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- Covid and Age
- Nepal bus crash kills at least 25 in Mugu district
- An inquiry calls Britain’s early pandemic response a ‘public health failure.’
- Crete shaken by 6.4-magnitude quake
- Spanish right attacks Biden over Columbus and conquests
- Czech police find eight-year-old German girl after border search
- Delta variant weakening global economic recovery, says IMF
- Iraq election: Nationalist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr claims victory
- Humans used tobacco 12,300 years ago, new discovery suggests
- As Floods Ravage China, 13 Die After Bus Falls Off Bridge
- ‘Are We Human?’ Modi’s Use of Antiterror Law Draws Scrutiny From Courts
- In Shanghai, Teahouses Offer Both Community and Solitude
- Covid Will Be an Era, Not a Crisis That Fades
- Sally Rooney Declines to Release Her Book in Israel
- Afghanistan crisis: Merkel warns against descent into chaos
- Al Capone memorabilia sells for $3m at auction
- Irish author Sally Rooney in Israel boycott row
- Wolf pups 'adopted' by Idaho high schoolers killed by federal agents
- Eddie Jaku: Holocaust survivor and peace campaigner dies aged 101
- ICJ rejects Kenya case in Somalia maritime border row
- Brexit: What has the European Court of Justice got to do with the NI Protocol?
- La Palma volcano: Lockdown following fears over air quality
- Musicians Flee Afghanistan, Fearing Taliban Rule
- How Éric Zemmour Is Turning French Politics Upside Down
- UN Top Court Largely Sides With Somalia Over Kenya in Ocean Dispute
- One Woman Won a Nobel This Year. Quotas Aren’t the Answer, an Official Says.
- E.U. Plans $1.15 Billion in Aid to Stabilize Afghanistan Region
- Britain’s Covid Missteps Cost Thousands of Lives, Inquiry Finds
- How Éric Zemmour Is Turning French Politics Upside Down
- Britain’s stumbling pandemic response cost thousands of lives, parliamentary report finds.
- Gabby Petito: US blogger was strangled to death - coroner
- Crown princess could marry a woman, says Dutch PM
- German shock at neo-Nazi burial in empty Jewish grave
- The men going to military jail for their faith
- Ros Atkins on... The US climate conundrum
- Wives do not earn as much as their husbands, says new global study
- CEO Secrets: 'No need to convince the haters you're worthy'
- Ghana’s role in honouring a US civil rights hero
- Elk with a tyre 'necklace' freed
- Iraq Says It Arrested a Leading Islamic State Figure
- Ethiopia Attacks Rebels in Tigray as Famine Threatens
- Britain Escalates Dispute With European Union Over Northern Ireland
- Your Wednesday Briefing
- W.H.O. Will Announce New Team to Study Coronavirus Origins
- The New Jersey’s governor’s race puts mandates to a political test.
- Star Trek star William Shatner ready to boldly go into space
- Mexico City to swap Columbus statue for one of indigenous woman
- Apple shares drop on reports of iPhone 13 chip shortage
- Minneapolis police 'hunted' protesters with rubber bullets
- US to re-open Mexico Canada borders for fully vaccinated travellers
- Havana syndrome reported at US embassy in Colombia
- China: Teenager apologises for impersonating boy to join band
- Laser vagina menopause therapy shows no benefit in trial
- Wildlife Photographer of the Year: 'Explosive sex' wins top prize
- The children of IS: 'It's a disaster we cannot deal with'
- Your Wednesday Briefing
- North Korea: Soldiers smash bricks, bend iron rods in combat display
- Squid Game beats Bridgerton to Netflix top spot
- Amid U.S.-China Chill, Harvard Moves a Top Language Program to Taiwan
- Vaping: FDA approves e-cigarette in US for first time
- A search which brought three strangers together
- India man jailed for killing wife with cobra in Kerala
- Making Superman bisexual is 'bandwagoning not brave' - actor Dean Cain
- China’s Power Problems Expose a Strategic Weakness
- This Pristine Beach Is One of Japan’s Last. Soon It Will Be Filled With Concrete.
- U.K. Agency Issues Climate Change Warning Before U.N. Summit
- Virginia’s Close Race
- Minnesota Hospital Struggle Under Weight of Latest Virus Surge
- Russia denies weaponising energy amid Europe gas crisis
- North Korea: Vulnerable at risk of starvation, UN expert says
- Lucas Hernandez: France defender gets six-month jail term
- Blaze hits site of Egypt's top film festival
- Women's 10km world record holder found dead
- Chile's Sebastián Piñera faces impeachment bid after Pandora Papers
- Norway's oil and gas sector will not be dismantled, new government says
- Covid-19: US airlines defy Texas order to stop mandatory jabs
- US leads Bitcoin mining as China ban takes effect
- IEA: Green energy needed to avoid turbulent prices
- Britain Needs Truckers Fast. We Went to a School Where They Train.
- John Paul I, Pope for 33 Days in 1978, Will Be Beatified
- W.H.O Names Advisory Group to Study Origin of Covid Pandemic
- Squid Game Ahead? No, Just Directions, British Police Explain
- Kongsberg: Several killed in Norway bow and arrow attack
- William Shatner in space: 'The most profound experience I can imagine'
- Czechs Defeat a Populist, Offering a Road Map for Toppling Strongmen
- What Is the Northern Ireland Protocol?
- Covid: New WHO group may be last chance to find virus origins
- Regeni murder: Egyptians go on trial for Italian student's murder
- Masten Wanjala: Child killer escapes from Kenya police custody
- Climate change in India: The young inventor's solar-powered ironing cart
- Vietnam: Owners heartbroken after 12 dogs killed over Covid
- Biden plans to expand offshore wind turbines to US coasts
- Indonesia Covid: Slow start as Bali re-opens to foreign tourists
- Henrietta Lacks: 'Mother' of modern medicine honoured
- Covid-19 in Brazil: 'My mum was used as a guinea pig'
- Europe gas prices: How far is Russia responsible?
- Afghanistan: The New York rabbi evacuating desperate Afghans
- Violence surges in Pakistan's tribal belt as Taliban, IS-K go on attack
- French fishermen warn of blockades in UK licence row
- What is climate change? A really simple guide
- Climate change food calculator: What's your diet's carbon footprint?
- Man With Bow and Arrows Kills Five in Norway
- Meteorite Crashes Through Ceiling and Lands on Woman’s Bed
- Kyrie Irving Defends Decision on Vaccine After Being Benched
- Your Thursday Briefing
- Henrietta Lacks, Whose Cells Were Taken Without Her Consent, Is Honored by W.H.O.
- Your Thursday Briefing
- Caribbean Nations Struggle With Covid Vaccination Rates
- Kongsberg: Bow and arrow suspect known to Norwegian police
- Kaohsiung: Fire at Taiwan tower block kills at least 46
- Beirut port blast: Gunfire erupts at protest against judge leading probe
- ‘It Was a Sea of Flames’: At Least 46 Killed in Taiwan Apartment Fire
- Exuberant Art and Cable Car Can Lift a Poor, Violent Place Only So High
- Man Is Charged in Bow-and-Arrow Attack in Norway That Killed 5
- Kaohsiung: Firefighters battle Taiwan tower block blaze
- North Korean Soldiers Lie Shirtless on Broken Glass
- Lebanon's Crisis, an Explainer
- Lamu murder: Death sentence for popular Chinese vlogger's killer
- Gunfire erupts on Beirut streets after port explosion protest
- Coldplay: Band announce first tour in four years with an 'eco-friendly' focus
- Live Updates: Beirut Rocked by Worst Sectarian Fighting in Years
- Border With Canada to Open, Businesses 'Could Not Be Happier'
- As Western Oil Giants Cut Production, State-Owned Companies Step Up
- Newly Discovered Bat Viruses Give Hints to Covid’s Origins
- British Museums Face Covid’s Long-Term Effects
- Afghanistan: Pakistan airline stops flights citing Taliban intimidation
- Microsoft shutting down LinkedIn in China
- Women taken from Congo sue Belgium over forced separations
- Nigeria says Iswap leader Abu Musab al-Barnawi is dead
- Norway attack: Witness describes hearing 'thunk sound' of weapon
- Mexico City Replaces a Statue of Columbus With One of an Indigenous Woman
- U.S. Regains Seat at U.N. Human Rights Council, 3 Years After Quitting
- Most Covid Cases in Africa Go Undetected, W.H.O. Says
- LinkedIn to End Service in China, Citing ‘Challenging’ Environment
- ‘Lurching Between Crisis and Complacency’: Was This Our Last Covid Surge?
- Your Friday Briefing
- Brazil soldiers who shot dead a musician convicted
- Stranded 600lb turtle returned to Atlantic Ocean
- Father charged after toddler fatally shot mother during Zoom call
- With a new Michelin guide, Moscow's best-kept culinary secrets are out
- Robert Durst: US millionaire sentenced to life for murder
- Bill Clinton: Former US president in hospital for 'non-Covid infection'
- 'They will hang me': Afghan interpreters blocked by UK seek appeal
- Covid: Strike fears as Italy's workers require Covid pass
- The mystery of how long Covid damages our memory
- Migrants face expulsion at Polish border under new law
- Agnes Tirop: Husband arrested in Kenya after athlete's death
- Produce Pandas: The plus-size musicians making waves in China
- Africa's week in pictures: 8-14 October 2021
- South Sudan: How to deliver Covid vaccines in a country with few roads
- Deadly Clashes in Beirut Escalate Fears Over Lebanon’s Dysfunction
- Faulty Studs Led to Mexico City Metro Collapse, Attorney General Says
- South Korea will donate 1.6 million vaccine doses to Vietnam and Thailand.
- Beirut port blast: Day of mourning in Lebanon after bloodshed at protest
- Masten Wanjala: Kenyan child serial killer killed by mob
- Scott Morrison: Australia PM to attend COP26 summit after global pressure
- Hong Kong: Friendly beers lead to murder suspect's arrest
- A Last-Chance ‘Ghost’ Building in Taiwan Becomes a Deathtrap for Many
- Man Whose Attack on Ex-Wife Was Livestreamed Gets Death Penalty in China
- Your Friday Briefing
- Afghanistan: Explosions strike Afghan mosque during prayers
- Kongsberg attack: Norway probes bow and arrow suspect’s sanity
- Christchurch: New Zealand city parts ways with its wizard
- Kongsberg attack: Norwegian town left asking questions after murders
- Live Updates: Italy’s Covid Vaccine Mandate Comes Into Force, a First for a Western Democracy
- South Korean Military Struggles to Root Out Sexual Assaults
- Lebanon Observes Day of Mourning After Sectarian Clashes Kill 6
- Blast at Afghan Mosque Kills 37 as Shiites Are Targeted Again
- As Italy Mandates Covid Passes, Rules Vary Across Europe
- Booster Confusion
- Covid: US to lift travel ban for fully jabbed on 8 November
- Nike Jordan boss reveals he murdered an 18-year-old in 1965
- Balloon World Cup has first winner
- COP26: China's Xi Jinping unlikely to attend, UK PM told
- German coalition plan sets bigger green targets
- Queensland, Australia: Motorcycle thief flees crime scene on tractor
- David Amess, Conservative Lawmaker in U.K., Is Reported Stabbed to Death
- Italy Puts in Force Tough New Law Requiring Workers to Test or Vaccinate
- How the Nobel Peace Prize Laid Bare the Schism in Russia’s Opposition
- Push to Improve Sex Ed in Australia Comes From 10,000 Miles Away
- Suspect Confesses in Bow-and-Arrow Rampage in Norway
- Bangladesh Strengthens Security as Violence Targets Hindu Festival
- Abu Musab al-Barnawi, Leader of ISWAP, Has Died, Nigerian Army Says
- A Year Later, a Schoolteacher’s Beheading Still Haunts France
- Protests Over Italy's Covid 'Green Pass' Draw Only Scattered Crowds
- U.K. Lab Issues 43,000 False Negatives on Virus Tests
- Virgin Galactic delays first commercial space flight
- Italy's New Law Requires Workers to Get Covid Vaccine or Testing
- Quebec Language Debate Spurs Eerie Sense of Déjà-Vu
- Pandemic-stricken Thailand, aiming to revive tourism, reopens the cave a soccer team was trapped in.
- Australian residents stranded overseas will be allowed to return to New South Wales.
- Norway attack: Killer held in medical custody amid mental health investigation
- Cricket - CSK beat KKR to win fourth IPL title
- Life at 50C: Fleeing Sahara's shifting sands
- Ros Atkins on… China-Taiwan Tensions
- Meghan Markle's donation a 'lifesaver' for community kitchen users
- Texas abortion law: Biden administration to request block on abortion ban
- Shipping disruption: Why are so many queuing to get to the US?
- Viewpoint: Why Ethiopia's Tigray region is starving, but no famine declared
- Week in pictures: 9 - 15 October 2021
- Squid Game: The rise of Korean drama addiction
- Afghanistan: US offers to pay relatives of Kabul drone attack victims
- Pablo Escobar: Colombia sterilises drug lord's hippos
- New Zealand Attempts a Record-Setting ‘Vaxathon’
- Mining for Gold in Australia’s Migrant Past
- Covid: Russia's daily deaths pass 1,000 for first time
- Myanmar army general Min Aung Hlaing excluded from leaders' summit
- Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: British-Iranian aid worker loses court appeal in Iran
- Dormice favoured by Italian mafia seized in drugs raid
- Indian Wells: Stefanos Tsitsipas and Alexander Zverev suffer shock quarter-final defeats
- Sir David Amess killing: Security for politicians is a global dilemma
- Sir David Amess killing casts shadow over Leigh-on-Sea constituency
- Sir David Amess: Fun, friendly and always outspoken
- What we know so far
- 'David Amess was my best friend': Essex town in grief
- With Lawmaker’s Killing, U.K. Confronts a New Episode of Terrorism
- Beirut, a City Where Everyone Gets By, Revisits Sectarian Violence
- Macron Commemorates 1961 Paris Police Killing of Algerian Protesters
- In Venezuela, a Rum Maker Offers Gangsters a Life Outside of Crime
- Catholic Church in Sicily Bans Godparents For Now
- What Are Political ‘Surgeries’ in Britain?
- China's Scripted Homicides Become a Popular Pastime
- Yukon Territory Imposes Vaccine Mandate Amid Rise in Cases
- Minnesota’s governor calls up the National Guard to ease crowding in hospitals.
- After Iraqi Election, a Shiite Leader Emerges as an Unlikely U.S. Ally
- Australian police make record $104m heroin seizure
- How 3 Strangers a World Away Came to the Rescue of a Badly Burned Afghan Girl
- Robert Durst, Millionaire Convicted of Murder, on Ventilator With Covid
- Sudan: Protesters demand military coup as crisis deepens
- Macron condemns 'unforgivable' 1961 massacre of Algerians in Paris
- Robert Durst: US millionaire hospitalised with Covid after life sentence
- Pigs at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport help to keep skies safe
- The Chinese film beating Bond and Marvel at the box office
- How a massacre of Algerians in Paris was covered up
- Apparently, it's the next big thing. What is the metaverse?
- U.S. Arrests Alex Saab, Deal Maker for Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela
- Syria Accuses Israel of Assassinating Official Near Golan Heights
- Airlines in Japan and South Korea Try Novel Ideas to Lure Fliers
- Venezuelan President Maduro's close aide extradited to US
- American Missionaries Kidnapped in Haiti, Officials Say
- Haiti: US Christian missionaries kidnapped in Port-au-Prince - reports
- Sudan: Protesters take to streets
- Russian team back on Earth after filming first movie in space
- South Korea Reconsiders a Rite of Manhood: the Draft
- Will New Covid Treatments Be as Elusive for Poor Countries as Vaccines?
- Kerala floods: Dozens missing in deadly India disaster
- Pedro Sanchez: Spanish PM vows to abolish prostitution
- Russia sets condition for return of BBC journalist
- Fespaco: Pomp and colour as Africa’s biggest film festival starts
- Bill Clinton: Former US president released from hospital
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