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The UK has entered its third heatwave so far this year, with temperatures predicted to climb as high as 35C in some parts of the country later this week.

Around 2,000 more women were admitted to mother and baby homes and Magdalene Laundries in Northern Ireland than previously estimated, a report has found.

The prisons watchdog has said it will keep a close eye on criminals released early from jail under a government scheme, amid concerns that rapists could be among them.

The UK financial system is at increased risk from artificial intelligence (AI), the Bank of England has said.

Four councillors who voted to allow a rapist taxi driver to keep his operator's licence have resigned from a Scottish council's committee.

A murder investigation has been launched after a mother and her two children were found dead at a home.

British wildcard Arthur Fery has staged a second consecutive fightback to reach the Wimbledon quarter-finals.

A man has admitted trying to murder his estranged wife in a knife attack as she made her way to a doctor's appointment with their daughter in a buggy.

Women with suspected endometriosis will be able to get a much quicker diagnosis with new tests at their GP surgery - rather than take the "best part of a decade" for the condition to be detected.

Women who have been failed by maternity services have called on the government to act now to tackle the crisis as "women and babies are dying".