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  1. Smith available to help lead Australia's day-five fight

    Steve Smith struggled with a stiff neck when batting in the first innings of the Gqeberha Test, but Australia are confident he'll be better second time around.

  2. Vegas tourist awarded almost $6m after cab driver closed car trunk on her head and left her with brain injury

    The woman's attorneys said she traveled to Sin City for a weekend getaway and returned 'with an injury that has eroded her quality of life ever since.'

  3. Manchester homeless charity serving 32,000 meals a year issues plea for support from business community

    Coffee4Craig offers a free hot meals and other essential services from its Cheetham Hill base

  4. 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'.

  5. 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)…

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. ‘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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.