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• Revolutionary £1m bionic hand allows one-armed woman to perform everyday tasks

  16-06-2015 23:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Fashion product manager Nick Ashwell can even thread a needle with the new device, which responds to contractions in her muscles
  
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• Why Daniel Andrews and Jacinta Allan could be dragged into a royal commission

  30-07-2026 04:31 via dailymail.com
  
  Senior Labor figures including Jacinta Allan and Daniel Andrews could be called to testify in the Royal Commission into corruption in Victoria.
  
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• Optus to be sued over fatal Triple Zero outage that saw hundreds of calls blocked

  30-07-2026 03:37 via dailymail.com
  
  Hundreds of emergency calls in four states and territories were blocked during the outage on September 18, which lasted for almost 14 hours.
  
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• LIBBY PURVES: Why more and more law-abiding Brits are saying: You can stuff your hosepipe ban!

  30-07-2026 03:26 via dailymail.com
  
  Across the land, in 23million gardens, hosepipes are lying dry, coiled like sad, dead serpents in the sun. Or are they?
  
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• Bernie Ecclestone puts £50million Hyde Park pad up for sale

  30-07-2026 03:23 via dailymail.com
  
  EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: I'm intrigued that ex-Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone, whose fortune is about £3billion, has decided, aged 95, to offload one trophy from his collection.
  
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• US launches strikes in ‘powerful response’ to Tehran’s attack on base

  30-07-2026 03:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Renewed violence from both the United States and Iran now risks a return to full-blown war as the US launches fresh strikes on Iran in response to Tehran's attack on American forces
  
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• Three-time Jeopardy! winner admits to being Peeping Tom and installing cameras in apartment to watch people strip

  30-07-2026 03:11 via dailymail.com
  
  Philip DeSena was arrested in December 2025 in North Carolina after he installed a camera in an unknowing victim's bathroom and bedroom.
  
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• US launches fresh round of strikes as 'powerful response' to Iran in military campaign that could last WEEKS

  30-07-2026 03:03 via dailymail.com
  
  US Central Command confirmed the strikes took place in the early morning hours in Iran.
  
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• British Airways jet 'seconds from disaster after stalling above London' in UK's 'most serious near miss in years'

  30-07-2026 02:55 via dailymail.com
  
  The aircraft's captain was reportedly forced to intervene and recover the near miss, described as the greatest of its kind in years, while the Airbus A320 descended into Heathrow Airport.
  
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• 'Human extinction is a possibility', says whistleblower after OpenAI's rogue model attacked another tech firm

  30-07-2026 02:52 via dailymail.com
  
  Human extinction is 'a possibility' because of 'dangerous' artificial intelligence, former Open AI researcher turned whistleblower Daniel Kokotajlo has warned.
  
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• Woman, 41, dies after cliff fall at Cornwall beach leaves her with brain injury

  30-07-2026 02:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  On Monday July 2 Rachel Anne Gwilliam was visiting Pentreath Beach in Cornwall when she fell from some cliffs - an inquest into her death has now officially opened
  
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• Trust among Australians drops: Grim report reveals lowest level in years

  30-07-2026 02:49 via dailymail.com
  
  The way Australians feel about how the country's democracy operates also fell significantly.
  
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• Labor politician Luke Gosling arrested and could face prison for up to 14 years after alleged assault

  30-07-2026 02:33 via dailymail.com
  
  A federal Labor MP is in custody.
  
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• Labor heavyweight and one of Anthony Albanese's closest friends tragically dies after health battle

  30-07-2026 02:30 via dailymail.com
  
  Anthony Albanese has spoken out after one of his closest friends died.
  
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• Discovery of suspected human remains near outback town where missing mum Trisha Graf vanished sparks police investigation

  30-07-2026 02:25 via dailymail.com
  
  The discovery was made near the remote outback opal-mining town of Andamooka, 600km north of Adelaide.
  
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• Oprah Winfrey's South African school for girls will CLOSE after 20 years in operation

  30-07-2026 02:21 via dailymail.com
  
  Oprah Winfrey has revealed that the girls' school she established in South Africa will be closing its doors after nearly two decades.
  
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• Melbourne sinks to new low as thieves hurl wine bottles at store worker in bungled robbery - before one loses both shoes during getaway

  30-07-2026 02:21 via dailymail.com
  
  A 22-year-old staff member was working alone when he was confronted at Macauley Cellars in Kensington, inner west Melbourne , at 7.45pm on Sunday.
  
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• PETER HITCHENS: The real reason the BBC failed to tell us that a man who beat his mother to death was a cannabis user is more shocking than you think

  30-07-2026 02:20 via dailymail.com
  
  The BBC, which spends millions on giant salaries for star presenters most of us haven't heard of, couldn't be bothered, last week, to send a reporter to watch the sentencing of a terrifying killer in court.
  
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• Games Inbox: Are user reviews for video games reliable?

  30-07-2026 02:20 via metro.co.uk
  
  Splatoon Raiders – do you trust its user score? (Nintendo)The Thursday letters page is frustrated at August’s release schedule for new games, as one reader calls for Assassin’s Creed to renew its present day storytelling.Games Inbox is a collection of our readers’ letters, comments, and opinions. To join in with the discussions yourself email [email protected]
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• Former US Marine named as woman decapitated when notorious drunkard 'crashed boat he was driving at 80mph'

  30-07-2026 02:20 via dailymail.com
  
  Jablonska has been remembered by her three siblings as an unselfish public servant who loved animals, with her brother launching a Gofundme in her name to donate to a local animal shelter.
  
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• Moment 'self-driving' Waymo stops at a green light then 'runs a red'... but is it in the wrong?

  30-07-2026 02:18 via dailymail.com
  
  This is the moment a self-driving Waymo car stops at a green light and then passes by a red light - but drivers have argued it is, in fact, not in the wrong.
  
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• Haunting new footage shows North Carolina woman swimming in ocean before she vanished on idyllic Caribbean island

  30-07-2026 02:18 via dailymail.com
  
  Elizabeth 'Liz' Waddell, 43, had been on vacation with her friend to the Caribbean island when she mysteriously disappeared near Grand Anse Beach in St. George's on July 22.
  
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• Major EU airport to close for 11 weeks for £42.8m upgrade - all flights impacted

  30-07-2026 02:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Several airlines operate flights to and from the busy airport and about two million passengers are expected to be impacted by the 11-week closure in 2028
  
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• Couple are arrested after five dead babies are found in cardboard boxes in France

  30-07-2026 02:14 via dailymail.com
  
  The remains were found in boxes at a home in the town of Orange, in France's southeastern Provence region, on Monday, a day after the 32-year-old woman gave birth to a healthy boy
  
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• Pig beats wolf: Peppa wins copyright battle against Vietnamese lupine lookalike

  30-07-2026 02:10 via dailymail.com
  
  A High Court judge in London this week ruled that SConnect, the creators of the hugely popular character Wolfoo, illegally copied audio from Peppa Pig in a 'prolific' and 'long-standing' manner.
  
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• Who doesn't dream of owning their own little slice of the countryside - especially when it seems attractively priced? There's just one thing the estate agent can't warn you about... the travellers about to move in next door

  30-07-2026 02:01 via dailymail.com
  
  The advert on the property website caught Lorna Derrett's eye: 'Perfect countryside plot'. It was exactly what she was looking for. Or so she thought.
  
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• I saw royalty, lords and degenerates all come and go from my drugs den: Son of late restaurant critic AA Gill and ex Tory MP Amber Rudd, Alasdair Gill lost a decade to addiction. Now, six years sober, he tells his extraordinary story

  30-07-2026 02:01 via dailymail.com
  
  A crack house. We all have a mental image of one, on the poorest fringes of town in its meanest street; squalid and derelict, like the dissolute and lost souls who frequent it.
  
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• The Morning Poll: Should the assisted dying debate be revisited?

  30-07-2026 02:00 via dailymail.com
  
  MPs are preparing to bring the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill back to Parliament after its previous attempt to become law ran out of time in the House of Lords.
  
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• My brush with death and how a stern talking-to from my sister Carole made me change my ways: Why Kate's 'Naughty Uncle Gary' finally gave up partying after being 'awestruck' by the Princess's brave cancer battle

  30-07-2026 02:00 via dailymail.com
  
  Gary Goldsmith - the Princess of Wales's naughty uncle and self-styled King Of Fun - is telling me about his 'wholesome and civilised' 60th birthday celebrations at his Ibiza villa.
  
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• From just 11, Sarah was enslaved by paedophile Muslim men who plied her with alcohol and drugs and raped her. Now, thanks to Labour's early release scheme, they could be out in just five years...

  30-07-2026 02:00 via dailymail.com
  
  Sarah Wilson dislikes the term 'grooming gang'. She would prefer the men who abused her to be known less euphemistically. 'They were monsters: child rapists, paedophiles.' she says.
  
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