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19 May 2020

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News imageMikey Way

My Chemical Romance's Mikey: Lockdown 'just a pause'

My Chemical Romance had a comeback scheduled for 2020, but bassist Mikey says fans shouldn't panic.

News imageLuke Shortland with a kangaroo on his year abroad in Australia

'Why I'm staying up all night to study abroad'

University students in the UK are facing virtual year abroad courses amid the coronavirus pandemic.

News imagePicture of Rami Makhlouf on a mobile phone

Too big, too rich: Syrian president turns on his cousin

What's behind the angry videos posted by the billionaire relative of Bashar al-Assad?

News imageTeenage boy asleep on sofa

No school: 'He's not getting up until one o'clock'

Daunted by many more weeks of home-schooling? Don't panic, ask for help, say education professionals.

News imageHannah MacDonald in her nurses uniform, 2020

'I returned to nursing the day the pandemic was declared'

Hannah spent 12 years recovering from mental ill health, then happened to return to nursing the day Covid-19 was declared a pandemic.

News imageA woman poses against a wooden fence holding boxing gloves

Women photographers document lockdown

Members of the Association of Photographers have been recording their lockdown experiences.

News imageEmerson Weber writing a letter

Why we're seeing a letter-writing boom in lockdown

Stuck indoors, people are turning to an old way of keeping in touch - even Taylor Swift is joining in.

News imageGaspar Roman and Lorena Granados

Fires ravaged their livelihoods, then Covid-19 struck

Some tourist towns had barely survived fires when the virus hit, and locals say they are struggling.

News imagePolice on Yonge Street in Toronto after the attack

Teen charged in Canada's first 'incel' terror case

The 17-year-old boy is accused of fatally stabbing a woman at an erotic massage parlour this year.

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