Category: The Gaurdian

First lady and affected families in audience for highly charged performance of excerpts of Mothers of Kherson It was hard to imagine an opera with a subject more potentially traumatic – or cathartic – for the assembled audience. The occasion, in the grand and gilded spaces of the National Opera ...

This account of the Islamic Republic and its discontents told via six contrasting lives should be required reading It’s difficult in 2026 to talk about Iran without confronting a lot of crude certainty. The average non-Iranian gets their information in snippets, filtered by algorithms. The Iranian diaspora is too fractured and ...

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps says it has targeted an airbase in Jordan hosting US forces, as well as Kuwait and Bahrain, in response to US strikes Trump launches strikes against Iran after downing of US army helicopter Welcome to our live coverage of the crisis in the Middle East. Iran ...

Becoming the world’s first trillionaire is only going to supercharge this sense of impunity and bring us one step closer to full-blown oligarchy “Whoever said ‘money can’t buy happiness’ really knew what they were talking about,” Elon Musk wrote in February on Twitter/X, the social network he bought for $44bn. ...

Pacoima is hemmed in by highways and heavy industry, and its residents are fighting pollution with hyperlocal air quality monitoring Jose Luis Salas looks up at the ladder. “Are you ready?” he asks Shance Taylor, an environmental project manager who’s holding a white container, about the size of a shoebox, ...

The premium cookware brand’s new 3qt sauté pan is nontoxic, nonstick and ridiculously pretty. I tried it to find out if it’s worth the price The seven best nontoxic cooking pans in the US, tested in a food lab Sign up for the Filter US newsletter, your weekly guide to ...

People flee historic district of ancient city after airstrikes hit residential areas and damage archaeological sites Middle East crisis – live updates Israel has bombed the city of Tyre, killing eight and injuring at least 32 people, and struck dozens of other villages in south Lebanon as it issued forced ...

US president says crew members are ‘safe and uninjured’ after attack near strait of Hormuz early on Tuesday Middle East crisis – live updates Donald Trump has blamed Iran for downing a US army helicopter near the strait of Hormuz, warning that the United States would be forced to respond ...

Pacoima is hemmed in by highways and heavy industry, and its residents are fighting pollution with hyperlocal air quality monitoring Jose Luis Salas looks up at the ladder. “Are you ready?” he asks Shance Taylor, an environmental project manager who’s holding a white container, about the size of a shoebox, ...

Donald Trump arrived at the Knicks’ biggest night in 27 years hoping to cement his status and power in his hometown. But the fans had other ideas On Monday night, the most powerful man in the world crashed a citywide celebration 27 years in the making and almost shut it ...