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• Deutsche Welle2026-10-06✓ Read

  Nobel Literature Prize: How the winner is secretly chosen

  Can Xue is considered one of this year's favorites; Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie are other strong contenders. But what goes on behind the scenes in the selection of the Nobel Prize in Literature?

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• Metro2026-10-06✓ Read

  Seventh man arrested over RAF Fairford ‘terror plot’

  A dual British-Iranian national was arrested on Saturday before him.

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• Mail Online2026-10-06✓ Read

  Safari plane makes emergency landing after hitting a ZEBRA in Tanzania

  The bush plane (pictured), carrying 30 on board, struck and killed the wild animal on the Seronera airstrip in the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania.

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• Mail Online2026-10-06✓ Read

  Trump parades ‘perfect’ Natalie Harp on stage

  Donald Trump hauled his ever-present aide Natalie Harp on stage at a Nebraska rally on Monday night and likened her to a game show model in front of a roaring crowd.

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• Metro2026-10-06✓ Read

  Spooky ‘witch head’ spotted lurking in deep space

  We're just a few weeks out from Halloween, and NASA has shared an appropriately spooky sight lurking in deep space.

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• Mail Online2026-10-06✓ Read

  Jim Davidson breaks silence on falling for new girlfriend

  Jim Davidson has broken his silence on his new girlfriend Maria Rice-Mundy just weeks after he revealed he had called off his sixth wedding to ex partner Natasha.

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• Metro2026-10-06✓ Read

  Big Brother must punish transphobia - prejudice isn’t an opinion

  I don't know if I'll enjoy this series in quite the same way anymore.

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• Metro2026-10-06✓ Read

  Lost film of first Battle of Hastings re-enactment unearthed after 60 years

  The colour movie has been brought back to life almost six decades on after the footage was handed to English Heritage.

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• Metro2026-10-06✓ Read

  Traitors fans think everyone missed Joe Lycett’s ‘total foot in mouth moment’

  Lycett had the good sense to look slightly embarrassed.

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• Metro2026-10-06✓ Read

  ‘Sadistic’ roofer fed neighbour’s rescued ferrets to his pet dogs

  Axel Shane Read stole the two rescue ferrets named Pumpkin and Latte from an enclosure and ‘used them as bait’ for his dog in Carlisle, Cumbria.

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• Mail Online2026-10-06✓ Read

  The most explosive revelations in Michael Douglas’ One Helluva Ride

  Raised by movie stars and with a career spanning six decades, it's hardly surprising that Michael has some interesting stories to tell.  Yet fans have been shocked by the volume.

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• Euronews2026-10-06✓ Read

  Latest news bulletin | October 6th, 2026 – Midday

  Video. Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this October 6th, 2026 - latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel.

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• Deutsche Welle2026-10-06✓ Read

  Germany faces a triple threat from Russia, China and domestic far-right extremists

  At a rare public hearing Germany's intelligence agencies identified Russia as the country's most dangerous adversary. The threat from China is also coming into focus. And the homegrown far right also poses a challenge.

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• Metro2026-10-06✓ Read

  Alison Hammond, 51, reveals why she’ll turn down proposal from boyfriend, 29

  Marriage isn’t necessarily on the cards.

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• Mail Online2026-10-06✓ Read

  Mother-of-two, 49, with incurable breast cancer throws solo wedding

  After discovering a lump under her arm in October 2021 and later diagnosed with stage four cancer in 2022, Amanda Barnes, 49, from Devon, decided she would no longer wait for the 'perfect circumstances'

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• Euronews2026-10-06✓ Read

  Mermaids compete in Warsaw's deepest swimming pool

  Video. Warsaw’s Mermaid Polska Deepspot Cup turns mermaiding into sport and art, with acrobatics, races and growing popularity among women and children.

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• Metro2026-10-06✓ Read

  Emmerdale star returns as controversial Dr Todd story reaches climax

  She was last seen in 2025.

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• Metro2026-10-06✓ Read

  Jeremy Clarkson wants to open a new pub but it won’t be easy to get a table

  ‘I am actually looking quite hard, into the possibility of opening another pub.’

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• Metro2026-10-06✓ Read

  Trump jokes about letting Iran bomb Los Angeles and San Diego

  While speaking at a rally in Nebraska, Donald Trump suggested paying a ‘small price’ and letting Iran ‘take out’ Los Angeles and San Diego.

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• Euronews2026-10-06✓ Read

  ‘Lost’ shark draws over a million curious visitors in South Korea

  Video. A bull shark nicknamed ‘Bukhangi’ has drawn about one million visitors to a Busan canal, sparking both fascination and concern for its welfare.

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