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20 photographs of the week

Violence in Belfast, the death of Prince Philip, the continuing protests in Myanmar and the enduring impact of Covid-19: the most striking images from around the world this week Continue reading...

Sunset fishing and Mr Thailand: Friday’s best photos

The Guardian’s picture editors bring you the best in news photography from around the world Continue reading...

The prospect of a new Bond means one thing: Britain is still totally relevant | Marina Hyde

The health of the franchise is mystically entwined with the health of the nation – Regé-Jean Page has given both a boostNews that “betting has been suspended” on the next James Bond suggests one thing alone: Britain is healing. You will be powerfully...

Elon Musk's brain implant firm teaches monkey to play Pong with its mind

Elon Musk's brain implant company Neuralink has released a video showing how it has taught a monkey - Pager, a nine-year-old macaque - to play the video game Pong with its mind.

Let’s dance – a lockdown photo essay

With revelry all but absent from public life during Covid, an Amsterdam-based project captures small moments of cathartic abandon in people’s living roomsWhat follows is a selection of photographs, along with the stories of the friends, neighbours an...

Holy waters: the spiritual journey of African migrants – in pictures

Nicola Lo Calzo’s images celebrate migrants in the Mediterranean and the veneration of the 16th-century Sicilian Saint Benedict the Moor, the first black saint in modern history Continue reading...

Sri Lanka beauty queen's crown snatched from head over divorce claims

A beauty pageant winner in Sri Lanka was told she had been disqualified and had her crown taken from her head on stage because she was believed to be divorced.

David Cameron has ghosted Britain over Greensill. At least it's not the first time | Marina Hyde

First the former PM left us to deal with Brexit. Now he’s not answering calls about a growing access and lobbying scandalBack when David Cameron was a PR for culturicidal London TV franchise Carlton – his sole non-Westminster job before politics – th...

Yahoo Answers is shutting down - here are 10 of the best questions ever asked

Yahoo Answers is going to be shut down after more than 15 years of providing the web with hilarious content.

'What would Jesus do?': Easter-inspired diner owner offers job to burglar who broke in

A failed burglar has been offered a job by one of his victims in a bid to embody the Easter spirit of rebirth and renewal.

Mummies on the move: Egypt holds grand parade to transfer antiquities to new museum

Egypt has held a special parade including a full orchestra and a light show as it transferred 22 ancient royal mummies to a new museum in Cairo.

The culture war is a box of matches the UK government can't help playing with | Marina Hyde

Like with everything else, the race report has been deployed to stoke maximum division. No good can come of this low-effort politicsClassical liberal, thought leader, guitar-bothering divorce meme Laurence Fox launched his campaign to be London mayor...

How did the man with no self-control swallow the words 'Barnard Castle'? | Marina Hyde

Standing in his god-awful new briefing room, Boris Johnson restrained himself from naming the new location for bottling Covid vaccinesHow did he do it? How, in the name of everything he takes unseriously, did Boris Johnson announce that up to 60m dos...

How long until Priti Patel's next brainwave: housing asylum seekers on the Falklands? | Marina Hyde

In a typically inept week for our flag-festooned government, the home secretary wins top prize for incompetenceGibraltar: for some the least appealing rock, bar Paul Burrell. News that the British overseas territory is being considered by the Home Of...

Women killed: 118. Statues 'killed': 1. So guess which is the national priority? | Marina Hyde

The government wants tougher sentences for attacks on statues than on women: its culture war gets ever more absurdSuch a strong look for the government’s police, crime, sentencing and courts bill to allow for longer sentences for attacking statues th...