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  • Israel has released some of the Palestinian prisoners who were to be released on Saturday, after Hamas released the bodies of four Israel hostages.
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    Israel-Gaza war
    Israel releases some Palestinian prisoners after Hamas returns bodies of four hostages

  • Hilda Jackson, wearing UV make-up, a patterned dress and white cardigan, dances holding hands with another woman; there is UV lighting, balloons and a poster reading Hilda's Great Rave in the background.

    Social care
    ‘I’m still dancing’: Derbyshire woman has 105th birthday rave at care home

    • Biodiversity
      UK bumblebee numbers fell to lowest on record in 2024, shows data

    • Politics
      Ministers and Labour MPs raise concerns over overseas aid cut decision

    • Society
      Only 5% of UK medical school entrants are working class, data shows

    • England
      Senior figure in English football raped then paid underage girl, court documents claim

    • Economics
      Sadiq Khan aims to add £100bn to London’s economy by 2035

    • Denmark
      Stonehenge-like circle unearthed in Denmark may have links to UK

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  • Man with 'tech support' logo on T-shirt

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    Trump cabinet flunkies hail wannabe Caesar and Elon, his oligarch pal

    David Smith
  • Friedrich Merz, Markus Söder and four other white male politicians smile for the camera, sitting at a business breakfast table.

    Germany
    Merz’s all-male team photo revives question of gender equality in Germany

    Image posted on social media rekindles idea that prospective new chancellor has a Frauenproblem
  • Derek Harris, 89, with the K6 phone box in Sharrington, Norfolk

    Communities
    ‘I don’t want it to die’: one man’s battle to save the last phone box in his village

    In 1935, Derek Harris was born – and so was the K6 red phone box. Now, Harris is spending his 90th year ensuring this beloved local facility isn’t lost

Spotlight

  • Helen Garner at home in Melbourne.

    The long read
    The savage suburbia of Helen Garner: ‘I wanted to dong Martin Amis with a bat’

    Over 50 years, she has become one of the most revered writers in Australia. Is she finally going to get worldwide recognition?
  • Jodie Whittaker as Susan and Aimee Lou Wood as Tracey in Toxic Town.

    Television
    Toxic Town review – Jodie Whittaker is obviously award-worthy in this bittersweet tale

  • Real Bedford players exit the home dressing room for the second half during the Southern League match against Enfield at the Ledger Stadium

    Football
    ‘He treated us like idiots’: the crypto mogul and a bitter battle over Bedford’s football clubs

    Potential merger of Bedford Town and Real Bedford, led by an ambitious owner, causes rancour among fans who fear for the future
  • A picture of the lost African drum

    Consumer champions
    Yodel can’t find my ‘definitely not lost’ antique drum

    The instrument is a family heirloom and losing it has had a big impact on my mental health
    • Bob Golding (Eric Morecambe), Damian Williams (Tommy Cooper) and Simon Cartwright (Bob Monkhouse) in The Last Laugh.

      Theatre review
      The Last Laugh review – Eric Morecambe, Tommy Cooper and Bob Monkhouse’s antic triple act

    • Kate Hudson walking through an indoor sports arena in Running Point

      Television
      Running Point review – you’ll be desperate for Kate Hudson’s basketball comedy to end

    • A man in suit and open-necked shirt speaks from a lectern

      Explained
      Why has BP pulled the plug on its green ambitions?

    • Panoramic view of the Cilento coastline from Castellabate. Campania, Italy.

      Travel
      Hiking in southern Italy: myths, mountains and wild boar in Cilento

  • Macron, with a thumb up, shakes hands with Starmer

    Trump might not know it, but he’s forging a new relationship between Britain and the EU

    Martin Kettle
    Support for Ukraine means that closer ties to Europe are now a patriotic priority, opening up avenues that Brexit had once blocked
  • John Kampfner

    It’s the liberal German dilemma: Merz is anathema, but he might stand up to Trump

    John Kampfner
  • A wall with text on it reading 'What's dangerous is not to evolve' and is attributed to Jeff Bezos

    Jeff Bezos is muzzling the Washington Post’s opinion section. That’s a death knell

    Margaret Sullivan
    ‘I couldn’t be more sad and disgusted,’ says former top editor Martin Baron
  • the Green BP logo on a petrol station sign under a dark moody sky

    Dirtier BP is still miles away from resetting its share price

    Nils Pratley
    Fossil fuel giant’s strategic U-turn may be far-reaching but even after ditching climate goals the shares fell
    • Ella Baron on Keir Starmer’s meeting with Donald Trump – cartoon

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      Ella Baron on Keir Starmer’s meeting with Donald Trump

    • Keir Starmer speaks at PMQs

      Trump brings peace to PMQs. No one knows what to argue about

      Zoe Williams
    • Benito Mussolini addresses a crowd in January 1935.

      As the far right surges around the globe, what can a new TV series about Mussolini teach us?

      Caroline Moorehead
    • A gardening removing weeds from a bed and putting them in a wheelbarrow

      What I have learned in my filthy, bloody, sisyphean quest to tame my garden

      Adrian Chiles

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  • Keir Starmer departs 10 Downing Street  for PMQs on 26 February 2025

    Editorial
    The Guardian view on Starmer in Washington: don’t compromise on the truth

  • Museo del Jamon restaurant in Plaza Mayor, Madrid, Spain.

    Editorial
    The Guardian view on Spain: a progressive beacon in dark times

  • UK aid label on boxes

    Letters
    Cutting aid to buy arms won’t make the UK safer

  • A person carries a Donald Trump mask outside Trump Tower, New York, on 30 May 2024, after he was found guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.

    Letters
    Inside the mind of Trump – a president who talks tough but surrenders to Putin

  • Students sitting on the grass at the Falmer campus of University of Sussex in Brighton.

    Universities
    Sussex to launch UK’s first climate justice undergraduate degree

  • A green smoothie next to clumps of kale, a granny smith apple and a lime

    Weatherwatch
    Meet Chonkus: the CO2-chomping alga that could help tackle the climate crisis

  • The Atlantic Ocean under a stormy sky

    Environment
    Total collapse of vital Atlantic currents unlikely this century, study finds

  • A steel worker in protective clothing sticks a long rod into molten metal.

    Climate crisis
    EU reveals plans to hit climate goals by helping dirty industries clean up

  • A woman holding a baby.

    BBC
    Gary Lineker among 500 media figures urging BBC to reinstate Gaza documentary

    Exclusive: Film and TV stars among those writing to corporation after it pulled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone
  • Edinburgh University Old College: view of a grassy quadrangle surrounded by historic stone buildings including one with a dome

    Education
    University of Edinburgh warns of staff cuts as it faces £140m financial deficit

  • A close-up image of Rania Alayed wearing a grey and white headscarf, facing the camera

    UK news
    Police find remains in search for woman murdered in Salford in 2013

  • Antony James

    UK
    Former GB Olympic swimmer jailed for raping two teenage girls

    • Courts
      Reforms needed to way potential miscarriages of justice handled, says Law Commission

    • Exclusive
      Parents of under-fives may be exempted from UK’s two-child benefit limit

    • London
      Grenfell Tower: seven organisations face debarment from government contracts

    • Dale Vince
      Labour donor Dale Vince claims libel victory over false pro-Hamas claim

    • Courts
      Drax climate protester says judge ‘bullied’ jury to find her guilty

    • Technology
      Prioritise artists over tech in AI copyright debate, MPs say

  • Faithful pray before the statue of late Pope John Paul II outside the Agostino Gemelli Hospital where Pope Francis is in hospital

    Vatican
    Pope shows ‘slight improvement’ in health before 13th night in hospital

    Vatican says Francis’s scan ‘shows normal evolution’ of lung inflammation and kidney problem has ‘resolved’
  • Dr Githinji Gitahi, group CEO of Amref Health Africa, on stage speaking at the Global NCD Alliance Forum in Kigail, Rwanda in February 2025.

    Health
    Africa’s medical system risks ‘collapse in next few years’, warns health leader

  • Ukrainians make their way along a rubble-strewn street

    Russia-Ukraine war
    Ukraine’s economy could grow by 5% next year if hostilities end, EBRD says

  • close-up of man wearing navy suit and red tie

    US
    Trump vows to slap 25% tariffs on EU and claims bloc was ‘formed to screw US’

    • Hacking
      North Korea behind $1.5bn hack of crypto exchange ByBit, says FBI

    • France
      Life without parole for Nice church attacker who murdered three

    • Technology
      US national security director condemns UK request for Apple data ‘backdoor’

    • Trump administration
      Transgender US military personnel must be identified and stood down, says Pentagon memo

    • US
      Fraudulent tow companies scam victims of California Eaton fires

    • Bosnia and Herzegovina
      Pro-Russia Bosnian Serb president Dodik sentenced for separatist actions

  • a man wearing a blue shirt looks up in fear

    Film
    Last Breath review – thrilling underwater survival drama

  • Jack Lowden and Kôki.

    Film review
    Tornado review – windswept samurai western set in apocalyptic Scotland

  • Francis Bacon, Study for Portrait of P.L., no. 2, 1957, oil on canvas. © The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved / DACS. 
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    Art
    ‘Champagne for my real friends!’ Francis Bacon masterpiece escapes to the artist’s old drinking den

  • A refurbished Autofoto photo booth in London

    Design
    One hundred years of the photo booth, Le Creuset on the go and Welsh modernism

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  • Audrey Hepburn with Gregory Peck in a scene from Roman Holiday

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