Eurovision is a political battlefield, with neon

Volodymyr Zelenskiy wasn't allowed to address the crowd in Liverpool, but the contest was still a four-hour anti-war protest

The missing Kidnappings and cartel violence tear a town apart

María Zapata Escamilla woke to the sound of shattering glass. Armed men in military fatigues had burst into her home: they dragged her disabled husband outside, along with her 14-year-old son, still in his pyjamas

Trump the predator: will court verdict harm his 2024 bid?

A mystery of Donald Trump’s US presidency was the absence of a major sex scandal

'No solution' Inflationary crisis pushes middle class into poverty

Increasing numbers of Egyptians are desperately hunting for second jobs, cutting back on spending and scrambling to find new ways to cope with soaring prices, amid a worsening cost-of-living crisis

The football club whose players left to seek a better life in Europe

If Ghardimaou football club’s players had been there to take to the pitch last month, the Tunisian town’s stadium would have been packed with fans, waving the teams’s blue and white colours

Gang violence puts freedoms of Christiania in peril

The 40-year history of the open cannabis trade on “Pusher Street ” in the heart of the anarchist Christiania neighbourhood of Copenhagen could be over as the city’s mayor said she was willing to shut it down over the commune’s fears about rising gang violence

Vive la révolution! Is it time for a Sixth Republic?

Raising the retirement age has sparked public anger at Macron, but some suggest the constitution itself is to blame

Microbes found that eat plastic at low temperatures

Microbes that can digest plastics at low temperatures have been discovered by scientists in the Alps and the Arctic, which could be a valuable tool in recycling

Scrap warrior One man's fight to help the world's waste pickers

After a childhood scavenging at a local dump, John Chweya is lobbying for workers' rights to be enshrined in a UN treaty

Promised land The 10-pound poms who left UK for new life

Sylvia Brady does not romanticise her life as a newlywed in northern England in 1959

Hong Kong citizens fear deportation after years left in limbo

Britain vowed to protect those fleeing its former colony, but exiles say they don't know if they will be granted asylum

Fighting beyond Khartoum threatens to reopen scars

The deaths of dozens of civilians in fighting in the far south of Sudan and an outbreak of communal violence in the restive Darfur region have fuelled fears that communities across the frontier regions of Africa’s third-biggest country are being drawn into the bloody contest between two rival generals

Democracy hangs by a thread, says Imran Khan after release

Shah Meer Baloch, Hannah Ellis-Petersen

'Going back is impossible' Syrians face shaky future, whatever the final result

Reclining in a leather chair framed by shelves of colourful shampoo bottles, washing powder and jars of deep golden honey, Rakkan Talib surveys the small business he has made his own

Head to head

Turkey's reformers believed their unity candidate had enough support to end Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's long rule. But it is the formidable president who now goes into a runoff poll as favourite

The Coronation Pulled A Screen Across A Nation Divided - As Intended

The biggest illusion - and utility - of royal events such as the coronation is that we are somehow a part of them

Screen Test Is Trump Getting The Scrutiny He Deserves?

It claims to be the most trusted name in news

Optimistic Rise Of Artificial Intelligence Is Not To Be Feared, Says 'Father Of AI

The man once described as the father of artificial intelligence is breaking ranks with many of his contemporaries who are fearful of the AI arms race, saying what is coming is inevitable and we should learn to embrace it

A Small Light

Telling the story of Anne Frank with Anne as a minor character is a brave creative decision

Bubble has burst for the digital sites that upset news media

Towards the end of Traffic, an account of the early years of internet publishing, Ben Smith, the former editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News, writes that the site's failings had come about as a result of a \"utopian ideology, from a kind of magical thinking\"

Royal spoils Madrid's new mecca for old-world art lovers

A distinctly feminine Archangel Michael brandishes a flaming sword and attempts, as he has for the past 331 years, to trample the living hell out of a forlorn devil

Secrets and lies

A womans quest to uncover her family’s difficult past reveals broader truths about the present conflict in Ukraine

Inside every disposable vape is precious metal tossed away in tonnes

Walk down any busy street, and you're bound to find dozens of candy-coloured plastic cylinders littering the ground

'Women can do it better' Female MPs fight double standards

Ahead of elections in June, women in politics are speaking out over the abuse and intimidation they face

Shut-down schools tell the story of a population in decline

For centuries, the infant school in Champorcher, in the Aosta Valley, has been an integral part of the community, with the sound of children's voices in the playground providing a beacon of hope for the mountain village's survival

Tributes and disapproval in response to coronation

In South Africa, as across the African Commonwealth countries, last Saturday's coronation of King Charles III prompted mixed reactions

Former slave colony eyes the path to true autonomy

Removal of the British monarchas head of state would represent important milestone in nationhood

Neighbours will struggle to cope with refugees, say aid agencies

The UN is in a race against time to get food to Sudanese refugees crossing the border into Chad before the rainy season, as neighbouring countries struggle to cope with the numbers of people fleeing the civil war

Support for Erdoğan's AKP shaken in quake-hit heartlands

In the aftermath of the Turkish earthquakes, the offices of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's LJustice and Development party (AKP) in Kahramanmaraş were deserted, the front doors tied with a cable

Careful what you wish for

Geoffrey Hinton made it his life’s work to develop machine learning, but the Google guru has stepped back and he has a warning for the rest of us