Trump news at a glance: US fires on Iranian-flagged tanker as president fires off post threatening more bombing
Trump warned Tehran to agree to deal or face attacks ‘at a much higher level and intensity’ than before – key US politics stories from 6 May 2026 at a glance
The Guardian view on a cryptic crossword landmark: 30,000 grids of noble trickery
Editorial: For nearly a century, the Guardian has been challenging and delighting its readers with these puzzles. Here’s to 30,000 more
Stick a euro in the slot for the lights! The mesmerising, strictly Venetian works of Lydia Ourahmane
From the pier built for a former quarantine island to the sculpture made from 1.3 tonnes of hotel bedlinen, the British-Algerian’s coin-operated show feels like it has sprung from The Floating City itself
David Harding obituary
Sculptor and educator who embedded art within the new town of Glenrothes and encouraged students at the Glasgow School of Art to move beyond the studio
Corrections and clarifications
Martha’s rule
How to ensure donors can’t buy political influence
Letters: Readers respond to George Monbiot’s article on party funding
Alcohol reduced my anxiety – but at a cost
Letter: Paula McInally responds to an extract from Gemma Correll’s book on her relationship with booze
Mexico nightclub’s $300 cover charge for US citizens captures popular mood
Owner of Japan nightclub says ‘This is a response to a year of insults directed at us – as a country – by the United States’
No flattery please, Claude: I’m British
Brief letters: Richard Dawkins and chatbots | LLM meaning | Flattery battery | Dancing in PE | Maths breakthrough
Doctors’ archaic attitudes over sterilisation
Letter: A reader recalls her experience of trying to obtain a vasectomy for her husband on the NHS in the 1990s
Global finance watchdog warns over private credit industry fuelling AI boom
Financial Stability Board report reveals tech, healthcare and services sectors as the biggest borrowers
JD Wetherspoon issues third profit warning this year as costs climb
Chair Tim Martin says pub chain could miss expectations, in latest sign UK hospitality sector buckling under higher bills
Apps, activists and an ‘air war’: Essex campaign is test of Reform UK’s professionalisation
Nigel Farage’s pary sees this week’s local elections as showcase for new, sleeker approach borrowing from an unlikely source
World’s most powerful are suing media outlets before stories are even published, says editor
Editor-in-chief of Wall Street Journal says those with deep pockets are launching legal challenges as a PR strategy
Bioluminescent algae’s blue light harnessed to make 3D-printed shapes
Scientists suggest algae could be embedded within biosensors that glow when toxins detected in the environment
Stitches in time: the artist chronicling the DRC’s blood-soaked history in embroidery
Using handmade needles and thread, Lucie Kamusekera has recorded the decades of conflict she has lived through in the Congo
Reform-led Lancashire county council could quit refugee resettlement scheme
Councillor announces plan to withdraw from government-funded programme on eve of local elections