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  1. The virus tightens its grip

    The WHO declared a pandemic

  2. Super Tuesday for Joe Biden

    The former vice-president was the big winner in the races to choose a Democrat candidate

  3. Coronavirus infects the markets

    Stock markets have been plunging

  4. Massive job cuts at HSBC

    As profits plunge, HSBC says it will axe 35,000 jobs, and move back to its roots

  5. Ireland election: The cuddly winners

    Sinn Fein shed its terror-linked past to poll the most votes

  6. Trump triumphant

    The president was acquitted, while the Democrats' Iowa caucuses ended in chaos

  7. Mideast peace: US and Israel side by side

    President Trump laid out his plan. The Palestinians weren't involved

  8. 25/01/2020 GMT

    What's been happening around the world and why it matters

  9. Impeachment: endgame begins

    President Trump's trial in the Senate is due to begin on Tuesday

  10. The war that wasn't

    The US and Iran stepped back from the brink

  11. The US kills Iran's mastermind

    A drone strike in Baghdad killed General Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Quds force

  12. Australia burning

    Fires in Australia, locusts in Somalia and a revelation from our Religion Editor

  13. Donald Trump is impeached

    The House of Representatives voted to send the President for trial in the Senate

  14. Boris Johnson wins big

    The British prime minister secured a huge majority in the general election

  15. NATO takes on China - and Trump

    The alliance decided to focus on China - and to answer criticism from the US president

  16. The rich countries where people are dying younger

    Life expectancy in the US has fallen for the past three years. Why?

  17. Why the prince left public life

    Prince Andrew gave a television interview which aroused public outrage

  18. Trump impeachment hearings go public

    Television is carrying the evidence as officials give it

  19. Iran in the crosshairs

    There's growing pushback against Iranian involvement in Iraq and Lebanon

  20. The death of Baghdadi

    President Trump said the IS leader detonated a suicide vest during a US attack

  21. The future of computing?

    Google says it has achieved quantum supremacy - with ground-breaking new technology

  22. The Syrians move back in

    Syrian forces moved back towards the Turkish border, after the Kurds asked them to help

  23. Turkey goes to war

    Turkish troops moved into Kurdish-occupied northern Syria

  24. UK makes its move

    The new government put its Brexit proposals to the EU

  25. Trouble at the top

    Donald Trump and Boris Johnson both suffered major setbacks this week

  26. Saudi oil industry attacked

    Drones and missiles took out half the kingdom's production

  27. Did he lie to the Queen?

    Judges said Boris Johnson's official reasons for suspending parliament were unlawful

  28. It's all pointing to a UK election

    Britain's prime minister suffered some bruising defeats - but an election is coming

  29. Protests as UK parliament is suspended

    Parliament will not sit for five weeks in the run-up to Brexit

  30. A new dawn for Sudan

    New part-civilian authorities were sworn in.

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