The NHS faces a near-record workload, with more than seven million people in England alone awaiting hospital treatment. Three million have been in the queue for more than 18 weeks.
On June 26 it will be ten years since the devastating attack at the Tunisian beach resort of Port El Kantaoui, in which an Islamic State-inspired gunman killed 38 holidaymakers.
Chinese warships were discovered just 150 nautical miles east of Sydney, marking the furthest south Beijing's navy has ever ventured along Australia's eastern coastline.
Britain's child obesity crisis has been laid bare after it emerged at least nine youngsters aged between ten and 14 needed the operation as a result of their weight problems in the last five years.