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• Return flight cancelled after bed bug outbreak mid-air during 16-hour journey

  13-10-2026 08:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Passengers onboard the Perth-to-Rome Qantas flight reported bites and the aircraft is now being treated for bed bugs - tiny insects that survive on human blood
  
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• Economist warns Aussie house prices could plunge by 40 per cent in some suburbs amid alarming recession prediction

  14-10-2026 02:41 via dailymail.com
  
  House prices could plunge by as much as 40 per cent as the nation hurtles towards its biggest property downturn on record, a leading economist has warned.
  
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• Sydney dad fighting for life after being kidnapped, tortured and stabbed 25 times on horror trip to music festival

  14-10-2026 02:37 via dailymail.com
  
  A devoted Sydney father is fighting for his life in a Colombian hospital after he was  kidnapped, tortured and stabbed more than 25 times following a music festival.
  
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• 'Stone her': Racism storm erupts as Liberal MP calls for Australia's first female Muslim MP to be 'shamed and stoned in the square'

  14-10-2026 02:35 via dailymail.com
  
  A race row has erupted in Parliament after a Liberal MP called for a minister and Anthony Albanese to be 'stoned in the square'.
  
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• Aussie billionaire Adrian Portelli launches first supermarket as he targets Coles and Woolies

  14-10-2026 02:17 via dailymail.com
  
  Aussie billionaire Adrian Portelli has opened his first supermarket.
  
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• Saudi OpenAI engineer accused of planting recording device in offices to record top secret meetings

  14-10-2026 02:13 via dailymail.com
  
  Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a Saudi national working as an engineer at OpenAI has been arrested for allegedly planting a recording device at the AI giant's office.
  
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• Games Inbox: What video game console is best to get for Christmas?

  14-10-2026 02:10 via metro.co.uk
  
  Which console would you advise? (Metro)The Wednesday letters page tries to choose between the Nintendo Switch 2 and PS5, as a reader gives his positive verdict on Gears Of War: E-Day.Games Inbox is a collection of our readers’ letters, comments, and opinions. To join in with the discussions yourself email [email protected]
  Christmas choice
  With Christmas coming up (as soon as Halloween is over the shops will be full of it, I’m already dreading it) I have a difficult choice to
  
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• Major shake-up for NSW driver licences as new QR code system expands: What motorists need to know

  14-10-2026 02:07 via dailymail.com
  
  NSW motorists will be able to prove their identity using a QR code under a new digital driver's licence trial designed to protect personal information.
  
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• Police launch urgent public appeal after man escapes UK prison

  14-10-2026 02:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police have issued an urgent appeal to locate a prisoner, Ashley Young, who has absconded from a prison in Suffolk - anyone who sees him is urged to call 999
  
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• SARAH VINE: Know-all men sneered when I told them Kemi is a winner. Now they all agree with me!

  14-10-2026 02:00 via dailymail.com
  
  After years of being patronised for suggesting that Kemi Badenoch is a serious political contender, I now find myself being patronised by people telling me Badenoch is a serious political contender.
  
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• Dragon’s Dogma 2: Dark Arisen review – fantasy island survival

  14-10-2026 02:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Dragon’s Dogma 2: Dark Arisen – it’s dark and you’re the Arisen (Capcom)Capcom’s fan favourite action role-player returns with a major new DLC expansion, that will challenge even the most experienced players.Dragon’s Dogma is a role-playing franchise that leans into its contrarianism. For one thing, despite the enormous popularity of the original, it’s taken 14 years for a sequel to emerge, but its gameplay is where things depart the most from long esta
  
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• DAILY MAIL COMMENT: As MI5 warns about AI death and disease, has no one told Andy Burnham that he's supposed to be protecting us?

  14-10-2026 02:00 via dailymail.com
  
  No one is ever likely to accuse MI5 director general Ken McCallum of scaremongering. In his public appearances, he has delivered a sober analysis of the security concerns facing Britain
  
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• Incredible split-second photos capture rare hummingbird hawk-moth in full flight

  14-10-2026 01:49 via dailymail.com
  
  The pictures, taken by Andrew Fusek-Peters, show the moth's incredibly fast wing beat.
  
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• BBC 'is making a JK Rowling documentary on how she became a polarising public figure'... without her input

  14-10-2026 01:47 via dailymail.com
  
  The Harry Potter author, 61, has inspired the new two-part series which uses her life 'as a lens through which to explore three decades of profound social, political and technological change'.
  
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• Aussie Toyota owners to get a cash payment due to defect: What you need to know

  14-10-2026 01:43 via dailymail.com
  
  At least 136,000 Toyota customers could receive cash payments,.
  
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• Hunt for 'killer' after couple and two children die in house fire - and two more youngsters fight for their lives: 'Arson attack' on innocent family followed years of intimidation

  14-10-2026 01:42 via dailymail.com
  
  Parents Kim English and Philip and their two sons, Callum, 12, and Jayden, nine, were killed when their home was set ablaze as they slept in a shocking incident which has left the community 'shattered'.
  
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• California domestic violence shelter boss lives in Hawaii where she drives BMW paid for by her employer

  14-10-2026 01:42 via dailymail.com
  
  The nonprofit has a $15 million budget, of which about 94 percent is taxpayer-funded through government contracts like federal, county and city grants.
  
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• Larry the cat still working hard as No10's chief mouser after undergoing surgery

  14-10-2026 01:40 via dailymail.com
  
  The chief mouser, 19, had a large scar and shaved fur outside No 10 this week as he continued to keep Downing Street free of mice for a 16th year.
  
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• Miracle update for Aussie tradie who nearly died after his robot vacuum exploded inside his home - as he leaves hospital for the first time

  14-10-2026 01:35 via dailymail.com
  
  Lachie Perrem suffered burns to 75 per cent of his body when a robot vacuum exploded inside his Perth home.
  
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• Family of 24-year-old mauled to death by tiger at Yorkshire zoo pay tribute to 'bright young man' who was a 'passionate' child actor and appeared alongside Harry Potter star in ITV show

  14-10-2026 01:35 via dailymail.com
  
  William Chapman, 24, appeared in the two-part ITV comedy May Contain Nuts starring Shirley Henderson who is best known for playing Moaning Myrtle in the Harry Potter films.
  
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• Kimberly Guilfoyle's burn book revealed. Her MAGA secrets kept in a journal so potent it has nervous Trump insiders fearing revenge: 'She knows where the bodies are buried'

  14-10-2026 01:34 via dailymail.com
  
  Trump advisers were wrangling to help save ex Kimberly Guilfoyle's job as President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio weighed her future.
  
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• First picture of man who fell 200ft off rollercoaster as horrified family watched on

  14-10-2026 01:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Hassan Jihad Ibn Kariem, 42, died after falling from a giant rollercoaster as his son sat on the attraction and wife and daughter watched from the ground.
  
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• In condescending, smug speech, Jim Chalmers warns the Left: Don't be smug and condescending: PETER VAN ONSELEN

  14-10-2026 01:22 via dailymail.com
  
  Jim Chalmers picked an appropriate audience for a warning about smug moral superiority on Tuesday. Whether those listening recognised themselves in the description is another matter...
  
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• A rather unorthodox priest: Father sprinkles holy water over fence during bitter war with accountant neighbour over disputed strip of land less than a metre wide between their homes

  14-10-2026 01:15 via dailymail.com
  
  Father Anatoli Vihrov is embroiled in an extraordinary feud with tax accountant Shamaem Burrows, 45, over who owns a wedge of land between their two homes in West Yorkshire.
  
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• New dinosaur species which preyed on humans discovered from Isle of Wight fossil 'overlooked' for 100 years

  14-10-2026 01:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Scientists have identified a previously unknown long-clawed predator that roamed Britain 120 million years ago - and say humans would have been the perfect size for it to hunt
  
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• British imams telling men to beat their wives if they say no to sex should face criminal investigations, top Tory says

  14-10-2026 01:11 via dailymail.com
  
  Chris Philp has written to both the Met Police and West Midlands Police demanding criminal investigations following the Mail on Sunday's shocking revelations.
  
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• Megyn Kelly says new White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia 'wasn't impressive' as she slams her makeup and outfit: 'You're not there to turn anybody on'

  14-10-2026 01:07 via dailymail.com
  
  The SiriusXM host was particularly critical of Zacharia's outfit and makeup, which she said was styled as if Zacharia was 'auditioning for a job on Fox News.'
  
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• Pub that opened during Covid crisis is in final four for Britain's best boozer

  14-10-2026 01:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Bosses of The Cockpit in Chislehurst, Kent negotiated lockdowns during the coronavirus pandemic — but the micropub and shop owned by the community is now thriving
  
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• Families with seriously ill children should be helped with hospital travel costs - charity says

  14-10-2026 01:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The government is preparing to launch a £10million annual fund to help cover travel costs for children with cancer but experts at Great Ormond Street Hospital (Gosh) Charity are urging ministers to extend the scheme
  
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• More than 50,000 small boat crossings stopped as France deploys anti-riot police

  14-10-2026 01:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said UK-French measures to stop small boat crossings are having an impact as she welcomed new data showing 50,000 have been stopped since July 2024
  
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