The Fall Guy to Megalopolis: is 2024 the year of the box-office megaflop?
Last year’s Barbenheimer was hailed as saving cinema. Now takings are down and even franchises are falling flat. Can Hollywood manoeuvre itself out of this disaster zone?
Protesters, pop stars and pioneers
38 images that changed the way we see women (for better and for worse)
‘It felt like a historic moment’
The Hollywood strikes one year on
Elon Musk
How a smear campaign against NPR led billionaire to feud with Signal
'I've never seen so many gringos'
Fans queue round the block as tiny Mexican taco stand wins Michelin star
Ally of late activist says he will ‘never give up’ in fight against Putin
Georgia
President vetoes ‘foreign influence’ law
Germany
Eight climate activists arrested in over airport protest
Afghanistan
Fresh floods kill at least 60 after heavy rain brings devastation
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The Stakes - US Election
At least once a week
What’s really at risk in the 2024 election? Adam Gabbatt cuts through the clutter and guides you through the biggest stories, questions and curiosities in this hugely consequential election. We’ll focus on the stakes – not the odds.
Trump on Trial
Weekly, and more frequent editions during trial
Stay up to date on all of Donald Trump’s trials.
Guardian staff will send weekly updates each Wednesday – and more frequent editions during trial
Well Actually
Weekly
Practical advice, expert insights and answers to your questions about how to live a good life
Podcasts
Podcasts
Weekend
Marina Hyde on Russell Brand’s baptism; plus ‘deepfake’ cheerleaders: the woman wrongly accused over a viral video – podcast
The Audio Long Read
‘Super cute please like’: the unstoppable rise of Shein – podcast
Today in Focus
The children of the contaminated blood scandal
Football Weekly
The Premier League’s fight for Europe and Celtic’s title – Football Weekly Extra
Science Weekly
Apps and algorithms: can dating be boiled down to a science? – podcast
Today in Focus
What keeps the world’s top climate scientists up at night?
Politics Weekly America
Donald Trump comes face to face with former fixer Michael Cohen
Cannes 2024 week one roundup – the jury’s out, the sun isn’t …
The weather didn’t play ball, but Magnus von Horn’s fierce fairytale and Andrea Arnold’s kitchen-sink take on English mysticism should count among the first-week highlights for Greta Gerwig’s jury
Student work at New York’s International Center of Photography
These images highlighting themes of climate resilience, personal trauma and identity are part of an exhibition of the work of students from more than 25 different countries
Mesmerising microbe
Bacteria as you’ve never seen them before
‘I hope people wonder what the man is doing’
Carla Vermeend’s best phone picture
Girls’ night
The teenage ritual of preparing to go out
The Cannes red carpet so far
From Naomi Campbell in 90s Chanel to Anya Taylor-Joy in Dior
War in Gaza, the Russian offensive in Kharkiv, protests in Georgia
The week around the world in 20 pictures
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