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• Latest ever winner, comeback and controversy - Senegal's remarkable exit

  02-07-2026 03:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Late drama, controversy, history and heartbreak - the World Cup last-32 tie between Belgium and Senegal had everything.
  
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• Moment Mel Brooks totally loses his mind on The One Show resurfaces

  02-07-2026 15:38 via metro.co.uk
  
  Who remembers when Mel Brooks was introduced to the mind-melting experience of The One Show? (Picture: BBC)This week, Mel Brooks turned 100, and as fans reminisced on his iconic life, one moment shone out above all the others.The EGOT winner, whose acclaimed Hollywood career spans seven decades, made the trek across the pond in 2017 to promote a new musical based on his film Young Frankenstein and did his mandatory turn on BBC’s The One Show.The daily evening talk show throws together a r
  
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• Grandma ‘who fatally poisoned four grandchildren’ given blunt two-line obituary

  02-07-2026 15:37 via metro.co.uk
  
  Amy Steadman is suspected of involvement in the death of her daughter Sarah Myers and her four grandchildrenA grandmother who is suspected of fatally poisoning her daughter and four grandchildren before taking her own life has been remembered by surviving family members in a blunt, two-line obituary.Amy Steadman, 64, her daughter, Sarah Myers, 44, and four grandchildren, Harper Harmon, 13, Hudson Harmon, 11 and 10-year-olds Gavin Harmon and Gracelynn Harmon, were found dead at Steadman’s
  
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• Dozens of people hospitalised due to salmonella in instant noodle pots

  02-07-2026 15:24 via metro.co.uk
  
  The outbreak, which has spread across 14 countries, began last year in November (Picture: Getty Images)Nearly 50 people – more than 30 of them children – have been hospitalised by a major salmonella outbreak in instant noodle pots.The outbreak is believed to have started in November last year, with 106 cases being reported as of June 27 this year across 14 countries, including the UK.Food safety agency EFSA and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control have said in a st
  
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• Gary Glitter faces four fresh charges of sexual offences against a girl

  02-07-2026 15:15 via metro.co.uk
  
  Gary Glitter has been charged with more sexual offences (Picture: Rob Stothard/Getty Images)Gary Glitter has been charged with four sexual offences against a girl dating back to 1978, the Crown Prosecution Service said.The disgraced singer, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was previously jailed for 16 years in 2015 for sexually abusing three schoolgirls between 1975 and 1980.Glitter, 82, is now accused of assaulting one victim, a young girl, in the late 70s and early 80s.He is charged wi
  
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• ‘Doctor Trump’ claims rivals have ‘Derangement Syndrome’ in bizarre AI clip

  02-07-2026 15:15 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 PageDonald Trump shared an AI video of himself as a doctor treating celebrities for ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ just days before America’s 250th.The bizarre pharmaceutical-type ad showed the President in a white coat reading ‘Dr Trump’ and testimonials from celebrities who oppose him.Robert De Niro, Whoopi Goldberg, Julia Roberts a
  
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• Micah Richards urges Thomas Tuchel to drop Arsenal star from England World Cup team

  02-07-2026 15:13 via metro.co.uk
  
  Former England international Micah Richards (Picture: BBC)Micah Richards has urged Thomas Tuchel to drop Arsenal winger Noni Madueke from England’s World Cup team.England were made to sweat in their round-of-32 clash with DR Congo, but came from behind to win 2-1 and punch their ticket into the last 16.Brian Cipenga’s seventh-minute opener saw DRC take a shock lead before a superb, talismanic brace from Harry Kane rescued victory for the Three Lions late on.Tuchel’s side now f
  
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• Boys who walked free after raping girls are jailed after appeal

  02-07-2026 15:11 via metro.co.uk
  
  One of the scenes of the attacks in Fordingbridge(Picture: Alamy Live News)Two teenage boys who walked free after being convicted of raping two girls in Fordingbridge have been sentenced to four years after their original sentence was found to be ‘unduly lenient’.The case went to the Court of Appeal after nationwide outrage over their sentences, which saw the judge say he wanted to ‘avoid criminalising these children unnecessarily’.
  Three boys, two aged 15 and one aged 1
  
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• Fans ‘crying’ after My Chemical Romance star lets out massive burp on stage

  02-07-2026 15:01 via metro.co.uk
  
  Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance added an unexpected addition to a classic song (Picture: AP)There are few songs more emotionally devastating than My Chemical Romance’s Cancer.Which is part of why nobody expected the biggest talking point from the band’s latest performance to be Gerard Way accidentally burping into the microphone.The rock icons kicked off the UK and European leg of their Long Live The Black Parade tour at Liverpool’s Anfield Stadium on June 30, treating fans
  
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• Gemma Atkinson reveals why she snubbed Hollyoaks’ pleas for her to return

  02-07-2026 14:57 via metro.co.uk
  
  The actress addresses a soap comeback (Picture: Corbis via Getty Images)Former Hollyoaks star Gemma Atkinson has revealed that bosses have asked her to return to the soap ‘a few times’ but insists she won’t be heading back anytime soon.The actress, 41, became a household name playing Lisa Hunter between 2001 and 2005, before going on to star as Carly Hope in Emmerdale.While Gemma did make a brief return to Hollyoaks in 2022, she’s now admitted that chapter of her career
  
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• 16 children found ‘looking like feral animals’ in Ohio house of horrors

  02-07-2026 14:56 via metro.co.uk
  
  Police rescued 16 children from a property in Hamden, Ohio, during a search warrant operation (Picture: Samantha Madar/Columbus Dispatch / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)Sixteen children have been rescued from a tiny Ohio home where police say some ‘looked like feral animals’ and others couldn’t even speak.
  Four adults have since been charged over what investigators described as conditions of ‘pure evil’.Deputies from the Vinton County Sheriff’s Office ma
  
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• Pint throwing England fans are ruining the World Cup

  02-07-2026 14:53 via metro.co.uk
  
  England fans at Boxpark, where videos of pint throwing regularly go viral (Picture: Reuters)I think it was around the time that the sixth pint sailed through the air that I knew I’d chosen the wrong place to watch the World CupAfter a long season watching my beloved Arsenal almost win a historic double, I was feeling a bit flat about supporting England during the expanded tournament, so for the first game against Croatia on June 17 I decided to go big. I couldn’t face queuing o
  
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• Millie Bobby Brown is hyped for GTA 6 even though she never does crimes

  02-07-2026 14:51 via metro.co.uk
  
  She calls her love of GTA ‘a passion’ (Getty/Rockstar/Metro)Despite naming GTA as her favourite video game ever, Millie Bobby Brown has insisted she doesn’t ‘break the rules’, to the point where she will stop at red lights.While there’s plenty of online outrage over its lack of a real physical release, GTA 6 is going to sell extremely well regardless, especially if reported pre-order figures are accurate.Even some celebrities have expressed excitement for the
  
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• Trump in meltdown over July 4 celebration as 'humiliating' visual sparks vicious White House backstabbing

  02-07-2026 14:49 via dailymail.com
  
  Images from Trump's speech showed a sparsely attended event, while footage captured attendees leaving in the middle of his speech.
  
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• Rochdale grooming gang leader who raped girls is released from prison as No 10 insists it is powerless to deport him

  02-07-2026 14:49 via dailymail.com
  
  Shabir Ahmed, 73, is leaving HMP Leeds on Thursday is starting civilian life in a bail hostel in the north of England, costing taxpayers around £120-a-night.
  
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• Minnesota's Democrat Governor Tim Walz pardons illegal migrant PEDOPHILE who raped girl aged 10 to stop the predator from being deported

  02-07-2026 14:49 via dailymail.com
  
  Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has pardoned illegal immigrant Tou Lue Vang, 42, who was convicted of raping a ten-year-old child, to stop him being deported.
  
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• Elderly couple face £1,000 bill after ONE neighbour complained about them planting flowers and shrubs on scrubland next to their home

  02-07-2026 14:49 via dailymail.com
  
  Hilary Garner, 82, and her husband Christopher, 84, spent more than £700 decorating the 3-metre-squared (9.84ft) patch of ground.
  
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• 'Harry Kane scores and England remembers who it really is - and the far right will hate every second of it'

  02-07-2026 14:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  "England’s win over DR Congo showed that, beneath the poison spread by those who profit from division, Britain remains a country capable of standing together when it remembers what it shares"
  
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• Former cop who raped two women and assaulted a third has been jailed for ten years

  02-07-2026 14:46 via dailymail.com
  
  A former policeman who raped two women and subjected a third to prolonged abuse has been jailed for 10 years - but continues to deny his guilt.
  
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• Trump denies profiteering as president after income quadrupled to $2,200,000,000

  02-07-2026 14:44 via metro.co.uk
  
  Trump has consistently denied there are any conflicts of interest between his role as US President and his personal finances (Picture: Getty Images)Donald Trump has insisted he isn’t profiteering as US President after it emerged that his income quadrupled to at least $2.2bn during his first year in office.The Republican president made $1.4bn in cryptocurrency, including through his own currency $TRUMP, which he has widely promoted while in office.He raked in a further $635m in royalties f
  
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• Kate surprises fans in the Wimbledon queue to hand out tickets as she appears in SW19 for first time at this year's championships 

  02-07-2026 14:44 via dailymail.com
  
  As a royal patron of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club since 2016, Kate is a regular fixture at the prestigious tournament.
  
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• Managing director died falling 100 feet off cliff from roof of funicular railway while speaking to police, inquest hears

  02-07-2026 14:42 via dailymail.com
  
  Mark Stephen Hill, 49, was spotted on top of the roof of the carriage in Bournemouth, Dorset, last month.
  
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• Benefits cheat, 66, illegally claimed £14,000 while living in Greece where she advertised her services online as a childminder

  02-07-2026 14:42 via dailymail.com
  
  Dawna Bird's husband Harry Bird has already been dealt with by the courts for claiming around £70,000 in extra payments.
  
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• Pubs triumph over Labour council after being told to remove outside seating overlooking the River Thames 'following single complaint'

  02-07-2026 14:38 via dailymail.com
  
  Furious locals have rallied to save three pubs on a historic Thames-side stretch after a council order threatened to remove dozens of prized riverside seats.
  
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• MasterChef star Lisa Faulkner, 54, reveals she has breast cancer

  02-07-2026 14:36 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 PagePresenter Lisa Faulkner has shared that she has undergone a ‘big operation’ and will now face radiotherapy after being diagnosed with breast cancer.The 54-year-old star addressed her ‘quiet’ presence on social media, revealing she’d been diagnosed after a mammogram.She said she was so ‘grateful’ she’d actually
  
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• Peter Mandelson was ‘top contact to Russia for 30 years’, spy dossier claims

  02-07-2026 14:23 via metro.co.uk
  
  Sources told the Telegraph the claims in the dossier were nonsense (Picture: Bloomberg via Getty Images)A leaked dossier claims Peter Mandelson was considered a top contact by Russia for decades before he was appointed the British ambassador to the US, it has been reported.Lord Mandelson was sacked from the top diplomatic role in September last year, following revelations about his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.Since his departure, there have been questions over the ext
  
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• John Cena debuts bald look ahead of hair transplant

  02-07-2026 14:23 via metro.co.uk
  
  John Cena shaved his head before his most recent hair transplant (Picture: Facebook)John Cena has revealed he recently underwent a second hair transplant after admitting that fan scrutiny ‘pushed’ him to get the procedure.
  The former wrestler-turned-actor has been very open about his hair-loss struggles, after sharing that his fans encouraged him to take his health seriously.The 49-year-old took to Facebook to announce ’round 2 of FUE Treatment,’ otherwise known as Folli
  
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• Keir Starmer tells victims of forced adoption the country is ‘profoundly sorry’

  02-07-2026 14:22 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 PageSir Keir Starmer has formally apologised on behalf of the nation to the mothers, children and others affected by forced adoption in the UK.An estimated 185,000 mothers, adoptees and families were affected by the practices, in which unmarried women were pressured by official bodies into giving up their children because they were not married.It resulted in tra
  
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• Holidaymakers are stranded at Gatwick airport when rogue meet-and-greet parking service leaves their cars abandoned in junkyard, hotel and the short stay

  02-07-2026 14:18 via dailymail.com
  
  Dozens of Brits landed at the Sussex airport last month to find that their vehicles were nowhere to be seen.
  
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• Met Office forecasts heavy rain for 6 counties on Friday but heatwave looms - full list

  02-07-2026 14:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Met Office weather maps show multiple areas of the UK will be battered by up to 16mm of rain before another potential heatwave that would bring 30C temperatures
  
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