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The sun has released a barrage of solar flares in the past 24 hours. The culprit? A giant sunspot that's slowly rotating to directly face Earth — and it's not alone.

Uninterrupted sunshine and highs of 20C are on the way this weekend

The Last Dance by Mark Billingham; Grave Expectations by Alice Bell; Children of the Sun by Beth Lewis; Now You See Us by Balli Kaur Jaswal; The Monk by Tim Sullivan

A vet explains what it means if your dog is vomiting, showing signs of constipation, has abdominal pain, reduced appetite, or is lethargic after a trip to the beach

BALTIMORE — When Secretariat won the Preakness on the way to his Triple Crown, the news appeared alongside stories about Watergate on The Baltimore Sun’s May 20, 1973, front page. In the half-century since, no horse has finished the 1 3/16-mile track at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore faster than…

(This May 19 story has been corrected to show ICICI Lombard was the insurer, not ICICI Bank, in paragraph 29)

This is how summer affects your skin and hair – and what to do about it. By Prudence Wade.

Two days of frantic action at Glenmuckloch saw drivers battle sun, dust, mud and rain

The light is 100,000 billion times brighter than the sun