What happened
Hashem Abedi, jailed for at least 55 years for helping to plan the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing, has been charged with attempting to murder three prison officers and assaulting a fourth. The 28-year-old is accused of attacking them at high-security HMP Frankland, County Durham, on 11 April, where he was being held in a separation unit. Three officers were taken to hospital with serious injuries. Abedi was later moved from the prison.

Who said what
Counter Terrorism Policing North East said the charges followed a "thorough investigation". Abedi is being formally prosecuted under the terrorism protocol, said Jonny Humphries on the BBC, "meaning prosecutors will be arguing that the offences had a terrorist motivation".

What next?
Abedi is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 18 September. The Ministry of Justice has pledged a full, independent review of the incident, which reportedly involved makeshift knives and cooking oil. Survivors and victims' families had previously criticised the level of security at HMP Frankland.

What happened
Two skeletons found at 7th century burial sites in Kent and Dorset belonged to people with African heritage, DNA testing has revealed.

The findings, published in the journal Antiquity, reveal that samples taken from the remains showed "strong genetic affinities to the present-day Yoruba, Mende, Mandenka and Esan peoples of west Africa" alongside Northern European ancestry, said The Times. The style of the grave site indicates that the bodies – belonging to a young man and a girl – were laid to rest "as typical members of the communities who buried them".

Who said what
Dr Ceiridwen Edwards of Huddersfield University, who worked on the Dorset site, said the finds indicated that 7th century England had "a diverse population with far-flung connections who were, nonetheless, fully integrated into the fabric of daily life".

What next?
The discoveries are "the first evidence for genetic connections between Britain and Africa during the Early Middle Ages",  said New Scientist, and suggest "that migrants in Anglo-Saxon times were coming from much further afield than previously thought".

Helsinki has been hailed as the road safety capital of the world after city officials revealed that there had not been a single traffic-related fatality in the past year.

The achievement is the culmination of years of work to reduce and then eliminate road deaths in Finland. The country adopted a "Vision Zero" traffic safety strategy in the early 2000s, guided by a set of principles and policies that, said The Guardian in 2020, "shifts responsibility for crashes from road users to the designers of the road system". If there is a crash, "it is up to authorities to ensure that it does not happen again".

Helsinki's success does not come "from any one major policy shift, but from a handful of small changes" that add up to "meaningful impact", said MSN. By focusing on safer people, safer roads, safer vehicles, safer speeds and better post-crash care, the aim is to create "multiple layers of protection so that if one fails, the others will create a safety net to lessen the impact of a crash", said Forbes.

More than half of the city's streets now have a speed limit of 30 kph (less than 20 mph), a decision driven by data showing that the risk of a pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car's speed of impact from 40 kph to to 30 kph, said Politico.

The European Transport Safety Council has recognised the country's carefully co-ordinated progress on road safety. "In Finland they say 'vahinko ei tule kello kaulassa'," said ETSC director Antonio Avenoso. This roughly translates as: "Accidents don't come with a bell around their neck."