CORENEWS: November 2020

Facebook to pay UK media millions to license news stories

Social network agrees deal with mainstream outlets in face of government crackdown on its dominance of advertising

Facebook is to pay mainstream UK news outlets millions of pounds a year to license their articles, as the social network faces the threat of a government crackdown over its dominance of online advertising.

Most British newspaper groups have signed up to the programme, under which their articles will appear in a dedicated news section on the site that is due to launch in January.

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Study finds indications of life on Doggerland after devastating tsunamis

Scientists suggest parts of expanse that once connected Britain to mainland Europe survived waves and had settlements

Breaking away from Europe has never been straightforward.

Eight thousand years ago, a series of enormous tsunamis swept through the North Sea and struck the coast of what is now Britain, with devastating effects.

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UK food bank trust says half of users repaying universal credit debts

Food bank users more commonly in debt to government than to friends or payday loan firms

It is now more common for people using food banks to be in debt to the government than to family and friends or payday loan companies, the Trussell Trust has said.

The UK’s biggest food bank network said half of all households visiting food banks struggled to afford essential goods such as food and clothes because they were repaying universal credit debts.

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Helena Bonham Carter says The Crown should stress to viewers it's a drama

Actor who plays Princess Margaret adds her voice to calls for Netflix to add a disclaimer

Helena Bonham Carter has said The Crown has a “moral responsibility” to tell viewers that it is a drama, rather than historical fact, in the wake of calls for a “health warning” for people watching the series.

The actor, who played Princess Margaret in series three and four of the Netflix hit drama, told an official podcast for the show that there was an important distinction between “our version”, and the “real version”.

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Coronavirus live news: US may begin vaccinations before Christmas; Vietnam sees first case in three months

WHO ‘will do everything’ to find Covid origin; Mexico and Brazil seeing ‘alarming’ case surge; Opec to hold a second day of talks on Tuesday

12.45am GMT

The World Tourism Organization called Monday for the standardisation of traveller health checks and the establishment of air corridors to ease international travel during the pandemic, AFP reports.

The call came at a conference in Spain’s Canary Islands as the global tourism industry reels from a year in which travel restrictions to slow the coronavirus pandemic have decimated the sector.

12.32am GMT

After a Thanksgiving weekend when the number of people traveling through US airports reached its highest since mid-March, a top government official said on Monday some Americans could begin receiving coronavirus vaccinations before Christmas, Reuters reports.

US Health Secretary Alex Azar said Pfizer Inc’s Covid-19 vaccine could be authorised and shipped within days of a Dec. 10 meeting of outside advisers to the Food and Drug Administration tasked with reviewing trial data and recommending whether it warrants approval.

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Newcastle's entire squad in Covid-19 self-isolation after significant outbreak

Game with Aston Villa on Friday now in jeopardy
Training ground closed until Wednesday at the earliest

Newcastle’s Premier League game at Aston Villa on Friday is in danger of postponement after Steve Bruce’s entire first-team squad were asked to self-isolate on Monday amid a growing Covid-19 outbreak at the north-east club.

The training ground will not reopen until Wednesday at the earliest after a specially ordered set of coronavirus tests on Sunday revealed a significant number of players and staff had recorded positive results.

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Funds for mass Covid testing offered to local authorities in tier 3

Areas of England under the toughest rules can run supported programmes

Local authorities in tier 3, with the toughest Covid restrictions, will be invited to apply for funds to run mass testing programmes of people with no symptoms, in hopes of driving down the virus and moving to tier 2, the government has said.

Public health directors will be able to put forward proposals for testing in those parts of their communities most at risk from the virus, if they so choose, which could be particular neighbourhoods or workplaces where infection rates are high.

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Surgeon general: What to do if you had an unsafe Thanksgiving

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Thai protest leaders hear police charges of defaming king

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LA residents say homeless crisis growing with 'McMansion tents'

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Will Trump's refusal to concede cost the GOP its Senate majority?

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Ex-U.S. cybersecurity chief Chris Krebs tells 60 Minutes how he knows the 2020 election wasn't rigged

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Tony Hsieh, the late former CEO of Zappos, famously pioneered the concept of paying new, unhappy employees $2,000 to quit in order to maintain a happy, productive workforce

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Millionaire Kelly Loeffler mocked for ad claiming she knows what it ‘feels like waiting on that paycheck’

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NY GOP House candidate Claudia Tenney blasts Gov. Cuomo for 'confusion' surrounding uncalled race

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'World's loneliest elephant' Kaavan starts trip to Cambodia

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A Responsible Withdrawal From Afghanistan

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Police Body Cameras Cited as ‘Powerful Tool’ Against Stop-and-Frisk Abuses

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Arizona and Wisconsin Certify Biden’s Wins: ‘The System Is Strong’

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How Will Biden Deal With Republican Sabotage?

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Restrictions push the San Francisco 49ers to Arizona for December.

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Amazon deforestation surges to 12-year high under Bolsonaro

An area seven times larger than Greater London has been lost in what one activist called a ‘humiliating and shameful’ destruction

A vast expanse of Amazon rainforest seven times larger than Greater London was destroyed over the last year as deforestation surged to a 12-year high under Brazil’s far-right president Jair Bolsonaro.

Figures released by the Brazilian space institute, Inpe, on Monday showed at least 11,088 sq km of rainforest was razed between August 2019 and July this year – the highest figure since 2008.

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Biden Fractures Foot Playing With His Dog, Putting Him in a Boot

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Trump said world leaders complained to him about the election results — but most of them have already congratulated Biden

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Man who attacked ex-girlfriend killed by victim's mom and sister with golf club and kitchen knife, California police say

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The Trump campaign wound up spending $3 million to increase Biden's lead in Wisconsin

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Over 300 detained in Belarus during anti-government protests

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Biden COVID-19 adviser: Many who celebrated Thanksgiving with family or friends will be in ICUs over Christmas

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Mother of teenager killed by police is shot during funeral service, report says

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Jared Kushner heading to Saudi Arabia and Qatar in last ditch effort to resolve Gulf dispute

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Israel nominates controversial right-wing figure to head Holocaust memorial

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The King of Trump TV Thinks You’re Dumb Enough to Buy It

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What We Learned From Week 12 of the N.F.L. Season

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Biden’s doctor says president-elect has hairline fracture after twisting his ankle playing with dog.

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Biden team wants to tackle child care, elder care, preschool in one overarching plan.

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Royal Society of Literature reveals historic changes to improve diversity

Eminent group adds pens of Andrea Levy and Jean Rhys to its collection as it sets out to champion writers of colour

The late Andrea Levy, author of the award-winning Windrush novel Small Island, is to become the first writer of colour to have her pen join the Royal Society of Literature’s historic collection, which includes pens belonging to George Eliot and Lord Byron.

The eminent society, which was founded in 1820, periodically appoints new fellows deemed to have published works of “outstanding literary merit”. Fellows are then invited to sign their names in the society’s roll book, using the pen of a “historically influential” UK writer – either Charles Dickens (although his pen was retired in 2013), TS Eliot, Byron or George Eliot. Now, as the RSL sets out to champion the writers of colour with a series of new appointments and initiatives, it has added Levy to this list, alongside Wide Sargasso Sea author Jean Rhys.

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Edinson Cavani could face three-game ban as FA investigates social media post

FA to look into Instagram story post which uses ‘negrito’ term
Cavani will face minimum three-game ban if found guilty

Edinson Cavani, the Manchester United striker, could face a three-game ban if the Football Association deems that he used discriminatory or racist language in an Instagram story shared from his account on Sunday evening.

The FA has confirmed it is investigating the post, which was published shortly after United’s 3-2 win over Southampton, in which Cavani scored two goals after coming on as a half-time substitute.

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Environment to benefit from ‘biggest farming shake-up in 50 years’

£1.6bn subsidies for owning land in England to end, with funds going to improve nature

Wildlife, nature and the climate will benefit from the biggest shake-up in farming policy in England for 50 years, according to government plans.

The £1.6bn subsidy farmers receive every year for simply owning land will be phased out by 2028, with the funds used instead to pay them to restore wild habitats, create new woodlands, boost soils and cut pesticide use.

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Coronavirus live news: Fauci warns of 'surge upon surge' in US cases after Thanksgiving

Turkey suffers seventh straight day of record deaths; Lebanon to slowly relax restrictions; New York begins reopening schools.

12.39am GMT

Coronavirus infections in England have fallen by nearly a third since the country entered its second lockdown, swab tests on 105,000 volunteers have shown.

There was a 30% drop in cases across the country over almost a fortnight this month, with 96 people infected per 10,000 between 13-24 November, down from 132 per 10,000 between 26 October and 2 November.

12.18am GMT

Dr Fauci also said the arrival of vaccines offers a “light at the end of the tunnel”, AP reports. This coming week, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will meet with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to discuss a rollout of the vaccine, he said.

He added that President-elect Joe Biden should focus on distributing vaccines in an “efficient and equitable way.” Fauci also said he planned to push the new administration for a rigorous testing program.

Health care workers will likely be among the first to get the vaccine, with the first vaccinations happening before the end of December, followed by many more in January, February and March, he said.

“So if we can hang together as a country and do these kinds of things to blunt these surges until we get a substantial proportion of the population vaccinated, we can get through this,” Fauci said.

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Nearly a third of English hospital trusts exceed first peak of Covid patients

Scientists warn that scrapping or relaxing tier system too quickly could imperil NHS

Nearly a third of England’s hospital trusts have exceeded their first-wave peak of Covid patients undergoing treatment, as scientists warned that relaxing or scrapping the three-tier system too quickly could further hamper the NHS.

Hospitals trusts in South Somerset and Devon treated more than twice as many Covid patients on at least one day last week as they did at the peak of the first wave in spring, Guardian analysis shows. However, because tier decisions are based on a range of data, both areas will go into tier 2 from Thursday.

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For Trump, Past Is Prologue

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Ransomware Attack Closes Baltimore County Public Schools

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Biden names all-female communications team with Jen Psaki as press secretary.

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Jennifer Psaki to Be Press Secretary as Biden Names All-Female Communications Team

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An underground New York club with 400 people was shut down for violating coronavirus restrictions.

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One of the warm-up bouts was canceled after a fighter tested positive for the coronavirus.

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A Cat Is Said to Be Joining the Bidens in the White House

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Brazen Killings Expose Iran’s Vulnerabilities as It Struggles to Respond

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Joe Joyce takes titles after forcing Daniel Dubois to quit in 10th round

Joyce now British and European heavyweight champion
Dubois suffers first defeat of his professional career

Joe Joyce, a 3-1 underdog and the antithesis of a growling heavyweight beast, forced his younger unbeaten opponent, Daniel Dubois, to quit in the 10th round at the historic Church House in Westminster on Saturday night and he will now take the British, Commonwealth and European titles on to the world stage.

When Dubois took a knee in centre ring, his left eye shut, he disappointed his army of supporters and Joyce, the most unassuming of champions, quietly raised his arm in triumph.

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GOP congressman calls party's refusal to acknowledge Biden's win a 'massive grift' and says Trump 'forgot he was serving people and not himself'

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Indonesia police say suspected militants kill 4 villagers

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The Trump campaign wound up spending $3 million to increase Biden's lead in Wisconsin

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Ex-Overstock CEO Says He’s Put Together an ‘Army of Various Odd People’ to Save Trump

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White rice spikes blood sugar levels and 'has almost the same effect as eating pure table sugar,' according to Harvard Medical School

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This CNN Host Plans to Hold Biden’s Feet to the Fire on Climate Change

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Hundreds protest outside Israelí leader's Jerusalem home

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26 disappointing photos that show the ugly truth of living in a tiny house

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Top Contenders for Biden's Cabinet Draw Fire From All Sides

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A bride wore a gold wedding dress with a plunging neckline that was covered in head-to-toe sparkles

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This could be quite popular. What’s that mean for boxing at large?

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Are these fights real?

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Who’s bankrolling this spectacle?

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Brazen Killings Expose Iran’s Vulnerabilities as It Struggles to Respond

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How Tony Hsieh Tried to Single-Handedly Transform Downtown Las Vegas

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Six-Pack

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Let’s Talk About Higher Wages

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Boko Haram reported to have killed dozens of farm workers in Nigeria

43 slaughtered and a further six seriously injured, say anti-jihadist militia

Boko Haram fighters killed at least 43 farm workers and wounded six in rice fields near the north-east Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Saturday, anti-jihadist militia told AFP.

The assailants tied up the agricultural workers and slit their throats in the village of Koshobe, the militia said.

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They're baaack: Trump and allies still refuse election loss

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China's top diplomat touts S. Korea ties amid row with US

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Indonesian minister apologizes after arrest on bribe charge

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Trump news: President loses Pennsylvania appeal as he backtracks on vow to leave peacefully

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'It'll upset a few fellows': Royal Society adds Jocelyn Bell Burnell portrait

Painting of astrophysicist joins male-dominated collection at organisation’s London HQ

A British astrophysicist who made one of the most significant scientific discoveries of the 20th century but was overlooked by the Nobel prize committee has joined the male-dominated portrait collection of the Royal Society.

Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell was a 24-year-old graduate student when in 1967 she discovered a new type of star later called a pulsar. It was a sensational find, recognised with the Nobel prize for physics in 1974 that went not to her, but to her male PhD supervisor.

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Inspectors moving between Covid-hit England care homes without tests

Leaks reveal fears of increased infection risk for residents and inspectors

Health inspectors in England have been moving between care homes with high levels of Covid-19 infection without being tested, raising fears they have put more residents at risk of catching the virus, leaks to the Guardian have revealed.

In recent weeks all care home inspections carried out in the north of England have been of infected homes, including a facility where 38 of the 41 people receiving care and 30 staff – almost half of the workers – had tested positive, internal documents from the Care Quality Commission show.

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Biden reportedly considering a retired four-star general to lead US military, would be first Black defense secretary if confirmed

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Academic detained in Iran for 2 years returns to Australia

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South Korean intelligence believes North Korea is nervous about dealing with Biden administration

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Investigation underway after inmate shot, killed by correctional officer

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Donald Trump Jr. says he is 'all done with the Rona' and ends his COVID-19 isolation to celebrate Thanksgiving days after announcing his positive test

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An Arkansas man received a racist letter calling him 'the laughing stock of the neighborhood' for displaying a Black Santa Claus on his property

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Ethiopian PM rejects Tigray conflict talks in AU meeting

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Thanksgiving: Millions celebrate in shadow of coronavirus

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New rule could allow gas, firing squads for US executions

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Cambodia begins mass trial of opposition activists

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For the World Economy, a Grim Slog Tempered by New Hopes

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Los Angeles County urges residents to stay home and bars gatherings of mixed households.

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Coronavirus live news: US hospitalisations at record level as Victoria passes elimination benchmark

US surpasses 13m Covid cases as experts urge caution over Thanksgiving weekend; Trudeau previously warned country would not get first doses; Italy to ease measures in five regions

11.37pm GMT

The Australian state of Queensland has recorded no locally acquired cases of Covid-19 on Saturday.

The state, which has been virus-free for a considerable amount of time, is set to finally reopen its borders to NSW and Victoria on 1 December.

Saturday, November 28 – coronavirus cases in Queensland:

• 0 locally acquired
• 1 acquired overseas
• 13 active cases
• 1,199 total confirmed cases
• 1,348,906 tests conducted

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11.33pm GMT

The coronavirus testing numbers that have guided much of the nation’s response to the pandemic are likely to be erratic over the next week or so, experts said Friday, as fewer people get tested during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend and testing sites observe shorter hours.

The AP reports the result could be potential dips in reported infections that offer the illusion that the spread of the virus is easing when, in fact, the numbers say little about where the nation stands in fighting COVID-19.

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US surpasses 13m Covid cases as experts urge caution over Thanksgiving weekend

110,000 new coronavirus cases and 90,000 people hospitalized Thursday
CDC predicts deaths could rise by 300,000 in next month

America’s coronavirus surge showed no sign of abating over the Thanksgiving holiday, as cases in the country surpassed 13 million on Friday.

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Dua Lipa: Studio 2054 live stream review – perfect escapist pop

The singer’s online show had a charming Top of the Pops vibe despite its – often star-studded – shortcomings

Of all the high-profile live streams that have sprung up in lieu of actual gigs in recent months, Dua Lipa’s is, by some considerable distance, the most star-studded. Its list of special guests encompasses everyone from Elton John to FKA twigs to Kylie Minogue: proof, should you need it, of the dominant position the 25 year old singer currently occupies in pop.

By common consent, 2020 has been her year, thanks to her second album, Future Nostalgia, which has earned her six Grammy nominations and spawned a succession of global hit singles: the kind of success that even Madonna wants to get involved in, making an appearance on a remix of the single Levitation.

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Belushi review – comedy, tragedy – but not much history

While poignant, this documentary about legendary comic John Belushi – who died in 1982, aged 33– was straightforwardly reverential rather than truly insightful

Watching Belushi (Sky Documentaries) – a two-hour programme about the man who rose quickly through the comedy ranks, from Chicago’s Second City troupe to National Lampoon and then Saturday Night Live, and became an all-conquering star before dying of an overdose at 33 – I realised something. Past a certain age point, you weary of the story in both general and specific terms.

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Man sues for refund of $2.5m he donated to Trump election challenge group

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Trump news – live: President says he will campaign for Republicans in Georgia and refuses to confirm whether he will attend his inauguration

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Disney Cruise Line, P&O Cruises extend COVID-19 sailing suspension into 2021

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Mexican Army’s ‘Secret Brotherhood’ Forced General’s Release

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Apple is reportedly moving iPad production out of China for the first time ever because of Trump's trade war

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Thai protesters push on despite charges of royal defamation

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El adiós a Maradona nos revela a la Argentina

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Trump, Still Claiming Victory, Says He Will Leave if Electors Choose Biden

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A Poem of Gratitude from Oklahoma

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NHS to trial blood test to detect more than 50 forms of cancer

Researchers hopes Galleri trial will be a ‘gamechanger’ for early diagnosis and save many lives

The NHS is to trial a simple blood test that may help identify more than 50 forms of cancer years before diagnosis, in what it hailed as a potential “gamechanger”.

If successful the blood test, known as Galleri, could revolutionise early diagnosis of cancer and save many lives by identifying symptoms quickly enough for prompt treatment to make the difference between life and death.

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A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path wins oddest book title of the year

Anthropological study of metaphor takes 2020 Diagram prize, pulling ahead of Introducing the Medieval Ass in public vote

A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path has beaten Introducing the Medieval Ass to win the Diagram prize for oddest book title of the year.

Both books are academic studies, with the winning title by University of Alberta anthropologist Gregory Forth. It sees Forth look at how the Nage, an indigenous people primarily living on the islands of Flores and Timor, understand metaphor, and use their knowledge of animals to shape specific expressions. The title itself is an idiom for someone who begins a task but is then distracted by other matters.

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Coronavirus live news: US sees muted Thanksgiving day as hospitalisations soar

US reports more than 180,000 cases as holiday begins; 99% of England’s population face tough new curbs; Asta Zeneca likely to begin new trial of vaccine. Follow the developments live

Scrutiny grows over Oxford University/AstraZeneca vaccine

US cases, hospitalisations and deaths rise amid Thanksgiving rush

Surge of Aids-related deaths feared as Covid pandemic puts gains at risk

Christmas and Covid: is mixing households a good idea?

12.38am GMT

Sadiq al-Mahdi, Sudan’s last democratically elected leader and the great-grandson of the messianic figure who fought the British in the 19th century, has died from the coronavirus, Reuters reports.

Mahdi, who was a central figure in Sudan’s political and spiritual life for more than half a century, was being treated in the United Arab Emirates.

12.33am GMT

Amazon has announced plans to spend more than $500m on one-time bonuses for its front-line employees in the United States who are working the holiday season amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Full-time operations staff in the United States who are employed by Amazon for the month of Decembe will receive a bonus of $300, while those in part-time roles will get $150, the online retailer said in a blog post.

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Rent review – touching New York tale … with very little touching

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Luke Sheppard’s smart production of the classic rock musical, slickly recorded at Hope Mill theatre, Manchester, makes the most of social distancing

The stage is bustling with so much life in Luke Sheppard’s production of Rent at Hope Mill theatre, Manchester, that it takes a while to notice that none of the cast are touching. This slickly filmed production of Jonathan Larson’s electric musical was rehearsed and created with the cast and crew forming a bubble, each being tested regularly throughout the process. The lack of physical contact is not a Covid safety measure, but an artistic choice.

The classic rock musical tells the story of penniless artists struggling to survive in downtown New York, navigating broken relationships, overdue rent and the Aids crisis. The almost total absence of tactility in this production could be seen as an extension of the characters’ sense of isolation. When, at key moments, they eventually do hold hands or hug, warmth seeps across the stage.

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New Hampshire Republicans want to impeach the state's GOP governor for requiring people to wear a mask in public places

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Footsoldiers of democracy, election officials became targets of rage

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Conspiracy theorist Trump lawyer Sidney Powell sues in Georgia and Michigan with error-filled ‘Kraken’ suits

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Donald Trump commits to leaving White House if Joe Biden wins Electoral College vote

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Volunteers discuss side-effects after receiving Moderna and Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines

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Argentina, and Latin America, Mourn Maradona as a Man of the People

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Donald Trump says he will leave White House if electoral college votes for Joe Biden

President’s comments are the closest he has come to admitting defeat in election and set stage for college vote on 14 December

Donald Trump has said that he will leave the White House when the electoral college votes for Democratic president-elect Joe Biden in the closest the outgoing president has come to conceding defeat.

Biden won the presidential election with 306 electoral college votes – many more than the 270 required – to Trump’s 232. Biden also leads Trump by more than 6 million in the popular vote tally.

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Medical staff urge Priti Patel to close barracks housing asylum seekers

Letter to home secretary raises concerns about sites holding 600 men in Kent and Pembrokeshire

Healthcare professionals have called for former army barracks being used to house asylum seekers to be closed over concerns about the residents’ wellbeing.

Medical staff have written to the home secretary, Priti Patel, with a damning assessment, to raise concerns about the sites at Napier barracks in Kent and Penally barracks in Pembrokeshire, which between them are holding more than 600 men.

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Students may be compensated for lost teaching during UK lockdown

Watchdog orders university to pay student £1,000, but NUS says complaints process is ‘farcical’

Students could be awarded financial compensation for lost teaching time during the Covid-19 lockdown after the higher education complaints watchdog told an institution to pay £1,000 to an international student.

However, the National Union of Students (NUS) described the process for dealing with complaints about university disruption during the pandemic as “farcical” and “inadequate” as the Office of the Independent Adjudicator published details of a handful of individual cases.

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Test and trace fails to contact 110,000 in English Covid hot spots

Exclusive: Private firms reach 58% of close contacts in 20 worst-hit areas in second wave

The government’s £22bn test-and-trace system has failed to reach more than 100,000 people exposed to coronavirus in England’s worst-hit areas since the second wave began, official figures show, with four in 10 not asked to self-isolate.

A Guardian analysis found that the privately run arm of the test-and-trace programme had reached 58% of the close contacts of infected people in the country’s 20 worst-hit areas since 9 September, having barely improved since its launch.

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Biden, in message ahead of Thanksgiving, says ‘We’ll get our lives back’ after the COVID-19 pandemic

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Report: Inmates killed in Colombia riot shot intentionally

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Former Republican House speaker Paul Ryan tells Trump to concede and stop ‘undermining democracy’

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Biden Urges Unity: ‘We’re at War With the Virus, Not With One Another’

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Coronavirus live news: Germany extends partial lockdown as world suffers record daily deaths

Global cases pass 60m; nearly 13,000 daily deaths reported worldwide; the Americas reported more than 1.5m cases in the last seven days

11.47pm GMT

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the country’s 16 state governors on Wednesday agreed to extend a partial shutdown well into December in an effort to further reduce the rate of Covid-19 infections ahead of the Christmas period.

Germany embarked on a so-called “wave-breaker” shutdown on 2 November, closing restaurants, bars, sports and leisure facilities but leaving schools, shops and hair salons open. It was initially slated to last four weeks.

Merkel said the measures will now be extended until at least 20 December, with a goal of pushing the number of new coronavirus cases in each region below 50 per 100,000 inhabitants per week.

“We have to continue to pursue this goal,” she told reporters in Berlin.

Merkel said that while existing measures have succeeded in halting a surge in new coronavirus infections, they have stabilised at a high level.

Germany’s disease control agency, the Robert Koch Institute, reported 18,633 new cases over the past 24 hours — compared with 17,561 a week earlier.

“We can’t be satisfied with this partial success,” she said, noting that health officials on Wednesday also reported 410 deaths linked to Covid-19, the highest single-day total yet.

“(This) reminds us in the saddest way that behind the statistics are human fates,” Merkel said.

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Diego Maradona: the achingly human superstar who embodied Argentina | Marcela Mora y Araujo

Maradona was a perfect representation of the human ability to be contradictory, to convey ugly and beautiful at once

“A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity” – Friedrich Nietzsche, on love, perseverance, and moving beyond good v evil.

Diego Maradona said that when you’ve been to the moon and back, things get difficult. “You become addicted to the moon and it’s not always possible to come back down.”

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