Manchester University stands to lose more than £1m. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian Universities and colleges are being forced to do without £82m that the government had promised them for the current financial year, it has emerged. The cut will come out of institutions’... 

Hamas security forces take part in a graduation ceremony in Gaza City. Some believe Cameron should have rebuked Hamas in his Gaza comments. Photograph: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images David Cameron’s forthright description of Gaza as a “prison camp” – and its implied criticism... 

House prices fall by 0.5%, says Nationwide Photograph: David Sillitoe for the Guardian House prices fell in July for the first time since February, reducing the average price of a UK property to £169,347 from £170,111 last month, according to latest figures from the Nationwide building society. The... 

Aids-related posters in Vienna. The Health Protection Agency is presenting its results on HIV infection among people over 50 at the city’s International Aids conference. Photograph: Herbert Pfarrhofer/EPA People over 50 are as much at risk from unsafe sex as the young, the Health Protection... 

David Cameron, pictured on his way to a meeting with his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh in New Delhi, has written to Tory backbenchers to thank them for their support. Photograph: B Mathur/Retuers David Cameron has reached out to disgruntled Tory MPs by writing an end-of-term letter in which...