New data out this week reveals that healthy life expectancy in the UK has fallen by more than two years over the past decade – and women are bearing the brunt of it. A girl born today in Hartlepool can expect 19 fewer years of good health than one born in Richmond-upon-Thames, with women in the poorest areas facing roughly three decades of life in poor health.

A new analysis digs into why this crisis falls so heavily on women. And it puts health secretary Wes Streeting’s newly launched women’s health strategy under the microscope.

Also this week, we explain why King Charles’s four-day state visit to the US – the first since 2007 – is being seen by Keir Starmer’s government as a crucial opportunity to repair a UK-US relationship that one former defence minister has described as at an “all time low”.

And if you were one of the millions watching the London Marathon on Sunday, we break down the science behind what just happened: how Sebastian Sawe and Yomif Kejelcha both ran sub-two-hour marathons, and why shoes, carbohydrate gels and 240km training weeks all played their part.