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• England bans smoking in cars

  11-02-2015 21:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Drivers in England will be banned from smoking in their car from October if they are carrying children as passengers.
  
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• Peter van Onselen: Albo's desperate plan to save Labor's seats exposed - and it's the rest of Australia that could pay

  28-08-2026 04:59 via dailymail.com
  
  The Prime Minister sparking an uproar when he visited Western Australia this week, causing three Labor state premiers to revolt.
  
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• Federal judge temporarily halts Trump's executive order to restrict mail-in ballots

  28-08-2026 04:34 via dailymail.com
  
  The move stalled the directive for a second time only about a week before the first mail ballots are due to be sent out for the rapidly approaching midterm elections.
  
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• Aussie teacher describes split-second 'left hook' that saved her life during great white shark attack

  28-08-2026 04:27 via dailymail.com
  
  Leah Stewart has opened up about the terrifying moment she realised she was 30cm from a 'monster' shark at Sydney's Coogee Beach.
  
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• Millions of Aussies to get a Centrelink cash boost within weeks as payments rise

  28-08-2026 04:24 via dailymail.com
  
  Centrelink payments are set to rise for millions of Australians.
  
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• Tragedy after hardworking dad, 35, was accused of FAKING severe asthma attack by hospital staff

  28-08-2026 04:17 via dailymail.com
  
  Jerome White, 35, died after collapsing outside a New Jersey hospital while desperately struggling to breathe during a severe asthma attack.
  
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• Aussie woman reveals travel insurance fine print mistake that left her with a staggering $30,000 medical bill in Bali

  28-08-2026 04:11 via dailymail.com
  
  Amy Donohue described the moment she fell off the back of a scooter on a remote Indonesian island as the 'scariest experience of her life'.
  
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• Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass orders cops to stop cracking down on illegal street vendors

  28-08-2026 04:06 via dailymail.com
  
  Bass is facing a tough reelection campaign after fending off a challenge from Spencer Pratt in a jungle primary, now going head-to-head with leftist Councilmember Nithya Raman.
  
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• Grieving wife speaks out after husband dies on turbulent Singapore Airlines flight

  28-08-2026 03:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Geoff Kitchen was fatally injured when the plane he and wife Linda were on plummeted around 6,000 feet in minutes, Linda has now launched legal action to find answers
  
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• PM says cowboy builders 'prey on the vulnerable, rob our neighbours of their futures and, above all else, they destroy lives'

  28-08-2026 03:33 via dailymail.com
  
  Writing in the Daily Mail the Prime Minister tells how one woman was driven to attempt suicide by an unscrupulous tradesman who left her home unsafe to live in.
  
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• Huge lion and its cub are on the loose in INDIANA - and cops say they have no idea where the predator came from

  28-08-2026 03:25 via dailymail.com
  
  Officials are on high alert in Hancock and Madison counties after receiving calls about potential sightings of the big cats on Thursday.
  
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• Clean-up of Britain's 'biggest fly-tip ever' costs taxpayers £6million

  28-08-2026 03:18 via dailymail.com
  
  The 150-metre-long trail of waste was deposited in a field by the A34 in Kidlington last year, prompting widespread outrage.
  
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• Moment pavement explodes just feet from shoppers... before flames start leaping from hole

  28-08-2026 03:16 via dailymail.com
  
  A couple had just crossed the road and were seconds away from being hit by the blast.
  
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• Nepal-Tibet floods live: King Charles 'heartbroken' with 1000s missing including Brit kids

  28-08-2026 03:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A 13-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy are among 33 British tourists missing in Nepal and Tibet after an avalanche led to major flooding along the Bhotekoshi River
  
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• GTA 6: An Extended Look is live now on YouTube – watch it here

  28-08-2026 03:05 via metro.co.uk
  
  Now you can watch all 26 minutes on YouTube (Netflix)If you aren’t a Netflix subscriber, the GTA 6 Extended Look is now available to stream on YouTube and Rockstar’s website. After a turbulent week of video leaks, Rockstar has finally pulled back the curtain on GTA 6’s gameplay in an official capacity. The highly-anticipated sequel looks incredibly impressive, with a vast open world set in the Florida-inspired state of Leonidas, including a reworked Vice City. R
  
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• Bless their cotton... tops: Twin monkeys cling onto their mum as UK zoo welcomes three baby primates

  28-08-2026 02:56 via dailymail.com
  
  Zookeepers at Twycross Zoo in Leicestershire are celebrating the birth of a Coppery Titi monkey and two Cotton-Top Tamarin monkeys.
  
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• Canada's Mark Carney tries to give Trump a 'reality' check as he rejects the renaming of Lake Ontario

  28-08-2026 02:55 via dailymail.com
  
  Mark Carney gave Donald Trump a pointed history lesson as he rejected the president's decision to rename Lake Ontario 'Lake America.'
  
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• The story behind new circles on Aussie roads in trial to protect motorcyclists from other drivers

  28-08-2026 02:44 via dailymail.com
  
  If you're a Victorian motorist, chances are you've seen strange circular markings appearing on some roads.
  
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• How Meta's seemingly unstoppable march to monetise children's unhealthy online habits took a historic - and $18billion - stumble

  28-08-2026 02:42 via dailymail.com
  
  Claimants argued that Facebook and Instagram had purposefully fostered addiction in children and teenagers, spreading anxiety and depression.
  
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• Moment suit-wearing motorist 'attacks' tractor driver in 'road rage row over who should reverse' on narrow country lane

  28-08-2026 02:30 via dailymail.com
  
  The ten-minute-long altercation took place in Weston-super-Mare on Monday morning.
  
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• Peter Alexander apologises after Indigenous man claimed he was accused of stealing: 'Couldn't believe what had just happened'

  28-08-2026 02:28 via dailymail.com
  
  Australia's biggest sleepwear retailer has apologised after an Indigenous man claimed he was accused of stealing because of his race.
  
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• 'I could hear nurses in the background': How a Tinder swindler convinced victims he was a multi-millionaire cancer patient and ex-special forces soldier and conned them out of £68,000... before he was finally caught

  28-08-2026 02:26 via dailymail.com
  
  Joseph Gibson, 35, lied that he had served in the Special Boat Service, owned luxury yachts and, even claimed, he was a multimillionaire cancer patient.
  
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• Body found during search for missing Brit tourist, 28, in remote mountains near French border

  28-08-2026 02:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 28-year-old was last seen in the early hours of Sunday after leaving a hostel in Andorra. On Wednesday Andorran firefighters and police launched a search to find the man and just a day later confirmed a body has been found
  
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• Games Inbox: Was the GTA 6 Netflix show a disappointment?

  28-08-2026 02:10 via metro.co.uk
  
  What did you think of GTA 6’s Netflix debut? (Netflix)The Friday letters page has a surprisingly mixed reaction to the GTA 6 extended look, as one reader laments the death of physical media.
  You can’t please everyone
  Good lord that extended preview of GTA 6 was dull as dishwater. I’m not sure how that was supposed to get anyone hyped for the game, though at this point they probably don’t need to try to sell the game.It was so oddly paced, with weird cuts, a hodge podge o
  
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• Benefits claimant says people struggle to find jobs because they can't find one that's 'meaningful'

  28-08-2026 02:01 via dailymail.com
  
  Gigi El-Halaby made the comments during a discussion about why unemployment persists, particularly among people receiving Personal Independence Payment (PIP).
  
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• Putin's new nuclear sub revealed: It's a 10,000-ton behemoth carrying six 'Doomsday' torpedoes that could trigger a devastating radioactive tsunami. Now, experts tell FRED KELLY exactly how it could decimate Britain

  28-08-2026 02:00 via dailymail.com
  
  Named after Russian explorer Yerofey Khabarov, the Khabarovsk will now undergo rigorous testing before being considered fit for active service.
  
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• New GTA 6 previews confirm affinity mechanic, Red Dead honour system and more

  28-08-2026 02:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  No one’s yet to play the game besides Rockstar… and that one leaker (Netflix/Rockstar)A ton of extra GTA 6 info has been shared via new US previews, such as how the game builds upon Red Dead Redemption 2 and that you can influence Jason and Lucia’s romance.Even in just 26 minutes, the GTA 6 gameplay preview on Netflix showed off a lot of new details that somehow weren’t already spoiled by the frequent leaks, while also re-emphasising the game’s very impressive gra
  
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• JAN MOIR: Harry and Meghan remain imbued with a mutual god complex to deliver us from evil and make the world a better place... chiefly for themselves

  28-08-2026 02:00 via dailymail.com
  
  Meghan is wondering if she can bottle their bounty to make a buck and thinking fondly of the plaudits she'd get for rescuing those damsons in distress.
  
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• CLARE FOGES: The unhinged Sudanese asylum seeker who brutally stabbed an innocent woman 30 times should never have been allowed on our streets. This is the question all women across Britain are now asking

  28-08-2026 02:00 via dailymail.com
  
  Shadows in doorways. Keys bunched in your fist as a makeshift weapon. Running down the street, heart hammering. Is that someone following? Making it to your front door unharmed is sweet relief.
  
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• Tate brothers moan they're suffering from a poor diet and lack of privacy in prison as they battle to be released to fight extradition to the UK

  28-08-2026 01:48 via dailymail.com
  
  Lawyers for Andrew, 39, and Tristan, 38, are asking a judge for them to be freed from custody at least until an extradition hearing can be held.
  
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