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  • Donald Trump,Vladimir Putin<br>FILE - President Donald Trump, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands at the beginning of a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland, July 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

    Trump secretly gave Putin Covid test machines, Bob Woodward book says

  • Young children painting during an art lesson in a reception class

    School starters born during pandemic lack communication skills, Ofsted says

    English primary schools having to help infants catch up on speech and language to cope with lessons
  • Boris Johnson

    Boris Johnson hits out at ‘greedy’ Keir Starmer over freebies

    Ex-PM criticises Starmer’s decision to accept gifts, while defending award of PPE contracts during Covid

  • Severe Covid infections can inflame brain’s ‘control centre’, research says

  • Al Pacino reveals he almost died of Covid – and delivers his verdict on the afterlife

  • Boris Johnson insists he would have won July election in new book

  • Everything you need to know about Covid this autumn – podcast

  • Covid inquiry told how putting on PPE delayed treatment of dying patients

  • Kemi Badenoch faces backlash after comments on ‘excessive’ maternity pay – as it happened

  • Senior Tories cast doubt over Boris Johnson’s plan to ‘invade the Netherlands’

  • Boris Johnson: we considered ‘aquatic raid’ on Netherlands to seize Covid vaccine

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Explainers & analysis

  • Boris Johnson

    Covid, canal raids and May’s nostrils: six key takeaways from Boris Johnson’s memoir

  • A boy and a girl smile while looking at a piece of paper.

    Top A-level grades are up – but worrying regional disparities remain

    • Baroness Heather Hallett

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

    • A woman walks passed the Covid memorial wall

      Hubris and planning for wrong type of pandemic: five takeaways from Covid inquiry verdict

    • Illustration of liquid made from graph paper being poured from the box that features the words: ‘chancellor of the exchequer’

      The economy: how 14 years of Tory rule have changed Britain – in charts

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Opinion

  • Students reacts after opening their GCSE results at the City of London Academy Southwark.

    The Guardian view on GCSE results day: mind the disadvantage gap

    • Health workers collect samples for testing at the mpox treatment centre in a hospital, north of Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 17 August.

      The Guardian view on Africa’s mpox outbreak: Covid lessons need to be learned

    • Pupils from the NPTC Group of Colleges in Neath, South Wales, collecting their A-level results on 15 August 2024

      The Guardian view on A-level results day: great expectations have been met

    • Lucy Easthope

      The correct response to a disaster like Covid is to plan for the next one. I don’t see Britain doing it

      Lucy Easthope
    • Baroness Heather Hallett

      The Guardian view on the Covid inquiry’s first report: poor preparation with tragic consequences

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In depth

  • Icon of the Seas, the world’s largest cruise ship, with lots of people, pools and fairground ride-like structures on it, heads away from Miami, Florida, with skyscrapers and buildings on either side of the waterway

    Never-ending odyssey: the rise of perpetual cruises that offer the very wealthy a new home at sea

  • An Indian doctor stands by a patient in a bed holding up an X-ray while two female medics in white coats stand beside him

    ‘You feel omnipresent’: bringing city care to India’s country hospitals

    • Jemima Reilly, head teacher of Morpeth secondary school in east London.

      ‘It’s about developing relationships with pupils’: the school working to reduce suspensions

    • Composite image of 10 downing street

      Did that really happen? 14 years of chaotic Tory government

    • Natacha Gray sitting in her wheelchair.

      ‘A 30-second walk would exhaust me beyond reason’: Natacha’s life with long Covid

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Multimedia

  • Yellowing, transparent skin on a hand and forearm

    Transparent skin, bird flu, and why girls’ brains aged during Covid: the week in science – podcast

  • UK government and civil service 'failed' the public due to 'significant flaws' in preparing for Covid pandemic, finds public inquiry

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    Pandemic planning 'failed' people in Britain, Covid inquiry finds – video

    UK government and civil service 'failed' the public due to 'significant flaws' in preparing for Covid pandemic, finds public inquiry
  • A galaxy (Photograph: ESO/M. Kornmesser/PA Wire)

    A black hole awakens and why some people avoid Covid: the week in science – podcast

    Ian Sample and science correspondent Hannah Devlin discuss some of the science stories that have made headlines this week, from a glimpse of a black hole awakening, to a new blood test that can detect Parkinson’s seven years before symptoms appear, and a study exploring how some people manage to avoid Covid infection
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