内容摘要：Speaking from inside Gaza, journalist Ghada Al Qurd told the BBC's Newshour programme there had been lots of "airstrikes, shellings, drones, shooting and even exploding, in the north and east."

Speaking from inside Gaza, journalist Ghada Al Qurd told the BBC's Newshour programme there had been lots of "airstrikes, shellings, drones, shooting and even exploding, in the north and east."

After that tragedy, finding a cure for cancer became a cause for the elder Biden.In 2016, then-President Barack Obama tasked him with leading a "moonshot" government-wide research effort to that end - an effort that Biden continued during his own presidency.

Now it is cancer that presents possibly the greatest threat to Biden's health since he nearly died of a brain aneurism shortly after he abandoned his first presidential bid in 1988.The news of the diagnosis lands as Democrats continue to grapple with the consequences of Biden's fateful decision to seek a second presidential term in the 2024 election – an attempt to extend the record he had already set for the oldest occupant of the Oval Office.Biden ultimately dropped out of the race after intense pressure from Democrats following his halting, at times incomprehensible, performance in a general election debate with Donald Trump last June. But until that point, he had insisted that he was fit to continue in the White House for another four years.

This cancer diagnosis will underscore that the concerns about his age and the potential for health issues expressed by a majority of American voters in national polling were valid.It coincides with the publication of several books detailing the efforts by those close to the president in the White House to accommodate, and conceal from the public, the toll the years were taking on his body and mind while he continued to serve as commander-in-chief.

While there is no reason to believe that Biden's prostate issues were at all apparent while he was in the White House, the fact that such an aggressive form of cancer could avoid detection until it had already spread, despite the wealth of medical support and evaluation available to Biden, will raise new questions and concerns.

It sets up a troubling hypothetical of how Biden's cancer might have been treated if he had successfully won a second term.There is another 'Super League' club who have failed to secure European qualification for next season - Italian giants AC Milan. Do not be surprised if at least one friendly is arranged in a neutral country at some convenient point in the calendar.

The positive spin of no Europe means more chance to work on the training ground.The negative, potentially, is that more of what is going on behind the scenes will make its way into the media because the season is not being punctuated by regular midweek matches and press conferences.

That is the thing with Manchester United. They are big news. They generate debate. Even when they are not very good, people still talk about them.Ted Danson, who played bar boss Sam Malone, said he was "devastated to hear that Georgie is no longer with us".