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Thu 27 Aug 2026
Rescuers transport an elderly woman rescued from an old age home following the flash flood in Trishuli Bazar, Nepal.
Latest updates
Nepal flash flood: search on for hundreds missing near Tibet border as officials warn death toll could rise higher
Man with dark hair and black-rimmed glasses wearing a maroon zip-up jacket.
Politics
Burnham drops support for political funding cap aimed at curbing mega-donors
silhouettes of two children
Immigration and asylum
Forty children reported missing from UK asylum hotels still not found
Rhys Hibbert stands with Hani Marcus outside the hospital, which is a red-brick building. Hibbert is 48, with short fair hair; he wears a pale blue shirt and dark blue suit jacket plus glasses.
Technology
London neurosurgeons perform first successful AI-assisted operation to remove brain tumour
A balcony solar power station on railings on an upper level of a house
Solar power
Plug-in balcony solar panels to go on sale in UK for first time
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In focus

Pat McFadden gestures while talking with Juliet Campbell and a young Boots employee in a warehouseWork and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden, with Broxtowe MP Juliet Campbell and employee Saqib (surname not given), during a visit to the Boots warehouse in Nottingham to meet the first young people starting jobs as part of the 'Jobs Guarantee' scheme, which offers subsidised jobs for 18-24-year-olds who are on UC and having been looking for work for 18 months. Picture date: Wednesday August 26, 2026. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Joe Giddens/PA Wire
Youth unemployment
‘Work is good for you’: how UK scheme could help tackle youth mental health crisis
Environment
Japan killed 14,000 bears after a rise in deadly attacks on people – but will it work?
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Features

A man and a woman stand back to back with arms crossed. A red light swirls around them.
Psychology
How to spot a psychopath: ‘It’s like the difference between a domestic cat and a wild cat’
Stage
Jeers, walkouts, stage invasions: will Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists trigger British audiences too?
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The long read

Mjøstårnet, the world's tallest wooden skyscraper.
The flat-pack skyscraper: how wood can shape the cities of the future
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Opinion

Burnham speaking after his victory in the Makerfield byelection in June.
quote  Andy Burnham should rip up our undemocratic first past the post system – even if some in Labour disagree
Neal Lawson
quote  My home state is set to hand a breakthrough to the German far right. It’s a disaster decades in the making
Marcus Böick
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Sport

Sávio shouts with tongue out, raising both arms while celebrating a goal
Football
Sávio savours debut goal as Spurs coast to emphatic Carabao Cup win over Charlton
Cricket
Derbyshire police investigating alleged assault in connection with Carse arrest
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Podcast

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Black Box: episode 4 – Bing and I – podcast
Podcast | 42:27
 
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Climate crisis

A woman walking by London Bridge shields herself from the sun with an umbrella.
Climate crisis
‘National scandal’: extreme heat linked to 40,000 deaths in England between 1988 and 2025
Wildfires
‘You can taste the ash’: surviving in America’s wildfire smoke capital
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Business & technology

Nvidia's logo and name displayed on the exterior of its headquarters building
Technology
Nvidia’s quarterly revenue doubles to nearly $100bn as CEO declares ‘golden age’
Jeffrey Epstein
Ex-JPMorgan Chase executive shared confidential bank information with Epstein