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Tokyo Olympics 2020: Adam Peaty wins breaststroke gold for Team GB
Live / Tokyo Olympics 2020: Adam Peaty wins breaststroke gold for Team GB
Rolling report: More golds up for grabs as Games reach their third day
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Coronavirus / Doctors warn over increasing number of young people with Covid in ICU
Exclusive / More than 250 convicted of child sexual abuse in UK and Ireland while in Scout movement
'Happiest moment since 2011' / Tunisia president sacks government, sparking jubilation
Tokyo Olympic Games
Adam Peaty wins GB’s first gold at Tokyo 2020 and makes Olympic history
Swimming / Adam Peaty wins GB’s first gold at Tokyo 2020 and makes Olympic history
Adam Peaty retained his Olympic title as he swept to victory in the 100m breaststroke and won Great Britain’s first gold of the Tokyo Games
Triathlon / Yee claims silver medal behind Blummenfelt
Cycling / Kiesenhofer wins as Van Vleuten mistakes silver for gold
Gymnastics / Biles leaps into action but USA’s gap over rivals narrows
Equestrian / Dujardin cruises into Olympic individual dressage final
Coronavirus
Poor mental health leaves pupils one-third as likely to pass five GCSEs
Education / Poor mental health leaves pupils one-third as likely to pass five GCSEs
Study warns of ‘double hit’ to prospects after Covid crisis disrupted learning and affected wellbeing
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Running throughout the Olympics and Paralympics, a guide to the day’s highlights and the best that is yet to come
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The authority gap: why women still aren’t taken seriously
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When journalist Mary Ann Sieghart set out to document the ways that women are held back by a cultural presumption of their inferiority, she found reams of data to support her case – and heard stories of how it affects even the most successful women in the world. She explains why the authority gap persists, and asks what we can do about it
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Culture
Jeanette Winterson / ‘The male push is to discard the planet: all the boys are going off into space’
‘The male push is to discard the planet: all the boys are going off into space’
Museums / Dennis Severs’ House recreates his eccentric tours based on found tapes
Spain / Departures at high-profile Barcelona museum provoke anger in art world
Environment
Roses out, olives in: the new English garden in a time of climate crisis
Roses out, olives in: the new English garden in a time of climate crisis
Why the Marble Arch Mound is a slippery slope to nowhere
Business
'Pingdemic' / Additional emergency workplace testing to be introduced in England
Additional emergency workplace testing to be introduced in England
Horizon IT scandal / UK government sets aside up to £233m to cover Post Office payouts
Technology
The Pegasus project / Emmanuel Macron ‘pushes for Israeli inquiry’ into NSO spyware concerns
Emmanuel Macron ‘pushes for Israeli inquiry’ into NSO spyware concerns
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