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• Former cyclist Lance Armstrong admits he owes Wada an apology

  22-04-2015 23:19
  
  • Disgraced ex-champion responds to comments from David Howman
  • Armstrong says Wada chief refused to meet with him in 2013
  • Richard Williams: Armstrong must realise only humility will earn redemptionLance Armstrong said on Wednesday that the World Anti-Doping Agency and others are “owed an apology,” but noted the agency’s chief rebuffed efforts to meet with him back in 2013.David Howman, director general of WADA, said this week he was disappointed Armstrong has not apologised for c
  
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• Alex Jones's $50m penalty for lying about Sandy Hook victims is massively reduced

  22-08-2026 07:08 via dailymail.com
  
  Alex Jones claimed victory in a Texas Court, where judges cut his payment to families of victims of the 2012 school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary from $50million to just $6million.
  
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• Wayne Rooney's new job and drastic body transformation as BBC pundit returns after surgery

  22-08-2026 07:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A new-look Wayne Rooney is all set to return to our televisions ahead of the 2026/27 Premier League season
  
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• Hull City vs Man Utd: Predicted lineup today and confirmed team news

  22-08-2026 07:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Sesko could have some role to play this weekend (Picture: Manchester United)Manchester United begin their Premier League campaign away to newly-promoted Hull City this afternoon.Summer transfer business at Old Trafford is not done yet with the club working on getting a deal for Brighton’s Carlos Baleba over the line.But Michael Carrick has refreshed his midfield options with Andrey Santos and Youri Tielemans arriving from Chelsea and Aston Villa respectively.Santos featured heavily in pre
  
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• Full list of all London Underground closures this weekend with multiple Tube lines down

  22-08-2026 07:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Anyone travelling should check their journey this weekend before leaving. (Credits: Getty Images)Londoners are being urged to check before they travel this weekend because multiple Tube lines will be shut for planned engineering work.The Piccadilly line faces major disruption overnight between Friday and Saturday, and then on Sunday, the Circle, District, Metropolitan, and Hammersmith and City lines all face closures across various points of the day.Several London Overground lines are also faci
  
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• Dollar General workers noticed child's strange behavior and called cops... who unearthed sordid sex allegation in house of horrors where 16 children lived 'like feral animals'

  22-08-2026 06:48 via dailymail.com
  
  Elizabeth Siders and Gary Siders Jr were arrested and charged with 16 counts of child endangerment after authorities found 16 children living inside their squalid Ohio home.
  
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• Trump claps back with 'mom' jibe after protestor's brazen stunt at rally

  22-08-2026 06:47 via dailymail.com
  
  With the crowd largely behind him and cheering his every move, he was interrupted twice by protesters, who were promptly escorted out to the delight of Trump's MAGA fanbase.
  
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• Family's remarkable praise for cops who gave them false hope when Lily Hooper was found dead

  22-08-2026 06:40 via dailymail.com
  
  Ms Hooper's family endured a heartbreaking ordeal after first being told she was found alive, only to later learn she had died.
  
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• Outrage as 'America's wokest prosecutor' negotiates wild sentencing concession for man convicted of TWO murders

  22-08-2026 06:37 via dailymail.com
  
  Families of two murder victims are furious after Marquez Hill-Turnipseed, 24, received concurrent sentences totaling 40 years for killings committed three years apart.
  
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• Wild new claim about a 'fourth buttock slap' emerges from inside Swans scandal hotel room - as details of team's raucous partying before bombshell allegations are revealed

  22-08-2026 06:36 via dailymail.com
  
  The raucous partying of Sydney Swans stars before an alleged sexual assault scandal has been detailed.
  
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• At least 15 killed and 130 injured in Russian drone strike on Ukrainian shopping mall

  22-08-2026 06:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the attack as a double-tap strike and large-scale Russian strikes have become a regular occurrence this summer
  
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• BBC axed iconic show, top star took pay cut, new Match of the Day pundits join in shake-up

  22-08-2026 06:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The BBC has made a number of changes to its football coverage, including to its flagship programme, Match of the Day
  
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• Twisted criminals killed a beloved granny and a kind neighbour. This week in Australia, both got 'hope for freedom'

  22-08-2026 06:26 via dailymail.com
  
  If Victorians thought the sentence of Lolene Whitehand was bad, they may have missed this. 
  
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• Trump imposes fresh round of 50% tariffs on Canada's imports after last-ditch crisis talks collapsed

  22-08-2026 06:18 via dailymail.com
  
  Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney responded to the failed negociations, calling the last-minute changes in the US proposed terms 'unfair and uneconomic'
  
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• Trump doubles down on controlling Strait of Hormuz... as Iran's president begs for fighting to end while smell of 'burning flesh' lingers on Tehran streets

  22-08-2026 05:53 via dailymail.com
  
  The President has made the reopening of the waterway a key plank of ending the Iran War, as the conflict heads toward the six month mark.
  
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• Drug kingpin jailed after fleeing to Dubai and five years on the run

  22-08-2026 05:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Max Matthews absconded from police bail in July 2021 and fled abroad as investigators closed in on his criminal network. However, Essex Police's Serious and Organised Crime Unit continued to build its case and work with national and international partners to locate him
  
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• Woman dies after plummeting from 18th floor of hotel in popular tourist spot

  22-08-2026 05:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The woman's husband alerted hotel staff and he tearfully said his wife had done something "outrageous" - he has reportedly been arrested
  
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• America's wokest prosecutor outrages Minneapolis families by offering double murderer lighter sentence 'for HIS benefit'

  22-08-2026 05:20 via dailymail.com
  
  Families of two murder victims are furious after Marquez Hill-Turnipseed, 24, received concurrent sentences totaling 40 years for killings committed three years apart.
  
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• Arsenal make decision over Victor Osimhen transfer after Galatasaray warning

  22-08-2026 05:07 via metro.co.uk
  
  Arsenal are not willing to break the bank to sign Victor Osimhen from Galatasaray (Getty)Arsenal remain hopeful over signing Victor Osimhen but have told the Galatasaray striker that he needs to lower his salary demands, according to reports.Mikel Arteta is looking to add another attacking player to his squad before the end of the summer transfer window and Atletico Madrid forward Julian Alvarez remains high on Arsenal’s shortlist.However, Atletico are refusing to sell Alvarez, while the
  
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• Brit woman who needed 'extendable seatbelt' on planes loses 6 stone with app

  22-08-2026 05:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  'Everyone says I look younger, my skin's better, my hair's more healthy. It's just been a total eye-opener'
  
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• 'Forget A-Levels, I am making £50K after dropping out of school thanks to best decision ever'

  22-08-2026 05:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Hugo Helms says he achieved excellent marks at school, but felt it was a 'waste of time'
  
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• Frank Lampard makes Arsenal Premier League claim after Coventry defeat

  22-08-2026 04:28 via metro.co.uk
  
  Frank Lampard says he felt Arsenal’s ‘physicality’ from the touchline (Coventry City)Frank Lampard believes Arsenal showed exactly why they are the Premier League champions after Coventry City’s 3-0 defeat at the Emirates Stadium on Friday night.Arsenal got their new Premier League season off to an excellent start as goals from Kai Havertz, Bukayo Saka and Martin Odegaard secured the victory over Lampard’s side.Coventry, who won the Championship by an 11-point marg
  
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• Woman, 47, arrested over KFC incident filmed telling cops 'I can't breathe' as she was booked into jail... moments later she was dead

  22-08-2026 03:43 via dailymail.com
  
  Gerlinde Spring Lynch, 47, died as she was booked into the Clackamas County Jail in Oregon City for allegedly damaging property at a KFC parking lot about an hour earlier.
  
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• Teen, 15, fights for life after he knocked on a stranger's door for help following a stabbing

  22-08-2026 03:40 via dailymail.com
  
  A 15-year-old boy is fighting for life after being stabbed while out in Terrigal on the Central Coast.
  
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• ANDREW LOWNIE: The question is no longer how the Monarchy deals with its bad apples, but whether it can survive so many of them

  22-08-2026 03:39 via dailymail.com
  
  Every family has its bad apples. But the Royal Family is becoming overrun with them. The execrable Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is the worst of them.
  
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• Teacher at £56,000-a-year boarding school is banned after failing to disclose fiancé's child sex convictions

  22-08-2026 03:18 via dailymail.com
  
  Thomas Ridgway, 31, (left) was suspended from Heathfield, an independent girls' school in Ascot, Berkshire, after his partner Matthew Linfield (right) was jailed for six-and-a-half years for his crimes.
  
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• Footballer, 19, among four dead in horror crash as club pay tribute

  22-08-2026 03:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Djedy Sidibe died when the car he was travelling in collided with a lorry on Monday August 17. Four young people aged between 18 and 21 died in the collision, while a fifth occupant was seriously injured
  
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• Afghans who risked their lives alongside British troops hit by ANOTHER personal data breach - the 50th in five years

  22-08-2026 03:07 via dailymail.com
  
  News of yet another breach of details entrusted to the UK government at a time when the Taliban continues.
  
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• Tinder date spirals into deadly face-off as woman's ex-boyfriend is shot by new lover on his doorstep, prosecutors say

  22-08-2026 03:01 via dailymail.com
  
  Drake Alexander Ingalls, 24, allegedly shot Jason Greene dead after driving 90 miles to meet a woman he had matched with on Tinder.
  
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• The most anticipated video games of 2026 and whether they’ll be hits or not – Reader’s Feature

  22-08-2026 03:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  GTA 6 – it’ll probably be quite successful (Rockstar)There are lots of very promising games coming up in the next few months, from GTA 6 to Control Resonant, and a reader has ranked their chances of being a smash hit or unfortunate flop.The recent previews of upcoming games has further empathised how absolutely stacked the next few months are for games. It seems crazy that in order to avoid GTA 6, companies have instead opted to commit some kind of video game chicken by releasing al
  
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