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Huge snowstorm heads for US east coast

Collingwood: Australian Football League club 'guilty of systemic racism'

Groundbreaking biofuel rocket could be 'Uber for space'

Myanmar army says it's taking control of country after detaining leader Aung San Suu Kyi

Bell blasted for taking $122M labour subsidy while boosting dividends

Myanmar military says it is taking control of the country

Climate Campaigners Say 'Listen to the Science' as New Study Shows Earth Now Warmer Than Any Time in Last 12,000 Years

25% Indians now have antibodies against COVID-19, shows ICMR's latest serosurvey

Canada considering drug decriminalization to fight overdose crisis

Saudi human rights under new spotlight in Biden era

Now and then: Iceland's vanishing glaciers

Ethiopia's Tigray crisis: What a blind man's death reveals

Three lives, one message: Stop killing Mexico's transgender women

Romania's young history fans battle to save imperial spa resort

Saba Sahar: 'I survived a Taliban assassination attempt'

Life in a Day 2020: Kevin Macdonald says documentary 'reinforces everyone's similarities'

Have US police departments become too militarised?

Impostor syndrome: 'I feel like I don't deserve my success'

Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi is detained amid reports a military coup is underway

Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi 'detained by military'

More of Europe's Electricity Came from Renewables Than Fossil Fuels in 2020

UK vaccinates almost 600,000 people in single day for first time

Leave Hong Kong before it’s too late, say those who now call Britain home

Parts of WA including Perth go into snap lockdown after quarantine hotel security guard infected

Study finds that Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro carried out an ‘institutional strategy to spread the coronavirus’

Just 0.04% of Israelis caught COVID-19 after two shots of Pfizer vaccine

India proposes law to ban cryptocurrencies, create official digital currency

Thousands flee Hong Kong for UK, fearing China crackdown

After 10 months with zero community transmission, a quarantine hotel worker tests positive for COVID in Western Australia

Donald Trump 'parts with lawyers' before impeachment trial

Hong Kong residents now eligible for special UK visa

Philippines protests China green light for its coast guard to fire on foreign vessels

Russia braces for latest Navalny protests

China is arresting citizens for posting criticism on social media

UK opens special visa route for Hong Kong residents to become citizens

COVID-19 reduces fertility in men, study suggests

Alexei Navalny ally urges Biden to sanction Putin associates

UK to apply to join trade pact with Australia, Canada and Japan

Disturbing signs are emerging that human remains from the ferocious 1945 Battle of Okinawa might be mixed with soil landfill for a massive reclamation project for a U.S. military base in Japan's southernmost prefecture

Bangladesh Garment Makers Score Victory Against Sears In $40 Million Lawsuit

UK opens special visa route for Hong Kong residents to become citizens

Coronavirus in Algeria: 'No-one could travel to say goodbye to grandpa'

Covid: The pandemic's young widows and widowers

Japan whale hunting: 'By-catch' rule highlighted after minke death

Could a vaccine get rid of malaria for good?

Lebanon ambulance driver: 'Hospitals can't take our Covid patients'

Cuba helicopter crash: Five dead after aircraft left Holguín

Israel has voiced concern over US plans to lift sanctions imposed on the International Criminal Court - Israel fears ICC will reopen probe into suspicions of Israeli war crimes against Palestinians in 2014

India fastest in the world to reach 3 million vaccinations

Marjorie Taylor Greene: Democrat to move to get away from controversial Republican

Poland: Thousands protest against abortion law for third straight night

Google Deleted Nearly 100,000 Negative Ratings From Robinhood

Catholic school sex education resource says men are the ‘initiators’ and women are ‘receiver-responders’.A Catholic relationship and sex education programme being used in UK schools says that contraception is “wrong” and suggests gay people should abstain from sex.

Russian anti-Putin anger spreads: 'We have to protest'

Australian Open to allow up to 30,000 fans to attend per day

Brian Sicknick: Officer killed in Capitol riot to lie in honour

Jonas Gwangwa The South African jazz icon who stood up to apartheid

Coronavirus: What's behind Latin America's oxygen shortages?

Cori Bush moving office away from Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘for team’s safety’

Black Lives Matter foundation wins Swedish human rights prize

Covid: Argentina imposes new tax on wealthiest

Russian anti-Putin anger spreads: 'We have to protest'

The exiles: Hong Kong at a crossroads

Amsterdam drugs: Tourists face ban from cannabis cafes

Surfing duck: Pet becomes local celebrity at Australian beach

Russia began cultivating Trump as asset 40 years ago, ex-KGB spy says - Business Insider

Study finds that Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro carried out an ‘institutional strategy to spread the coronavirus’

EU backtracks on decision to block supply of vaccines to Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland First Minister, Arlene Foster, describes EU decision to invoke Article 16 as an ‘incredible act of hostility’

Indomie: Creator of cult favourite 'mi goreng' instant noodle dies

“Uighurs 2021 = Jews 1941” spray painted on Holocaust memorial monument in Paris

'Dodged a bullet': Melbourne lockdown may have prevented more deadly Covid-19 variant

Since Spain rolled in its new gender violence laws in the mid-2000s, Spain has Convicted 500,000 Men for Gender Violence over 15 Years. In the same time frame, 375,892 protection orders have been granted to women.

EU opens price-fixing probe against maker of Toblerone, Oreo and Cadbury chocolate

China warns Taiwan independence 'means war' as US dismisses comments

Australian Open tennis players begin to exit hotel quarantine

Can striking oil turn Cambodia's economy around?

Ford to start building electric Mustangs in China

Famous Wall Street trader: “the system is ‘fuck the poor'”

Philippine President Duterte Refuses to Have Vaccine on Camera Because He Wants to Take It in His Butt

NY undercounted nursing home coronavirus deaths by thousands

US-Mexico border: The gruesome attack that shocked a village

Africa's week in pictures: 21-28 January 2021

UK BNO visa: Can Hong Kong residents now live in the UK?

Why roller skating is making a comeback

Navalny defiant as judge dismisses appeal

Palestinians on Thursday replanted hundreds of trees in the occupied West Bank, a day after Israel's army uprooted thousands of trees in the area, saying they had been illegally planted in a military zone

6.3M travellers entered Canada and didn’t have to quarantine

Daniel Pearl: US 'outraged' after Pakistan's court acquits men accused of murder

Climate activists on Biden plans: 'We're celebrating key victories today'

The story behind the inauguration's sign language Pledge of Allegiance

Congresswoman confronts Parkland survivor

Biden stresses commitment to defend Japan in first call with Suga

Coronavirus: WHO team to begin probe into origins in Wuhan

'Bad words' lead to GameStop shares plunging

Coronavirus: EU and AstraZeneca seek to resolve vaccine supply crisis

Near-Total Abortion Ban Takes Effect in Poland, and Thousands Protest

A German court is due Thursday to deliver its verdict in the trial of a neo-Nazi accused of murdering pro-migration politician Walter Luebcke, a killing that shocked the country and highlighted the growing threat of right-wing extremism

Chinese bots had key role in debunked ballot video shared by Eric Trump. ‘Sophisticated and disciplined’ network promoted a viral video misleadingly showing votes being burned, research reveals.

The United States Smuggled A Russian-Made Pantsir Air Defense System Out Of Libya: Report

Teen held for Christchurch-inspired mosque plot

Iran fires back at Biden's top diplomat: We didn't violate nuclear deal, you did

John Kerry: UK climate summit is world's 'last best chance'

Protests erupt as Poland adopts near-total ban on abortion

Almost two-thirds of people believe climate change is a global emergency, UN poll finds

Covid Australia: Queensland to reopen to Sydney after outbreak contained

Antony Blinken: Who is America's new top diplomat?

Canada considers designating neo-Nazis, white supremacists as terrorist groups

The Wall Street Bets Discord Chat is Complete Chaos Right Now

German Lübcke trial: Far-right defendant faces killing verdict

Chinese New Year: Clamping down on going home for the holidays

Sani Abacha - the hunt for the billions stolen by Nigeria's ex-leader

What tech can the US president use?

Biden: 'Time to act' on climate crisis

Kristal and her students are fighting to eradicate ocean plastic

Holocaust Memorial Day: 'British citizenship saved my mother'

South Korea reports big jump in COVID-19 cases on outbreaks in Christian schools

Rescued Chinese miners 'feel reborn' after harrowing ordeal

US announces it's renewing relations with Palestinians, seeking 2-state solution

US actress Jane Fonda to get Golden Globes' lifetime achievement award

Indian court rules that groping without removing clothes is not sexual assault

Molesting Kids Through Their Clothes Not Sexual Assault, Indian Judge Rules

Goldman Sachs boss takes $10m pay cut for 1MDB

Elliot Page: Canada's Juno star to divorce Emma Portner

Sanofi, in unusual move, to lend spare production capacity to Pfizer, BioNTech, manufacture more than 100 million doses after setbacks and delays in the development of its own vaccine candidates

US, Russia agree to extend 'New START' nuclear arms treaty

Estonia's first female PM sworn in as new government takes power | Estonia

Biden Administration Restores Aid To Palestinians, Reversing Trump Policy

Canadian casino mogul flies on a private plane, pretends to be a local hotel worker, and gets Moderna Covid-19 vaccine meant for indigenous people.

California’s Governor Newsom eases Covid restrictions - why now?

Keystone XL: Why I fought for - or against - the pipeline

When your 'pandemic puppy' doesn't work out

How women played a major role in Yemen's Arab Spring

The child environmentalist receiving death threats in Colombia

Iraq killings: Who's behind a series of murders?

Holocaust Memorial Day 2021: 'It's sad when I sit there alone'

Pandemic Earnings of World's 10 Wealthiest Men Could Buy COVID-19 Vaccines for All: Oxfam

Alberta Paid $28K for a Report Smearing Hundreds of Climate Journalists

Tibetan Monk Dies After Beatings, Torture in Chinese Prison

World stands to witness greatest rise in inequality since record-keeping began - Extreme inequality

Covid vaccines: Casino boss resigns after jumping queue

COVID-19: Riots erupt in Netherlands during protests over lockdown curfew

Coronavirus: EU to tighten vaccine exports amid row with AstraZeneca

Covid-19: Five days that shaped the outbreak

Harvey Weinstein case: Court okays $17m payout for accusers

Biden adds South Africa to Covid travel bans

Coronavirus in Zimbabwe: 'We need vaccines now'

Wealthy Couple Charged for Flying North to Take Vaccine Meant for First Nation

Puerto Rico has declared a state of emergency over its deep-rooted problem of violence against women, creating new measures that activists have demanded for years to battle a deadly tide. The US territory sustains a high levels of violence that on average results in one woman's death per week

The pandemic destroyed 225 million jobs worldwide, but billionaires got richer, reports find

Shyamala Gopalan: The woman who inspired Kamala Harris

Randy Rainbow made his name satirising Trump - now what?

Scotland is heading towards independence from the UK thanks to Boris Johnson and Brexit

Calls for Bolsonaro’s impeachment intensify

COVID strain in South Africa shows huge resistance to antibodies from original virus

Janet Yellen to be first female US treasury secretary

Like a good deal? Maybe a hagglebot can help

Covid vaccines: Why some countries will have to wait until 2022

Covid: The migrant helping Australia with modified masks

Hope and fear as Somalia’s civil war turns 30

Canada protesters renew push to end arms exports to Saudi Arabia

North Korea diplomat 'defects to South Korea': Reports

China takes new foreign investment top spot from US

19 burned bodies found near Mexico-US border town

Taiwan reports large incursion by Chinese warplanes for second day

750 people murdered in Ethiopia as the Church with their "Ark" is located is attacked

U.S. rejoins fight against climate change at high level summit

Russia accuses US of meddling in its domestic affairs as thousands arrested at pro-Navalny rallies

Covid-19: Mexican President López Obrador tests positive

Heatwave sweeps Australian cities and raises bushfire danger

Mexican president tests positive for COVID-19. "The symptoms are mild but I am already under medical treatment"

For the First Time in 200 Years, a New Blue Pigment Is Up for Sale

Boeing 737 Max cleared to fly again 'too early'

Covid-19: Why the US hasn't hit vaccine targets so far

Lebanon's Coronavirus lockdown: 'We can't leave our homes day or night'

Yang Li: The 'punchline queen' who offended Chinese men

Zuckerberg's Biden problem

Ethiopia's Tigray conflict: 'My wife died giving birth to twins while we hid'

Indian comedian held over ‘indecent’ jokes at show where he did not perform

Covid-19: Top advisor warns France at 'emergency' virus moment

Covid-19: Vaccine divides in the Middle East

Detective Jane Mugo: Meet Kenya's 'spy queen'

Egypt's dreams of democracy still alive?

China surpasses U.S. as largest recipient of foreign direct investment during Covid pandemic

Quebec researchers say they have found an effective drug to fight COVID-19

China mine rescue: First survivor brought to surface, say state media

Australia's child vaccination rates exceed 95 per cent target

Israeli settlers attack Palestinian homes with petrol bombs

Rotting fish, lost business and piles of red tape. The reality of Brexit hits Britain

The U.K. variant of COVID-19 is behind a devastating outbreak that has torn through an Ontario long-term care home, killing 32 and infecting all but two residents. 84 workers have become sick.

In pictures: Tens of thousands gather for pro-Navalny protests

Photos And Videos Of Pro-Democracy Protests In Russia Are Shockingly Intense

Major magnitude. 7.0 earthquake - South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, on Saturday, 23 January 2021 at 23:36 (GMT)

Pope again cancels appearances due to nerve pain

Coronavirus variant first spotted in Britain is spreading at an alarming rate and isn’t responding to established ways of slowing the pandemic, according to Danish scientists

Heatwaves may mean Sydney is too hot for people to live in 'within decades'

One sailor dead, 15 kidnapped in pirate attack on Turkish ship

Tse Chi Lop: Alleged Asian drug lord arrested in Amsterdam

The homeless drug addict who became a history professor

Tunisians question whether life is better after Arab Spring

Letter from Africa: The continent no longer needs lectures from the US

Coronavirus: How the pandemic has changed the world economy

Vissarion: Is this Russian cult leader a fraud?

Nazi Ravensbrück camp: How ordinary women became SS torturers

A wristband that tells your boss if you are unhappy

Olivier Duhamel: French incest allegations prompt victims to speak out

Why Iran’s nuclear facilities are still vulnerable to attack

Analysis: Rotting fish, lost business and piles of red tape. The reality of Brexit hits Britain

With hospitals in the Mexican capital overwhelmed by soaring coronavirus infections, relatives are queuing for hours to buy oxygen for the growing number of people fighting the virus at home

Korean Scientists Create First 'Invisible Solar Panels' You Can Integrate into Mobile Phones

Delaying second vaccine dose increases risk of new resistant strain, Sage reveals

Trudeau conveys Keystone pipeline 'disappointment' to Biden

A Home Security Tech Hacked Into Cameras To Watch People Undressing And Having Sex, Prosecutors Say

Canadian barbershop reopens despite pandemic lockdown using legal loophole: all haircuts are filmed and you've booked an audition.

Afghan war: Biden administration to review Trump's Taliban deal

France has passed a law protecting the sounds and smells of the countryside

UN treaty banning nuclear weapons begins, Nobel winner asks Joe Biden to abandon them

Islamic State tries to shore up relevance with Iraq carnage

Premiers tell Trudeau they ‘want to go to war’ with U.S. over Keystone XL

National Guard: President Biden apologises over troops sleeping in car park

What next for Trump - and Trumpism?

Wuhan marks its anniversary with triumph and denial

Uganda's Yoweri Museveni overcomes Bobi Wine challenge - for now

How Joe Biden's ancestral Irish home is celebrating

Rémy Julienne: Stunt king to the stars who fell to Covid

Covid hand-outs: How different countries pay if you are sick

Week in pictures: 16-22 January 2021

Egyptian cabinet approves bill harshening penalty for female genital mutilation

Vaccine passports 'essential' for resumption of international travel

In a first for Spain, Jesuits admit to decades of sex abuse

Syria Sends First Message to President Biden: Withdraw Troops, Stop Stealing Oil

Brazil: Bypassing the Bolsonaro Administration, Amazonas state appeals directly to international community for emergency assistance to combat devastating 2nd wave of COVID-19

Trump impeachment: Republicans seek delay until February

Nuclear Weapons ban begins without the world's nuclear superpowers. So far, 51 countries have signed the agreement.

Japan woman infected with coronavirus commits suicide: ‘I have become a nuisance’

Report: Japanese government privately concludes Tokyo Olympics will have to be cancelled

Google threatens to withdraw search engine from Australia

Julie Payette: Canada governor general quits amid bullying claims

Paula Badosa: Australian Open player 'sorry' after revealing she has Covid

World leaders cheer U.S. return to climate fight under Biden

Iraq bombing: IS says it was behind deadly suicide attacks in Baghdad

Wuhan anniversary: How China tackled its Covid pandemic

Steinmetz trial: Swiss verdict for tycoon in Guinea mine corruption trial

Facebook's Oversight Board to rule on Trump ban

Africa's long wait for the Covid-19 vaccine

Bridgerton second series 'exciting', says writer

Covid-19: Caring for five younger siblings at age 25

Tokyo Olympics to be cancelled for coronavirus: report

Manaus: Brazil's city on the Amazon river buckles under second Covid wave

President Biden and unity: Can the next generation unify America?

The vehicle that got a village smiling

Nearly one thousand people executed outside of a church in Ethiopia

Massive fire rages at world's largest COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer

Australia posts zero virus cases, state chief calls for 'Pacific bubble'

Australia Day row: PM Morrison criticises Cricket Australia over words' removal

Chinese billionaire Jack Ma makes first public appearance in months

Star-studded concert marks Joe Biden's inauguration

China's telecom giants ask for Wall Street relisting

The story of Trump's last day and Biden's inauguration

Kamala Harris: 'Believe in what we can do together'

Macron to Biden and Harris: 'Welcome back to the Paris Agreement!'

Manila police chief faces sack over rape probe

Bill Gates-Led fund raises another $1bn to invest in clean tech

US to Rejoin Paris Climate Accord, WHO

Elephants counted from space for conservation

Biden's 1st call to foreign leader will be to Trudeau Friday, says press secretary

China's 2020 coal output rises to highest since 2015, undermining climate pledges

Biden signs orders to end ‘Muslim ban’, rejoin Paris climate deal

Xinjiang: New Zealand urged to follow the United State's lead declaring 'genocide' in China against Uighurs

Coronavirus: How President Biden plans to tackle the pandemic

Covid: Israel vaccine fears 'out of context and inaccurate'

Race in South Africa: 'We haven't learnt we are human beings first'

Do you 'Zoom lunch' with home-working colleagues?

Biden inauguration: Global media consider 'colossal challenge'

Yellow: K-pop artist Lim Kim bites back against stereotypes

Three Muslim groups refused on Wednesday to back an anti-extremism charter pushed by French officials following a spate of jihadist-inspired attacks, dealing a blow to a flagship initiative of President Emmanuel Macron's government

Pompeo attacks multiculturalism, saying it is 'not who America is'

Author from Iran who claimed to be independent expert in foreign affairs was secretly an agent for his native country, U.S. officials allege

Audi to make electric cars with China's oldest carmaker FAW

First Black firefighter says he endured 'torture' and heard the N-word "every single day" for years in Calgary (Canada)

SLS: Nasa finds cause of 'megarocket' test shutdown

With reports that Donald Trump may fly to Scotland after he leaves office, BrewDog have started a petition to rename Prestwick Airport ‘Joe Βiden International’.

It took 4 years of intense combat to kill 407k Americans in WW2. It took COVID-19 and mismanagement by the Trump administration only one to reach 400k+ deaths

The dead threaten to overwhelm the living as UK sets new record for COVID deaths

1 in 3 Europeans say US can’t be trusted: Poll

Russian Opposition Leader Navalny Calls for Protests After Court-Ordered Detention

Sahara desert hit by icy blast as snow blankets parts of Saudi Arabia

US Officials Admitted They Violated A Court Order When They Expelled 32 Immigrant Children To Guatemala

Brexit has driven 2,500 finance jobs and €170bn to France, says bank governor

CBD has been shown for the first time to kill the bacteria responsible for gonorrhoea, meningitis and legionnaires disease.

Hospitals in Japan close to collapse as serious Covid cases soar

Kremlin foe Alexei Navalny calls for street protests after being jailed

Coronavirus: Why South Africa has yet to roll out vaccines

Coronavirus: French students highlight pandemic's mental health toll

Greece #Metoo: Women ending silence of sport abuse shake Greece

Iran nuclear deal: What are Biden's plans and challenges

Luke Grenfell-Shaw: Cycling around the world with cancer

Alexei Navalny Video Details $1.3B Mansion Said to Be Vladimir Putin’s Secret Russia Estate

750 reportedly dead after attack on Ethiopia church

Surat accident: Truck crushes 16 migrant workers to death in India

Telegram says it ‘shut down hundreds of public calls for violence’ in US last week

Migrant caravan: Mexico presses US to reform immigration policies

Fang Fang: Author vilified for Wuhan Diary speaks out a year on

Olivier Duhamel: French incest allegations prompt victims to speak out

Why Iran’s nuclear facilities are still vulnerable to attack

Italy smoking: Want to light up in Milan? Not any more, you can't

The schoolboy who witnessed a colonial massacre

How a robot investigator searched 60 million files

Israel is accused of 'racism' by Palestinian PM after excluding 4million people in the West Bank and Gaza from its Covid-19 vaccine program

China and the World Health Organization could have acted faster to avert catastrophe during the early stages of the coronavirus outbreak, a panel of independent experts has concluded

First commercial sale of cell-cultured meat Could Make Industrial Animal Farming Obsolete

One person dies, another lives Nova Scotia has become the first jurisdiction in North America to presume adults are willing to donate their organs when they die. It's a move being watched by medical experts across the continent.

Tunisia protests: Hundreds arrested as clashes continue

Parler partially reappears with support from Russian technology firm

Biden team says won't lift Europe, Brazil travel restrictions despite Trump order

WHO: just 25 Covid vaccine doses administered in low-income countries

Biden says travel bans will stay despite Trump order

Kyrgios criticises Djokovic over Australian Open quarantine row

Israeli authorities killed seven Palestinian children last year. Their parents are calling for justice

US Airstrikes Target Iranian Backed Fighters In Iraq

Conquering K2 in winter 'together'

China becomes only major world economy to report growth in 2020

Gunmen kill two female Supreme Court judges in Afghanistan

The Capitol Police officer in a MAGA hat. What’s the real story?

Rescuers detect signs of life from 22 trapped Chinese miners a week after blast

French incest affair sparks 'hundreds' of #Metooinceste testimonies on Twitter

A British man who snuck out of his Ritz-Carlton hotel room to see his fiancée while in quarantine in Singapore faces up to 6 months in jail

Alexei Navalny, Russian opposition leader, arrested after returning to Moscow

Covid: Brazil approves and rolls out AstraZeneca and Sinovac vaccines

Yemen: The doctor alone in a Covid-ravaged hospital

Nazi Ravensbrück camp: How ordinary women became SS torturers

Biden inauguration: How the White House gets ready for a new president

A wristband that tells your boss if you are unhappy

US in Somalia: 'We still need the Americans for security'

Capitol riots: Are US militia groups becoming more active?

China possibly committed 'genocide' against Xinjiang's Uighur Muslims, US commission says

Nikolai Antoshkin, Commander of Helicopter Firefighting Mission Which Helped Halt Chernobyl Disaster, Dies at 78

'It was a non-event': U.S. capitals see few protesters after bracing for violence

Three in four Australians agree that Scott Morrison should publicly rebuke one of his MPs for spreading misinformation during the pandemic

Biden inauguration: Fortified US statehouses see scattered protests

Racism in education: How truth pages helped students fight back

Alexei Navalny: What happened when he returned to Russia?

Covid-19: The road back to Wuhan