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Weather
Storm Éowyn hits UK and Ireland: 1,000 flights cancelled amid ‘danger to life’

One dead, rail and ferry services also badly hit and hundreds of thousands of people left without power

Foreign policy
British Council could disappear within a decade, says chief executive

Exclusive
Just Stop Oil protester, 78, has jail term extended after no suitable tag found

US
Trump’s controversial Pentagon pick Pete Hegseth confirmed by Senate

Art
Carl Bloch’s lost masterpiece Prometheus Unbound finds fame again in Athens

Trump administration

Pete Hegseth
Five things to know about the new US secretary of defence

Hegseth has been accused of sexual assault and excessive drinking, and has endorsed extremist Christian doctrine

US foreign policy
US orders halt to virtually all foreign aid except for Israel and Egypt

US
Trump and Vance back anti-abortion activists in March for Life speeches

Alaska
Indigenous Alaskans and Republicans dismayed by Trump’s Denali renaming

In focus

Axel Rudakubana
From ‘unassuming’ schoolboy to Southport killer

How a chain of events apparently beginning at school five years ago led to the murder of three girls in horrific atrocity

Overtourism
‘I have no neighbours’: overtourism pushes residents in Spain and Portugal to the limit

Israel
‘We don’t know what will happen’: northern Israeli town holds breath as Lebanon ceasefire to end

Spotlight

Music
‘Everything I wanted was offered to me. But I felt nothing’: singer Self Esteem on stardom, self-doubt, and making it in a man’s world

Review
The Traitors finale – the deliciously evil end game kicked this series into hyperdrive

Blind date
‘We asked a fellow diner to take our photo. It turned out she was a fan of the column!’

Opinion

Marina Hyde

Back by unpopular demand, the great Heathrow expansion show. If only planes ran on hot air

How ‘stroke’ politics saddled Ireland’s new government with a fox in the hen house

Justine McCarthy

Edith Pritchett on millennial life
My lifelong driving lesson

Sport

Australian Open
Keys embraces change to earn second final chance

Give us our GOAT back: tribalism remains a bar to appreciating Djokovic’s greatness

Barney Ronay

Manchester United
‘He is a magician’: how Amorim overcame his first crisis at Casa Pia

Podcast

Today in Focus
Southport attacks: the failures that allowed Axel Rudakubana to kill – podcast

The murders of three little girls in the seaside town led to horror – and then racist riots. Now the teenaged killer has been sentenced to 52 years. Josh Halliday reports

Climate crisis

Environment
UK climate and nature bill dropped after deal with Labour backbenchers

Climate crisis
How the world has responded to Trump’s Paris climate agreement withdrawal

Business

Economics
Signs of returning UK inflation give Bank of England interest rate dilemma

Utilities
Thames Water credit rating slashed as administrators approached

In pictures

Twenty photographs of the week
The week around the world in 20 pictures

Photos of the day
Snakes, a sniper and Captain Cook

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