Deadly Ebola virus could be mutating after thousands of cases

Health officials are planning to scale up efforts to fight disease with a high mortality rate.

08-10 https://metro.co.uk/2026/08/07/deadly-ebola-virus-mutating-thousands-cases-29323191/

‘I pretend to be a cannibal and watch porn for 8 hours a day – it’s all part of my job’

'Even if you're given, "how do you molest a two-year-old," despite having a two-year-old in the house, the task is timed.'

08-10 https://metro.co.uk/2026/08/09/i-pretend-cannibal-watch-porn-hours-work-29126979/

School trip got so out of hand they had to apologise to entirety of Thailand

Five students were fined by police.

07-28 https://metro.co.uk/2026/07/27/italian-school-forced-apologise-whole-thailand-bad-behaviour-29231654/

Theme park cable car plunges to the ground and narrowly avoids people below

The accident happened at a fair in Ciudad del Carmen, Mexico, on Friday night during the event's second day of activities.

07-21 https://metro.co.uk/2026/07/20/theme-park-cable-car-plunges-ground-narrowly-avoids-people-29182419/

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.

07-18 https://metro.co.uk/2026/07/17/man-manages-survive-lost-wilderness-nine-days-going-fish-29150145/

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.'

07-16 https://metro.co.uk/2026/07/15/british-man-jailed-iran-unjustifiable-sentence-extended-two-years-29144174/

‘Missing’ black holes holding together a galaxy have been found deep in space

The breakthrough came after researchers studied images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, along with new observations from the powerful James Webb Space Telescope.

07-16 https://metro.co.uk/2026/07/15/missing-black-holes-holding-together-a-galaxy-found-deep-space-29131089/

‘My dad wouldn’t have been kidnapped if the IRGC were proscribed as terrorists sooner’

Anoosheh Ashoori,a former Iranian prisoner who spent five years in the notorious Evin jail (Picture: Anoosheh Ashoori/PA Wire)

07-15 https://metro.co.uk/2026/07/14/my-dad-wouldnt-kidnapped-irgc-proscribed-terrorists-sooner-29126889/

Fake air conditioning units are being flogged online in heatwave

Some of the units are advertised as having been 'designed by former Nasa engineers'.

07-15 https://metro.co.uk/2026/07/14/fake-air-conditioning-units-flogged-online-heatwave-29104944/

ASTAR: Building the Future of Prediction Finance

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