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IT outage

  • An error screen at a currency exchange store at Hong Kong International Airport
    An error screen at a currency exchange store at Hong Kong International Airport
    Sky News was off air in the UK
    Sky News was off air in the UK
    The outage is affecting Microsoft services
    The outage is affecting Microsoft services
    Problems have been experienced in Hong Kong
    Problems have been experienced in Hong Kong
    A blue error screen is seen at a store in Brisbane
    A blue error screen is seen at a store in Brisbane

    IT outage live
    Microsoft IT outage linked to cyber security firm Crowdstrike hits airlines, railways, and media outlets globally

    • Microsoft

      IT outage
      Banks, airlines and media hit by issues linked to Windows PCs

    • Explained
      Windows global IT outage: what we know so far

    • Tell us
      How have you been affected by the outage?

Headlines

News in focus

  • A wall formed from electronic circuits in Taipei. Taiwan is one of the world's major producers and exporters of semiconductor chips.

    Taiwan
    How Taiwan secured semiconductor supremacy – and why it won’t give it up

  • A man wearing a dark jacket looks off to the side

    Analysis
    Musk backs Trump as other social media CEOs shy away from politics

    The X owner, who will ‘fully endorse’ Trump, could set a new precedent for social media leaders
  • Two Arab men carry a crate of fish up a beach, as others wade into the sea to unload the catch from a fishing boat

    Yemen
    DIY artificial reefs are boosting fish numbers in Yemen. But there’s a catch

    Fishers have revived a traditional practice of building ‘scrap’ reefs to attract fish but are using plastic and tyres instead of rocks and branches, and not everyone is happy

Spotlight

  • naturist Anne Nisbet walking naked in the countryside

    Health & wellbeing
    Dance, spend time in nature, and get naked! 17 body confidence tips from people who have it

    A naturist, life drawing model and others on the secret to feeling at home in your skin
  • Caroline Thomas

    Experience
    I’m an 81-year-old crash‑test dummy

  • ‘Altogether masterly’ … Natalie Portman and Mikey Madison in Apple TV+’s Lady in the Lake.

    TV
    Lady in the Lake review – Natalie Portman’s TV debut is absolutely impeccable

    • Captain America: Civil War Year

      Week in geek
      Avenger angels: can the Russo brothers return to rescue Marvel?

    • Montage of sunbed melting

      Sali Hughes on beauty
      Sunbeds increase the risk of skin cancer, whatever TikTok tells you

    • Judge 20th July - WEB

      You be the judge
      My boyfriend funds my lifestyle – should I work for him to pay him back?

    • Aerial view of abbey with village in distance

      Readers' travel tips
      From Normandy to Provence via Alsace: readers’ favourite unsung places in France

Opinion

  • Illustration of Donald Trump with a red crown

    ‘Fight! Fight! Fight!’: Trump emerges as an American messiah with swagger

    Ex-president’s retelling of attempted assassination at Republican national convention turns him into a figure that transcends politics
  • Keir Starmer visit to Teeside<br>Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer (centre left) and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves (left) in the Influence Cafe in Skinnergate, Darlington, during a visit to Teesside to meet local shop keepers, business owners and families, and discuss the cost of living on the first pay day since the Tory tax changes. Picture date: Friday April 26, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Labour. Photo credit should read: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire

    Starmer will bin the two-child benefit cap and outdo New Labour on tackling poverty – I’ll bet on it

    Polly Toynbee
  • 4 July 2024 Michel Forst, UN Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders, is attending the ongoing trial of Roger, Daniel, Cressie, Lucia and Louise today at Southwark Crown Court.

    A record sentence for a Zoom call, arrests for those holding signs outside. This is a blight on British democracy

    George Monbiot
  • The Milano Pride Parade 2024 In Milan, Italy - 29 Jun 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Alessandro Bremec/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock (14565247i) Demonstrators are participating in the Milano Pride Parade 2024 in Milan, Italy, on June 29, 2024 . The Milano Pride Parade 2024 In Milan, Italy - 29 Jun 2024

    My queer friends in Italy are so worn down by discrimination, they don’t notice it. Here’s why

    Viola Di Grado
  • Illustration: Nate Kitch

    Tough on elites, tough on the causes of elites: that’s how Starmer can defeat the allure of populism

    Andy Beckett
  • Are things getting better or worse, quiz 2024 pixie

    First Dog on the Moon
    Do you think things are generally getting better or worse? Are you a Pollyanna or a Misery Kevin?

Sport

  • Shoko Miyata is one of Japan’s most decorated gymnasts

    Olympics
    Japanese gymnastics star Miyata sent home for smoking

  • The Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale team members before the start of the stage.

    Cycling live
    Tour de France – crunch time in Alps for lead contenders on stage 19

    • Tom Daley

      Paris 2024
      Diving back in: Daley returns for one more Olympic adventure

    • Carlos Alcaraz celebrates after winning Wimbledon, Lucy Bronze checks in at Chelsea and Álvaro Morata with the European Championship trophy.

      Quiz of the week
      Test your knowledge on the past seven days in sport

    • N'Golo Kanté battles against Rodri of Spain, during Euro 2024

      Football
      West Ham in talks to bring Kanté back from Saudi Arabia for £20m

    • Travis Kelce enjoys a dad bod day out at the golf.

      Kelce, Fury and the gentle rise of the sporting dad bod

      Andrew Lawrence
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Climate crisis

  • Aerial photo of people standing on the edge of a flooded street as others are carried over the water in the front bucket of a bulldozer

    Weather tracker
    Heavy seasonal rain causes widespread flooding in China

  • A man and a woman look into her destroyed bedroom in a house that is missing its roof

    Caribbean
    Caribbean leaders call for ‘Marshall plan’ to help rebuild after Hurricane Beryl

  • The five defendants smiling in a group pose in a church yard

    UK
    Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block key highway

  • People sitting at a table in front of flags and a green backdrop

    The age of extinction
    Colombia gives assurances over UN biodiversity summit after rebels’ threat

Around the world

  • Jens Stoltenberg talks with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, at a summit.

    Nato
    Stoltenberg assures EU that Nato would survive second Trump presidency

    Secretary general says politicians should build a relationship with the Republican like they did in 2016
  • Screen grab taken from an AFPTV footage shows Itamar Ben-Gvir speaking at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem

    Israel
    Extremist Israeli minister makes provocative visit to al-Aqsa mosque

  • A plume of black smoke rises from a vehicle surrounded by flames at the end of an urban street

    UK
    Police car turned over and vehicles set alight in disorder in Leeds

  • A person leans against a phonebox while facing away from the camera

    Reform UK
    ‘Despair and anger’: minority groups in Reform seats adjust to life after its election success

    • Business live
      Retail sales in Great Britain slump by 1.2%; government borrowing figure for June is lowest since 2019

    • France
      Macron ally wins surprise re-election as national assembly speaker

    • Bangladesh
      Bangladesh imposes communications blackout as protest violence continues

    • New Zealand
      Fears rightwing coalition will unwind NZ gun reforms brought in after Christchurch massacre

    • Ukraine war briefing
      Attack on Russian bases in Crimea

    • Music
      VR show takes ravers old and new back to early UK acid house scene

Culture

  • Portrait of Alan Sparhawk, who wears a dark denim shirt.

    Music
    Low’s Alan Sparhawk on the death of his wife and bandmate Mimi Parker: ‘If you fall in love, you know this could happen’

  • Hungarian Filmmaker Bela Tarr Stars In A Season At The Filmoteca De Catalunya With A Large Part Of His Filmography<br>BARCELONA CATALONIA, SPAIN - JANUARY 09: Filmmaker Bela Tarr poses after giving a press conference at the Filmoteca de Catalunya, January 9, 2024, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. During the press conference, the filmmaker commented on his retrospective at the Filmoteca de Catalunya. Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr stars in a Filmoteca de Catalunya cycle with a large part of his cinematography during the month of January. (Photo By David Zorrakino/Europa Press via Getty Images)

    Film
    ‘My slogan is very simple: no education, just liberation!’ – Béla Tarr on how film can fight the political right in Hungary

  • Falling for an avatar … Ryan Reynolds and Jodie Comer in Free Guy.

    The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    Free Guy to Young Woman and the Sea: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

  • Lorrie Moore.

    The books of my life
    Lorrie Moore: ‘I would never read literature for comfort’

  • The movement is more a cleansing expulsion of emotion … Nangaline Gomis in Close Up.

    Dance
    Close Up review – zoom in on a sporty dance of cool control

  • Designed and built by hand … The Game Bakers placed every single rock, crack and handhold of Cairn.

    Games
    The Dark Souls of climbing games: Cairn leans into the challenge of mountaineering

Lifestyle

  • The Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France

    Travel
    Nice and easy: a leisurely cycle, with dog, along the final stage of the Tour de France

    The riders won’t have time to take in the beauty of Nice’s Promenade des Anglais, but they’re missing two centuries of seaside architectural treasures
  • MUST CREDIT IN FULL AS BELOW!! Including Location&amp; garden/Designer &amp; Photographer...... RHS Bridgewater, the Paradise Garden Designed by Tom Stuart-Smith Photographer Jason Ingram

    Gardens
    From low-growers to bright fountains, ornamental grasses have your garden covered

Take part

  • Banks, airlines and media outlets hit by global outage linked to Windows PCs.

    Tell us: how have you been affected by the outage linked to Windows pcs?

  • ** ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, MARCH 20, 2011 AND THEREAFTER ** FILE - In this Nov. 17, 1973 file picture, army tanks prepare to drive through the gates of the student-occupied Polytechnic Institute in Athens. In 1974, Greece's military regime collapsed and democracy was restored. For almost 40 years, Freedom House think tank's New York researchers have annually assessed the state of democracy and associated freedoms, classifying nations in three categories _ free, partly free or not free. Almost half the world's nations were rated not free in 1972, but by 2010 that proportion had dropped below one-quarter. (AP Photo/File)

    Greece
    Share your memories of the 1974 restoration of Greek democracy

  • 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?

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From our global editions

  • Rieko Hirosawa performs the music of the goze – itinerant blind and visually impaired Japanese women who earned a living playing the shamisen

    Japan
    Playing for survival: the blind Japanese woman keeping a music tradition alive

    Goze – women who earned a living as musicians despite sight impairments – are all but forgotten in Japan but Rieko Hirosawa has learned their songs
  • An older man wearing a blue suit hugs a child as a small group stands around him smiling.

    Analysis
    ‘Make Trump Human Again’ seems to emerge as Republicans’ new theme

  • a person walks across a flooded street

    America's dirty divide
    ‘It is devastating’: unprecedented floods in US strain small businesses

  • three side by side photos. at left: two people looking at a photograph of a woman next to flowers. center: man standing in front of tree. Right: exterior of storefront that says "SOIL"

    Black farmers
    ‘The beginning of Black liberation’: photographs tell the real story of the Mississippi Delta

  • A woman with an 'I voted' sticker on her hand holds a blue sign reading 'Abandon Biden, Ceasefire Now.'

    Michigan
    In Dearborn, home of largest Arab American community, despair and apathy dominate

  • Los Angeles, CA., June 06, 2023: Harmony, 5, wipes a tear from her 12-year-old Brothers cheek, Daron, June 06, 2023, during funeral services for their beloved older brother, Quincy Reese jr., who, at 16, was gunned down while attending a prom party in South Los Angeles earlier this year. FULL CAPTION TO FOLLOW Barbara Davidson/The Guardian

    The Guardian picture essay
    Gun violence is traumatizing LA’s youngest residents. Can a partnership between the police and community help?

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As single women, Lei and Abu are banned from freezing their eggs in China, so they travel to the US to pursue their dreams of motherhood

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    UK
    ‘It’s put so many families in poverty’: people on the impact of the two-child benefit cap

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    Canada
    How ‘magical’ Bentway linear park put Toronto on road to regeneration

  • people watch TV screen at a bar

    Trump rally shooting
    Trump is now a member of the mass shooting survivor’s club – will it change anything?

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    US elections 2024
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Podcasts

Podcasts

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    The Audio Long Read
    ‘How do I heal?’: the long wait for justice after a black man dies in police custody – podcast

  • Charli XCX

    Today in Focus
    The ‘brat’ summer takeover – podcast

  • Close-up image of Rapman in a zipped-up, shiny puffer jacket

    Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph
    Writer-director Rapman on creating Netflix’s global smash hit Supacell – podcast

  • The hands of a woman holding a glass of water and a tray of vitamins

    Science Weekly
    Is there any point in taking multivitamins? – podcast

  • A Ukrainian serviceman and police officers check the documents of a man in Kyiv. A controversial mobilisation law aimed at boosting troop numbers has been introduced which toughens penalties on draft dodgers, incentivises conscription and obliges men to keep their military registration details with the authorities up-to-date. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty

    Today in Focus
    Dodging the draft: one Ukrainian man’s story – podcast

  • King Charles III and Queen Camilla in a carriage

    Politics Weekly UK
    The king’s speech: can Labour keep the optimism going? – podcast

  • Donald Trump and JD Vance laughing, in blue suits

    Politics Weekly America
    JD Vance: who is Donald Trump’s new vice-president? – podcast

In pictures

  • Triptych of Donald Trump supporters

    In pictures
    ‘He’s gonna save America’: Donald Trump supporters give their views at RNC

    Supporters of the presidential nominee dressed up for the final day of the Republican national convention in Milwaukee
  • Timber-framed homes nestling in the rugged countryside of the Isle of Harris, Scotland

    Fantasy house hunt
    Eco homes near the sea for sale in Great Britain

  • A dog sits half on a man's lap and half on a pub table amid a group of people

    The Guardian picture essay
    Crochet, drama and first dates: inside a community pub

  • A seagull

    The week in wildlife
    Warthog drama, a fox at the museum and our rarest whale

  • A couple kiss on the Edge at Hudson Yards observation deck

    Photos of the day
    Trump supporters and a sky-high kiss: photos of the day – Thursday

  • People sitting in a line listening to someone speak wear bandages on their ears

    US
    Trump fans wear bandages on ears to show support – in pictures

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