Sir Ian McKellen has said he could never have taken on the role of Professor Dumbledore in the Harry Potter films after the death of Richard Harris because he knew he disapproved of him as a gay actor.

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Angelika Trabert has won 24 medals in more than 25 years, six of them at five different Paralympic Games.
When she’s not riding horses she works as an anaesthetist in Frankfurt or in Guinea where she travels with an NGO to provide urgent medical care.
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President Masoud Pezeshkian has said Iran will never “bend the knee” after almost seven months of war with the US and Israel, but is ready for a diplomatic solution to the conflict.

Sumi Somaskanda and BBC Persian’s Bahman Kalbasi analyse the impact of the statements and diplomacy taking place at the United Nations on the prospects for peace.

Meanwhile the economic fallout from the Iran War continues to be felt globally and Theo Leggett explains how the rising price of US diesel could lead to consequences, especially in Europe.

In Yemen we see pictures of the Houthis fighting at the frontline and our Security Correspondent Frank Gardner assesses their success.

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Flights across the UK have been disrupted by a “technical issue” with air traffic control.

Nats, which runs air traffic control, said it had “nothing to do” with a software defect that led to the cancellation of 2,000 flights earlier this month.

The issue at Nats’ Prestwick centre in Ayrshire is “now fixed”, with the system running “at full capacity”.

Around 200 flights were cancelled or did not fly today, analytics firm Cirium said.

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