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🚁 RUSSIA VS UKRAINE: THE DRONE WAR
History has never seen a war like the one unfolding right now, and it's all because of drones. We get into the footage reshaping modern warfare, a fruit vendor chased by a Russian drone who somehow survived, the fibre-optic cables literally rewoven into the environment, and the staggering numbers: over 1 million verified strikes in 2026, drones with a 2,500km range, and why this has slowed Russia's advance to below WW1 pace.

🎤 THE PUBLIC MIGHT HAVE BROKEN ARIANA GRANDE
Ariana Grande's team announced she's taking a step back from visibility after her tour due to "endless, ongoing scrutiny," most of it around her weight. We get into why a celebrity stepping away because of online hate is so rare, how Ariana's own statement seems to contradict her team's, and the bigger question of whether stepping back from the spotlight is ever justified.

🦣 EUROPE'S SHRINKING RIVERS ARE REVEALING INSANE THINGS
This year's unprecedented droughts are uncovering wild discoveries. We cover the ancient mammoth remains exposed by a record-low Danube, a 1937 coal shipwreck in Croatia, a Nazi artillery shell and "ghost bridge" in Hungary, around 200 sunken Nazi warships resurfacing in Serbia, atomic reactors forced to shut down, and 186 tourists rescued after their cruise ship ran aground in a dried-up river.

🍔 THE MOST AMERICAN SHOOTING IMAGINABLE
A story a non-American mind struggles to comprehend. After a gunman opened fire at an In-N-Out, passers-by filmed him and shouted out their windows, and an armed bystander named Jordan Salinas pulled out his own gun and returned fire, credited by police with saving lives. We get into the eerie Facebook post he'd made two years earlier.

🏊 POLISH SWIMMER MAKES HISTORY ACROSS THE BALTIC
This has never happened before. Bartłomiej Kubkowski became the first human to swim across the Baltic Sea, 160km in 56 hours, hallucinating from sleep deprivation near the end without once touching the safety boat. We cover how it was his fifth attempt after collapsing 11km from the finish last year, and the €166,000 he raised for children's cancer treatment.

🚗 INFLUENCER DENIES MURDER CHARGES IN COURT
Former X Factor finalist Gabrielle Carrington has denied murder charges after allegedly striking a rival influencer with her car outside a nightclub. We cover what's been said in court, the security guard left with life-changing injuries, the death of influencer Klaudia Glam, and the alleged Instagram fallout a friend claims preceded it. Not guilty plea entered, trial begins in January.

🥤 WAS THE COCA-COLA RECIPE JUST DISCOVERED IN A MONASTERY?
An incredible accidental discovery in a 576-year-old Florence pharmacy. A "Restorative Wine Elixir" recipe was found sharing the exact main ingredient as the original Coca-Cola, and written roughly 30 years earlier. There's no evidence the two are connected, but it means the drink now selling 2.2 billion units a day may not have been the first of its kind.

🦠 FIRST DEATHS FROM THE DIARRHOEA PARASITE
Shit's getting serious. The US has recorded its first deaths connected to cyclosporiasis, with Michigan confirming two, both in people with significant underlying conditions. We cover the outbreak now spanning 45 states with around 18,000 suspected cases, plus cases in Canada and the UK, mostly from people returning from the US or Mexico.

⚡ RAPID FIRE
A packed round: two pilots killed in a mid-air helicopter collision fighting wildfires in Greece; 11 European tourists dead in a Peru sightseeing plane crash near the Nazca Lines; a man surviving a 270-foot jump from the Brooklyn Bridge; a deadly ferry fire in Indonesia; wildfire emergencies across Washington, China, Canada and beyond; a Colorado town formally abandoned; tens of thousands of migrants voluntarily leaving Ceuta for Morocco; and Spider-Man: Brand New Day landing the biggest opening weekend of all time, beating Endgame.

00:00 - INTRODUCING
00:41 - DRONE WARFARE
03:42 - ARIANA GRANDE QUITS
06:07 - EUROPES SHRINKING RIVERS
08:45 - IN-N-OUT SHOOTER
11:12 - SWIMMING RECORD
13:01 - INFLUENCER DENIES MURDER
15:30 - ANCIENT COLA?
17:45 - DIARRHEA PARASITE WORLD TOUR
19:20 - RAPID FIRE NEWS