Air defences activated in Iran after explosions reported near Isfahan
Dubai-based carriers Emirates and FlyDubai divert around western Iran early on Friday after Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency reports explosions in central city of Isfahan
Biden’s tale about cannibals bemuses Papua New Guinea residents
Columbia University
Police arrest students protesting Israel’s war on Gaza
Ukraine
Polish man arrested over alleged Russian plot to assassinate Zelenskiy
Prince Harry
Duke confirms he is now a US resident
2024 election
Kennedy family members endorse Biden in stinging rebuke to RFK Jr
Haiti
US resumes deportation flights despite continuing bloodshed
New Orleans
Mental competency hearing delayed for priest charged with raping teen
The Guardian
Newspaper wins award for exposé of founders’ links to transatlantic slavery
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The jurors
Who is on the Trump trial jury?
Death by diabetes
She was fired after not endorsing Splenda-filled salads to people with diabetes. Why?
Elizabeth Hanna says she was fired by the American Diabetes Association after refusing to approve recipes heaped with the additive made by a major donor
Pesticides
Six fruits and vegetables with the most chemical risk
From green beans to kale, here are some foods considered to be healthy yet which test poorly for pesticides
Spotlight
‘I’m practicing photographic justice’
Corky Lee’s portraits of Asian American life
A new documentary looks back on the life and career of a photographer who documented an overlooked community
Premier League and FA Cup semis
Ten things to look out for this weekend
Do you have an ‘emotionally immature parent’?
How a nine-year-old book found a new, younger audience
Therapist Lindsay Gibson’s 2015 book has sold over a million copies and its message has soared on social media. What does it mean?
Abigail review
Dracula’s daughter gets kidnapped in fun-sucking horror
There’s some low-stakes pleasure to be had in the first half of the gory new film from the team behind Ready or Not and Scream but things fall apart disastrously
Kimmel hits back at Trump
‘The only person still talking about this joke is him’
Shock of the old
11 transport fantasies that never got off the ground – from jetpacks to swan-powered paragliders
‘I’ve used hairbrushes, spatulas, car keys, apples ...’
Sheila E on drumming with Prince, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson and more
Annina van Neel's life is forever changed after encountering a vast burial ground - one of the most significant traces of the transatlantic slave trade in the world
My close friend is a therapist but all she does is complain. Should I exit this relationship?
There may be ways to protect yourself from her negativity without jettisoning the relationship, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. Start by creating boundaries
How we met
It felt like chatting with an old friend rather than meeting for the first time
Happy eater
Food crazes make me want to roll my eyes. But first, pass me a crookie
Jay Rayner
Dining across the divide
‘I couldn’t get on board with her equating the Taliban and the democratic government of Ukraine’
'There’s so much tension it’s like a romantic comedy’
My first time at an archery class
How to store half a lemon?
18 ways to keep leftover food fresh
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From our global editions
Ukraine war briefing
Donald Trump says survival of Ukraine important to the US
Trussonomic lessons
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‘I had to do an 80-mile trip’
The stress caused by UK drug shortages
Love nest
How a musk lorikeet fell for a red-tailed black cockatoo
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Pesticides
We found unhealthy levels in 20% of US produce – here’s what you need to know
‘We can’t hunt or fish’
The villages in Ecuador’s Amazon surrounded by abandoned explosives
In 2002, high explosives were laid in oil wells across 20 sq km of forest. The firm has gone but the pentolite remains, despite a court ruling, putting lives and the ecosystem at risk
‘People are begging us to feed their children'
Gaza refugees in Cairo find little help
With no centralised relief effort in Egypt, Palestinians are relying on grassroots charities for food, rent and clothing
Explainer
What is the US speaker’s plan for Ukraine and Israel, and will it pass Congress?
War, grief and hope
The stories behind the World Press Photo award-winners
Goodbye cod, hello herring
Why putting a different fish on your dish will help the planet
‘I was severely stalked and severely abused’
Richard Gadd on the true story behind Baby Reindeer
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Oriol Maspons’s humorous and playful photographs of the island’s beachgoers and clubbers disclose the new attitudes to nudity, sexuality and freedom of expression in the post-Franco era
Photos of the day
Record-breaking ballet dancers and protesting farmers
‘Women are not usually seen to be resting’
Danielle Mckinney’s portraits of repose
Sunshine at midnight on the arctic tundra
Inuuteq Storch’s best photograph
All aboard the ‘ding ding’!
A wild ride through Hong Kong
‘We’d wait all day for a train’
America by rail
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