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Getty ImagesEmily Armstrong was revealed as Linkin Park’s new singer earlier this month Linkin Park founder Mike Shinoda has insisted the band’s new singer is not trying to replace original frontman Chester Bennington.The band announced a comeback earlier this month and revealed new music recorded with vocalist Emily Armstrong – a choice that has angered many fans.Chester took his own life in 2017 and his son, Jaime, has accused the remaining Linkin Park members of “quietly erasing” his father’s “life and legacy in real time”.Speaking to Radio 1’s New Music Show on Monday, original bandmate Mike Shinoda said their return…

Getty ImagesGP services in England and Northern Ireland faced huge disruption following IT problems caused by a software update by CrowdStrikeGPs couldn’t treat patients, people were stranded as planes couldn’t get off the ground, and small businesses lost thousands in sales.Two months on from the global IT outage on 19 July, the full impact is still only now becoming apparent. A rogue software update by the US cybersecurity company CrowdStrike crippled up to eight and half million computers using Microsoft systems around the world.Adam Meyers – a senior executive at CrowdStrike – will testify at the US Congress on Tuesday…

BBCRita Orr said she pleaded for two years to get extra support for her son, CallumThe mother of a teenager with severe learning difficulties says she was so desperate for help from social services that she felt she had “no option” but to drop him at school and not return to pick him up again.Rita Orr says 15-year-old Callum, who also has autism, often had physical outbursts in which he would injure himself.She told the BBC she spent two years pleading with the local health trust for more support, but when it didn’t come, she left Callum at school and…

Video from a beach in Tyre, southern Lebanon – just 19km (12 miles) north of the Israeli border – shows several clouds of smoke rising after Israeli air strikes in the region.At least 274 people were killed and more than 700 injured in the strikes on Monday, according to Lebanon’s health ministry. Israel’s army said it had hit 800 Hezbollah targets. It comes after a weekend of cross-border attacks between Israel and Hezbollah.Click here for live updates on the conflict.

Zoe Ball has returned to BBC Radio 2, more than six weeks after she took a break from presenting the breakfast show.The station’s afternoon presenter Scott Mills has been hosting the station’s flagship programme in recent weeks in Ball’s absence.Before her return on Monday, Ball had not presented the programme since 8 August.At the start of her show, Ball told listeners: “Morning gorgeous people it’s me Zoe the happy wanderer. I’ve wandered back. “How was your Brat summer?” she joked. “Was it marvellous? We did that in the 90s it was called something different then.”She thanked Scott Mills for “looking…

Almost seven in 10 Post Office sub-postmasters have experienced an “unexplained discrepancy” on the Horizon IT system since January 2020, a survey has revealed.It suggests faults remain in newer versions of the accountancy system still used by the Post Office, which has been at the heart of one of the worst miscarriages of justice in British legal history.A poll of sub-postmasters by YouGov found that almost all of those who had difficulties with Horizon reported shortfalls in their accounts and most resolved them by using their branch’s money.An inquiry into the Post Office scandal resumes on Monday and will focus…

Steven KahnHalf a billion fans, a multi-million dollar personal fortune and a global business empire.It would take a lot to dethrone YouTube’s biggest influencer Jimmy Donaldson, aka MrBeast.But a 54-page court document could be his toughest test yet.Five female contestants on upcoming Prime Video show Beast Games are launching legal action against his production company MrB2024 and Amazon in Los Angeles.Billed as the largest ever reality competition series, 1,000 contestants are set to compete for a $5m (£3.7m) prize when the show airs – or if it airs. The lawsuit has plunged the show into crisis. Among many redacted pages,…

Getty Images/BBCThe government in England is planning the biggest reimagining of the NHS in its history.It follows a damning report by surgeon and independent peer Lord Darzi, which warned the health service was in a “critical condition”.The prime minister has said the new 10-year plan will be based on three concepts: greater use of digital technology, more emphasis on community care, and preventing ill health in the first place.Across the NHS there are already pockets of innovation – and these localised schemes could help the wider NHS in years to come.Tests and scans in shopping centresLocals can now have X-rays…

EPAAnura Kumara Dissanayake offered voters a break with the established political orderLeft-leaning politician Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won Sri Lanka’s presidential election after a historic second round of counting.No candidate won more than 50% of the total votes in the first round, where Dissanayake got 42.31% while his closest rival, opposition leader Sajith Premadasa, got 32.76%.But Dissanayake, who promised voters good governance and tough anti-corruption measures, emerged as winner after the second count, which tallied voters’ second and third choice candidates.The election on Saturday was the first to be held since mass protests unseated the country’s leader, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, in…

BBCAmy Dowden was told she was “home” after returning following cancer treatmentAmy Dowden said she was “so happy I could burst” after her first live Strictly Come Dancing performance since being treated for breast cancer.The 24-year-old professional and her celebrity partner, singer JB Gill, topped the judges’ leaderboard after being awarded 31 points for their waltz to When I Need You by singer Leo Sayer.Dowden, who also danced in last week’s pre-recorded launch show during which she was paired with Gill, missed the show last year after disclosing her diagnosis before undergoing chemotherapy and a mastectomy.During Saturday’s show, head judge…