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• Former Olympic figure skater Midori Ito, 54, captures hearts as she wins international title 32 years after she retired from the sport

  15-05-2024 19:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Former Olympic figure skater Midori Ito, 54, won an international title at the ISU International Adult Championship in Oberstdorf, Germany on Tuesday. She retired 32 years ago.
  
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• 90s Hollywood icon is truly unrecognisable as he unveils suave new look at Cannes

  15-05-2024 20:18 via metro.co.uk
  
  Billy Zane looked seriously suave at Cannes Film Festival (Picture: Getty)Billy Zane looked truly unrecognizable at Cannes Film Festival as he unveiled the first look at his new project, Waltzing with Brando.The 58-year-old is most known for his role as Caledon Hockley in 1997 classic Titanic, alongside Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kathy Bates and Bill Paxton.Since then, he has gone on to steal the show in Zoolander 2, Guilt, Curfew, The Deep End and Charmed.In his next film, the actor will
  
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• University student falls to her death while sliding down bannister at pre-drinks

  15-05-2024 20:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Benita Kaur Gill, who studied at Nottingham Trent University, was having drinks with her friends when she fell a distance of one and a half floors after climbing onto a bannister
  
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• NieR 3 has sort of – kind of – maybe been announced by producer

  15-05-2024 20:09 via metro.co.uk
  
  NieR:Automata – what is taking so long? (Square Enix)Three veterans of the NieR franchise are working on a new game that ’might be NieR’ but they’re not saying for certain.It’s now over seven years since NieR:Automata became a surprise hit, with even the subsequent remake of the first game doing much better than famously bonkers creator Yoko Taro predicted.Normally that would mean we’d be drowning in sequels and spin-offs by now, but apart from a mobile game t
  
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• UK water firm offers customers £15 after parasite in supply causes horror symptoms

  15-05-2024 20:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A worrying warning was issued to residents in parts of Devon to be aware of "severe symptoms like bloody diarrhoea" with residents reporting a strange taste in the tapwater
  
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• Steady on Joe! Biden, 81, catches himself after tripping on a step again

  15-05-2024 20:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  President Joe Biden had a near-miss when walking up steps to address the National Peace Officers' Memorial Service in front of the Capitol Building Wednesday.
  
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• Tories reject call for ninja swords to be banned despite grieving mum's plea

  15-05-2024 20:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A new law outlawing ninja swords like the one used in the 2022 killing of 16-year-old Ronan Kanda, was voted down by a majority of over 100 despite his mum Pooja's plea to MPs
  
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• Long COVID sufferer who says she must stay horizontal 90% of time crowdfunds for business class flight to US - then gets a nasty surprise

  15-05-2024 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Delta passenger Laura attempted to book the premium spot in a bid to help manage her debilitating symptoms during her ten hour flight to the US but was left disappointed at the airport.
  
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• 'Love triangle' row over a woman saw man, 37, stabbed to death by his rival, 43, in front of a seven-year-old boy during 'massive fight', court told

  15-05-2024 19:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Richard Hunt, 37, suffered stab wounds to the heart and lung at an estate in Suffolk after Jay Cotterill (pictured) allegedly stabbed him seven times, Ipswich Crown Court heard.
  
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• Explosive study lays bare the cost of food stamps and their $135 BILLION 'culture of dependency'

  15-05-2024 19:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  'The story of the food stamp program is one of expanding enrollment, higher spending, benefit payments growing faster than inflation,' says researcher Matthew Dickerson.
  
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• Putin slams 'heinous' shooting of 'courageous' Slovakian PM Robert Fico as Biden leads global condemnation of 'horrific act of violence'

  15-05-2024 19:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  There was an immediate outpouring of support and well-wishes from Heads of State including Austria, Poland , Italy and Romania , who were quick to condemn the attack.
  
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• Trump and a top VP contender are on opposite sides of a contentious Republican primary race in Arizona

  15-05-2024 19:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  JD Vance, a top potential VP pick for President Trump, finds himself on the opposite side of Trump's hand-picked candidate in the race.
  
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• Gunned down as he greets the crowd: Terrifying moment Slovakia's PM is shot when '71-year-old assassin' fires five times at point-blank range, leaving Robert Fico fighting for life

  15-05-2024 19:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Harrowing footage showed an individual from within the crowd lunging forward, with a gun in hand as he begins shooting in the direction of the PM who is out of the camera frame.
  
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• Blood cells can predict cancer threat seven years before disease spreads

  15-05-2024 19:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A new scientific study funded by Cancer Research UK has unearthed proteins linked to common forms of cancer that give diagnosticians clues to help treat the deadly disease early
  
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• Dr. Drew says 'overlabeling of mental health problems' is 'out of control' among young people who are 'unwilling to tolerate the ordinary misery of living'

  15-05-2024 19:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dr. Drew has said that we're over-prescribing and overlabeling mental health problems - and that young people are misdiagnosing 'ordinary misery'.
  
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• Mum's moving tribute to Brit aid worker killed in Israeli strike on Gaza

  15-05-2024 19:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Large crowds turned out in Bristol to honour the memory of James Kirby, the army veteran and volunteer security man killed in airstrikes by the IDF delivering aid to besieged Gazans
  
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• Eric Adams is eviscerated for saying migrants can fill NYC lifeguard shortage because they are 'excellent swimmers'

  15-05-2024 19:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  'How do we have a large body of people in our city that are excellent swimmers and at the same time we need lifeguards,' the Democrat said at on Tuesday.
  
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• Russia using deadly new kamikaze combat robot to inflict terror on Ukrainian soldiers on frontline

  15-05-2024 19:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Scorpion-M combat robot, which can carry up to 25kg of explosives, is seen in dramatic footage exploding over an underground enemy stronghold in Donetsk region
  
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• Jamie Carragher pinpoints moment in the Premier League title race that will ‘haunt’ Arsenal

  15-05-2024 19:31 via metro.co.uk
  
  Jamie Carragher believes the moment will ‘haunt’ Arsenal fans (Picture: Getty)Jamie Carragher believes one moment in the Premier League title race will ‘haunt’ Arsenal fans for the next decade.Arsenal are helpless to prevent Manchester City from clinching a record fourth successive league title after Pep Guardiola’s side beat Tottenham to go top ahead of the final day of the season.Man City were far from at their best at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and Spurs gave
  
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• Why Russia was
Eurovision-banned but Israel was not

  15-05-2024 19:30 via metro.co.uk
  
  Why did Eurovision treat Russia and Israel differently? (Picture: Tobias Schwarz/AFP via Getty Images)In today’s MetroTalk, why was Russia banned from competing in Eurovision and not Israel?
  Many people, including Ireland’s Eurovision entry and last year’s winner objected to Israel’s participation on account of their involvement in the Israel-Hamas war, despite the controversy the EBU still allowed them to compete. Russia has been banned from the competition since 2022, a
  
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• EuroMillions winners buzzing after building bee empire with £1m winnings

  15-05-2024 19:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jeff and Davinia Pritchard won £1million in the EuroMillions lottery, which allowed them to spend more time doing what they love - building a thriving collection of beehives and caring for the local bee population
  
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• 'It's the worst illness I've ever had': Hundreds are struck down with parasite as bosses warn customers not to drink, cook or clean teeth with unboiled tap water - after firm first insisted water was safe

  15-05-2024 19:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  South West Water (SWW) has urged people to boil their tap water after hundreds were struck down with diarrhoea, vomiting and stomach pains linked to cryptosporidium.
  
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• How South West Water became one of UK's worst water firms with boss too ashamed to take £450,000 bonus as 'hundreds' are struck down with vomiting bug in Devon

  15-05-2024 19:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Residents in the seaside town of Brixham have today been urged to boil their tap water due to a suspected outbreak of cryptosporidium, which can be caught by drinking contaminated water.
  
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• Ex-police inspector, 42, who was caught having sex with work lover in a Screwfix car park is banned from policing for life after making lurid comments about female recruits including one was 'tip top, only 19'

  15-05-2024 19:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Andrew McLullich discovered by a former colleague Gavin Harper having sex at a car park in Birkenhead with his wife Stephanie Glynn (pictured) in the back of his Kia Sportage.
  
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• Ukraine 'snatching men from street for frontline' in tactic 'worse than Russians' as Putin advances

  15-05-2024 19:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A drive to recruit men both in Ukraine - and those who have fled abroad - is seen as critical as Russia today reportedly takes control of Vovchansk, a strategic town in the direction of Putin’s target, Kharkiv city
  
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• Funeral home scandal gran gets 'send off fit for a queen' after ashes mix up

  15-05-2024 19:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The family of Jessie Stockdale received a box of ashes after her death, but were later horrified to discover that her body was still being held by a funeral home alongside those of more than thirty other deceased
  
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• Meryl Streep was ‘so in love’ with 80s co-star after five takes of ‘sex scene’

  15-05-2024 19:26 via metro.co.uk
  
  Acting icon Meryl Streep has fondly recalled her time making 1985’s Out of Africa with Robert Redford (Picture: Hemdale/Getty Images)Hollywood legend Meryl Streep has opened up more about working with co-star Robert Redford on their classic film, 1985’s Out of Africa – including how her feelings for him developed.The pair lit up the screen together as Danish writer Karen Blixen and big-game hunter Denys Finch Hatton in the movie, which was one of Streep’s biggest commerci
  
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• Girl who attended end-of-term party in grounds of £1.5m farmhouse where Charlie Cosser, 17, was stabbed to death tells court she heard one of her friends say 'I have a knife with me'

  15-05-2024 19:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A girl who attended a party in the grounds of a farmhouse where Charlie Cosser was stabbed to death tells court she heard one of her friends say 'I have a knife with me'.
  
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• American Eagle announces it's closing store at San Francisco's dying downtown mall - with 52 staff set to lose jobs - citing 'crime and neglect'

  15-05-2024 19:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  American Eagle announced it is closing its doors at the former Westfield San Francisco Centre over the summer - after more than 100 security incidents were recorded from 2020-2023.
  
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• Sheriff finds name of girl, 16, who vanished in 1976 hidden within crossword BTK serial killer mailed to media

  15-05-2024 19:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Osage County investigators now believe that the infamous serial killer may have been responsible for the 1976 disappearance of Cynthia Kinney, who vanished from a laundromat.
  
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