This Mediterranean island is an excellent year-round holiday destination, with balmy winters and warm summers

Exclusive: Chaos in government meant the travelling public were given false travel advice for three years

The airline said the passenger had been displaying aunruly behavioura on the flight

The latest index reveals the best holiday spots for sustainability and human rights

Easter is just around the corner and so are unbeatable holiday deals, discover how to save big on last-minute getaways

Hamburger Hill, Hue, the Ia Drang Valley, Khe Sanh: Some remember the battles from the headlines, others from movies

From legendary properties to a bevy of new high-end options, Romeas luxury hotel offerings have never been better

Exclusive: The cost of an online application has jumped by APS6 to APS94.50

It can be difficult choosing where to devote time in the spectacular Cotswolds so plan your trip around our favourite towns and villages

Whether you are looking for a hidden gem with untouched sands or an action-packed watersports haven, Tenerife has a beach for every holidaymaker

aWe want to do the right thing and that means acknowledging when we get things wrong and fixing it,a said the airline

As aThe Great Gatsbya turns 100, Ellie Seymour travelled east from Manhattan to the Hamptons a discovering the places that inspired the great American novel

Two extra countries unexpectedly added to the transatlantic journey

The almost 14-hour journey will stop running from 16 May

The 6,200-square-metre aanterooma aims to redirect tourist traffic

Exclusive: Robert Sinclair, CEO of London St Pancras Highspeed, says Milan, Zurich and Bordeaux could appear on the departure screens

The man was also upset that he couldnat sit in the exit row with his baby

St Vincentas profile, originally raised by Johnny Depp, has been boosted with the opening of a new resort

Beijing urges travellers to afully assess the risksa of flying to America

The pilot, caught during a random inspection at Dublin Airport, and has since had their license revoked

Both of the treats feature a sweet sauce mixed into Wendyas signature Frosty

Fisher-Price announced a recall of 253,000 of its stroller toys

The reality star shared in February that her cancer had spread to her lungs and brain

The U.S. company says 80 percent of its toys are manufactured in China

The rapper-singer previously weighed 540 pounds

The new bags will be gobbled up in pastel colors

Munn, who gave birth to a son in 2021, recently welcomed her daughter via surrogate

Cabot Creamery issued a voluntary recall on 1,700 pounds of its butter

A college freshman has criticized the sports analyst for airing a acategorically falsea rumor about her on his show

The former NBA star bought the life-size toy in Las Vegas in November 2024

The company has awarded more than $500 million in prize money since 1953

Watt posted a photo of himself on Instagram holding up two fingers

The deal comes a month after Donatella Versace stepped down as creative director of the Italian fashion house

Kidney damage can affect almost every part of your body

Diet is one of the most powerful ways to boost your cardiovascular health

Breakfast, lunch and dinner is an almost universally accepted trinity - but how did it come about?

The distress caused by poor hearing increases the risk of heart failure, a study has found

New research suggests the tiny shortcuts a hailed as a hallmark of efficient communication a could undermine relationships

For centuries, women have taken part in a laundry list of beauty hacks to meet appearance ideals, many of which have been dangerous, painful and even deadly

TV host said he adrank very, very, very successfully for many yearsa

Black leggings, once relegated to the gym bag and pajama drawer, have undergone a style renaissance

From stress to social isolation - these things are unknowingly harming your heart

BBC Radio 2 presenter underwent a lymphatic drainage massage designed to target afluid retention or menopause symptomsa

This fermented probiotic drink has numerous health benefits, says Emilie Lavinia

Styling a calming space full of colour creates a sense of wellbeing and optimism

Rio Ferdinand joked that the Prince of Wales could take his job as a football pundit as the royal tried his hand at an analysis of Aston Villaas Champions League quarter-final in Paris on Wednesday, 9 April.

The Duchess of Sussexas new podcast is so mired in motivational phrases that itas very nearly incomprehensible. Katie Rosseinsky explores how self-help chatter got totally out of hand

Two different flavors of Texas Pete hot sauce were recalled

The chips were recalled last because they may have contained an undeclared allergen

They shaped Britainas culinary identity a and sacrificed everything to do so. But now, the children of Chinese and Indian restaurateurs face a choice: preserve the legacy, reinvent it or walk away. Hannah Twiggs reports on a defining moment for a fading institution

Company also found that New York City has the most reports of passengers losing their belongings in the car

Kutcher was married to Tallulahas mother Demi Moore from 2005 to 2013

The FSA said item has triggered allergy concern

Kilmeras daughter was the first to acknowledge his cause of death

aDance Momsa star broke down in tears after calling out Rourkeas homophobic comments

After ordering those compensatory damages, the jury will next decide on punitive damages

Even the best actors have their bad days

aBlack Panthera filmmaker Ryan Coogler directs Jordan in two roles in this inventive period thriller

Netflixas hit sci-fi anthology has returned with its long-awaited seventh season, featuring an all-star cast of Rashida Jones, Issa Rae, Tracee Ellis Ross, Awkwafina, Paul Giamatti, Emma Corrin, Cristin Milioti, and more

The bestselling author had two back-to-back surgeries including a full hysterectomy

China had recently considered a complete ban on all American movies in retaliation to Donald Trumpas raising tariffs on Chinese imports

The 51-year-old author has now been released from police custody

Police officers were reportedly pursuing suspects in a hit-and-run when the incident occurred

Pulp have tried their hand at artificial intelligence with their teaser for their first new music in almost 24 years.

It wonat be hard next year for Christopher Nolan to best this flawed reunion between stars Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche

The festival will be opening with a cut of the film director George Lucas originally intended to be shown

aThis is all to make up for Donald Trumpas enormous deficit of attention and love,a Munn quipped

aShe has risen and itas not even Easter,a one person joked

The references reach right back to the showas very first instalment, released on Channel 4 in 2011

Britpop legends will support the album with a summer arena tour concluding in their hometown of Sheffield

Partner of aDance Momsa star called Rourkeas remarks abeyond disgustinga

Viewers are unconvinced about a follow-up to the hit Netflix series

Child influencer Piper Rockelle has broken her silence following Netflixas new documentary Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing,

Some of the worldas most renowned artists return this summer to the spectacular setting of Montreux for the storied musical celebration

American star has spoken out about the mediaas handling of his sexuality

aI canat pretend I wasnat involved,a actor candidly admitted

The actoras bigoted jokes were one of the most shocking reality TV moments in years. Itas unedifying car-crash television that should never have made its way to air, writes Louis Chilton

Featuring star turns from the likes of Rashida Jones, Paul Giamatti and Cristin Milioti, the dark sci-fi still has its moments. But it often feels as if shows like aSeverancea are now making the running

Oscar-winning actor explained why she didnat make the news public

In an interview with aThe Breakfast Cluba podcast, the pop singer opened up about the notorious 2009 song, in which she seemed to take a swipe at one of the biggest artists on the planet

Jojo Siwaas partner Kath Ebbs called out Mickey Rourkeas homophobic comment directed at the Dance Moms star following Wednesdayas (9 April) episode of Celebrity Big Brother.

The US comedy institution is set to make its British debut for first time

New documentary shows the couple during the Seventies as they worked on what would be John Lennonas only full-length post-Beatles concert

Teenager was killed just six weeks after his father asuddenlya died

aLove Islanda star intervened when Rourke directed offensive slur at 21-year-old Siwa

Jojo Siwa broke down in tears after Mickey Rourke made a homophobic comment directed at her on Wednesdayas (9 April) episode of Celebrity Big Brother.

After a seemingly interminable wait, the UK is finally up to date with the sharp, acerbic comedy about an ageing Vegas comedian and her plucky Zoomer joke-writer. More than just a great TV show, however, aHacksa might have something to teach us, reckons Phil Harrison

Toback, who wrote 1991 film aBugsya, was accused of abusing his power in film industry to sexually assault women over four decades

Action star has broken his silence on the accusation

Full list of every single title being taken down in next 30 days

The "chicken jockey" scene could have been even better

A chicken jockey is one of the many Minecraft characters that make an appearance in the new movie

Police have been called to at least one screening to deal with exuberant fans

Family of five and pilot were onboard the helicopter when it crashed into the Hudson River

• Six people dead after helicopter crashes in New Yorkas Hudson River

The spot where the helicopter crashed is less than three miles (4.8km) south of where US Airways Capt Chesley Sullenberger expertly landed the passenger plane he was piloting, on the water, with no lives lost, after the engines were put out in a bird strike after take-off from the airport.

The 2009 rare successful emergency landing on water became known as the miracle on the Hudson. But the scene at the Hudson today is grim, as New York fire department divers emerge from the water.

Exclusive: Racial disparities highlighted as researchers estimate 10 million women have conditions such as fibroids or endometriosis

More than a quarter of women in England are living with a serious reproductive health issue, according to the largest survey of its kind, and experts say asystemic, operational, structural and cultural issuesa prevent women from accessing care.

The survey of 60,000 women across England in 2023, funded by the Department of Health and Social Care and analysed by academics at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, found that 28% of respondents were living with a reproductive morbidity, such as pelvic organ prolapse, uterine fibroids, endometriosis, polycystic ovary syndrome, or cervical, uterine, ovarian or breast cancer.

Government sources say the UK also not given any advance warning of this weekas changes to US tariffs

Keir Starmer has admitted he has still not spoken to Donald Trump since the US president brought in trade tariffs, with government sources saying the UK was not given any advance warning of this weekas changes to US tariffs.

The prime minister defended his decision not to retaliate with tariffs on Thursday, after the UK did not appear to have been rewarded for holding off countermeasures.

In a scarcely credible tale of hubris AndrA(c) Onana was Manchester AUnitedas culprit, committing two howlers that cast the goalkeeper as a mug and Nemanja Matic as a seer.

In the buildup to this match, Matic branded Onana one of Unitedas Apoorest-ever keepers when responding to the 29-year-oldas claim that United were better than Lyon. The tit-for-tat closed with Onanaas dig that he had won trophies at United a unlike Matic in his five years at the club a before a nightmarish evening ended with another error, this time for the hostsa equaliser.

Daughter of Peter and Barbie Reynolds, 79 and 75, says they have ano ideaa why they have been in jail for two months

An elderly British couple taken captive by the Taliban have been interrogated 29 times since they were imprisoned more than two months ago, and still have aabsolutely no ideaa why they have been incarcerated, their daughter has said.

No charges have been brought against Peter Reynolds, 79, and his wife, Barbie, 75, who ran school training programmes and were arrested alongside an American friend, Faye Hall, as they travelled to their home in Bamyan province, in central Afghanistan, in February.

Veteran Tory, who retired as an MP last year, is on list of honours due to be published this week

Michael Gove is among those to be awarded a peerage in Rishi Sunakas resignation honours list.

The veteran Conservative politician and editor of the Spectator, who retired as an MP at the last election, is understood to be on the list due to be published as soon as Friday.

Visit came after prince spent two days at the high court appealing the governmentas decision to strip him of security protection

Prince Harry has visited amputees and wounded military personnel at an orthopaedic clinic in Ukraine, after spending two days at the high court in London appealing against the governmentas decision to strip him of his security protection while he is in the UK.

The prince, 40, met with wounded veterans at the Superhumans Centre in Lviv, which treats and rehabilitates injured military personnel and civilians, including children, affected by the war.

Thirty-five arrests after hundreds of barbershops and other businesses raided in UK money-laundering investigation

Police have frozen bank accounts containing more than APS1m after uncovering cannabis farms and evidence of modern slavery during raids on more than 250 barbershops and other high street businesses.

In a three-week crackdown on high street crime, known as Operation Machinize, the National Crime Agency (NCA) targeted acash-intensivea businesses that it believes are linked to money laundering.

Star was held liable for claims of sexual battery, assault and imprisonment by woman who said she was his assistant

A jury has ordered rapper Soulja Boy to pay $4m to a woman who has accused him of sexual assault during their nearly two-year relationship.

On Thursday, a jury in Santa Monica, California, found the 34-year-old rapper a whose real name is DeAndre Cortez Way a liable for a handful of claims including sexual battery, assault and imprisonment in a lawsuit brought by a woman who said she worked as his assistant. A representative for Way had previously called the case anonsensea.

Campaign group Everyone Hates Elon organised protest with car bound for scrapheap ato create debate about wealth inequalitya

Protective helmets were donned and sledgehammers wielded as Elon Musk critics vented their frustration at the Tesla boss and billionaire by smashing up a disused Tesla bound for the scrapheap.

The public art project was organised by the social media campaign group Everyone Hates Elon. A 2014 Tesla Model S was provided by an anonymous donor ato create a debate about wealth inequalitya, a spokesperson for the group said.

The presidentas U-turn after his maverick plan threatened meltdown has echoes of the 2022 UK crisis

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A maverick economic policy announcement from a self-styled disruptor plunges the countryas currency into freefall and puts rocket boosters behind the cost of government debt, prompting warnings of an economic nuclear winter and forcing a pretty undignified U-turn.

If, on top of general concern, there has been a nagging sense of deja vu in Britain over the past 24 hours, then the ill-fated 49-day reign of Liz Truss as the UK prime minister may well be to blame.

Kelly has been called a traitor for leaving her government job to write about immigration. But, she says, something has to be done about the chaos and injustice

One of the migrants who sticks most in Nicola Kellyas mind is Parwen, an Iraqi Kurdish mother she met in a camp near Dunkirk. Kelly played with Parwenas seven-year-old daughter and heard about how, before one attempt to cross the Channel, French police had fired teargas and nearly hit her four-year-old son. Kelly drove away from the camp, and made the crossing a easy for her, with her British passport a that so many people were risking their lives to make. aI was about to go home to my husband and son, warm and safe in a house, knowing that probably their tents were going to be ripped away from them that night, and theyad have to sleep out in the rain and the mud,a she says. aThereas a guilt attached to that. Itas like, I wish I could do more, help in some way, other than just writing, which never really feels like enough.a

Kellyas book, Anywhere But Here, brings such a human and humane perspective to an issue that is politicised and toxic. At the camp, Parwen wished her a safe journey home and, as she was driving away, Kelly spotted some graffiti on a wall which she took for her bookas title a something an asylum seeker might think as they decide to flee, or while forced to survive in a makeshift camp thousands of miles away, but just as easily something people might think about migrants arriving on these shores, or some politicians who wish the issue would go away.

More than 150 Chinese nationals are fighting for Russia in Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said, recruited via videos on social media

The videos are across Chinese social media. Some are slickly produced Russian propaganda about being atougha men; some sound more like influencer advertisements for a working holiday. Others are cobbled-together screenshots by regular citizens about to leave China. But they all have one thing in common: selling the benefits of becoming a Chinese mercenary for Russia.

On Tuesday, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, announced that two Chinese nationals had been captured in the eastern Donetsk region and accused Moscow of trying to involve China adirectly or indirectlya in the conflict. A day later, he said the men were among at least 155 other Chinese members of Russiaas armed forces. Then again, on Thursday, he accused Russia of conducting asystemic worka in China to recruit fighters.

Age has made me a more fully realized version of myself a I didnat recognize that until returning to the Philippines

Last month, it was my paternal grandmotheras 105th birthday. Itas unlikely that weall have many more chances to visit her, so my husband, daughters and I visited the Philippines to celebrate a my first trip since February 2020.

Despite being born in the US and having lived here since, I still consider the Philippines home. Iave made the journey at least a dozen times, and it always feels like Iam visiting another version of me only accessible in these islands. This iteration of me is always surrounded by babies and cousins, eats all the green and yellow mangoes she wants and understands more of her native language with each passing day. I am overjoyed to be there, filled with so much emotion that it leaks out of my eyeballs constantly.

The Oscar winner plays a soldier turned world leader forced to fight back in Amazonas simple, serviceable star vehicle

Released just three months after the Trump inauguration, the geopolitical action thriller G20 was always going to have unavoidable resonance. While the shoot ended back in March last year, there must have been points during the post-production process when those involved wondered if their film a a rousing story of a Black female president taking charge a would coincide with a similar, albeit less schlocky, real-world victory.

It wasnat to be, and instead the film has landed on Amazon at a far less inspiring time for the US, when a president has decided to destroy rather than save his country. Any links to be made from fiction to fact push Trumpas agenda closer to that of the bad guys, who aim to tank the global economy and stop a perceived US overspend of foreign aid. While there are moments that might unintentionally insist we make the connection (lead villain expressing glee at a horribly familiar red stock market arrow), G20 isnat trying to be The Political Film We Need Right Now, its makers smartly picking brawn over brain.

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The anthemic lead single from the bandas first album in 24 years casts a wary eye over their peak 90s fame a but also suggests that performing is irresistible

aC/ Pulp announce More, their first album since 2001

It seems weirdly fitting that Pulp have premiered their first album in 24 years with a song that appears to fret about the validity of returning at all.

Of all the alt-rock artists hoisted to mainstream fame in the Britpop era, they were the ones who seemed least comfortable with the kind of attention it brought them: a perennially ignored band whoad spent a decade striving to get somewhere, only to find they didnat much like it when they did. Something of the prickly, confrontational outsider clung to them even at the zenith of their success a 1995as quadruple-platinum Different Class is an album packed with waspish, witty ruminations on the British class system a while 1998as This Is Hardcore offered a paranoid and occasionally harrowing examination of their era as celebrities, something its dense, doomy sound also helped to draw to a close.

As a new compilation with unheard material is released, we assess the Cardiff legendas diamonds and deep cuts

Shirley Bassey apparently hated this Bond theme, protesting that the lyrics were nonsensical. She never performed it live. Itas certainly not up to previous standards, but the disco version that accompanies the filmas end credits is worth hearing a better than her attempt to rejig This Is My Life for the 70s dancefloor.

The Bafta-winning actor answers your questions about taking Angelina Jolie to meet his grandmother down the pub, working with Danny Boyle and directing Paul Weller

Your new film, Sinners, sounds scary. What scares you? MrSOBaldrick
Loneliness.

Iave always wanted to act, but Iave�never taken the plunge. Has there been a role where you felt you took�a plunge out of your comfort zone? AliciaGrace1
Getting to portray an American comes with inherent impostor syndrome, because so many other US actors could take the role. The roles Iave played in the US have bigger distinctions from my lived experiences than some of my other roles. But it can be rewarding and fulfilling to do something thatas very different, so it works both�ways.

In this second extract from Frances Ryanas new book, actors, politicians, athletes and models offer their advice on living with physical and mental health conditions

aC/ Read the first extract here

Rosie Jones, comedian
If you have a shot of whisky, and then you have a shot of pickle juice, it tastes exactly like a cheeseburger. Honestly, it does, try it. That, and a| be whoever you want to be. Having a disability is not a disadvantage; itas a different perspective. We all have our strengths and our weaknesses, and sometimes a weakness can become our biggest strength.

Marsha de Cordova, MP
Follow your dreams and pursue your passions, even if youare afraid. Donat let your disability a or anyoneas opinion a hold you back. Find yourself a good mentor and have a plan.

After a tricky few years, the worldas pre-eminent film festival has come roaring back and is set to feature new work by Kelly Reichardt, another Joachim Trier drama starring Renate Reinsve and Cannes icons the Dardenne brothers

The Cannes film festival selection has been unveiled by its director Thierry FrA(c)maux, with all its auteur heavyweights and cineaste silverback gorillas, including new work by Kelly Reichardt, Julia Ducournau, Ari Aster, Wes Anderson, Joachim Trier and Carla SimA3n. Tom Cruiseas final Mission: Impossible movie is showing out of competition; Robert De Niro is getting an honorary Palme daOr a and probably treating audiences to a characteristically tightlipped onstage interview a and Bono arrives at the red carpet for Andrew Dominikas documentary Bono: Stories of Surrender. Actor turned director Scarlett Johansson comes to Cannes with her Eleanor the Great, a quirky New York tale starring veteran player June Squibb.

There is also, of course, an appearance from the Belgian social-realist masters and Cannes icons the Dardenne brothers, whose appearance here with The Young Motheras Home coincides with a mood of sadness, remembering the recent death of their totemic actor Amilie Dequenne, who starred as a teen in their film Rosetta, which won the Palme daOr and best actress award.

Forever running out of juice? Top up your battery-powered devices with our expert picks, from tiny smartphone chargers to portable power banks and even a power hat

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Itas disempowering when your smartphone, laptop or other important gadget runs out of battery. With the flash of a graphic or a plaintive bleep, we lose a way to entertain ourselves, get things done, stay in touch or even get home safely. Thereas a time and a place for a digital detox a but what is the time, and where am I?

Carrying a power bank is your ticket out of electronic oblivion. These pocket-sized cuboids plug into compatible devices and charge them, often via assorted connections, including USB-C and USB-A. Most power banks are made for charging smartphones and smaller gadgets, such as fitness trackers and earbuds, but some models can also charge power-hungrier laptops and large portable speakers.

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There is now little prospect of the growth Labour promised. With Reform nipping at his heels, Starmer must offer protection to the British people

If itas brown, lie down. If itas black, fight back. If itas white, say goodnight.

The rhyme we learned hiking as a family through Yellowstone national park last summer is meant as a cheery reminder of how not to get eaten, if you meet a bear. Brown bears are best appeased by playing dead; black bears need to know this will hurt them more than it hurts you; and luckily there arenat any polar bears in Yellowstone, because nothing deters them.

Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist

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The pups are cute a and great for PR a but theyare modified grey wolves. The real work is being done with their red cousins

Iave been waiting for this. Ever since researchers almost brought a wild goat species back from extinction in 2003, it was only a matter of time until someone came forward and said they had successfully ade-extincteda a species. Now, it has happened.

This week, American biotech company Colossal Biosciences announced it had resurrected the dire wolf, an animal that went extinct at the end of the last ice age. Colossal released a video that invited viewers to aexperience the first dire wolf howls heard in over 10,000 yearsa.

Helen Pilcher is a science writer and the author of Bring Back the King: The New Science of De-Extinction and Life Changing: How Humans are Altering Life on Earth

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Reform and the Tories are rubbing their hands with glee as residents once again pay the price for the disarray of the cityas Labour council

• Kate Knowles is editor of the Birmingham Dispatch

I was recently standing on a picket line at Birminghamas largest waste depot with a case of deja vu. aWe are massively underfunded. It does need changing,a Lee, a bin worker and union rep, told me. But the councilas current offer to end the strike isnat good enough, he said. If it cuts wages the way it wants to, apeople will lose their homesa.

Weave been here before. In 2017, during seven hot and smelly summer weeks, similar interviews were conducted in the same spot and images of sky-high mounds of uncollected rubbish were beamed out of Birmingham. That dispute was almost the same as the one weare living through now: the council wants to get rid of a role that poses a hefty equal pay risk. Essentially, workers in other parts of the council on a similar grade donat get the same pay or perks, which means they can make costly claims for compensation via unions or no-win, no-fee lawyers. Although the problem reared its head eight years ago, it wasnat properly addressed a those strikes ended with essentially the same role in place but under a different name, allowing expensive claims to mount.

Kate Knowles is editor of the Birmingham Dispatch

Absolute free speech is a right enshrined in the law, which is fundamental to British democracy. We must defend it

Knight of the realm and business tycoon Philip Green spends a lot of money on expensive lawyers.

First, he took out an injunction in 2018 to block the media from mentioning him over complaints from his employees at Arcadia Group, overwhelmingly women, about bullying and abusive conduct, behaviour which he categorically denied.

Peter Hain was the Labour MP for Neath from 1991 to 2015 and secretary of state for Northern Ireland from 2005 to 2007

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The bond marketsa ability to intimidate anybody survives intact, but the damage done by policy unpredictability will not be forgotten

• Wall Street opens lower despite hopes that awell advanceda trade talks will yield deals - business live
• China says Trumpas trade war awill end in failurea as Beijing tariffs take effect

A week ago we all asked where Donald Trumpas pain threshold lies when stock markets gagged on their first taste of the presidentas tariff amedicinea. Now we have an answer: it is when selling spills into the US government bond market and there is intense talk of negative feedback loops and financial Armageddon.

aThe bond market is very tricky, I was watching it a| people were getting a little queasy,a said Trump on Wednesday, understating matters wildly as he explained his tariff apausea.

As I discovered then, global problems need international responses. By working together, we can protect jobs and living standards

• This is the first in a two part series on the global response to Donald Trumpas tariffs

No more than a narrow window of opportunity remains if we are to prevent an unnecessary global recession. As China and the US decouple, disruptive trade wars are intensifying and threaten to descend into currency wars; import, export, investment and technology bans; and financial fire sales that will destroy millions of jobs worldwide. It seems barely credible that the world is being brought to its knees by one economy, outside of which live 96% of the population, who produce 84% of the worldas manufactured goods. But even though US officials have previously talked of a tariff policy of aescalate to de-escalatea, Donald Trumpas aim is to force manufacturing back to the US, and his 90-day relaxation of some tariffs does not mean he intends to defuse the crisis.

On Monday, Keir Starmer warned that the world will never be the same again, and reminded us that aattempting to manage crises without fundamental change just leads to managed declinea. He is right. As I learned in the financial crisis of 2008, global problems require globally coordinated solutions. We need a bold, international response that measures up to the scale of the emergency. In the same way that, to his great credit, the prime minister has been building a coalition in defence of Ukraine, we need an economic coalition of the willing: like-minded global leaders who believe that, in an interdependent world, we have to coordinate economic policies across continents if we are to safeguard jobs and living standards.

Iave called the Gaza war a genocide and spoken in favor of sanctions on Israel. I was also in the IDF. I ask the FBI: should you arrest me?

To Kash Patel, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation:

Given recent patterns, the FBI might need to take a hard look at my actions over the years. If Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, Yunseo Chung, Badar Khan Suri and other recent Ice detainees are considered threats to national security, then so am I.

The US president blinked first, but this is just a time-out. The threat to the global economy remains real.

It was Donald Trump who blinked first. Never forget that. China is unlikely to overlook its importance. A week after launching an all-out global trade war, the US president paused significant parts of it for 90 days. Having insisted that he would stick with the random tariffs he imposed on most trading nations, Mr Trump suddenly decreed that he would reduce most of them to 10%. It was a major humiliation.

Yet 10% is still a significant tariff to bear for nations exporting to the US. This is also only a pause until July, not a withdrawal, so the uncertainty remains. And huge tariffs still remain on China (now hiked to 145%), Canada and Mexico (both 25%), as well as on all US imports of steel, aluminium and cars (also 25%). Mr�Trump is now substituting a US-world conflict with a US-China one. The two largest economies in the world a which between them have generated around half of global economic growth in the 21st century a are, in effect, no longer doing business with each other.

As crisis deepens at Scunthorpe, ministers must act to protect UK steelmaking, secure jobs and lead a credible green transition

As John Lennon sang, life is what happens while youare busy making other plans. His lyric must be ringing in ministersa ears this week. The UKas last two blast furnaces a the final embers of a 160-year industrial legacy a may go cold within weeks. British�Steel, which is owned by Chinaas Jingye, has reportedly cancelled raw material orders while seeking more government cash. The Scunthorpe site, which supplies 95% of Britainas rail tracks and supports thousands of jobs, is now running on fumes.

The UK government has a strategy. A consultation. A council. And APS2.5bn a eventually. But this crisis demands more than paralysis by analysis. With a global trade war brewing, this is no time to lose industrial sovereignty. The government ought to take the advice of the business select committee chair, Liam Byrne, and nationalise British Steel a because it offers a clear way forward. Keep the furnaces hot. Buy time. Launch a green steel transition a with public oversight, investment in new technologies and workforce planning.

Readers on why they believe the US presidentas tariff war could benefit the world economic order and the UK

Although environmental considerations will not have been a motivation for Donald Trump, it is worth examining whether a comprehensive revision of global trade tariffs a notwithstanding the significant transitional economic and human costs a could generate substantial environmental benefits (Hereas one key thing you should know about Trumpas shock to the world economy: it could work, 7 April).

The prevailing model of liberalised global trade facilitates the transoceanic movement of consumer goods, often to countries that possess the capacity to manufacture equivalent products domestically. The associated carbon emissions from maritime and air transport are considerable, particularly given the volume of low-cost, frequently low-durability goods entering developed markets.

Ilyas Nagdee of Amnesty International and others respond to government plans to use personal data to identify people most likely to become killers

Re your article (aDystopiana tool aims to predict murder, 9 April), the collection and automation of data has repeatedly led to the targeting of racialised and low-income communities, and must come to an end. This has been found by both Amnesty International in our Automated Racism report and by Statewatch in its findings on the amurder predictiona tool.

For many years, successive governments have invested in data-driven and data-based systems, stating they will increase public safety a yet individual police forces and Home Office evaluations have found no compelling evidence that these systems have had any impact on reducing crime.

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Noah Kent qualified for this yearas Tournament by finishing runner-up at the US Amateur. One of five amateurs in this yearas field a along with US Amateur champion Jose Luis Ballester, NCAA individual title winner Hiroshi Tai, US Mid-Am champ Evan Beck and Latin American Amateur winner Justin Hastings a heas made back-to-back birdies at 3 and 4, and like Davis Riley before him, can now always say he once led the Masters. A fast start for Wolverhamptonas Aaron Rai on debut, too, with birdies at 2 and 3. Rai has yet to make a serious impression on any of the majors, but he broke his PGA Tour duck last year at the Wyndham, formerly the Greater Greensboro Open, so knows what it takes to enter the winners circle. Sandy Lyleas first victory in the USA was at the Greater Greensboro, incidentally, for anyone interested in extremely tenuous omens.

-2: Z Johnson (5), Kirk (5), Kent -a- (4), Rai (3)

Hope is still not lost for Ange Postecoglou even if, on another night, the Tottenham manager might have been celebrating a wonder-goal from the outstanding Lucas Bergvall as his side looked forward to next weekas second leg in Germany with a healthy advantage.

But itas a reflection of how things have been going for Postecoglou that somehow Spurs didnat manage to win this game after conceding an early goal to the in-demand Hugo EkitikA(c). Despite Bergvallas best efforts as the 19-year-old covered every blade of grass for the cause in a performance that belied his age, they could not build on Pedro Porroas improvised backheeled equaliser as Eintracht Frankfurt held on for a draw that will probably make them favourites to progress to the semi-finals. Yet after all the bitterness of recent weeks, at least this was a positive performance from Tottenham that maintains their manageras hopes of ending the season with silverware and perhaps keeping his job.

VAR might have its critics but it certainly creates drama. Within a quarter of an hour a review had led to the Rangers defender Robin PrAPpper being dismissed, while in the second half Athletic Bilbao had a goal disallowed only to be awarded a penalty, in the same sequence of events, that was then saved. The end result was a goalless draw for Rangers to take to the Basque Country next week and the hope they can return for the Europa League final.

The red card sharpened the Rangers minds as they fought to stay in the tie. They twice thought that had been snatched away when first Alex Berenguer fired in from an offside position before failing to redeem the situation from the spot.

Anne Keothavong is without Emma Raducanu but has plenty of talent on hand in effort to reach finals in China

Five months on from the heartbreak of MA!laga, where they came so close to battling for the Billie Jean King Cup trophy before succumbing to Slovakia in a brutal semi-final, Great Britain will begin their pursuit of their sportas flagship team competition as they face Germany on Friday and the Netherlands on Saturday in The Hague for a spot in the finals.

They will attempt to do so without Emma Raducanu, a key figure in the teamas recent success. Last year, she led them to the finals in MA!laga with two-high quality victories against France on clay. She ended 2024 with five wins and no defeats in the competition.

Tyrique George scored his first AChelsea goal as Enzo Marescaas side eased past Legia Warsaw to take a commanding lead into the second leg of their Europa Conference League quarter-final.

Next weekas return at Stamford Bridge should be little more than a formality and it would take an almighty collapse for Chelsea not to reach the last four from here, after three second-half goals helped purge the memory of another uninspiring first period.

The 26-year-old discusses his epic triple century and the awowa moment of making Somerset history last weekend

Not content with plundering a club-record 371 for Somerset to start the season, Tom Banton followed it up a couple of days later by nailing his first albatross on the golf course. Given the way England operate these days, taming the 7th hole at Minehead may have impressed Brendon McCullum more. It is Masters week, after all.

Either way, Banton is on the rise, his cross-format form glowing and culminating in that epic at home to Worcestershire. Having never before faced 200 balls in a first-class match, the 26-year-old stitched together 403 at the crease, slotting 56 fours and two sixes, and marching past Graeme Smith (311), Jimmy Cook (313no), Viv Richards (322) and Justin Langer (315 and 342) to sit top of the leaderboard at Taunton.

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Kylian MbappA(c)as legal team are going on the attack with multiple lawsuits to try to resolve the legal dispute between the World Cup winner andhis former club Paris Saint-Germain.

The France striker argues PSG owe him a!55m (APS47.5m) in unpaid wages and bonuses, and his lawyers say they have asked the Paris court to start proceedings. Thomas Clay, one of the forwardas legal experts, said MbappA(c) had been authorised to make a precautionary seizure of the money, which was frozen from PSGas bank accounts on Thursday. A legal hearing is scheduled for 26 May, he said.

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The FIA has been rocked by another executive resignation with a very senior figure joining the chorus of dissatisfaction directed at how Formula Oneas governing body is run and the organisationas president, Mohammed Ben Sulayem.

On Thursday, the FIAas deputy president for sport, Robert Reid, announced his resignation citing what he called aa fundamental breakdown in governance standardsa and acritical decisions being made without due processa.

Global research reveals most of 400m tonnes produced using fossil fuels, predominantly coal or oil

Less than 10% of the plastic produced around the world is made from recycled material, according to the first detailed global analysis of its life cycle.

The research reveals that most plastic is made from fossil fuels, predominantly coal and oil, despite rhetoric by producers, supermarkets and drinks companies about plastic being recycled.

Dutch group Follow This says it will not file any resolutions against oil and gas companies this AGM season

A green shareholder activist group has decided to apausea its work pushing oil companies to reduce their emissions amid a growing investor backlash against climate action.

Follow This has confirmed that it will not file any climate resolutions against oil and gas companies during the forthcoming AGM season for the first time since 2016.

Reform UK leader has ano intentiona of agreeing to formal pacts after local elections in England on 1 May

Nigel Farage has rebuffed a suggestion from Kemi Badenoch that Conservative and Reform UK councillors could form coalitions in town halls after the local elections.

Badenoch had opened the door to Tory and Reform councillors entering formal agreements to administer local authorities if it was aright for the people in their local areaa.

Douglas Alexanderas unpublicised trip to talk with counterparts coincides with that of Adm Sir Tony Radakin

A trade minister has travelled to China for an unpublicised visit this week at the same time as the head of the British military, the Guardian has learned.

Douglas Alexander, the minister for trade policy and economic security, is paying a visit to Beijing this week for talks with Chinese counterparts. He is also due to visit Hainan and Hong Kong.

Philippa Baskwill, who worked on child protection, found to have weighed down laptop keys with phone

A detective working on child protection, who was found to have weighed down the keys on her laptop to give the impression she was working at home, has been sacked without notice for gross misconduct after a disciplinary hearing.

Suspicions were raised when keystroke data a the record of the number of times the keys had been struck on the keyboard a revealed DC Philippa Baskwill had pressed the keys on her laptop nearly 3 million times in a single month a compared with the 80,000 to 200,000 average of her colleagues, the hearing was told.

Exclusive: Cap on payments for patients removed from lists scrapped amid warnings about waits for cancer care

Hospitals in England are being offered unlimited bonus payments to remove people they decide do not need treatment from their waiting lists amid warnings that thousands of patients most in need are still facing unacceptable delays.

The waiting list for hospital treatment fell for the sixth month in a row in February, according to data published on Thursday.

Unite, the union representing the workers, has called the governmentas approach during the strike aa disgracea

Bin workers will be balloted on a new deal to end the strike in Birmingham, although Unite has attacked the government and councilas approach to the dispute as a adisgracea.

Unite, whose bin worker members in the city have been on strike since last month, criticised the government for aconstant attacks and briefings against these low-paid bin workersa, which it called afrankly a disgracea.

Steve Wright says internal inquiries uncovered dozens of cases where members had used racist slurs or stereotypes

Trade unions are becoming increasingly concerned by a rise in aracist and bigoteda comments online from their own members and officials, the new leader of the Fire Brigades Union has told the Guardian.

Steve Wright, the general secretary of the FBU, said internal inquiries into allegations of racism have uncovered dozens of cases where members have been found to use racist slurs or stereotypes, often regarding asylum seekers.

US originalas creator Lorne Michaels to be executive producer of show that is due to premiere in 2026

Over the last 50 years, Saturday Night Live has become a cornerstone of US television and a conveyor belt for new comedy talent, attracting A-list cameos and launching careers. British TV executives are now hoping it can bring some of that lustre across the Atlantic in a deal to bring the show to the UK for the first time.

After numerous failed attempts to recreate the late-night comedy format that has proved so successful in the US, Sky has announced it is making a British version of the show to premiere next year. Crucially, the showas original creator and champion, Lorne Michaels, will be an executive producer.

Exclusive: Ahmad Mamdouh Al Ibrahim had been aout making friendsa when he was stabbed in the town centre

A teenage Syrian refugee who was stabbed to death in Huddersfield last Thursday had lived in the town for only two weeks before the attack and was out making friends on the day he was killed, his family has said.

Ahmad Mamdouh Al Ibrahim, 16, was stabbed in the neck in the town centre a the second time he had been there a while being shown around by his cousin, his uncle told the Guardian.

Claims by four women are filed at high court, including of rape, coercive control and assault and battery

Andrew Tate told a woman he was adebating whether to rape you or nota before he strangled and forced himself upon her, according to one of four women suing the self-proclaimed misogynistic influencer.

He is also accused of whispering agood girla as he raped a woman he employed at his webcam business whom he had separately threatened with a gun, and strangling another so often that she developed spots from burst capillaries around her eyes.

Bank is largest UK lender to cut rates in apparent response to turbulence, and experts predict others will follow

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Barclays has become the largest UK lender so far to cut its mortgage rates in apparent response to the financial turmoil sparked by the US trade tariffs, with some deals now priced at below 4%.

It is the first abig sixa lender to enter the sub-4% fixed-rate market after similar announcements by some smaller lenders earlier this week, leaving brokers wondering whether this was a one-off move or the start of a new home loans price war.

Multitrillion-dollar resolution unlocks path to deliver Trumpas sweeping tax cut and immigration plan

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The House Republican speaker, Mike Johnson, muscled through a multitrillion-dollar budget framework that paves the way for Donald Trumpas abig, beautiful billa, a day after a rightwing rebellion threatened to sink it.

The resolution passed in a 216-214 vote, with just two Republicans a fiscal conservatives Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Victoria Spartz of Indiana a joining all Democrats in opposition.

Laurent Vinatier was sentenced to three years in prison in October for violating Russiaas aforeign agenta law

A French researcher who was sentenced by Russia to three years in prison, in a case condemned by Paris, has been transferred to a transit penal colony.

Laurent Vinatier is one of several westerners jailed by Moscow since it began its Ukraine offensive. He was sentenced in October after being found guilty of violating Russiaas aforeign agenta law.

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aWe are going to know by September,a Kennedy declared at a Trump Cabinet meeting.

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aI work construction and am very very hard on wristwatches,a wrote one reviewer. aThis watch is worth every penny.a

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"Trump knows exactly what he"s doing."

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A library was set up on the set of The Pitt so the actors could read in between takes since cell phones were discouraged on set.

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The Hacks stars revealed which hilarious cast member would be their emergency contact, and it makes total sense.

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"He"s running the country like Regina George."

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"More artists need to have this same level of self-awareness. Not everyone can perform FOR the superbowl, and that"s okay!"

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This lower-waste cleaning alternative is reusable and can save you trips to the store.

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They belong in a museum.

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Tony Hawk: "I have taken care of a few celebs, but he is definitely the best."

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The combined power of Zendaya, Law Roach, and a wedding dress...

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Truly warm weather is almost here a I can feel it! And once it hits, I"m spending every possible second outside.

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Kris laughed while a horrified-looking KhloA(c) reacted to reports that Lamar would be able to do awhatever he wantsa asexuallya with the lookalike blow-up doll.

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The Oscar nominee was accused of making a "homophobic" comment by fellow housemate Jojo Siwa.

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"I"ve been using this product for about a month now. And I can say we are in a committed relationship. It"s official; I"m in love." aa reviewer of this all-purpose after-shower oil

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Ashton has talked about making a aconscious effort to stay in toucha with Demias three daughters, who he helped raise athrough their adolescence.a

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I double-dog dare you to not find something on this list that is so cute, you can feel your serotonin levels rising.

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"My entire family could not be part of this anymore. The hypocrisy was palpable."

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This flower-shaped pill organizer *just* might be enough to make you feel like a youngin" again.

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If you don"t recognize Regina"s entire Mean Girls wardrobe, what were you even doing in the 2000s?

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I cannot believe Dr. Mel King"s dad is THE Walter White.

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