The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are planning to move back to the UK, BBC News understands.

As first reported by the Daily Telegraph, external and the Sun,, external Prince Harry and Meghan intend to relocate from the US later this month to a private, non-royal residence outside London.

The couple's children, Prince Archie, seven, and Princess Lilibet, five, are enrolled to start at a British school in September.

King Charles was told of the move on Sunday. There are no current plans for either Prince Harry or Meghan to resume their roles as working Royals.

The Sussexes and their children visited the King at his Highgrove home in July this year, but it is understood the move was not discussed.

The BBC understands the King was unaware of the move before last weekend but he welcomes the opportunity to see more of the Sussex family in a private and personal capacity.

But there will be no expected change to the official status of Prince Harry and Meghan and they will remain as private individuals.

Prince William and Princess Catherine have also been informed of their plans.

The couple's move from California comes after they left the UK and royal duties in early 2020.

Family relations had been strained since, with July's visit to the King and Queen Camilla being a key development in their relationship.

The Palace described the meeting at the King's private home in Gloucestershire as a "private family occasion".

It was the first time the King had seen his grandchildren in person in more than four years.

Prince Harry and Meghan had not been in the UK together since 2022, when they attended the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.

Security for the couple has long been a point of tension, with the July visit being reconsidered because the duke's request for police protection was rejected.

Last year, Prince Harry lost a legal challenge over the levels of security he and his family are entitled to while in the UK.

The Duke had sought to overturn a decision that had downgraded his security after he stopped being a working royal and moved to the US with the Duchess.

Prince Harry had previously said that worries about safety have prevented him from coming to the UK and bring his wife and children.

Three members of the same family who died after getting into difficulty in the sea off Shoreham have been named by police.

Hassan El-Khawas, 55, and Zeina Alayn, 37, and their 14-year-old daughter Sara El-Khawas are thought to have gone into the water near Shoreham Fort on Tuesday, Sussex Police said.

A younger girl from the same family, who was pulled from the water with them, remains in hospital in a critical condition.

Police said the family had travelled from their London home to visit Shoreham and after reviewing CCTV footage investigators say they believe the deaths were a tragic accident with no third-party involvement.

The Palestinian Forum said the family were British citizens of Palestinian origin, with roots in the Rashidieh refugee camp in Lebanon. Earlier, the Palestinian embassy in London told the BBC that Hassan El-Khawas had been a refugee.

Adnan Hmidan, chairman of the Palestinian Forum in Britain, said the community was "deeply shocked and saddened" by what had happened.

He said two other children were on the shore at the time of the incident.

"Our thoughts and prayers are with the entire family, particularly the children, who are facing an unimaginable loss," he said.

The Palestinian Embassy in London said it was closely monitoring the incident and contacting British authorities to establish the circumstances and check on the condition of the girl in hospital.

A statement issued by the embassy sent condolences to the family and the UK's Palestinian community and wished the girl a speedy recovery.

Both incidents drew international condemnation.

The IDF said of the killing of Hind: "Due to alleged failures in the co-ordination of the movement of the Palestine Red Crescent ambulance, it has been decided to initiate a criminal investigation of the incident by Military Police Criminal Investigation Division."

It added that the findings of its examination "indicate that IDF troops fired at a vehicle" that was "travelling contrary to the advanced notice that had been published in an announcement by the IDF Spokesperson to residents of the area".

The IDF initially stated that none of its troops were in the area at the time of Hind's killing. However, that suggestion was soon questioned.

The IDF later said it had "conducted raids on terror targets" with forces operating in neighbourhoods in Gaza City, including Tel al-Hawa, where Hind was located.

Hind's killing was internationally condemned after a desperate recording of her speaking to paramedics of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) was broadcast around the world.

The sound of Hind's fragile voice on the other of the line that day haunted the Red Crescent operators long after her death, as she described seeing tanks directly in front of the car, moving towards her.

"Hide under the seats," the operators told her. "Don't let anyone see you."

Operator Rana Faqih stayed on the line with Hind for hours, as the Red Crescent team appealed to the Israeli army to allow their ambulance to access the location.

Faqih said the child appealed to her over and over again for someone to come and rescue her.

"At one point, she told me it was getting dark," Rana told the BBC in February 2024. "She was scared. She asked me how far away my house was. I felt paralysed and helpless."

Three hours after the call began, an ambulance was finally cleared to approach the area, and was despatched to rescue Hind.

It was after dark when the crew - Yusuf al-Zeino and Ahmed al-Madhoun - notified operators that they were nearing the location, and were about to be checked for entry by Israeli forces.

It was the last operators heard from them – or from Hind.

After that, the line to both paramedics, and to the girl they came to rescue, disconnected for good.

The PRCS later confirmed that both Yusuf al-Zeino and Ahmed al-Madhoun were killed when the ambulance was bombed by Israeli forces.

"The [Israeli] occupation deliberately targeted the Red Crescent crew despite obtaining prior coordination to allow the ambulance to arrive at the scene to rescue the child Hind," the organisation said in a statement.

The story was made into an Oscar-nominated film called The Voice of Hind Rajab.

The UN cited her case in a commission of inquiry, accusing Israel of war crimes, which it denies.

Following the Israeli army's announcement, the Hind Rajab Foundation, which is based in Brussels and seeks to address alleged Israeli violations in Gaza, said it had "no confidence" in the investigation.

"These reported investigations, even if they do occur, should not be mistaken for a genuine step toward justice," it said in a statement.

It added that Israel's internal investigations were "fundamentally flawed and cannot be regarded as credible mechanisms of accountability".

The IDF's statement on Wednesday said: "For more than a thousand days, the IDF has been conducting intensive combat across numerous fronts, carrying out a wide range of military missions in an exceptionally complex operational reality.

"As part of the IDF's obligations under international law and Israeli domestic law, the IDF examines exceptional incidents that occurred during combat."

Aside from the criminal investigation into Hind, her family and the paramedics, the IDF also said it would investigate the killing of 15 Palestinians, after an IDF unit fired on ambulances, a fire engine and a marked UN vehicle, in the Tal al-Sultan area of Rafah in southern Gaza during an emergency call-out early on 23 March 2025.

Their bodies were found buried in shallow graves a week later next to the crushed vehicles.

The Israeli military initially said its troops fired on "suspicious vehicles" driving in darkness with their headlights and emergency lights off.

But it later said that account was "mistaken" after a video found on the mobile phone of one of the dead paramedics, Rifaat Radwan, showed the convoy was using its emergency lights.

In Wednesday's statement, the IDF said: "Following review of the findings, having found that the firing conducted during the incident raises a reasonable suspicion of criminal misconduct, it has been decided to initiate a criminal investigation of the incident."

In three other cases, including the killing of seven World Central Kitchen employees in Deir al-Balah two years ago, and four employees of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), who were killed in two incidents, the IDF said it had not found grounds for criminal investigations.

World Central Kitchen said it "strongly" condemned the Israeli military prosecutor's account of the deaths of its seven colleagues in 2024 and demanded an independent investigation.

This is the first time a comprehensive IDF report on alleged war crimes has been published since the start of the Gaza war, triggered by the Hamas-led attacks on Israel on 7 October 2023.

More than 73,000 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel launched its military campaign, including about 1,200 since a ceasefire was announced last October, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry - figures considered reliable by the UN.

The IDF is under pressure to show it investigates itself to try to stave off international legal action, most notably from the International Criminal Court.

It aims to counter accusations that it has committed war crimes and that there is impunity for its forces.

However, Israeli rights groups say that criminal investigations of Israeli forces rarely lead to convictions.

Ziv Stahl, executive director of Israeli human rights group Yesh Din, told the BBC that "almost no indictments are filed in relation to the number of complaints against soldiers and commanders for offences committed.

"In the even more rare cases where soldiers or commanders are convicted, they receive disproportionately lenient sentences that bear little relation to the severity of the offences."

Correction: The initial version of this story and breaking news notification said Hind Rajab was aged six. The copy was updated after it was later confirmed she was aged five

A convicted people smuggler who was found by the BBC to be living in Leicestershire has been arrested and charged with immigration offences.

Twana Jamal Khdir, an Iraqi national who was once described as "the godfather" of the French migrant camps, previously served a sentence for people smuggling in France.

Last month, the BBC revealed he was now living in the UK.

The BBC has been told he was arrested on Tuesday near Uppingham in a joint operation led by the Midlands Criminal Financial Investigations team, with the support of Leicestershire Police.

He was charged by the Crown Prosecution Service and appeared at Leicester Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.

He pleaded guilty to entering the UK without valid entry clearance, but not guilty to seeking to obtain leave to enter or remain by deceptive means.

He has been remanded in custody and will next appear at Leicester Crown Court on 5 October.

Khdir was given a five-year jail sentence in France in 2016, where authorities described him as one of the most successful people smugglers ever caught.

Prosecutors said the Iraqi Kurd, aged 36 at the time, had earned up to £100,000 a week for moving illegal immigrants across the Channel.

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has recently declared a national outbreak, external of salmonella food poisoning after one person died and hundreds more fell ill with the bug.

Although not yet proven, imported eggs or dishes containing them are the leading suspects as to the cause.

Evidence also suggests people caught the bug while eating out, rather than at home - with catering and food services such as restaurants, cafes or take-aways likely to play a part.

But there is still a lot to be discovered.

What do we know and what questions remain?

A new personalised vaccine given in combination with a drug has stopped skin cancer returning in patients during a trial, representing a potentially watershed moment in cancer treatment.

The vaccine, developed by drug companies Merck and Moderna, was given to patients with high-risk melanoma, a type of skin cancer, after they had surgery.

Early results show this new jab extended the length of time these patients were cancer free, but it's unclear for how long, according to an announcement by the two firms.

Cancer experts say this is a breakthrough, but emphasise caution as the full results have not been released or peer-reviewed whereby independent experts examine and check the trial findings.

And even after the trials process has finished, the treatment would still need to be approved by regulators and then go through another approval process before it was made available on the NHS.

The vaccine, called Intismeran, was given in combination with Keytruda, an immunotherapy drug already used in cancer treatment.

Compared with taking the Keytruda on its own, the companies said taking the drug and vaccine together significantly increased the time patients remained cancer free and reduced the risk of the disease spreading to other organs.

The phase three trial involved more than 1,000 patients who had high-risk stage two, three or four melanoma - meaning they ranged from having large tumours in a specific area to cancers which had already spread to other parts of the body.

A SpaceX rocket has made an unexpected appearance off Christmas Island after touching down in the Indian Ocean following a test flight from Texas on 24 July.

David Watchorn, chair of the Christmas Island Tourism Association said he initially thought he was looking at ships on his way to work, before realising it was "a rocket, a space rocket" being towed.

The 52-metre long rocket has caused a stir among locals, with some "sneaking out" of work for a glimpse, and others preparing their boats for a closer look at the debris.

"It's really incredible to think about what it's been through," Watchorn told the BBC.

"The more and more you look at it, the more fascinating it's becoming".

Samburu county is a popular tourist destination with many private wildlife conservancies and is renowned for its stunning landscape.

Images from the scene show smoke at the wooded crash site on Mount Ololokwe, as members of the Kenya Red Cross approach the still-burning wreckage.

Ecuador has not given details about the death of Sensi-Contugi, 44, who was named director general of the Strategic Intelligence Center in 2024.

The president's office led tributes on behalf of the government to express sadness over the death of the intelligence chief.

Former President of Ecuador Guillermo Lasso mentioned he had died in the helicopter crash.

Lady Lori Helicopters, which operated the the Eurocopter EC130 B4 aircraft, said it was "deeply saddened" by the accident.

"Our deepest sympathies are with the guests, crew, their families and loved ones, and all those affected by this tragic accident," a statement read.

According to a memo seen by the BBC's US partner CBS News, external one of the Americans killed in the crash was NBCUniversal journalist José Alberto Suárez.

In the memo, NBCUniversal called Suárez "a deeply respected leader and beloved friend and colleague.

"José was an exceptional colleague and mentor to many," the memo read.

Miami restaurateur Roger Duarte was among the Americans killed in the crash, according to local and US media.

Commenting on his death on X, US Rep Carlos Antonio Gimenez wrote: "Our prayers are with their loved ones during this incredibly difficult time. May their memories be a blessing."

The four other American victims have not yet been identified.

Earlier reports had suggested seven people, six tourists and a pilot, were killed in the crash.

Helicopter crashes are not uncommon in Kenya.

In February, a helicopter crash in the Rift Valley county of Nandi killed six people, including a member of parliament.

In 2024, the military chief, Gen Francis Omondi Ogolla, died after an army helicopter that was carrying 11 people crashed in the west of the country, with only two survivors.

In June 2021 at least 10 soldiers were killed when their helicopter crashed while landing near the capital, Nairobi.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said it was building more prisons while exploring early release options and expanding electronic tagging.

The figures come after Prime Minister Andy Burnham made more prisoners exempt from the upcoming early release scheme following backlash from victims.

Burnham came under further pressure after the killers of PC Andrew Harper would still be eligible for early release.

PC Harper, 28, was killed in 2019 when he was dragged by a car down a country road as three teenagers fled the scene of a quad bike theft in Berkshire.

Last week, Burnham said he was "confident" PC Harper's killers could be excluded from the government's early release scheme

On August 3, Burnham said in a written article, external he had "wanted to go even further" but had "pushed to the very limits of what is possible to do".

A spokesperson for the MoJ said "public safety will always be our priority".

"We are fast-tracking a plan to keep more of the most serious offenders behind bars, on top of murderers, anyone on life sentences and those in prison for rape, serious child sexual abuse and grooming offences who are already blocked from any changes," they said.

"We share the public's anger that these options are even being considered, after we inherited a prison system on the brink of collapse."

New behavioural guidance for asylum seekers has been published by the Home Office.

A nine-page booklet covering issues including respect in public, sex and consent, and gender equality, has gone online, with guidance on how laws and customs in the UK may be different from the home country of asylum seekers.

The Conservatives said any asylum seekers breaking UK law should be deported and Reform UK claimed the publication of the document meant the government "knows that they are a menace".

A Home Office spokesman said: "We expect everyone who comes to the UK to abide by our laws. If they do not, they will face consequences, including the refusal of their asylum claim and removal from the UK."

According to the latest Home Office figures, a total of 93,525 people applied for asylum in the UK from April 2025 to March 2026, which was down by 12% on the same period in the previous year.

The booklet sets out how asylum seekers must understand UK law, because the consequences of breaking the law mean "you could get in trouble with the police, lose your asylum support, or it could affect your asylum claim."

A section on gender, external explains that women in the UK have equal rights to men, and do not need the permission from a husband, father, brother or any other man to do things like work, study, travel, or make decisions.

Another section on sex and consent sets out how both people must agree to sex or sexual contact of any kind, and consent cannot be given if someone is asleep, drunk, or unable to respond.

And a section headed Respect in Public outlines how it is not acceptable to whistle or make kissing noises at people on the street, nor "make sexual comments to someone, even if you think it is a compliment".

The guidance also contains contact details for organisations for victims and those seeking help with the issues raised.

The Home Office spokesman added: "Returns of failed asylum seekers have reached their highest level since 2010 under this government."

The latest government figures show nearly 70,000 illegal migrants and foreign criminals have been returned or deported from the UK since Labour came to power in July 2024.

The BBC understands nearly 10,000 foreign criminals, including murderers and rapists, have been removed since the last election – a 36% increase on the previous 21 months.

Israel has built about 160 settlements housing 700,000 Jews since it occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem - land Palestinians want, along with Gaza, for a hoped-for future state - during the 1967 Middle East war. An estimated 3.3 million Palestinians live alongside them.

Despite the fierce international opposition, successive Israeli governments have allowed settlements to grow.

However, expansion has risen sharply since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned to power in late 2022 at the head of a right-wing, pro-settler coalition, as well as the start of the Gaza war, triggered by Hamas's 7 October 2023 attack on Israel.

Under international pressure, Israel held off for decades on plans to build in E1.

Many of its allies and Palestinians argued these would deal a major blow to hopes of a two-state solution, effectively bisecting the West Bank.

But the current Israeli government gave the go-ahead for E1 construction a year ago, expressly to "erase" the idea of a Palestinian state.

Despite an Israeli court challenge to the plans by Bedouin Palestinians living in the area and Israeli peace groups, the housing ministry has now issued a tender for 1,234 of the 3,401 housing units approved by the Israeli government last August.

It covers about 12 sq km (4.6 sq miles) between East Jerusalem and the settlement of Maale Adumim.

At the time of their unveiling, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who is ultranationalist and settler, said the idea of a Palestinian state was "being erased".

The deadline for bids is 19 October, just days before Israel's general election on 27 October. That should enable the government to sign deals with contractors that it would be much harder for a future government to cancel.

Pupils in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will receive GCSE, BTecs and other Level 2 results on Thursday, with some grades in England available through an app that is rolling out for the first time.

Schools and colleges will distribute grades in person, but from 11:00 BST pupils at more than 750 schools in England will also be able to see their grades on their phones.

Results this year come as the government in England plans to boost technical education and address a growing number of English and Maths GCSE resits.

Last year, 67.4% of all GCSE entries were graded 4/C or above.

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A month before Lindsay Clancy killed her three children, she went to her mother and then-husband and told them she had "thoughts of harming the children".

Clancy's mother Paula Musgrove testified this week that during that time Lindsay would say: "'This isn't me, I've never been like this before.' And I would agree, because she wasn't."

Clancy is not disputing that she carried out the killings, but has pleaded not guilty to murder charges. Her defence argues that Clancy was suffering from postpartum psychosis when she took her children's lives.

Her symptoms included hallucinations and delusions that began after the birth of her third child.

"She was unable to conform her behaviour to the rule of law and she had no appreciation for the wrongfulness of her act," Paul Zeizel, a clinical and forensic psychologist, said on the stand on Wednesday.

Prosecutors, meanwhile, alleged she made a calculated decision to intentionally kill her children - Cora, five, Dawson, three, and Callan, who was eight months.

With postpartum psychosis, a rare condition that is considered a medical emergency, patients can experience mania, depression or a mixture of both.

They also endure psychotic symptoms, such as hearing voices that aren't there.

In uncommon, severe cases, they may harm or kill themselves or other people.

It is among the most serious illnesses a woman can experience after giving birth, experts told the BBC, but it remains unclassified in medicine's encyclopaedia of psychiatry.

The illness is gaining more attention as Clancy's trial approaches the one-month mark, and has opened up a dialogue about the mental health complications that women can experience after giving birth.

When a CNN reporter earlier this week asked Trump about Ossoff's comments, the White House reacted angrily later on its official X account, saying the reporter, Kristen Holmes, had taken a "cheap shot" at a staff member.

"Someday, your children will come across your disgusting and inhumane question," another post directed to Holmes read. "They will be sickened and embarrassed to have a parent be so callous and vindictive."

Harp's presence as a staffer is nearly constant in Trump's second term.

Reporters at the White House frequently see her standing just feet away from Trump in the Oval Office or boarding Air Force One for many of his domestic and international trips.

"She's always around," one source close to the White House told the BBC. "Literally, always."

Among White House insiders and members of the press, she is often referred to as the "human printer" because she is often spotted carrying a portable printer to provide Trump with hard copies of articles and social media posts, which he prefers.

In practice, this means that Harp has an outsized ability to control what information or updates Trump receives, according to another source familiar with White House operations.

Other anonymous sources have described her to US media outlets as a "gatekeeper" and "comfort blanket".

Harp also serves as something of a social media scribe for Trump, posting to his Truth Social account on his behalf.

In one image that has been widely shared in the aftermath of Ossoff's comments, Harp is shown typing a post - in the president's own writing style - as he dictates to her while watching a speech of Kamala Harris in 2024.

Amid the recent focus on Harp, the White House has described her as a "trusted and valued" member of the team, although Trump has rarely spoken about her on camera.

Ossoff was one of many Trump critics who noted Harp was reportedly on the plane that the president boarded to leave Turkey after the US supposedly received information about a threat from Iran.

Reporter Haberman, who has also reported extensively on Trump's presidencies, was asked during an appearance on the news network MSNOW why Trump took Harp with him on the secret plane: "Because she is sort of his binky, for lack of a better way of putting it, a comfort blanket."

Haberman and Swan reported for the New York Times in 2024 that Harp had supposedly written in a letter to Trump: "You are all that matters to me."

Canada and the US are finalising a highly anticipated trade deal, with President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Mark Carney touting it as a success.

Trump said the proposed deal will be welcome by US farmers and manufacturers, while Carney said it will secure "the best terms" for Canada's strategic sectors and provide certainty on the future of US-Canada trade.

Trade negotiators met on Wednesday for the third time in as many days on Wednesday and after Trump paused a new wave of tariffs he had threatened to impose overnight on a range of Canadian goods.

But details on what the agreement covers, what concessions both sides have made, and what still needs to be ironed out, remain unclear.

Speaking to reporters briefly on Wednesday after a 45-minute meeting with his Canadian counterpart, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said the Americans are "very happy" with the latest discussions.

He said he will soon brief Congress and US stakeholders on the deal's details.

"We feel confident that we've reached an agreement that will not only continue to protect American workers, American jobs, American supply chains, but really strengthen the North American economy," Greer said.

The deal eliminates "some of the irritants" that the US has had with Canada, he added.

Nick Kyrgios once said there was "zero chance" he would be playing tennis into his 30s.

But it was at the age of 31, while attempting another comeback from serious knee and wrist injuries, that he tested positive for a metabolite of cocaine at June's Mallorca Open.

In a post on social media, Kyrgios said it was a "huge mistake" for which he takes full responsibility.

But he added that recent injuries - he has only played eight tournaments and won two matches since the start of 2023 - have taken a huge toll on him.

"Coming to terms with being near the end of my career has been harder than I ever imagined," he added.

Kyrgios will not be able to play until his case is resolved because of a mandatory provisional suspension.

But although he faces a potential ban of up to four years, his suspension would be limited to a maximum of three months if he can prove the drug was taken out of competition.

An English athletics coach and former gold medallist said by media reports to be missing is serving a prison sentence in Morocco for sexually assaulting a minor, BBC Sport can reveal.

Leon Baptiste, who was coaching a clutch of top British track athletes in the run-up to this summer's Commonwealth Games and European Championships, suddenly went off the grid more than three months ago.

Neither UK Athletics, for whom he worked as a consultant sprinting coach, nor the sprinters he coached knew why he was out of contact.

In May, Baptiste sent the group of athletes he coached a short message saying he would be absent from training "for a while". They have been given no further explanation.

Over the weekend, he was reported in the media as being "missing" and was said to have disappeared in Morocco.

On Tuesday, a brief email was sent to the people coached on behalf of Baptiste - the 200m gold medallist at the 2010 Commonwealth Games - in which he resigned from the position, citing unspecified ill health.

A source at the Moroccan Ministry of Justice confirmed to BBC Sport that Baptiste was arrested in Marrakech in May, has subsequently been convicted and is now serving a custodial sentence in Al-Oudaya prison.

Baptiste was originally sentenced to 10 months in prison, later reduced to eight months on appeal.

"In relation to the reports concerning the alleged 'disappearance of Leon Baptiste' - an English athletics coach reportedly missing in Morocco for more than two months under questionable circumstances - please note that the information published in this regard is inaccurate and does not reflect the facts of the case," said the source.

"The foreign national concerned had not lost contact with his surroundings and was not subject to any disappearance or unexplained absence.

"He is currently being held at the local prison in Marrakech, where he is serving a custodial sentence following his conviction by the competent judicial authorities in connection with a misdemeanour case."

They added Baptiste, 41, was "in good health".

A man aged 82 is facing a life sentence in prison in Germany, after going on trial and admitting to a murder that mystified the city of Koblenz for almost 32 years.

Amy Lopez from Texas was last seen alive in September 1994, heading for Ehrenbreitstein Fortress in Koblenz while on a tour of Europe.

Her body was found at the site two hours later.

Hans S, who was 49 at the time, was arrested at a retirement home in the area last February after a DNA trace found on Lopez's clothing was matched to saliva he had provided during a cold-case investigation.

His full name has not been revealed because of German privacy rules.

Prosecutors believe the attacker met Lopez by chance on the steep path to the fortress.

They accuse Hans S of luring her into a secluded area beneath the fortress, known as the General von Aster room after a 19th-Century Prussian general. He is then alleged to have sexually assaulted and stabbed Lopez nine times.

Prosecutors accuse him of murder and of "base motives to satisfy his sexual urges".

The court was packed for the first day of the trial on Tuesday, an indication of the notorious nature of the murder in the Koblenz area of western Germany.

The defendant entered the courtroom with a walking frame and, after his defence counsel said he admitted carrying out the crime, the presiding judge asked him to confirm that was the case, and he said "Yes".

Although an expert psychiatric opinion commissioned by prosecutors considers the suspect to have been criminally responsible at the time of the crime, a final opinion will not come until the end of the trial.

A verdict is expected early next month.

Four years ago a trace of DNA was detected on fragments of skin found on the victim's trousers because of improved forensic techniques.

However, there had been little movement in the case for decades, until Koblenz authorities set up a special cold-case investigation team last year. There had been repeated appeals to the public and the case was even highlighted last year on a national TV unsolved crime show.

Although several leads emerged from the programme, it was only when police began taking saliva samples from volunteers that they made an arrest at a residential home near Koblenz. Prosecutors spoke of a clear DNA match for one of the traces.

Asked why Hans S had provided a sample, his lawyer told German news agency DPA that the case had "weighed heavily" on him and he had wanted closure.

The suspect had already been convicted of a sexual offence in 1999, but police at the time did not have sufficient DNA evidence to link him to the 1994 killing.

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When Joe Root left the field for the first time in his second stint as England's Test captain, he did so with Harry Brook's arm over his shoulder.

Two Yorkshiremen. Two England batters. The only two candidates when England needed to replace Ben Stokes as skipper.

Brook could have appeared scorned after being overlooked for his friend and team-mate. Root could have been keen to show he is the one with the power once again.

Instead, the pair dovetailed throughout as England took the first steps in recovering from previous turmoils to dismiss Pakistan for 171 on day one of their new era at Headingley. It was an encouraging start.

Root had already celebrated his return by winning the toss and watching Ollie Robinson take a wicket with the game's first ball, and the match was only five balls old when Brook's influence was first felt.

As Pakistan number three Shan Masood poked, Brook, who has shown himself a canny tactician as white-ball captain, suggested a reinforced gully region.

Root, who was criticised for his feel during his first spell in charge, was happy to agree, though a ruthless streak was soon shown when Jofra Archer was hooked from the attack after two wayward overs with the new ball.

Positioned at mid-off rather than the slips, and with his two young children watching on, he expertly controlled the flow of the game.

Root has made the move from the slips - where he has taken more than two thirds of his joint-record 218 Test catches - to make it easier for him to be in the ear of his bowlers.

It also allowed him to ensure the ball was always returned to the bowler via their captain. Nothing could happen until the 35-year-old had let go of the ball.

Captaining from mid-off was a tactic used by Root's predecessor Stokes and former skipper Michael Vaughan – another influential figure in Root's career, having come through the same Sheffield club.

"I might not be as dynamic as Ben but we'll see if we can make it work," Root said on Tuesday.

In Ollie Robinson, Jofra Archer, Gus Atkinson and Josh Tongue he has an exciting pace quartet but one still raw.

Marcus Rashford said he would like to play football without his "name being mentioned every day" after Gary Neville tried to start a conversation about the Manchester United forward on a podcast.

Rashford replied to a clip of the Stick to Football podcast in which Jamie Carragher expressed his frustration when former United defender Neville asked for thoughts on Rashford.

"Can we do a podcast without mentioning Rashford?" Carragher said.

"Stop it. Oh my God. It's like the Trent [Alexander-Arnold] and Rashford… like a little part of the podcast. The Trent part or the Rashford part."

Rashford replied to the clip in a post on X, saying: "Thanks, Jamie. It would be great to be able to get my head down and play football without my name being mentioned every day."

The 28-year-old looks set to stay at United after spending last season on loan at Barcelona, with whom he won the La Liga title.

His last competitive appearance for United came under former manager Ruben Amorim in December 2024, but he could feature in their Premier League opener against Hull on Saturday.

Speaking after United's 4-2 friendly defeat by AC Milan on Saturday, defender Harry Maguire said he hoped Rashford would stay at Old Trafford because he is a "big asset" and a "huge threat".

Much like it is a tradition for a footballer to take away the match ball after scoring a hat-trick, a bowler will pocket the cricket ball after claiming a five-wicket haul.

But what happens if two bowlers take five-wicket hauls in the same innings?

England seamers Ollie Robinson and Josh Tongue came up with a solution after they snared five apiece on the opening day of the first Test against Pakistan.

"Robbo said we can split the ball in half," Tongue told Test Match Special. "The groundstaff have kindly done that.

"It's the first time I've seen that happen. I'm sure I'll be putting that up somewhere."

Robinson showed off his half in a media conference and explained: "We were walking off the field.

"Josh said it and I said: 'We actually should do that, it would be quite cool.'

"You don't really have too many halves of a cricket ball, so it would be something that we never forget."

The efforts of the pace-bowling duo helped Joe Root get off to an ideal start on the first day of his second stint as England Test captain.

Tongue claimed 5-46 and Robinson 5-51 to skittle Pakistan for 171 after England won the toss. The home side moved to 112-2 by the close in Leeds.

Tongue and Robinson are the first pair of England bowlers to register five-wicket hauls in the same Test innings since Steve Harmison and Monty Panesar against Pakistan at Old Trafford in 2006.

They led England off the field at Headingley hand in hand, hatching their plan to make one ball into two halves.

"Wayne Bentley, the team manager, took it down to the groundstaff," said Robinson.

"I said: 'Do you reckon they will be able to do it?' Within five minutes he brought it back up and it was done. It's really nice."

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A man and a woman have been charged with international drugs trafficking offences as part of an investigation involving police in the UK and Nigeria.

Oladipupo Atandare, 50, from Dagenham and Latifat Yusuf, 44, from Hornchurch were arrested following the seizure of more than 180kg (397lb) of cocaine in the UK on 5 August.

They appeared at Barkingside Magistrates Court on 8 August and were remanded in custody. They will next appear at Snaresbrook Crown Court on 7 September.

The Metropolitan Police said the arrests related to solely the UK drugs seizure, but inquiries are continuing into the discovery of a similar-sized amount of cocaine in Nigeria.

On Tuesday Nigerian authorities said they had discovered 184.5kg of cocaine, worth about £20m, in brown boxes at a courier facility in Lagos.

There have been a series of arrests in Nigeria, including a logistics company employee and a social media influencer with nearly 700,000 followers on Instagram.

An ADHD charity has said it has complained to media regulator Ofcom about a Channel 4 documentary that suggested the condition is a myth.

The programme, titled The Great ADHD Myth?, was broadcast on Tuesday and its host, NHS psychiatrist Dr Max Pemberton, concluded it was "a social construct, not a disorder of the brain".

ADHD UK filed a complaint, saying: "ADHD is not a myth. It is not a social construct."

The Royal College of Psychiatrists also warned against "invalidating the condition".

Channel 4 defended the show, saying there is "considerable public debate on various aspects of ADHD" and it "is legitimate for that debate to be explored and for conventional understandings to be challenged".

The programme featured experts who are sceptical about ADHD and the way it is treated.

It also followed a 10-year-old boy who stopped his medication and made lifestyle changes to see how it affected his behaviour. The documentary ended with his mother saying he would stay off the drugs for the time being.

A caption at the end of the programme said the boy went back on his medication two months after filming and his school performance improved, but that he wanted to come off them again in the future.

ADHD UK said, external: "The programme's own end credits told you what its 60 minutes wouldn't: the boy at its centre went back on his medication, and his schoolwork improved.

"Their experiment disproved their conclusion. They aired their version anyway. We have already complained to Ofcom."

There was also criticism from Prof Subodh Dave, president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, external, who acknowledged that people "may have their own opinions about the diagnosis and treatment of ADHD", but said: "Invalidating the condition does a disservice to people with ADHD and professionals involved in their care."

He added: "The focus should be on improving access to high-quality assessments and care by addressing waiting lists that leave many people without vital support for years at a time, not questioning the legitimacy of a well-established neurodevelopmental disorder."

Another charity, ADHD Embrace, raised concerns with Channel 4 in advance, external, warning the programme risked "perpetuating misinformation about ADHD as a condition and discrimination against those families whose lives have been severely impacted by the condition".

In a statement, Channel 4 said: "This documentary does not deny the lived experience of those diagnosed with ADHD, but does present the view of an extensive range of senior medical experts - many of whom work or have worked with the NHS or have held presidential roles at professional membership bodies - who seek to question the conventional understanding of ADHD and if it is a neurodevelopmental condition.

"They also ask whether modern living has contributed to a rise in diagnoses, and whether there may be better alternatives for some children than medication."

The channel also said the programme sought to explore whether societal factors were contributing to the rise in diagnosis and medication, especially among boys.

Channel 4 said: "Whilst the film does not seek to provide answers from one family's experience, their experiences have opened up discussion around whether today's world is equipped to accommodate ADHD behaviours and the ethics of medicating these, particularly in children and particularly when the long-term effects remain unknown."

The Guardian called the programme "the most controversial show of the year", external, and its four-star review said the documentary "will incense and offend some of its viewers", but that "Pemberton answers his questions convincingly".

The Times also gave four stars, external, saying much of the documentary "felt convincing, or at least the start of a necessary discussion".