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  1. Benefits bill 'to keep rising into 2030s' after Burnham dismissed calls for cuts

    The Prime Minister has described the scale of youth unemployment in the UK - with almost a million young people neither earning nor learning - as 'a moral failure'.

  2. Judge orders Meta to pay New Mexico $25B in Cambridge Analytica case

    A judge in New Mexico ordered the technology giant Meta to pay $25 billion after a jury found the company liable for misleading users about its privacy and content policies. New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez (D)…

  3. Meta Hit With $25 Billion Judgment For Deceiving New Mexico Users About Privacy

    Forty-eight other states settled with Facebook; New Mexico chose to take the social media company to court on its own.

  4. Major step forward in £45bn Northern Powerhouse Rail project - and what it could mean for Manchester

    The plans are aimed at bringing major improvement to rail travel in the north.

  5. ‘On repeat’: Labuschagne’s maddening exit puts Test career in peril

    Marnus Labuschagne’s Test career is again hanging by the slimmest of threads after he was out twice in a single humiliating day for Australia.

  6. British tourist, 24, died from peanut allergic reaction after consuming churro and hot chocolate in Argentine cafe, inquest hears

    Harry James Kitto, 24, was 'repeatedly reassured' his food did not contain nuts when he arrived at the popular destination, Café Tortoni, in November 2025.

  7. Labour grandee Roy Hattersley, once fined after pet Buster famously killed one of the Queen's geese, leaves £25,000 to dog charity in his will

    The party's former deputy leader, who died aged 93 at his Peak District home in June, left an estate worth £586,018.

  8. Huge queues clear after lane closures on M25

    Drivers faced delays on the M25 after extensive damage was found on the carriageway.

  9. Person airlifted to hospital after medical incident at shopping centre

    A person has been flown to a London hospital after a major emergency service response at a popular shopping centre.

  10. European airport triggers mass casualty response after 'norovirus outbreak' on flight

    Several passengers on board a Eurowings flight from Rhodes to Düsseldorf fell ill with suspected norovirus