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  • A screen above the entrance to the baggage claim area displays a Microsoft error message on Friday, July 19, 2024 at the Portland International Jetport in Portland, Maine.

    Slow recovery from IT outage begins as experts warn of future risks

  • A person sleeps in a deckchair on the beach in Broadstairs, Kent

    UK weather: hottest day of the year so far as temperature of 31.9C recorded

    St James’s Park in central London records highest reading, with health alerts in place across the Midlands, eastern and southern England
  • Kerry and Charles Hine sit for a photo in front of an old house

    Up to 100,000 may have undiagnosed forms of dementia in England

    NHS figures show underdiagnosis of Lewy bodies and frontotemporal dementias

  • Review dismisses claims youth suicides rose after NHS curbed puberty blockers

  • Former Rolls-Royce designer’s alleged killer arrested in France

  • ‘Not acceptable in a democracy’: UN expert condemns lengthy Just Stop Oil sentences

  • New Sunak appointments mean four in 10 Tory MPs are on frontbench

  • Andrew Malkinson calls for CCRC chief executive to resign

  • Vennells knew prosecution of post office operators was wrong, inquiry told

  • Home Office will decide asylum claims of thousands stuck in Rwanda scheme limbo

UK politics

  • Jo Swinson sitting behind a desk

    Jo Swinson criticises ‘duplicitous’ civil servants at Post Office inquiry

  • John Healey shaking hands with Volodymyr Zelenskiy

    UK will not help Ukraine hit targets in Russia, defence secretary says

    • UK to resume funding to UN Palestine relief agency Unrwa

    • Labour’s new defence adviser Fiona Hill: from the White House to Whitehall

    • Labour says higher-than-forecast UK borrowing shows economic challenge ahead

    • Parents saving up to £10,000 in nursery benefits may face unexpected tax bills

    • ‘Despair and anger’: minority groups in Reform seats adjust to life after its election success

    • English councils call for further delay to social care costs cap

Analysis and explainers

  • Passengers face huge delays at Atlanta’s airport after global IT outage on Friday.

    From trains to retail, how CrowdStrike outage caused havoc across industries

  • An activist hangs a Just Stop Oil banner on an overhead gantry on the M25 as traffic passes by

    Just Stop Oil jail terms raise questions over harsh treatment of protesters

  • Andrew Malkinson and supporters outside the high court

    For many, Andrew Malkinson’s case a sign the CCRC has lost its way

  • Baroness Heather Hallett

    Covid inquiry: Hallett prescribes ‘red teams’ as antidote to flawed thinking

Culture

  • A rough portrait, in dark and earthy tones, painted straight on to wood, of a dark-haired saturnine young man

    ‘It was magical’: hidden self-portrait by English artist Norman Cornish found at museum

  • Graziano Di Prima and Zara McDermott posing together at an event

    Strictly dancer admits kicking his celebrity partner during rehearsals

    Spokesperson for Graziano Di Prima says he accepts he ‘crossed the line’ in the incident with Zara McDermott
  • A rendition of the revamped HSBC tower

    Canary Wharf Group to carve chunks out of HSBC tower after bank leaves

    Revamp of 42-storey block when bank moves out in 2027 will include new terraces and leisure facilities

  • Royal Academy removes Gaza-inspired works after Jewish group flags concerns

  • Dover Castle ‘rises from ashes of the 1216 siege’ in digital exhibition

  • Brinsley Headstocks mining landmark to be reconstructed after public outcry

  • Strictly Come Dancing has ‘dark heart’, says ex-contestant Rev Richard Coles

Education

  • Two school-age girls skipping across a street in a city

    Summer holiday childcare in UK now costs £1,000 a child, research finds

  • A motion blurred image of a group of pupils

    Sharp increase in pupils suspended or excluded from schools in England

  • Student sitting at a table using a textbook

    Ucas plans to drop personal statements for UK university applicants

  • Gordon Brown speaking at the LSE

    Gordon Brown calls on ministers not to scrap T-level qualification

Society

  • The remains of a burnt-out vehicle, with some smoke still rising, as people stand in the background

    ‘We’re in it together’: how unrest in Leeds escalated – and was defused

  • A GP sitting at a keyboard

    NHS patients turned away as Microsoft IT outages hit GP surgeries

    • A pair of men with one carrying a boxed up standing fan.

      Six million people at risk from extreme heat in England, campaign group warns

    • A prison security gate

      MoJ cuts maximum time high-risk offenders spend in hostel supervision

    • Relatives of those who died of Covid-19 stand outside the inquiry holding pictures of their loved ones

      ‘Fatal strategic flaws’: first report of UK Covid inquiry pinpoints serious errors of state

Multimedia

  • Tensions in Leeds

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    'There are children in there': moment councillor stops violence escalating in Leeds riot – video

  • A woman flyboarding

    Flyboarding and Zelenskiy at UK cabinet meeting: photos of the day – Friday

    • Keir Starmer welcomes Volodymyr Zelenskiy at Downing Street – video

    • Police car turned over and vehicles set alight in Leeds unrest – video

    • A couple kiss on the Edge at Hudson Yards observation deck

      Trump supporters and a sky-high kiss: photos of the day – Thursday

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