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• Memorising complex passwords and clunky text message 2-factor ID to be replaced by 'passkeys' in effort to beat hackers and boost web security

  07-05-2025 18:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  'Passkeys' - already being used in the NHS - are now being rolled out by the government and promoted to the private sector.
  Experts estimate they will save time signing in and be more secure.
  
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• Emotional Rory McIlroy pays tribute to SPOTY ‘heroes’ whose daughters were killed Southport attack

  18-12-2025 21:43 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 PageRory McIlroy fought back the tears as he paid tribute to ‘heroes’ David Stancombe and Sergio Aguiar at tonight’s BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards.David and Sergio, whose young daughters Elsie, 7, and Alice, 9, were among those killed in last year’s Southport attack, had been presented with the Helen Rollason Award earlie
  
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• Donald Trump downgrades weed on eve of Epstein Files deadline

  18-12-2025 21:33 via metro.co.uk
  President Donald Trump smiles in the Oval Office as he signs executive orders
  (Picture: REUTERS)President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that would reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug and open new avenues for medical research.The move is a major shift in federal drug policy and comes on the eve of the Epstein Files deadline and minutes after a tranche of new photos were released.The switch would move marijuana away from its current classification as a Schedule I drug, alon
  
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• Emmerdale ‘confirms’ escape plot for Bear as freedom looms  

  18-12-2025 21:25 via metro.co.uk
  Celia Daniels’ world is unravelling (Picture: ITV)Ray Walters (Joe Absolom) continued to pull away from the influence of his horrible mother Celia Daniels (Jaye Griffiths) in Thursday (December 18)’s Emmerdale, when he defied her to help Bear Wolf (Joshua Richards). Celia’s attempt to ruin Ray’s romantic relationship with Laurel Thomas (Charlotte Bellamy), and the way she totally belittled and humiliated Ray afterwards, has perhaps made
  
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• Loveholidays’ December sale drops prices on winter sun and city break stays

  18-12-2025 21:00 via metro.co.uk
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  If you can’t face another cold, wet winter stuck in the UK, now is the perfect time to book your next getaway.While you may be sifting through the shops to tick off your Christmas shopping, there’s one holiday sale you won’t want to miss.That’
  
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• Inside the world of ‘porch pirates’ who steal people’s parcels right on their doorsteps

  18-12-2025 21:00 via metro.co.uk
  The documentary even caught a thief in action on camera (Picture: Hardcash Productions)The criminal gangs swiping parcels from doorsteps and delivery vans are likely to be on overdrive this Christmas – but now their tactics have been exposed in a new documentary.Every day in the UK, thieves known as ‘porch pirates’ steal thousands of packages before they reach their recipient. The problem has grown as online orders soar in popularity over shopping on the high street.A shocking
  
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• The Traitors’ Charlotte Chilton ‘terrified’ baby daughter will forget her after undergoing brain surgery

  18-12-2025 20:56 via metro.co.uk
  Charlotte Chilton has shared an update on her health (Picture: Instagram/Charlotte Chilton)The Traitors’ Charlotte Chilton has shared her gut-wrenching fear that her baby daughter, Penelope, would forget who she was after the reality TV star was rushed to the hospital.Charlotte announced on social media that she had a ‘huge’ trigeminal neuralgia attack.Trigeminal neuralgia is sudden, severe facial pain that is often described as a sharp, shooting pain.She has since been told t
  
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• Horror as two young students, 14 and 16, plunge to their deaths at prestigious Upper East Side schools just weeks apart

  18-12-2025 20:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The teenage girl's death comes just one month after a 16-year-old boy fell to his death from a private all-boys school in the same Manhattan neighborhood.
  
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• Authorities IDENTIFY person of interest in the hunt for Brown University killer

  18-12-2025 20:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Law enforcement have identified a person of interest in connection to the Brown University mass shooting.
  
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• Bondi Beach shooting LIVE updates: Islamic state praises Bondi Beach gunmen as 'source of pride' after 15 were killed in massacre - as Bondi hero is handed a $2.5million cheque

  18-12-2025 20:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Islamic state has praised alleged Bondi terrorists Naveed Akram, 24, and his father Sajid, 50, as 'lions' and a 'source of pride' in a statement.
  
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• Trump's secret succession plan to put Charlie Kirk in the Oval Office... and groom a shock new VP (who is VERY close to home)

  18-12-2025 20:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Before Charlie Kirk was assassinated at a Utah campus, MAGA Republicans were plotting a political rise that could have put him in the Oval Office, sources tell the Daily Mail.
  
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• TikTok star's sudden death probed by cops after fans on live stream make troubling claim

  18-12-2025 20:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  TikTok star Riziki Ilenre, 27, tragically died on December 12 in Montgomery, Alabama. She often spoke about her mental health struggles and her beloved service dog, Chief.
  
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• Shocking moment camel kicks woman in face and knocks her out at Texas megachurch Christmas celebration

  18-12-2025 20:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Shocking video showed the incident at Champion Forest Baptist Church's annual Christmas Spectacular.
  
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• US rapper Wiz Khalifa sentenced to 9 months in jail for drug possession

  18-12-2025 20:40 via metro.co.uk
  Wiz Khalifa has been given a nine-month jail sentence by a Romanian court (Picture: Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)Rapper Wiz Khalifa has been sentenced to nine months in prison by a Romanian court for drug possession charges.The 38-year-old performer, whose real name is Cameron Jibril Thomaz, was stopped by Romanian police last July after allegedly smoking weed during his performance at the Beach, Please! Festival in Costinesti.He was then said to be in possession of more than 18 grams of cannabis
  
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• Trump reclassifies marijuana defying dire Republican warnings of brain drain that will embolden China

  18-12-2025 20:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  President Donald Trump signed an an executive order to free up federal restrictions on marijuana on Thursday, despite deep reservations from fellow Republicans on the consequences of doing so.
  
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• Motherwell murder: New dad dies in 'targeted' shooting with killer on the loose

  18-12-2025 20:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jordan Gray, 26, was shot dead at his home in Motherwell after recently becoming a dad - police believe it was a 'targeted' incident and have launched a murder probe
  
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• ‘What I did was horrible’: Drunk man who threw kittens off bridge pleads guilty to animal cruelty

  18-12-2025 20:13 via metro.co.uk
  Andrew Shephard threw the three kittens over Twickenham Bridge, London (Picture: Getty Images)A man has admitted to drunkenly throwing kittens off a west London bridge into the River Thames, saying ‘what I did was horrible.’Andrew Shephard, 58, pleaded guilty to three counts of causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal.On November 30, Mr Shephard had the three kittens in a box before he’tipped them over the edge into the river’ on Twickenham Bridge, the court h
  
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• Pie eating world champion declares ‘it went down in the end – that’s all that matters’

  18-12-2025 20:08 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 PageWhat can you do in 62 seconds? Brew a disappointing cup of tea, doom scroll on TikTok or achieve global infamy by being crowned a world champion pie-eating sensation.One man from Blackpool, did the latter managing to scoff down a meat and potato filled pastry in just over a minute on his first entry to the World Pie Eating Championships.Care home worker, Tom
  
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• SEVEN famous faces in new Jeffrey Epstein photo dump including billionaire and magician

  18-12-2025 20:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Microsoft founder Bill Gates, illusionist David Blaine, Google CEO Salar Kamangar and theorist Noam Chomsky are among the famous faces seen in the newly-released Epstein photographs
  
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• Brown University mass shooting and MIT assassination may be connected, police confirm

  18-12-2025 20:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Brown University shooting which killed two students and the assassination of an MIT professor two days later may be connected, police have said.
  
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• NASCAR legend Greg Biffle is killed in fireball private jet crash, close friend says

  18-12-2025 20:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The fiery plane that crash-landed in Statesville, North Carolina on Thursday morning tragically killed NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, according to his close friend.
  
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• WW3 fears as Russia deploys huge nuclear missile launcher that could London in MINUTES

  18-12-2025 20:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Russia has sent its Oreshnik missile system to Belarus - and has claimed its missiles could hit London in just eight minutes - as EU leaders hold crunch talks over freezing Russian assets
  
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• Paul Doyle 'held in Monster Mansion jail' where 2 prisoners were recently killed

  18-12-2025 20:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Paul Doyle drove into crowds of Liverpool fans at the title-winning parade in May - he has been imprisoned for 21 years and six months, and is reportedly being held at 'Monster Mansion'
  
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• Women more likely to suffer IBS pain 'due to their hormones', researchers find

  18-12-2025 20:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  According to the study, certain hormones can trigger pain in the colon
  
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• UK snow forecast as Russian blizzard 'may bury all regions on Christmas Day'

  18-12-2025 20:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Some models suggest snow could hit all parts of the UK by the end of Christmas Day, with a Russian weather blast potentially bringing freezing conditions
  
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• Children survivors of Manchester Arena terror attack suicide bombing to receive almost £20million in damages

  18-12-2025 19:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  16 youngsters, all aged under 16 at the time of the attack, will receive amounts ranging from £11.4 million to £2,770.
  
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• Historic Kennedy Center renamed to Trump-Kennedy Center in astonishing unveiling

  18-12-2025 19:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  DC's premier cultural center will soon feature a new name.
  
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• Epstein and Andrew orgy claim with Virginia Giuffre deepens after new WhatsApp text

  18-12-2025 19:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Virginia Giuffre previously described how Jeffrey Epstein ordered her and other girls to gather at a cabana beside the main house’s pool, where they were met by the then-Prince Andrew and Epstein
  
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• Forgotten Christmas special with British TV legends to air for first time in 40 years

  18-12-2025 19:50 via metro.co.uk
  Cannon and Ball are returning to screens this festive season (Picture: ITV/Shutterstock)It’s been four decades since this festive special first aired – but it’s coming back to screens this Christmas.The Cannon and Ball Christmas special was initially released on December 21, 1985.
  Starring Tommy Cannon and Bobby Ball, the beloved comedy variety show ran on ITV from 1979 to 1988 and will now see the special air on That’s TV to spice up the December programme schedule.What
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein pictured being massaged surrounded by girls in grim photo dump

  18-12-2025 19:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein is seen surrounded by three women, including one that appears to be massaging him, in one of 68 new photographs released by the US House Oversight Committee
  
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