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Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across France in a national day of protest demanding more investment in education. Riot police fired tear gas in some areas, demonstrations were staged in more than 30 towns and cities, and protests that began with secondary school pupils grew to include parents, university students and trade unions. More than 6,000 arrests had been made in all, with around 500 more on the day, and injuries to pupils, teachers and police exceeded 1,000. President Macron called an emergency government meeting as critics pointed to crumbling buildings and teacher shortages. Immigration enforcement officers in East London made arrests over a suspected criminal network accused of helping migrants pretend to be gay to claim asylum. An earlier BBC investigation had revealed law firms and advisers helping some migrants pose as gay, and the Home Office linked the group targeted in the raids to fabricated evidence for Bangladeshi asylum seekers, including support letters and staged photographs at gay clubs and bars. Multiple arrests were made, including two people thought central to the claims, and the Home Office said it was continuing to review asylum claims linked to a separate network exposed by an undercover BBC investigation. In the US, lawyers for death row inmate Christa Pike said she was conscious and speaking after two failed execution attempts last week; they said she suffered severe arm damage from two lethal doses of pentobarbital, remained handcuffed and shackled to her hospital bed, and was asking the Tennessee governor to remove the death penalty and sentence her to life without parole. The Tennessee governor said there would be no more attempted executions in the state after the failure.

The World Health Organization called for transparency and more information from Russia after the death of a young laboratory worker at an anti-plague institute in Siberia. Russia's health watchdog said the 28-year-old died from pneumonia of unknown causes, while officials in Moscow said there was no plague and no further similar infections; the UK Health Security Agency said it was seeking further information but the risk to the UK population was very low. Two police officers were sacked for gross misconduct after tasering a 92-year-old man at a care home in East Sussex; Donald Burgess, who had dementia and used a wheelchair, was pepper sprayed, struck with a baton and tasered within 90 seconds, and the panel found unjustified and excessive use of force. He was handcuffed and taken to hospital, where he contracted Covid and died; the officers were not held responsible for his death. Amanda Mathewson, a 55-year-old childminder from Fife, pleaded guilty to neglect after leaving more than two dozen children unsupervised, having had 27 children in her home when licensed for eight. ASOS apologized after millions of customers received a phone alert saying the company had been hacked, saying basic personal information may have been accessed; the retailer has nearly 17 million customers worldwide including the Miss Selfridge and Topshop brands, and its shares fell by more than 10%.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said she would rather have another general election than do a deal with Reform UK if no party wins the next one, accusing Reform of being neck-deep in scandal. She proposed cutting employer national insurance for people aged 21 to 24 to address youth unemployment and was expected to signal an inheritance tax cut; she was also due to say the country was running out of money and that spending money it does not have on things it cannot afford is reckless. August Hanning, 80, the former head of Germany's foreign intelligence service, was arrested on suspicion of treason, espionage and attempting to pass state secrets to a foreign power; reports said the material included assessments of Iran's nuclear programme and Russia's military. About 270 people were believed killed in fighting in Yemen in 24 hours after the internationally recognized government launched a counter-offensive against Iranian-backed Houthis, with both government troops and Houthi fighters among the dead. The violence was focused on southwest Yemen along the Red Sea coast and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and around Taiz, where a report described children studying within sight of snipers and four people being shot by snipers in 24 hours. The Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to Professor Francis Halzen for the IceCube Observatory, a particle detector buried deep beneath the ice at the South Pole; the Nobel Committee said Halzen and his colleagues had paved the way for a new kind of astronomy.