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• Palestine Action: Two protesters awaiting trial end hunger strike - BBC17 December 2025, 6:52 pm
  Palestine Action: Two protesters awaiting trial end hunger strike  BBCPalestine Action-linked hunger striker Qesser Zuhrah taken to hospital  The GuardianZarah Sultana filmed among group chanting about intifada hours after Met Police ban  The Telegraph‘Increasingly likely potential’ of Palestine Action hunger strikers dying  Al JazeeraFive Palestine Action prisoners taken to hospital as hunger strike continues  Sky News
  
• Putin calls European leaders ‘little pigs’ and says Russia will achieve Ukraine goals by diplomacy or force - as it happened - The Guardian17 December 2025, 6:37 pm
  Putin calls European leaders ‘little pigs’ and says Russia will achieve Ukraine goals by diplomacy or force - as it happened  The GuardianVladimir Putin predicts European ‘swine’ backing Ukraine will lose power  Financial TimesPutin slams West’s ‘war hysteria’ as EU mulls Russian assets for Ukraine  Al JazeeraPutin derides ‘European swine' and claims West started war in Ukraine  Euronews.comPutin rejects compromise on Ukraine despite Trump’s push for peace  CNN
  
• City make seven changes for Carabao Cup clash - Manchester City FC17 December 2025, 6:15 pm
  City make seven changes for Carabao Cup clash  Manchester City FCManchester City vs Brentford: League Cup stats & head-to-head  BBCManchester City v Brentford, Newcastle v Fulham: Carabao Cup quarter-finals – live  The GuardianManchester City v Brentford confirmed team news: Kevin Schade returns to starting XI for Carabao Cup clash  Brentford FCManchester City - Brentford Live - League Cup: Football Scores & Highlights - 17/12/2025  TNT Sports
  
• Alex Carey’s sparkling Ashes century steadies Australia after England strike early in heat - The Guardian17 December 2025, 6:07 pm
  Alex Carey’s sparkling Ashes century steadies Australia after England strike early in heat  The GuardianThe Ashes 2025-26: Australia's Alex Carey reprieved by Snicko operator error  BBCThe Ashes: England take eight Australia wickets as Alex Carey makes superb century on day one in Adelaide  Sky SportsEngland vs Australia: The Ashes third Test day 1 — as it happened  The TimesAshes controversy as Snicko operator error denies England crucial Alex Carey wicket  Sky News
  
• UK won’t budge on its 2030 petrol car ban after the EU bends to industry pressure - Auto Express17 December 2025, 5:37 pm
  UK won’t budge on its 2030 petrol car ban after the EU bends to industry pressure  Auto ExpressEU waters down plans to end new petrol and diesel car sales by 2035  BBCThe Guardian view on another green U-turn in Brussels: going slow on car-industry targets is a road to nowhere  The GuardianUK Left Out of Step With EU’s Reprieve for the Combustion Engine  Bloomberg.comTaking action for a clean and competitive automotive sector  European Commission
  
• Google's Gemini 3 Flash model outperforms GPT-5.2 in some benchmarks - Engadget17 December 2025, 4:00 pm
  Google's Gemini 3 Flash model outperforms GPT-5.2 in some benchmarks  EngadgetGemini 3 Flash: frontier intelligence built for speed  blog.googleGemini 3 Flash is now available in Gemini CLI  blog.googleGemini app adds 3 Flash ‘Fast’ and ‘Thinking’ models, with 3 ‘Pro’  9to5GoogleGemini 3 Flash is here, bringing a ‘huge’ upgrade to the Gemini app  The Verge
  
• Lady Victoria Beckham breaks silence on changing her name - Oxford Mail17 December 2025, 3:36 pm
  Lady Victoria Beckham breaks silence on changing her name  Oxford MailVictoria Beckham confirms new title after husband David was knighted  Yahoo News UKVictoria Beckham Confirms She Has a New Title After Husband David Was Knighted  People.comVictoria Beckham Reveals New Title After Husband David Beckham Receives Knighthood  E! NewsVictoria Beckham Officially Has New Title After Husband David Was Knighted  103.1 WNDH
  
• Caesaran sections overtake natural vaginal births for the first time - BBC17 December 2025, 3:35 pm
  Caesaran sections overtake natural vaginal births for the first time  BBCCaesareans overtake natural vaginal births in England for first time, NHS data finds  The GuardianWomen should stop apologising for choosing caesareans  The TelegraphThere is a hidden cost to the NHS’s big push for caesarean births  The IndependentC-sections are now more common than ‘natural’ births  The Times
  
• Acas offers to help break deadlock in resident doctors’ strike - The Guardian17 December 2025, 3:17 pm
  Acas offers to help break deadlock in resident doctors’ strike  The GuardianStarmer calls doctors' strike 'dangerous' as five-day walkout begins  BBCDoctors' strike latest: PM attacks 'utterly irresponsible' doctors' strikes - but here's why health sec has changed his tone  Sky NewsThe NHS taboo could break  New StatesmanPatients left in hospital corridors as doctors begin five-day strike | ITV News  ITVX
  
• £78bn for councils in turning point settlement to cut deprivation - GOV.UK17 December 2025, 3:13 pm
  £78bn for councils in turning point settlement to cut deprivation  GOV.UKLabour lifts council tax cap in six southern areas  BBCSome of England’s most-deprived councils to receive funding boost in new deal  The GuardianLondon families face council tax rises to pay for poorest parts of England  The TelegraphMPs revolt as Labour ditches more Rayner reforms  New Statesman
  
• OnePlus 15R Hands-on: If only battery and refresh rate were the name of the game - 9to5Google17 December 2025, 3:00 pm
  OnePlus 15R Hands-on: If only battery and refresh rate were the name of the game  9to5GoogleOnePlus 15R review: unbeatable battery life, beatable value  The VergeOnePlus 15R review: A 165Hz display and big battery for 0  EngadgetOnePlus just quietly released the only phone you'll need to buy in 2026  Android PoliceThe OnePlus 15R has just launched with a 7,400mAh battery, a 165Hz screen, and a mid-range price  TechRadar
  
• Why this month's inflation figure may be good news for you - BBC17 December 2025, 2:18 pm
  Why this month's inflation figure may be good news for you  BBCView Full coverage on Google News
  
• True origin of 'first black Briton' revealed - BBC17 December 2025, 2:15 pm
  True origin of 'first black Briton' revealed  BBCBeachy Head Woman may be ‘local girl from Eastbourne’, say scientists  The Guardian‘Earliest black Briton’ was actually a white local from Sussex  The TimesThe changing story of the Beachy Head Woman  Natural History MuseumWoman recognised as ‘first black Briton’ by BBC was actually white  The Telegraph
  
• ‘Her instinct is to save lives’: Chaya, 14, recovers after being shot while shielding children during Bondi terror attack - The Guardian17 December 2025, 2:01 pm
  ‘Her instinct is to save lives’: Chaya, 14, recovers after being shot while shielding children during Bondi terror attack  The Guardian'Threw ourselves into that pit': How a mother saved her daughter at Bondi  Australian Broadcasting CorporationFourteen-year-old old girl saved lives during Bondi attack  The Jerusalem PostTeen shot shielding kids in Bondi horror  News.com.auHero Stranger Shielded Three-Year-Old Girl From Gunfire While Bleeding  International Business Times
  
• Larian CEO clarifies studio is "not replacing concept artists with AI" - GamesIndustry.biz17 December 2025, 1:41 pm
  Larian CEO clarifies studio is "not replacing concept artists with AI"  GamesIndustry.bizI Don't Think Larian's CEO Understands How Art Is Made  aftermath.siteBG3 studio Larian says it's using genAI for Divinity, but not 'looking at trimming down teams to replace them'  PolygonSwen Vincke says the price of RAM and SSDs means Larian will be doing lots of optimisation in Divinity's early access 'that we didn't necessarily want to do at that point in time'  PC GamerDivinity producer says using AI for "unimportant lines" removes "the chance to support performers" such as Baldur's Gate 3 star Jennifer English: "Every VA starts small"  GamesRadar+