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• Gang in ‘Russian spy plot’ jailed for arson attacks targeting Keir Starmer

  15-06-2026 13:46 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 men have been found guilty over a series of arson attacks on property linked to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.Last May, a Toyota Rav4, which was once owned by Sir Keir, was set alight in a street in Kentish Town, north London.Days later, two houses were set ablaze, including a north London home occupied by the Prime Minister’s sister-in
  
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• Paul Pogba makes bold Manchester United Premier League title prediction

  15-06-2026 19:02 via metro.co.uk
  
  Paul Pogba made 154 Premier League appearances for Manchester United (Picture: Getty)Paul Pogba has made a bold prediction and believes Manchester United will win the Premier League title within the next three years.United looked destined for another hugely underwhelming season when Ruben Amorim was sacked in January and replaced by an interim coach in Michael Carrick.
  Pogba’s former teammate, however, presided over a stunning change in fortunes which culminated in Champions League qualif
  
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• Teen ‘doesn’t know why’ he fatally stabbed nine-year-old Aria Thorpe in chest

  15-06-2026 18:57 via metro.co.uk
  
  Aria Thorpe was stabbed once in the chest (Picture: Avon & Somerset police)A teenage boy told a group of youths ‘you will see it on the news later’ after stabbing a nine-year-old girl to death, a court heard.The 16-year-old confessed to stabbing Aria Thorpe once in the chest at a house in Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset, in December last year.After fleeing the property, he walked to a nearby railway station where he told young people gathered there that he had stabbed a child,
  
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• New The Witcher spin-off in development claims report but not for consoles

  15-06-2026 18:52 via metro.co.uk
  
  The Witcher 4 is still a while off (CD Projekt)Another game set in The Witcher universe is in development according to reports, and it isn’t Project Sirius. Between The Witcher 4, The Witcher 1 remake and the recently announced expansion for The Witcher 3, fans of Geralt and Ciri are set to be well served over the coming years. Developer CD Projekt has even more games in the oven than that, all set within Andrzej Sapkowski’s fantasy universe The Witcher 4 is the start of a
  
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• Car rams into ICE agent and flees as gunshots are fired in wild New Jersey scene

  15-06-2026 18:46 via dailymail.com
  
  An ICE agent was struck by a suspect fleeing arrest in New Jersey on Monday.
  
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• Reform UK councillor QUITS as Nigel Farage's party is 'unfit to govern' with 'toxic infighting'

  15-06-2026 18:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Robbie Lammas, the former deputy leader of Reform UK on Medway Council in Kent, has resigned from his new role after just eight months - saying he "felt misled" by Nigel Farage's party
  
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• World Cup LIVE: Spain vs Cape Verde updates after manager sack shock

  15-06-2026 18:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  World Cup favourites Spain kick off their campaign against Cape Verde without Lamine Yamal or Inaki Williams in their starting XI against the tournament debutants
  
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• Gladiator II didn’t ‘fail’ but Russell Crowe is right about one thing

  15-06-2026 18:42 via metro.co.uk
  
  Russell Crowe has come for Gladiator II, which he wasn’t involved with, again (Picture: Dreamworks/Universal/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock)Gladiator actor Russell Crowe has decided an appropriate enough amount of time has passed that he can now rip into the 2024 sequel of the film that cemented him as a Hollywood A-Lister, more than a quarter of a century ago.The New Zealander famously played the titular gladiator, Maximus, in Sir Ridley Scott’s original film; he was a Roman general on a q
  
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• UFC fight-fatigued Trump sounds hoarse during uncomfortable meeting with Macron as Iran deal hangs over G7 summit

  15-06-2026 18:40 via dailymail.com
  
  Donald Trump did not appear pleased when he met with French President Emmanuel Macron in France on Monday.
  
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• 'Kind soul' killed in 'shocking incident' in Essex park as two teens arrested

  15-06-2026 18:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Radwan Shakur, 21, was found with fatal stab wounds at Central Park in Chelmsford, Essex, on Friday evening, and two teenagers have been charged with his murder
  
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• I was told I had terminal prostate cancer aged 48. Two years later I'm disease-free thanks to this amazing new drug... and this is why it's not available to everyone

  15-06-2026 18:35 via dailymail.com
  
  There's never a good time to be given a terminal cancer diagnosis. But for Professor Kevin Mortimer, the news came on his daughter's 11th birthday...
  
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• Desperate search for California woman who vanished 10 days ago while hiking in Costa Rica during dangerous flash floods

  15-06-2026 18:31 via dailymail.com
  
  Ashley Phillips, 30, disappeared on June 2 after she went hiking in Costa Rice during an intense storm, her family said.
  
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• 34 human foetuses are found buried in a garden after 'female doctor used them for experiments' at her home in Poland

  15-06-2026 18:27 via dailymail.com
  
  Prosecutors said that police uncovered the remains of 34 foetuses buried among thousands of microscopic slides, documents and paraffin blocks.
  
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• Ivory Coast boss makes Liverpool transfer claim about Yan Diomande

  15-06-2026 18:24 via metro.co.uk
  
  Yan Diomande starred as the Ivory Coast got the better of Ecuador (Picture: Getty)Ivory Coast boss Emerse Fae says he is confident Yan Diomande remains fully ‘focussed’ on the World Cup, despite incessant rumours linking the forward with the likes of Liverpool and Paris Saint-Germain.Diomande enjoyed an outstanding debut season with RB Leipzig last term and has been widely touted as one of the most exciting young talents at this summer’s tournament.And on Sunday, Diomande unde
  
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• Reform councillor quits party branding it ‘biggest mistake of my life’

  15-06-2026 18:22 via metro.co.uk
  
  Robbie Lammas said he was ’embarrassed’ by his decision to move from the Conservatives to Reform (Picture: Reform UK/PA Wire)A Reform councillor has quit the party, calling his decision to join ‘the biggest mistake of my life’.Robbie Lammas, a councillor in Medway, Kent, said he was embarrassed about his defection from the Conservatives to Reform eight months ago.Cllr Lammas told the BBC: ‘I’m going to leave Reform, I’ve had enough, it’s not what
  
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• Teenager googled 'what happens if you kill' after stabbing nine year-girl to death, court hears

  15-06-2026 18:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 16-year-old who allegedly stabbed Aria Thorpe, 9, in Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset, in December last year googled "What happens if you kill" minutes later, a court has heard
  
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• Love Island USA producer dies during filming in Fiji after ‘unexpected medical emergency’

  15-06-2026 18:19 via metro.co.uk
  
  ITV America and Peacock have confirmed the news (Picture: Love Island USA/ITV America/Peacock)A member of the production crew for Love Island USA has died while filming for the reality dating show in Fiji.
  According to the network, executive producer James Barker died after ‘suffering an unexpected medical emergency’.
  It confirmed the news to TMZ, telling the publication: ‘ITV America and Peacock will honour in Tuesday’s episode of Love Island USA series Executive Produc
  
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• Donald Trump's so-called Iran deal threatened by Israel-Hezbollah war clashes

  15-06-2026 18:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  As the clock ticks toward the Friday signing of the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding, tensions between Hezbollah and Israel grow, threatening to scupper any long-term peace deal ending the war
  
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• 'Parents beg us for help with 'crack cocaine for kids' - but it's social media'

  15-06-2026 18:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Mumsnet founder Justine Roberts tells The Mirror that Keir Starmer's social media ban under-16s is welcome but the fight isn't over, as parents across the country beg for help with phone addiction in children
  
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• School is blamed over the death of boy, 7, who was starved and locked away by cruel stepmom

  15-06-2026 18:02 via dailymail.com
  
  An autopsy conducted by the Orange County Medical Examiner concluded that Peter, who weighed just 37 pounds, had died as a result of malnutrition.
  
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• I went to Armenia on the UK’s first direct flight — go now, before everyone else does

  15-06-2026 18:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  A country of ancient traditions and breathtaking scenery (Picture: urbazon / Getty Images)The sign on the pharmacy reads 36°C as women glide past, immaculately dressed with pink peonies and blood red roses in the crooks of their arms.The scent of fresh cherries swirls in the sweltering summer air. The tinkle of piano keys trickles onto wide boulevards lined with mulberry trees.A few streets away, bunnies and ducks shuffle in cages, waiting to be sold in an open-air market.On a hill ove
  
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• I suffer from incontinence – Emmerdale’s Cain is the best character to change perceptions

  15-06-2026 18:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Since his diagnosis, Cain has been really struggling with every life change that has come with it (Picture: ITV)When I watched Emmerdale’s Cain Dingle (Jeff Hordley) rush to the toilet after wetting himself, before opting not to leave the house as planned, I instantly understood his heart-sinking dilemma.
  Already struggling with an aggressive, localised form of prostate cancer, Cain is suffering with urinary incontinence, a side effect of his recent prostatectomy since having a catheter r
  
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• Smuggler caught trafficking ‘150 venomous scorpions’ at airport

  15-06-2026 17:58 via metro.co.uk
  
  150 individually wrapped scorpions discovered by customs (Picture: South African Police)There was a sting in the tail for one would-be smuggler who was caught trying to sneak 150 live scorpions out of South Africa.A 28-year-old man was arrested after an intelligence operation circulated his description before he was intercepted by officers at Cape Town International Airport on Friday.His luggage was searched and 150 ‘live and venomous scorpions’ were discovered stashed between his f
  
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• My 25-year-old partner thought she had a virus – it was incurable cancer

  15-06-2026 17:54 via metro.co.uk
  
  Molly Jenner was diagnosed with lymphoma just 10 days before her death (Picture: Lily Monarch/SWNS)For six weeks, Molly Jenner thought she was dealing with the sort of cough most people would put down to a virus picked up at work or on public transport.The 25 year-old performer from York had little reason to suspect that it was anything more serious than that. According to her fiancée, Lily Monarch, she had barely been ill a day in her life and had never even needed a prescription for an
  
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• Bungee jump instructors 'removed GoPro camera from body of woman after hurling her off a bridge without a rope attached', witness claims

  15-06-2026 17:54 via dailymail.com
  
  The aspiring physical education teacher had asked to be launched 130ft from the bridge 'aeroplane style', with two instructors hoisting her above their shoulders as she spread out her arms.
  
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• Police log 'hate incident' against mother who failed to call her trans child by their new name

  15-06-2026 17:49 via dailymail.com
  
  A mother has been hit with a 'hate incident' report after failing to call her transgender child by their new name, records show.
  
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• JD Vance BACKTRACKS on Trump's Iran claim as the President floats breaking security rule to seal deal himself

  15-06-2026 17:36 via dailymail.com
  
  Vice President JD Vance tempered expectations set by Donald Trump that the Strait of Hormuz will be 'permanently toll-free.'
  
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• Desperate search for California woman who vanished 10 days ago while hiking in Costa Rica

  15-06-2026 17:36 via dailymail.com
  
  Ashley Phillips, 30, disappeared on June 2 after she went hiking in Costa Rice during an intense storm, her family said.
  
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• Nurse who rushed to botched bungee jumper's aid says girl was still ALIVE as her dying moments are revealed after being thrown from bridge with no rope

  15-06-2026 17:35 via dailymail.com
  
  The young woman died after plunging 130 feet from a bridge, but she was shockingly still alive immediately after the fall, according to a nurse who tried to save her.
  
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• Xbox studios exec and former Rare boss resigns ahead of expected mass layoffs

  15-06-2026 17:33 via metro.co.uk
  
  Craig Duncan is leaving Xbox (Shane Anthony Sinclair/BAFTA/Getty Images for BAFTA)Two Xbox executives have announced they’re leaving the company this week, as the company continues to undergo drastic changes. Between the admission of declining revenue, the pivot back to exclusive games, and rethinks around Project Helix, it’s clear major changes are happening at Xbox. 
  The uncertainty around the company has only grown over the past few days, with reports of expected layoff
  
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