LONDON (The Times) - The UK splashed out more than £7.8million on extending the runway at Newquay airport to ensure Joe Biden could land on Air Force One. The U.S. PresidentJoe Biden, jetted into Cornwall Airport Newquay shortly before 11.45pm on Wednesday. But the grand arrival was apparently only made possible after the Government allocated millions of pounds to make sure the airport could cope with the large jet. One source told The Times that a total budget of £13million had been made available to ensure Air Force One could land at the strip. The work was also necessary to make sure that a U.S. military transporter plane carrying a fleet of Osprey aircraft could safely touchdown, according to the newspaper.

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LONDON (Daily Mail) - Former president Trump wished President Biden luck when he meets Russian President Vladimir Putin next week, claiming his own Helsinki summit had delivered a win for America. ‘Good luck to Biden in dealing with President Putin—don’t fall asleep during the meeting, and please give him my warmest regards,’ Trump said in an e-mailed statement. During the election campaign, Trump dubbed his rival ‘Sleepy Joe.’ Biden spent his first full day on a European tour meeting British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday. He is due to spend the next week meeting world leaders before sitting down with Putin on Wednesday in Geneva, Switzerland.

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LONDON (Dispatches) - Sexual harassment is “commonplace” and “normalized” in UK schools, a review by the government Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) found. The report, published Thursday, calls on schools to “act on the assumption that sexual harassment is affecting their pupils” and work to create “a culture where sexual harassment is not tolerated”, POLITICO reported. “It is concerning that for some children, incidents are so commonplace that they see no point in reporting them,” the report says, noting that around nine in 10 of the girls inspectors spoke to said that sexist name-calling and being sent or pressured to send explicit images happened “a lot” or “sometimes”.

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GENEVA (Dispatches) - Tens of thousands of malnourished children risk dying in hard-to-reach areas of Ethiopia’s conflict-wracked Tigray region, now hit by famine, the United Nations said on Friday. “Without humanitarian access to scale up our response, an estimated 30,000-plus severely malnourished children in those highly inaccessible areas are at high risk of death,” UNICEF spokesman James Elder told reporters in Geneva.

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QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A bus crammed with pilgrims coming back from a religious festival crashed in southwest Pakistan on Friday killing at least 20 and leaving 10 others critically injured, officials and a hospital doctor said.The bus careened off the road into a ditch during the early morning in the Karkh area of Khuzdar district, in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Baluchistan.