biodiversity will save the planet in the climate crisis
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    ‘It’s very easy to steal someone’s voice’
    How AI is affecting video game actors

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