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  • 6 January 2018: Mysterious dimming of Tabby’s star likely due to space dust, not alien superstructures, say scientists
  • 4 January 2018: England: Multi-storey carpark in Liverpool gutted by fire, 1,300 vehicles destroyed
  • 4 January 2018: Tennis: Andy Murray withdraws from Australian Open
  • 3 January 2018: Scaffolding collapses in Copenhagen
  • 31 December 2017: United States: New York City mayoral swear-in to pair potential 2020 presidential prospects
  • 30 December 2017: Football: Liverpool reaches agreement with Southampton FC to sign van Dijk
  • 30 December 2017: Israel transport minister Katz plans to name a railway station after US president Donald Trump
  • 30 December 2017: Belgium stops telegram services
  • 29 December 2017: Liberia: Former football striker George Weah wins presidential election
  • 28 December 2017: Afghanistan: More than 40 killed in explosions in Kabul

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  • Afghanistan: More than 40 killed in explosions in Kabul
  • Israeli Health minister Ya’akov Litzman resigns in protest after Jews made to work on Jewish rest day
  • Italian court sentences Brazilian footballer Robinho to nine years for 2013 sexual assault
  • Apple, Inc. confirms acquisition of Shazam
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  • Kazakhstan: President Nazarbayev signs decree to change Kazakh characters from Cyrillic to Latin-based script
  • England: Multi-storey carpark in Liverpool gutted by fire, 1,300 vehicles destroyed
  • Scaffolding collapses in Copenhagen
  • Russia: Runaway bus kills at least four in entrance to Moscow Metro station
  • Apple, Inc. confirms acquisition of Shazam
  • CMHC: housing market in Canada ‘highly vulnerable’
  • Uber London to lose operator licence after September
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  • Arrangement of light receptors in the eye may cause dyslexia, scientists say
  • Detroit teachers stage sickout to protest working conditions as Obama visits
  • Time magazine names Ahmed Mohamed to ‘Most Influential Teens of 2015’
  • U.S. government report says climate change is human-made
  • Researchers find preserving spotted owl habitat may not require a tradeoff with wildfire risk after all
  • India Supreme Court overrules High Court: rivers Yamuna, Ganga no longer living entities
  • England: Baby born with heart outside body operated on; surviving, three weeks after birth
  • Arrangement of light receptors in the eye may cause dyslexia, scientists say
  • Publisher withdraws book about Nelson Mandela’s final days after family complaint
  • Charles Manson, serving nine life sentences for 1969 murders, dies aged 83
  • US rock artist Tom Petty dies at 66
  • British actor Tony Booth dies at 85
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  • United States: New York City mayoral swear-in to pair potential 2020 presidential prospects
  • Liberia: Former football striker George Weah wins presidential election
  • Guatemalan president Jimmy Morales announces move of Israeli embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem
  • Belgium stops telegram services
  • Researchers report rapid formation of new bird species in Galápagos islands
  • Singapore announces driverless buses on public roads from 2022
  • Tennis: Andy Murray withdraws from Australian Open
  • Football: Liverpool reaches agreement with Southampton FC to sign van Dijk
  • UEFA Champions League 2017–2018: Draw for Last 16 held at Nyon
  • Wikinews interviews producer of horror film ‘6:66PM’
  • India Supreme Court overrules High Court: rivers Yamuna, Ganga no longer living entities
  • Google blocks home device from responding to Burger King commercial
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  • Liberia: Former football striker George Weah wins presidential election
  • Zimbabwe: Robert Mugabe resigns presidency after military coup, threat of impeachment
  • DR Congo: Train crash kills more than 30 in Lualaba province
  • Afghanistan: More than 40 killed in explosions in Kabul
  • Singapore announces driverless buses on public roads from 2022
  • GM posts first annual loss since 1992
  • Australia bars North Korea’s U-19 football team from entering country citing ‘illegal nuclear programmes’
  • New South Wales police extradict ‘self-healer’ Hongchi Xiao from London over death of six-year-old boy at conference
  • Australia: Victorian government to trial driverless vehicles on public roads
  • Fifteen states sue United States President Donald Trump for cancelling program for undocumented immigrant minors
  • Gunmen murder Honduran indigenous leader Berta Cáceres
  • Guatemalan Supreme Court approves impeachment of President Molina
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  • Scaffolding collapses in Copenhagen
  • Belgium stops telegram services
  • England: Fire at London Zoo kills aardvark, meerkats believed dead
  • Israel transport minister Katz plans to name a railway station after US president Donald Trump
  • Israeli chess players barred at Chess tournament in Saudi Arabia
  • Guatemalan president Jimmy Morales announces move of Israeli embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem
  • United States: New York City mayoral swear-in to pair potential 2020 presidential prospects
  • Apple, Inc. confirms acquisition of Shazam
  • Charles Manson, serving nine life sentences for 1969 murders, dies aged 83
  • Italian court sentences Brazilian footballer Robinho to nine years for 2013 sexual assault
  • Researchers report rapid formation of new bird species in Galápagos islands
  • Hurricane Nate weakens as it reaches United States


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