Liz Truss resigns to become shortest-serving Prime Minister in British history

She took office on September 6 and has had a humiliating 44-day tenure since. | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 1 year ago

The cryogenic freezing facility with 199 humans on ice

199 humans have opted to be 'cryopreserved' with the hopes of being revived in the future. | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 1 year ago

Man told to pay 2p debt to DWP or risk legal action

'It would have cost them more to send me out the letter.' | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 1 year ago

All children under 10 in London to be offered polio vaccine after virus detected

Health officials warned there has been 'some transmission' of the virus in the capital. | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 1 year ago

Ants crawl inside woman’s Kindle and start buying books

Book-loving ants had got in through the charging port and made a nest inside. | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 1 year ago

Design for 100-mile long, 200 meter wide “mirrored” vertical city

The futuristic project has already faced delays and staff walkouts. | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 1 year ago

Engineer creates AI tool to identify Holocaust victims in WWII photos

The tool can scan through photos from the Holocaust and link them to people living today. | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 1 year ago

Netflix is definitely going to start showing adverts, chief exec confirms

Would you endure advertising to get Stranger Things at a cheaper price? | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 1 year ago

Diablo Immortal proves the general public doesn’t care about video games

A reader argues that the success of Diablo Immortal proves that ordinary people don’t care about the problems of microtransactions. | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 1 year ago

Town that burned effigies of Kim Jong Un and Gaddafi burns straw trans woman

An 82-year-old man filed a criminal complaint against the town. | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 1 year ago

DuckDuckGo faces controversy over tracking agreement with Microsoft

The company's founder has had to step in to clarify what's going on. | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 1 year ago

27,000 chickens boiled alive at poultry farm after computer error

More than half of the animals at the farm died. | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 2 years ago

UK Government ‘U-turns on plans to make flexible working a legal right’

The news comes less than a day after its shambolic 180 on the ban of conversion therapy. | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 2 years ago

New study debunks 20-year theory mobile phones cause brain cancer

No, mobile phones do not cause brain cancer. | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 2 years ago

Anonymous servers down as Russian Killnet hackers strike back

Anonymous has been targeted by a Russian hacking group known as Killnet. | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 2 years ago

Anonymous 'hacks Russian TV to show footage from Ukraine front lines'

The group said it was trying to 'broadcast the truth' about what is happening in the conflict. | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 2 years ago

Drug dealer busted after picture of his hand holding cocaine showed fingerprints

Stephen Hart, 54, from Greenhill, Kent, showed off a large rock of cocaine in a picture shared via EncroChat, a dark web messaging service. | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 2 years ago

These are the flying cars about to take us into the skies

From the highway to the skyway! | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 2 years ago

Thousands have swallowed a tiny camera instead of having colonoscopies

The consumable camera takes 50,000 pictures of the bowel, helping to identify early signs of cancer. | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 2 years ago

Tripadvisor troll made to pay restaurant owner £7,455 for fake reviews

He posted that his haddock was catfish, his chips were ‘fried in burnt oil’ and the owner ‘glares at you weirdly as you’re trying to eat your fish and chips'. | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 2 years ago

Psygnosis (Wipeout, Lemmings etc.) co-founder Ian Hetherington has died

The British games industry is mourning the death of Psygnosis boss Ian Hetherington, one of the most influential figures of the 80s and 90s. | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 2 years ago

The world’s best Microsoft Excel users battle in a head-to-head tournament

It's the Mortal Kombat of financial modeling. | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 2 years ago

Author Anne Rice dies aged 80

RIP. | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 2 years ago

Nine UK schools start scanning children’s faces to take their lunch money

Privacy campaigners say it normalises the use of intrusive technology. | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 2 years ago

Instagram ‘fueling conspiracy theorists’ by banning naturalimmunity hashtag

Critics have accused the social media giant of censorship. | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 2 years ago

Why the BBC can't show full live coverage of Tokyo Olympics

US broadcasting giant Discovery have the full television rights this year. | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 2 years ago

Pro-Kremlin bots are fuelling chaos and lies about the pandemic

Dedicated 'troll farms' are helping disinformation spread like wildfire through social media. | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 2 years ago

Elderly pair giggle like children as they dip their toes in the sea (2019)

The pair were overjoyed to feel the sea on their feet once more. | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 2 years ago

Data from wearables help in solving a murder case

Babis Anagnostopoulos initially told police his partner was murdered by robbers who had tied him up and gagged him. | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 2 years ago

Can you run off a bad mood? New facial scanner tool measures impact of exercise

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@metro.co.uk | 2 years ago

Hackers steal 26M account logins for Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Netflix and more

Hackers stole 1.2 TB of personal data, including payment information, between 2018 and 2020. | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 2 years ago

The Milky Way smells of rum and tastes like strawberries

That's the galaxy, not the chocolate bar | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 2 years ago

Indian Woman Claims to Be 124, Two Years Older Than Oldest-Ever Jeanne Calment

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@metro.co.uk | 2 years ago

BTS Jungkook

He still doesn't even have an account on TikTok though. | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 2 years ago

The sun captured at 230 megapixel with 100k photos

The photographer 'stitched together' 100,000 images to make it. | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 3 years ago

Kremlin website goes down after warning of US cyber attack on Russia

White House officials said that the first major move is expected over the next three weeks. | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 3 years ago

Among Us is out on Nintendo Switch today as console exclusive

Metro.co.uk: News, Sport, Showbiz, Celebrities from Metro | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 3 years ago

Isle of Wight residents baffled as latest alien monolith appears on beach

The intergalactic marker appeared at the base of a cliff on Compton Beach | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 3 years ago

One in three UK women’s criminal convictions are for not having a TV licence

Last year 74% of TV licence evasion convictions were women. | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 3 years ago

World’s first complete T-rex skeleton found locked in battle with Triceratops

'One of the most important paleontological discoveries of our time' | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 3 years ago

‘Thick’ diners who did a runner identified using track-and-trace

The restaurant in St Andrews offered to let the culprits come back in and settle up but were met with a torrent of abuse. | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 3 years ago

Pensioner wiped out villages broadband for 18 months

The mystery of this rural village's terrible broadband has finally been solved. | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 3 years ago

Open world games are too big and need to be smaller

After playing Ghost Of Tsushima a reader suggests that current open world video game design is hitting a dead end and needs a major revamp. | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 3 years ago

Hairdressers told 'stop small talk' when salons reopen

A 'silence rule' has been suggested to help prevent the spread of coronavirus. | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 3 years ago

Video game multiplayer should not be online-only

A reader reminisces about playing video games as a child and is upset that modern games have such limited options for local multiplayer. | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 3 years ago

Wealthy people struggling without housekeepers during the lockdown

High net worth individuals are taking classes in how to clean as their usual staff cannot get to work. | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 4 years ago

Person fined for hunting Pokemon during coronavirus lockdown

The country is currently under curfew to prevent the virus spread. | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 4 years ago

Coronavirus ‘may have already infected half of UK population’

The study suggests Covid-19 arrived in the UK by mid-January 'at the latest'. | Continue reading


@metro.co.uk | 4 years ago