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- Afghanistan: Children in Kabul working for a piece of bread
- As Omicron Cases Surge, CDC Shortens Isolation Times for Many Americans
- South Korea approves Pfizer’s coronavirus pill for emergency use.
- Your Tuesday Briefing
- Kylian Mbappe & Robert Lewandowski voice concerns over a biennial World Cup
- Snow buries north and west Japan
- Germany Wants Its Russian Pipeline. German Allies Aren’t Sure It’s a Good Idea.
- Egyptian pharaoh's mummy digitally unwrapped for first time
- Austria's Innsbruck airport denies 110 Britons entry over new Covid rules
- Russian Court Orders Liquidation of the Human Rights Group Memorial
- A Giving Guide
- Delta Says Flight to Shanghai Was Turned Round in Midair Because of Cleaning Rules
- ‘Bless and Protect My Team’: An Italian Town Hopes Its Basketball Patron Advances to National Status
- Russian court orders oldest civil rights group Memorial to shut
- France shuts mosque in Beauvais for sermons 'defending jihad'
- Myanmar: Save the Children says army attack killed staff
- South Africa court blocks Shell's oil exploration
- Alexa tells 10-year-old girl to put penny in plug socket
- An Italian Town Hopes Its Basketball Patron Advances to National Status
- Covid Live Updates: New Year Festivities Scaled Back Worldwide as Cases Soar
- India Cuts Off Foreign Funding of Mother Teresa’s Charity
- Desmond Tutu: Remembered by daughter as a 'hugger'
- Born and Raised in Pakistan, but Living in Legal Limbo
- Britain’s Crossbow Rules in the Cross Hairs After Windsor Castle Breach
- Fears of Omicron’s Rapid Spread Are Tempered by Signs of Milder Illness
- Doctors Strike Over Understaffing Disrupts Delhi Hospitals
- NYC Schools Will Reopen with More Covid-19 Testing to Limit Closures
- Chile’s Constitutional Rewrite Confronts Climate Change Head On
- Ghislaine Maxwell jury faces longer hours because of Covid
- Israel tries to contain avian flu outbreak after 5,000 wild cranes die
- Jordan MPs fighting in parliament session live-streamed on local television
- Brazil Flooding Kills at Least 20 and Displaces Thousands
- C.D.C. Study Suggests Omicron's Incubation Period Is Just 3 Days
- Hugh Jackman Announces He Has Covid-19
- Omicron Prompts New Year’s Eve Cancellations
- Covid: Europe sees record virus case rise
- John Madden: Legendary NFL coach and commentator dies at 85
- Richard Marcinko: Seal Team Six founder dies at 81
- Robert E. Lee: Virginia workers open Civil War era time capsule
- Why Mauritius is losing its seashells
- Music preview 2022: The biggest releases, tours and films
- The mystery of the home where the Queen was born
- Fighting to learn in Venezuela
- Will Shortened Isolation Periods Without Testing Spread the Virus?
- Some Infected Quebec Health Care Workers can Continue Working
- Omicron Variant May Help Beat Delta, Study Suggests
- Covid: US and France report record daily case rises
- Stand News: Police arrest six from Hong Kong independent news outlet
- Boeing 737 Max: Indonesia lifts ban after 2018 Lion Air crash
- Biodiversity: The tale of the 'un-extinct' fish
- Hong Kong Police Raid Stand News and Arrest Staff
- Keri Hulme, New Zealand’s First Booker Prize Winner, Dies at 74
- Your Wednesday Briefing
- An Australian teenager who partied while positive is charged with ignoring health orders.
- Covid now accounts for a larger share of deaths among white and young Americans.
- Covid: Omicron and Delta driving tsunami of cases - WHO
- Valentina Orellana-Peralta: Teen shot by police in LA dies in mother's arms
- China: Public shaming returns amid Covid fears
- Alaska 'Icemageddon' warning follows heat record
- Citroën Egypt advert accused of normalising sexual harassment
- Sabine Weiss: Legend of street photography dies at 97
- Ukraine: Three die after memorial candle lit in hospital ward
- Ugandan author of The Greedy Barbarian detained - lawyer
- Cristiano Ronaldo statue divides opinion in India
- Hong Kong's Stand News independent website shuts down after raid
- Stay or Go? For Myanmar’s Latest Wave of Refugees, There’s No Good Choice.
- Spurred by Omicron, Europe Is Setting Coronavirus Infection Records Every Day
- Russian Court Orders 2nd Ban of a Major Human Rights Group in 2 Days
- A Movement to Unify the French Left Might Be Its Last Chance for the Elections
- 11 Years After Trying to Kill Each Other, a Marine and a Talib Meet Again
- Covid Live Updates: Case Records Are Shattered Across U.S. and Europe
- For U.K. Companies Brexit Meant Higher Costs and Endless Forms
- Four Smithsonian Museums Close Amid Omicron Staff Shortages
- Israel's Avian Flu Outbreak Has Killed Thousands of Cranes
- The Year’s Most Read
- U.S. Coronavirus Cases Set New Records
- Hugh Jackman Announces He Has Covid-19
- New Year's Eve Parties Are Scaled Back Worldwide
- Ghislaine Maxwell: How accusers' testimony brought her down
- Desmond Tutu: Religious and political leaders pay tribute in Cape Town
- Berlin Zoo animals feast on unsold Christmas trees
- Russia orders health and drug checks for foreigners
- Ukraine tensions: Biden and Putin phone call seeks 'diplomatic path'
- Malawians mourn ex-First Lady Anne Chidzira Muluzi
- Who is Ghislaine Maxwell? The downfall of a favourite daughter
- What went wrong with vaccinating the world?
- COP 26: The teenagers suing 33 countries
- Syntropic agriculture: A new way of farming in dry climates?
- Spurred by Omicron, Europe Sets Covid Infection Records Every Day
- World Junior Championship, a Showcase for Hockey’s Top Prospects, Is Canceled
- Testing Site in Connecticut Is Forced to Close After Gun Threat
- 2022 Westminster Dog Show Postponed Amid Omicron Surge
- Eric Adams to Be Sworn In on New Year's Eve in Times Square
- Your Thursday Briefing: Myanmar’s Crisis
- Cincinnati Declares State of Emergency Amid Fire Department Staffing Shortages
- Fearing a mistrial because of Omicron’s spread, a judge extends jury’s hours in Ghislaine Maxwell trial.
- A Colorado slaughterhouse has upped vaccinations, but workers still feel fear, and anger.
- Britons seeking Covid tests find themselves out of luck across most of the U.K.
- Air filters and outdoor spaces: Office costs rise as workers return.
- Omicron tears across Europe, leaving tests and patience in short supply.
- Saudi Arabia will require booster shots to enter many public places.
- Singapore charges a man accused of lending out his vaccination record, and other international news.
- Two Georgia Republicans have racked up $100,000 in fines for defying a mask mandate in Congress.
- Ghislaine Maxwell guilty of helping Jeffrey Epstein abuse girls
- Australia: Protesters set Old Parliament House in Canberra on fire
- Elon Musk rejects claim he is hogging space
- 15 films to look out for in the Oscars race
- What does future warfare look like? It's here already
- Your Thursday Briefing
- Eric Adams to Be Sworn In on New Year's Eve in Times Square
- Ashraf Ghani: Ex-Afghan president describes moment he fled the Taliban
- Desmond Tutu's body lies in state in his old cathedral
- Tiger shot and dies at Naples Zoo in Florida after biting cleaner's arm
- China bans its national football players from getting tattoos
- How 'fake news' affected the world in 2021
- A Divided World United to Launch the James Webb Space Telescope
- In 2021, We Were There: The Year’s 14 Most Popular Dispatches
- Covid Live Updates: U.S. Sets One-Day Record With Nearly Half a Million New Cases
- China Keeps 13 Million in Xi’an Under Strict Lockdown
- Ashraf Ghani, Former Afghan President, Says He Fled Nation to 'Save Kabul'
- Making Sense of Covid Changes
- J. & J. Booster Protects Against Severe Omicron, Study Says
- Años Viejos: Torching the Old Year to Toast the New One
- Can a Tiny Territory in the South Pacific Power Tesla’s Ambitions?
- Ghislaine Maxwell: Survivors speak of relief after guilty verdict
- Ghislaine Maxwell: What the trial means for Prince Andrew
- Ghislaine Maxwell verdict reaction: 'No-one is above the law'
- Putin and Lukashenko team up for ice hockey match
- Notable African deaths of 2021: From 'Ethiopia's Elvis' to mega pastors
- U.K. Plans Field Hospitals to Meet Omicron Surge
- India Fears a Third Wave of Covid, Driven by Omicron
- Indonesia Accepts Stranded Refugee Boat After Vowing to Turn It Away
- Cases surge in Argentina, raising questions about what is to come in South America.
- Ukrainians Set Sights on the New Year, Not a New War
- BBC to Look Into Alan Dershowitz Interview on Ghislaine Maxwell Verdict
- Sam Fender, a Songwriter Caught Between Stardom and His Hometown
- Mexico Says It will Allow Cruise Ships With Covid Cases to Dock
- Air filters and outdoor spaces: Office costs rise as workers return.
- Africa Cup of Nations: Tournament is being 'disrespected', says former England striker Ian Wright
- Virginia Confederate monuments likely headed to black history museum
- Tesla to recall 475,000 cars in the US
- U.K., on ‘War Footing’ Against Virus, Provides Lessons for U.S.
- Deaths in 2021: Headline Names Against the Backdrop of Pandemic
- Omicron: South Africa ends night-time curfew
- Teva Pharmaceuticals found liable in New York opioid trial
- Russia labels Pussy Riot members foreign agents
- Avoid cruises even if vaccinated, CDC tells Americans
- Covid: Woman isolates in toilet for five hours after positive mid-flight test
- Desmond Tutu: Mourners queue to pay respects as body lies in state
- Israel Approves 4th Dose of Covid Vaccine for Some
- Australia relaxes its isolation rules to adapt to Omicron.
- South Africa Says It Has Passed Its Fourth Wave of Cases
- Your Friday Briefing: Biden and Putin discuss Ukraine
- Will more rapid tests change how America counts Covid cases?
- The U.S. breaks its single-day case record, nearly doubling the highest numbers from last winter.
- Ukraine tensions: Putin tells Biden new sanctions could rupture ties
- Colorado wildfires: Tens of thousands evacuated as blazes spread
- Year in tech: The stories making headlines in 2021
- The Corozal: Scottish dredger that helped build the Panama Canal
- 2021 viral videos: The social media moments India celebrated
- Colorado wildfires: News crew escapes fast-spreading flames
- Cape Verde: Drone delivers medical supplies to remote islands
- The 'heartbreakingly beautiful' art of Laurie Anderson
- Omicron Strains France’s Social Contract on Covid
- Suspect in Deadly Arson Fire in Osaka, Japan, Dies in Hospital
- What Default? With Confetti and Fanfare, Evergrande Says It’s Ready to Build.
- Is That a Burning Bush? Is This Mt. Sinai? Solstice Bolsters a Claim
- Your Friday Briefing
- UK, With Surging Covid-19 Cases, is On '‘War Footing’ Against Virus
- Covid-19: WHO chief optimistic disease will be beaten in 2022
- Desmond Tutu: Body of South African hero to be aquamated
- Virginia Giuffre: Prince Andrew accuser seeks evidence he could not sweat
- New Year's Eve: Firework displays welcome 2022
- Covid booster 88% effective against hospital treatment with Omicron
- Bangladesh: Women-only beach scrapped after social media outcry
- Jeffrey Epstein: Charges dropped against prison guards who falsified records
- Xi'an: Cries for help and food in quarantined Chinese city
- Rogel Aguilera-Mederos: Colorado truck driver's sentence cut by 100 years
- Omicron: Third wave looms as India Covid cases spike
- Romelu Lukaku: Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel 'does not like' striker's comments
- Breakaway Super League, Tokyo's 'Covid Games', cricket's racism crisis - a huge year for sports news
- Colorado Wildfires: Thousands evacuated as buildings burn
- Ghislaine Maxwell: Rape survivor describes 'locking eyes' with Maxwell in court
- Live Updates: As Omicron Wave Dampens New Year’s Eve, Studies Provide Glimmer of Hope
- In Remembering Tutu, South Africa Reckons With Lasting Challenges
- Once a Janitor, Now the Bar Mitzvah Photography King of Montreal
- Sergey V. Lavrov Accused NATO of Stoking Ukraine Conflict
- In New Year's Speech, Olaf Scholz, Germany's New Leader, Focuses on Covid
- U.K. Report Finds People With Omicron Are Less Likely to Need Hospitalization
- Why Did Uganda Send Troops Into Congo?
- Quebec Government Faces Backlash Over New Year’s Eve Curfew
- Asma Khader, Fighter for Women’s Rights in Jordan, Dies at 69
- Paris Reimposes Outdoor Mask Mandate as Omicron Soars
- Happy New Year
- South Africa prepares to bury Archbishop Desmond Tutu
- Colorado: Residents return following devastating fire
- Betty White: Biden leads tributes for Golden Girls actress
- French ban on plastic packaging for fruit and vegetables begins
- Obituary: Betty White, the Golden Girl with a heart of gold
- Colorado wildfires: Woman says families in her neighbourhood lost everything
- Kirk Cousins Tests Positive for Covid-19
- New law allowing assisted suicide takes effect in Austria
- Kim Jong-un: North Korea to focus on economy in 2022
- India: At least 12 dead in New Year temple stampede
- Emma Raducanu withdraws Melbourne Summer Set after Covid-19 isolation
- NBA: DeMar DeRozan scores buzzer-beating three-pointer as Chicago Bulls beat Indiana Pacers
- After Desmond Tutu, a time for new South African heroes
- Quiz: How well do you remember football in 2021?
- Desmond Tutu funeral: Anti-apartheid campaigner remembered in Cape Town
- The New Political Cry in South Korea: ‘Out With Man Haters’
- In Turkey, an Exhibit Meant to Highlight Kurdish Suffering Provoked a Furor
- Kim Jong-un’s New Year Resolution: More Food for North Korea
- At Least 12 Die in Stampede at a Hindu Shrine in Kashmir
- Memorable Canada Stories in 2021
- Setting New Year's Resolutions? Start With These Words of Wisdom
- French car-burning returns for New Years' Eve
- With a Simple Funeral, South Africa Bids Farewell to Desmond Tutu
- US flight cancellations hit new holiday peak amid Covid and bad weather
- Coronavirus pandemic: Antarctic outpost hit by Covid-19 outbreak
- Map drawn from memory helps reunite kidnapped Chinese man with family
- New Year's Eve fireworks kill and injure in Europe despite bans
- Covid: UAE bans foreign travel for citizens without booster jab
- A Vatican Library Shortens the Distance Between Its Works and Its Scholars
- New Year’s Day charity swims are being canceled around the world.
- Light pollution: Parkour group saving energy by turning off city lights
- ICYMI: Tiny tigers and trees as tasty treats
- Cape Town: Major blaze rips through South Africa parliament building
- South Korean crosses DMZ in rare defection to North Korea
- EU plans to label gas and nuclear energy 'green' prompt row
- Denmark to make domestic flights fossil fuel free by 2030
- EU flag removed from Arc de Triomphe after right-wing outrage
- Colorado wildfire: Three people reported missing and presumed dead
- Lionel Messi: Paris St-Germain forward isolating after testing positive for Covid-19
- Curry breaks own NBA three-pointer record
- In the footsteps of the women who escaped a Nazi death march
- Memorial: Russia’s civil rights group uncovering an uncomfortable past
- Letter from Africa: Africa plays on in 2022 without its great referee
- 2022 sporting calendar: Big events from Winter Olympics to the World Cup
- South Africa Parliament Fire Still Burning After Hours
- In the Tinderbox of Bosnia, a Serb Nationalist Lights a Match
- China Moves to Overhaul Protections for Women’s Rights, Sort Of
- A Spanish Mystery: Is a ‘Masked Restorer’ to Blame for a Church’s Botched Repair?
- South Korea Says Unknown Person Crossed DMZ Into North
- New York reports 85,000 cases in a day, another record, as surge shows no sign of slowing.
- A crew outbreak halts a German New Year’s cruise in Lisbon.
- Sudan coup: Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok resigns amid mass protests
- Covid: Israel Omicron spike could bring herd immunity but with risks - health boss
- Marjorie Taylor Greene: Twitter bans congresswoman over Covid misinformation
- Aoife Beary: Berkeley balcony collapse survivor dies, aged 27
- Sudan’s Prime Minister, Abdalla Hamdok, Resigns
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