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Groundbreaking biofuel rocket could be 'Uber for space'

Huge snowstorm heads for US east coast

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

Now and then: Iceland's vanishing glaciers

Saudi human rights under new spotlight in Biden era

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

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

Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi 'detained by military', NLD party says

Saba Sahar: 'I survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban'

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

Have US police departments become too militarised?

Covid: EU and AstraZeneca in 'step forward' on vaccines

Somalia al-Shabab militants attack hotel in Mogadishu

Navalny protests: Hundreds in Moscow detained by police

Covid: Thousands attend Israel funeral for orthodox rabbi

Covid: Israel to transfer 5,000 vaccine doses to Palestinians

Tigray crisis: 'Genocidal war' waged in Ethiopia region, says ex-leader

Lionel Messi: Barcelona deny leaking forward's contract

Covid: 'Lessons to be learnt' from NI vaccine row - Irish PM

Covid vaccination: Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium 'closed by protests'

UK applying to join Asia-Pacific free trade pact CPTPP

Hilton Valentine, guitarist with the Animals, dies aged 77

Covid: Australian city of Perth goes into snap lockdown after guard tests positive

Donald Trump 'parts with lawyers' before impeachment trial

Hong Kong residents now eligible for special UK visa

Oliver Warders! News update 126

Russia braces for latest Navalny protests

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

Swedish Covid nurse to watch entire film festival alone in lighthouse

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

Could a vaccine get rid of malaria for good?

Marseille v Rennes match called off after 300 fans attack training centre

India protests: Internet cut to hunger-striking farmers in Delhi

UAE to offer citizenship to 'talented' foreigners

In Case 'Ewe' Missed It: The sheep, the steep and the ski city

Turkey LGBT: Four students arrested over artwork

Poland abortion ban: Protesters take to Warsaw streets

Russian billionaire Arkady Rotenberg says 'Putin Palace' is his

Covid vaccines: Those that work - and the others to come

'Visionary' music producer Sophie dies aged 34

Cuba helicopter crash: Five dead after aircraft left Holguín

Japanese woman 'kept mother's body in freezer for 10 years'

Cuba helicopter crash: Five dead after aircraft left Holguín

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

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

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

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

Amsterdam drugs: Tourists face ban from cannabis cafes

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

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

Black Lives Matter foundation wins Swedish human rights prize

Covid: Argentina imposes new tax on wealthiest

The exiles: Hong Kong at a crossroads

Surfing duck: Pet becomes local celebrity at Australian beach

Colombia Farc: Former rebels charged with war crimes

Covid-19: Can travel bans work?

Israeli archaeologists find 'Biblical royal purple dye'

Covid: New Zealand quarantine hotel worker sacked after ‘inappropriate encounter’

Covid: AstraZeneca contract must be published, says European Commission chief

Pioneering US actress Cicely Tyson dies aged 96

Oliver Warders! News update 125

Coronavirus: Crowds torch government building as lockdown unrest continues

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

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

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?

NY undercounted nursing home coronavirus deaths by thousands

Why roller skating is making a comeback

Navalny defiant as judge dismisses appeal

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

Facebook to stop recommending civic and political groups

Coronavirus: Man killed at protest against Lebanon's total lockdown

Australian man survives crocodile attack by 'prising jaws off his head'

Coronavirus: Germany facing '10 tough weeks' of vaccine shortages

Daniel Pearl: Pakistan court acquits men accused of murder

Singapore's ‘Lion King' cub Simba born from dead dad Mufasa’s semen

Koh Phangan: Police arrest 89 foreigners in bar raid

Poland enforces controversial near-total abortion ban

Bridgerton: Netflix says drama is its biggest series ever

Covid: WHO probe team in China to come out of quarantine

'Bad words' lead to GameStop shares plunging

Coronavirus: EU and AstraZeneca seek to resolve vaccine supply crisis

Teen held for Christchurch-inspired mosque plot

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

Covid Australia: Queensland to reopen to Sydney after outbreak contained

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

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

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

Covid-19: US regulators issue warning over 'toxic' Mexico hand sanitisers

German Lübcke trial: Far-right defendant faces killing verdict

Boeing 737 Max cleared to fly in Europe after crashes

Biden administration to restore aid to Palestinians

Coronavirus: France's Sanofi to boost Pfizer vaccine supply amid EU shortages

Nia Dennis: US gymnast's 'black excellence' routine goes viral

Independent Spirit Awards: Michaela Coel, Carey Mulligan among nominees

Covid map: Coronavirus cases, deaths, vaccinations by country

Holocaust Memorial Day: 'British citizenship saved my mother'

Oliver Warders! News update 124

Climate change: Biggest global poll supports 'global emergency'

Covid: US pharmacist in vaccine tampering guilty plea

Joe Biden: The team he hopes can fix the US economy

Rescued Chinese miners 'feel reborn' after harrowing ordeal

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

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

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

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'

Coronavirus: AstraZeneca defends EU vaccine rollout plan

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

Panorama: The Jihadis from my schooldays

Harriet Tubman: Biden moves to put anti-slavery activist on $20 bill

Scientists address myths over large-scale tree planting

Twitter pilot to let users flag 'false' content

Tractor rally: India farmers clash with police in massive protest

Australia Day: Thousands defy Covid rules in 'Invasion Day' protests

Trump impeachment: When will he go on trial in the Senate?

Coronavirus: Carlos Slim, Latin America's richest man, tests positive

House delivers impeachment charge against Trump

Coronavirus: Seafarers stuck at sea ‘a humanitarian crisis’

Covid vaccines: Casino boss resigns after jumping queue

Coronavirus: EU to tighten vaccine exports amid row with AstraZeneca

Covid-19: Five days that shaped the outbreak

Harvey Weinstein: Court agrees $17m payout for accusers

Biden adds South Africa to Covid travel bans

Coronavirus in Zimbabwe: 'We need vaccines now'

Randy Rainbow made his name satirising Trump - now what?

Shyamala Gopalan: The woman who inspired Kamala Harris

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

Yellen to be first female US Treasury secretary

Malka Leifer: Israel extradites ex-principal accused of child sex abuse in Australia

Earnings of wealthiest 10 men during pandemic 'could buy vaccines for all'

Asia Argento accuses Fast and Furious director Rob Cohen of sexual assault

China mine rescue: Nine found dead during rescue in Shandong province

Flaming Lips stage unique 'space bubble' concert in Oklahoma

Uganda ordered to end Bobi Wine's house arrest

Protecting the last wild lions in Africa

Chinese and Indian troops 'in new border clash'

North Korea diplomat 'defects to South Korea': Reports

Oliver Warders! News update 123

China takes new foreign investment top spot from US

Heatwave sweeps Australian cities and raises bushfire danger

Covid-19: Mexican President López Obrador tests positive

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

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'

Covid-19: Vaccine divides in the Middle East

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

Egypt's dreams of democracy still alive?

Covid: Israel vaccinates 16 to 18-year-olds ahead of exams

Covid-19: US tops 25 million coronavirus cases

Taiwan reports large incursion by Chinese warplanes for second day

US police vehicle ploughs into crowd watching 'burnouts'

UK firms told 'set up in EU to avoid trade disruption'

Mesut Ozil: Arsenal midfielder joins Fenerbahce on free transfer

Australia man missing for 18 days 'survived on mushrooms'

Covid: New Zealand reports first case in the community in months

Cyclone Eloise brings floods to Mozambique's second city Beira

JoJo Siwa: YouTube star 'never been this happy' after coming out

McGregor v Poirier 2: Irishman shocked in UFC rematch at Fight Island

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

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

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

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

Vissarion: Is this Russian cult leader a fraud?

Covid: Italian PM brands vaccine delay 'unacceptable'

Krystina Arielle: Star Wars supports High Republic host after racist abuse

Navalny protests: Hundreds arrested in string of protests across Russia

Larry King: Veteran US talk show host dies aged 87

Sri Lanka Minister who promoted 'Covid syrup' tests positive

Larry King: US TV legend who hosted 50,000 interviews

Loyal dog's six-day wait for poorly owner outside Turkish hospital

Alexei Navalny: Dozens detained in protests in eastern Russia

Back inside the Wuhan market where Covid-19 was first traced

Oliver Warders! News update 122

Trudeau conveys Keystone pipeline 'disappointment' to Biden

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

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

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

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

Islamic State tries to shore up relevance with Iraq carnage

Week in pictures: 16-22 January 2021

How Joe Biden's ancestral Irish home is celebrating

Margaret Court's Order of Australia award sparks anger

Trump 'prank-called by Piers Morgan impersonator'

Central African Republic declares emergency as rebels surround Bangui

Japan insists Olympics are on track as doubts grow

Diary Sow: Talented Senegal student 'sorry' after disappearing in France

Indonesia plane crash probe focusses on autothrottle

China falling short of US trade deal targets

Chinese miners to remain trapped at least two more weeks

Trump impeachment: Republicans seek delay until February

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

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

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

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

Wuhan anniversary: How China tackled its Covid pandemic

Facebook's Oversight Board to rule on Trump ban

Africa's long wait for the Covid-19 vaccine

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

The vehicle that got a village smiling

Bridgerton second series 'exciting', says writer

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

Covid: How a £20 gadget could save lives

What is the Paris climate agreement and why is the US rejoining?

Serum Institute: Fire at world's largest vaccine producer kills five

Ghana 'baby-harvesting syndicate' arrested

Biden inauguration leaves QAnon believers in disarray

Biden to sign 10 executive orders to tackle Covid-19

Inside Biden's new-look Oval Office

Biden inauguration: Katy's anthem, Bernie's mittens and other offbeat moments

Coronavirus: Hungary first in EU to approve Russian vaccine

Italian coastguard recover huge whale carcass

Iraq attack: Twin suicide bombings in central Baghdad kill 13

China's telecom giants ask for Wall Street relisting

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

Star-studded concert marks Joe Biden's inauguration

Manila police chief faces sack over rape probe

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

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

Elephants counted from space for conservation

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

President Joe Biden inauguration speech: 'Democracy has prevailed'

Kamala Harris becomes first female, first black and first Asian-American VP

Kamala Harris sworn in as vice-president

Trump: 'I wish new administration great luck and success'

Biden inauguration: New president to be sworn in amid Trump snub

Madrid explosion leaves two dead

Tunisia youths warned over riots amid Covid curfew

South Africa 'Dr Death' row: Clinics defend Basson's right to practise

Trump leaves Washington, snubbing inauguration

Navalny video: Putin palace claims reach millions for jailed critic

Sibusiso Moyo: Zimbabwe foreign minister dies from Covid-19

Prada drops Chinese actress over alleged surrogacy row

Jack Ma makes first appearance since October

Natural wonder: Wing 'clap' solves mystery of butterfly flight

Biden inauguration: Democrat to be sworn in as Trump leaves office

Trump pardons Bannon in final acts of clemency

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

SLS: Nasa finds cause of 'megarocket' test shutdown

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

Epiphany: Orthodox Christians across Russia brave icy dip

Thai woman jailed for record 43 years for criticising monarchy

Trump presidency: A flashback through four turbulent years

Stolen 500-year-old painting found in Naples cupboard

US historians on what Donald Trump's legacy will be

Italy PM Conte faces crucial Senate vote to stay in power

Japan: One dead as snowstorm causes 130-car pile-up

Tandav: Amazon drama apologises for Hindu offence

Egyptian woman arrested for baking 'indecent' cakes

Boeing 737 Max to be cleared to fly in Europe

ONA: Vegan restaurant becomes first in France to get Michelin star

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

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

Biden says travel bans will stay despite Trump order

Kyrgios criticises Djokovic over Australian Open quarantine row

Tunisia protests: Hundreds arrested as clashes continue

Conquering K2 in winter 'together'

Ethiopia Tigray crisis: Fear of mass starvation

Uganda election: Internet restored but social media blocked

Australian Open 2021: 'No special treatment' for tennis players in Melbourne

Github apologises for firing Jewish employee who warned about 'Nazis'

Aditya Singh: Man found 'living in airport for three months' over Covid fears

Lee Jae Yong: Samsung heir gets prison term for bribery scandal

Alexei Navalny: EU and US demand release of poisoned Putin critic

Australia unlikely to fully reopen border in 2021, says top official

Migrant caravan: Guatemala blocks thousands bound for US

Trapped Chinese miners' note sparks hopes for rescue

Covid-19: China's economy grows in fourth quarter, bucking global trend

Covid: Brazil approves and rolls out AstraZeneca and Sinovac vaccines

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

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?

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

Biden inauguration: Fortified US statehouses see scattered protests

Lai Chi-Wai raises HK$5.2m for charity climbing Nina Towers

Covid-19: Australian Open competitors practice in isolation hotels

Phil Spector: Pop producer jailed for murder dies at 81

Obituary: Phil Spector

Greek sailing official quits after Olympic champion's sex abuse claim

'Clashes kill 48 people' in Sudan's Darfur region

Russia Navalny: Poisoned opposition leader due to fly home

Indonesia earthquake: Heavy rain hampers search for survivors

Airline industry needs up to another $80bn to survive pandemic

Biden inauguration: Executive orders to reverse Trump policies

Uganda election: Bobi Wine 'fearful for life' after Museveni win

Fighting for the Parthenon marbles

Afghanistan conflict: Female judges shot dead in Kabul

Covid-19 cases force Australian Open players into lockdown

G7: UK to host Cornwall seaside summit in summer

Dr Dre: Rap legend returns home after brain aneurysm

Wilmington 1898: When white supremacists overthrew a US government

The Instagrammers who worry Iran

Are women let down by period trackers?

How Gambia is grappling with gruesome past under Yahya Jammeh

Lekki toll gate shootings: What really happened?

The man startling millions of starlings with lasers

Covid-19: France begins 6pm curfew

SLS: Nasa's 'megarocket' set to fire up engines in crucial test

Mount Semeru: Erupting volcano spews ash above Indonesia's Java island

Capitol riots: What are far-right Trump supporters saying?

Nepali climbers make history with winter summit of K2 mountain

ICYMI: Spacing out and a famous frozen waterfall

Biden inauguration: All 50 US states on alert for armed protests

Uganda: Veteran leader Yoweri Museveni declared election winner

Armin Laschet elected leader of Merkel's CDU party

Dustin Higgs: Final execution of Trump presidency is carried out

Covid: UK variant could drive 'rapid growth' in US cases, CDC warns

India to begin first round of massive Covid vaccination programme

Covid in California: The state is struggling to contain the virus

Trump's Christian supporters and the march on the Capitol

Ethiopia's Oromia conflict: Why a teacher was killed 'execution-style'

Brexit: End to Gibraltar land border prompts joy and trepidation

US Election 2020: What do countries around the world want from Joe Biden?

Martin Luther King Jr: New documentary on FBI surveillance

Project 17: One girl's quest for clean water in Rwanda

Dutch Rutte government to resign over child welfare fraud scandal

German sports doctor jailed over blood doping scandal

Nazi Buchenwald camp no place for sledging, authorities warn

Uganda elections 2021: Museveni takes early lead as Bobi Wine cries foul

Joe the pigeon spared by Australia as leg tag found to be fake

NYC bendy bus left dangling from overpass in Bronx

North Korea: Kim Jong-un oversees huge military showcase

Salvador Cienfuegos: Mexico clears ex-defence minister over US drugs link claims

Colourising historical photos of the civil rights movement

Several dead and hundreds injured in Indonesia

Thailand allows visitors to play golf in quarantine

North Korea unveils new submarine-launched missile

US has conceded too much to Taliban, says Afghan vice-president

Trump takes final swipe at China's biggest companies

Biden unveils $1.9tn US economic relief package

China’s pressure and propaganda - the reality of reporting Xinjiang

Taliban cracks down on 'costly' polygamy

Rajini Chandy: The 69-year-old Indian actress trolled for ‘too sexy’ photos

Villarejo: The rise and fall of the Spanish state's secret fixer

German chancellor race: The men vying for Merkel's job

Uganda social media row raises question over regulation in Africa

Young, black and more likely to die in Brazil

Johan 'N0tail' Sundstein: Inside the world's richest esports player's mansion

India's Kumbh Mela festival begins amid Covid concerns

Australia to kill US pigeon that crossed Pacific

Armie Hammer: Actor pulls out of film over 'vicious' online abuse

Italy political crisis erupts over EU Covid spending

Trump impeachment: President faces Senate trial after historic second charge

US pet food recalled after 70 dogs die and others fall sick

Amazon faces legal challenge over Prime cancellation policy

Covid: WHO team probing origin of virus arrive in China

Twitter boss: Trump ban is 'right' but 'dangerous'

Bullets sent to Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou

Indonesia: Archaeologists find world's oldest animal cave painting

Flint water crisis: Michigan charges ex-governor Rick Snyder

How did the pilot survive this plane crash?

New York City is latest to cut Trump business ties

Has coronavirus made us more ethical consumers?

How much can Joe Biden get done on the US economy?

Capitol riots: Did Trump's words at rally incite violence?

Moment Trump impeached for second time

Trump impeachment: Republicans defend - and some attack - president

Trump: 'Violence and vandalism have no place in our country'

Trump impeachment: What happens to impeached presidents?

Uganda elections 2021: Yoweri Museveni faces Bobi Wine in presidential contest

Rap against Dictatorship: The rappers taking on Thailand's leaders

Capitol riots: How many arrests so far?

Syria war: Suspected Israeli strikes on Iran-linked targets 'kill dozens'

Investigation after 'Nazi monkey' appears in Russian circus

Russia Navalny: Poisoned opposition leader says he will fly home

Bruce Willis admits 'error of judgement' over face mask