A picture emerged over the weekend of the IDF soldier appearing to use a sledgehammer on the icon, which was taken in southern Lebanon.

Analysts have said the image was taken in Debel, one of the villages in ​Lebanon where Israel's military has been operating against the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia in response to the group firing rockets at ​Israel in support of Iran.

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Mr Netanyahu said on X: "Yesterday, like the overwhelming majority of Israelis, I was stunned and saddened to learn that an IDF soldier damaged a Catholic religious icon in southern Lebanon.

"I condemn the act in the strongest terms. Military authorities are conducting a criminal probe of the matter and will take appropriately harsh disciplinary action against the offender.

"We express regret for the incident and for any hurt this has caused to believers in Lebanon and around the world."

The Israeli military confirmed it was investigating the incident.

"The ⁠IDF [Israel Defence Forces] views the incident with great severity and emphasises that ​the soldier's conduct is
wholly inconsistent with the values expected of ​its troops," the military said.

"The IDF is working to assist the community in restoring ​the statue to its place."

Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said the soldier's actions were "grave and disgraceful".

"We apologise for this incident and to every Christian whose feelings were hurt," he added in a post on X.

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The investigation also prompted a response from Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, who said on X that "swift, severe, & public consequences are needed".

The cross was part of a ​small shrine in the garden of a family living on the edge ⁠of the village, said Fadi Falfel, a priest ⁠in Debel.

"One of the Israeli soldiers broke the cross and did this horrible thing, this desecration of our holy symbols," he ‌said.

Debel is one of dozens of villages in south ⁠Lebanon now under effective Israeli occupation.

Israel and Lebanon on Thursday agreed to a US-brokered ceasefire intended to halt fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.

Winehouse died from alcohol poisoning in July 2011, aged 27.

Mitch Winehouse, acting as the administrator of his daughter's estate, claimed her stylist Naomi Parry and friend Catriona Gourlay profited from selling dozens of items at auctions in the US in 2021 and 2023.

Suing them for hundreds of thousands of pounds at the High Court, his lawyers told a trial in December that the two women did not inform him they were selling the items.

He said the legal proceedings were his "only means of obtaining answers".

Ms Parry and Ms Gourlay defended the claim, with their barristers telling the court the items were either gifted by the star or that they already owned them.

In a judgment handed down on Monday, deputy High Court judge Sarah Clarke KC said: "I find that neither Ms Parry nor Ms Gourlay deliberately concealed any of their disputed items from the claimant and even if I am wrong about that, Mr Winehouse could have discovered what disputed items the defendants had with reasonable diligence."

What happened in court?

During the trial, lawyers for Ms Parry accused Mr Winehouse of bringing the claim out of "petty jealousy", which he denied.

He said he thought the money from the 2021 auction would be split between the Amy Winehouse Foundation (AWF), himself, and the singer's mother, Janis.

The court heard the auction catalogue contained 834 items and that the sale raised $1.4m dollars (£1.05m) for the star's estate, 30% of which went to the foundation.

One item sold by Ms Parry included a silk mini-dress worn during the singer's final performance in Belgrade, Serbia, which was auctioned for $243,200 (£182,656).

Ms Parry told the court Mr Winehouse had offered her $250,000 (£187,000) for the proceeds of her sale and to make the legal claim go away, but that she would "rather set the money on fire than give him a penny".

Judge Clarke said Mr Winehouse had "suffered a great tragedy in the loss of his daughter", and that since her death he had "worked hard to keep her memory alive" - including through the foundation.

"It is also the case that Amy's estate, including in particular the royalties from Back To Black, has made Mr Winehouse personally extremely wealthy," the judge continued.

"Mr Winehouse is therefore understandably sensitive about anyone who he perceives as exploiting Amy's memory, particularly for financial gain, and he is keen to promote the AWF, but also, in my judgment, he is equally sensitive about ensuring that the family continue to benefit financially."

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In a statement through her lawyers, Naomi Parry said after the ruling that the High Court had cleared her name "unequivocally and in full, after years of deeply damaging and unfounded allegations".

"I stood beside Amy as a friend, a creative partner, and her costume designer," she said. "What we shared was built on trust, loyalty, and a genuine love of the work. To see that relationship misrepresented so publicly has been both painful and profoundly unjust."

Winehouse, one of the defining talents of her generation, became a household name with her second album, the multiplatinum-selling Back To Black.

She was known for songs including Rehab, Love Is A Losing Game, Tears Dry On Their Own and the album's hit titular track, along with her cover of The Zutons' Valerie with Mark Ronson.

She won six Grammys and three Ivor Novello awards for her music and songwriting and a biopic about her life and career, also titled Back To Black and starring Marisa Abela, was released in 2024.

The woman, 86, struggling to cope with household bills, paid for a year's worth of cover for her Suzuki Splash vehicle through Swinton Insurance, believing she was fully complying with the law.

But she had written down the letter F as part of her number plate instead of an S, meaning her insurance was technically invalid.

The pensioner realised the error after receiving a letter from the DVLA, stating that she was being criminally prosecuted for keeping a vehicle without insurance.

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She wrote to magistrates to explain the mistake, while her niece also submitted a letter to say the family was stepping in to help as they "did not know it had got to the stage where she can't cope".

But despite the letters, the pensioner, from York, was still convicted of a crime in the Single Justice Procedure, which is a controversial fast-track court process where magistrates hand out convictions and punishments in private hearings.

After the news agency, Press Association, pointed out the case to the DVLA, it said it will now contact the woman to check her insurance paperwork to seek to have the conviction overturned if the typo was to blame.

The pensioner had faced prosecution after it was said her car was uninsured on 6 February, 2026.

Replying to the Single Justice Procedure notice in a letter, she said: "I understood my car was fully insured with Swinton Insurance, from 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026.

"I did not notice the registration printed wrongly. Had an F instead of an S."

Her niece also wrote: "All the paperwork for insurance has been found to be one letter incorrect.

"No one had picked up on this. I am now helping her with her paperwork as we (the family) did not know it had got to the stage where she can't cope. She has tried to complete the form as best as possible."

Single Justice Procedure

The Single Justice Procedure was invented in 2015 as a cheaper way of handling low-level criminal cases.

It allows a magistrate sitting alone in private to take decisions instead of three magistrates deliberating together in open court.

Cases are decided based on written evidence alone, and there is no prosecutor present to see the mitigation and other correspondence sent in by the defendant.

The design of the fast-track process means prosecutors are unable to review new evidence that comes to light, or take a decision to withdraw a case no longer in the public process.

David Pollard, the magistrate sitting in the pensioner's case at Teesside Magistrates' Court, had opted to accept the written guilty plea and impose a conviction rather than asking the DVLA to do further checks on the public interest in the prosecution.

He sentenced her to a three-month conditional discharge instead of a fine, and ordered her to pay a £26 victim surcharge.

Labour consultation

Between March and May last year, after a string of media reports about harsh convictions and injustices involving elderly and vulnerable people, the Labour Government conducted a consultation on possible changes to the Single Justice Procedure system.

But no plan for change has emerged since the end of the consultation.

Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr, however, said at her annual press conference in March that Lord Justice Green, the senior presiding judge for England and Wales, is undertaking a "nuts and bolts" audit of the Single Justice Procedure.

A group of judges, magistrates and justice officials "will soon conclude" the audit before recommendations go to the Interim Magistrates Executive Board, the Judicial Office said.

The suspect is thought to have first shot a woman and then went to a nearby home where he killed the children, according to a Facebook post from Shreveport police.

Seven children were killed inside the house, while one was found dead on the roof after apparently trying to escape, said Christopher Bordelon, a spokesman for the force.

Another child jumped off the roof and was expected to survive after being taken to hospital.

The victims were three boys and five girls, aged from three to 11, according to the Caddo Parish Coroner's office.

They were "happy kids, very friendly, very sweet," said Crystal Brown, a cousin of one of the women who was shot.

Two women were taken to hospital. One sustained life-threatening injuries, Mr Bordelon told local TV station KSLA.

After the shooting, the suspect, identified as 31-year-old Shamar Elkins, hijacked a man's car at gunpoint, police said.

He was killed after a police chase that ended with officers firing on him, according to Mr Bordelon.

Seven of the eight children killed were his.

It was the deadliest mass shooting in the US in more than two years, since eight people were killed in a Chicago suburb in January 2024.

"This is a tragic situation, maybe the worst tragic situation we've ever had," Shreveport mayor Tom Arceneaux said.

At a news conference, Louisiana state senator Sam Jenkins said the shooting underscored the need for more resources to deal with domestic violence.

"If we have someone with a history ​of domestic violence, let's make sure that those resources, that intervention is there on ​a continuous and consistent basis, hopefully to avoid what we've seen here today," he said.

Mr Bordelon said police were familiar with Elkins, who had been arrested in a 2019 firearms case, but officials were not aware of any other domestic violence issues.

Excluding the shooting in Shreveport, the Gun Violence Archive has recorded at least 119 mass shootings in the US so far this year, resulting in 177 deaths, including 79 children, and 458 people injured.

It defines a mass shooting as an incident in which at least four people, not including the attacker, are injured or killed. The US had 407 mass shootings last year.

Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) will walk out for two 24-hour periods, while some bus routes in the capital will also be affected by a separate day-long strike.

Here's everything you need to know.

When are the strikes?

The first 24-hour Tube strike will start at 12pm on Tuesday, while the second will start at 12pm on Thursday.

Here's how Transport for London (TfL) expects this to impact travel each day this week from tomorrow:

Tuesday 21 April:

• Normal services until mid-morning
• Late morning, services decrease ahead of strike
• Significant disruption on all lines from midday, when the strike begins
• The limited Tube services which do run will finish early, meaning those who have to travel should have completed their journey by 8pm

Wednesday 22 April:

• Tube services that do run will start later than normal, with no service expected before 7:30am
• Significant disruption is expected on all lines until midday
• Services will still be recovering in the afternoon and evening, meaning some disruption is likely

Thursday 23 April:

• Normal services until mid-morning
• Late morning, services decrease ahead of strike
• Significant disruption on all lines from midday, when the strike begins
• The limited Tube services which do run will finish early, meaning those who have to travel should have complete their journey by 8pm

Friday 24 April:

• Tube services that do run will start later than normal, with no service expected before 7:30am
• Significant disruption is expected on all lines until midday
• Services will still be recovering in the afternoon and evening, meaning some disruption is likely

TfL says to use its journey planner to map out your route in advance of travel, and to check the status of lines in real time with its live page.

Which lines are affected?

TfL has warned the strikes will affect the whole Tube network, despite a reduced service running across most lines.

"Any services that do run will be less frequent, very busy, and you may not be able to board the first train," it says.

No service is expected on:

• The Piccadilly and Circle lines
• The Metropolitan line between Baker Street and Aldgate
• The Central line between White City and Liverpool Street

However, the Elizabeth line, DLR, London Overground, and tram services will be running normally on strike days.

Are there other strikes this week?

While the vast majority of London buses are set to run as normal, Unite the Union says 150 of its members, who are bus station and network traffic controllers, will also be walking out from 23-25 April to coincide with the Underground walkouts.

There is also set to be a bus strike on seven bus routes operated by Stagecoach from Bow Bus Garage in East London, running for 24 hours from 5am on Friday.

The routes affected are: 8, 25, 205, 425, N8, N25 and N205.

TfL says it expects the 25 and 425 to run a near normal services for most of the day throughout the strikes, while the N8 will run a reduced route between Hainault and Liverpool Street at its usual frequency.

It says the other affected routes are likely to be severely delayed or cancelled.

Why are the Tube strikes happening?

The train drivers have taken issues with TfL imposing a new four-day working week.

RMT has called the plan, which would condense drivers' weekly hours, "fake".

It initially suspended the strike last month, saying London Underground's management had agreed to negotiate.

But the union accused the company of a U-turn on Saturday and said the strikes would go ahead.

RMT general secretary Eddie Dempsey said: "We have approached negotiations with TfL in good faith throughout this entire process, but despite our best efforts, TfL seem unwilling to make any concessions in a bid to avert strike action.

"This is extremely disappointing and has baffled our negotiators.

"The approach of TfL is not one which leads to industrial peace and will infuriate our members who want to see a negotiated settlement to this avoidable dispute."

Claire Mann, TfL's chief operating officer, said: "We have set out proposals to the RMT for a four-day working week.

"This allows us to offer train operators an additional day off, whilst at the same time bringing London Underground in line with the working patterns of other train operating companies, improving reliability and flexibility at no additional cost.

"The changes would be voluntary, there would be no reduction in contractual hours and those who wish to continue a five-day working week pattern would be able to do so."