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The Duchess of Sussex said she was told in 2018 about disturbing allegations against her estranged father, after reports that images of child sexual abuse allegedly belonging to Thomas Markle were found at his former home in the Philippines. He denied the allegations as sick lies; she said she was sickened and hoped justice would be fully served, and the report said authorities were investigating an octogenarian American national. Storm Austin brought gusts of 84 mph at Jersey Airport, left more than 18,000 homes in parts of England and Wales without power and caused travel disruption and a section of Brighton's West Pier to collapse; red and amber wind warnings were issued, and Storm Bulow was forecast to affect northern parts of the UK over the weekend with amber warnings and risks of flooding, flying debris and danger to life.

Andy Burnham advised people to stock up on tinned food and bottled water for a major emergency, saying such events were becoming more likely and that preparation was sensible rather than panic; the campaign encouraged three days of supplies including non-perishable food, a torch, a battery-powered radio and cash. Benjamin Netanyahu told Israel's military to prepare for an extensive operation in the occupied West Bank after two soldiers were killed by Palestinian gunmen at a checkpoint near Hebron, with three other soldiers wounded and two suspects shot dead ahead of Israeli parliamentary elections in four days. Police in France said one person died and four were injured, including a 12-year-old girl, in a drive-by shooting in western Paris; a suspect was arrested and the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office opened an investigation. A personalised mRNA vaccine for skin cancer cut the risk of dying or the cancer returning by 42% over two years in a trial of more than 1,100 melanoma patients, and the report said it could be licensed next year but its affordability for the NHS was unclear. The White House said Melania Trump had brokered a local ceasefire allowing humanitarian aid into and evacuations from Oleshky, a Russian-occupied city in southern Ukraine where residents had reported a deepening food crisis; the duration of the truce was unknown.

A Met police detective, Linda Williams, said the handling of her civil case after she was raped by fellow officer David Carrick in 2004 felt like being raped all over again and left her feeling suicidal, and she called on Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley to resign; the Met said it had settled the case and tried to reduce her distress, and the commissioner had asked to meet her. A man appeared in court charged with the murder of Eleanor Barnfield, 47, who had stab wounds before dying after a car crash in Bridgend; Clifford Foster, 61, was remanded in custody. Bayern Munich said coach Vincent Kompany was taken to hospital after collapsing while overseeing training and was undergoing tests. Dr Sarah Redvers told an employment tribunal she was accused of transphobia and bullied and harassed out of her NHS child protection job after raising concerns about the treatment of gender-questioning children; NHS Surrey and Sussex said it would wait for the tribunal outcome but had apologised for some handling of her case, and the tribunal heard an NHS safety investigation had concluded 78 young patients were potentially harmed at a clinic.