"Don't let it dominate you. Don't be afraid of it." The words of a triumphant Donald Trump when he returned to the White House after leaving hospital. Hours earlier doctors said he "may not be out of the woods yet" when it comes to coronavirus, but President Trump told the American people: "Now I'm better, maybe I'm immune, I don't know."
Mr Trump left Walter Reed Medical Centre on Monday night pumping his fist and ignoring questions from reporters, including one who asked: "Are you a super spreader?" The president took off his mask moments after his helicopter landed and posed on the White House balcony for a photo op.
The whole piece of political theatre was set to stirring music in a campaign video a short time later, but has drawn criticism for the risk a still-contagious Mr Trump may present to people around him. A cluster of those have already tested positive. Just an hour later, his rival for the presidency, Joe Biden, told a campaign event "Masks matter".
Our North America reporter Anthony Zurcher said the president's message was almost messianic in its undertones - I have suffered and overcome, and will lead the nation to a promised land beyond the virus. There remain unanswered questions about his illness though, our correspondent added - number one being, when did he last receive a negative test? Read why that matters so much. We've also looked at all of the false claims and conspiracies surrounding his diagnosis.

Leading surgeons say there could be a "tsunami" of cancelled operations this winter, as the NHS copes with rising numbers of coronavirus patients. That's on top of the backlog that's already built up since the pandemic hit. Planned procedures such as hip and knee replacements were paused to free up beds during lockdown. The Royal College of Surgeons called it "a national crisis" and said private and NHS hospitals must come together to tackle it. But an NHS spokesman said the figures cited by the organisation underestimated the amount of surgery taking place.
Coronavirus is also adding to the NHS's workload in other ways. For some people, "long Covid" is having a debilitating effect on their lives for months - our health correspondent looks closely. And alcohol abuse has increased during this period - three people affected share their stories.

The prime minister says he wants every home in the UK powered by electricity from offshore wind farms within a decade. He'll make the pledge today in his speech to the virtual Conservative conference. It'll come with a promise to invest £160m in offshore wind infrastructure, notably in Scotland, Wales and the north of England. The commitments are the first stage of what Downing Street is calling a 10-point plan for a "green industrial revolution".
BBC political correspondent Jessica Parker says Boris Johnson is hoping to lift people's view beyond present struggles by trying to show he has big plans for the future. Greenpeace said the PM's recognition that investing in green energy could cut bills and generate jobs was "a great lightbulb moment", but action to meet his ambitious targets must be swift.

Boris Johnson's wind power pledge makes several front pages. The Daily Mail says that as the windiest country in Europe, the UK is perfectly placed for such a "radical" plan. The Financial Times says it ties in perfectly with "a rallying call" from the International Monetary Fund for a "global spending spree" on green technology. The Daily Telegraph believes Mr Johnson is trying to shake off the image of a prime minister trapped by current events. Speaking of those events, the Times reports that contact tracers' phone lines crashed as they scrambled to reach tens of thousands of potentially infectious people missed because of an IT blunder. Other papers discuss the chancellor's warning that "hard choices" will have to be made if the government is to balance the books after coronavirus. Payback time is heading our way, and we will all have to play our part, the Daily Express thinks. But the Daily Mirror suspects Rishi Sunak's hard choices will hit low and middle income families, the disabled and the old.

For two years, the Democratic Republic of Congo has been grappling with the world's worst outbreak of measles, which has killed more than 7,000 children. Meet the health workers going to huge lengths to deliver vaccines to help in the fight. Elsewhere, find out why one company in Japan is hoping to replace shop workers with robots controlled remotely. And finally, what happened when journalist and broadcaster Sali Hughes came face to face with one of the women trashing her online?

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