Ahead of her 50th birthday this month, we rate the best tracks of the multi-hyphenate talent who, with Fugees and as a solo artist, blended soul, hip-hop and reggae with raw emotion and charisma The closest their debut album Blunted on Reality came to a crossover hit, Nappy Heads is […]
Ryan Coogler’s smash hit horror focuses on the opening of a juke joint, a one-time mainstay in Black southern culture In Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, the Smokestack twins – a gangster pair played by Michael B Jordan – return to their Mississippi Delta home town to open a juke joint and […]
The Guardian’s south Asia correspondent, Hannah Ellis-Petersen, reports on India’s strikes on Pakistan, and what they may mean for the conflict over Kashmir In the early hours of Wednesday, India launched a series of strikes on Pakistan that killed at least 26 people – a serious escalation of the decades-long […]
The Fleabag creator’s new TV series sees her reinvent herself as an ocean documentarian. But she’s far from the first celebrity to strike out in a radical new direction For some years now, putting “Phoebe Waller-Bridge” and “Amazon” together in a sentence would only provoke feelings of sadness and disappointment. […]
Starmer instead talked about his India deal, while Badenoch insisted on catching up with last week’s news You’d have thought it might have been a moment for contrition. Or failing that, a veneer of humility. At the very least a nano-second’s pause for self-reflection. An admission from Keir Starmer and […]
Collaboration with Thom Yorke is worth hype in tragedy played with clarity and verve In all the hype around the collaborators on this co-production between the Royal Shakespeare Company and Factory International, it is easy to forget what is at its centre. It is not the co-directors, Steven Hoggett and […]
Mark Carney said country was ‘not for sale’ in much anticipated summit between leaders at White House Five takeaways from Carney-Trump meeting Donald Trump has said he “just want[s] to be friends with Canada” after his first post-election meeting with the country’s prime minister, Mark Carney – who used the […]
Bezalel Smotrich says Palestinians will ‘leave in great numbers to third countries’, raising fears of ethnic cleansing An Israeli government minister has vowed that “Gaza will be entirely destroyed” as a result of an Israeli military victory, and that its Palestinian population will “leave in great numbers to third countries”, […]
Pakistani PM calls India’s missile attack on Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir ‘cowardly’; defence minister says ‘We are in the process of retaliating’ Full report: Pakistan decries ‘act of war’ after Indian missile attack At a glance: what we know so far US president Donald Trump was just asked about the […]
Germany’s new chancellor issued warning after far-right AfD received strong backing from Donald Trump allies Germany’s new chancellor Friedrich Merz has warned the US to “stay out” of his country’s politics after the far-right AfD received strong backing from allies of the US president, Donald Trump. Merz, 69, a conservative […]