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Follow updates from the league-stage clash, including the build-up, analysis and live text commentary of the game.
Follow updates from the league-stage clash, including the build-up, analysis and live text commentary of the game.
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<p>Outage shows danger of growing reliance on small number of big companies for our digital infrastructure, say experts</p><p>It happened again. A power outage hit a datacentre in London, and things cascaded from there: multiple banking services faltered, court hearings were put on hold and patients reported temporary glitches on the NHS app.</p><p>The datacentre in question was in Google’s europe-west2-b zone, one of over a dozen “zones” that the US search giant maintains in Europe to service its clients.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/20/power-outage-google-datacentre-london-widespread-disruption">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Latest report paints a painful picture of the care sector during the pandemic. But timid recommendations and a lack of accountability threaten to undermine it</p><p>Of all 10 reports due to be published by the long-running Covid-19 inquiry, this week’s findings on adult social care were especially anticipated.</p><p>The impact of Covid-19 on the care sector was calamitous: tens of thousands of people died, staff were forced to wear bin bags due to a lack of protective clothing and relatives were banned from seeing their loved ones in their dying days.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/20/covid-inquiry-recommendations-fail-to-impress-bereaved-families">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Jurors in harassment trial told reporters who had written about far-right activist feared ‘vigilante attack’</p><p>Tommy Robinson told the Daily Mail’s editor he would make the paper’s journalists and their families “famous”, the harassment trial of the far-right activist has been told.</p><p>The threat was made in a voicemail message left on the phone of Ted Verity as Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, allegedly waged a campaign of harassment against journalists from the newspaper.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/20/tommy-robinson-threatened-families-mail-journalists-famous-court-hears">Continue reading...</a>
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has posted an AI-generated video mocking the devastation in Gaza.