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• Have Russian bots dropped off after Ukraine attacked its data centres?

  12-10-2026 18:53 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 PageVolodymyr Zelensky said that social media users may have noticed their feeds are a tad quieter this morning.
  And the reason, the Ukrainian president told the Warsaw Security Forum in Poland today, is simple.On Sunday, Ukraine attacked a data centre in Vladimir, a city 120 miles east of Moscow, owned by ‘Russia’s Google’, called Yandex.Almos
  
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• Leeds will ‘feast on Man Utd carcass’ after week of torment for Michael Carrick’s side

  16-10-2026 09:38 via metro.co.uk
  
  It has been a difficult week for Michael Carrick (Picture: Action Images via Reuters)Leeds United are ready to ‘feast on a carcass’ when they take on Manchester United at Elland Road on Sunday.Michael Carrick’s side are rapidly approaching crisis mode having recorded their worst start to a Premier League season in 40 years. His side were booed on three separate occasions by supporters at Old Trafford during the 1-1 draw with Tottenham last Saturday having won just one of their
  
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• Martin Freeman, 55, secretly marries girlfriend, Rachel Benaissa, 32, after six years together

  16-10-2026 09:31 via metro.co.uk
  
  Martin Freeman and Rachel Benaissa have secretly tied the knot in a private ceremony (Picture: Shane Anthony Sinclair/BAFTA/Getty Images for BAFTA)Martin Freeman has secretly tied the knot with his girlfriend of six years, actress Rachel Benaissa.The Sherlock star, 55, and his French partner, 32, managed to keep their wedding under wraps for months before stepping out together on Wednesday wearing some rather telling new jewellery.Attending the premiere of Freeman’s latest film, The Long
  
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• Elon Musk shows off new ‘flying’ Tesla car with truly breathtaking stunt

  16-10-2026 09:28 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 PageElon Musk has unveiled a new Tesla car that can fly and accelerate from 0 to 60mph in just 0.81 seconds.The two-seater Roadster was revealed at SpaceX’s Rocket Test and Development Center in Texas, where spectators were treated to a demonstration of its airborne abilities before it blasted through an acceleration run.Musk claims the production version
  
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• Major city to get Star Wars-style ‘floating’ skyscraper in surreal transformation

  16-10-2026 09:26 via metro.co.uk
  
  An artist’s impression of how Tirana Fountain Plaza will look amid the Tirana skyline (Picture: Bjarke Ingels Group/Cover Images)The Albanian capital’s skyline is set to be transformed by a ‘floating’ skyscraper.Tirana could soon resemble Star Wars’ Cloud City as Danish architecture studio BIG has unveiled plans for a cloud-shaped building featuring apartments, offices, a hotel and cultural spaces above a public park.Named Tirana Fountain Plaza, the proposed develo
  
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• Baby killer Constance Marten 'is over the moon' at move to a soft jail which offers inmates therapy and acupuncture just 13 months into her 14-year sentence

  16-10-2026 09:22 via dailymail.com
  
  The runaway aristocrat,39,went on the run with her rapist boyfriend, Mark Gordon, and her baby daughter in a bid to stop her being placed in care.
  
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• Mum-of-four collapses in court as she's spared jail for sex attack on taxi driver

  16-10-2026 09:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Emma Richards, 41, from Merseyside, began making suggestive remarks to the taxi driver before touching his groin and genitals and lifting up her top, a court heard
  
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• Healey to clobber banks with a Budget tax raid, despite fears it will drive up business costs and mortgage rates

  16-10-2026 09:11 via dailymail.com
  
  Speculation is mounting that the Chancellor will increase the levy banks pay on their profits over and and above corporation tax.
  
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• 'Desperate great-grandad marched 290 miles to be ignored by PM – now Burnham will put it right'

  16-10-2026 09:01 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ninety years ago, 200 men and their MP walked 290 miles from Jarrow to London to highlight the plight of families starving in their town. The Tory PM was “too busy” to meet with them - but next week a historic wrong will be righted
  
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• 'Less-obvious symptoms' as American Covid strain spreads across UK

  16-10-2026 08:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A pharmacist has spoken about evidence of signs beyond the usual cough or fever
  
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• Trump calls Ukraine's new attacks on Russian refineries 'a disgrace' and blames them for pushing up global energy prices - after Zelensky condemned US president's 'betrayal'

  16-10-2026 08:55 via dailymail.com
  
  US President Donald Trump has called Ukraine's renewed strikes on Russian oil refineries a 'disgrace,' in an interview published Thursday.
  
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• Surge in sunbed shops across UK with 'poorest' areas seeing most being opened

  16-10-2026 08:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The less money people in an area have, the more likely a new tanning shop is to open
  
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• Pharmacist issues warning for anyone using estradiol and levonorgestrel patches

  16-10-2026 08:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It follows an alert from the Department of Health and Social Care
  
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• Man City charges LIVE: Points deduction size emerges as Premier League rivals 'fuming'

  16-10-2026 08:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  All of the latest Manchester City 114 charges news with updates on their potential points deduction and the reaction of Premier League rivals
  
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• Three children and a teacher shot dead at primary school in US

  16-10-2026 08:28 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 PageThree children and a teacher were killed after a suspected teen shooter opened fire at a primary school.
  The community in Bend, Oregon, is mourning the deadly shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School.
  A gunman first struck outside the primary school shortly before 1pm local time yesterday after reports of a person in a car being shot at.
  Then chilling 911 c
  
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• Dad was given months to live after doctors found tumour 'the size of a small baby'

  16-10-2026 08:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Quentin Webb had been having symptoms of tiredness and weight loss, but put it down to stress
  
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• Celebrity Traitors live updates - Rob Beckett and Hannah Fry out as star told off by bosses

  16-10-2026 08:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Traitors have struck early in the episode this week - but Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Romesh Ranganathan and Ross Kemp were spared from murder.
  
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• Japan issues warning for record-breaking magnitude 9.9 earthquake before apology

  16-10-2026 08:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  People across Japan received a warning of an unprecedented magnitude 9.9 earthquake today, but the Japan Meteorological Agency later issued an apology
  
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• Trump declares renewed Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries 'a disgrace' and blames them for pushing up global energy prices - after Zelensky condemned US president's 'betrayal'

  16-10-2026 08:12 via dailymail.com
  
  US President Donald Trump has called Ukraine's renewed strikes on Russian oil refineries a 'disgrace,' in an interview published Thursday.
  
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• Man compares Quality Street tins from 1996 and 2026 to find best value and is floored

  16-10-2026 08:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Memorabilia collector Tony Warner compared a typically large 1996 Quality Street vintage tin with modern versions - and his findings may come as a surprise
  
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• DVLA key update as it confirms 4 changes over driving licence renewals

  16-10-2026 08:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Department for Transport has issued a DVLA update this week from Parliament on steps it is taking to ensure drivers are affected as little as possible
  
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• HMRC explains why your tax code may change and what it means

  16-10-2026 08:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  You may be overpaying and not know it
  
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• ITV expert settles 'is leaving heating on all day best' debate

  16-10-2026 08:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Many householders wonder when it gets cold if it's more efficient to keep the home warm all the time
  
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• Sylvester Stallone: ‘Fans ripped my film apart 42 years ago – but I loved it’

  16-10-2026 08:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Sorry, the video was not found“]I can’t lie, meeting Sylvester Stallone on my 37th birthday was a very odd moment in my life.Now, it wasn’t a bad experience, but when Metro stepped into the swanky hotel suite to chat to the 80-year-old Oscar nominee for Tulsa King season 4, it felt different from other interviews. I wasn’t meeting just another actor. I was shaking hands with Rocky Balboa; I was shooting the s**t with Rambo; I was talking to THE Sylvester Stallone, a
  
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• Man City’s brazen defiance only highlights their ludicrous advantages

  16-10-2026 08:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  City did their best to silence Anfield last Sunday (Picture: Manchester City FC via Getty Images)It was a shock to realise on Sunday, as I sat down to watch them compete in the Premier League after all, that I had forgotten what was to come.Two weeks on from the news that Manchester City had been found guilty of nearly all charges relating to breaches of the league’s financial regulations, the men that represent them filed out at Anfield, unbeaten, at the top of the table.Two weeks of ana
  
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• London’s Christmas lights are best seen from this festive double-decker bus tour

  16-10-2026 08:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  This festive London bus tour comes with Christmas lights, a Thames cruise and 20% off. (Picture: Metro/The The Original Tour)
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  London at Christmas is full of twinkling street displays, light-decked landmarks, and pine trees everywhere.One of the best ways to take it all in is from the top of a red double-decker bus, and if you’v
  
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• I’ve stayed in 21 hotels so far in 2026 — this one had my favourite feature

  16-10-2026 08:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  The iconic hotel first opened back in 1854 (Picture: Kaya Great Northern)From castles to riads, rural retreats to city bolt holes, I’ve stayed in 21 hotels around the world this year.And while some had Michelin-starred restaurants and underground spas, there’s one that offers a perk that stands out from the rest — right here in the UK.At Kaya Great Northern Hotel, located inside King’s Cross Station, each floor has its own pantry.I don’t mean a sad corner with bott
  
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• Horror confirmed for Debbie in Coronation Street as sinister enemy returns to target her

  16-10-2026 08:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Debbie finds herself tormented by a blast from the past. (Picture: ITV)As if Debbie Webster’s (Sue Devaney) needed another fighton her hands in Coronation Street.The two biggest battles she’s had to fight on the Cobbles is her ongoing struggle with vascular dementia, and her absolute rotter of a son Carl Webster’s (Jonathan Howard)
  The no-good dirty rat is the reason Debbie went to prison, thanks to him causing multi-car pileup by driving drunk, and then emotionally black
  
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• Emmerdale’s Charles drops a Tom King secret ahead of his release

  16-10-2026 08:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  He’s hiding something (Picture: ITV)Charles Anderson (Kevin Mathurin) has some news to share with Belle Dingle (Eden Taylor-Draper) in Emmerdale soon, and it’s about Tom King (James Chase).Tom is currently in prison after abusing Belle and making her life a misery. He was sentenced to three years behind bars but, in upcoming episodes, Belle will learn that her abuser is being released early.When Belle’s Victim Liaison Officer turns up, she explains that Tom will soon be out of
  
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• Disgusting Craig spreads intimate teen photos in EastEnders leaving a family in shock

  16-10-2026 08:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Craig targets Amy’s ex (Picture: BBC)Denzel Danes (Jaden Ladega) and his family are left in distress after intimate photos of him are leaked in EastEnders next week. The teen has been targeted by DC Craig Ingram (Matthew James Bailey) after he discovered a shirtless picture of him while possessively going through girlfriend Amy Mitchell’s (Ellie Dadd) phone. With the calculated copper having groomed Amy, he was immediately angered by the old image of her ex-boyfriend and t
  
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