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• Powerball jackpot rolls over to £444,000,000 after no one wins

  06-08-2026 12:18 via metro.co.uk
  
  The rollover is one of the biggest in Powerball history (Picture: AP Photo/Jenny Kane)The Powerball jackpot has soared to a whopping £444 million after rolling over for a 41st consecutive draw.Players have until 11.55pm on Saturday August 8 to buy a ticket from a National Lottery vendor or online for their chance to claim the prize.
  The current rollover is one of the longest in Powerball history, with the record standing at 47 consecutive draw.During that record-breaking run, one winner e
  
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• Pro-Palestine activists found guilty of criminal damage after targeting Picasso masterpiece 'Motherhood' in National Gallery and hurling red paint on floor are spared jail

  08-09-2026 17:45 via dailymail.com
  
  NHS worker Jai Halai, 25, and politics student Monday-Malachi Rosenfeld, 23, plastered a poster of a Gazan mother and child over the 125-year-old painting on October 9 2024.
  
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• Zelda: Ocarina Of Time remake release date announced but there’s one big controversy

  08-09-2026 17:44 via metro.co.uk
  
  The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time – is it everything you hoped for? (Nintendo)The remake of The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time has got its first trailer, and it looks amazing, with an almost 1:1 recreation of the original using modern graphics.Most things Nintendo does are hard to explain but why they’ve been so secretive about Zelda: Ocarina Of Time, considering it’s a remake of a 28-year-old N64 game, is a mystery. They pulled the curtain back on Tuesday afternoon thoug
  
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• Trinity College's elite debating society honoured an online troll who makes jokes about rape, said America deserved 9/11 and has had to deny that he electric shocked his own dog... So why are Kneecap pals with him?

  08-09-2026 17:43 via dailymail.com
  
  The Turkish-American Twitch streamer joined a roster that includes Ruth Bader Ginsburg , Desmond Tutu, Joe Biden , Nancy Pelosi , Jane Goodall, and Martin Scorsese .
  
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• Around 200 flights cancelled after air traffic control 'technical failure' - with passengers facing hours of delays as departures are grounded at major airports across the UK

  08-09-2026 17:43 via dailymail.com
  
  Passengers at several airports across the country, including Luton, Manchester and Newcastle, have also reported delays.
  
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• Man registered blind drove 150 miles at night after 'sharing four bottles of wine'

  08-09-2026 17:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Anthony Hall, 50, from Huddersfield, who has never had a driver's licence and is registered blind, was spotted by police 'weaving around' on the M6
  
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• Brit, 24, is 'instantly paralysed' after breaking his neck in belly flop into Turkish hotel pool as 'wrong insurance' leaves him with £50k bill

  08-09-2026 17:37 via dailymail.com
  
  A young British holidaymaker has been 'instantly paralysed' after breaking his neck while 'belly flopping' in the pool while on holiday with his girlfriend.
  
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• Top Gear fans reveal true feelings about BBC reboot bringing back iconic part of show

  08-09-2026 17:35 via metro.co.uk
  
  The BBC have confirmed that Top Gear will return (Picture: BBC)The BBC has confirmed that Top Gear will be back on the road sooner rather than later.Speaking at the Edinburgh TV Festival earlier this month, Ed Havard, the BBC’s director of entertainment, told audiences: ‘Top Gear is coming back.’However, he wouldn’t confirm any of the rumours that comedian Jimmy Carr and Traitors star Joe Marler were being lined up to present the rebooted show.
  Still, one of the icons fr
  
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• Its job is to protect children online, and its 300 employees have the powers to do just that. Yet as a report shows kids as young as FIVE are still exposed to sexual predators every day - the regulator hasn't implemented this BASIC safeguard...

  08-09-2026 17:32 via dailymail.com
  
  AI Minister Niamh Smyth this weekend revealed she is seeking an 'urgent meeting' with Coimisiún na Meán (CnM) amid growing political anger over its failure to clamp down on social media companies.
  
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• Computer game developer who stole 'gold pieces' from players' online accounts is convicted of theft after legal battle over whether virtual money is property

  08-09-2026 17:27 via dailymail.com
  
  Andrew Lakeman, 32, was employed by British gaming giant Jagex when he obtained access to 68 player accounts in the company's award-winning role-playing game, Old School Runescape.
  
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• Police warned against identifying casualties visually after agonising mix-up left wrong family grieving after fatal 86mph smash

  08-09-2026 17:23 via dailymail.com
  
  The parents of Joshua Johnson, 18, spent three weeks at the bedside of the boy who they wrongly believed was their unconscious son following the high speed smash in December 2025.
  
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• Vladimir Putin's plan to hit back at UK 'in two key attacks' - and who would carry out mission

  08-09-2026 17:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A security course has reportedly claimed a Russian attack on British infrastructure was 'inevitable' and revealed the two ways Moscow could carry out a strike
  
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• Andrew Scott performs filthy act in NSFW trailer and fans are going feral

  08-09-2026 17:22 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 PageAndrew Scott has outdone his famous Fleabag ‘kneel’ scene with six words we suspect Channel 4 didn’t expect to become its next great marketing slogan.The Fleabag and All of Us Strangers star, 49, appears in the trailer for upcoming comedy It Gets Worse, where he informs Leo Reich in what can only be described as a gravelly purr: ‘You&
  
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• Zoo worker dragged into death roll and killed by crocodile after staff were filmed ‘taunting them’

  08-09-2026 17:17 via metro.co.uk
  
  Staff had previously been filmed getting dangerously close to crocodiles at the park (Pictures: Facebook/amazingpng1975/Getty Images)A wildlife park worker died after being mauled by a crocodile that reportedly refused to release him for an hour as colleagues, visitors and police desperately tried to save him.The handler was feeding the animal at Adventure Park in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, on Saturday afternoon when it clamped its jaws around his legs.
  Footage captured the crocodile dragg
  
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• Israel shuts British consulate in furious retaliation after Ed Miliband sanctions West Bank settlements - with Trump poised to wade in

  08-09-2026 17:16 via dailymail.com
  
  Ed Miliband lashed out at 'ethnic cleansing' in the disputed areas as he announced a package of measures banning imports.
  
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• Trump honors 9/11 first responders and unveils massive 16,900-pound steel beam recovered from World Trade Center on White House lawn

  08-09-2026 17:12 via dailymail.com
  
  A massive 21-foot steel beam from the World Trade Center, targeted in the 9/11 terrorist attacks 25 years ago, has made its way to the White House after a trip across the country.
  
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• Secret notebooks of Nottingham knife killer Valdo Calocane reveal disturbing links to terrorism and recipe for 'Mother of Satan bomb' as judge slams blundering police for hiding them

  08-09-2026 17:12 via dailymail.com
  
  Valdo Calocane's pads and a sketchbook also contained 'deeply misogynistic' ramblings as well as references to the Manchester Arena attack but were 'not considered to be of evidential value'.
  
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• Family member finds dead relative in Bahamas waters after plane carrying two siblings and grandparents disappeared from sky

  08-09-2026 17:12 via dailymail.com
  
  Guilaine Sosa, 56, last heard from her daughter, Sofia Sosa, 28, when she texted the family group chat that she was flying with her younger brother and grandparents from the Bahamas to Florida.
  
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• Ballon d'Or 2026 LIVE: Updates as Man Utd star nominated and 30-man player list confirmed

  08-09-2026 17:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The list of nominees for the 2026 Ballon d'Or have been announced. Harry Kane and Jude Bellingham are both among those on the 30-player shortlist this time around
  
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• Tons of new Zelda: Ocarina Of Time merch revealed including new console edition

  08-09-2026 17:11 via metro.co.uk
  
  The themed Switch 2 will be available ahead of the Ocarina Of Time remake (Nintendo/YouTube)Nintendo is going all out for The Legend Of Zelda’s 40th anniversary, with new amiibo and a concert tour, but movie details remain oddly scarce.Today’s Nintendo Direct wasn’t just about the remake of The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time (though it was a key focus), but about the 40th anniversary of the entire franchise.As such, Nintendo had plenty of other non-video game related announc
  
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• China's Xi Jinping warns Andy Burnham to 'protect the rights and interests' of Chinese investors in the UK after British Steel row

  08-09-2026 17:11 via dailymail.com
  
  In their first phone call since Mr Burnham became Prime Minister, the Chinese President said their two countries should 'respect and trust each other'.
  
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• Thieves steal paintings worth £15million from Renoir museum in latest major heist in France

  08-09-2026 17:10 via dailymail.com
  
  Two individuals were caught on CCTV fleeing the Renoir Museum, the painter's last home before his death in 1919, with four paintings.
  
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• Heathrow and Gatwick flights grounded in air traffic control chaos – updates

  08-09-2026 17:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Manchester, Birmingham are all among the airports hit by a major problem with air traffic control systems across the UK that has left thousands stranded
  
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• Prison warder fired for Premier Inn one night stand with female inmate - just day after she was freed

  08-09-2026 17:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Daniel Hay slept with convicted arsonist Sophie Stonehewer after she joked she was a sex worker and would give him ‘mates rates’ when released
  
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• Joel Dommett reveals major Taskmaster regret after being ‘tortured’ by Greg Davies

  08-09-2026 17:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  ‘I’m quite happy to be tortured if it’s funny,’ Joel tells Metro (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)It’s both an honour and a curse to be singled out on Taskmaster.Very few comedians have the privilege of being given their own task by the big scary boss Greg Davies and his minion Alex Horne. It can be torturous – but oh so entertaining.In series one, Josh Widdicombe had to painstakingly count the number of baked beans in a can and the number of grains of ri
  
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• James Bond writer appears to confirm 007 has been cast

  08-09-2026 16:54 via metro.co.uk
  
  Has the next James Bond been confirmed? (Picture: Eon/Danjaq/Sony/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock)The speculation surrounding who will be the next James Bond continues to heat up – but the film’s writer might just have let some information slip.By now, Steven Knight has probably got used to reporters asking him endless questions about who will be taking over from Daniel Craig as 007.However, while the Peaky Blinders creator was quizzed about the character’s identity, Knight appeared to
  
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• Napoli reveal how long Scott McTominay will be out for after heart surgery

  08-09-2026 16:51 via metro.co.uk
  
  Scott McTominay is recovering after surgery (Picture: Shutterstock)Scott McTominay’s heart surgery has been labelled a ‘complete success’ and will be back in training before the end of the month, confirm Napoli.The Scotland international was back in Manchester for the operation on Tuesday morning.The surgery was to carry out a minor ablation procedure, which corrects an irregular heart rhythm.The issue was discovered after the 29-year-old was taken off just under an hour into
  
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• Parents who spent 599 days in prison are freed after teenage daughter admits lying in Swiss court that they sexually abused her

  08-09-2026 16:50 via dailymail.com
  
  A Swiss couple who spent 599 days behind bars after being found guilty of abusing their teenage daughter have been freed after she admitted to lying about the allegations. 
  
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• Ray Winstone offers blunt two-word response to Meghan Markle's The Gentlemen chances

  08-09-2026 16:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Meghan Markle has been strongly tipped to star in Netflix hit The Gentlemen after her return to the UK - but one of the show's stars doesn't sound too keen on the possibility
  
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• Rene Meulensteen says Man Utd should have signed Spain’s World Cup hero

  08-09-2026 16:42 via metro.co.uk
  
  Manchester United should have explored a transfer move for Unai Simon, says Rene Meulensteen (Picture: No Tippy Tappy Football)Former Manchester United coach Rene Meulensteen says the club should have made a move for Athletic Bilbao and Spain goalkeeper Unai Simon in the summer transfer window.The Red Devils replaced the error-prone Andre Onana by signing Senne Lammens from Royal Antwerp in a deal worth in the region of £18million last summer.The 24-year-old would go on to enjoy a promisi
  
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