Symeon Brown , News Correspondent

After the death of George Floyd in May last year, Black Lives Matter protests spread to every corner of the world.

As the UK debates its heritage and history, what about its future?

He was one of the biggest sports stars of his generation, and it all began on a south London housing estate. Now former England footballer Ian Wright has written a children’s book inspired by that journey.

Record-shattering rainfall brought unprecedented flash flooding to New York City overnight, as the remnants of Hurricane Ida hit the east coast of the US.

An inquest jury has concluded the Streatham terror attack may have been prevented, if the attacker had been recalled to prison when he bought items used in his fake suicide belt, but that his killing was lawful.

July was the hottest month ever recorded, according to American government scientists. Both global land and ocean temperatures were 0.9 degrees centigrade above the 20th century average. Countries from Asia to Europe have been scorched by heatwaves and wildfires, while extreme weather of another form, flooding, has also left a trail of devastation. Symeon Brown…

Wildfires in Greece have flared back up and are now threatening Athens.

There’s ample evidence of the increasing frequency of extreme weather events. Wildfires, often started by human hand, but fuelled by baking heat, are tearing through forests around the globe.

Policing is still riddled with racial disparities, say MPs – more than two decades after the Macpherson report into the Stephen Lawrence murder exposed the extent of “institutional racism” in the police.

France will double the number of police patrolling its beaches after receiving more than £50 million from the UK government to reduce the number of people trying to cross the English Channel.

In Iraq, at least 92 people have lost their lives in a devastating fire at a hospital ward treating coronavirus patients.

In South Africa, six people have been killed and more than 200 arrested as violence escalates  over the jailing of former president Jacob Zuma.

Adults who have been fully vaccinated against coronavirus and children will not have to quarantine on their return from amber list countries to England from 19 July. 

At least four people are confirmed to have died in Cyprus amid what one government minister called the “most destructive” forest fires in the country’s history.

More deadly consequences of climate change are being felt around the world as at least two people are dead and 19 reported missing after a mudslide crashed into rows of houses near Tokyo following torrential rainfall.