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At least seven people have died after temperatures soared across Europe during a week-long heatwave. Wildfires broke out in Spain, and France experienced the hottest temperatures ever recorded in the country. The heatwave lasted from 24–30 June and affected millions of people. What happened? In France, the all-time heat record was broken on 28 June in Gallarguesle-Montueux, a small village in the Gard region in the south, where temperatures reached a sweltering 45.9° C. It was the third time that day that the record of 44.1° C, which had stood since 2003, had been broken at different places in the country. Two cyclists were among those who died in heat-related incidents. Where else was affected? In Spain, wildfires broke out in Catalonia, in the north-east of the country, on 26…

One of the UK’s strangest tourist attractions has received a new ladder to make it safer for visitors. The Bowder Stone, near Keswick in the Lake District, has been popular since the 19th century, when people would climb to the top of it on a wooden ladder. However, the steps were recently removed because they had become too dangerous. A new metal ladder has now been installed, making it easier for tourists to climb to the top.…

What you need to know ● Some fans have said they are angry about decisions made by video assistant referee (VAR) replays at the Women’s World Cup. ● The VAR is a match official who watches video footage of incidents during a game and helps the referee make decisions. In some cases, the replay may show that a player has broken a rule while scoring a goal, meaning that the goal won’t count. ● The technology was first used in 2016 and has now been used in many different tournaments. The Premier League will begin using VAR replays from next season. One of the biggest complaints about the 2019 Women’s World Cup has been the use of VAR replays. In the match between Scotland and Argentina on 19 June, VAR…

The sport’s biggest event comes to the UK. On 12 July, the Netball World Cup starts at the M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool, England. There will be 16 countries competing to be crowned the best netball team in the world. This is the 15th Netball World Cup; the first was held in 1963. Netball matches consist of four 15-minute quarters with seven players from each team on the court. Goals are scored by shooting the ball through the goal ring. Players pass the ball but can only hold it for three seconds, and are not allowed to move down the court carrying the ball. This year’s competition will have a total of 60 matches, and the final will be played on 21 July. To mark the start of the tournament,…

Rainbows, icebergs, fire, rooms of fog, distorting mirrors and shadows are just a few of the exciting installations on show in world-renowned artist Olafur Eliasson’s new exhibition at Tate Modern, in London. Eliasson will display more than 30 of his best works, including new paintings and sculptures. Eliasson is an artist from Denmark who lived in Iceland as a child. One of the great things about a lot of his work is that he encourages people to interact with it. He says the visitors help make the work by participating in it, and everyone experiences it slightly differently. This is not art that is simply hung on walls. One of Eliasson’s most famous works is Ice Watch. The installation features large blocks of ice from Greenland that will sit outside…

My Life: Locked In Boy Available on BBC iPlayer Returning to iPlayer after being broadcast in February, this fascinating CBBC documentary tells the story of Jonathan Bryan. Jonathan, aged 10, spent eight years of his life unable to speak or communicate. Now, using new technology, he can create poems, blog and has written a book. Women’s World Cup Final 3.30pm on 7 July, BBC One Following weeks of competition, only one team can take home the biggest prize in women’s football. Will the USA win the tournament for the second time in a row or will a European team lift the trophy for the first time since 2007? Trolls World Tour trailer tinyurl.com/TWJ-troll Picking up after the events of 2016’s smash-hit animation, this sequel will explore even more of the…

The latest job for Spider-Man and Ms. Marvel isn’t just about battling super-villains, it’s about helping young people practise their reading and vocabulary skills. The superheroes are the stars of a new app for Android devices, iPhones and iPads called Marvel Hero Tales, which aims to get seven to 11-year-olds creating their own comic-book stories. It works by getting users to collect words by reading stories about superheroes, then use those words to make new tales that can be shared with friends. A British company called Kuato Studios made the app, and its boss Mark Horneff said he was inspired by his own experience reading comics. “Those adventures fed not only my imagination, but my confidence as a storyteller and my passion for reading,” he says. He hopes that the…

Make ginger beer What you need ● 120g fresh ginger ● 2 lemons ● 100ml tap water ● 2 tbsp muscovado sugar ● 1 litre soda water or sparkling mineral water ● Ice ● 1 lime, cut in wedges ● Mint ● Blender (or hand blender and bowl) ● Sieve ● Bowl ● Spoon ● Jug Instructions Wash and scrub the ginger and lemons. Roughly chop them up – there’s no need to peel them first. Put the ginger, lemons and around 100ml of tap water into a blender and blitz them to a smooth pulp. You could also put them in a bowl and use a hand blender. Spoon the pulp into a sieve and, over a bowl, press as much juice from the pulp mixture as you can.…

Unusual pink rainbows were spotted across southern and western England on 24 June. Normal rainbows are caused by light hitting water droplets in the sky, creating a spectrum of colours. Pink rainbows, however, are caused by the Sun’s low position in the sky, which means the usual range of colours are less visible. Pink rainbows are rare, but can sometimes be seen just after sunrise or just before sunset. WOW! The longest-lasting rainbow ever recorded was in Taipei, Taiwan in 2017. It was visible for eight hours and 58 minutes.…

The England football team’s inspirational run at the Women’s World Cup ended on 2 July after they lost their semi-final match to the USA. The final result was 2-1, played in front of 53,500 fans in Lyon, France. Despite the loss, by reaching the semi-finals England have ensured that a British team will qualify for the Olympics in Tokyo in 2020. The game itself was dramatic. The USA, who are the No.1 team in the world and the reigning World Cup champions, took an early lead, thanks to a goal from Christen Press after just 10 minutes. England fought back, and nine minutes later Beth Mead crossed the ball to Ellen White, who was able to produce a powerful finish to level the scores. Unfortunately for England, Alex Morgan scored…

The Sun came out for this year’s world-famous Glastonbury festival, held in Somerset on 26–30 June. Plenty of musicians wowed the crowds, and it was also a year of several important firsts. This was the first year the festival has banned the sale of plastic bottles on site. Festival goers were asked to bring their own reusable bottles instead, so they could fill up with water from taps. During a surprise appearance on stage, Sir David Attenborough, the TV presenter and environmentalist, praised the organisers for the ban. Watched by thousands of people, Sir David spoke about the TV programme he presented, Blue Planet 2, which showed the damaging effects plastics have on marine wildlife and the environment. It is estimated that there are more than 150 million tonnes of…

Will Hodshon and Richard Mitchell have broken the record for the fastest circumnavigation of mainland Great Britain, non-stop and unassisted in an open sailing dinghy (a type of very small sailing boat). Circumnavigate means to sail all the way around something. Hodshon and Mitchell set off from Salcombe, Devon, on 15 June and sailed day and night until their return on 1 July. They completed their lap in 15 days and four hours, having travelled a total of 1,390 nautical miles (around1,600 land miles). Their dinghy was a 4.9-metre-long Wayfarer that was bought by Hodshon’s grandfather in 1959. Named Nipegegi, it has been in the family ever since. Along the way, they battled powerful winds and started to see strange things that didn’t exist (known as hallucinations) because of the…

Five critically endangered eastern black rhinoceroses born in zoos in Europe have been flown to Rwanda, a country in east Africa, to try and increase rhino numbers there. The three female and two male rhinos made the 3,700-mile journey from the Safari Park Dvur Králové in the Czech Republic, to the Akagera National Park in Rwanda, on 24 June. The journey took about 30 hours and was the largest ever relocation of rhinos from Europe to Africa. The five rhinos had been held together in the Safari Park Dvur Králové since November 2018. Three of them – Jasmina, Jasiri and Manny – were born there. They were joined by Olmoti, a four-year-old from a zoo in England, and Mandela, from Denmark. The project is a joint effort between the European…

On 18 June, Facebook announced it will launch a new digital currency called Libra in 2020. Digital currency is money that only exists electronically. The company says Libra will give 1.7 billion people without bank accounts access to money online. What is Libra? Facebook describes Libra as a type of cryptocurrency – this is digital money with special security features that stop people stealing or copying it. People will be able to buy the currency in virtual Libra coins on apps owned by Facebook, such as WhatsApp and Messenger, and keep them in a digital wallet called Calibra. The head of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, says Libra will make sending money as easy as sending a picture online: digital, fast and secure. How will it benefit people? Facebook says Libra will…

Astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) have taken an incredible photo of a volcanic eruption. The eruption, which took place on 22 June, was from Raikoke volcano, which is on one of the Kuril Islands in the Pacific Ocean, between Japan and Russia. The Kuril Islands are part of the Ring of Fire, a huge chain of volcanoes and sites of seismic activity, or earthquakes, that lie along the edge of the Pacific Ocean. It stretches for almost 25,000 miles. Eruptions of Raikoke are very rare. The last time it erupted was in 1924, nearly 100 years ago. Before that, the only other known eruption was in 1778. This image shows a huge plume of volcanic ash, which, according to NASA, rose 10 miles. This meant it reached…

On 6 July, Geraint Thomas begins defending his Tour de France title. Having won the three-week cycling race for the first time in 2018, the Welshman now wants to become the second British rider to win it twice in a row. Thomas’s teammate, Chris Froome, won it in 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017, but he is injured and is not taking part in this year’s race. The Tour de France is one of three big cycling events known as the Grand Tours. The others are the Giro d’Italia, in Italy, and Spain’s Vuelta a España. The Tour de France has 21 stages, covers 2,150 miles this year and finishes on 28 July in Paris. The riders race every day apart from two rest days. The Tour de France often begins…

Beauty Beauty is a work that produces rainbows you can walk through. A punctured hose sprays a curtain of fine mist from the ceiling of a darkened space and a light is shone on the mist. From certain angles viewers can see different colours through it. Moss wall This piece of art is made up of reindeer moss and covers a whole wall in the gallery. The installation is regularly watered, and it changes colour and produces a strong smell. Little Sun Little Sun is a global project as well as an art piece. These solar lamps were developed to be given to people without electricity around the world. Around 840,000 have been distributed so far. The design is based on an Ethiopian flower.…

Have you ever played a platform game and thought you could create something better? Super Mario Maker 2 gives owners of Nintendo’s Switch console the chance to do just that. You can make your own levels, from icy mountain scenes to underwater lagoons, then fill them with coins, enemies and gadgets. Then save the levels you’ve made and – if you like – share them online with your friends or other players. You can create your action-packed courses in the style of different games, from 1985’s Super Mario Bros through to 2013’s Super Mario 3D World. It’s easy to create a simple level, but the fun begins once you start using the more complex items like see-saws, one-way walls and grabber claws to come up with fiendish puzzles. Super Mario…

The world’s longest running race has been held in New York, in the US, with participants racing the same route, round and round again, for 3,100 miles. The route stretches around just four streets, passing a playground and school and runners complete 5,649 laps. Runners pound the pavements for almost two months, completing more than two marathons a day with just five hours’ sleep a night. Known as the Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence 3,100 Mile Race, it is roughly as long as running from London to Moscow, in Russia, and back – twice. So does this seem true to you, or are we pulling your leg?*…

On 1 July, protesters in Hong Kong broke into the main parliament building after clashes with the police. The protests took place on the 22nd anniversary of the handover of the region from the UK to China, which took place on 1 July 1997. Although Hong Kong is part of China, it has a separate political and legal system, known as the one country, two systems arrangement. These protests were the latest against a proposed law that would make it possible for anyone living in Hong Kong who is accused of a criminal offence to be extradited (handed over to face legal charges) to mainland China. Opponents say it could be used by the Chinese government to put its critics in prison. A march held every year to mark the…

Denmark Prime minister is country’s youngest Denmark’s new prime minister will be the youngest in the country’s history, it has been confirmed. Mette Frederiksen, aged 41, said her Social Democratic party had finally agreed to join forces with three smaller political parties to take control of the Danish parliament. After three weeks of discussions, the parties decided they could work together. One of the government’s plans will be to increase the amount of money spent on environmental issues. Guadalajara, Mexico Freak hailstorm hits city Six neighbourhoods in the Mexican city of Guadalajara have been blanketed in ice after a freak hailstorm on 30 June. The ice, which was two metres deep in some areas, covered vehicles on the city’s streets and damaged around 200 homes. It was reported that some…

Souter Lighthouse was the first lighthouse ever built that was designed to be powered by electricity. It is often described as a marvel of its age and is surrounded by beautiful scenery that can be easily explored. Climbing all 76 steps to the top of the tower is a challenge that is rewarded with fantastic views, and you can learn all about the life of the lighthouse keeper. There are coastal walks and bike rides to enjoy, and many birds, such as kittiwakes, to spot. Find out more at tinyurl.com/TWJ-souter…

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Marcus Ellis At the European Games in Minsk, Belarus, the badminton player won two gold medals for Great Britain. On 29 June, Ellis took gold in the men’s doubles final with Chris Langridge. Then Ellis and Lauren Smith won the mixed doubles final on 30 June. Team GB also won gold medals in boxing, cycling and archery. There were 101 competitors from the UK. ● The European Games are held every four years. This year 50 countries and more than 4,000 athletes took part. ● There were 15 sports at the Games, including basketball, beach football, gymnastics, judo, karate and wrestling. ● Russia was the most successful country at the event, winning 44 golds and 109 medals in total. Great Britain came ninth overall with 23 medals.…

Last month we joined forces with Bloomsbury – the home of Harry Potter – to invite our readers to enter a very exciting competition. In honour of the 20th anniversary of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, we asked you to draw a picture of your Patronus, the magical animal guardian that Harry and his friends are taught to summon when they need protection from the dreaded Dementors. We received thousands of beautifully illustrated entries featuring a whole host of colourful creatures, including bears, dolphins, dragons, foxes, hamsters, narwhals, phoenix, snakes, stags, wolves and a pair of pangolins. It was a very difficult decision to make, but having looked at all your amazing entries, the judges eventually managed to pick a winner. Eleven-year-old Niamh Appleyard drew an incredible image…

Name: Lisa “My trip to Ethiopia in October was the best experience I have ever had. The emotions and feelings it gave me are unforgettable. I had seen pictures of what the organisation Charity: water was doing in Ethiopia, but going there was completely different. You see another lifestyle and a different mind-set. Meeting kids my age was the most emotional part because I saw how they live, how they think and what they have. We visited wells that we and other families helped build. Some wells were already built and some were under construction. When we went to see a well, anyone that saw or heard the “news”, joined us and by the end we were a big group. We saw some villages where they still had to start…

Zoos are full of animals, such as lions, that would be a danger to humans if they escaped. That’s why Tobe Zoological Park, in Japan, holds regular safety drills to help staff prepare for this situation. The zoo decided the best way to do this would be to have a worker dress up as a lion. As well as being fun for the zookeeper in the costume, visitors enjoyed it too – once they realised it wasn’t a real lion on the loose.…