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• Games Inbox: What is the best video game soundtrack of 2025?

  09-12-2025 03:00 via metro.co.uk
  Ghost Of Yōtei – does it have the best soundtrack? (Sony Interactive Entertainment)The Tuesday letters discusses the most annoying thing about Metroid Prime 4, as one reader tries to guess if Tomb Raider will be at The Game Awards 2025 or not.Games Inbox is a collection of our readers’ letters, comments, and opinions. To join in with the discussions yourself email [email protected] NOTE: We are currently preparing articles to run over the Christmas and New Year brea
  
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• Xbox and EA should sell all their developers before they’re shut down – Reader’s Feature

  13-12-2025 07:00 via metro.co.uk
  Dead Space – trapped with its publisher (EA)Upset at rumours of job cuts at Xbox and suggestions that EA refuses to sell the Dead Space franchise, a reader argues that publishers should let developers go when things don’t work out.There was a story this week about how the number of people using their Xboxes to watch Pornhub had dropped sharply over the year. A lot of people just treated this as a joke, especially as the percentage happened to be 69%, but as soon as you start to thin
  
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• Line of Duty star is excited to ‘get out of his comfort zone’ in new dark thriller

  13-12-2025 07:00 via metro.co.uk
  Martin Compston’s taking a break from nicking bent coppers (Picture: AP)Martin Compston has made a name for himself playing waistcoat-wearing workaholic cop Steve Arnott in Line of Duty. It’s a role that’s catapulted the 41-year-old to stardom and cemented his place in the canon of great Scottish actors. Yet the former footballer-turned-thespian is keen to show that he can play more than just well-dressed but world-weary cops – he’s a funny guy. So w
  
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• Dad only eats Tesco Finest meals for two days and 'nearly has heart attack' over cost

  13-12-2025 07:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  YouTuber Just Deano has completed another food challenge and this time it involved the Tesco Finest range where he bought his 'most expensive supermarket steak' ever
  
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• Meteor shower of 'vivid colours' set to peak in UK skies this weekend

  13-12-2025 06:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Geminids meteor shower is particularly unique because of its origin
  
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• Mom goes in for surgery on giant tumor in her womb when stunned medics uncover full-term 8lb baby boy

  13-12-2025 06:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Suze Lopez, 41, was set to have a 22-pound benign cyst on her ovary removed at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles when doctors had her undergo a required pregnancy test.
  
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• Cough lasting this length of time could signal tuberculosis

  13-12-2025 06:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  TB cases have risen in England again
  
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• UK snow: Maps turn purple as flurries spread for White Christmas - 11 areas hit

  13-12-2025 06:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  New weather maps show snow showers from Scotland down to the Home Counties on Christmas Day, with heavier snow over higher ground in Scotland and possible flurries in London
  
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• Glamorous female judge's career ends in disgrace after she lied that she'd taken part in Operation Desert Storm aged SIXTEEN

  13-12-2025 05:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Baton Rouge Judge Tiffany Foxworth-Roberts was removed from her role by the Louisiana Supreme Court after being caught out in a string of outrageous lies.
  
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• Elon Musk says 'only a matter of time' before Steve Bannon goes back to prison after he's pictured with Epstein

  13-12-2025 05:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Musk's remark reignited his bitter feud with Bannon, who previously served four months in prison for contempt of Congress.
  
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• Horrifying new details emerge about Royal Caribbean cruise where passenger died after being 'served 33 drinks'... as his fiancée speaks out

  13-12-2025 05:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Michael Virgil, 35, had been drinking heavily and became agitated as he tried to find his room, taking his shirt off, kicking a door and punching walls.
  
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• Asda offering freebies to shoppers who spot pink stickers in store

  13-12-2025 05:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  This could save you some money ahead of Christmas
  
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• Nicki Minaj hits out at Gavin Newsom and claims governor's White House hopes are 'impossible' in fiery tirade after heaping praise on JD Vance

  13-12-2025 05:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nicki Minaj continued to boost conservatives on Friday, slamming Gavin Newsom just a day after pledging her allegiance to Vice President JD Vance.
  
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• Romance is on the cards this festive season — your star sign’s winter love horoscope forecast

  13-12-2025 05:00 via metro.co.uk
  Ready to cosy up with someone special? (Picture: Getty)Winter is often known as ‘cuffing season’ because folk like to settle down, get cosy and intimate, and share the festive season celebrations with someone special.
  So, it’s a potent time of year for starting and deepening a relationship.Let’s use my upcoming Zodiac Love Match oracle card deck (which you can pre-order here) to give you a full and frank love forecast for this winter season.Looking for more insight? Come
  
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• NHS free flu jab criteria as health bosses warn of 'tidal wave'

  13-12-2025 04:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Vaccines are frequently offered at GP surgeries, select pharmacies, maternity clinics, and care homes
  
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• Major update in the baffling case of missing Belgian backpacker who disappeared in a remote Australian forest

  13-12-2025 04:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Celine Cremer went missing in June 2023. Several searches of the dense, treacherous forest have been undertaken by police to try and find her.
  
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• Nicki Minaj savages Gavin Newsom's White House hopes in fiery tirade after heaping praise on JD Vance

  13-12-2025 04:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nicki Minaj continued to boost conservatives on Friday, slamming Gavin Newsom just a day after pledging her allegiance to Vice President JD Vance.
  
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• Mom desperately tried to stop go-kart before six-year-old daughter was killed on 'malfunctioning' ride

  13-12-2025 04:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A law firm hired by the grief-stricken family of Emma Riddle, six, gave a grim update to the case and offered an alleged cause of the horror go-kart crash that took her life last weekend.
  
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• Teenage girl, 17, who has lived in Australia her entire life and has dreams of being a nurse could be deported after a years-long battle for a visa

  13-12-2025 04:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A teenage girl with dreams of being a nurse fears she will be deported from Australia after a years-long battle to secure a visa.
  
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• Huge payday over $12million 'squatter' sandstone mansion in elite Sydney suburb at the centre of a bitter couple split: 'Chapter closed'

  13-12-2025 04:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Kidney transplant specialist Professor David Gracey and his political lobbyist husband Michael Kauter sold their grand Mosman home on Sydney's lower north shore following a nasty split.
  
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• Utah student who went missing for a month during mental health crisis kept alive by homeless community

  13-12-2025 03:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  He had disappeared on November 17 near the school without a coat, phone or money and was suffering from a severe mental health crisis and psychosis, per a search flyer posted by his mother.
  
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• Man who spent decades on Ohio death row sees murder case dismissed

  13-12-2025 03:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Elwood Jones was convicted of aggravated murder, robbery and burglary in the 1994 beating death of 67-year-old Rhoda Nathan at a hotel in Blue Ash, a Cincinnati suburb
  
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• UK Government responds to calls to 'double' tax threshold for pensioners

  13-12-2025 03:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A Government update has been issued after a petition was raised calling for the tax threshold for pensioners to be doubled
  
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• NHS 'call 999 now’ warning over common arthritis pill

  13-12-2025 03:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Methotrexate is commonly used to treat psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, and Crohn's Disease
  
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• 'One of us is next': Three months after Charlie Kirk's assassination, top podcaster's chilling prediction about ANOTHER national tragedy... and who may be behind it

  13-12-2025 03:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  'One of us is next,' he told the Daily Mail. 'I believe there is a decent probability.' It paints a very dark view of America's future just three months after the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
  
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• Fighting between Thailand and Cambodia continues despite Trump claim of renewed ceasefire

  13-12-2025 03:10 via theguardian.com
  Trump announced the agreement after calls with Thai prime minister Anutin Charnvirakul and Cambodian prime minister Hun ManetThailand-Cambodia fighting explainedCambodia said Thai forces including fighter jets continued to strike targets across their disputed border hours after Donald Trump said both countries leaders had agreed to renew a truce brokered in October that has been strained by days of deadly clashes.“Thai forces have not stopped the bombing yet and are still continuing the bo
  
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• Jamie Dimon sounds alarm on AI job losses... but says workers with the right skills will thrive

  13-12-2025 03:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Across corporate America, executives are increasingly candid about the disruption AI is already causing especially for younger and white-collar employees.
  
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• Boy, 4, has ear torn off in dog attack at bus stop in front of terrified mum

  13-12-2025 03:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tracy Moore and her 4-year-old son, Roland Moore, were standing outside waiting for the shcool bus when two seemingly friendly dogs approached them - but things soon took a dark turn
  
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• Horrifying news details emerge about Royal Caribbean cruise where passenger died after being 'served 33 drinks'... as his fiancée speaks out

  13-12-2025 03:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Michael Virgil, 35, had been drinking heavily and became agitated as he tried to find his room, taking his shirt off, kicking a door and punching walls.
  
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• Reform UK councillors 'could be killed without safety measures': Warning after protestors storm meeting

  13-12-2025 02:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Richard Tice, the deputy leader of Reform UK, claimed councillors were left petrified after demonstrators interrupted a Staffordshire council meeting on Thursday.
  
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