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Starting with the unexpected scramble for the European parliament and ending with the byelection buildup in Peterborough, John Harris and John Domokos go on a mammoth road trip into the new reality: politics changed forever by the internet, and voters who want direct control
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Denied an affordable cure, a group of patients took matters into their own hands and defied the US pharmaceutical company that holds the patent
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Rakbar, a Muslim farmer, was murdered by a Hindu mob who thought he was taking a cow to be killed for meat. The hate machinery of rightwing Hindu nationalists works overtime to legitimise the killing. Set in a remote village in India, The Hour of Lynching sheds light on a global problem: communities turning on ‘the other’ – sometimes with extreme violence -
As Britain’s biggest nuclear power plant rises next door, Sam, 11, dreams of protecting the fish he identifies with, and is forced to decide what kind of person he wants to be -
Steubenville, Ohio, was once best known for high school sports and as the birthplace of Dean Martin. But when a teenage girl was sexually assaulted by two members of the football team, the shadowy hacker group Anonymous caught wind of the story and decided to intervene -
To date at least 20 British nationals, some with no previous experience of combat, have travelled to Syria to fight Isis on the frontline. Eight of these Brits have lost their lives. This film follows the journeys of parents as they investigate why their children went out to joining the Kurdish army in their fight against Isis, including visiting the places they died in Syria. What led these young Brits to risk everything, travelling thousands of miles from home to wage war against the world’s most feared terrorist organisation, fighting someone else’s war?
Spotlight
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The Guardian heads to Andalucía in Spain to find out why this socialist stronghold of 40 years is turning to the far-right
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Ivan Golunov remains under house arrest pending trial on drug charges which he says have been fabricated
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Barty is the first Australian women to win the French Open since Margaret Court in 1973
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Dominic Thiem beat the Novak Djokovic in a wind-whipped and rain-interrupted semi-final that spanned more than four hours over two days
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The Duchess of Sussex made her first public appearance since giving birth to her son, Archie, when she joined other members of the royal family to mark the Queen’s official birthday
Explainers
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Cyclists can be a nuisance, running red lights, riding on the pavement ... but are they dangerous, and if not, is it a problem if they break the law?
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Undercover footage appears to show the far-right vice-chancellor, Heinz-Christian Strache, promising contracts in exchange for campaign support, prompting him to resign
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Australia’s political landscape is scarred by bureaucratic mismanagement and political indifference but a UN report is urging governments make urgent, transformative change to curb mass biodiversity and ecosystem loss
Sport
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Rafael Nadal has won all but three French Open tournaments since 2005 – and now stands just two grand slams short of Roger Federer’s all-time record of 20
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The win caps off a phenomenal turnaround since returning to tennis in 2016 - with a ranking of 623.
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Joshua refused to make any excuses for his defeat and has vowed to win back the heavyweight titles he lost to the Ruiz Jr in New York
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Konta breezed past Stephens 6-1 6-4 to become the first British woman to reach the last four at Roland Garros since Jo Durie in 1983
Technology
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Internet’s most famous cat, with a face that launched a thousand gifs, has died in Arizona aged seven
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The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, has invoked Margaret Thatcher as he appealed to the Conservative right to take a firmer line with China, again urging the UK to resist efforts by Huawei to gain access to Britain's new 5G network
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What a year it's been for the Facebook founder. There was that unforgettable Senate hearing, that huge data scandal and, oh yes, those 2 million Europeans who left the site
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The Tesla founder unveils his latest visionary project – a tunnel beneath LA that his Boring Company says will revolutionise urban transport
Interviews
Culture
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Musician says Brexit has made him ashamed of the UK, as he tells fans: 'I am a European. I am not a stupid, colonial, imperialist English idiot'
Life & style
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Lady Gaga wore multiple outfits, which she slowly revealed as she walked the pink carpet of the 71st annual Met Ball in New York. This year’s theme ‘Camp: Notes on Fashion’ saw A-listers exploring ‘how irony, humour, parody, pastiche, artifice, theatricality and exaggeration are expressed in fashion’.
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Guardian reporter Leah Green finds out why it is so difficult to conquer insomnia, and why good treatment is so hard to come by
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As a group of animal rights protesters roast a very realistic fake dog on the streets of Sydney, butchers in France are attacked and campaigners in the UK hold noisy protests in supermarkets and restaurants, we look at whether vegan protests have become too extreme
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Do vegan and dairy-free icecreams taste as good as the originals? Our panel decides
