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The hottest April temperature ever witnessed on Earth may have been recorded in Pakistan after meteorologists saw the weather reach a scorching 50.2C (122.4F). The 1.1 million people who live in the southern district of Nawabshah observed the blistering heat on Monday, with some meteorologists calling it a record.On Twitter, Etienne Kapikian of Meteo France, said it was the hottest April temperature ever recorded in Pakistan and the entire continent of Asia. 🌡️🔥Exceptionnel 50.2°C à Nawabshah au #Pakistan ce lundi 30/04/2018, #RECORD national de chaleur pour un mois d’avril ! 🔥🌡️(précédent : 50°C à Larkana le 19/04/2017)*** aussi un nouveau…

Britain’s dominant services sector managed only a muted recovery last month after snow disruption in March – leaving the wider economy on course to extend its weak growth spell. Figures from the sector – taken together with monthly surveys from the manufacturing and construction industries – pointed to a quarterly GDP growth rate of about 0.25% at the start of the second quarter.The pound briefly slipped below $1.36 against the US dollar on the report, which comes after official data last week showed first quarter growth at 0.1%, its slowest pace since 2012.Disappointing economic figures over recent days have sharply…

A powerful dust storm has killed 97 people and injured at least 143 more in north India. The storms uprooted trees and electricity poles, and brought down walls and houses in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday night.Some were also killed by lightning. Image: A man is carried from the debris of his damaged home following a major dust storm in Etmadpur, in Agra district Officials said the death toll may rise. About 150 animals have also been killed.Rajasthan’s chief minister, Vasundhara Raje, tweeted: “Have directed ministers and concerned officials to affected areas to begin relief work immediately and restore…

Cancer charities have demanded answers after a computer glitch led to 450,000 cancelled breast screenings and shortened up to 270 lives. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt apologised for the scandal in the Commons on Wednesday, revealing that some women in the group “would have been alive today” if the failure had not happened.A Whitehall source told the Daily Mirror that an IT “upgrade” to the system in 2016 revealed a “computer algorithm failure” subsequently found to date back to 2009.The glitch was flagged up by NHS chiefs from at least three trusts last year but was only made public by Mr…

Regulators will pursue an investigation into Cambridge Analytica despite the data firm announcing its collapse. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which has been looking into the British firm’s handling of data harvested from millions of Facebook users, and raided its offices in March, said the inquiry would continue.Cambridge Analytica said on Wednesday that it had been the subject of “numerous unfounded accusations” and had been “vilified” for activities that were both legal and accepted as a “standard component of online advertising in both the political and commercial arenas”.It blamed a “siege of media coverage” for driving away customers, meaning the…

North Korea has moved three American prisoners from a labour camp to a hotel ahead of the planned summit with the US, a South Korean activist said. Academics Kim Hak Song and Tony Kim, and businessman Kim Dong Chul were moved this week to a hotel on the outskirts of Pyongyang following instructions from “superior authorities”, campaigner Choi Sung Yong is reported to have said.They are getting “health treatment” and “ideological education”, he added.A South Korean official is reported to have said their release has been negotiated over the past two months and is “imminent”.The trio, who are not related,…

Retired NHS nurse Patricia Minchin, now 75, from Hertfordshire, is one of hundreds of thousands of women whose letter inviting them to a breast cancer screening failed to arrive. She was diagnosed with breast cancer two years after her letter should have been delivered.I was absolutely devastated when I found the lumps in my breast.I wasn’t expecting it. After my letter didn’t arrive in 2009, I complained to my GP and managed to have the scan in 2010.A year late, but at least we got there and importantly I was fine.When my second letter should have arrived in 2013, when…

A leading City law firm has been brought in by the board of TSB to investigate the IT crisis which has left many customers without online access to their bank accounts for almost a fortnight. Sky News has learnt that directors of the UK’s sixth-biggest bank have asked Slaughter & May to conduct an independent probe of the circumstances leading to the IT upgrade which has prompted a furious backlash from thousands of customers.The appointment of Slaughters, one of the so-called “Magic Circle” law firms, has been rubber-stamped by TSB’s board and is expected to be confirmed by directors when…

The first pictures of the Harry and Meghan’s royal wedding carriage have been released. The couple have chosen an Ascot Landau carriage for their procession.The horse-drawn carriage will travel from St George’s Chapel at around 1pm, taking the newly married couple through Windsor Town returning to Windsor Castle along the Long Walk.Prince Harry and his bride will be highly visible in the open carriage, with the design enabling the pair to sit quite high up. 1:33 Video: Inside Meghan and Harry’s carriage The carriage the pair will ride in was built in 1883.Although the weather on 19 May is expected…

Direct Line expects to take a £50m hit from the Beast from the East, using up the bulk of its 2018 bad weather budget. Shares in the insurance group, whose brands include Churchill, Green Flag and Privilege, fell 4% after it became the latest business to reveal the impact from the severe weather spell.The cold snap has been partly blamed for the UK’s latest economic slowdown.Direct Line said in a first quarter trading update that claims “associated with the big freeze” in the period were “expected to be in the region of £50m”.That compares to £55m set aside for the…