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  • People look on as teams of rescue workers attempt to free residents trapped under the rubble of the destroyed Sky Villa Condominium in Mandalay

    Scramble to free survivors as death toll passes 1,600 after Myanmar earthquake

    Woman pulled to safety after 30 hours trapped in building a rare glimmer of hope in midst of devastation
  • British prime minister Keir Starmer has already been warned by the Liberal Democrats against ‘appeasing’ Donald Trump with big tax cuts for US tech companies

    Keir Starmer urged to get tough with Trump as US tariff threat looms

News

  • A smiling Natalie Fleet wearing a pink sweatshirt with the word Nana on it

    MP, rape victim, teenage mum . . . and first Mother’s Day as a grandparent

  • Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham wants education policies geared towards pupils’ requirements.

    Whitehall has left generation of teenagers with no hope, says Andy Burnham

    Greater Manchester mayor says number of young people not in education, employment or training has reached unacceptable levels
  • A correspondent from HM Revenue and Customs on headed paper

    Prosecution of people who help clients evade tax in UK falls by 75% in five years

    Fewer than five criminal cases were brought against those who aid tax dodgers in 2023-24, down from 16 in 2018-19

  • Is it safe? Is it spying? Disquiet over NHS ‘magic eye’ surveillance camera in mental health units

  • MPs to vote on disability benefit cuts without knowing ‘full impact’

  • Victims’ minister accused of ‘factual inaccuracies’ over use of video evidence in UK trials

  • ‘No one came’: Myanmar volunteers dig with bare hands to save earthquake victims

  • ‘I like Rupert Lowe’s plain speaking’: suspended MP haunts Nigel Farage’s big rally

  • Le boycott: French customers shun McDonald’s, Coca Cola and Tesla to protest against Trump

  • Hyundai facing legal action over car that can be stolen ‘effortlessly in seconds’

  • Kenyan man who spent decade on death row sues London police for role in wrongful conviction

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World

  • The Villa Empain

    Gold leaf and Gatsby: Brussels lays claim to birth of art deco with year of celebrations

    Throughout 2025, the Belgian capital is marking 100 years of the movement with events, exhibitions and film screenings
  • Thomas Richter has his leg tattooed design by Diana of Atelier Jiyu, Berlin.

    Want a limited edition artwork tattooed on your skin? Berlin is the place to go

  • Alaa Abu Zeid’s wife, Hala, and all five of the couple’s children had been killed in an Israeli airstrike last summer. Clockwise from top left: Hala, Nour, Alaa, Walaa, Riyad and Mohammed.

    ‘He insisted we take him to the graves’: the Palestinian civilians coming home to catastrophe

  • Ahmed Dababish and his two surviving children Aisha and Muadh

    ‘They don’t want them to know anything’: Gaza civilians held in Israel not told families had been killed

  • Berkay Gezgin, a vocal supporter of Istanbul’s imprisoned mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, a longtime rival of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

    Turkey’s young ‘hope of millions’ held in jail as Erdoğan cracks down on protests

  • US vice-president JD Vance, left, defense secretary Pete Hegseth, centre, and national security adviser Mike Waltz in the Oval Office

    Trump has managed to spin Signalgate as a media lapse, not a major security breach

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In focus

  • A crowd of mostly men, in shirts, ties and trousers, march on cobblestones holding flags and looking serious

    ‘It is about vulnerable guys’: violent far-right groups in Sweden recruit boys as young as 10

    Validated by Trump, Musk and the manosphere, far-right extremists pull in boys online and use bodybuilding and fight clubs to further their white supremacist agenda
  • Portrait photograph of Abraham Lincoln

    From Lincoln to Nixon, Trump’s not the first US president to shock the UK on trade

  • Barbara Ellen

    Yoko Ono is now getting acclaim, but why do rock stars’ female partners get so much abuse?

    Barbara Ellen
  • Rachel Reeves and Donald Trump.

    Who is running Britain’s economy – Rachel Reeves or Donald Trump?

  • Dark-haired young woman in strapless black dress talks to a smiling Seth Rogen in white shirt and black bow tie at a dinner table

    From Hollywood’s goofy stoner to serious satire: the reinvention of Seth Rogen

  • Sunflower seeds alongside a glass jar containing pale yellow oil

    RFK Jr says they are poisoning us, influencers call them unnatural – but what is the truth about seed oils?

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Comment

  • Catherine Bennett

    Who could begrudge Rachel Reeves free tickets when she was, er, just trying to be a good parent?

    Catherine Bennett
  • Kate Maltby

    Let Britain’s magical, mythical creatures inspire a patriotism untainted by politics

    Kate Maltby
  • Andrew Rawnsley

    The storm-battered chancellor needs her nextdoor neighbour to be a steadfast friend

    Andrew Rawnsley

  • Just like McCarthy, Trump spreads fear everywhere before picking off his targets

    Kenan Malik

  • Squaring up to death after my cancer diagnosis gave me a deeper appreciation of life

    Matt Forde

  • A tip for JD Vance: Greenland doesn’t care about your frail human ego

    Sarah Ditum

  • Britain has been paying a high price for Uncle Sam’s craziness. It’s time to turn to Europe

    Simon Tisdall

  • Wigmore Hall’s principled stand over public funding is music to my ears

    Rachel Cooke

  • Hard times: why Rachel Reeves must be bold and ditch her Dickensian rulebook

    Will Hutton

  • Do we really want Clueless updated to reflect our dark, digital age? Ugh! As if!

    Kate Maltby

  • Kemi Badenoch is failing to hit the spot at PMQs – and everywhere else

    Andrew Rawnsley
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Editorials & Letters

  • JD Vance leaves Greenland on Air Force Two after visiting the US Pituffik Space Base on 28 March.

    The Observer view on JD Vance: spurned in Greenland and humiliated at home, the vice-president should resign

  • ‘Organisations such as the NHS could identify the sex of individuals, regardless of the gender they identify as.’

    It’s time to end the toxic and divisive debate on sex and gender

    Letters
    Human rights, respect and dignity have been forgotten about

  • For the record

    James Church | Kim Philby | Adweek | Matthew Ryle | Julian McMahon/William McMahon | Lockdown restrictions
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Business & Cash

  • Rectangular metal box with lots of black spikes, probably aerials, coming out from the top

    ‘Sim farms’, high heels, zombie knives: what scammers buy with the money they steal

  • People sitting outside The Peterboat pub in the summer in seaside town Leigh-on-Sea near Southend on Sea, Essex

    A bitter blow? British pubs, restaurants and hospitality firms brace for rise in NICs

  • Two Ryanair jets at an airport

    My disabled mother was left stranded at Hamburg airport

  • William Keegan

    The poor don’t need Reeves’s austerity. And neither does Britain

    William Keegan
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Sport

  • Dom Sibley raises his bat

    Surrey’s Dom Sibley: ‘We’ve got an unbelievable side. It drives standards’

  • Ealing players run out before their game against Nottingham

    Rugby union rebels Ealing left in limbo with Premiership door still shut

    Discontent with RFU simmers in west London with the second tier’s dominant side still being denied promotion
  • Jonny Bairstow batting in the nets

    Yorkshire’s fresh start: ‘It will be tough, but we’ve got everything in place’

    After years of strife, Headingley starts the County season with a new coach, a strong squad and a burning desire to prove the critics wrong

  • Matheus Cunha: ‘All we want in life is affection – Wolves gave me back that joy’

  • Aryna Sabalenka dominates Jessica Pegula to cruise to Miami Open title

  • FA Cup goes back to the future as Nottingham Forest do an FAR Rabat

  • Fear and Gibson claim emotional bronze to end Britain’s 31-year medal drought

  • Nuno applauds Nottingham Forest after reaching Wembley FA Cup semi-final

  • Celtic surge closer towards league title No 55 after swatting Hearts aside

  • Sels saves edge Nottingham Forest past Brighton on penalties to reach FA Cup semis

  • Andoni Iraola’s impressive Bournemouth are stuck in the silverware paradox

    Jonathan Wilson
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Reviews

  • an animated cat underwater in flow

    Flow review – beguiling, Oscar-winning animation is the cat’s whiskers

  • FKA Twigs performing on stage at Aviva Studios in Manchester

    FKA twigs review – a stunning ​surprise-filled spectacle

  • Florence Pugh, smiling eating an ice cream sundae, in We Live in Time

    Streaming: We Live in Time and the best Florence Pugh films

  • The square and colonnade of trade school Nimeto, Utrecht, redesigned by Maarten van Kesteren Architects.

    ‘A place you remember for the rest of your life’: why Dutch architects are giving new life to old schools

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New Review

  • Observer New Review cover story composite 23/3/25

    The New Yorker at 100: ‘We live in a world of misinformation ... a lack of verification. Our readers want what we do’

    The venerable magazine is thriving and its long-time editor David Remnick tells us why a dedication to literate, conversation-provoking and veracious reportage has never been more vital
  • Kate Mossman poses for a photograph sitting in the bay window of her lounge

    Thank you Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor – how my 1990s teenage self found somebody to love

  • Joshua McGuire photographed by Amit Lennon for the Observer New Review, March 2025.

    ‘It’s nice to be morally dubious’: Cheaters star Joshua McGuire on the hit show and his new role – as a rhino

  • A swallow-type bird in silhouette pointing north-east on a pocket compass

    ‘They have no one to follow’: how migrating birds use quantum mechanics to navigate

  • Clemency Burton-Hill at her home in Washington DC, March 2025.

    Clemency Burton-Hill: ‘I can say now, after my brain injury, that music can save a life’

  • Michel Hazanavicius.

    ‘Drawings do not lie’: film-maker Michel Hazanavicius on his animated feature about the Holocaust

  • ‘I would never be able to sing a song that a robot wrote’: Lucy Dacus on her new album’s themes of artistry and intimacy

  • I’ve got the message: security leaks are no laughing matter

    Stewart Lee

  • ‘People have walked through here for centuries’: the rhythms of the Welsh valleys in pictures

  • Journalist Graydon Carter: ‘If there was another 9/11 this week, I don’t think the world would rush to support us’

  • Visions of America: 25 films to help understand the US today

  • The big picture: a Chad gymnast scores top marks for determination

  • Author Vincenzo Latronico: ‘I left Italy out of sadness’

  • The week in audio: Invisible Hands with David Dimbleby; Artworks: Talk Talk – Living in Another World; White Hot Hate; Luigi – review

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Magazine

  • Emma Barnett Portrait for Stella

    Emma Barnett: ‘People ask, is that the radio you or the real you?’

    The broadcaster and author talks maternity leave, childhood curiosity, and her imaginary radio audience
  • Sleepy woman lying in bed using smartphone late at night, can not sleep. Insomnia, addiction concept<br>Sleepy exhausted woman lying in bed using smartphone, can not sleep. Insomnia, addiction concept. Sad girl bored in bed scrolling through social networks on mobile phone late at night in dark bedroom.

    My adult daughter wants to turn herself back into a teenager

  • ‘I was running projects on the ground in Iraq but there was another side to me I kept hidden: I loved comedy.'

    The death of my friend inspired me to follow my standup dreams

  • ‘I understood the romance in the impulse to make things cinematic, rather than just sad’: Anna Beecher.

    ‘Alcohol became a second self to blame for my desire’: how drinking fuelled my experiences of sex

  • All aboard: Barceló Málaga.

    Just the ticket: Europe’s 10 best train station hotels for a first-class stay

  • ‘Recipes such as this one are very much a suggestion, rather than a blueprint that must be stuck to word for word.’

    Nigel Slater’s recipes for noodles with breadcrumbs, and panna cotta with passion fruit

  • Take the roof off: outside meets inside in a radically artistic Italian home

  • Having your car stolen is bad, but it’s nothing compared to trying to report the crime…

    Séamas O’Reilly

  • Striving for efficiency is all very well, but it leaves no time to live

    Eva Wiseman

  • Rewind and be kind: what happens if you do one act of kindness every day?

  • Notes on chocolate: more Easter eggs, because these are quite special

  • Wines you’ll really want to Swig

  • My much older lover keeps reaching out, then pushing me away

  • Shiki, Norwich: ‘Unexpectedly reasonable’ – restaurant review

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Observer Food Monthly

  • Fudgy chocolate cake with a cardamom milk soak

    A showstopper cake, perfect cookies and a surprisingly simple fondant – Tarunima Sinha’s chocolate recipes

    Gluten-free friands with hazelnuts and ginger, pistachio and kataifi chocolate … and no special gadgets required
  • Paul Ainsworth Easter Taste Test OFM March 2025

    ‘I could eat the lot!’: the best new Easter eggs for 2025

  • wine glasses on a pink background in the sunlight<br>GettyImages-2052991111

    In the mood for spring: feel-good wines in sync with the season

  • Georgina Hayden Spring Feast Food and prop styling: Polly Webb-Wilson Observer Food Monthy OFM March 2025

    Herby panisses, fancy cauliflower pie, passion fruit creme caramel – Georgina Hayden’s recipes for a spring feast

  • London-based knife-maker Holly Loftus in her workshop.

    No more wonky sourdough: in search of the perfect kitchen knife

  • Photography and prop styling: Kate Whitaker Food styling: Annie Rigg Easter Chocolate Bakes Tarunima Sinha

    Welcome to March’s OFM

  • Claudia Roden: ‘There hadn’t been cookbooks in Egypt – everything was just handed down’

  • Social climbers: is non-stop content creation now what it takes for restaurants to survive?

  • Breakfast fads come and go, but at heart, is Britain a nation of cereal eaters?

    Rachel Cooke

  • Dame Denise Lewis: ‘I love an apple crumble – just don’t talk to me while I enjoy myself’

  • A simple roast, spicy squash in a bun, a five-ingredient pasta – Nigel Slater’s recipes for the end of winter

  • Welcome to February’s Observer Food Monthly

  • Jeremy Chan’s secret ingredient: dried porcini

  • Black pudding in the hole and buttery chicken curry – Gill Meller’s recipes for next level traybakes

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