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Health minister Karin Smyth and the Independent both claimed that the IMF has forecast the UK’s economy is on track to be the fastest growing in Europe.

This isn’t what IMF projections show, as Ms Smyth and the Independent have since acknowledged. Several European countries are projected to have higher growth than the UK.

Forecasts fact check

US President Donald Trump made a wide range of claims on his inauguration day, in three different speeches.

We’ve fact checked six of these claims, on inflation, death sentence pardons, the Panama Canal and more.

Trump claims

A viral photo from Los Angeles showing a burnt car next to a mostly intact tree is being shared online with the suggestion the damage wasn’t caused by wildfires.

Experts say the damage in the photo is consistent with the damage wildfires can cause, and there are several reasons a car may be more damaged by fire than other nearby objects.

LA wildfires