Your morning briefing: What you should know for Friday, October 11

Stephen Barclay is today to hold key talks with the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier after hopes for a Brexit deal were revived.

The Brexit Secretary’s meeting in Brussels comes after Boris Johnson and his Irish counterpart Leo Varadkar said they can "see a pathway" to a deal.

Mr Barclay's talks look likely to give the clearest indication of whether there has been a significant thawing of relations between London and the EU.

Today’s discussions could pave way for so-called intensive "tunnel" negotiations in the coming days ahead of the crunch EU summit next week.

Rebekah Vardy has said a row with Coleen Rooney would be like "arguing with a pigeon" as the fallout from their highly public dispute rumbles on.

The wife of ex-England captain Wayne Rooney alleges she has proved Vardy's Instagram account was the source of leaked stories about her private life.

The claims have headlines around the world.

Vardy, the wife of Leicester City striker Jamie, furiously denies any wrongdoing and said she has hired a cyber-security expert to clear her name.

Asked last night if the two footballers’ wives have argued, Vardy replied: "That would be like arguing with a pigeon.”

A teenager has been knifed to death in the second fatal stabbing on London’s streets within five hours.

The first victim, a 15-year-old schoolboy, was attacked with a blade outside a busy shopping centre in Stratford, east London, yesterday evening.

Friends rushed to his aid and paramedics were scrambled to the scene but the boy was pronounced dead shortly before 4pm.

In a separate incident, an 18-year-old man was stabbed repeatedly in Brandon Estate in Camberwell, south-east London, shortly before 8.25pm.

He was pronounced dead at the scene just after 9.10pm.

Shaking hands for more than three seconds can trigger anxiety and affect the state of relationships, a study has found.

Researchers found that shaking hands for longer than “may appear to be a warm gesture” was met with negative behaviour.

The study comes after Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron, made headlines for their longer-than-normal handshake.

On their first ever face-to-face meeting in 2017, the US president gripped Mr Macron’s right hand so firmly that both their knuckles turned white.

Eddie Jones has insisted the blame is Scotland's alone if they are knocked out of the World Cup by Super Typhoon Hagibis.

The Scots will miss out on the quarter-finals if their match against hosts Japan in Yokohama on Sunday is called off due to the huge storm.

England secured qualification with a game to spare and Jones said: "We've been talking about it all the time, about the possibility that this was going to happen.

He added: “You know what's going to happen. It's typhoon season here and you've got to be prepared for it.”

A decision on whether the match will go ahead is pending. Follow the latest updates on this story at standard.co.uk.

1521: Pope Leo X conferred the title of Defender of the Faith on Henry VIII. Twelve years later Henry broke with Rome to marry Anne Boleyn.

1899: The Boer War began between the British Empire and the Republics of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal.

1919: The first airline meals were served on a Handley-Page flight from London to Paris. They were pre-packed lunch boxes at three shillings each (15p).

1957: The Radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, Cheshire, planned by Sir Bernard Lovell, went into operation.

1958: The BBC TV sports programme Grandstand was first transmitted.

1973: The start of the Yom Kippur War in the Middle East.

1986: Nuclear weapons negotiations between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev opened in a summit in Reykjavik. They ended in failure.