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• 'I never thought a simple spider bite could leave me fighting sepsis'

  20-07-2026 15:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Anna Whitehouse, better known as Mother Pukka, was hospitalised earlier this year after a false widow spider bite became infected and developed into sepsis.
  
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• Meccha Chameleon outsells Star Fox in June chart as Xbox console sales rise

  22-07-2026 18:56 via metro.co.uk
  
  A Meccha hit (lemorion_1224)UFC 6 and Meccha Chameleon are the best-selling games of the month, as Xbox Series X/S sales jump by 86%.After selling 15 million copies, indie hit Meccha Chameleon has made a significant splash on the US sales charts for June. As shared by by Circana’s Mat Piscatella, the indie hide-and-seek ‘friendslop’ hit, developed by lemorion_1224, debuted as the second best-selling game of the month based on dollar sales. It was only outsold by another n
  
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• Mikel Arteta told to sign ‘frightening’ World Cup star for Arsenal after Morgan Rogers blow

  22-07-2026 18:54 via metro.co.uk
  
  Arsenal are in the market for attacking reinforcements (Picture: Getty)Troy Deeney has urged Arsenal to consider a move for Norway winger Antonio Nusa after Chelsea completed a £117million deal for Morgan Rogers.Mikel Arteta had made Rogers his number-one target for the summer transfer window as he looked to strengthen his options in forward areas.However, the Gunners were gazumped by London rivals Chelsea, who have paid the record transfer fee for an English player to bring Rogers to Sta
  
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• I interviewed Andy Burnham – and noticed a crucial difference with Keir Starmer

  22-07-2026 18:44 via metro.co.uk
  
  The new Prime Minister seemed far more at ease (Picture: AP Photo)It’s already quite disconcerting to think that Keir Starmer was still Prime Minister when this week began.His disappearance from the headlines has been brutally swift, making way for a replacement in Andy Burnham is keen to make as much noise as possible in his first week.The last we saw of Starmer, he was sipping a pint outside the Grafton pub in Kentish Town.As senior political reporter for Metro, I met Starmer a few time
  
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• Spain World Cup winner Ferran Torres has mural vandalised within 24 hours in Barcelona

  22-07-2026 18:40 via metro.co.uk
  
  Street artist TVBoy unveiled a mural dedicated to Spain’s World Cup winner Ferran Torres (ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock)A mural dedicated to Spain’s World Cup winner Ferran Torres has been vandalised within 24 hours in Barcelona.Torres, who plays for Barcelona, scored Spain’s winning goal in extra time on Sunday to seal a 1-0 victory over Argentina in the World Cup final.Italian street artist TVBoy travelled to Barcelona this week to paint the mural of Torres kissing the World
  
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• Woman, 70, charged after British mother Karen Carter stabbed to death returning from French village wine tasting

  22-07-2026 18:32 via metro.co.uk
  
  Paying tribute to her, one friend described Karen as ‘a strong businesswoman who had an air of authority about her’, while another said she ‘didn’t have any enemies’ (Picture: Handout)A pensioner has been charged with the murder of Karen Carter who was found stabbed to death after a wine tasting.Karen Carter, 65, was stabbed repeatedly after she returned home in the idyllic Dordogne village of Trémolat, east of Bordeaux, in April last year.The mum-of-fo
  
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• Vile conversations between police officers about if they’d have sex with suspects caught on body cam

  22-07-2026 18:26 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 PagePolice officers have been recorded apparently discussing if they would have sex with suspects and dragging them ‘down the stairs’.Unsuspecting officers at Norfolk Constabulary can be heard debating whether a protestor they arrested is ‘hot’ and laughing about another suspect who was ‘pushed’ to the ground.The shocking audi
  
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• Donald Trump keeps threatening to commit war crimes as he rapidly unravels over Iran

  22-07-2026 18:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Trump's Middle East adventure was brought into focus in the most acute way, as he travelled to Dover Air Force Base for the dignified transfer of three troops killed in his deepening quagmire - here's what you need to know
  
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• Woman 'love rival', 70, is charged over killing of Brit expat Karen Carter at her French Dordogne village home

  22-07-2026 18:23 via dailymail.com
  
  A 70-year-old woman has been charged over the killing of British expat Karen Carter, who was found stabbed to death at her French home over a year ago. 
  
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• Mum tried to donate blood but was told she had low iron levels - they were really sign of cancer

  22-07-2026 18:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Laura Jackson, 39, said she did not have many symptoms of bowel cancer - including blood in her stool - and had put down her tiredness to being a working mother
  
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• Woman is killed when man plunges from 12-storey apartment building and lands on top of her - as he survives fall

  22-07-2026 18:20 via dailymail.com
  
  Houra Inaba, 23, was walking on a pavement in Nagoya, Japan, around 1am last week when Shinsei Taguchi, 29, made the fatal fall.
  
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• Coroner hits out at hotel bosses for refusing to share CCTV that may show British businessman's mystery death on Polish trip

  22-07-2026 18:20 via dailymail.com
  
  Recruitment expert and father-of-three Steve McBride, 40, died after falling 36 feet from a hotel rooftop during a team-building ski resort trip when he went to fetch his room keys in the dark.
  
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• Heartbreaking last words of teenager to girlfriend after their horror Ford Fiesta crash

  22-07-2026 18:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Adam Dudzinski, 17, and his girlfriend Chloe-Ann Naylor, 16, drowned after he lost control of a blue Ford Fiesta in Kent and it ended up in a drainage ditch full of water
  
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• Mamdani ridiculed for sharp U-turn on Bibi's arrest as he makes desperate plea to the feds

  22-07-2026 18:18 via dailymail.com
  
  'It is clear that we do not have the independent legal authority to enforce this warrant,' Mamdani said. 'The federal government, however, does.'
  
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• Mango founder's son 'was told by therapist to confront his father on cliff edge with Brit interpreter picking trail where tycoon plunged to his death'

  22-07-2026 18:17 via dailymail.com
  
  The son of the billionaire founder of fashion giant Mango was told to confront his father at the hiking spot where he died. 
  
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• 'I'm a single mum and often go without the basics - every month is a struggle'

  22-07-2026 18:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Lowri Williams relies on Universal Credit and often goes without the basics - it comes as research found 7.4 million households were unable to afford at least one essential in the last month
  
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• Safety manager learns fate after hyperbaric chamber explosion that killed boy, 5

  22-07-2026 18:11 via dailymail.com
  
  Thomas Cooper, 5, died in the explosion last year after safety precautions were ignored. The former safety manager of the medical center and three others were arrested after he died.
  
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• Grim ceremony at Dover as Trump meets flag draped coffins of American soldiers killed in widening Iran air war

  22-07-2026 18:07 via dailymail.com
  
  A somber President Trump arrived at Dover Air Force Base today to honor four US service members killed in recent Iranian strikes.
  
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• After nearly a decade of longing this viral ‘magical’ drink from the US is coming to Britain

  22-07-2026 18:07 via metro.co.uk
  
  The drink was a huge hit nearly a decade ago (Picture: Reuters)In April 2017, Starbucks added a single drink to its menu which soon became a sprinkle-laden cream-topped powdery blue and pink sugary phenomenon.Available in the US, Canada and Mexico for just four days, the coffee house sparked a mad rush for its now iconic Unicorn Frappuccino, as posts about the drink went viral online.What’s in this Y2K unicorn explosion? The drink features a ‘magical’ sweet and tart blend of c
  
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• This is the one question to ask yourself before you admit to cheating

  22-07-2026 18:04 via metro.co.uk
  
  Cheating is only one chapter of the story, next comes the hard part (Picture: Getty Images)‘If you’ve cheated on your spouse and they don’t know — don’t tell them.’This is the controversial take from TikToker @FashionablyDivorced, a content creator who argues that keeping infidelity a secret is far kinder than being truthful.‘By letting them know, you’re making them carry the burden of what you’ve done,’ she continues. ‘It has th
  
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• America's pettiest cyclist takes infuriating 'revenge' on innocent drivers after spotting truck blocking Boston bike lane

  22-07-2026 18:01 via dailymail.com
  
  A cyclist has gone viral for intervening in traffic on a busy Boston street amid a meltdown.
  
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• Pensioner tried to strangle singing theatre goer at We Will Rock You musical after his companion told her to 'shut the f*** up', court hears

  22-07-2026 18:00 via dailymail.com
  
  Malcolm Potier, 74, allegedly put his hands around the neck of Kirsty O'Donnell, 51, after she sang along to the show at the London Coliseum on June 7, 2023.
  
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• Manchester synagogue killer planned attack on Israeli soldiers at UK base saying he was 'war-ready', court hears

  22-07-2026 18:00 via dailymail.com
  
  Jihad al-Shamie, 35, was captured on CCTV at a mosque in Manchester discussing the plot with fellow 'committed jihadist' Mohammad Bashir, 31, a delivery driver, on August 9, 2025.
  
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• K-Pop icons aespa want ‘special’ collab with huge UK artist

  22-07-2026 18:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Aespa have set their sights on one of the UK’s biggest artists (Picture: Supplied)The K-pop world has introduced us to some of the biggest girl bands of the last decade, from BLACKPINK to KATSEYE, and aespa are definitely among those ranks. Since their debut in 2020, the four-piece group – made up of Karina, Giselle, Winter, and Ningning – have broken records in Korea, achieving the highest number of views in 24 hours for a K-pop group’s debut video and becomin
  
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• Police officer charged over death of 16-year-old 10 months after e-bike crash

  22-07-2026 17:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Daniel Cartwright, 31, a serving police officer with Bedfordshire Police, was off duty at the time of the crash between two cars and an e-bike, which resulted in the death of 16-year-old Ryley Hutson
  
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• Sufferers of cruel neurological condition that sees the body shut down - as well as TWO sets of heartbroken parents who've already lost a child to the disease and now fight for their other sons' lives - BEG the State to act 'before it's too late'

  22-07-2026 17:49 via dailymail.com
  
  'There are 200 of us begging for our lives.' A new drug is shown to slow progression of Friedreich's Ataxia. But after 700 days, why is the State is still undecided on helping desperate families...
  
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• End of PlayStation discs will kill off CeX and used games market claim analysts

  22-07-2026 17:40 via metro.co.uk
  
  CeX and others may not survive the next few years (CeX)Sony’s decision to stop producing PlayStation game discs threatens to end the second-hand games market, according to analysts.There has been plenty of justified outcry over Sony’s decision to stop making PlayStation game discs, after next year, but the effect on the used games market has been largely ignored up until now.While many game retailers are disappearing from the high street, the last bastion in the UK is CeX, a second-
  
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• Killer’s chilling words before killing innocent woman in row over stolen motorbike

  22-07-2026 17:33 via metro.co.uk
  
  Luis Villachana was convicted of murdering Ruth Ann Cummings during a confrontation over his stolen motorcycle (Pictures: Kern County Police/National Gun Violence Memorial)A 44-year-old woman was shot dead after attempting to rescue her husband from an armed confrontation sparked by a stolen motorcycle.Ruth Ann Cummings was inside her SUV when gunman Luis Villachana opened fire outside a home in Oildale, California.
  She was hit by the gunfire and later died from her injuries.51-year-old Villach
  
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• All three pilots on British Airways flight hit with food poisoning in mid-air

  22-07-2026 17:29 via metro.co.uk
  
  The first pilot was rendered ‘incapacitated’ at 30,000 ft and had to be put on oxygen (Picture: Getty Images)Three pilots on board a British Airways flight suffered food poisoning while mid-air, which is almost exactly the plot of hit comedy Airplane!All the pilots on board the flight to Heathrow became ill after a stopover in India. The first pilot was rendered ‘incapacitated’ at 30,000 ft and had to be put on oxygen.
  The other two pilots managed to work but their sympt
  
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• Streeting and Mahmood’s jokes about early release are an insult to victims like me

  22-07-2026 17:21 via metro.co.uk
  
  They made a joke about it, for which both hastily apologised (Picture: BBC News)‘He wanted to let them all out!’Defence Secretary Wes Streeting joked with Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood yesterday outside Downing Street about the early release of prisoners, but I didn’t find it funny. In the footage, first reported by Metro’s Senior Political Reporter Craig Munro, we were given a small insight into what politicians talk about when they think nobody is listening, and
  
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