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• Fastest Ebola outbreak in history on track to become deadliest could be three times bigger than first thought

  21-08-2026 23:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Doctors have warned that Ebola cases are growing 'exponentially' across parts of DR Congo - with the outbreak now believed to three times bigger than initial estimates
  
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• Revealed: The full scale of illegal 'family voting' at the Birmingham polls - as election watchdog is urged to investigate

  21-08-2026 23:50 via dailymail.com
  
  Birmingham City Council revealed staff witnessed attempts to breach the secret ballot at 50 polling stations in May's local elections .
  
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• Fears E.coli could be in four snacks sold in UK shops as urgent recall issued

  21-08-2026 23:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Summit Foods says it is taking 'precautionary action' over four of its products due to the possible presence of E.coli which can cause kidney failure and even death
  
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• Edgware Road incident - live: Station closed as police close off huge London area

  21-08-2026 23:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Edgware Road Tube station has been shut due to a police incident, with officers seen swarming the busy north-west London street
  
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• Two-time world champion boxer, 38, shot dead outside home in ambush

  21-08-2026 23:41 via metro.co.uk
  
  Zolani Tete died after being ambushed outside of his home on Friday night (Getty)Zolani Tete, a two-time world boxing champion, was shot dead in front of his house in Mdantsane, South Africa, on Friday night.Eastern Cape police spokesperson, Brigadier Nobuntu Gantana, confirmed that the shooting happened at around 6:30pm.According to Gantana, the 38-year-old boxer arrived at his home and waiting for the gate to open when he and a 27-year-old female passenger were ambushed by two unknown armed s
  
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• Prince Harry's secret visit to Trump's backyard days before UK return with Meghan was revealed

  21-08-2026 23:37 via dailymail.com
  
  Under the radar and out of the spotlight, Prince Harry quietly executed a series of meaningful engagements in the United States prior to his return back home to the United Kingdom.
  
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• The horrifying mystery behind Trump-endorsed congressman's injured two-year-old daughter as stunning failures during police investigation revealed

  21-08-2026 23:20 via dailymail.com
  
  A hand-shaped bruise discovered on the two-year-old daughter of Trump-endorsed Ohio Congressman Max Miller sparked a months-long child abuse investigation.
  
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• Is Harry's return linked to how he answered questions about drug usage for his US visa? asks NILE GARDINER

  21-08-2026 23:20 via dailymail.com
  
  Why precisely are Meghan and Harry returning to Britain?
  
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• NYC socialist hates the rich... but has very expensive taste in BLINDS at sleek $1.5m home daddy bought him

  21-08-2026 23:17 via dailymail.com
  
  Gustavo Gordillo broke cover on Friday and was seen emerging from the posh two-story townhouse located on a leafy street in the historic Bed-Stuy neighborhood.
  
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• One billion pounds A DAY: The staggering sum spent on benefits that's giving Chancellor John Healey a Budget headache - and raising spectre of tax hikes

  21-08-2026 23:16 via dailymail.com
  
  The surge in the cost of welfare and the state pension to £29.5billion last month helped deliver worse than expected borrowing figures yesterday.
  
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• Expert reveals the simple but controversial sign that tells them whether a neighborhood is nice or rough

  21-08-2026 23:02 via dailymail.com
  
  The key to whether a neighborhood is nice or unpleasant lies in the windows of its homes, an expert has claimed.
  
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• Colorado man killed after being struck by lightning while enjoying day at Virginia beach

  21-08-2026 22:53 via dailymail.com
  
  A Colorado man has been killed after being struck by lightning while enjoying his day at Cape Charles beach in Virginia. The 41-year-old died from cardiac arrest and a women suffered minor injuries.
  
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• Meet Chicago's dirtiest cop who has triggered more complaints than any other Windy City police officer...but now justice has finally caught up with him

  21-08-2026 22:50 via dailymail.com
  
  Officer Joseph Vecchio could face losing his job after he received 76 complaints against him since starting on the Chicago Police Department in October 2019
  
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• CalMac ferry evacuated over 'threat' after passenger goes overboard at Ardrossan

  21-08-2026 22:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A CalMac ferry in Scotland has been evacuated after a 'threat' was made by a passenger, with multiple emergency services responding to the incident at Ardrossan harbour
  
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• Irish farms are DYING of thirst, with crops failing, farmers spending thousands to keep them alive. But don't think it doesn't affect YOU! Here's why we should all be worried...

  21-08-2026 22:42 via dailymail.com
  
  Potatoes that need to be golf-ball sized or bigger are, in places, no bigger than marbles. Some are smaller still. Crops that were meant to carry the business into spring are being used up now.
  
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• Usain Bolt signs for star-studded non-League English football team - eight years after his failed attempt to crack professional game

  21-08-2026 22:34 via dailymail.com
  
  It's been a whirlwind of a transfer window this summer, and there's one signing that has threatened to sneak under the radar. 
  
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• Girl, 6, dies in hospital after three family members also drowned at Shoreham

  21-08-2026 22:22 via metro.co.uk
  
  A six-year-old girl has now died after her parents and sister drowned on TuesdaySaja El-Khawas, six, has died in hospital after she was pulled from the sea at Shoreham on Tuesday.She was pulled out of the water alongside three of her family members who also died.Saja had been in hospital in a critical condition after the deaths of Sara El-Khawas, 14, and her parents Hassan El-Khawas, 55, and Zeina Alayn, 37, on Tuesday afternoon in Shoreham-by-Sea.Her death has been confirmed via a legal notice
  
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• Girl, 6, dies in hospital after being pulled from sea alongside family members

  21-08-2026 22:22 via metro.co.uk
  
  A six-year-old girl has now died after her parents and sister drowned on TuesdaySaja El-Khawas, six, has died in hospital after she was pulled from the sea at Shoreham on Tuesday.She was pulled out of the water alongside three of her family members who also died.Her death has been confirmed by a law firm acting for the hospital and by the Palestinian Forum in Britain.Saja died today after the deaths of Sara El-Khawas, 14, and her parents Hassan El-Khawas, 55, and Zeina Alayn, 37, on Tuesday aft
  
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• Six-year-old girl dies in hospital days after three members of her family drowned in Shoreham beach tragedy

  21-08-2026 22:18 via dailymail.com
  
  Saja El-Khawas, six, has died in hospital after she was pulled from the sea at Shoreham on Tuesday alongside three of her family members who also died.
  
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• Shoreham beach tragedy: Girl, six, dies in hospital bringing death toll to four

  21-08-2026 22:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Saja El-Khawas, six, has died after she was pulled from the water off Shoreham-by-Sea in Sussex - the fourth person from the same family killed in the tragic incident
  
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• 'National day for terrorism victims and survivors is a start - they deserve our highest level of support'

  21-08-2026 21:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Prime Minister Andy Burnham is right to say that for those impacted by terrorism, nothing is ever the same again. But the national memorial day - and his proposed memorial - can hopefully go some way to helping
  
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• Moment jealous killer stalks estranged wife from 'bar to bar' before murdering her outside her home

  21-08-2026 21:57 via dailymail.com
  
  Raymond Williams, 61, slashed the throat of Tania Williams with a craft knife after seeing her with another man during a night out in Norwich on January 17, 2026.
  
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• Senior cop at centre of bullying probe handed migration-related crime role

  21-08-2026 21:49 via dailymail.com
  
  A senior police officer who is under investigation for bullying has been handed a key role helping to devise the UK's policing response to migration-related crime.
  
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• Police issue statement after 'Cat in the Hat' character pictured lurking on streets

  21-08-2026 21:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Viral images showing a live-size version of the the Dr Seuss character have caused alarm and fear
  
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• 'If it was on the southside, something would've been done by now': Battle to save crumbling city-centre mansion that inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula - and yet most Dubliners don't even know it exists

  21-08-2026 21:45 via dailymail.com
  
  It inspired Bram Stoker, earned a place in Ulysses and was once among the grandest homes in the capital. Nearly 30 years after it fell vacant, its future remains uncertain.
  
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• Manchester United reach agreement to sign £70m midfielder

  21-08-2026 21:44 via metro.co.uk
  
  Carlos Baleba is set to join Manchester United (MB Media/Getty)Manchester United have agreed a £70 million deal to sign Brighton midfielder Carlos Baleba, according to reports.United have already strengthened their midfield options this summer with the arrivals of Youri Tielemans and Andrey Santos.But earlier this week, United stepped up talks with Brighton over a deal for Baleba before the end of the transfer window.According to talkSPORT, United have now reached an agreement with Bright
  
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• Two-time boxing world champion shot dead aged 38 in fatal ambush

  21-08-2026 21:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Boxing has been hit with some devastating news, as one former two-time world champion has been killed in truly horrendous circumstances
  
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• Swinney faces new flights backlash over eye-watering costs of World Cup 'jolly'

  21-08-2026 21:42 via dailymail.com
  
  Kemi Badenoch has become the latest politician to hit out at the eye-watering cost of John Swinney 's World Cup 'jolly' at the taxpayer's expense.
  
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• Brian Hickerson's brother breaks silence to reveal Hayden Panettiere's final moments: 'We realized she was unconscious... Brian gave her Narcan'

  21-08-2026 21:42 via dailymail.com
  
  Brian Hickerson administered Narcan to Hayden Panettiere after he and his brother Zach found her unconscious in an Airbnb in Greenville, South Carolina.
  
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• 'I'll stop SNP using nation's credit card.' Kemi vows she'll halt nationalist grandstanding... and rein in spending

  21-08-2026 21:36 via dailymail.com
  
  Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has vowed to stop the SNP 'using the nation's credit card' the moment she manages to get into Number 10 Downing Street .
  
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• CalMac ferry 'bomb threat' - live: Evacuation after passenger goes overboard at Ardrossan

  21-08-2026 21:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A CalMac ferry in Scotland has been evacuated following a 'bomb threat' with multiple emergency services responding to the incident
  
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• Boy, 16, 'living in a pond' after developing unbearable condition finally being seen by doctors

  21-08-2026 21:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Iqbal Sheikh, 16, started spending his days sitting in ponds and rivers after suffering a 'burning' sensation all over his body - he is now set to be treated by doctors
  
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• Andrew Tate and his brother reported to counter-terror cops after Russia trip

  21-08-2026 21:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Tate Brothers' legal representative Joe McBride said any suggestion that their travel to Russia was funded, coordinated or directed by the Russian state is 'categorically denied'
  
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• Sexual predator, 35, who was deported after raping woman, 18, is caught living in Essex after sneaking back into the UK

  21-08-2026 21:23 via dailymail.com
  
  Blerim Hajdarmataj, who was working as a cleaner, launched an attack on an 18-year-old woman after a chance meeting at a Chelmsford bar in September 2014.
  
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• Lindsay Clancy's chilling final words to her children revealed at trial

  21-08-2026 21:14 via dailymail.com
  
  Dr Avram Mack, the psychiatrist who evaluated Lindsay Clancy for the state in April 2026, testified about the horrifying events in the hours leading up to the 2023 killings.
  
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• Paramedic who told stroke patient 'Jesus isn't coming to help you' and forced her to crawl downstairs with brain bleed is struck off

  21-08-2026 21:10 via dailymail.com
  
  NHS paramedic and Army reservist Rachel Lemonofides has been struck off after telling a stroke patient that 'Jesus and Jehovah are not coming to help you'.
  
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• Police launch probe after man, 52, is found dead in custody

  21-08-2026 21:05 via dailymail.com
  
  Officers found the man unresponsive in his cell at the Windmill Road custody suite in Croydon at 12:30am on Friday after he became unwell.
  
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• Atletico Madrid send message to Julian Alvarez after Arsenal transfer approach

  21-08-2026 20:50 via metro.co.uk
  
  Julian Alvarez has been badly advised, says Atletico Madrid’s CEO (DeFodi via Getty)Atletico Madrid CEO Miguel Angel Gil Marin insists the club will not sell Julian Alvarez to Arsenal or Barcelona and believes the Argentine forward has been badly advised during the summer transfer window.Arsenal have made a fresh approach to sign Alvarez and have indicated that they would be willing to pay in excess of £100 million for the 26-year-old.However, Alvarez’s preference is to join B
  
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• Supreme Court issues bombshell ruling on Trump's sprawling White House ballroom

  21-08-2026 20:42 via dailymail.com
  
  The Supreme Court has made a major decision on Donald Trump's ballroom.
  
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• Midwestern man, 20, died unexpectedly after collapsing during hike with friends

  21-08-2026 20:42 via dailymail.com
  
  Benjamin Speidel, 20, was hiking in a group along the Bridle Trail near Wyandotte County Lake in Kansas around 7.40pm Saturday when he suffered a cardiac arrest and died.
  
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• Widow banned from entering US for fisherman husband's funeral after he died in boating accident

  21-08-2026 20:40 via dailymail.com
  
  A windowed Mexican immigrant has been banned from entering the US to attend her late husband's funeral after he died in a boating accident.
  
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• Map shows UK areas most at risk of flooding as El Nino to bring 'unprecedented' storms

  21-08-2026 20:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The strongest El Nino 'in centuries' is set to batter Britain with storms in the months ahead, meteorologists have warned, as the nation faces high flood risks this autumn and winter
  
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• Mystery as retired spy general with links to Russia’s Defence Ministry found shot dead

  21-08-2026 20:21 via metro.co.uk
  
  Major-General Igor Laptev’s body was found at his apartmentA retired Russian spy general who ran a company supplying secure communications to Vladimir Putin’s Defence and Interior ministries has been found dead in Moscow.Major-General Igor Laptev’s body was discovered in his study at his apartment on Verkhnyaya Krasnoselskaya Street on August 20.The 83-year-old had a gunshot wound to the head, according to reports in Russia.As reported by pro-Kremlin newspaper Moskovsky Komsom
  
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• Cyclist killed in 'random unprovoked attack' while on bike ride was 'much-loved son'

  21-08-2026 20:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A man and a woman are in custody after George Glover was attacked in Leicester
  
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• Prince Harry and Princess Eugenie are 'not so close anymore' and 'did not meet' in Portugal amid claims Duke 'has very few friends left' ahead of UK return

  21-08-2026 20:15 via dailymail.com
  
  Prince Harry and Princess Eugenie are 'no longer speaking' to each other, it has been claimed.
  
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• 'Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's return to the UK poses one key question - why now?'

  21-08-2026 20:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  OPINION: The Duke and Duchess of Sussex's planned return the UK after years spent criticising the royal family and Harry fearing for the safety of his wife and children, creates more questions than answers
  
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• Meghan Markle 'is in talks to star in Guy Ritchie's Netflix show The Gentlemen' when she and Harry return to the UK after six years

  21-08-2026 20:10 via dailymail.com
  
  The Duchess of Sussex is rumoured to be making a return to showbusiness after it was revealed she and Prince Harry will be moving back to the UK later this month.
  
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• Cheerleader Laken Snelling's chilling courtroom revelation about how she killed newborn baby as she pleads guilty to his manslaughter

  21-08-2026 20:09 via dailymail.com
  
  Laken Snelling, 22, initially pleaded not guilty after being indicted on several charges after being arrested last August.
  
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• Two teens seriously injured after sword attack on first day back at school

  21-08-2026 19:50 via metro.co.uk
  
  To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5 video Up Next Previous Page Next PageTwo teenagers have been left with severe injuries after being attacked by a man with a sword at a Swedish high school.The pupils had just returned to the Brinell High School in the small town of Fagersta, central Sweden, following their summer break.A massive emergency response was triggered when a man armed with a sword entered this afternoon, with two boys
  
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• One confirmed dead after sword attack on first day back at school

  21-08-2026 19:50 via metro.co.uk
  
  To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5 video Up Next Previous Page Next PageOne person has been killed after being attacked by a man with a sword at a Swedish high school.Earlier today, police confirmed that two teenagers have been left with severe injuries but would not comment on whether there were any deaths.Both aged between 12 and 17, the two boys are being treated in hospital, while a third sustained ‘light’ injuri
  
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