Marvel actor Chris Pratt draws ire for demolishing architecturally significant 1950 LA home
USC
University cancels Jon M Chu keynote speech in wake of valedictorian controversy
Ukraine
Kyiv claims bomber shot down at 308km range after crash in Russia
Volcano
Thousands evacuated amid spreading ash and tsunami fears in Indonesia
Yale
Students continue hunger strike in protest over Israel’s war on Gaza
Oxford
University shuts down institute run by Elon Musk-backed philosopher
Spain
Thousands protest against Canary islands’ ‘unsustainable’ tourism model
In focus
‘ICU on wheels’
24 hours with Ukraine’s combat medics in Donbas
Sudan’s Hotel Rwanda
The man who saved scores of people during Darfur violence
As militias targeted the Masalit community in a wave of ethnic violence, one man offered shelter and an escape route across the border
'A gamified logic'
How Israel uses facial recognition systems in Gaza and beyond
Amnesty International researcher Matt Mahmoudi discusses the IDF’s use of the techonology as a tool of mass surveillance
Spotlight
What even is mulch?
27 of the most basic gardening questions answered
How do I know what soil I have? Do bulbs come back? And how did people garden before Google? As the growing season gears up, our experts are here with a barrowful of advice
Literary love affair
Why Germany fell for a windswept corner of Ireland
Pearl Jam: Dark Matter review
The faithful will rejoice
With superproducer Andrew Watt working his magic, the Seattle grunge veterans sound on point and full of energy in their 35th anniversary year
Taylor Swift’s new album is about a reckless kind of freedom. If only it sounded as uninhibited
Annina van Neel's life is forever changed after encountering a vast burial ground - one of the most significant traces of the transatlantic slave trade in the world
My family’s past, and Germany’s, weighs heavily upon me. And it’s why I feel so strongly about Gaza
Eva Ladipo
I fear we are forgetting lessons from that terrible history, says writer Eva Ladipo
‘It taught me about brainwashing’
How reality show stars fell for a fake Prince Harry
A show in which women competed to date a royal lookalike was panned at the time as ‘fodder for the braindead’. But the contestants had been duped, as a new podcast reveals …
‘I had to sign a contract promising not to sing’
Claudia Winkleman on swearing, success and secrets
Explainer
What is bitcoin halving – and will it affect the price?
Crunching worms, squeaking voles, drumming ants
How scientists are learning to eavesdrop on the sounds of soil
War in Gaza, floods in Dubai, the knife attack in Sydney and the Grand National at Aintree: the last seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists
Photos of the day
Go Phish and Gold Beach sunrise
The week in wildlife
A hungry jackal, a cat with webbed feet and a cheeky badger