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Rare Rubens notebook sheet goes on display in artist’s home city of Antwerp
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Rare Rubens notebook sheet goes on display in artist’s home city of Antwerp

Double-sided page featuring a sketch and text sheds new light on the baroque master and his time living in RomeMore than 400 years ago, the up and coming Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens toured the streets of Rome, notebook in hand, sketching images from Renaissance works adorning the city’s church...

Jennifer Rankin in Brussels
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Peter Murrell pleads guilty to embezzling £400,000 from SNP
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Peter Murrell pleads guilty to embezzling £400,000 from SNP

Ex-husband of Nicola Sturgeon admits reduced charges in court after deal with prosecutorsPeter Murrell, the former chief executive of the Scottish National party, has pleaded guilty to charges of embezzling £400,310.65 from the party after agreeing a deal with prosecutors.Murrell, the ex-husband of...

Severin Carrell Scotland editor
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Metro Bank investors urged to reject executive pay report
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Metro Bank investors urged to reject executive pay report

Bonus scheme that could hand CEO a £60m windfall is ‘significantly out of line’ with market, says proxy adviserInvestors in Metro Bank are being urged to vote against the lender’s pay report next month, in protest of a complex bonus scheme that shareholder advisers say is “significantly out of line”...

Kalyeena Makortoff Banking correspondent
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Parts of England expected to hit 35C in ‘unprecedented’ May heatwave
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Parts of England expected to hit 35C in ‘unprecedented’ May heatwave

Monday predicted to be hottest May day on record by large margin, as UK braces for ‘super El Niño’ summerTemperatures are expected to hit 35C in parts of England on Monday, in an “unprecedented” May heatwave.The Met Office is already predicting that records will be broken. A spokesperson said: “Toda...

Helena Horton
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Misinformation about perimenopause on social media ‘putting women at risk’
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Misinformation about perimenopause on social media ‘putting women at risk’

Dangers include unintended pregnancies, taking unnecessary medication and missed diagnoses, say expertsMisinformation about perimenopause is putting women at risk of unintended pregnancies, unnecessary medication and missed diagnoses, experts have said.Awareness of menopause and treatments such as h...

Nicola Davis Science correspondent
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Weather tracker: flash floods in New York and a heat dome in Europe
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Weather tracker: flash floods in New York and a heat dome in Europe

Rain overwhelms sewer system in parts of US city, while temperatures in France break May recordNew York City saw flash flooding on Wednesday, as large parts of Brooklyn and Queens received about 2in (50mm) of rainfall in as little as 20 minutes. Officials said the deluge caused water to flow into th...

Lauren Herdman (Metdesk)
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Focus on jobs, not benefits, to cut welfare bill, says thinktank
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Focus on jobs, not benefits, to cut welfare bill, says thinktank

Hitting government’s target of getting 80% of workers into jobs would reduce cost of universal credit by £10bnTackling the root causes of joblessness, instead of cutting benefits, is the best way to get the welfare bill down, and polling shows voters support that approach, according to research by t...

Heather Stewart
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‘A bridge, not an obstacle’: is Armenia a new crossroads between east and west?
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‘A bridge, not an obstacle’: is Armenia a new crossroads between east and west?

As former Soviet Republic goes to the polls, it finds itself in a strategic tug of war between Russia, the US, Turkey, Europe and AzerbaijanTo describe Yerevan, a charming city of liberal values encased in imposing Soviet architecture, as the centre of the world is a stretch, but Armenia’s claim tha...

Patrick Wintour in Yerevan
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NHS spends record £241m outsourcing scan analysis to private firms
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NHS spends record £241m outsourcing scan analysis to private firms

Radiologists say ‘ballooning’ costs reflect staffing failures, forcing a reliance on lower-quality private scan reportsThe NHS is paying private firms record sums to analyse diagnostic scans because hospitals are too busy and understaffed to do the work themselves, research has revealed.The amount b...

Denis Campbell Health policy editor
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