Symeon Brown , News Correspondent

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.

A 60 year-old man stabbed to death in the evening sunshine; and a teenager killed in his own home in the early hours of Thursday morning. Just two of the latest high-profile, violent incidents in London this summer.

The statistics on the number of deaths from knife crime are stark. Some 548 people were murdered using a knife or bladed object in 2020.

Denmark’s team doctor has confirmed Christian Eriksen – the player who collapsed during Denmark’s opening game against Finland yesterday – suffered a cardiac arrest during the match but was now stable in hospital.

The R rate, showing how rapidly Covid infections are transmitted, has risen again in England.

The Home Office acted “unlawfully” when it housed asylum seekers in “unsafe” conditions at a former barracks, the High Court has ruled.

Hundreds of Afghans who worked for the British military, mostly as interpreters, are to be allowed to settle in the UK, along with their families.

Jack Merritt was 25 when he was stabbed to death in the London Bridge terror attack, and Saskia Jones just 23. An inquest jury declared they had been unlawfully killed and a series of damning failures by police and security agencies contributed to their deaths.

An MI5 officer has told the inquest into the 2019 Fishmongers Hall terror attack, the intelligence service could not have prevented the atrocity, in which two students were killed.

Two people have been treated in hospital after a fire badly damaged a high-rise tower block, with a similar style of combustible cladding used on Grenfell Tower.

Hospitals are overwhelmed, crematoriums overflowing and oxygen is so scarce that people are turning to the black market.

Almost a million cases have now been recorded in just three days – putting already overstretched hospitals under even more strain.