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    What a mother's suicide reveals about the care system

    Matilda Davis, the 'completely broken' parent-carer who took her own life. Her child's face has been blurred out.
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    Endless jousters … Game of Thrones: The Mad King.
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    Consumer confidence at near two-year high as World Cup and UK holidaying lift summer spending

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    Belgium
    Gangs using Airbnb-type rentals as drug stash houses, top Belgian official says

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    Five years of Taliban rule
    ‘We are still here’: a day in the life of 12 Afghan women

    In the five years since the Taliban’s return to power, the walls have been closing in on the women and girls of Afghanistan. A dozen women and girls have, at great risk to their safety, documented their lives for the world to see

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  • Matilda Davis, the 'completely broken' parent-carer who took her own life. Her child's face has been blurred out.

    Carers
    Matilda in pieces: what one mother’s suicide reveals about the carers broken by the system

    Parent-carers of disabled children are exposed to chronic levels of extreme stress and often reach crisis point before help is available – then they face a ‘fight for basic support’, experts say. This is Matilda Davis’s story
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    Water
    They cannot even flush their toilets: life in east London blocks where taps often run dry

  • A portrait of 12-year-old school shooting victim Naphat Chaima is displayed in front of her coffin during her funeral at the Wat Lat Pla Duk Buddhist temple in Nonthaburi province, Thailand.

    Gun violence
    Parents mourn a 12-year-old mass shooting victim, and a father pleads for forgiveness

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    The long read: Given the size and age of the universe, it should be full of species with technology far more advanced than our own. But so far there is no trace
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    Martin Rowson on the drought and Britain’s water companies

    While the hot summer and hosepipe bans continue, bosses at many utilities firms are receiving pay rises
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    Big interview
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    The former Olympic super-heavyweight champion tells Donald McRae about taking satisfaction from changing British boxing for the better, but that he still wants to train a world champion

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    US
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    China
    More than a million people evacuated in China as record rainfall dumped on Shanghai

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    Press freedom
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    UK
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    UK weather
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    Mourinho review – if he didn’t want to open up, maybe he shouldn’t have starred in a docuseries…

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    ‘Better behaviour, more focus’: how a scheme to provide pupils with fresh fruit and veg transformed learning

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    ‘Retailers can make healthy options more visible’: why food marketing matters for the nation’s health

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    ‘We need a shift in the food environment’: what will it take to make healthy eating easier for families?

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    Film
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    Film
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    TV tonight
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    Film
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    Music
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    Review
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    Games
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    Summer games previews
    Pony Island 2 Panda Circus: gallop out of hell in this phantasmagorical follow-up to 2016’s indie hit

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    Classic games
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    Review
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    Opera
    The Galloping Cure review – powerful new opera tackles the opioid crisis with bite and black comedy

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    Classical music
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    Film
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    Travel
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    Food
    José Pizarro’s recipe for peach and moscatel granita

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    How I shop
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    Outdoor design
    From outdoor rugs to mood lighting: how to transform a small outdoor space

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    ‘Lip-smackingly sour’
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    Food
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    Food
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    Pass notes
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    Fantasy house hunt
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