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‘Golden tongues’ discovered in unearthed Egyptian tombs

Jul 21, 2026

Woman who tried to flee without paying £2,100 bill arrested at airport

Jul 21, 2026

We’ve just realised our understanding of the universe might be wrong

Jul 20, 2026

Facebook and Instagram ‘down’ after users report widespread Meta outage

Jul 20, 2026

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Jul 21, 2026

Two tourists stabbed at the Acropolis in Athens, Greece

The Acropolis,where the attack took place,attracts millions of tourists every year (Picture: Dimitris Aspiotis/Shutterstock)

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‘Golden tongues’ discovered in unearthed Egyptian tombs

The tombs were unearthed in Marina El Alamein,west of Alexandria (Picture: Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities)

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Three teenagers taken to hospital after car driven at crowd

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Waymo car involved in crash with two vehicles in London

The car was travelling on the A13 in east London at 2am on Wednesday when it was by another vehicle going 93mph (Picture: Ming Yeung/Getty Images)

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Fisherman survives nine days lost in the wilderness

The 79-year-old had headed out into dense woodland near the remote village of Pilvo on Russia's Sakhalin Island.

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‘Neil Armstrong’s mum gave me lemonade while her son was blasting off to the moon’

'Viola didn't know whether she would ever see her son again.'

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Meteorite that crashed into home in New York ‘shows signs of how life came to Earth’

A meteorite that lit up the skies above New York City before crash-landing through someone's roof contains evidence of how life was originally brought to Earth from alien worlds.

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'Without doubt there is something funny going.'

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Quantum computing – what is the thing that’ll be way bigger and smarter than AI?

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Olympian, 50, dies after bike crash during race

'He was very serious and had a solid way of thinking.'

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‘Most beautiful’ meteor shower returns to UK skies – here’s how to see it

The gorgeous Perseid meteor shower has returned. Here's how to see it before it ends.

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‘Hardest Wordle of all time’ ruins winning streaks — could you get it?

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British man jailed in Iran has ‘unjustifiable’ sentence extended by two years

'We didn’t think we could be any more shocked at their appalling treatment, but in this case we are absolutely flabbergasted.'

Jul 16, 2026

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