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Healthcare workers protesting for fair pay in London.
Strike threats loom if ministers reject NHS and teacher pay deals

Independent body recommendations are set to be higher than the government has budgeted for, adding to pressure on Rachel Reeves

Politics

Violent crime suspects may lose right to jury to clear court backlog

Minister says the establishment of an intermediate court is ‘an idea whose time has probably come’ to tackle the 80,000 cases waiting to be heard




Junior winner James Wallace Cooper wearing a bird costume at a gull-screeching contest.
Feathers fly as Derbyshire siblings go head to head in gull-screeching contest

Ten-year-old Cooper Wallace retained his title at the contest in Belgium, but his seven-year-old sister Shelby has ambitions to seize his crown




Cardinals attending a holy mass in St. Peter's Square.
Cardinals to convene for decision on start of conclave

Huw Edwards arriving at Westminster Magistrates Court, surrounded by police officers and protestors.
BBC does not have a toxic culture but must do better, review finds
Media
38 minutes ago

Illustration of Liverpool Football Club manager and players celebrating a victory, with the Premier League trophy.
The making of champions — how Liverpool won the title

Cardinals attending a holy mass in St. Peter's Square.
Cardinals to convene for decision on start of conclave






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Aftermath of a vehicle striking pedestrians at a Vancouver street festival.
Eleven dead after car drives into festival crowd in Vancouver

Police arrested a 30-year-old ‘lone suspect’ who was known to them after previous contact for mental health issues



David Boies with alleged Jeffrey Epstein victims Annie Farmer and Virginia Giuffre outside a New York courthouse.




Matt Wrack, FBU leader, smiling as he leaves a building.
Teaching union reopens general secretary election over ‘legal flaws’


More than 1,300 quango staff on salaries and benefits over £100,000


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Man carrying injured children at a hospital in Rafah, Gaza.
Inside the Gaza row splitting the British Jewish board

The Board of Deputies has launched disciplinary action against 36 members over an open letter condemning Binyamin Netanyahu for shattering a ceasefire


Pikeperch timbal with blue potato scales and beurre blanc sauce.
In France, a perfect sauce is something to fight for



Police cars and officers at a crime scene.
Drinkers may have mistaken crossbow attack suspect for fancy dress


Photo of Alfred Rosenberg with spy Bill de Ropp and others in Austria in 1938.



World



Border Security Force officer checking passports of Pakistani citizens at the Attari-Wagah border crossing.

Tensions are high on a border point between the two nuclear powers after a terrorist attack that the Delhi government blames on Pakistan


Illustration of Trump and Zelenskyy sitting in chairs, with Putin's portrait in the background.
Putin sets price of peace but ‘sacred’ war may never end





We are letting schools poison our children

The ‘ed tech’ obsession is crippling young minds while enriching US firms



Illustration of Trump and a veiled woman looking at a crucifix; speech bubble asks "Is he wearing a suit?"

Cartoon by Ella Baron



a bald man wearing glasses and a suit smiles for the camera
This deal is a betrayal of Ukraine — yet we all bear responsibility






a bald man wearing glasses and a suit smiles for the camera
This deal is a betrayal of Ukraine — yet we all bear responsibility




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Headshot of Irwin Stelzer.
Irwin StelzerApocalypse averted, for now, as the US economy hangs tough




Jeremy Renner before and after a snowplow accident.

Jeremy Renner split open his skull and broke more than 38 bones when he ran himself over with his seven-tonne vehicle in 2023


a woman wearing a blue jacket and a silver necklace looks at the camera
Professor Tanya ByronI love my wonderful fiancé — but I do not fancy him
39 minutes ago




Tom Cruise in a blue suit making a heart shape with his hands in front of a Union Jack flag.

The Hollywood legend has made big films in Britain for decades— no wonder the BFI is honouring him.We talk to Kenneth Branagh and Cruise’s co-stars and stuntmen


Louis Theroux in Hebron.
What to watch on TV this week — The Settlers and more


Triptych woodblock print of three women in kimonos at night by the Sumida River.
The British Museum’s Hiroshige exhibition is a vivid journey to Japan
Art
39 minutes ago
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A Liverpool footballer celebrating and a seated commentator.

Arne Slot delivered the Premier League title at the first time of asking — a feat that eluded some of English football’s greatest managers

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