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• 'Costly and devastating' error sees GB's Fear & Gibson miss medal - BBC

  11-02-2026 22:35 via news.google.com
  'Costly and devastating' error sees GB's Fear & Gibson miss medal  BBCFear and Gibson suffer nightmare on ice as GB Winter Olympic medal drought goes on  The GuardianBrit star in floods of tears after blunder-filled ice dance at Winter Olympics  The SunHeartbreak for British figure skaters Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson as they blow chance to emulate Torvill and Dean at the Winter Olympics  Daily MailHeartbreak for Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson as Team GB&r
  
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• Apple keeps hitting bumps with its overhauled Siri - The Verge

  11-02-2026 22:08 via news.google.com
  Apple keeps hitting bumps with its overhauled Siri  The VergeApple’s Latest Attempt to Launch the New Siri Runs Into Snags  Bloomberg.comApple’s Siri revamp reportedly delayed… again  TechCrunchNew Siri Runs Into Problems, Features Could Be Pushed to iOS 26.5 and iOS 27  MacRumorsEvercore expects multi-phase release of Apple’s new AI features  TipRanks
  
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• Apple Releases watchOS 26.3 - MacRumors

  11-02-2026 19:04 via news.google.com
  Apple Releases watchOS 26.3  MacRumorsiOS 26.3 makes it easier to switch to Android  The VergeiOS 26.3 Features: Everything New in iOS 26.3  MacRumorsApple iOS 26.3 — Critical Update Now Live For All iPhone Users  ForbesApple releases iOS 26.3 with updates that mainly benefit non-Apple devices  Ars Technica
  
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• Private cannabis prescription ‘contributed to patient’s death’ - The Times

  11-02-2026 19:00 via news.google.com
  Private cannabis prescription ‘contributed to patient’s death’  The TimesView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Scientists Report “High-Confidence Detections of Artificial Objects” on the Moon—Could They Solve a Cold War-era Mystery? - The Debrief

  11-02-2026 18:34 via news.google.com
  Scientists Report “High-Confidence Detections of Artificial Objects” on the Moon—Could They Solve a Cold War-era Mystery?  The DebriefLost Soviet Luna 9 Moon Lander May Have Been Found  The New York TimesAI Helps Pinpoint the Moon’s First Soft Landing  SETI InstituteForget Waldo. Where’s Luna 9?  HackadayThe First Spacecraft to Survive a Moon Landing Vanished in 1966 and AI May Have Finally Found It  ZME Science
  
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• The Radical Plan To Build An 80-Kilometer Wall Around The "Doomsday Glacier" Of Antarctica - IFLScience

  11-02-2026 17:57 via news.google.com
  The Radical Plan To Build An 80-Kilometer Wall Around The "Doomsday Glacier" Of Antarctica  IFLScienceUpdate from Thwaites Glacier: when science doesn’t go your way  British Antarctic SurveyScientists plan 50-mile wall to block warm seas melting the ‘Doomsday Glacier’  Interesting EngineeringAntartica's environment is changing rapidly around the melting Thwaites Glacier. These seals can collect data to understand why.  facebook.comScienti
  
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• Trailer: Nicole Kidman In "Scarpetta" Series - Dark Horizons

  11-02-2026 17:32 via news.google.com
  Trailer: Nicole Kidman In "Scarpetta" Series  Dark HorizonsNicole Kidman Scrubs in as Dr. Kay Scarpetta to Find a Serial Killer in Amazon’s ‘Scarpetta’ Trailer  The Hollywood ReporterKidman, Lee Curtis lead new crime thriller Scarpetta  RTE.ieThis Serial-Killer Thriller Looks So Kidmanian  VultureNICOLE KIDMAN STARS IN SCARPETTA: PRIME VIDEO DROPS TRAILER FOR PATRICIA CORNWELL CRIME THRILLER  vergemagazine.co.uk
  
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• efflux controls neuronal metabolism and long-term memory across species - Nature

  11-02-2026 17:01 via news.google.com
  efflux controls neuronal metabolism and long-term memory across species  Nature
  
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• Galaxy S26 Ultra Release Date: Samsung Confirms Event And Pre-Order Perks - Forbes

  11-02-2026 14:00 via news.google.com
  Galaxy S26 Ultra Release Date: Samsung Confirms Event And Pre-Order Perks  ForbesSamsung Galaxy S26 Ultra Release Date Latest: What To Expect And When  Forbes[Invitation] Galaxy Unpacked February 2026: The Next AI Phone Makes Your Life Easier  samsung.comSamsung’s offering up to $900 of trade-in credit toward its new phones  The Verge‘Time to switch brand’: Samsung fans are beyond disappointed by the latest Galaxy S26 specs leak &nbs
  
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• How Interstellar Changed After Christopher Nolan Replaced Steven Spielberg - ComingSoon.net

  11-02-2026 12:06 via news.google.com
  How Interstellar Changed After Christopher Nolan Replaced Steven Spielberg  ComingSoon.netChristopher Nolan Tells Timothée Chalamet About the ‘Interstellar’ Scene of His ‘I Didn’t Particularly Like’: ‘You Went Ahead and Did Whatever the F— You Wanted’  VarietyDirector criticizes Timothée Chalamet’s acting, ‘It felt too much’  The IndependentChristopher Nolan’s Interstellar original
  
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• Deadly Victorian diseases are making a comeback in Britain - The Telegraph

  11-02-2026 12:00 via news.google.com
  Deadly Victorian diseases are making a comeback in Britain  The TelegraphSuperdrug pharmacist's warning as Victorian-era illnesses 're-emerge'  North Wales Live
  
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• Mandelson scandal spreads to Tony Blair years as officials probe early New Labour links

  11-02-2026 03:46 via express.co.uk
  In the corridors of power, whispers of a decades-old connection between a prominent political figure and a notorious financier are stirring unease and intrigue.
  
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• Full list of UK bank switch awards after 40k get £175 - Santander, Nationwide, HSBC

  11-02-2026 03:02 via express.co.uk
  British banks are offering customers cash if they make a switch to them.
  
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• Democratic congressman Ro Khanna names six men appearing in unredacted Epstein files – live

  11-02-2026 02:39 via theguardian.com
  Khanna, who co-sponsored the Epstein transparency act, named six people including Victoria’s Secret tycoon Leslie Wexner on the House floorWho are the six men named in the unredacted Epstein files?Congressmen name six wealthy men ‘likely incriminated’ in Epstein filesJamie Raskin, a top House Democrat, accused the justice department of making “puzzling, inexplicable redactions” to documents related to Jeffrey Epstein that obscured the names of abusers, while allowin
  
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• Artist accuses AirAsia of using his mural on plane without consent

  11-02-2026 02:39 via theguardian.com
  Ernest Zacharevic alleges the carrier has repeatedly used his art in its external corporate branding without consentA Malaysia-based artist has filed a lawsuit against the low-cost airline carrier AirAsia and its parent company Capital A Berhad for allegedly using his art on a plane without permission.Ernest Zacharevic, a Lithuanian-born artist based in Penang, alleged AirAsia used his 2012 street mural, Children on a Bicycle, on an aircraft between October and November 2024. Continue reading...
  
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• Princess Eugenie and Beatrice 'not turning backs on Prince Andrew' despite Epstein scandal

  11-02-2026 01:56 via express.co.uk
  Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice are not abandoning their father despite strained family relationships amid ongoing controversy
  
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• Ukraine war briefing: UK promises to double troop numbers in Norway to deter Putin

  11-02-2026 01:53 via theguardian.com
  Defence secretary John Healey says Russian president is ‘rapidly re-establishing military presence in the region, including reopening old cold war bases’. What we know on day 1,449Continue reading...
  
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• Britney Spears sells rights to music catalog for undisclosed sum, say reports

  11-02-2026 01:33 via theguardian.com
  Music publisher Primary Wave said to have bought rights to pop star’s music, including Toxic and Baby One More TimeBritney Spears has sold the rights to her music catalog, which includes hits such as Toxic, Baby One More Time and Gimme More, according to media reports.The music publisher Primary Wave is said to have purchased the pop star’s music rights on 30 December, TMZ reported on Tuesday, citing legal documents. An unnamed source “familiar with the deal” confirmed th
  
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• Sarah Ferguson makes astonishing 10-word comeback vow to friends after Andrew nightmare

  11-02-2026 01:31 via express.co.uk
  Sarah Ferguson has openly told friends 'I need to get back to work. I need money' as she plans a comeback following Prince Andrew's exit from Royal Lodge.
  
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• Labour MPs claim Streeting will move against 'zombie' Starmer within weeks despite denials

  11-02-2026 01:12 via express.co.uk
  In the corridors of power, whispers grow louder as Wes Streeting's allies hint at a bold move against Keir Starmer, despite public declarations of loyalty.
  
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• ‘Unsustainable’ gaps in policing of franchise businesses must end, MPs say

  11-02-2026 01:01 via theguardian.com
  House of Commons business and trade committee calls for changes after series of scandals in sectorThe UK government needs to eradicate “unsustainable” gaps in the policing of franchise businesses after a series of scandals to hit the sector, a parliamentary committee has found.The conclusion forms part of the business and trade committee’s small business strategy report and follows a Guardian investigation in December which revealed claims that Adrian Howe, a former Vodafone em
  
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• MPs call on welfare bosses to speed up redress over carer’s allowance scandal

  11-02-2026 01:01 via theguardian.com
  Public accounts committee says ‘systemic issues’ at DWP led to carers being wrongly forced to repay overpaymentsAn influential MPs’ committee has urged welfare bosses to speed up redress for tens of thousands of unpaid carers who stand to have huge benefit debts written off after they were wrongly hit with carer’s allowance penalties.The public accounts committee (PAC) said management failures and “systemic issues” at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
  
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• Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting review – no, I don’t want to come up and see these etchings

  11-02-2026 01:01 via theguardian.com
  National Portrait Gallery, LondonFreud was a master painter, but his drawings ranged from ordinary to awful. Guess which aspect of his work this show focuses on? If painting is a fast car, drawing is more like taking the bus. At least that’s how it felt to me, puttering along on the 27 to Paddington that is the National Portrait Gallery’s trawl through Lucian Freud’s sketches, engravings and even childhood crayonings, daydreaming until my stop, with the occasional flash of colo
  
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• Lark Rise to Candleford review – tender, evocative tribute to rural lives in transition

  11-02-2026 01:01 via theguardian.com
  Watermill theatre, Newbury
  This music-laced adaptation of Flora Thompson’s novels is a coming-of-age story that finds quiet beauty in a world on the brink of changeFlora Thompson’s autobiographical novels, about growing up in the late 19th-century Oxfordshire countryside, have been adapted for stage before, in a 1978 promenade production at the National Theatre. They’re now better known for the BBC series where Laura – note the rhyming name – guided us through the q
  
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• English secondary schools must offer inclusion areas for neurodiverse and Send pupils

  11-02-2026 01:01 via theguardian.com
  Special spaces are a key part of government’s planned overhaul of special educational needs supportSecondary schools in England must provide specially designed areas for neurodiverse children and pupils with special educational needs, ministers have said.Universal “inclusion bases” are spaces away from classrooms where children with additional needs can get support for some lessons. They are seen as a key part of government plans to overhaul special educational needs and disabi
  
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• Atrial fibrillation: First of its kind therapy for 'debilitating' heart condition - BBC

  11-02-2026 01:01 via news.google.com
  Atrial fibrillation: First of its kind therapy for 'debilitating' heart condition  BBCView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Antisemitic incidents in UK spiked after Manchester synagogue terror attack

  11-02-2026 01:01 via theguardian.com
  Community Security Trust, which provides security to British Jews, recorded total 3,700 incidents in 2025Antisemitic incidents increased sharply in the UK after the deadly attack on a Manchester synagogue on the holiest day of the Jewish year, according to an organisation that provides security to British Jews.Two people died and three were seriously injured at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation on 2 October last year, in the first fatal antisemitic terror attack since the Community Security Trust
  
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• School phone policies in England a ‘huge drain’ on staff resources – study

  11-02-2026 00:30 via theguardian.com
  Teachers and admin teams spend 100 hours a week enforcing rules, Birmingham University research findsSmartphone policies in English secondary schools are a “huge drain” on resources, with staff spending on average more than 100 hours a week enforcing restrictions, according to research.Teachers, teaching assistants, caretakers and receptionists are involved with helping to police pupils’ smartphone use in school, researchers said, with multiple staff recording incidents, overse
  
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• Exercise can be ‘frontline treatment’ for mild depression, researchers say

  11-02-2026 00:30 via theguardian.com
  Biggest improvements seen in young adults and new mothers, with group activities of most benefitAerobic exercise such as running, swimming or dancing can be considered a frontline treatment for mild depression and anxiety, according to research that suggests working out with others brings the most benefits.Scientists analysed published reviews on exercise and mental health and found that some of the greatest improvements were observed in young adults and new mothers – groups that are consi
  
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• Royal biographer warns monarchy 'in trouble' over Andrew's Epstein police probe

  11-02-2026 00:23 via express.co.uk
  The British monarchy faces a storm as whispers of Prince Andrew's ties with Jeffrey Epstein resurface, leaving the public in shock and the Palace on edge.
  
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• Scottish Premiership: Late winner for Hearts in tense Edinburgh derby

  11-02-2026 00:06 via theguardian.com
  Tomas Magnusson scores in 88th minute to seal winJambos now have a six-point lead at the top of the tableTomas Magnusson scored a late winner as the Scottish Premiership leaders Hearts defeated Hibernian 1-0 in a tense Edinburgh derby to tighten their grip on top spot.Magnusson, on as a substitute, popped up with the game’s decisive moment in the 88th minute to spark jubilant scenes inside Tynecastle. Continue reading...
  
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