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• Men behind the masks: As Daft Punk announce split, FEMAIL delves into the lives of publicity-shy duo

  23-02-2021 16:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Daft Punk fans were devastated yesterday when the French electronic dance duo announced they've split after 28 years. Here, FEMAIL asks: who are the men behind the helmets?
  
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• How can Commander Calamity cling on?

  27-02-2021 02:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Former Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Steve Rodhouse, who had overall control of Operation Midland, is now a Director General at the National Crime Agency.
  
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• Germany is losing the vaccine war... and the EU will pay the price, says GUY ADAMS

  27-02-2021 02:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  For somewhere supposedly on the front line of Germany's battle against coronavirus, everything seems oddly quiet in Am Wehrhahn sports hall.
  
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• Artist Damien Hirst is selling cherry blossom prints for £2,000 (and you can pay by Bitcoin)

  27-02-2021 02:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A blooming bargain! Artist Damien Hirst is selling cherry blossom prints for £2,000 (and you can even pay for them by Bitcoin)
  
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• Actor who appeared in Friday Night Lights is charged with beating a cop with a crutch

  27-02-2021 02:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Luke Coffee, 41, was seen in photos and video using the crutch to assault the officer as he protected the federal building as chaos ensued last month.
  
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• Rishi Sunak to guarantee mortgages with government loans in next week's budget 

  27-02-2021 02:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Chancellor Rishi Sunak plans to incentivise lenders to give mortgages to first time buyers, and current homeowners, with just 5 per cent deposits to buy properties worth up to £600,000.
  
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• The summer of soaking: Eastern states prepare for a battering of rain over the weekend

  27-02-2021 02:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  With summer officially drawing to a close on Sunday, the Eastern states of Australia are preparing for a battering of rain over the next couple of days.
  
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• Nick Kyrgios shares a cheeky snap with a glamorous mystery woman

  27-02-2021 02:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nick Kyrgios has posted a cosy photo with a mystery brunnette to his social media on Friday. Just days after a public fight with ex-girlfriend Chiara Passari whom he began dating in Canberra in July 2020.
  
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• Josh Hawley gets standing ovation at CPAC as recalls being called 'traitor' for questioning election

  27-02-2021 02:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Hawley, famed for his salute of Capitol rioters shortly before they stormed the building, was given a standing ovation at CPAC as he and Cotton complained of a 'woke' mob silencing them.
  
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• First-time buyers to get major mortgage boost in Budget as 5% deposits return

  27-02-2021 02:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Rishi Sunak is expected to announce the return of 95% mortgages in next week's budget with the prime minister Boris Johnson speaking of a desire to end the so-called 'generation rent'
  
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• Chilling photo is shared to warn people not to jump off rocks at notorious Wattamolla waterfall

  27-02-2021 02:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A six-metre tree branch was captured sitting at the top of the Wattamolla waterfall, in the Royal National Park, south of Sydney this week.
  
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• Weekend Hot Topic, part 1: the best Legend of Zelda games

  27-02-2021 02:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Zelda: A Link To The Past – was it your first encounter? (pic: Nintendo)Readers celebrate the 35th anniversary of The Legend Of Zelda, by naming their favourite entries and their hopes for the future.The subject for this week’s Hot Topic is something Nintendo didn’t mention themselves during the recent Nintendo Direct but which readers certainly had something to say about, as we asked to hear your memories of the series and its games.Most people hadn’t started with the or
  
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• Sony closing down Japan Studio is the beginning of the end for PlayStation – Reader’s Feature

  27-02-2021 02:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Japan Studio’s offices are going to stay empty (pic: Sony)A reader is upset at the news that Sony is downsizing Japan Studio and worries that they’ve thrown away one of their key advantages against Xbox.I generally view myself as a Nintendo fan first and foremost. Not in an angry, internet fanboy kind of way but I tend to like the majority of their games and generally find they’re very in tune with my taste in games. But a gamer cannot live on Nintendo alone, not when so many g
  
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• How I went from hating Zelda: Breath Of The Wild to loving it – Reader’s Feature

  27-02-2021 02:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild – first impressions don’t always count (pic: Nintendo)A reader explains why he initially traded in his copy of Breath Of The Wild and later came to see it as one of his favourite games ever.The subject for this week’s Hot Topic is Zelda games. I’d planned to write a Reader’s Feature to profess my love for Breath Of The Wild for a little while now, so this seems the most fitting time.I absolutely adore Breath Of The Wild now, b
  
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• Firm selling £75 bottles of 'Cornish AIR' accused of false marketing after breeze captured in DEVON

  27-02-2021 01:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Two counties are at war after a business started selling bottled 'Cornish air' for £75 that's actually from Devon.
  
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• Canadian gay couple handcuffed by Mexican cops at a Tulum beach for kissing

  27-02-2021 01:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A Canadian gay couple vacationing in the Mexican resort town of Tulum were briefly detained Sunday for reportedly kissing on a beach near 'children.'
  
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• PLATELL'S PEOPLE: ISIS bride Shamima Begum's crimes were sickening - but she's British all the same 

  27-02-2021 01:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  AMANDA PLATELL: Begum has now lost three babies to starvation and pneumonia. She is living under armed guard, in conditions far more squalid than she would face in any British prison.
  
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• Teacher investigated for sending nude pix to a former student - after an anonymous email tip

  27-02-2021 01:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Alexandra Handwerger, 47, was fired from her job at Hebrew Academy in Miami Beach after the school received an email tip off from another school in Israel. No charges have yet been filed.
  
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• PAUL THOMAS on... Prince Harry's son Archie getting a waffle maker 

  27-02-2021 01:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Royal Waffle Machine
  
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• Mail's readers deserve medals! One father's verdict as children rejoice at Mail Force laptops 

  27-02-2021 01:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Grateful families receiving the latest Mail Force laptops thanked Daily Mail readers for their 'unbelievable generosity' - with one father adding 'they deserve medals' for their generosity.
  
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• Girl who 'stabbed her wheelchair-bound older sister, 19, to death' posted viral videos on TikTok

  27-02-2021 01:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A Pennsylvania teen, right, accused of killing her sister, left,posted TikTok videos before the attack, since saved by internet sleuths. Videos appear to show a white, blood-covered glove in the snow.
  
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• Johnson signals return of commute with hopes home working will end 'before June'

  27-02-2021 01:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Boris Johnson told a Network Rail conference Brits are desperate to return to face-to-face working, as ministers reportedly push the PM to bring forward the full lockdown lift
  
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• Mum's final wish before she died of Covid was for 'kids not to be split up'

  27-02-2021 01:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nursery nurse Nicola Arslanian, 46, continued to deteriorate and was placed on a ventilator at Royal Liverpool Hospital, telling family to ensure her three daughters were not separated if she died
  
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• 'Firefall' illusion makes waterfall at Yosemite Park's El Capitan look like molten lava

  27-02-2021 01:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  For just a few days in February, the setting sun illuminates Horsetail Fall each evening for a matter of minutes, making it glow like a cascade of molten lava
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• Cyber criminal who blackmailed the NHS for £10million by threatening to blow up hospitals faces jail

  27-02-2021 01:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cyber criminal Emil Apreda, 33, faces three years in prison for blackmailing the NHS by threatening to blow up hospitals. The Italian also threatened MPs and Black Lives Matter protests.
  
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• Michael Owen’s Premier League predictions including Chelsea vs Man Utd and Leicester vs Arsenal

  27-02-2021 01:01 via metro.co.uk
  
  Owen has given his latest Premier League predictions (PIcture: Getty)Another weekend, another round of Premier League fixtures.
  And, as ever, Michael Owen has given his latest set of predictions.The biggest game of the weekend sees fifth-placed Chelsea welcome Manchester United to Stamford Bridge – a match that could have a big say on who secures a top-four finish.
  Owen, the former United striker, suspects the teams will have to share the spoils.‘Arguably the game of the weekend, Man
  
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• Captain Tom’s funeral to see flypast from World War 2 plane and guard of honour

  27-02-2021 01:01 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The C-47 Dakota, part of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight which operates from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire, will make for an incredible sight for the funeral of NHS fundraising hero Captain Sir Tom Moore
  
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• When is LoL Worlds 2021 and where is it taking place?

  27-02-2021 01:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Riot Games believes LoL Worlds 2021 will be the biggest esports tournament ever (Picture: Getty Images)Although the coronavirus pandemic halted Riot Games from hosting its multi-city tournament last year, the publisher is determined to make up for it with League of Legends Worlds 2021.Since the beginning of the pandemic, with most face-to-face experiences banned, the world of esports has given those at home a community to be a part of, adding countless more followers to its fanbase.Now, Riot is
  
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• EastEnders spoilers: Ruby Allen accuses Stacey Slater of killing her baby in sick move

  27-02-2021 00:58 via metro.co.uk
  
  Ruby makes a shock accusation (Picture: BBC)Ruby Allen (Louisa Lytton) in EastEnders decided the only thing she could possibly do to ensure Martin Fowler (James Bye) wouldn’t leave her was to fake a pregnancy. However, once Stacey Slater (Lacey Turner) figured out Ruby was lying about her pregnancy, both of them were left stunned when Ruby’s test was positive.After Ruby and Stacey had an argument, she went to the bathroom to discover she was bleeding.Ruby went to the hospital and was
  
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• EastEnders spoilers: Isaac Baptiste catches Lola Pearce investigating schizophrenia

  27-02-2021 00:58 via metro.co.uk
  
  Isaac makes a shock discovery (Picture: BBC)Isaac Baptiste (Stevie Basaula) has become quite the mysterious character in EastEnders. We’ve seen him supporting Patrick Trueman (Rudolph Walker) over the last few weeks following his stroke, but viewers are yet to learn more about Isaac’s past, until now.Speculation began a few weeks ago that Isaac was suffering from an illness. He mentioned to mum Sheree (Suzette Llewellyn) how she is able to look past Patrick’s illness, but wasn&
  
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