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• At least 99 people killed in oil tanker explosion in Sierra Leone
• Germany will return ambassador to Afghanistan
• The 'bullet' airplane Otto Celera 500L could revolutionize business aviation as it burns less fuel
• Longest lunar eclipse of this century will happen on November 19
• Stranger Things 4 will premiere in the summer of 2022
• Europe could see ‘another half million Covid-19 deaths’ by February, WHO
• Global food prices are getting closer to a record high, UN
• HPV vaccine cuts cervical cancer cases by almost 90%, the Lancet
• Arrests in Belfast, Northern Ireland after police attacked in Brexit protocol unrest
• Telegram update 8.2 brings speed scrolling, date bar, admin control, and more
• Over 100 countries sign pledge to cut methane emissions by 30% and end deforestation by 2030 at COP26 in Glasgow
• Nigeria high-rise building collapses, kills at least 15
• Ethiopia declares nationwide state of emergency as rebel forces gain ground
• Pfizer raises 2021 sales forecast for Covid vaccine to $36bn
• Yahoo pulls out of China amid 'challenging' environment
• Amazon to launch SpaceX-rivaling internet satellites in 2022
• Netflix launches first mobile games for Android globally
• Mandalorian spin-off The Book Of Boba Fett gets first trailer
• At least nine killed in a car bombing near an airport in Aden, Yemen
• Man with knife injures 17 people on Tokyo train, starts fire
• Trains collide in southwest England, several people injured
• Global climate conference COP26 kicks off in Glasgow, Scotland
• Volvo Cars listed on the Stockholm stock exchange, the company is now valued at more than $22bn
• Bitcoin celebrates birthday as BTC whitepaper was published today 13 years ago
• Biden meets with Pope and Macron ahead of G20 summit
• EU opens formal investigation into Nvidia’s acquisition of chip designer Arm
• US authorizes Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for kids ages 5 through 11
• Squid Game cryptocurrency rockets in first few days of trading
• Microsoft passes Apple to become the world’s most valuable company with a market cap of nearly $2.49 trillion
• Legendary Age of Empires IV is released after a 16-year gap since its last entry
• Brazil senators recommend criminal charges against president Bolsonaro over COVID
• Poland told to pay €1m a day in legal row with EU
• Saudi Arabia receives first public flight from Israel
• Cambridge college and Paris museum return looted African artifacts to Nigeria
• US issues the first passport with a nonbinary gender 'X' option
• China imposed restrictions on the construction of skyscrapers
• Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chang sued over allegations of harassment and discrimination
• Tripadvisor found almost 1m reviews in 2020 to be fraudulent, penalized 34,605 properties and banned 20,299 members
• ‘Squid Game’ Halloween costumes banned by New York elementary schools
• Sudan’s military takes power in coup, arrests prime minister
• Greenhouse gas levels hit record high and increased at faster rate in 2020, WMO
• Global human rights organization, Amnesty International, to close Hong Kong offices over national security law
• Fresh lockdowns in China as local Covid-19 infections spread to 11 provinces
• Uzbekistan’s president secures 2nd term in office
• La Palma eruption intensifies as it enters sixth week of explosive activity
• Hurricane rick makes landfall in western Mexico
• 11 Picasso paintings displayed at Las Vegas hotel sell for more than $100 million
• Michael Jordan's 1984 sneakers sell for nearly $1.5 million
• Tesla breaches $1 trillion market cap
• Turkey's Erdogan orders expulsion of 10 ambassadors who support jailed civil society leader
• China passes law to ease homework pressure on children
• Russian, Chinese warships hold first joint patrols in Pacific Ocean
• Flash floods damage buildings and sweep away cars in Alicante, Spain
• NASA Artemis moon mission launch planned for February 2022
• Lego recreates the house from 'Home Alone' movie which features 3,955 pieces
• British Joshua's rematch against Ukrainian Usyk is likely to take place in March, 2022
• WHO warns of rise in Covid cases across Europe for third consecutive week
• New COVID-19 variant 'Delta Plus' with 'higher transmissibility' found in US, UK
• Bomb attack in Damascus kills 14 Syrian military personnel
• Costa Rica congress approves legalization of marijuana for medicinal use
• In Australia, victims of abuse will be paid $3,700
• Jailed Kremlin critic Navalny wins Sakharov Prize, EU's top human rights award
• Japan's Mount Aso erupts, spewing ash and smoke miles into the sky
• Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name
• Surgeons have successfully tested a pig’s kidney in a human patient
• Archaeological find proves that vikings were in North America around 500 years before Christopher Columbus
• Bitcoin's price reaches a new all-time high above $66,000
• God Of War coming to PC in January with 4k resolution
• CD Projekt Red delays next-gen Cyberpunk 2077 and Witcher 3 to 2022
• Czech president can't perform duties due to health, likely to be stripped of power, officials
• Air strikes target capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray; 3 civilians dead
• China drafts law to punish parents for children's bad behaviour
• Russia suspends its mission to NATO
• Myanmar to free over 5,000 political prisoners
• Romania has the highest COVID mortality rate in the world
• Olympic flame for 2022 Winter Olympic Games lit in Greece
• Australia is trying to vaccinate all of its koalas against chlamydia
• UK schools are installing facial recognition cameras in canteens to take students’ lunch money
• Facebook plans to hire 10,000 in Europe to build a virtual reality-based 'metaverse'
• Apple held October event today, unveils redesigned Macbook Pro with M1 Pro And M1 Max chips, plus new Airpods
• Russia's daily Covid-related deaths pass 1,000 for first time
• ISIS claims responsibility for mosque attack in Afghanistan
• Apple removed Quran and Bible apps in China on the request of government officials
• Earthquake of magnitude 4.8 strikes Bali, kills three
• NASA launches its Lucy spacecraft to study the Jupiter Trojan asteroids
• Shenzhou 13 launches first long-duration Chinese Space Station crew
• McDonald's tests McPlant meatless burger at a handful of locations
• Bitcoin breaks through $60,000
• At least 46 people killed after fire tears through 13-story residential building in Taiwan
• Deadly shooting in Beirut as tensions erupt over blast probe, six killed
• Polish Parliament approve €350M wall on Belarusian border as migrant death toll rises
• Microsoft shutting down LinkedIn in China
• Squid Game officially becomes Netflix's most-watched show with 111m views
• COVID-19 pandemic has forced 100 million into poverty, UN chief says
• Norwegian Prime Minister resigns, Labor Party leader expected to take over
• France to ban plastic packaging for most fruit and vegetables from January 2022
• Indian shop assistants win the right to sit down, after years of standing up
• Flooding in China kills at least 28, including 13 in bus plunge
• Lockdown ends for 3,000 La Palma residents as volcano cloud passes
• Greek island of Crete hit by 6.4 earthquake sparking tsunami warning
• Samsung boss goes on trial on drugs charges
• Google countersues Epic Games arguing breach of contract
• Belongings of infamous Chicago gangster Al Capone go for at least $3 million at auction
• Czech president Milos Zeman taken to intensive care
• Thousands take part in pro-European demonstrations in Poland
• Pope Francis launches mass consultation on Church reform
• Death toll from alcohol poisoning incident in Russia rises to 34
• Italy hits target of fully vaccinating 80% of people over-12s
• Power returns to Lebanon after 24-hour blackout
• 5 dead, thousands displaced in floods in China’s Shanxi province
• US reopens green card lottery
• Afghan mosque blast kills at least 46 and wounds dozens
• Ireland will increase tax rate from 12.5% to 15% for large companies
• 58 per cent of cyberattacks on US, UK, and Ukraine came from Russia, Microsoft
• Norway to hit 100 per cent electric vehicle sales early next year
• Two men rescued after 29 days lost at sea, survived on oranges and rainwater
• Spain considers paying young people $290 a month to move out of their parents' home
• Michelin, GM team up to sell airless tires by 2024
• Apple is recognized as a monopoly in the Netherlands
• Google Search gets new feature that allows users to tune their guitars
• Nobel Peace Prize awarded to two journalists Filippino-American Maria Ressa and Russian Dmitry Muratov
• Eurovision song contest 2022 to take place in Turin, Italy
• Pfizer's Covid antiviral pill may cut severe illness by 89 percent
• US government offers $10M bounty for DarkSide ransomware hackers
• Latvia allows businesses to fire unvaccinated employees
• Pope Francis appoints first woman to serve as secretary-general of Vatican City
• New York's new mayor Eric Adams wants his first three pay cheques in Bitcoin
• Australia hosted the world’s first drag race between two flying cars
• Bezos’ Blue Origin loses NASA lawsuit over SpaceX $2.9 billion lunar lander contract
• Swedish band ABBA return with new album ‘Voyage’ after 40-year hiatus
• Xavi Hernandez is back at Barcelona as the club's new head coach
• Taliban bans foreign currencies in Afghanistan
• 90,000 Russian troops left near border with Ukraine following military exercise
• WHO approves India’s Covaxin, Covid vaccine for emergency use
• Eric Adams is elected mayor of New York City
• Facebook to shut down facial recognition system and delete face print data of 1 billion users
• Quentin Tarantino selling unseen Pulp Fiction scenes as NFTs
• Blizzard’s new co-leader steps down, Overwatch 2 and Diablo 4 delayed into 2023
• Covid-19 deaths pass 5 million worldwide, Johns Hopkins University
• French president Macron urged to allocate $100 billion a year to fight climate change at COP26 in Glasgow
• Germany to return Mayan ancient artifacts to Guatemala and Mexico
• Thailand reopens to vaccinated tourists from over 60 nations
• ‘Vax’ chosen as word of the year by Oxford English Dictionary firm
• ‘Squid Game’ crypto loses virtually all its value overnight after huge spikes to $2,856
• The Chinese version of 'Fortnite' will shut down on November 15th
• G20 leaders agree to enforce historic tax for large businesses of at least 15% by 2023
• Myanmar town shelled by government forces, more than 160 buildings destroyed, report
• Three protesters killed during Sudan democracy march as security forces open fire
• Moscow shuts down as Russia sees record virus cases, deaths
• US intelligence agencies admit the true origins of COVID-19 may never be known
• Ancient wooden Mayan canoe unearthed almost intact in Mexico
• Netflix releases official first trailer of The Witcher season 2 with Henry Cavill
• France detains British boat as fishing rights row intensifies
• Taiwan president confirms US troops are training soldiers on the island
• India tests ballistic missile with 5,000km range
• Hundreds of sea turtles wash up dead in Mexico
• Archaeologists discovered 500 previously unknown Maya and Olmec sites in Mexico using laser technology
• Facebook changes its company name to Meta
• Microsoft starts rolling out Windows 11 to more PCs
• More than one million Sudanese take to streets against coup
• Dutch court judges a historic collection of gold and treasures prompted by Russia's annexation of Crimea must return to Ukraine
• Massive cyberattack disrupts petrol stations in Iran
• Kashmir students face terror law for cheering Pakistan win
• Nasa’s astronomers found signs of first planet outside our galaxy
• Scientists discover trace of ancient life in a 2.5 billion-year-old ruby
• Blue Origin, Boeing reveal plan to build 'business park' space station
• Adobe launches beta versions of Photoshop, Illustrator for the web
• EU scientists reveal long-term brain damage caused by Covid
• Blast in Ugandan capital Kampala kills one, injures five
• Fire burns aboard container ship off British Columbia, Canada
• Personal data protection to become a fundamental right in Brazil
• Colombia's most wanted drug lord captured in jungle raid
• Earthquake of magnitude 6.2 hits Taiwan
• Egypt launches 1st international art exhibition at Giza Pyramids
• Ryan Gosling will play Ken in the movie about the Barbie doll
• India achieves the landmark of 1 billion COVID 19 vaccinations
• President Joe Biden says US would come to Taiwan's defence if needed
• Barbados elects first president, replacing UK Queen as head of state
• Huge explosion kills 16 at Russian gunpowder plant
• Luxembourg first in Europe to legalise growing and using cannabis
• China removes broadcasts of NBA games after player called for Tibetan independence
• More than 63,000 pounds (28,000 kg) of trash removed from large accumulation of ocean plastic
• Donald Trump's new social media platform 'TRUTH Social' gets hacked before launch
• SpaceX launches SN20 Starship prototype for the first time
• American actor Alec Baldwin fatally shoots cinematographer and injures director with prop gun on movie set
• Sony pictures reveal trailer for film adaptation of the video game “Uncharted” starring Tom Holland
• Haiti gang wants $17M ransom for kidnapped American and Canadian missionaries
• Portugal seizes cocaine worth €200m from yacht in Atlantic Ocean
• Malaysia has fully vaccinated over 70% of its population against COVID-19
• Africa's rare glaciers to disappear by 2040, climate report
• Scuba diver finds 900-year-old Crusader sword off the coast of Israel
• NASA’s Perseverance rover captures the sounds of Mars
• Google held Pixel 6 Fall Launch event, presented new flagship Android phones
• Kanye West officially changes his name to Ye
• Son of an ex-media adviser to a former prime minister of Somalia arrested over UK lawmaker stabbing
• 17 American and Canadian missionaries kidnapped by gang members in Haiti
• China tests nuclear-capable hypersonic missile
• Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez vows to abolish prostitution
• Melbourne, Australia to ease world’s longest Covid-19 lockdown
• Heavy rains, landslides leave 18 dead in south India
• OSCE Monitoring Mission in Donbass, Ukraine suspended its activities
• Russian team back on Earth after filming first movie in space
• The Batman's new trailer has been released during DC FanDome
• Explosion strikes Afghan mosque during prayers
• US donates 17 million J&J doses to African Union
• British member of parliament dies after being stabbed in London
• US to lift travel restrictions on November 8 for vaccinated international visitors
• French ticket holder wins record £184m (€218m) jackpot
• US military may get a dog-like robot armed with a sniper rifle
• Home Alone remake is coming to Disney+
• China to outlaw all news outlets not funded by Communist Party
• US Congress votes for short-term debt ceiling fix, averting default
• Several killed, more injured in bow and arrow attacks in Norway
• Monument honoring indigenous women to replace Columbus statue in Mexico City
• Sweden develops first satellite launch site in the EU
• Apple to make 10 million fewer iPhones due to microchip shortage
• Amazon India copied products and rigged search results to promote its own brands, documents show
• Adobe releases Chrome extension to edit PDFs directly on browser
• Tourism official claims tomb of Alexander the Great is in Siwa, Egypt
• Star Trek actor, William Shatner, aged 90, becomes oldest person to reach space on Blue Origin rocket
• Kraft Heinz boss says people must get used to higher food prices
• Iraq captures ISIS finance chief and former deputy leader
• Ancient documents suggest Italian sailors knew of America 150 years before Christopher Columbus
• Nobel prize for economics awarded to 3 US-based scientists for work on minimum wage
• Instagram to introduce "Take a Break" feature to nudge teenagers away from the platform
• Superman comes out as bisexual in new issues of DC comic book
• Chinese president Xi Jinping says he seeks peaceful 'unification' with Taiwan
• Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz announces resignation amid corruption investigation
• Ruling centrists party lost the Czech Republic’s parliamentary election
• US, Taliban hold first talks since Afghanistan withdrawal
• Lebanon hit by electricity outage expected to last several days due to fuel shortage
• Nestlé and Kellogg’s linked to human rights abuses and deforestation in Papua New Guinea
• SpaceX at over $100 billion is now the world's second most valued private company
• Facebook says outage affecting Instagram, Messenger, and more has been fixed
• The Grand Theft Auto trilogy is getting remastered for PC and consoles, including Nintendo Switch
• Taiwan says tension with China is the worst it's been in 40 years
• Granddaughter of Italy's fascist dictator Mussolini wins seat in Rome municipal vote
• Nato expels eight Russians from its mission for spying
• UK recognises Indian vaccine certificate: No quarantine for Covishield-vaccinated travellers from Oct 11
• Polish court rules EU laws incompatible with its constitution
• 100-year-old former SS guard goes on trial in Germany accused of 3,518 Nazi war crimes
• Belgian government confirm plans to propose a four-day working week
• Strong earthquake in southwest Pakistan kills at least 23
• Tokyo jolted by 6.1 earthquake - strongest since 2011 disaster
• Zanzibari novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the 2021 Nobel prize in literature
• Ukrainian becomes official language of Prudentopolis municipality in Brazil
• Far Cry 6 is out now, with some launch crashes on PC