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  • A police cordon at the scene of a stabbing in Belfast

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    Northern Ireland minister urges calm after ‘horrific and brutal’ knife attack in Belfast – UK politics live

    He praised members of the public for intervening to protect the victim
  • A police officer walks past a marked police car parked outside a fenced building

    Girl arrested after two students and staff member stabbed at Manchester school

  • WeChat, Telegram, Facebook, Instagram,TikTok Messenger, Snapchat and X logos on a phone screen

    UK regulator orders social media firms to adopt measures to stop viral illegal content

  • Amazon workers sort and pack items at its fulfilment centre in Peterborough, England

    Amazon’s main UK arm handed £7.6m tax credit as profits soar to £355m

  • Beach in Spain with blue sky beyond

    Summer holiday bookings down amid ‘apprehension’, says UK travel industry

  • GSK offices in London

    GSK makes biggest ever acquisition with $10.6bn for US cancer drug firm

  • Police at the scene of the stabbing in north Belfast on Tuesday morning

    Man seriously injured in Belfast stabbing Starmer describes as ‘sickening’

  • AI deepfake video of Nigel Farage confronting Andrew Bailey in the Question Time studio

    Bank of England warns of AI scams as deepfakes of Farage-Bailey fight spread

  • Nigel Farage

    Unions rebuff Farage and say Reform ‘cosplaying’ as workers’ champions

  • A boy in a white T-shirt holds a smartphone with both hands, focused on the screen

    White House urges UK not to ban social media for under-16s

    Trump administration says restrictions could impose ‘disproportionate’ burden on US tech companies
  • The defence secretary, John Healey, looking at a Storm Shadow missile

    Rows over defence investment plan ‘have badly harmed cabinet relations’

  • Keir Starmer in a dark suit and burgundy tie stands with hands clasped in front of Union Jack flags

    Is Keir Starmer trying to build a legacy or just getting on with the job?

  • Eight women of varying ages stand in front of a temporary structure with signs advertising the support on offer from the scheme; they are smiling and look welcoming.

    Pilot ‘hyperlocal’ job support scheme in England shows promising signs of effectiveness

  • Kemi Badenoch in Aberdeen.

    Badenoch to vow to scrap public sector equality duty in effort to fend off Reform

Analysis & explainers

  • A Falcon 9 SpaceX heavy rocket lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral

    SpaceX IPO: how can I buy shares, and what are the risks?

  • Young people with covered face gesture toward riot police holding shields on a residential street in Southampton

    Vance leads charge of US officials using Henry Nowak murder to push anti-immigration agenda

  • A man draped in a union jack confronts a line of riot police

    How did the notion of ‘two-tier policing’ evolve, and does it really exist?

  • Mark Nowak, speaking to the media outside Southampton crown court beside members of his family and others

    How Britain was rocked by Henry Nowak’s murder – and why the US intervened

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  • On the byelection campaign trail with Andy Burnham – podcast

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  • The party dragging Nigel Farage further to the right – podcast

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    What National Audit Office report reveals about royals’ property affairs

  • A young man in a dark shirt looks directly at the camera with a serious expression

    Boom Box: the story of undercover police who set up a fake music studio in London

  • A large bin burns as violent clashes erupt in Southampton.

    ‘It’s horrible how scared people were’: Southampton picks up the pieces after night of violence

  • Arooj Shah in a navy blazer stands between two weathered stone lion statues in a garden

    Toxic identity politics ‘tearing’ us apart, says former Oldham council leader

Health & science news

  • MRI scan on a digital screen showing lung cancer with tumours highlighted in orange.

    Doctors and NHS could be sued for mistakes made by AI tools, report warns

  • Staff in a hospital ward

    More than 1,300 deaths a month in England due to long A&E waits, figures suggest

  • Healthcare worker talking to a patient who is receiving an MRI Scan

    Record number of people waiting for NHS diagnostic tests in England

  • A hospital worker in blue scrubs pushes a metal trolley past the entrance to Leicester General Hospital

    NHS hospitals adopt faster, more accurate at-home bladder cancer test

  • Emergency exit slide test

    Air passengers ‘risking lives by grabbing bags and filming in emergencies’

  • A worker in silhouette stands before intense flames and molten metal in an industrial steel facility

    EU quota system ‘could kill Ukrainian steel industry’, boss says

  • The Daphne Steele building at the University of Huddersfield

    Healthy cooperation: how northern universities are linking with NHS trusts to drive innovation

  • Debbie Crosbie

    Nationwide nearly doubles CEO’s pay packet to £4.7m despite bonus row

  • Gannets with pale yellow heads perch on dark, streaked rock ledges at Bass Rock colony in Scotland

    Call to phase out ‘inhumane’ guga hunt by working with Hebridean islanders

  • An octopus with mottled orange and grey skin rests on encrusted rocks among kelp underwater

    Octopus surge spreads up UK coast as far as Scotland, study finds

  • A grayling with scaled body and prominent dorsal fin swims underwater with sunlight streaming from above

    Fisher with a mission: first woman to chair Grayling Society wants to protect ‘lady of the stream’

  • Aerial view of the receding coastline from the tower of St Mary’s church, Happisburgh

    Grave in Norfolk of 119 sailors may be exhumed due to coastal erosion threat

  • A woman in dark clothing plays a cello in a historic wood-panelled room08/06/26 Ipswich, Suffolk, England Ali Smith for The Guardian

    Cello belonging to artist John Constable to be played for first time in 100 years

  • Roddy Doyle with glasses and a grey beard smiles in front of a building with arched windows

    Booker prize launches new Quick Read in effort to boost adult reading rates

  • Lenny Henry in a brown jacket and orange shirt stands on stage smiling, with large text behind him reading 'still at large'

    Lenny Henry says racism in UK ‘still at large’ as he tours standup comeback

  • Shania Twain holding a guitar on stage

    ‘So rogue’: country superstar Shania Twain turns London pub into saloon

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