Tom Cruise in Cannes

 

Cannes, France

Tom Cruise and the cast of the film ‘Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning’ take a selfie with director Christopher McQuarrie at the 78th international film festival

Photograph: Scott A Garfitt/Scott Garfitt/Invision/

THE GUARDIAN

My best shot / A husband and wife kiss in a doorway: Baldwin Lee’s best photograph

 

My best shot

A husband and wife kiss in a doorway: Baldwin Lee’s best photograph

‘I wanted to create a dialogue between the couple kissing and the plaque showing two people in a similar pose. I didn’t ask about the hats. That wasn’t the kind of questioning I engaged in’

Salma Hayek Pinault was photographed by Ruven Afanador in Mexico

Salma Hayeck

SALMA HAYECK

Salma Hayek Pinault was photographed by Ruven Afanador in Mexico. Swimsuit by Johanna Ortiz. Necklace and body chain by Jacquie Aiche. / Ruven Afanador/Sports Illustrated

 

PETER DINKLAGE: “THE FIGHT IS 

SHORT PROFILE

Name: Peter Hayden Dinklage
DOB: 11 June 1969
Place of birth: Morristown, New Jersey, USA
Occupation: Actor

 

Photo by Ann Summa

RACHEL KUSHNER: “THERE’S THIS LENS OVER LIFE”

EMMA ROBERTSON

SHORT PROFILE

Name: Rachel Kushner
DOB: 1968
Place of birth: Eugene, Oregon, United States
Occupation: Novelist

 

Photo by Sven Jacobsen

DON WINSLOW: “I LIKE BEING SCORNED”

UWE-JENS SCHUMANN

SHORT PROFILE

Name: Don Winslow
DOB: 31 October 1953
Place of birth: New York City, NY, United States
Occupation: Author

 

Siwar Ashour, born in November, has only known war. Her mother, Najwa Aram, 23, gave birth in the one surviving room of a house that was otherwise destroyed and which 11 other people were sharing.

 
Photo by Doa Albaz

Israel-Gaza war

A picture that shocked the world: the story behind baby Siwar Ashour

Six-month-old Palestinian girl’s painfully emaciated body symbolised starvation in Gaza

Malak A Tantesh in Gaza and Julian Borger

Mon 12 May 2025 

Siwar Ashour was born into war and hunger and has known nothing else. She is now in real danger of dying without ever having known a moment of peace or contentment.

 

Palestinians receive food cooked by a charity kitchen in Beit Lahia inthe northern Gaza Strip.

Photograph: Mahmoud Issa/Reuters

Gaza

Food security experts warn Gaza at ‘critical risk of famine’ amid Israeli blockade

Report by UN-backed consortium of specialists tells of ‘major deterioration’ since its last assessment in October

Jason Burke
Monday 12 May 2025

Gaza is at “critical risk of famine”, food security experts have warned, 10 weeks after Israelimposed a blockade on the devastated Palestinian territory, cutting off all supplies including food, medicine, shelter and fuel.

Rampant corruption in Venezuela’s national oil company weighs down the economy

 

Venezuela’s former oil minister Tareck El Aissami (left) and President Nicolás Maduro during a 2018 tour of a baseball stadium under construction in Caracas.RICARDO MAZALAN (AP)

Rampant corruption in Venezuela’s national oil company weighs down the economy

In the 1990s, PDVSA was a model state enterprise, but its politicization has become an albatross around the country’s neck

FLORANTONIA SINGER

Caracas - MAR 23, 2023 

Tareck El Aissami: Hugo Chávez’s protege who increased his power under Maduro

 

Tareck El Aissami arrives at a signing ceremony for an agreement with Chevron, in Caracas, last December.MATIAS DELACROIX (AP)

Tareck El Aissami: Hugo Chávez’s protege who increased his power under Maduro

The Venezuelan Minister of Petroleum resigned on Monday over a corruption scandal at the state-owned oil company PDVSA after the arrest of senior officials linked to him

ALONSO MOLEIRO

Caracas - MAR 21, 2023 - 10:39 COT

 

Henrique Capriles in his Caracas office, in a file photo.GABY ORAA (REUTERS

Henrique Capriles: ‘Abstention in Venezuela only makes things easier for Maduro’

In an interview with EL PAÍS, the opposition politician defends his decision to run in the parliamentary and regional elections and reflects on the strategy to confront Chavismo

I've never seen / Doctor Zhivago

 

I've never seen ... Doctor Zhivago

This article is more than 4 years old

Would David Lean’s epic Russian-revolution romance stir my heart or leave me stone-cold? Well, all the balalaikas set my teeth on edge from the start

Anne Billson

Wed 6 May 2020 10.00 BST

Doctor Zhivago barely figured on my radar at a time when I was more interested in James Bond and the Beatles than romance, and I never caught up with it. A Passage to India, the first David Lean film I saw on a big screen, featured Alec Guinness in blackface, which was enough to put anyone off. I liked Brief Encounter and Lean’s Dickens adaptations, and a late-1980s screening of Lawrence of Arabia in 70mm was, of course, stunning, but I’d never been chomping at the bit to fill in those Lean gaps in my viewing.