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• We asked cafe owners how long customers should sit with one drink for

  23-09-2026 12:08 via metro.co.uk
  
  What’s the proper etiquette for sitting in cafes? (Picture: Getty Images)How long is too long to sit in a cafe?At one new spot in London, Corgi Cafe, there are no rules, and laptops are not only welcome – they’re encouraged.The cafe, by Corgi, an AI-native insurance startup, is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week and was created to give ‘people who want to work hard’ a place to go.As remote working becomes the norm, many have started lugging their laptop to coff
  
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• US delegation walks out as Iranian president tells UN country has been 'victim of terrorism' and 'cannot be made to surrender'

  23-09-2026 16:44 via dailymail.com
  
  The US delegation to the UN General Assembly has walked out after Iran's president told the international body his nation was the 'victim of terrorism'.
  
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• Woke activist teacher claimed to be impoverished black Palestinian... now her reputation lies in tatters after her REAL identity was exposed

  23-09-2026 16:43 via dailymail.com
  
  Hannah Gann, an outspoken pro-Palestine activist in Philadelphia, has apologized after full details of her background were revealed by an activist organization.
  
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• Prince Harry’s impassioned address about AI cut short by awkward technical issue

  23-09-2026 16:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Duke of Sussex appeared on stage in New York City today to discuss the dangers young people face with social media and artificial intelligence, before his speech came to an abrupt end
  
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• Kim Kardashian’s saucy comment about Lewis Hamilton proves she’s living a fairy tale

  23-09-2026 16:41 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 PageKim Kardashian has apparently found her very own Prince Charming, and he’s swapped the horse-drawn carriage for a Ferrari.The reality TV mogul, 45, has offered a rather cheeky insight into her romance with Sir Lewis Hamilton, 41, after making an unexpected confession while browsing a shop.In a clip circulating online to promote Khloe Kardashian’s
  
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• Ofcom is accused of covering up data that shows GB News is more trusted by its viewers than the BBC

  23-09-2026 16:39 via dailymail.com
  
  New figures show 74 per cent of GB News viewers find the station trustworthy, compared with 71 per cent for Sky and just 66 per cent who trust the Beeb.
  
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• Hurricane Polo tracker: Watch live as 180mph winds batter Mexico coast and threatens millions

  23-09-2026 16:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Hurricane Polo is expected to bring life-threatening flooding and mudslides to millions of people along coast of Mexico as scientists described its rapid spiral as 'truly remarkable'
  
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• Rory Stewart is ridiculed for bizarre Newsnight appearance which saw him spin and stare intently at female journalist

  23-09-2026 16:35 via dailymail.com
  
  Mr Stewart made a violent swivel towards New Statesman political editor Ailbhe Rea during a discussion on artificial intelligence on Newsnight.
  
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• Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer asks for one juror’s phone to be checked after mistrial

  23-09-2026 16:34 via metro.co.uk
  
  Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer Kevin Reddington has ordered a motion against the juror (Picture: via REUTERS)Lindsay Clancy’s defence lawyer has asked a judge to further investigate the conduct of one juror after the proceedings ended in a mistrial.In a motion filed on Friday of last week, Kevin Reddington asked the court to question the juror — referred to as ‘Juror Doe’ — about his use of a mobile phone during deliberations, specifically between the hours of 8am a
  
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• Migrant hotel manager with no legal right to work in Britain wins £5,000 after suing for discrimination

  23-09-2026 16:31 via dailymail.com
  
  'Well-educated' hotel manager Erin Ong has been awarded the £5,497 payout for for race, sex, and disability discrimination while working at the Fisherbeck Hotel in Cumbria.
  
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• The UK street with a name so rude they’ve had to secure its sign with concrete

  23-09-2026 16:24 via metro.co.uk
  
  Have you ever been to Minge Lane? (Picture: Ben Gregory-Ring/PA Media Assignments)One of the rudest named streets in the UK needs to secure its road signs with concrete because tourists keep stealing them. Minge Lane in Upton upon Severn in Worcestershire features as one of the UK’s rudest place names in a new survey. It is joined by the likes of Sluts Hole Lane in Norfolk, Sandy Balls in the New Forest and Shitterton in Dorset.Derbyshire’s Fanny Avenue, Cocks in Cornwall
  
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• Hurricane Polo becomes one of world's most intense storms ever thanks to El Nino effect

  23-09-2026 16:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  International forecasters and top officials have warned people living in the Pacific to stay vigilant as Polo maintains an output of extremely strong winds despite weakening
  
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• Travellers build illegal camp in just 48 hours as their 'military invasion' moves into quaint village minutes after council offices close for the weekend

  23-09-2026 16:23 via dailymail.com
  
  The group waited until 4.45pm on a Friday - just as the council offices were closing - to begin work on their new home the North Yorkshire village of Hillam.
  
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• Businessmen who brokered fighter jet and missile sales to warzones are jailed

  23-09-2026 16:22 via metro.co.uk
  
  David Greenhalgh (pictured) and Christos Farmakis obtained weaponry from former communist countries and sold them to embargoed countries (Picture: Central News/Callum Cuddeford)Two businessmen who brokered illegal arms deals to send ex-Soviet surface-to-air missiles and MiG29 fighter jets to warzones around the world have been jailed.Christos Farmakis, 48, and David Greenhalgh, 68, obtained weapons from former communist countries and sold them to embargoed countries across Africa and the Middle
  
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• RAF Valley crash - live: 'Wall of fire' explosion as Hawk jet comes down on Anglesey

  23-09-2026 16:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Hawk T2 plummeted to the ground in North Wales moments after taking off, with witnesses reporting a 'big bang' and flames coming from the jet.
  
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• Hospital forced parents to carry their dead baby out its doors and drive him to funeral home themselves after saying it would be 'too expensive' to do so, lawsuit alleges

  23-09-2026 16:15 via dailymail.com
  
  GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING: The couple claims they were forced to drive their eight-month-old son's body four hours home in the backseat of their car.
  
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• Mystery of the murder on millionaires' row and the violent end of prolific smash and grab 'Easy Cash gangster'

  23-09-2026 16:12 via dailymail.com
  
  Reece Salmon, 28, was stabbed to death outside a £1.55million home on Lloyd Baker Street, Clerkenwell, last Wednesday and died in hospital the next day.
  
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• Aussie's incredible windfall as $220,000 is returned to his super after losing it in fund collapse

  23-09-2026 16:12 via dailymail.com
  
  The collapse of Shield Master Fund cost Graeme Dyall his $125,000-a-year corporate job, his city lifestyle and the future he had spent decades building.
  
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• Hotel manager accused of abandoning British contractor at under-siege hotel by fleeing in helicopter with two dogs defends his actions, inquest hears

  23-09-2026 16:11 via dailymail.com
  
  Timothy Roberts said he had been ordered by the owners of the Amarula Hotel to get on the chartered $15,000 (£11,200) helicopter.
  
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• ‘He’s got the hump with Tuchel’ – Chelsea and England star accused of faking injury

  23-09-2026 16:10 via metro.co.uk
  
  England boss Thomas Tuchel was hit by five squad withdrawals this week (Picture: Getty)Former Wales defender James Collins has accused Cole Palmer of feigning injury after the Chelsea star pulled out of England’s squad for the side’s upcoming Nations League matches.Thomas Tuchel recalled Palmer to his latest 27-man party after controversially leaving the attacking midfielder out of his squad for this year’s World Cup.
  Palmer has enjoyed an encouraging start to the new season a
  
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• Forget the 7-year itch, this is how long a marriage lasts before divorce now

  23-09-2026 16:10 via metro.co.uk
  
  Marriages are lasting an average of 13 years for opposite-sex couples (Picture: Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images)Seven years has long been the infamous milestone where marriages hit a wall.But would-be divorcees are now holding out a little longer before they get that decree absolute.According to new ONS data, released today, partnerships ending in divorce last, on average, for 13 years.This is true for the 105,002 divorces and 959 civil partnership dissolutions that took place inEngland and Wales in
  
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• Organ Donation Week: Stranger saves 15-year-old boy's life after making selfless decision

  23-09-2026 16:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kain Wright, from Nottingham, has shared his story during Organ Donation Week, which the NHS uses to highlight the importance of people choosing to give their kidneys, livers and even heart
  
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• A-level boarding school pupil, 17, took her own life after struggling with mental health throughout her teens, inquest hears

  23-09-2026 16:07 via dailymail.com
  
  Lauren Jackson, 17, took her own life at her sixth form college after struggling with her mental health throughout her teens.
  
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• Coronation Street’s Lucy Fallon confirms major consequences for Bethany after Kit sex scandal

  23-09-2026 16:01 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 PageWe’re not saying there’s a right way to deal with your mum being banged up for murder, but we’re pretty sure Bethany Platt’s (Lucy Fallon) way in Coronation Street wasn’t it!While Sarah Platt (Tina O’Brien) is languishing behind bars for bashing Theo Silverton (James Cartwright) around the bonce, sending him to a spla
  
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• Hotel manager accused of abandoning British contractor at under siege hotel by fleeing in helicopter with two dogs defends his actions, inquest

  23-09-2026 15:59 via dailymail.com
  
  Timothy Roberts said he had been ordered by the owners of the Amarula Hotel to get on the chartered $15,000 (£11,200) helicopter.
  
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• Gran, 59, 'mistaken for 36-year-old daughter's sister' after unbelievable transformation

  23-09-2026 15:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: As her sixtieth birthday loomed, a Yorkshire grandmother decided on a weight loss transformation followed by cosmetic 'tweakments' that, she says, has made her look 20 years younger
  
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• Nurse Sandie Peggie tells tribunal her union 'sided' with a trans doctor amid row over female only changing room

  23-09-2026 15:58 via dailymail.com
  
  Sandie Peggie has told a tribunal she felt like her union took the side of a trans doctor using female changing rooms and did nothing to find out what other staff thought about the situation.
  
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• Woman dies after falling from balcony at block of flats in south east London

  23-09-2026 15:56 via metro.co.uk
  
  Zhane House was found unresponsive on the ground outside her Lewisham apartment block in August (Picture: Metro.co.uk/John Dunne)Neighbours have paid tribute to a ‘lovely mother’ who died after plunging from a balcony at a block of flats in south east London.Zhane House was found unresponsive on the ground at the foot of her Lewisham apartment block last month. Her father Michael revealed that the family were still grieving after the loss of her mother some years earlier. Zhane
  
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• RAF Valley crash - live: Jet comes down in Anglesey and explodes in 'wall of fire'

  23-09-2026 15:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It is believed the Hawk aircraft crashed after taking off from RAF Valley, with two crew members ejecting from the aircraft shortly before it hit the ground
  
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• Melania gives guarded verdict on Trump's second term and admits he 'doesn't want to hear' the truth

  23-09-2026 15:55 via dailymail.com
  
  Melania Trump has admitted her husband sometimes 'doesn't want to hear' what she tells him when she delivers her private verdict on his public performances.
  
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