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• Why all the spiders in your home could be ‘even larger’ this year

  01-10-2026 17:15 via metro.co.uk
  
  No spiders in this image, just in case even an image of them spooks you (Picture: Metro)Maybe there’s one in your bathtub, or lying a bit too still in the corner of your bedroom. Maybe it’s slowly lowering itself onto your head.Spiders are everywhere at the moment, especially in people’s homes in the UK.
  On TikTok, users are sharing skin-crawling clips of tennis ball-sized critters taking a casual stroll.And in bad news for arachnophobes, an insect expert has warned that not o
  
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• The Greens chose the worst possible option as their leader. Even Mehreen Faruqi would've made a lot of sense: PETER VAN ONSELEN

  02-10-2026 03:08 via dailymail.com
  
  The Greens have found their answer to a political system dominated by pale, stale males…a pale, stale male of their very own.
  
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• Sydney nurses accused of vile anti-Semitic threats take fight to Australia's highest court

  02-10-2026 03:08 via dailymail.com
  
  Ahmad Nadir, 28, and Sarah Abu Lebdeh, 27, have pleaded not guilty after they allegedly said they would refuse to treat Israeli patients and threatened violence against them.
  
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• Dirty Australian truck driver paedophile who facilitated sexual abuse of 25 children - including some with severe disabilities - could walk free in 12 years

  02-10-2026 03:04 via dailymail.com
  
  An evil Australian paedophile who facilitated the sexual abuse of 25 children, including some with severe disabilities, could be freed from jail in 12 years.
  
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• Victim’s mum would have killed Christa Pike with 'box cutter' in gruesome admission

  02-10-2026 02:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Colleen Slemmer's mum, May, has issued a chilling confession after watching her daughter's killer, Christa Pike, survive the execution chamber on Wednesday evening
  
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• Countries supplying Ukraine with weapons are 'a threat', Putin says - while insisting Russia is 'not threatening anyone'

  02-10-2026 02:49 via dailymail.com
  
  The Russian despot made the comments at the Valdai Discussion Club in Moscow, where he said that he could not rule out the use of weapons of mass destruction from his foreign policy.
  
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• TFL employee 'shouts out free Palestine' by ticket barriers - before handing out flag stickers

  02-10-2026 02:46 via dailymail.com
  
  The Transport for London was seen handing over a window sticker that featured the Palestinian Authority flag entwined with the logo of the RMT Union at an unnamed underground station.
  
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• Pilots of Amazon cargo plane that crashed and killed five were given automatic warnings it was going too fast before touchdown, NTSB report says

  02-10-2026 02:42 via dailymail.com
  
  An Amazon cargo plane missed the runway at a Miami airport on September 6 and killed five people on the ground.
  
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• Huge row over microscope photograph contest winner's 'AI fake' video

  02-10-2026 02:38 via dailymail.com
  
  Dr Ning Xu, a researcher at a university in China, faced shattering backlash after he was accused of using AI to alter his winning entry (pictured) at the Nikon Small World in Motion contest.
  
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• Father of teenager, 17, killed in A66 Middlesbrough crash faces jail after attacking celebrant at his own son's funeral

  02-10-2026 02:37 via dailymail.com
  
  Gye Worthy, 40, faces prison after attacking the celebrant at a funeral for his son, Cole,17, who was one of five teenagers killed in the A66 Middlesbrough crash in August.
  
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• Capy ever after? New capybara named Rupert arrives at UK zoo... in search of love

  02-10-2026 02:37 via dailymail.com
  
  Rupert was whisked to the zoo in Sussex from Mon Sauvage Wildlife Park and Safari in Belgium so he could join two sisters - Squash and Pumpkin.
  
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• Two women allegedly attacked in separate Sydney home invasions - with one held at knifepoint and sexually assaulted

  02-10-2026 02:32 via dailymail.com
  
  Three men have been charged after two women were allegedly attacked in separate home invasions in Sydney's south-west.
  
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• 'Love cheat' Navy chief who had an affair with a junior female officer has been stripped of his knighthood

  02-10-2026 02:25 via dailymail.com
  
  Former head of the Royal Navy and married father-of-three Ben Key was suspended as First Sea Lord in May 2025 following claims he had an affair with a junior female officer.
  
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• Harrowing moment teenage boy, 17, is shot and killed by police officers after he climbed down from bridge

  02-10-2026 02:19 via dailymail.com
  
  The incident took place after cops received a call about a person threatening to take their own life on a bridge in Wappingers Falls.
  
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• 'Stolen' Range Rover ploughs into solicitors on upmarket London street - after 'being swiped using keyless hacking'

  02-10-2026 02:18 via dailymail.com
  
  House prices in the affluent area can reach a dizzying £10million, with one local telling the Daily Mail: 'It's very safe normally, I've never seen something like this here.'
  
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• Beau Lamarre-Condon trial updates: Text housemates got from Jesse Baird after he had allegedly been murdered: 'I won't be able to make it tonight'

  02-10-2026 02:18 via dailymail.com
  
  Follow Daily Mail's live coverage of Beau Lamarre-Condon's murder trial.
  
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• Aussie bartender who discovered an ATM glitch that gave him $1.6million in 'free money' reveals everything about his crazy adventure in new YouTube series

  02-10-2026 02:18 via dailymail.com
  
  Late one night in early 2011, Dan Saunders stumbled across a technical fault in National Australia Bank's ATM system while drinking with mates. The glitch changed his life forever.
  
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• White House exodus: Staffers fleeing ahead of midterms for two brutal reasons... as GOP braces for 'Armageddon' at polls

  02-10-2026 02:16 via dailymail.com
  
  Donald Trump is hemorrhaging senior administration officials as the Republican Party prepares for a beating in November some GOP staffers are calling 'Armageddon.'
  
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• FBI arrests Massachusetts man for allegedly cyberstalking Katie Miller

  02-10-2026 02:13 via dailymail.com
  
  John Anthony Proia III, 41, of Waltham, Massachusetts, was charged Thursday with allegedly cyberstalking Katie Miller, the wife of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller.
  
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• Games Inbox: What Amiga games deserve a remake?

  02-10-2026 02:10 via metro.co.uk
  
  Starglider 2 is not getting the Resident Evil treatmentThe Friday letters page imagines classic Amiga games getting the Resident Evil treatment, as one reader enjoys the Xbox’s new disc-to-digital option.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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  Loved your Amiga themed interview with Commodore and very excited to see what they’re doing next. I had no idea t
  
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• UN human rights chief unleashes scathing attack after Christa Pike's botched execution

  02-10-2026 02:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Christa Pike remains unresponsive but not in a coma following her botched execution. The UN human rights chief called on authorities in Tennessee not to pursue any further attempts to execute her
  
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• I was an official witness at Christa Pike's botched execution. Her tears, laughter, disturbing snores and the rock they placed on her chest will haunt me for ever

  02-10-2026 02:00 via dailymail.com
  
  It took 30 years for Christa Pike's sentence to be set in motion. Thirty years of agony for the family of the teenage student she'd killed in a crime still embedded in public consciousness.
  
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• Ace Combat 8: Wings Of Theve review – highway to the danger zone

  02-10-2026 02:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Ace Combat 8: Wings Of Theve – some kind of maverick (Bandai Namco)Gaming’s longest running combat flight simulator series is better than ever, in this highly accessible and excitingly unique new action game.Video games have seen a general decrease in velocity, over the last generation or two, that is very difficult to understand. We’re not talking about Sonic going fast (making bad games is a very easy to explain reason) but the fact that vehicle-based games, or really anythi
  
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• Dentist who helped save stabbed Flydubai pilot as he pleaded for help reveals 'extremist hijacker' repeatedly begged 'kill me' - as new footage emerges of him

  02-10-2026 01:48 via dailymail.com
  
  Wednesday's Flydubai flight FZ1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv erupted into bloodshed at 34,000ft after a flight captain was knifed by his co-pilot as he fought to protect the jet's controls.
  
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• A coiffured giraffe, an annoyed orangutan and some giggling seals among this year's Comedy Wildlife photo award finalists

  02-10-2026 01:45 via dailymail.com
  
  Founded in 2015 by photographers Paul Joynson-Hicks MBE and Tom Sullam, this year saw more than 10,000 entries from 112 countries - the highest number in its history.
  
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• Australia's housing crash could be the worst in 40 years - and experts warn prices may have only fallen a third of the way

  02-10-2026 01:40 via dailymail.com
  
  Australia's housing downturn is on track to become the deepest in 40 years.
  
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• Young man's life destroyed after he's wrongly connected to alleged rape that took place at Cornell frat house

  02-10-2026 01:30 via dailymail.com
  
  The man's home address was listed in a publicly available lawsuit, leading him to be doxxed and threatened, but he simply shared the same name as the accused and never attended Cornell.
  
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• Earl Spencer's third wife (who won't give up her Countess title) has used some of her divorce settlement to buy a £3.6million mansion just 10 miles from his Althorp estate

  02-10-2026 01:09 via dailymail.com
  
  When Karen, Countess Spencer, announced that following the breakdown of her 13-year marriage, she had a new house, little did people know it was so close to her marital home.
  
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• On patrol with the St Pancras police: ARTHUR PARASHAR joins the officers cracking down on luxury luggage thieves and drug dealers plaguing King's Cross

  02-10-2026 01:07 via dailymail.com
  
  Wealthy passengers have been targeted in a spate of high-profile thefts outside one of London's busiest transport hubs.
  
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• NHS trials ultra-fast brain scans and other new tech in bid to diagnose dementia sooner

  02-10-2026 01:06 via dailymail.com
  
  Researchers believe they can slash the time patients spend in an MRI scanner from 20 minutes to as little as six minutes, while still obtaining all the diagnostic information they need.
  
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