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'It's about time': Director Zhao makes history

In pictures: Globes stars still shine without red carpet

Hyunjin: K-pop star suspended for school bullying sparks debate

Golden Globe Awards 2021: Virtual ceremony gets under way

Cape Town: Pictures of how Muslim worship helps quell South African ganglands

Coronavirus: The misleading claims about an Indian remedy

Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring out of 'fear'

Yemen: The nine-year-old war-zone school teacher

Kooking with a Koori: How a Sydney father's simple meals have won hearts

Why this teen set up a prize-winning fake cosmetics shop

Covid: The front-line doctor photographing the pandemic

The midwives braving armed gangs in Colombia

Afghanistan: A year of violence on the road to peace

Iran nuclear deal: Tehran rules out informal talks on reviving accord

Denver family wows neighbourhood with snow art

Myanmar coup: Death toll rises as police crack down on protesters

Inter Milan owners close Chinese side Jiangsu

CPAC: Trump to return to political stage at conservative conference

Ethiopia's Tigray crisis: Blinken says US concerned about atrocities

Doctor joins Zoom court hearing while operating on patient

Hong Kong charges 47 activists in largest use yet of new security law

Myanmar coup: Casualties rise as police step up crackdown

Dominican Republic announces plans for Haiti border fence

Oliver Warders! News update 140

New York Governor Cuomo faces fresh claims of sexual harassment

Covid: How this Indian firm is vaccinating the world

Covid vaccine: Germany urged to back AstraZeneca jab for over-65s

Golden Globe Awards 2021: Stars prepare for virtual ceremony

The Florida coffee shop where Trump is king

Maids in Lebanon: 'My employer treats me like a slave'

Cryptocurrencies: Why Nigeria is a global leader in Bitcoin trade

Has China lifted 100 million people out of poverty?

Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine: FDA approves single-shot jab

El Salvador polls: More power for President Nayib Bukele?

Covid-19: Belgium prisoners quarantined after virus outbreak

Pompeii: Archaeologists unveil ceremonial chariot discovery

Jamal Khashoggi: How intelligence report could dent US-Saudi ties for years

LeBron vs Zlatan: Who won the politics bout?

Myanmar coup: Security forces intensify protest crackdown

Indian man killed by his own rooster during cockfight

Venice: Low tides leave canals dry

Nigeria kidnappings: Hunt for 300 girls as second abducted school group freed

Coronavirus: Biden's $1.9tn Covid relief bill passes House vote

Tiger Woods car crash: Golfer 'in good spirits' after latest treatment

Haiti prison escape: Hundreds of inmates flee from Croix-des-Bouquets jail

Monsters, mania and the unstoppable march of Pokémon

Mayday: How the White Helmets and James Le Mesurier got pulled into a deadly battle for truth

John F Kennedy: When the US president met Africa's independence heroes

Week in pictures: 20-26 February 2021

Bitcoin energy use 'bigger than most countries'

The Dissident: Jamal Khashoggi documentary points finger at Saudi Arabia's crown prince

Mourning the sisters killed as they taught handicrafts

Mary Robinson 'made a big mistake' over Dubai princess

Ros Atkins on... Is Facebook too powerful?

China celebrates colourful Lantern Festival

Texas sea turtles released back into sea after cold front eases

Jamal Khashoggi: US says Saudi prince approved Khashoggi killing

Japan gender equality minister opposes change on separate spouse surnames

Twitter unveils 'super follow' feature

The young girl who became pen-pal with Bollywood's biggest stars

Nigeria school attack: Hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped in Zamfara

Singapore: Briton jailed for breaking strict quarantine

Oliver Warders! News update 139

North Korea: Russian diplomats leave by hand-pushed trolley

Melissa Caddick: Missing fraud suspect's foot found on Australian beach

Ethiopia's Tigray crisis: How a massacre in the sacred city of Aksum unfolded

Covid-19: Sri Lanka reverses 'anti-Muslim' cremation order

Biden approves US airstrike on Iran-backed militias in Syria

Covid-19: US high school band students rehearse in individual bubbles

Fijian rugby league players sing tribute to Sydney quarantine staff

K-pop superstars Blackpink in climate change message

Analysis: Can Asia help Myanmar find a way out of coup crisis?

'Op Silent Viper': How an Indian rape suspect was caught after 22 years

Why Greenpeace is dropping huge boulders into the sea

Golden Globes: Celebrity make-up artists on their job in the pandemic

Amazon rainforest plots sold via Facebook Marketplace ads

Canadian farmers advised to ditch palm oil after 'buttergate' row

Nergal: Polish metal singer accused of blasphemy appeals for legal funds

China denies requiring anal swabs from US diplomats

China's Xi declares victory in ending extreme poverty

Jamal Khashoggi: US to release declassified report on murder

Andrew Cuomo: Why is New York's governor facing controversy?

Armenia PM Nikol Pashinyan denounces 'attempted military coup'

Myanmar coup: Facebook, Instagram place immediate ban on military

Princess Latifa urges UK police to reopen sister's kidnap case

Hit TV show Frasier to be revived after 20 years

Man survives 14 hours 'clinging to sea rubbish'

Goldman Sachs: Bank boss rejects work from home as the 'new normal'

Singapore: Police officer's wife admits to killing Myanmar maid

Chinese £3,200 budget electric car takes on Tesla

Australia passes law to make Google and Facebook pay for news

The colourful fridges popping up on American streets

North Korea enslaved South Korean prisoners of war in coal mines

Brazilian Amazon: Juma descendants of 'last warrior' vow to carry on legacy

Biden's Covid stimulus plan: It costs $2tn but what's in it?

Looming battle for Yemen's Marib city risks humanitarian disaster

Have Australians fallen out of love with Sydney and Melbourne?

Viewpoint: Self-defence not the answer to Nigeria's kidnap crisis

Kenya: A sustainable solution to locust swarms?

GameStop surges again as Reddit crashes temporarily

Golfer Tiger Woods crash: Car found on side after rolling over

Dozens of dolphins found dead on Mozambique beach

Ghislaine Maxwell offers to give up UK and French citizenship for bail

New Zealand: Rescuers save 28 whales from stranding spot

Amnesty strips Alexei Navalny of 'prisoner of conscience' status

Ecuador jail fight: Dozens of inmates killed in gang war

Covid: WHO scheme Covax delivers first vaccines to Ghana

Malaysia deports Myanmar nationals despite court order

New Zealand: Pilot whales refloated at stranding spot

Oliver Warders! News update 138

China court orders man to pay wife for housework in landmark case

Franco: Melilla enclave removes last statue of fascist dictator on Spanish soil

Tiger Woods: Proud champion who bounced back

Biden holds first foreign meeting with Canada's Justin Trudeau

Syrian torture verdict expected in landmark German case

The Simpsons creator Matt Groening on equality, memes and monorails

Walker Swamp: The mission to restore an Australian wetland

Senegal's teenage jockey races to fame

Priyanka Dewan: The roller-skating star who beat disability stigma

Coronavirus: Do I send my child back to school?

Motera: The world's largest cricket stadium to host India-England Test

Collision between train and truck causes massive explosion in Texas

Daniel Prude: No charges for US officers over 'spit-hood' death

Security officials testify Capitol rioters 'came prepared for war'

Rebels deny killing Italian ambassador to DR Congo

Daphne Caruana Galizia murder: Suspect pleads guilty

Covid infection in Lagos 'may top Africa's official total'

Nika Melia, Georgian opposition leader, is arrested at party HQ

Ebola vaccines arrive in Guinea after dust storm delay

Disha Ravi: India activist, 22, granted bail by court

North Korean man wandered for hours in DMZ amid South's security blunders

Vanessa Bryant criticises Meek Mill for 'insensitive' Kobe Bryant lyric

Facebook reverses ban on news pages in Australia

Clubhouse confirms data spillage of its audio streams

Boeing 777: Signs of 'metal fatigue' found on Denver plane engine

Australia: Oldest rock art is 17,300-year-old kangaroo

500,000 deaths: The 'colourful' lives lost to Covid

Gender-reveal device explosion kills father-to-be

El Chapo's wife Emma Coronel Aispuro arrested in US over 'drug trafficking'

Extinction: Freshwater fish in 'catastrophic' decline

South Korea coronavirus: PM aims for 'herd immunity by autumn'

Sri Lanka human rights: UK seeks new UN resolution on abuses

Covid US death toll: Imagining what 500,000 lost lives look like

Sarika Kale: The sports star who could afford just one meal a day

Thousands dead but no prosecutions - why Liberia has not acted

Canada's parliament declares China's treatment of Uighurs 'genocide'

139-year-old Victorian house moved in San Francisco

Woody Allen says doc is 'riddled with falsehoods'

James Franco sexual misconduct case settled

The Muppet Show: Disney adds content warning over 'negative stereotypes'

Italian ambassador to DR Congo killed in UN convoy attack

Kenya: Endangered giraffes killed by low power lines

Coronavirus: High Covid rates delay France and Germany easing

Memorial held for victims of the Christchurch earthquake

Varavara Rao: Jailed India activist, 81, granted temporary bail

LGBT+ History Month: Matthew Mitcham's troubled path to historic Olympic gold

Myanmar coup: Protesters amass despite military warning

Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani: 'This is not Vietnam'

Oliver Warders! News update 137

Bitcoin keeps hitting new highs after Tesla backing

China 'Sexy tea' shop apologises for calling women 'bargains'

United Airlines grounds planes after engine failure

UK: Myanmar military must release Suu Kyi

Covid: Australian Open fans criticised for 'booing vaccine'

Africa's data gap: Measuring the cost of not counting the dead

Over-The-Rhine: Is this a model for urban renewal or a warning sign?

Afghanistan's Ghani sees 'window of opportunity' for peace process

The most important humanitarian gesture in decades?

Divya Kakran: 'I became famous for wrestling boys'

Pangong Lake: India and China complete pull-back of forces

Seven Niger election officials killed by land mine on poll day

Malcolm X family demands reopening of murder investigation

France row as Lyon mayor keeps meat off school menus

Israel pollution: Tar globs disfigure coast after oil spill

Seven die in Nigerian Air Force plane crash near Abuja airport

Video shows US plane engine on fire

Passengers describe 'explosion' as plane engine fails

Covid: WHO pleads with Tanzania to start reporting cases

Three killed in New Orleans gun shop shooting

Myanmar coup: Facebook deletes military's main news site

Kangaroo Island dunnart: Saving a bushfire-ravaged marsupial

Australian PM is vaccinated as rollout begins

Israel eases restrictions following vaccine success

How European businesses are adapting to Brexit

Singapore vending machines now dispense salmon, crab and even cacti

Covid-19: Which countries in Africa are administering vaccines?

Are streaming algorithms really damaging film?

Pablo Hasel: Luxury stores looted and vehicles ablaze in Barcelona protests

How Trump offered Kim a ride on Air Force One

Covid: 'Each one of these people mattered'

Why the US is eyeing a $300 monthly child benefit

Computer says go: Taking orders from an AI boss

Wall Street Charging Bull sculptor Arturo Di Modica 'dies aged 80'

Myanmar coup: At least two killed as police disperse protesters

Covid: Anti-vaccination protests held in Australia ahead of rollout

Australian Open: Naomi Osaka beats Jennifer Brady in women's final

Covid-19: UK should send vaccines to poorer nations now - WTO chief

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West split 'cordial and co-ordinated' - Perez Hilton

Women 'pose as grannies' to skip Florida vaccine queue

Alexei Navalny: Putin critic loses appeal against jailing

Alaska woman attacked by bear while using toilet

Oliver Warders! News update 136

BlizzoTv HoodStars season 191 episode 1

Margaret Mitchell: Google fires AI ethics founder

Is business the 'path to peace' in the Middle East?

Are migrants being influenced to enter the EU by vlogs?

The art of protest in Myanmar – and its wanted list

ICYMI: Ice carousels, a wallaby and a mammoth tooth

North Korean defectors: What happens when they get to the South?

How a joke ended up before Canada’s top court

Nodeep Kaur: The jailed activist Meena Harris tweeted about

How Congo-Brazzaville's shark population came under threat

Brittany Higgins: Parliament rape accuser makes complaint

Coronavirus: What Europeans have learned from a year of pandemic

Algeria's protests are back and the president is worried

Mars landing: Excitement builds over new images from Nasa Perseverance rover

Alps hiker survives seven icy nights after fall in Italy

Somali capital gunfire amid election protests

How much does climate change cost US economy?

US-Saudi alliance: Major reset under way

Africa's week in pictures: 12-18 February 2021

Myanmar coup: Woman shot during anti-coup protests dies

Iran nuclear deal: US agrees to join talks 'at critical moment'

Ladakh: China reveals soldier deaths in India border clash

'Pawri girl': A five-second video brings India and Pakistan together

Malaysian court finds news site guilty of contempt

Farmer protests: India's sedition law used to muffle dissent

Covid vaccines: Macron proposes sending 4-5% of doses to poorer nations

Texas storm: ‘He’s 92 so we wrapped him tight like a mummy’

Iran nuclear deal: Clock ticks as rivals square up

Nasa's Perseverance rover in 'great shape' after Mars landing

France's elite forced to confront sexual abuse scandals

Now Norway is offering drug-free treatment to people with psychosis

Cancel culture: Have any two words become more weaponised?

Hervé Gourdel: Man sentenced over French tourist's killing

Prisoner exchange after Israeli woman enters Syria

Brazil: Can you vaccinate a whole town against Covid?

The dentist who helped a koala to walk

Unnao: Dalit teenaged girls found dead on India farm

Serena Williams leaves news conference in tears

Man arrested after Nicki Minaj's father killed in hit-and-run

Texas weather: Residents told to boil tap water amid power blackouts

Tokyo 2020: Japan Olympics minister Hashimoto appointed head of Games

Belarus jails two TV journalists for filming mass protest

Facebook Australia: PM Scott Morrison 'will not be intimidated' by tech giant

Australian Open: Naomi Osaka to face Jennifer Brady in final after beating Serena Williams

Pablo Hasél protests: Violence in Spanish cities over rapper’s jailing

Oliver Warders! News update 135

Demi Lovato 'had three strokes and a heart attack' after 2018 overdose

Period poverty: New Zealand schools to offer free sanitary products

BTS label Big Hit and Universal seek next boy band

Australia news code: What’s this row with Facebook and Google all about?

'It's not the end': Russian activist prepares for jail

Texas weather: ‘We’re on day three of no power'

Rush Limbaugh: Radio host who loved to shock

How Afghanistan police train for Taliban attacks and suicide bombers

Texas weather: Are frozen wind turbines to blame for power cuts?

Malnutrition is rising across India - why?

Covid and suicide: Japan's rise a warning to the world?

Nasa Perseverance rover: How this Mars landing will be different

Priyanka Chopra Jonas locked down in London

Rush Limbaugh, provocative US radio host, dies aged 70

Los Angeles police 'wanted Amazon Ring BLM protest footage'

Hotel Rwanda hero Rusesabagina in court on terrorism charges

Dutch Jews died in 'secret Nazi gas chamber' in 1941

New Zealand deploys insects to tackle wasp problem

Britney Spears: Documentary director on 'tight circle' around singer

Japan student forced to dye her hair wins compensation

Bridgerton star Regé-Jean Page cast in Dungeons & Dragons movie

Texas weather: Deaths mount as winter storm leaves millions without power

Nigeria gunmen raid Kagara school and abduct boys

Japan's ruling party invites women to 'look not talk' at key meetings

Pete Evans: Instagram ban for Australian chef over conspiracy theories

Pablo Hasel protests: Thousands demand rapper's release in Spain

Myanmar coup: Roads blocked in Yangon as thousands protest

MJ Akbar: India minister loses #MeToo defamation case to Priya Ramani

Winter storm leaves millions without electricity in Texas

Princess Latifa: UN to question UAE about Dubai ruler's daughter

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's wife makes first appearance in a year

China overtakes US as EU's biggest trading partner

Peru vaccine scandal: Ex-president asked for early jab, doctors says

Covid: Melbourne lockdown to end after quarantine outbreak controlled

Nodeep Kaur: The jailed activist Meena Harris tweeted about

Princess Latifa: Jailed in Dubai by my father

Congo River: At least 60 drowned after boat capsizes

Anthony Fauci wins Israel's Dan David $1m prize for 'defending science'

In pictures: Snow blankets Texas

North Korean man caught by South after crossing border

Full-face hot-wax TikTok videos prompt warnings

Spain: Rapper Pablo Hasel arrested after police enter university

New WTO boss warns against vaccine nationalism

Bangladesh Avijit Roy murder: Five sentenced to die for machete attack on blogger

China arrests leader of fake vaccine scam

Oliver Warders! News update 134

US 'outraged' by deadly rocket attack on Irbil

New Zealand lashes at Australia in citizenship row over terror suspect

Central African Republic: War crimes trial of two ex-militia leaders starts

Amazon vs Reliance: Why are two of the world's richest men in court?

Texas blanketed by snow

Australia PM apologises to staffer who alleges she was raped in parliament

Yemen: The boy who saved his sister from a sniper

How Congo-Brazzaville's shark population came under threat

Optimism as Cuba set to test its own Covid vaccine

The hypercar maker who was told to give up his dream

Without music, will New Orleans survive?

Independent commission to investigate Capitol riots

Former Australian Olympian Scott Miller held over 'hidden drugs haul'

Singapore Covid: Briton admits breaking quarantine to visit partner

Nicki Minaj's father killed by hit-and-run driver in New York

Dispute over Haiti presidential term triggers unrest

Covid map: Coronavirus cases, deaths, vaccinations by country

Disha Ravi: The jailed Indian activist linked to Greta Thunberg

Myanmar coup: Protesters face up to 20 years in prison under new law

Japan's economy shrinks 4.8% in 2020 due to Covid

Abydos beer factory: Ancient large-scale brewery discovered in Egypt

Disha Ravi: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal calls arrest 'attack on democracy'

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala set to be first African boss of WTO

Capitol riots timeline: The evidence presented against Trump

McConnell blames 'Trump's lies' but votes not guilty

New York City : Man charged with deadly subway stabbings

Solving Covid easy compared with climate - Bill Gates

How a joke ended up before Canada’s top court

Ethiopia's Tigray crisis: 'I lost my hand when a soldier tried to rape me'

Why the US is eyeing a $300 monthly child benefit

Indian farmers' protests: Why they matter to British Indians

Crown Resorts chief Ken Barton resigns amid money laundering scandal

Mourid Barghouti: Leading Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti dies aged 77

Why this Australian girl has cleaned graves for eight years

Covid: Should we double mask face coverings?

Hotel quarantine: What isolating in a hotel room is like

US cold snap: Why is Texas seeing Arctic temperatures?

Spain migrant worker camp fire: 'Our house is burning'

Myanmar coup: US tells its citizens to 'shelter in place'

Covid: UK scientist defends WHO fact-finding mission to Wuhan

Obituary: Former Argentine President Carlos Menem

Trump impeachment trial: Biden warns democracy is fragile

Bristol choir helps US girl with sleep problem

Covid infecting humans through animal host 'probable'

Covid-19 pandemic: New Zealand's biggest city ordered into lockdown

Guinea records first Ebola deaths since 2016

India activist Disha Ravi arrested over 'toolkit'

Oliver Warders! News update 133

Trump impeachment: The debate that led to acquittal

Alexei Navalny: The women fighting against Russian corruption

Sunday Igboho: The Nigeria car salesman going after cattle herders

Koo v Twitter: Why India's government is favouring a social media newcomer

TJ Ducklo: Biden aide quits over 'abhorrent' language

Kohima: Britain's 'forgotten' battle that changed the course of WWII

Covid-19: South Africa to reopen border crossings

Your pictures on the theme of 'shelter'

Slalom: Film director 'was afraid' to tell story of abuse on the slopes

Does yoga have a conspiracy theory problem?

Where are Cape Town's great white sharks?

Myanmar coup: Fear and defiance at night-time arrests

Trump impeachment: Senate falls short of majority needed to convict

Fukushima: Powerful earthquake rocks Japan weeks from disaster anniversary

Covid-19 pandemic: China 'refused to give data' to WHO team

In pictures: Joy for Dutch as canals freeze over

Covid: Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to be tested on children

Tennis star's coach walks out as he blows two-set lead

ICYMI: A dog rescue and a dog detective

What will the military do after seizing power in Myanmar?

Soldiers killed in Napoleon's 1812 retreat buried

Impeachment: Three key arguments by Trump’s lawyers

US to allow in thousands of asylum seekers waiting in Mexico

Nasa's pioneering black women

Week in pictures: 6-12 February 2021

Letter from Africa: How the Nairobi Expressway is changing Kenya's capital

Pakistan's Ali Sadpara: The climber who never came back from K2

The 'saviour' loan apps that trapped pandemic-struck Indians

The video of a protester's arrest Russian police 'leaked to scare people'

How Mike Pence became a villain in Trump world

Myanmar coup: What led to the military seizing power?

Covid: Germany to halt travel from Czech Republic and Tyrol

Trump impeachment: Defence team set to present speedy case

Britney Spears: Judge rules singer's father must share conservatorship

Martin Gugino: Charges dropped against US officers who pushed protester

Russia warns EU it could cut ties over sanctions

'At least you're not a cat!' Congress video goes wrong

What's behind Covid-19 surge in southern Africa?

Driver captures footage of deadly mass pile-up on a Texas highway

US football team celebrates Super Bowl win with boat parade

Myanmar coup: Mass protests defy military leader's plea

Oliver Warders! News update 132

Biden warns China will 'eat our lunch' on infrastructure spending

Covid: Victoria state to enter third lockdown after outbreak of UK variant

Anna Sorokin: Fake heiress released from US prison

Arab Spring: How the uprisings still echo, 10 years on

Covid-19: Chinatowns fighting racism and pandemic to survive

'Putin's palace': Builders' story of luxury, mould and fake walls

Coronavirus vaccines: How’s my country and the rest of the world doing?

The global race to produce hydrogen offshore

Impeachment: 'Convict Trump or it could happen again,' trial told

Covid and gun violence: Tijuana, the city with a double pandemic

Covid-19 and Wuhan: Why don't we know more?

Forests the size of tennis courts

Pangong Lake: India and China to pull back from disputed border

Mandalorian star dropped after 'abhorrent' posts

Joss Whedon: Buffy stars accuse TV show's 'cruel' creator

China Mac: From attempted murder to leading a protest movement

Iran produces uranium metal in new violation of nuclear deal

Obesity: Appetite drug could mark 'new era' in tackling condition

Ozone layer 'rescued' from CFC damage

Covid-19: Kent virus variant 'on course to sweep world'

India: Nepal bans India climbers for faking Everest summit

US-China relations: Details released of Biden's first call with Xi

US Treasury: Yellen warns of 'explosion' of cybercrime risk

GameStop investors on a wild ride: 'It was a rollercoaster of emotion'

Capitol mob got close to Pence, Romney and Schumer, new footage shows

US airline set to buy flying electric taxis for airport runs

Trump impeachment: Democrats say Trump left those at Capitol 'for dead'

Hustler founder and free-speech activist Larry Flynt dies aged 78

Documenting the 2011 revolution in Egypt

Myanmar coup: 'Down with the military - release our leaders!'

Elisa Lam: What really happened in the Cecil Hotel

Pablo Escobar: Why scientists want to kill Colombia's hippos

The Great Indian Kitchen: Serving an unsavoury tale of sexism in home

Central African Republic: A country under siege

Numbats: Saving a marsupial 'unique even to Australia'

Venezuelans say new legal status 'changes everything'

Cat filter: Texas lawyer on becoming 'internet sensation' after Zoom mishap

South Africa may swap or sell AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine