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HUMBLED: AUSTRALIA RETAIN THE ASHES AS ENGLAND FALL TO THIRD TEST DEFEAT

UK


GREEN LIGHT FOR NEW YEAR'S EVE PARTIES - AS RISE IN HOSPITALISATIONS LOOMS OVER
CELEBRATIONS

US


BODYCAM FOOTAGE SHOWS MOMENTS LEADING TO FATAL SHOOTING OF INNOCENT GIRL IN
CHANGING ROOM

Ents & Arts


THE FAMOUS FACES AND NOTABLE FIGURES WE SAID GOODBYE TO IN 2021

World


PERFECTLY WRAPPED EGYPTIAN MUMMY'S LAYERS 'PEELED OFF' FOR FIRST TIME IN
'UNIQUE' STUDY

Business


SHOPPERS STAY HOME ON BOXING DAY AS FOOTFALL DROPS BY ALMOST HALF ON PRE-COVID
LEVELS

Climate


SCOTLAND'S ANCIENT FORESTS FACING A 'BIODIVERSITY CRISIS' FROM NON-NATIVE TREE
PLANTING

US


LONG SOUGHT-AFTER 'TIME CAPSULE' DISCOVERED AFTER CONFEDERATE STATUE IS REMOVED

Climate


WHY IS COLOMBIA THE DEADLIEST COUNTRY TO BE AN ECO-ACTIVIST?

UK


TUESDAY'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER FRONT PAGES

CORONAVIRUS

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HOW BAD IS THE COVID INFECTION RATE IN YOUR AREA?

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UK


HOW COVID RULES COMPARE IN EACH OF THE UK'S FOUR NATIONS

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UK


'IT'S BEEN A MASSIVE CHALLENGE': CHRISTMAS DAY ON A HOSPITAL COVID WARD

UK


NEW COVID RESTRICTIONS 'COULD BE IN PLACE UNTIL LATE MARCH' UNDER MEASURES
EXAMINED BY SCIENTIFIC ADVISERS

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UK


WHY REAL NUMBER OF UK COVID CASES COULD BE MUCH HIGHER THAN THE OFFICIAL RECORD

World


SCIENTISTS IN THAILAND USING TOBACCO LEAVES TO DEVELOP PLANT-BASED VACCINE TO
FIGHT OMICRON

UK


PEOPLE WITH OMICRON LESS LIKELY TO BE HOSPITALISED THAN THOSE WITH DELTA, STUDY
SUGGESTS

UK


IMPACT OF LOCKDOWN ON CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT WILL 'LAST FOR YEARS'

UK


BORIS JOHNSON ISSUES 'CAUTION' MESSAGE - AS EXPERTS SUGGEST USING HOME TESTS
DIFFERENTLY TO PACK INSTRUCTIONS | COVID LATEST

UK


GOVERNMENT ADVISERS RECOMMEND JAB FOR VULNERABLE FIVE TO-11 YEAR-OLDS

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WHY REAL NUMBER OF UK COVID CASES COULD BE MUCH HIGHER THAN THE OFFICIAL RECORD

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HOW ARE OTHER COUNTRIES RESPONDING TO THE RISE OF OMICRON?

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UK


WHAT DO HOSPITALISATION FIGURES TELL US ABOUT HOW SEVERE OMICRON IS?

World


BOOSTER VACCINE PROGRAMMES 'LIKELY TO PROLONG THE PANDEMIC', WHO CHIEF WARNS

UK


CHRISTMAS POTENTIALLY SAVED FOR THOUSANDS AS SELF-ISOLATION CUT FOR THOSE WHO
HAVE NEGATIVE TESTS

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 * Which famous faces died in 2021?
   3:32
 * Morris dancers swap 'blackface' for green
   1:33
 * 'No new restrictions before New Year'
   1:18
 * China conducts spacewalk
   0:51
 * Innocent girl killed as police shoot suspect
   1:20
 * Heavy snowfall hits California
   0:48
 * Data still unclear - but hospital figures not like Jan 2021
   2:24
 * Russia carries on drills near Ukraine
   1:10
 * 'Govt has chosen not to act early'
   0:57
 * Canada in extreme snow whiteout
   0:31

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 * Which famous faces died in 2021?
   3:32
 * Heavy snowfall hits California
   0:48
 * Giant pandas frolic in China snow
   0:36
 * Deer play in Boxing Day snow
   0:47
 * Germans enjoy icy dip on Christmas Day
   0:54
 * Snow blankets parts of UK
   0:30
 * 'Icon' Desmond Tutu dies
   5:44
 * South Africans pay tribute to Desmond Tutu
   0:33
 * He dreamt of Man City but died in the Channel
   7:55
 * Watch timelapse of telescope build
   2:11

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 * How to have your greenest Christmas dinner yet
   2:44
 * Hospitalisation data 'encouraging' despite record COVID cases
   3:18
 * Is there a 'Plan C' for England?
   6:09
 * Will the booster campaign work?
   4:21
 * What can the UK learn from South Africa?
   4:30
 * What is Plan B?
   3:16
 * Will Russia go to war with Ukraine?
   4:56
 * Inside a Cambridge research lab battling Omicron
   1:10
 * English Channel deaths: How tragedy unfolded
   5:43
 * Inside lab testing Omicron variant
   2:00

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 * Canada in extreme snow whiteout
   0:31
 * Boiling water instantly freezes in Canada
   0:30
 * Floods hit Brazil after two dams fail
   1:18
 * Bushfire tears across Western Australia
   1:52
 * Typhoon batters church during mass
   1:07
 * How to have your greenest Christmas dinner yet
   2:44
 * Mudslide destroys Bolivian thoroughfare
   1:08
 * Cats rescued from flooded building
   0:41
 * Drone reveals Typhoon Rai devastation
   1:30
 * What is the Cambo oil field development?
   3:21

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 * 'No new restrictions before New Year'
   1:18
 * 'Come and get your jab'
   0:46
 * Data still unclear - but hospital figures not like Jan 2021
   2:24
 * Objection to fox hunting 'is a class-war obsession'
   3:33
 * 'Govt has chosen not to act early'
   0:57
 * 'Planning for scenarios' in schools to deal with COVID
   0:58
 * Brown's tribute to 'courageous' Tutu
   2:07
 * Tutu 'taught us what it means to be human'
   1:05
 * Desmond Tutu had 'profound' sense of justice
   1:07
 * Space telescope scientist 'thrilled'
   1:05

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'A PATRIOT WITHOUT EQUAL': DESMOND TUTU, A MAN OF PRINCIPLE AND A VOICE FOR THE
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VLADIMIR PUTIN REINFORCES NOTION OF 'FORTRESS RUSSIA' AS HE TAKES AIM AT NATO

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BIDEN'S PROMISES, CHINA'S THREATS AND RUSSIA'S MUSCLE-FLEXING - DIPLOMATIC
RELATIONS IN 2021


INDIA'S HOPE BUS BRINGS LEARNING AND A CHANCE OF A BETTER LIFE TO THE POOREST OF
THE POOR

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MUSICIANS REVEAL THEIR FAVOURITE SONGS OF 2021

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UK


MORRIS DANCERS DITCH 'BLACKFACE' TRADITION AFTER 500 YEARS - BUT SOME OF TROUPE
UNHAPPY WITH DECISION

UK


NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN HOSPITAL WITH COVID IN ENGLAND HITS HIGHEST LEVEL SINCE
MARCH

UK


NO MORE COVID RULES IN ENGLAND BEFORE NEW YEAR, JAVID CONFIRMS

UK


'INCREDIBLY EMOTIONAL': SEARCH AND RESCUE DOG MISSING FOR SIX DAYS OVER
CHRISTMAS HAS BEEN FOUND

UK


BOY, 11, DIES AND THREE INJURED AFTER FAMILY'S CAR CRASHES ON MOTORWAY ON BOXING
DAY

Eyewitness
UK


'SHAME ON YOU!' - EMOTIONS RUN HIGH AS ANNUAL BOXING DAY HUNT MET WITH JEERS AND
CHEERS

UK


NEW YEAR'S EVE COULD BE MILDEST ON RECORD - BUT THE GOOD WEATHER NEWS ENDS THERE

UK


BORIS JOHNSON ISSUES 'CAUTION' MESSAGE - AS EXPERTS SUGGEST USING HOME TESTS
DIFFERENTLY TO PACK INSTRUCTIONS | COVID LATEST

UK


ENGLAND REPORTED RECORD NUMBER OF NEW COVID CASES ON CHRISTMAS DAY

UK


BUSINESS SECRETARY HOLDS CRUNCH TALKS WITH ENERGY BOSSES AS PRICES SOAR


CLIMATE

Climate


'EYE-WATERING LOSSES': COSTLIEST CLIMATE DISASTERS OF 2021 REVEALED

Climate


WHY IS COLOMBIA THE DEADLIEST COUNTRY TO BE AN ECO-ACTIVIST?

Climate


IF IT WEREN'T FOR COVID, 2021 WOULD BE REMEMBERED FOR DEVASTATING WEATHER EVENTS

Climate


SCOTLAND'S ANCIENT FORESTS FACING A 'BIODIVERSITY CRISIS' FROM NON-NATIVE TREE
PLANTING

UK


EXTREME WEATHER AND NATURAL DISASTERS AFFECTING UK'S WILDLIFE, NATIONAL TRUST
SAYS

Ents & Arts


'NOBODY WANTS TO FACE REALITY': DISASTER MOVIE DIRECTOR SAYS MORE BLOCKBUSTERS
ON CLIMATE CHANGE NEEDED

Business


WHY A CARDBOARD BOX SHORTAGE IS ESCALATING ACROSS THE UK

Climate


HUMANS BUILDING BEAVER-LIKE 'LEAKY DAMS' TO HELP PROTECT MILLIONS FROM FLOODING

Climate


THE PAPUA NEW GUINEA WOMEN HARNESSING INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE AND SCIENCE TO
PROTECT CORAL REEFS

World


OVER 200 PEOPLE KILLED IN STRONGEST TYPHOON TO HIT PHILIPPINES THIS YEAR

Explainer
US


HOW KENTUCKY'S DEADLIEST TORNADO RIPPED THROUGH SMALL TOWN AMERICA

UK


REAL OR FAKE CHRISTMAS TREES - WHICH TYPE IS MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY?

Climate


MEAT PRODUCTION LINKED TO 75,000 PREMATURE DEATHS DUE TO AIR POLLUTION

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Climate


GIANT INTERCONNECTORS SAVE UK 2 MILLION TONNES OF CARBON EMISSIONS

Climate


DREAMING OF A GREEN CHRISTMAS

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 * Musicians reveal their favourite songs of 2021

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