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  • Gabriel Attal walks out of the Hôtel Matignon holding pieces of A4 paper

    France election
    Macron asks Attal to stay as PM for now as France faces hung parliament

  • a man in a blue suit and red Maga hat points while speaking

    Donald Trump
    Republicans call Trump’s move to distance himself from radical rightwing Project 2025 ‘preposterous’

    • Rust film set shooting
      Judge rules Alec Baldwin’s co-producer role irrelevant in Rust film set shooting

    • World
      More than 2 million without power as Hurricane Beryl makes landfall in Texas

    • UK
      Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan accused of being ‘serial tax evaders’

    • Canada
      Alice Munro knew my stepfather sexually abused me as a child, says Nobel laureate’s daughter

    • Israel-Gaza war
      Thousands of Palestinians flee amid heavy Israeli attack on Gaza City

    • Science
      Autism could be diagnosed with stool sample, scientists say

News in focus

  • Family members of victims of Boeing Max 8 crashes hold up photographs of their loved ones

    Boeing
    ‘They can’t move on’: families of Boeing crash victims demand justice

  • A computer illustration of Lactobacillus bacteria (depicted in red and orange), the main component of the human small intestine microbiome.

    Autism
    Do gut microbes have a role in autism itself?

    Autistic people are more prone to certain gut problems – and a disrupted microbiome could be part of the reason
  • close-up of white columns frame US flag

    Analysis
    How might a rogue president use the US supreme court immunity ruling?

    A first pass shows just how much damage a president could do to the rule of law when no longer constrained by it

Spotlight

  • An Apple iPhone 15.

    Technology
    The best Apple iPhones in 2024 – tested, reviewed and ranked

    Looking for a new iPhone, or a good deal on a refurbished handset? Our expert has assessed and rated the current crop of Apple smartphones
  • The British territory of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.

    Chagos Islands
    Purgatory in paradise: how a shipwreck off Diego Garcia led to three years of hell and horror

  • man dressed in costume with a crown photographed in blue-ish light

    Film
    ‘Opened my whole world up’: inside Oscar-tipped prison theater drama Sing Sing

    An acclaimed movie spotlights a program offering a world of creativity to those living in a New York maximum security prison
  • Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer -- From Dakota and Elle Fanning and director Abby Fuller comes unprecedented access to Dr. Ann Burgess, the mastermind behind the development of modern serial-killer profiling. A historical reenactment of Dr. Ann Burgess listening to tapes at Quantico in the 1970s, shown. (Courtesy of Hulu)

    Documentary
    ‘They couldn’t stop themselves’: what do we really know about serial killers

    FBI pioneer Ann Burgess developed groundbreaking ways to examine and investigate those with a compulsion to kill, the focus of a fascinating new docuseries
    • Large pink brain looks like a tree against a blue background. Two people in white suits hold a ladder that another person is climbing into the canopy. Another person sweeps up fallen debris

      The big idea
      Why your brain needs other people

    • Untitled #80 (1980).

      Art
      Cindy Sherman: ‘Little girls play dress-up – but I was always trying to be a monster instead of a fairy’

    • BRUCE EESLY New Farmer 2024-BRUC-10 Bruce Eesly. Peter Trimmel wins first prize for his UHY fennel at the Kooma Giants Show in Limburg, 1956, New Farmer series, 2023. Courtesy of the artist.

      Art and design
      Rencontres d’Arles: Toxic futures, shadowy pasts and jolly green dreams

    • Illustration of a person lying on their back with a ball between their knees

      Halfway there: a column about midlife
      First my left knee, then my right: my middle-aged body’s betrayal

Euro 2024

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Sport

Opinion

  • France's far-right National Rally supporters react after second round of legislative elections<br>epa11465873 Member of Parliament for the French right-wing party National Rally (Rassemblement National, RN), Marine Le Pen (R) smiles as she addresses journalists at the party's headquarters after preliminary results of the second round of the French parliamentary elections, in Paris, France, 07 July 2024. France voted in the second round of the legislative elections on 07 July. According to the first official results, the left-wing New Popular Front (Nouveau Front populaire, NFP) was ahead of President Macron's party and Le Pen's far-right National Rally (RN). EPA/CHRISTOPHE PETIT TESSON

    In a referendum on Le Pen, French voters said ‘non’. This opportunity must not be squandered

    Paul Taylor
    France may rediscover a taste for moderate social democracy – and find out that compromise is not a dirty word
  • Illustration by Guardian Design

    Le Pen has been defeated by the left, but who will govern France?

    Our panel responds
  • Ella Baron on the French election results – cartoon

    Cartoon
    Ella Baron on the French election results

  • A rally at Place de la République, Lyon, after the results of the second round of the 2024 legislative elections were announced.

    The Guardian view
    The French election: time to build a republican future

  • row of flags on grass in front of a building

    The Nato alliance should not invite Ukraine to become a member

    Open letter
  • Woman staring at her phone screen.

    Netflix, Now TV and Disney+ not enough? Sofa-bound scrollers rejoice, there’s a new platform in town

    Lauren O'Neill
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Climate crisis

  • a wildfire burns

    Extreme heat
    Record-breaking heatwave grips many US states: ‘Avoid time outside of AC’

  • Rainswept beachside homes

    Weather tracker
    Tropical Storm Beryl makes landfall on Texas coast

  • Emissions rise from smokestacks at a coal power plant

    Medical research
    Air pollution can decrease odds of live birth after IVF by 38% – study

  • two people wearing hats walk

    US
    ‘Potentially historic’ heatwave threatens more than 130 million people across US

Around the world

  • Rows of small blue-capped glass bottles containing milk.

    Pakistan
    Pakistani breast milk bank closes after Islamic clerics withdraw approval

  • Man in green and blue T.shirt beside two other men, one in army camouflage jacket, outside building

    Africa
    Kenyan cult leader goes on trial on terrorism charges over 400 deaths

    • West Africa
      Ecowas warns of ‘disintegration’ as juntas split from west African bloc

    • Japan
      Heatstroke alerts issued across Japan as heatwave leads to four deaths

    • Exclusive
      New UK government expected to drop challenge to ICC over Netanyahu arrest warrant

    • Business
      UK drinks maker Britvic agrees £3.3bn takeover by Carlsberg

    • US
      Satanists to volunteer in Florida schools in protest at DeSantis religious bill

    • Airline industry
      Boeing will plead guilty to criminal fraud over 737 Max crashes

Culture

  • ‘We bonded over John Waters films’ … the Grid in 1994, with Richard Norris front.

    How we made
    ‘We knew a banjo house record would annoy the techno bores’: how the Grid made Swamp Thing

    ‘It was a smash in loads of countries. When we played it at London’s Ministry of Sound club, there was a girl staring at Roger’s banjo like she’d never seen one before’
  • Top Gun: Maverick with Tom Cruise

    Film
    Hollywood studio Paramount agrees $28bn merger with Skydance

  • 1927's new show Please Right Back

    Stage
    Edinburgh festival 2024: 12 tips for families

  • Jon Landau<br>FILE - Jon Landau stands for a portrait at the 95th Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon, Feb. 13, 2023, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. Landau, an Oscar-winning producer who worked closely with director James Cameron on “Titanic" and the “Avatar” series, has died, announced in a statement Saturday, July 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

    Film
    Jon Landau obituary

  • A Prince.

    Film
    A Prince review – queer erotic drama of sexual enlightenment through gardening

  • Jack Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier<br>John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier sit together in the sunshine at Kennedy's family home at Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, a few months before their wedding.

    Book of the day
    Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan review – a lacerating exposé

Lifestyle

  • A pen lies beside a notepad on which is written: 'Don't date a bartender'

    Women
    The memo: could one missed message have saved me a lifetime of regret?

    It is the one essential piece of advice you wish you had known when you were younger. I started asking women for their memos – and the results were revealing
  • The lesser-spotted Rachel Roddy flatbread.

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for flatbreads with yoghurt

  • People standing in a room with a large image of a model in a white dress on the wall

    Fashion
    Immersive Vogue show lifts curtain on catwalks past and present

  • Calanoa Amazonas Birding Mocagua Lagoon

    Travel
    To the end of the Amazon in Brazil: ‘there are forms of life here that I never knew existed’

  • Rachel Thompson dressed in a bright pink top and blue leggings in a rehearsal suite.

    A new start after 60
    I started to dance at 63 – and was scouted to perform at Sadler’s Wells

  • Posed by model Young handsome man over isolated background surprised with hand on head for mistake, remember error. Forgot, bad memory concept.

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Can you solve it? Simple puzzles almost everybody gets wrong

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
    Have you experienced so-called ‘eyebrow blindness’?

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

    People in the US
    How do you stay cool in extreme heat?

  • A young woman university student lying on her bed studying working reading writing on laptop in messy untidy bedroom at home UK<br>DRF2PB A young woman university student lying on her bed studying working reading writing on laptop in messy untidy bedroom at home UK

    Life and style
    Do you still sleep in your childhood bedroom?

From our global editions

  • A photographic collage showing the colours of Guyana's flag, a map of Guyana, oil pipelines, deforestation and some of the people featured in the article

    The Latin oil rush
    Guyana banks on future as a ‘Latin Qatar’ in high-stakes gamble over oil production

    With newfound oil wealth reshaping the economy, can the country balance growth with sustainable development?
  • David Lammy with Annalena Baerbock

    UK
    Operation reset: the UK foreign minister's mission to reconnect gets off to flying start

  • The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, wearing orange overalls and a white hard hat, holds up his oil-covered hands to the camera.

    The Latin oil rush
    ‘Will you stop exploring yours?’: Latin America forges ahead on new oil frontier

  • Busy street scene with cars, vans and a young man pulling a cart. A large banner with the Palestinian flag stands above buildings in the background

    Israel-Gaza war
    ‘I panic when my phone rings’: the plight of Palestinians in Jordan

  • Two elephants with tusks walk in a dusty landscape at sunset

    Trophy hunting
    Trophy hunter killings spark fierce battle over the future of super tusker elephants

  • People celebrating in Toulouse, France

    Lyon
    ‘We were so scared’: France’s centrist and leftwing voters breathe sigh of relief

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    Wellbeing
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  • Iwao Hakamada, left, flanked by his sister Hideko, on the day of his release in 2014.

    Japan
    Man who spent 45 years on death row in Japan hopes for chance to clear name

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    Life and style
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    Politics Weekly UK
    Politics Weekly Westminster: Starmer’s first week – podcast

  • A hedgehog in an urban garden in Manchester. Photograph: Whittaker Geo/Alamy

    The Audio Long Read
    Where the wild things are: the untapped potential of our gardens, parks and balconies – podcast

  • Keir Starmer holding a press conference

    Today in Focus
    Keir Starmer’s first weekend in power - podcast

  • Trent Alexander-Arnold celebrates after scoring his penalty.

    Football Weekly
    England hold nerve to sink Swiss and set up Netherlands clash – Football Daily

  • Chris Buck Kevin Bacon DSF5424 V3

    Weekend
    Actor Kevin Bacon on learning selflessness, the secret lives of porn addicts, and what’s it like to be a private tutor for the rich? – podcast

  • 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

In pictures

  • People stand in and around a damaged building

    Photos of the day
    A damaged hospital and a clogged canal

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • A blurred picture of people passing through a station with arrows pointing in different directions on the floor.

    Japan
    Tokyo’s oldest train line

  • People sheltering from rain under a Wimbledon towel.

    Sport
    Rain, set and match: a day at Wimbledon 2024

  • Commuters, Evening Train, Penn Station, New York, 1958 (detail).

    The big picture
    Louis Stettner on commuters in 1950s New York

  • Andy Murray shouts out during his debut match on Wimbledon Centre Court against David Nalbandian in 2005

    Sport
    Andy Murray’s two decades at Wimbledon – in pictures

  • Blue and white striped blazers with carnations in their buttonholes, hanging up

    Art and design
    A backstage pass at the National Theatre

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