JULY - 2024 - LONDON : Dame Laura Rebecca Kenny is a former British professional track and road cyclist who specialised in track endurance events (Photography by Graeme Robertson / The Guardian )Dame Laura Kenny has been revealed as a new columnist for the Guardian for the 2024 Olympic Games, writing regular columns from Paris. Laura Kenny is the most successful British female Olympian ever, winning five gold medals at three consecutive Olympic Games for Team GB, at London 2012, Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020. Star Olympic columnists will share their views throughout the Games, including celebrated Olympic cyclist Laura Kenny and Olympic rower Cath Bishop. If you wish to speak with a Guardian editor, journalist or columnist about the 2024 Olympic Games, email your bid to media.enquiries@theguardian.com. Notes to editorsAbout Guardian News & MediaGuardian News & Media (GNM) publishes theguardian.com, one of the world’s leading English-language news websites.

SEVERAL airports have gone old school after a global IT outage caused airport chaos. Images of whiteboards being used by staff at major airports have gone viral on X, formerly Twitter. Both Belfast International Airport and Manchester Airport have resorted to using whiteboards as they try to work around the tech issues. Meanwhile, schoolcomms - a communication app used by over 3,000 schools - says it is among the many companies affected by the outage. Cybersecurity software firm CrowdStrike say they have identified the issue behind the global outage as a flawed anti-viral update.

Andrew Peck, a cyber resilience PhD researcher at Loughborough University who, prior to joining the institute, had a career delivering IT solutions to big industry, healthcare and government, and Professor Oli Buckley, an expert in cyber security, have reacted to the IT outage news. Cyber resilience asks, ‘how do we survive something going wrong?’, whereas cyber security asks ‘how do we stop something bad happening?’. The outage appears to be caused by a poorly written update from a cyber security vendor. "Ironically, Falcon's role is to protect devices from cyber threats by monitoring for intrusions or suspicious activity and then it should block it. "This is a complex bit of software that can update the way a system behaves to try and keep them safe from attack."

There has been disruption at airports around the world, as well as banks, supermarkets and media outlets, after Windows workstations were hit by a 'blue screen of death'. Long queues of passengers formed in airports in the UK, US, India and Spain as some airlines warned of delays and grounded flights

LONDON: Britain's new Labour government said on Friday it would resume funding to the UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA and called on Israel to allow more aid to enter Gaza.Britain was one of several countries to halt their funding to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) following accusations by Israel that some agency staff were involved in the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel that triggered the Gaza war.British foreign minister David Lammy told parliament he was reassured that the agency, which provides education, health and aid to millions of Palestinians, had taken steps to "ensure it meets the highest standards of neutrality" and the government would now provide 21 million pounds ($27.1 million) in new funding.Lammy said malnutrition in Gaza was now so severe that mothers could not produce breast milk for their children and the rates of diarrhoea were 40 times their normal rates and polio had been detected." Humanitarian aid is a moral necessity in the face of such a catastrophe, and it is aid agencies who ensure UK support reaches civilians on the ground," he said. "UNRWA is absolutely central to these efforts. No other agency can deliver aid at the scale needed. "Other countries including Japan, Germany, Italy, Australia and Canada have resumed funding to the agency.Israel accuses UNRWA of complicity with Hamas, saying the militant Islamist group was embedded within the UN agency's infrastructure.A review, led by former French foreign minister Catherine Colonna , published in April said Israel had not provided evidence for its accusations that hundreds of are members of militant groups .In February, Britain's then-foreign minister David Cameron said he wanted an "absolute guarantee" that UNRWA would not employ staff who were willing to attack Israel.Cameron was replaced by Lammy as foreign minister following the Labour Party's July 4 election win.

Former wrestler Hulk Hogan took the stage at the Republican national convention on Thursday, giving a speech riddled with wrestling metaphors. 'You know something, I've seen some great tag teams in my time. Hulk Hogan and oh yeah, the 'Macho Man' Randy Savage. But you know something, I see the greatest tag team of my life standing upon us, getting ready to straighten this country out for all the real Americans,' Hogan said► Subscribe to Guardian Australia on YouTube

Mumbai Airport said that the global IT outage affected some airline operations. Booking, check-in, access to boarding passes and flights likely to be impacted.Hyderabad Airport said services of airlines impacted. "Digital infrastructure issues have temporarily impacted online and airport operations across multiple airlines and airports globally. "We are experiencing technical challenges across various aspects of our operations due to a global outage at our service provider's end. The University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH) canceled all non-urgent operations and closed outpatient clinics at its hospitals in Kiel and Luebeck.Additionally, the IT issue impacted production at Tesla's plant outside Berlin.

"She was spending her days really burdened with so much pressure," Mayata's coach said FridayKiyoshi Ota/Getty Shoko Miyata on June 11, 2023 in Tokyo, Japan. Japanese Olympic gymnast Shoko Miyata is set to miss the 2024 Paris Olympics for smoking. Related: Gabby Douglas Breaks Silence About Injury That Ended Her Paris Olympics Bid: 'Very Bittersweet' (Exclusive)Naomi Baker/Getty Shoko Miyata on November 01, 2022 in Liverpool, England. Japan has not medaled in the women's gymnastics team all-around competition since the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. The 2024 Summer Olympics will be broadcast live from Paris from July 26 to Aug. 11 on NBC.

I discovered they were also involved in training for the emergency services, pretending to be casualties in mocked-up disasters. They were strategically positioned in car wrecks, derailed trains and various other emergency scenarios, and pretended to have sustained injuries. I’m able to give important feedback, too. I look after my health because I’m planning on doing this until I’m at least 100. I’ll keep being cut out of cars as long as I’m physically able to climb into them.

Read our privacy policy Thanks for signing up to theBreaking News email {{ #verifyErrors }} {{ message }} {{ /verifyErrors }} {{ ^verifyErrors }} Something went wrong. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }}A drone allegedly launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels hit near a US embassy office in Tel Aviv, killing one person and injuring eight. The Israeli military said in a statement on Friday they believe a falling “aerial target” caused the explosion. The Israeli military claimed the commanders had conducted multiple attacks against Israel. Tel Aviv’s mayor, Ron Huldai, wrote on X that the city was on “heightened alert” in light of the drone attack.

Athletes from Australia, South Africa, Japan and the US were some of the first to arrive in the Olympic village in Saint-Denis. The village will host more than 20,000 athletes and delegates for the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics. Laurent Michaud, director of the Olympic and Paralympic villages, says that only 1,500 residents have arrived so far► Subscribe to Guardian Australia on YouTube

Rieko Hirosawa, who herself is blind, has learned how to play the shamisen and sing the songs of the goze, blind and visually impaired women who earned a living as itinerant musicians and who numbered in their hundreds at their peak in the late 19th century. She is at the heart of a movement to protect the legacy of the goze.

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The King's Speech contains the much anticipated announcement of a Football Governance Bill. So what are the key measures proposed for the regulation of football in this bill, and what might they mean in practice for English clubs? Clubs will require a licence in order to operate as professional football clubs. English football clubs are facing a new era of governance and regulation. The king's speech sees a return for the football governance bill, which the previous government could not pass before the election.

I wrote about my curacy experience, and when things fall apart in a curacy, in Prospect magazine. I would even come and teach it.”So, I’d begin with George du Maurier’s famous “curate’s egg” cartoon (Punch, November 1895), to break the ice. The bishop knows that the curate has got a bad egg. Instead, he pokes gently at the curate: “I’m afraid you’ve got a bad egg, Mr Jones.” How will Mr Jones answer? A curate’s egg.