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Annabel Sutherland’s sizzling summer continues as Australia ease to win over New Zealand

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Third ODI: Australia 290 all out (49 overs); New Zealand 215Player of series Sutherland takes 3-39 and makes 42 in Wellington

Annabel Sutherland’s superb summer has continued, this time starring with the ball to help Australia claim a 2-0 series victory over New Zealand with a 75-run win. After Ashleigh Gardner’s career-best ODI score of 74 hit Australia to 290 in Wellington, Sutherland bagged 3-39 as the hosts were all out for 215.

The win wrapped up Australia’s last match before next month’s multi-format Ashes, and completed two dominations of New Zealand in the three-match Rose Bowl series after game one was washed out.

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Machine to revive donor organs used in double-lung transplant in UK first

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Exclusive: Daniel Evans-Smith tells of transformative effect of operation using technology that could cut waiting lists

Surgeons have performed a double-lung transplant using a novel machine which revives donor organs and keeps them alive and breathing outside the human body. The operation marked the first time the machine has been used in the UK.

The pioneering device consists of a bubble-like chamber which contains a series of pumps and filters that repair, recondition and revitalise the lungs before they are transplanted into patients.

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Santa slays and jingle hells: here’s why Christmas horror films are the perfect antidote to the season | Paul Syvret

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They can be silly and tasteless – and there’s something suitable for almost any age and audience

A clown walks into a bar. Seriously. Bear with me a minute here.

The clown sees a Santa Claus impersonator propped up on a stool with a beer. The clown gambols across to sit on Santa’s lap, and then pees his pants before shooting everyone else in the bar. He steals Santa’s costume, ties him up, douses him with liquid nitrogen and proceeds to smash him to bloody pieces. Ho ho ho.

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Trump makes defense, Doge and Latin America envoy picks for administration

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Katie Miller picked to join Musk and Ramaswamy’s advisory board as Stephen Feinberg tapped for No 2 Pentagon role

Donald Trump announced a series of appointments to his incoming administration on Sunday evening, including top positions in the Department of Defense and one of the first members of “Elon Musk’s department of government efficiency”.

The president-elect said he would nominate billionaire investor Stephen Feinberg to serve as deputy secretary of defense, the No 2 role at the Pentagon.

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Trump threatens to take back Panama Canal over ‘ridiculous’ fees

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Trump also warns he would not let a ‘vital national asset’ for the US fall into the ‘wrong hands’

Donald Trump has demanded that the Panama Canal be given back to the US if Panama did not manage the waterway in a fashion that was acceptable to him – and he accused the central American country of charging excessive rates for use of the ocean-connecting ship passage.

“The fees being charged by Panama are ridiculous, especially knowing the extraordinary generosity that has been bestowed to Panama by the US,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform late Saturday, a little more than a month before the start of his second US presidency. “This complete ‘rip-off’ of our Country will immediately stop….”

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Trump vows to rename Denali, North America’s tallest mountain, as Mount McKinley

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Democratic former President Barack Obama renamed the mountain using the local natives’ name of Denali in 2015, after a decades-long naming battle

US president-elect Donald Trump has said he will rename Denali, Alaska natives’ name for North America’s tallest mountain, after William McKinley, the 25th US president who was assassinated in 1901.

Democratic former President Barack Obama in 2015 officially renamed the mountain as Denali, siding with the state of Alaska and ending a decades-long naming battle. The peak had been officially called Mount McKinley since 1917.

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Man apprehended after woman fatally set on fire in New York subway car

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Footage showed an assailant igniting woman’s clothing, with emergency personnel declaring her dead at scene

New York City police took a man into custody who they believe is connected to the early morning death of a woman who was intentionally lit on fire on a stationary subway train.

The incident took place on Sunday morning aboard an F train at the end of the line at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue subway station in Brooklyn.

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More UK buses to run on Christmas Day than at any time in last five years

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About 100,000 people expected to travel on 25 December, up from 60,000 in 2019

More UK buses and coaches are expected to operate on Christmas Day than at any time since figures were first collected five years ago.

The Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT), an industry body, estimates that the number of people catching a bus on 25 December this year will hit 100,000.

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London dominates UK’s priciest postcodes with all top 20 streets

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Knightsbridge heads list with average home at £21.4m, 60 times the typical UK house price

UK house price predictions for 2025? They’ll just keep going up

London continues to dominate the UK’s superprime property market, with all 20 of the country’s priciest streets located within the capital, research shows.

Top of the list is Knightsbridge – the street by Hyde Park that is home to embassies and luxury hotels – where buyers will need to stump up on average £21.4m for a residential address.

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UK doctors warn of risk from expanding water beads marketed as toys

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Royal College of Emergency Medicine issues Christmas ‘safety flash’ over danger to children who ingest beads

Doctors have issued a warning over tiny beads that can expand up to 400 times their original size when exposed to liquid, amid reports linking them to serious harm and deaths among children.

The water beads are marketed for various purposes, including for use as toys, in crafting, as home decor or in floristry, and are especially popular at Christmas. They are sold under a variety of names including jelly balls, water balls, sensory beads and water crystals.

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