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    Where does the world’s biggest museum go from here?

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  • Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    My best friend’s ex is turning my partner against her

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  • Sanam Vakil
    The Islamic Republic cannot survive unchanged

    Sanam Vakil

  • The moment I knew
    Her little witch’s hat won my heart

    Jessie and comedian Steph Tisdell on Christmas Day, 2025.

  • Analysis
    Trump vies for crown for worst foreign policy decision in history

    Donald Trump on tarmac with hat that says USA, raising power fist
  • Man with USA cap on sits at table listening to other man

    Attack plan
    Inside Trump’s decision to attack Iran: ‘a window of opportunity’

  • The remains of a car in the aftermath of the Israel and US strike on a building in Tehran

    War on Iran
    How the US-Israeli bid for regime change unfolded

  • Firemen and rescue workers inspect the site of an explosion at the Fairmont the Palm Hotel in Dubai.

    Middle East
    Explosions rock Dubai, Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait as war spreads across Middle East

  • People in Iran gather around the remains of a burnt-out building

    Iran
    ‘The most bitter news’: Iran reels as more than 100 children reportedly killed in school bombing

Iran in depth

  • Emergency workers in the background behind the charred remains of a car

    Military analysis
    With few good strategic options, Iran’s best prospect may be to retaliate while it can

  • What the papers say composite featuring The Sunday Telegraph, The Sunday Times, Mirror, The Sun and Sunday Express

    Media
    ‘Middle East in flames’: what the papers say about the war on Iran

  • Man in black turban with white beard waving in front of blue curtain

    Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
    The rise and fall of Iran’s ruthless and pragmatic Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

  • Smoke billows on horizon with buildings in foreground

    Explained
    A visual guide to US-Israeli strikes on Iran – and Tehran’s response

News

  • Information on flights are displayed on a screen at Tribhuvan International Airport after all evening flights to Sharjah, Doha, Dubai, Kuwait City, Abu Dhabi, and Dammam were cancelled, following strikes on Iran launched by the United States and Israel

    US-Israel war on Iran
    Hundreds of thousands of travellers stranded or diverted amid air space closures in Middle East

    Chaos as key transit hubs in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Doha close, and more than 1,000 flights by major Middle Eastern airlines cancelled
  • Mondello beach in Palermo, Sicily, is famed for its turquoise waters, sandy shores, and picturesque backdrop.

    Italy
    Sicily revokes century-old Mondello beach concession over mafia links

    Regional authorities withdraw permit after citing risk of organised crime infiltration linked to a subcontractor
  • Carlo Soracchi standing on a street in Venice

    UK
    Undercover officer allegedly used public money for romantic break in Venice

  • People help a small child on board an inflatable boat in the Channel

    Asylum
    Deaths of 22 children in Channel due to ‘catastrophic failure’ by UK and France, NGO says

The Sunday read

  • Graphic of Mona Lisa looking tired and grumpy and wearing a damaged crown

    The Sunday read
    An ugly year for the Louvre: where does the world’s biggest museum go from here?

    After a heist and the departure of its boss, the French institution wrestles with water leaks, strikes and much-criticised plans for a €1bn renovation

In focus

  • Donald Trump on tarmac with hat that says USA, raising power fist

    The US politics sketch
    Trump vies for Bush’s crown for worst foreign policy decision in history

    The US president upended half a century of US foreign policy in an eight-minute video with another attempt at Middle Eastern regime change
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    Turkey
    ‘I live in constant fear’: surge in giant sinkholes threatens Turkey’s farmers

Features

  • Actor Christina Applegate in long dress, standing outside the door of an old house, lamps on either side of her

    Books
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    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    My best friend’s ex is turning my partner against her. How can we heal our friendship group?

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  • Rachel Dixon at a ‘dusking’ session in the North York Moors

    Life and style
    ‘All you need is a chair and a view’: could daily ‘dusking’ make us healthier and happier?

  • Jessie and comedian Steph Tisdell on Christmas Day, 2025.

    The moment I knew
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  • Rebecca Coxon sitting at a light-coloured table in a white-walled cafe, wearing a baggy, white jumper with blue stripes and black taRebecca Coxon sitting at a light-coloured table in a white-walled cafe, wearing a baggy, white jumper with blue stripes and tight, black trousers, her hands clasped and her left arm leaning on the tableousers, her hands clasped and her left arm leaning on the table

    Family
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  • Foregone conclusion … Olivia Dean wins four awards at this year’s Brits.

    This year’s Brit awards found a flicker of chaos – but the winners were never in doubt

    Alexis Petridis
  • A man in a brown baggie beanie and black short-sleeved shirt laughing.

    Honest playlist
    ‘By 18 I was having sex to the music of Brian Eno’: Tim Booth’s honest playlist

  • Women wearing Dolce & Gabbana designs in black, white and grey walk along the catwalk

    Milan fashion week
    Dolce & Gabbana reaffirms brand’s identity with achromatics in Milan

More sport

  • Mathieu van der Poel celebrates victory in the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad

    Cycling
    Mighty Van der Poel powers to victory in Omloop Het Nieuwsblad

  • Gianluca Prestianni hides his mouth while arguing with Real Madrid's Vinicius Junior.

    Football
    Football’s rulemakers to launch review of VAR and plan for ‘Vinícius Law’

  • Alexis Mac Allister (left) with his teammate Hugo Ekitiké after putting Liverpool 3-0 ahead

    Football
    Liverpool’s five-star display heaps more pressure on wobbling West Ham

  • Thierno Barry (left) joins in the celebrations after his winning goal at Newcastle.

    Football
    Barry and Pickford stun Newcastle to extend Everton’s fine away form

  • Sanam Vakil

    Iran may yet endure this war, but the Islamic Republic as we have known it cannot survive unchanged

    Sanam Vakil
    The regime may now have to meet Trump’s demands merely to save itself. And he needs a coherent plan to deal with what he has unleashed, says Sanam Vakil of Chatham House

  • Trump promised no wars. Now he’s a Bush-style regime change president

    Mohamad Bazzi
    The America First president who built his political brand on opposing foreign military adventures has unleashed a war of choice aimed at regime change

More opinion

  • Sadiq Khan

    Labour must stop channelling Reform and unite with progressives. That’s the lesson from Gorton and Denton

    Sadiq Khan
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Why in the world is Melania Trump leading a UN security council meeting?

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Simon Tisdall

    A world on edge as Trump bombs Iran and triggers war in the Middle East. There was no need for this

    Simon Tisdall
  • Devi Sridhar

    I’ve seen some bizarre exercises online. If I were an influencer, this is the one workout I’d recommend

    Devi Sridhar

  • The Guardian view
    Trump’s war on science: Europe should pick up talent fleeing the US

  • The Guardian view
    Gorton and Denton: a warning shot across Labour’s bows

  • Martin Rowson on the Greens’ victory in Gorton and Denton – cartoon

    Martin Rowson
    The Greens’ victory in Gorton and Denton

    The Green party has pulled off a landmark victory in the Gorton and Denton byelection in a significant blow to Keir Starmer

More top stories

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    Greece
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  • Man with a dog, a mother and son, and a man on his mobile phone shelter in an underground car park

    Israel
    ‘This is round two’: attacks on Iran have broad support among unsurprised Israelis

  • A man in a baseball cap holds up his right pinky.

    Genitalia
    US man issues challenge to disprove his claim of having world’s smallest penis to raise micropenis awareness

  • A poster featuring Grace Jones and the words Le Palace

    Paris
    ‘Crazy, without limits’: Paris disco haunt of Jagger and Grace Jones to reopen

  • The head of a lizard with orange speckles on its throat

    Italy
    ‘Who’d guess they’re the same species?’ What Italy’s wall lizards reveal about genetic diversity and why it matters

  • Pedestrians are reflected in a puddle of melting snow

    US weather
    Winter getting shorter in 80% of major US cities, new data shows

  • Men walk in a line while linking arms

    Environment
    ‘The river won’: how campaigners in Brazilian Amazon stopped privatisation of waterway

  • European Lynx (Lynx lynx) adult female in winter birch forest, Bardu, Norway

    Scotland
    Lynx could return to Scotland – but can rewilders win over wary Highlanders?

  • Exclusive
    Thousands of pollution incidents in England downgraded without site visit, data suggests

  • Politics
    Labour must cease taking progressive voters for granted, says Sadiq Khan

  • Politics
    Shabana Mahmood’s double down on immigration ‘disappointing’, says Alf Dubs

  • London
    ‘A temple of food’: London’s grande dame Simpson’s in the Strand rises again

  • Cuba
    Caribbean countries pledge humanitarian support for Cuba amid rising tensions with US

  • Ukraine
    ‘A woman screams from a high balcony: “Help me! I’m freezing to death!”’ – novelist James Meek returns to Kyiv

  • US news
    Son of rapper Lil Jon drowned after ingesting hallucinogenic mushrooms

  • Thailand
    Why Bangkok police make arrests in disguise

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    Music
    Hard work, romance and bell hooks: how Olivia Dean became British pop’s newest megastar

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    Celebrity crib sheet
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    Film
    Baz Luhrmann: ‘There’s the image of Elvis and then there’s the man’

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    The watcher
    DTF St Louis: this David Harbour whodunnit about dating apps and infidelity is close to the bone

  • All The Empty Rooms. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2025. Jackie Cazares, 9 years old, was one of 19 children and two teachers killed in the Robb Elementary School shooting on May 24, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas.

    Film
    ‘I’ve never been so frightened’: the veteran reporter who turned his lens on the empty bedrooms of school shooting victims

  • Marisa Abela in Industry

    Television
    Growing pains: Industry has shown that bigger isn’t always better

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  • Dave Mullins has a new podcast out called 'After Cult', where he speaks to people who have been in cults with empathy and understanding. He comes from the position of having been in a cult himself. Sydney Australia. 17 February 2026. Photo Jessica Hromas

    Podcasts
    A cult survivor looks back at his lost years

  • Neil Sedaka in 1984.

    Neil Sedaka
    From Amarillo to Stockport: 15 of Neil Sedaka’s greatest songs, and their extraordinary stories

  • Glaringly obvious … Bruno Mars.

    Music
    Bruno Mars: The Romantic review – you’re better off listening to the songs he’s blatantly imitating

  • Tomeka Reid wearing a blue striped top with her black cello

    Jazz album of the month
    Tomeka Reid: Dance! Skip! Hop! review – an early contender for jazz album of the year

What to read

  • Author Asako Yuzuki at Gotokuji Temple in Tokyo, Japan.

    Books
    Butter author Asako Yuzuki: ‘I’m very far from the ideal Japanese woman’

  • Covers of All the Hollow of the Sky, All Fours and Untouchable.

    Books
    What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in February

  • Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra in the 1963 film, directed by Joseph L Mankiewicz.

    Books
    Scholar, seductress, alchemist: who was the real Cleopatra?

  • Wistman’s Wood in Dartmoor, Devon.

    Books
    Ancient by Luke Barley review – the secret history of Britain’s woodlands

What to play

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    Games
    Speed Dates is no feeble full-motion video game – it’s a bold art film, subtitles and all

  • Leon Kennedy in Resident Evil Requiem.

    Games
    Resident Evil Requiem review - there’s plenty of life in the undead yet

  • Out with the old … Sarah Bond (left) and Phil Spencer (centre) are leaving, while Matt Booty (right) gets a promotion.

    Pushing Buttons
    Why Xbox’s corporate shake-up matters for everyone who plays games

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    Games
    Pieced Together review – poignant narrative game gathers bittersweet fragments of a friendship

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    10 Chaotic Questions
    Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Anton Newcombe: ‘I feel like I have to work very hard to redeem myself’

  • an illustration of a heart in the style of Leonardo da Vinci

    My cultural awakening
    Leonardo da Vinci made me rethink surgery – I’ve since mended more than 3,000 hearts

  • Robert Aramayo as John Davidson in I Swear.

    The Guide newsletter
    From documentary shock to Bafta acclaim – how the screen shaped our understanding of Tourette’s

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  • Black and white and blue image of a bicycle shop window, with lots of bikes hanging in it

    Smart shot
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  • Soft evening light at a beach in Wales looking towards low mountains

    Wales holidays
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  • An illustration of alphabet letters and two pieces of paper around a cutout photograph of Tim Dowling, with a background of different coloured circles and pen strokes.

    The Tim Dowling column
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    Meera Sodha recipes
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  • Breakfast at Pavyllon, London.

    Grace Dent on restaurants
    Breakfast at Pavyllon, London W1: ‘Does fine dining strictly have to wait until lunchtime?’

  • Nora's baklava old fashioned.

    The good mixer
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  • Waitress

    Hospitality
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Fashion & beauty

  • A composite of a model in a taupe laced jumper, a handbag and a vintage brooch against a purple and pink gradient background

    The Filter
    Jess Cartner-Morley’s March style essentials: bouncy trainers, spring-ready jackets and a pop of red

  • The Duchess of Sussex in a funnel-neck jacket holding hands with her husband and surrounded by men in Jordan

    Fashion
    Hiding in plain sight: everyone from Meghan to the Beckhams wants a funnel neck

  • Model wearing a black fur coat that is slipping off a shoulder

    Fashion
    Demna brings sexy back in effort to reinvigorate Gucci

  • Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons

    Fashion
    Fashion’s greatest challenges ‘inequality and AI’, say Prada designers

  • An illustration of a woman meditating and a halo-y figure of a man in the background.

    Well actually
    Excruciating but worth it: how a decades-old cult dating book helped me find love

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    Leading questions
    I am in my 30s, unmarried, and afraid I’ve missed my chance. How do I make peace with my fear?

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    You be the judge
    Should my girlfriend change the way she loads the dishwasher?

  • Two 1950s Women Sitting Under Beauty Salon Hair Dryers Wearing Hairnets Towels Talking Gossip

    Social etiquette
    The stranger secret: how to talk to anyone – and why you should

  • A young girl with long dark curly hair bending her knees as she lifts a large barbell in a gym.

    Fitness
    ‘Watching my six year old deadlift 35kg was pretty cool’: meet the children who work out

  • a colorful graphic of people in various yoga poses

    How to start
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  • A pregnant woman's stomach

    Health
    Giving stem cells in utero to babies with spina bifida boosts quality of life, trial finds

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    Secrets of the body
    A rush of blood to the penis – and vaginal tenting: what happens to our bodies when we get turned on

More lifestyle

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    Spain holidays
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    The quiz
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    Blind date
    ‘I was hoping for a lovely time, a fancy dinner and to meet the love of my life. I got two out of three’

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    The kids' quiz
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  • No Time To Heal: the psychological rehabilitation of a Ukrainian soldier after Russian captivity

    Ukrainian soldiers suffering from PTSD, depression and anxiety are sent to the Forest Glade – Ukraine’s first centre for the treatment of psychological trauma – before returning to the frontline. After three years in Russian captivity following the battle for Mariupol, 25-year-old Kyrylo Chuvak spends three weeks at the centre, a brief opportunity for rehabilitation before returning to war

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