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UK general election

  • Latest results Seats won

    Labour Lab 412 +214
    Watercolour portrait of Sir Keir Starmer
    Watercolour portrait of Rishi Sunak
    Conservatives Con 121 −252
    326 for majority

    650/650 seats declared

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  • White House resists calls for President Biden to drop out of presidential race<br>epa11459186 The White House is seen behind a maintenance worker cleaning up the National Mall during a heat wave in Washington, DC, USA, 05 July 2024. With rising calls from within his own party to drop out of the presidential race following his debate performance, US President Joe Biden is attempting to reinvigorate his campaign with events in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. EPA/JIM LO SCALZO

    US politics
    Biden’s doctor reportedly met with top neurologist at White House

  • 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, Oscar-winning Titanic and Avatar producer, dies aged 63

    • Israel-Gaza war
      Israeli strike on Gaza school kills 16, say Palestinian officials

    • US weather
      ‘Potentially historic’ heatwave threatens more than 130m across US

    • Hurricanes
      Tropical Storm Beryl smashes through Caribbean and heads for Texas coast

    • Spain
      Hundreds in Canary Islands protest against influx of migrants

    • Australia
      Three children dead, four in hospital after Sydney house fire

    • Tour de France 2024
      Girmay sprints to Tour stage win but day marred by Drege’s death in Austria

Europe in focus

  • Jaqueline, outside her family’s home in Colombier-Saugnieu on the outskirts of Lyon. She is among 54% of voters there who cast their ballot for the National Rally (RN) party.

    France
    ‘We want our peace’: why is France’s far-right support such a rural affair?

  • Oliver Waack-Jürgensen of the Berlin Cannabis Club High Ground said: ‘The situation with the authorities is totally unclear.’

    Germany
    Cannabis legalisation hampered by most German of substances: red tape

    Activists say the rollout of laws permitting recreational use of the drug has been hampered by a ‘bureaucratic monster’
  • A demonstrator in a crowd holds up a placard reading: 'Juive, daronne, ecolo, queer. Je combats le FN-R-Haine depuis toujours'

    Analysis
    French Jewish people conflicted over voting choices amid antisemitism fears

    Many say they feel stuck in middle between far-right National Rally and hard-left France Unbowed

Spotlight

  • Keir Starmer meets school children at Haverstock School in Chalk Farm, north London.

    Keir Starmer
    Uncool Britannia? How Britain might feel with the court of Sir Keir

    Past big Labour wins have caused seismic cultural shifts but the unflashy stance of our new leader is described as ‘less Camelot – more Center Parcs’
  • Young Vera (Ellen Nikka) and Billy (Akay Jasarovski) in End of Summer

    TV review
    End of Summer review – a nightmarish thriller about a terrible therapist

  • A wasp in a glass of red liquid and ice, against blue sky and sea

    Life and style
    59 summer problems solved – from sunburn and sweating to wasps and wedgies

  • Children jump off the pontoon into the lake.

    Europe holidays
    Skip the coast: three of Europe’s loveliest lakes to visit – by travel experts

    Three writers pick their favourite lakeside getaways in France, Germany and Italy, with boat trips and great places to stay and eat
    • Headshot of Michael Holden, author, June 2024

      Family
      For years I was my parents’ reluctant carer. Then I was told I was making things worse

    • A woman in a coal mine tunnel in Ukraine.

      Ukraine
      ‘We do the job just as well as men’: Ukrainian women take on coal mining

    • Roisin Murphy performing at the Brixton Academy in London, 2021.

      This much I know
      Róisín Murphy: ‘I think our culture is too hedonistic’

    • A cartoon of a giant sheep, with two little naked people held between its teeth.

      This is how we do it
      The sheep on our farm hinder our sex life more than the kids

Euro 2024

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Sport

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Opinion

  • Bluebella lingerie rugby campaign

    If sportswomen were paid more, they might not feel obliged to get their kit off

    Barbara Ellen
    A lingerie ad campaign featuring Team GB players trudging around a rugby pitch misses its mark
  • General Election 2024<br>File photo dated 06/02/24 of former prime minister Liz Truss during the launch of the Popular Conservatism movement at the Emmanuel Centre in central London Issue date: Friday July 5, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS ElectionPrimeMinisters. Photo credit should read: Victoria Jones/PA Wire

    No Boris Johnson, no deals with Nigel Farage: it’s time for the Tories to get serious

    Paul Goodman
  • Chris Riddell illustration of Keir Starmer's new broom.

    Cartoon
    Chris Riddell on Keir Starmer’s new broom

  • Keir Starmer will host the European Political Community summit at Blenheim Palace this month.

    In a fragile and dangerous era, strengthening ties with Europe is Britain’s most urgent challenge

    Kim Darroch
  • Marine Le Pen arriving at the National Rally headquarters in Paris, France, 4 July 2024

    The French republic is under threat. We are 1,000 historians and we cannot remain silent

    Patrick Boucheron, Antoine Lilti and others
  • Mary Beard took part in the discussion ‘Who owns the past?’

    Is it time to turn the British Museum into the world’s great lending library?

    Tim Adams

Climate crisis

  • Google’s data centre in the US.

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

  • Jordan Bardella speaks to reporters at a farm

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

  • Large flames, red sky and vehicle nearby

    California
    Nearly 30,000 people in northern California evacuated as raging wildfire spreads

  • a side-by-side image of Donald Trump and wind turbines

    Donald Trump
    ‘It’s nonsensical’: how Trump is making climate the latest culture war

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Around the world

  • Oliver Dowden, the former deputy prime minister, has been singled out by angry candidates and aides.

    UK Conservatives
    ‘The entire clown show caught up with us’: Tory infighting erupts after defeat

  • Can-can dancers perform in red, white and blue costumes front of the Moulin Rouge cabaret club at night with illuminated signs and windmill sails

    France
    Moulin Rouge in Paris celebrates installation of new windmill sails

    • US
      Four killed and three wounded in shooting at Kentucky party

    • Italy
      ‘Defending democracy is paramount’: Rula Jebreal warns against Meloni rule

    • Jair Bolsonaro
      Ex-president of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro could face money-laundering charges

    • Bangladesh
      Bangladesh floods leave at least eight dead amid fears situation could worsen

    • Caribbean
      Hurricane Beryl: Britons join global aid effort amid Caribbean devastation

    • UK
      King Charles ruffles feathers as he drops royal patronage for pigeon racing

Culture

  • Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump.

    Film
    Forrest Gump at 30: a wildly popular movie that remains as light as a feather

    Tom Hanks is an affecting lead but the popularity of Robert Zemeckis’s much-loved Oscar-winner is still a curious mystery
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    Books interview
    Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah: ‘Satire is a way to make myself less depressed’

  • Location, location, location … a scene from House of the Dragon, part of which is filmed in Cornwall.

    Film
    ‘We made the Maldives from a hotel in Heathrow airport’: Hollywood location scouts reveal their secrets

  • The artist Mark Leckey in Margate

    On my radar
    Mark Leckey’s cultural highlights

  • Janelle Monáe on stage in Manchester last week.

    Music
    Janelle Monáe review: a masterclass in progressive showbiz spectacle

  • Jason Patel and Ben Hardy in Unicorns.

    Film
    Unicorns review – mechanic meets drag queen in touching drama with real-world edge

Lifestyle

  • Orange Viscose Île de Ré Dress, £195 chintiandparker.com

    Fashion
    We Love: Fashion fixes for the week ahead – in pictures

    Chic holiday pieces, clusters of freshwater pearls and Dame Zandra Rhodes’s memoirs
  • Models wearing bermuda shorts on the catwalk

    Fashion
    Bermuda moods: summer’s chicest shorts are knee length

  • Baked bean ice cream from Anya Hindmarch’s Ice Cream Project summer shop in London.

    Food
    Blue cheese or caviar? Ice-cream toppings get weird and wacky

  • guardian saturday pets collage

    Tim Dowling's column
    I’m now a dab hand at handling injured bird scenarios

  • Nima and Maxim.

    Blind date
    We both grimaced as we gulped down oysters and pretended to enjoy them

  • Ron Arad’s house - London

    Interiors
    House of curiosities: at home with Ron Arad

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

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    Life and style
    Have you experienced so-called ‘eyebrow blindness’?

  • Heatwave in Italy<br>epa10751450 A thermometer outside a pharmacy displays '42 degrees Celsius' in Rome, Italy, 17 July 2023. Southern Europe is experiencing a major heat wave this week with temperatures expected to climb up to 48 Celsius degrees on the islands of Sicily and Sardinia. Italy's health ministry sent on 17 July a circular letter to the country's regional governments with a series of recommendations to manage the impact of the intense heat wave the country is enduring. These recommendations include setting up a 'heat code' at emergency rooms with special, priority procedures for people suffering heat-related health issues. EPA/MASSIMO PERCOSSI

    Climate crisis
    How are you being affected by the heatwave in southern Europe?

  • 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?

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    Joe Biden
    Democrats in disarray as Trump immunity ruling raises stakes

    With democracy at a moment of maximum peril, millions were pinning their hopes on the Democratic party as a last wall of defence – but the debate changed that
  • Andrew Reeson on Toowoomba’s Pierce Street, in which cars and bikes have equal priority

    Australia
    The Copenhagen of Queensland? Why this conservative city is making a bold cycling move

  • Keir Starmer cutout against a backdrop of three more photos of him on a red background

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    UK general election
    How Labour did it: inside the campaign that led to ‘Starmergeddon’

  • king charles and queen camilla cuddle koalas

    Animals
    Hands off the koala: why cuddling Australia’s iconic marsupial could soon be a thing of the past

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

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

  • UK front pages after Labour win the 2024 general election.

    Media
    ‘Keir we go’: what the papers say as Labour wins landslide in general election

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  • 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

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

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

In pictures

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    Art and design
    A backstage pass at the National Theatre

    Laura McCluskey documents the hours before the curtains open, when cast and crew prepare for the evening’s show
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    Photos of the day
    A stiletto race, 4 July fireworks and the UK’s new PM

  • A high street studio in fashionable Peckham, London.

    Fantasy house hunt
    Homes under £350,000 for first-time buyers in England – in 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

  • Raptor expert George Smith ringing peregrine chicks on a cliff ledge while roped to a tree above

    Environment
    ‘I’ve known some of these peregrines for 15 years’: protecting Scotland’s raptors

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