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1. Spotify Wrapped 2025: How to find it as annual round-up goes live

   Subscribers are keen to see insights into their listening habits over the past year, as well as discover the biggest artists, albums and songs

2. Plane makes emergency landing after passenger ‘demands to swap seats to sit with girlfriend’

   Multiple cabin crew tried to deal with the unruly passenger during the Spring Airlines flight from Japan

3. Sean Combs: The Reckoning review – Netflix doc is terrifying and exhausting in equal measure

   The accusations roll on and on in this relentless docuseries, executive produced by Diddy’s longtime rival 50 Cent

4. New search for MH370 in ‘targeted area’ 11 years after Malaysia Airlines flight mysteriously vanished

   Boeing 777 carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew vanished on routine flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing

5. Moment police arrest paedophile nursery worker for 26 sexual offences against children

   Footage shows the moment a nursery worker who admitted to sexually abusing young children in his care was arrested.

6. Missouri sports betting: Find the Best MO sportsbooks for launch week

   Find the best online sportsbooks in Missouri and get the latest updates during the first week of legalized sports betting in the Show-Me State

7. Reeves accused of forcing OBR chief to quit after watchdog revealed truth about Budget black hole

   Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has accused Rachel Reeves for forcing Richard Hughes to resign as chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) because he revealed that she had potentially misled the public over the existence of a spending black hole

8. Terence Crawford stripped of world title after ‘slap in the face’ behaviour

9. Spotify Wrapped 2025 announces the year’s biggest artists, songs and albums

   Bad Bunny, Taylor Swift, Morgan Wallen and Alex Warren dominate music charts, while Joe Rogan and Steven Bartlett lord it over the top podcasts

10. Ukraine-Russia war latest: Zelensky meeting with Trump envoy cancelled after Putin rejects peace deal

    Kremlin says no compromise could be reached on thorniest issue – territory