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• At least five dead and 86 missing after passenger ferry fire

  10-09-2026 08:18 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 PageDozens of people are missing and at least five were killed after a ferry went up in flames in the Philippines.
  The blaze swept on board the MV June Aster ferry off the island’s coast yesterday evening.
  It was heading to Coron in the Palawan province, a popular tourist destination famed for its crystal waters and cliffs.
  Coastguard pulled 43 people out
  
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• The handsome 6ft 4in KGB spy boss who defected - because he thought Western medicine could cure the impotence wrecking his marriage

  12-09-2026 01:52 via dailymail.com
  
  On a hot autumn evening in Tehran, the capital city of Iran, two professional spies sat drinking vodka in bathroom on the top floor of a house in the semi-abandoned compound of the British Embassy.
  
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• Married shoe salesman, 52, becomes the first Briton convicted in global rape network linked to Gisèle Pelicot case

  12-09-2026 01:39 via dailymail.com
  
  Darren Conway, 52, admitted 11 charges at Wood Green Crown Court in north London, including nine of encouraging others to sexually assault women on an internet forum while they were unconscious.
  
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• MI5 chief warns Britain facing greater security threat now than at the time of 9/11 terror attacks

  12-09-2026 01:30 via dailymail.com
  
  The head of MI5 Sir Ken McCallum issued a 'call to arms', saying the UK is facing unprecedented danger from hostile states and Islamic extremism.
  
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• Have they no humanity? How Spanish police failed the families of nine British expats from the same village who died in a wildfire - with one woman finding her father's bones in his burned-out BMW in a car pound FIVE WEEKS later

  12-09-2026 01:30 via dailymail.com
  
  When Danielle Gillam-Kirton was given an urn of her parents, who were among nine Brits killed in a Spanish wildfire, she had no reason to suspect there was anything more to remember them by.
  
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• 'We can't simply turn AI off': Andy Burnham's government rejects 'kill switch' idea to stop a dangerous attack from a rogue bot

  12-09-2026 01:27 via dailymail.com
  
  A proposal brought to Parliament posited the creation of a legal mechanism allowing Britain to deactivate an AI model in the event of an emergency.
  
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• Owner of bakery says Britain is becoming 'less attractive by the day' for businesses after he was 'banned from Borough Market for being too successful'

  12-09-2026 01:24 via dailymail.com
  
  Bread Ahead founder Matthew Jones alleged that his bakery was asked to leave Borough Market because his goods are so popular with visitors.
  
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• Man arrested after black woman found hanging from tree in Mississippi

  12-09-2026 01:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The body of Tasia Fortune was discovered hanging in the backyard of an abandoned home in Jackson, Mississippi on August 3 - the death has since been ruled as a homicide
  
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• Fury as migrant hotels to be exempt from Andy Burnham's tourist tax after PM was accused of raiding struggling Britons with levy

  12-09-2026 01:06 via dailymail.com
  
  Earlier this week, the Prime Minister gave his favoured regional mayors the power to impose an unlimited 'overnight visitor levy' on stays in hotels, B&Bs and holiday lets in England .
  
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• Twist in mistaken identity gangland shooting as drone operator is charged with innocent tradie Joshua MacDonald's murder

  12-09-2026 01:01 via dailymail.com
  
  A teenage drone operator has been charged with murder over his alleged involvement in the suspected mistaken identity killing of a man in Sydney.
  
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• Daily horoscope September 12, 2026: Today’s predictions for your star sign

  12-09-2026 01:01 via metro.co.uk
  
  Here’s what the stars have in store for your day (Picture: Metro.co.uk)Conversations, decisions and communication require extra attention as Pluto gains influence and Libra sits staunchly in Mercury. If there’s a big move to make, make it.Pisces, Capricorn and Virgo, though it’s the weekend, make strategic decisions related to your career and even finances today. The comsos will help.Know you are in control of your own destiny. Only you can make it happen, whatever it is.
  Ahea
  
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• New Coronation Street spoiler videos reveal fire horror as evil Jodie strikes

  12-09-2026 00:59 via metro.co.uk
  
  Fancy some spoiler videos? (Picture: ITV/Metro)The sister from hell strikes again, a daughter suffers with deep guilt, and a precocious princess spies fame in our new Coronation Street spoiler videos.Jodie Ramsey (Olivia Frances-Brown) has turned her vitriol back toward unknowing sister, Shona Platt (Julia Goulding), and her latest wicked game threatens to break Shona’s resolve for good.As Doug Ramsey (Steve Evets) and David Platt (Jack P Shepherd) return home to a house filled
  
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• Joe’s cruelest act yet confirmed in Emmerdale spoiler video as Billy is staggered beyond belief

  12-09-2026 00:59 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 PageBilly Fletcher (Jay Kontzle) should know by know that there are very little depths to which Joe Tate (Ned Porteous) won’t sink in Emmerdale but even by Joe’s typical standards, what he does next is beyond cruel.
  The Home Farm favourite has been bereft in the wake of Dawn Taylor’s (Olivia Bromley) death, with loved ones Kim (Claire King) and
  
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• Facing the imminent arrival of 1,250 male migrants, ROBERT HARDMAN reveals how women in an Oxfordshire village are fighting back

  12-09-2026 00:57 via dailymail.com
  
  How much easier it would be to demonise them as either the dark forces of the Far Right or a bunch of nutters - or both.
  
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• Arrest made in the murder of Tasia Fortune, black woman found hanged from tree

  12-09-2026 00:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  After weeks of what residents described as silence and inactivity on the investigation, police said they had made one arrest and more were coming.
  
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• He warned his FBI bosses the towers would fall... then went to work inside them: Now his heartbroken lover reveals an astonishing double life

  12-09-2026 00:52 via dailymail.com
  
  John O'Neill, an FBI terrorist fighter, quit the agency in disgust just weeks before the 9/11 attacks unfolded after his dire warnings about Osama bin Laden apparently were ignored.
  
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• Crypto-billionaire donates record £36million to Reform UK because he wants Farage's party to have 'a fair fight' at the general election

  12-09-2026 00:52 via dailymail.com
  
  Ben Delo, the co-founder of a crypto trading platform, made the donation following a difficult summer for Reform and wants the party to concentrate on preparing for government.
  
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• Zverev through to third Grand Slam final in a row

  12-09-2026 00:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Alexander Zverev beats Karen Khachanov at the US Open to reach a third Grand Slam final in a row and continue his bid for a second major of the year.
  
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• Train carrying 180 passengers derails in France: At least 44 people are injured, one critically, after carriages overturn

  12-09-2026 00:35 via dailymail.com
  
  The train overturned on tracks between the cities of Rouen and Caen on Friday at around 7.30pm local time.
  
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• Indonesia hit by 6.2 magnitude earthquake on volcano-filled island Java

  12-09-2026 00:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The latest tremor came a day after another magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck the Banda Sea near Indonesia’s Maluku Island on Friday, September 11
  
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• USA agrees to sell Black Hawk helicopters to Argentina in £103 million deal after Trump hinted he wouldn't help Britain if the Falklands were invaded

  12-09-2026 00:17 via dailymail.com
  
  The U.S State Department confirmed on Thursday the possible foreign military sale of UH-60L Black Hawk helicopters and their related equipment to the South American country at a cost of £103million.
  
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• Houthis claim major advance in Yemen and tighten grip on Red Sea shipping lane

  12-09-2026 00:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Iran-backed Houthis are also reported to have seized Perim - a strategic island on the major shipping route.
  
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• Sydney's Mardi Gras CEO wanted $21,000 because she was 'too ill' to work - but a blockbuster legal decision found she was just sick of her job

  12-09-2026 00:14 via dailymail.com
  
  Former Mardi Gras CEO Claire 'Gil' Beckwith sued the organisation over unpaid entitlements, slamming the joint as a 'toxic workplace' amid seven sexual misconduct complaints.
  
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• How Queen Elizabeth II broke royal protocol after 9/11 and moved a grieving America by playing the Star-Spangled Banner outside Buckingham Palace

  12-09-2026 00:14 via dailymail.com
  
  The grieving turned to leaders for answers and to heal. In Queen Elizabeth II, they were profoundly moved.
  
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• Drug lord had illegal knuckle duster which could discharge an electrical current

  12-09-2026 00:01 via metro.co.uk
  
  Abubakr Ahmed was sentenced to six years in prison (Picture: West Yorkshire Police/SWNS)A drug dealer who was arrested by police was caught with a knuckle duster that could discharge an electrical current.Abubakr Ahmed, 23, was behind a country drug line that he called the ‘Khanny line’, which supplied heroin and crack cocaine between West and North Yorkshire.An estimated 2.23kg, worth £223,380, of heroin and crack cocaine was supplied between February 11 and June 11 this year
  
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• Norway's Princess Astrid dies days after attending brother King Harald's royal funeral

  11-09-2026 23:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The death of Princess Astrid, the 'deeply loyal' sister of the late Norwegian King Harald, has died two days after attending her beloved brother's funeral service in Oslo
  
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• The retirement home of your dreams: Chats with Celia Imrie and Ralph Fiennes, private chefs and a stunning pool - if you have £1million to spare

  11-09-2026 23:56 via dailymail.com
  
  An intimate evening with Cynthia Imrie, Royal Opera House premiers or an intellectual talk given by a human rights lawyer on the history of Gaza are not typically associated with retirement communities.
  
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• Magnitude 5.9 earthquake shakes Darwin: 'The whole house shook'

  11-09-2026 23:56 via dailymail.com
  
  Tremors have shaken Darwin after a 5.9 magnitude earthquake was detected in the Banda Sea, north of the city.
  
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• Mum-of-two's body found in park as her sister issues heartbreaking message to killer

  11-09-2026 23:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mum-of-two Natasha Connors Kernan, 29, was found dead in Ravensdale Park in Dublin on August 25, with Gardaí investigating her death as a murder
  
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• Every star tipped for I’m A Celebrity 2026 including Little Mix’s Jesy Nelson

  11-09-2026 23:48 via metro.co.uk
  
  The hit ITV series is curating its new lineup (Picture: James Gourley/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)After the mammoth success of I’m A Celebrity South Africa, all eyes are on who will feature in the new line-up for the traditional series later this year.The Ant and Dec-helmed survival-of-the-fittest reality series puts celebrities through their paces in the daunting Australian wilderness as they attempt to choke down creepy crawlies and get up close and personal with the scariest animals around.La
  
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