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Ford siblings make history, landing medals on same day

As schoolchildren, Tom and Emily Ford once rowed in the four alongside their older brothers John and Ed for the Grange School. Given that half that boat would go on to become Olympic medallists at Paris 2024, you’d assume that they would have been absolutely unbeatable, and yet all the talent did not quite come together.

Khelif puts gender row to one side to reach semi-final

Imane Khelif scribbled words onto the canvas with her hand after dropping to her knees in celebration. The Algerian boxer had just overcome Anna Luca Hamori in the Olympics to advance to the women's welterweight semi-finals amid the gender controversy that clouds Paris 2024.

'That's me done' - Whitlock misses out on medal to end glittering gymnastics career

An emotional Max Whitlock held back the tears after he was unable to sign off his decorated gymnastics career with a fourth consecutive Olympics medal – as Rhys McClenaghan won Ireland’s first ever gymnastics gold in a high-level pommel horse final.

Alfred beats Richardson in 100m sprint to win gold

Runner beats US favourite to make history for Saint Lucia

Singapore hangs man for trafficking 36g of heroin

Singapore has executed a man for trafficking 36.93g of heroin, making it the city-state's second hanging this year.

US will send ships and jets to defend Israel from Iran

Fears grow of all-out war after assassination of Hamas chief

Girl, 9, fighting for life after siblings are struck by a bus

A nine-year-old girl was in a life-threatening condition last night after she and her five-year-old brother were hit by a bus.

Ex-BBC chair heaped praise on 'poor Huw' during radio show but knew of his arrest

The former chair of the BBC thanked disgraced newsreader Huw Edwards for his \"huge contribution\" despite knowing he had been arrested in November 2023.

Fit and just 27...a young life cut short by cardiac arrest

The family of a fit and healthy father who died suddenly aged just 27 have spoken out to raise awareness of the condition \"sudden cardiac death\".

Number of prisoners being released into homelessness increases by a third in a year

The number of people released from prison into homelessness has risen 30 per cent in a year despite a major new scheme to house departing offenders, The Independent can reveal.

'I've got up at 4am to work before the children wake'

Families speak about how they are juggling their jobs with childcare as the cost of summer holiday clubs goes up and up

Boy accused of killing three girls starred in BBC advert DDC

The teenager accused of murdering three girls in Southport once starred as The Doctor, from Doctor Who, in a BBC Children in Need advert, according to reports.

Teenagers with machetes.battle each other by seaside

Multiple arrests sees boy, 16, charged with attempted murder

Far-right protesters clash with police across the UK

Anti-Islamic chants heard as violence sweeps the country

Let's get ready to tumble! Pair take bronze to set new diving record for Team GB

Jack Laugher and Anthony Harding continued Britain's perfect start in the diving pool, with four events entered and four medals now won.

Redemption for Craig and Grant after Tokyo heartache

In Emily Craig’s house, there is a picture of the agonising photo finish that shows her and Imogen Grant missing an Olympic medal by just 0.01 seconds. But in the city of Monet, Degas, and Chagall, they created their own masterpiece with a sensational gold medal in the “grand finale” of a three-year revenge tour.

Page bounces back in style to claim trampolining gold

No one does bouncing back quite like Great Britain’s first-ever Olympic trampolining champion.

Lin wins first boxing bout as gender controversy rages

Lin Yu-ting raised a hand at the bell after three rounds, the lights of the North Paris Arena bouncing off her shiny red glove as relief washed over her. An act of defiance amid all the noise with her Olympic dream still alive.

Russian roulette... security concerns are just one issue facing Royal Mail buyout

Czech billionaire must undergo ministerial scrutiny as he bids on Britain's ailing postal service, writes Chris Blackhurst

First-time buys fuel demand.for mortgages as rates drop

Building society Skipton has ramped up the amount it has on loan to first-time homebuyers, who it said are driving demand for mortgages, despite facing currently high borrowing costs. It also said more savers were shopping around for better rates and locking away their money into ISAs.

Starmer shows he's tough on crime - and cosy caricature

The Conservative attack on Keir Starmer for being a typical north London human rights lawyer never really took hold, and now we can see why. It was Boris Johnson who started it, calling Starmer a “lefty Islington lawyer” as if he, Johnson, had not lived there for decades, and Rishi Sunak continued it, although it never seemed to come so naturally to him.

Musk's misinformation made the Southport horrors worse

It’s unlikely that Elon Musk has ever heard of Southport, far less visited it. He has five or six companies to run, after all, and has been busy this week sounding off about Venezuela, Kamala Harris, puberty blockers, and why the legacy media lie to you.

'I told the Russians, I'll be back sooner than you think'

Freed dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza says his removal from Russia was illegal and that he will return to his motherland

Israeli assassinations push Middle East to brink of war

'People are not understanding the gravity of what this is,' one analyst tells Bel Trew, while Gaza ceasefire talks are derailed

Trump's attacks on Harris revive 'birther' conspiracy

Donald Trump's false claims that Kamala Harris \"happened to turn Black\" and only recently \"became a Black person\" have inflamed racist conspiracy theories surrounding his Democratic rival.

NHS cuts mean thousands of new nurses without jobs

Newly qualified nurses have been left struggling to find entry-level jobs, as budget cuts have forced the NHS to cut vacancies by a quarter, The Independent has learnt.

How XY chromosomes are key to gender controversy

Differences in sex development being put under microscope

Carini wants to apologise to Khelif for boxing bout row

Italian boxer Angela Carini says she “wants to apologise” to Imane Khelif for how she handled the moments after their controversial bout at the Olympics and “would embrace her” if she saw her again.

Celebrity posts about Khelif cause an anti-trans pile-on

Anti-trans rhetoric is being spread by high-profile figures including JK Rowling and Liz Truss after a dispute erupted at the Olympic Games when a boxer abandoned her fight against her opponent after 46 seconds.

Make way, older people, for Starmer's quiet revolution

During their 14 years in power, the Conservatives prioritised older people over younger adults to appeal to their core vote. The average pensioner household is now better off after housing costs than the average working one across most income levels.