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NI parties describe ‘very useful’ meetings with US delegation
Alliance Party deputy leader Stephen Farry said his party had urged the US politicians to help overcome issues with the protocol.

Oil rigs – Cromarty Firth

Windfall tax to raise £5bn, but firms promised relief if they invest in Britain

Close up of Amber Heard

Amber Heard reminds jurors ‘I am a human being’ as she returns to stand

Downing St street sign

PM’s spokesman apologises for ‘failings’ over lockdown party reports

Downing Street partygate

Pressure increases on Johnson following ‘damning’ partygate report

Kevin Spacey

Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey charged with four sexual assaults

Former US president Donald Trump

Trump ordered to testify in New York civil investigation

Ockenden report

Midwife who led Shrewsbury maternity scandal probe to chair Nottingham review

MPs pay tribute to the Queen as ‘Elizabeth the Great’

A gas hob burning on a stove in a kitchen (Andrew Matthews/PA)

Cost of living measures deemed ‘life raft’ for those struggling to keep afloat

Pregnant woman holding her stomach

‘Stress in pregnant women during the pandemic may impact babies’ brains’

Three Tory MPs call for Boris Johnson to step down after Gray report

BT workers to be balloted for industrial action over pay

MP Claudia Webbe loses appeal against harassment conviction

Prime Minister ‘apologised in person’ to cleaning staff over partygate treatment

A man insulating a loft

Insulate homes to curb soaring energy bills, Government is urged

Tributes paid to ‘beautiful’ and ‘independent’ grandmother found dead at home

Commuters crossing London Bridge, in central London (Dominic Lipinski/PA)

Net migration to UK remained steady in first part of pandemic, figures suggest

DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson (centre) speaking to the media in the great hall following his meeting with Congressman Richard Neal at Parliament Buildings, Stormont, Belfast

US Congress delegation ‘most undiplomatic visit I’ve ever seen’ – Donaldson

Sinn Fein vice president Michelle O’Neill

Stormont Assembly recalled in new bid to elect speaker

Robert Aldridge

Lib Dems celebrate former charity CEO’s appointment as Edinburgh Lord Provost

UK Government has ‘lost critical trust’ in Northern Ireland, says ex-minister

Liz Truss in Sarajevo

Truss accuses Putin of ‘weaponising hunger’ with Ukrainian grain blockade

Oceanographers Andrew McDonnell, left, and Claudine Hauri, middle, are pictured with engineer Joran Kemme after an underwater glider is pulled aboard the University of Alaska Fairbanks research vessel Nanuq from the Gulf of Alaska

An ocean first: Underwater drone tracks carbon dioxide in Gulf of Alaska

Northern Ireland has seen ‘far more grim moments’ than protocol row, says Neal

Trees in the South Downs National Park

Thousands of newly-planted trees dedicated to Queen for Platinum Jubilee

Akke Rahman on Everest

‘First’ British Muslim completes Everest climb despite Ramadan fasting

Company fined £80,000 after death of worker hit by forklift truck

Dedicated child protection teams vital to prevent future tragedies, review finds

Fridays restaurant in Edinburgh

Fridays owner Hostmore warns over profits as costs rocket

Sunak poised to U-turn on windfall tax to fund energy bills relief package

Steven Gallagher

Man has double hand transplant in ‘world first’ for scleroderma patient

Three F-15 warplanes of the Japanese self-defence force, front, and four F-16 fighters of the US armed forces fly over the Sea of Japan

Japan and US in joint jet flight after China drill and North Korean missiles

Colten Muth, 32, visits George Floyd Square in Minneapolis to mark the second anniversary of the black man’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police officers

Minneapolis renames junction to honour George Floyd

Firefighter Nate Sink cradles a newborn elk calf he encountered in a remote, fire-scarred area of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains near Mora, New Mexico

Firefighters rescue Cinder the elk calf from fire’s ashes

Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft lands

Boeing capsule returns to Earth after test trip to International Space Station

A Konik pony foal at the National Trust's Wicken Fen nature reserve in Cambridgeshire. (Joe Giddens/ PA)

Konik foals and Highland calves brought in to help manage nature reserve

British newspapers

What the papers say – May 26

Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a press conference in Downing Street, London, following the publication of Sue Gray’s report into Downing Street parties in Whitehall during the coronavirus lockdown

‘Laughing at us all’ – How the papers reacted to Sue Gray’s partygate report

Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt

Oklahoma governor signs strictest abortion ban in the US

Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a press conference in Downing Street, London, following the publication of Sue Gray’s report into Downing Street parties in Whitehall during the coronavirus lockdown

Boris Johnson shifts to cost-of-living crisis response after partygate report

Goodfellas actor Ray Liotta dies aged 67

Humza Yousaf: Scots should not be overly alarmed by rise in monkeypox cases

The two individuals found in the “Casa del Fabbro” or

First human genome from Pompeii sequenced

Russian invasion of Ukraine

Government to investigate Ukrainian concerns over accommodation centres

The Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge, perform the Ascension Day carol from the top of the Chapel Tower at St John’s College, a custom dating back to 1902

Choir sings from top of 163ft tower at Cambridge college

Ex-Labour MP Claudia Webbe urged to quit Parliament after conviction appeal loss

The Doctor Who Worlds of Wonder exhibition at World Museum in Liverpool (Robin Clewley/PA)

Daleks and Cybermen move into museum for Doctor Who exhibition

Cabinet Meeting

One-off payments are not the right approach, says woman left with just £12

Cabinet meeting – Dublin

Monkeypox ‘inevitable’ in Republic of Ireland, says deputy PM

‘Desperate’ customers buying less food as incomes fall, warns Asda chair

A 'hands, face, space' sign

UK was unprepared for communication challenges that came with Covid, MSPs told

How Johnson, Sunak and other senior ministers previously condemned windfall tax

Police witness PC Ashley Tomlinson arrives at Capital House in Edinburgh for the public inquiry into Sheku Bayoh’s death

Sheku Bayoh inquiry: Police officer found chewing gum in search for knife