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• Trudeau lashes out after Trump unveils his plot to 'force' Canada to become the 51st U.S. state

  07-01-2025 21:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Donald Trump said he would use 'economic force' to get Canada to become the 51st U.S. state, prompting immediate pushback from outgoing PM Justin Trudeau.
  
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• More than 100 hidden volcanoes could soon erupt in Antarctica

  08-01-2025 18:40 via metro.co.uk
  As the ice sheets melt, eruptions may become more common – and strongerIf you picture Antarctica, a continent roughly the size of the US and Mexico combined, an endless white void probably comes to mind.
  Volcanoes erupting isn’t what most people think of, but this scene could happen as the frozen continent melts, a study has found.
  Buried under kilometres of frost are some 100 volcanoes in Antarctica, with only a few peaking above the ice sheets along the western coast.But the ice a
  
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• Man Utd dealt transfer blow as Real Madrid open talks for £50m target

  08-01-2025 18:37 via metro.co.uk
  Real Madrid and Manchester United are plotting moves for Ederson (Picture: Getty)Real Madrid have joined Manchester United in the race for Ederson, opening initial discussions with Atalanta with a view to signing the midfielder next summer.Ederson has built a reputation as one of the most complete defensive midfielders in Italian football since leaving Brazilian outfit Corinthians to join Salernitana three years ago..After making just 15 appearances with Salernitana, Ederson secured a £19
  
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• Ed Gamble reveals the ‘exciting’ truth behind The Traitors roundtables

  08-01-2025 18:30 via metro.co.uk
  Ed Gamble spills the beans on a major Traitors secret (Picture: BBC / Listen Entertainment Ltd.)A new year means a brand new series of The Traitors, bringing more lies, deceit, and betrayal to our screens than ever before.Following the launch of series 3 of Claudia Winkleman’s BBC phenomenon, we did some digging into the biggest secrets from behind the scenes—surely we all want to know what happens when cameras aren’t rolling?Enter Ed Gamble, comedian and host of The Traitors:
  
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• Xbox handheld details emerge at CES as Microsoft talks Windows integration

  08-01-2025 18:27 via metro.co.uk
  Microsoft is still very keen about making an Xbox handheld (Valve/Microsoft/Metro)Microsoft has discussed more of its plans for an Xbox handheld, as it attempts to combine the Xbox dashboard and Windows.After the failure of the Xbox Series X/S, Microsoft’s future in the games industry remains a issue of hot debate, even within the company itself. What we do know though is that they’re working on both a next gen console and a handheld.Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer has already con
  
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• Taking Back Sunday’s drummer quits band after 24 years over ‘creative differences’

  08-01-2025 18:27 via metro.co.uk
  Mark O’Connell has quit Taking Back Sunday (Picture: Scott Legato/Getty Images)Mark O’Connell has confirmed he is leaving Taking Back Sunday after 24 years because he does not feel supported by his bandmates.He said his sobriety journey has impacted his relationship with his ‘brothers’ and ‘creative differences’ have made it impossible to move forward.Mark, 43, joined the Cute Without The E hitmakers in 2000 when founding member Steven DeJoseph exited the roc
  
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• Man and woman arrested for murder after death of one-year-old baby

  08-01-2025 18:25 via metro.co.uk
  The incident happened at a home in the New Bilton area (Picture: Google)Two people have been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of a one-year-old baby.Emergency services raced to a home in the New Bilton area of Rugby, Warwickshire, at about 4.30am on Tuesday over reports of a baby in cardiac arrest.The child was taken to hospital but has since died.The baby has not yet been identified.Police have now arrested a 24-year-old woman and a 25-year-old man on suspicion of murder.War
  
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• Tories guzzled 102-year-old cognac at party in Sunak’s final months as PM

  08-01-2025 18:17 via metro.co.uk
  The bottle was opened five months before Rishi Sunak called a general election (Picture: Metro)Conservative ministers knocked back a 102-year-old bottle of cognac at a party just months before Rishi Sunak left office, the Foreign Office has revealed.The valuable vintage was cracked open for an event marking the centenary of the Government Wine Cellar in December 2023.Attendees also enjoyed a port from 1931 and a 1983 Bordeaux at the do, hosted by long-serving Tory MP Andrew Mitchell.But it was
  
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• Shocking court documents reveal how Virginia nightmare nurse Erin Strotman was caught on camera breaking a premature baby's leg

  08-01-2025 18:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Shocking court documents alleged NICU nurse Erin Strotman, 26, was caught on the hospital's secret 'angel cameras' applying pressure to break a premature baby's thigh bone.
  
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• Family's £500k home is destroyed by floods just days after they finally repaired devastation caused by Storm Henk last winter

  08-01-2025 18:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In January last year, Jacob Davidge's entire downstairs was destroyed after flooding caused the house to flood with rainwater from Storm Henk.
  
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• Arizona tattooist shares bizarre reason he thought it was fine to ink design on girl aged nine

  08-01-2025 18:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The artist, who goes by the name Sosa, is part owner of Black Onyx Empire Tattoo shop in Yuma where the girl traveled with her family to get a portrait of Donald Trump on her neck.
  
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• Biden confirms where he stands for preemptive pardons for Liz Cheney and Dr. Anthony Fauci

  08-01-2025 18:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  President Joe Biden confirmed that he's yet to make a decision about issuing preemptive pardons to Trump enemies including former Rep. Liz Cheney and Dr. Anthony Fauci.
  
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• Teenager, 18, drowned in front of his helpless fiancée after kayak capsized suddenly

  08-01-2025 18:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cory Chilvers, 18, was paddling the inflatable craft for the first time near King's Lynn, Norfolk last July when it suddenly overturned.
  
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• Moment LA man decides to let his $5M home burn to the ground and flees for his life as devastating wildfires kill two and decimates multi-million dollar homes owned by A-Listers

  08-01-2025 18:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Orly Israel , 30, was seen in a clip shared to social media leaving behind the $5 million property in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles.
  
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• Mystery as Brit tourist's naked body is found in the sea in Thailand after row with 'muscly tourist' who followed him when he sprinted from bar - as grief-stricken family insist 'something is not sitting right'

  08-01-2025 18:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Regan Kelly, 28, had just arrived in Thailand for a month-long trip when he went missing in the early hours of January 3. He was last seen in CCTV footage at his hostel bar with an unknown man.
  
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• Horrifying moment knife-wielding paedophile chases schoolgirl down the street in attempted murder bid after grooming and stalking her online - as he is jailed for 43 years

  08-01-2025 18:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ellis Dismore, 24, hounded his victim online after using multiple fake media profiles to pose as a young teenager before threatening her with violence and rape.
  
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• Stay warm this winter with top puffa jackets to beat the cold as chosen by fashion expert

  08-01-2025 18:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Beat the cold weather and invest in a puffa jacket that will not only keep you warm, but look good too! (Picture: Metro/Getty)
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  If you’ve left the house this week, or watched the recent weather reports, you’ll know it’s baltic ou
  
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• Mike De Decker slams ‘scandalous’ snub from Premier League Darts line-up

  08-01-2025 17:59 via metro.co.uk
  
  Mike De Decker missed out on a spot in this year’s Premier League (Picture: Getty)Mike De Decker has hit out at his ‘scandalous’ omission from thePremier League Darts and said two players in the eight-man line-up don’t deserve to be there.De Decker enjoyed a breakthrough year on tour last year and captured his first major with a stunning win over Luke Humphries to claim the World Grand Prix in October.The Belgian rose to World No.24 but endured a disappointing campaign a
  
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• Germans are declared 'world champions in sick leave' by country's leading insurer as it reveals poorly workers take average of 20 days off each year

  08-01-2025 17:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The staggeringly high number of sick days are way above the European Union average of just eight days per year.
  
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• Pregnant Michelle Keegan covers baby bump as she films ‘masterpiece’ comedy

  08-01-2025 17:56 via metro.co.uk
  
  Michelle Keegan returned to the set of Brassic after announcing her pregnancy (Picture: MCPIX)Pregnant Michelle Keegan was back at work after the Christmas period filming the seventh season of a fan-favourite Comedy.The Fool Me Once star, 37, who recently announced she was expecting her first child with husband Mark Wright, was seen on the set of Brassic.Michelle kept her baby bump warm under a crew coat before wearing an oversized leather jacket for filming.She seemed in high spirits as she he
  
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• UK Athletics and ex-head of sport for the World Para Athletics Championships are charged with manslaughter after Paralympian died when metal throwing cage fell on him during shot put training

  08-01-2025 17:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The United Arab Emirates athlete died aged 36 after a metal throwing cage fell on him while he was training for the shot put at Newham Leisure Centre in London in 2017.
  
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• ‘Phenomenal’ US fast food chain launches 11 new menu items in UK

  08-01-2025 17:53 via metro.co.uk
  
  Popeyes has launched a new menu (Picture: LAURENCEHOWE.COM)Louisiana chicken chain Popeyes has unveiled a brand new Savin’ Menu in the UK, with prices starting from just £1.99. The fast food giant, which has been hailed as having ‘phenomenal’ and ‘sensational’ food, says the cheap and cheerful options will allow customers to go ‘big on flavour but spend a little less’.
  Several of Popeyes’ classic items are featured on the menu, includin
  
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• Ryanair passenger makes entire cheesecake from scratch in her plane seat

  08-01-2025 17:52 via metro.co.uk
  
  The pudding took 15 minutes to make but sparked outrage on social media (Picture: Instagram/@foodfede_)It’s a well-known fact that passengers do some odd things on planes, from yoga in the aisles to taking a pet peacock onboard – but one woman may just take the cake.An Italian food blogger, Federica Rossi, hit nearly two million views on Instagram after she made a cheesecake from scratch on a Ryanair flight.Sitting in her window seat, the food influencer put her tray table down and
  
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• Nigel Farage accepts award from far-right US Republican after racist 'sink the ships' rant

  08-01-2025 17:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Reform UK leader says he didn’t hear the vile speech of young Republican Nathan Berger just 45 seconds before he introduced him onto the stage in New York last month
  
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• Cleaning fans love 'magic' free product that removes blood stains from bedding

  08-01-2025 17:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Blood stains on bedding are a nightmare to clean, but Mrs Hinch fans have shared a simple and free hack that will get your duvet cover looking good as new in no time
  
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• Body found buried in snow in Italy's Dolomites is named by rescuers as one of two missing British hikers as hunt for second man is called off in worsening weather conditions

  08-01-2025 17:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mr Harris, 35, and his friend Aziz Ziriat, 36,  both from London , were hiking in the Dolomites in northern Italy but they had not been heard from since 2.20pm on New Year's Day.
  
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• Moment brothers who plundered mansions for luxury cars and golf clubs are arrested as they are jailed for crime spree in footballers' Surrey enclave

  08-01-2025 17:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jonathan and Timmy Casey, 41 and 37, stole two Audis, a VW Golf and a Jaguar from across across Cobham and Esher in Elmbridge, Surrey.
  
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• British tourist who plunged to his death from fifth floor balcony at Turkish hotel was 'profoundly' drunk and had 'stepped out for cigarette' moments before fatal fall, inquest hears

  08-01-2025 17:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Crane operator Antony Maxwell, 21, was nearly three times the drink driving limit when he fell from the fifth floor after going out for a cigarette at the Kahya Aqua Resort and Spa in Antalya Turkey.
  
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• ‘This is the only dry shampoo that works on my greasy hair – it’s a gym bag must-have’

  08-01-2025 17:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  If you're looking to keep your hairstyle looking fresher for longer between washes, this is the absolute best dry shampoo for the job, says beauty editor Laura Mulley
  
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• Man and woman are arrested for murder after one-year-old baby who suffered cardiac arrest dies in hospital

  08-01-2025 17:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A man and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a one-year-old baby who had a cardiac arrest died in hospital.
  
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