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Australia's fires have killed at least three in recent days and left hundreds homeless or displaced. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/39DEnia

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Some 12,000 fireworks lit up the UK capital's skyline to usher in the start of the new decade. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2F6zFeN

Enthusiasts rave about cold water swimming - but the lifeguards must be ready to save lives in icy water. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/36ebCGp

While lots of people are celebrating the start of 2020, it's a different year altogether for some. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2FcfLPi

Their petition gained more than 180,000 signatures and led to a change in the law. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2uadQbZ

Craig Earley turned to bodybuilding after he was seriously injured in a car crash. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2ZFEZ1U

Said Jammal has spent 20 years building the family's unusual home in the Nigerian capital Abuja. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/36qn6qo

We tend to copy the way our friends and family behave, potentially leading us to put on weight or even divorce. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2MIDkDu

An increasing number of older people are turning to dating apps for mature people, in a quest for love. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/36dW9q9

A group of viruses, of which measles is one, are adept at jumping to species barrier. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/37rsXMw

LGBT activists are mounting legal battles against the Caribbean's colonial-era homophobic laws. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2sBFJcu

Four millennials on being the first black person some people meet, and other issues for black tourists. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/37uoJnn

Players say the virtual reality game makes them happier and healthier. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/37sD8Aa

Christmas is over, it's dark and cold - but there are plenty of bright spots on the horizon. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2QABINp

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The Scottish star helped the UK music industry towards a fifth consecutive year of growth. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/359zIB7

Smokers and ex-smokers who have quit report being in more pain than people who have never smoked. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/36fX8G6

New research suggests most people still want to book package holidays despite what happened after the collapse of Thomas Cook. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2rIc40I

"Begin cementing our unity one brick at a time," Archbishop of Canterbury says in new year message. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2Qb675T

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From rebellious numbers to state-backed trends, China's internet was a noisy place in 2019. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2QyXMbi

The Muslim community in Uttar Pradesh is living in fear after a new citizenship law came into effect. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/36bjZ5V

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Sue Hopkins stuck by her son Martin who has been a drug addict for most of his adult life. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/39tKd5m

From the ridiculous to the more ridiculous, the weird stories that caught the eye this year. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/39ndZch

Social media scandals dominate the list of the most-read news stories by the Tech desk this year. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/359u169

Children found the exits locked as they tried to escape what they thought was a fire in the cinema. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2F5FKYC

The year of treating the untreatable: 2019 breakthroughs that could transform medicine. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/35dMvSS

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The Link network should raise the fee it pays cash machine operators, say convenience store owners. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2MErOZW

Protests in Hong Kong, Chile and the Middle East all shared an online presence which helped connect the movements. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/37oZNO1

The government says it will boost pay by more than four times the rate of inflation. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2SIsGR5

More than 800 sightings of whales, dolphins and seals have been logged in British waters this year. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2MK4OJ3

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The world will face irreversible heating unless firms shift priorities, Mark Carney tells the BBC. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2F6wAeF

The activist's father says he thought her skipping school to fight climate change was a "bad idea". from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2FgrY5T

Five years on from Nigeria's Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act, discrimination seems to have worsened. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2MzPSNF

The Corbyn ally pledges to champion "progressive patriotism" as she considers standing to be party leader. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2smUkbP

The North Korean leader was speaking to senior party officials at a meeting in Pyongyang. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2SCROIQ

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The few remaining inhabitants of a bombed-out Syrian town take comfort from hundreds, perhaps thousands, of cats. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2MFNvJ9

The choice of great TV shows is strong as traditional broadcasters and online services do battle. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/37m1ig0

What did we buy and what did we leave on the shelf during a decade of invention and changing habits? from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2Q9OX8N

People diagnosed with autism in adulthood describe growing up believing they were "bad" or "alien". from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/353DXhz

How two friends created an online storytelling platform with more than 80 million global users. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/39qsBHx

Just before her first "handiversary", transplant miracle Cor Hutton explains why the smallest things mean so much. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2QbrhRz

With some blockbuster space missions underway, 2019 saw some amazing images beamed back to Earth. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2SCCSuA

Hydrogen-powered drones have several advantages to lithium ion-powered ones, says Dr Enass Abo-Hamed. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2Qyv76b

Grime's prospects were shaky in 2010, but the genre has ended the decade triumphantly. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2MHcNGN

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Artists and everyday people send images of life outside prison to inmates in solitary confinement. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2ZBapXx

Match of the Day pundits Ian Wright and Martin Keown discuss changing the offside rule in light of recent VAR controversies in the Premier League. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2Qagqr4

Rangers win at Celtic Park for the first time in nine years and cut the gap at the top to two points, with a game in hand. (UK only) from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2SBnMW7

How well do you remember events in England from the past decade? from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2F6emK4

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The president retweets a post naming the alleged whistleblower whose complaint led to his impeachment. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/36h4c5D

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Fox News Breaking News Alert New York synagogue stabbing attack results in several injuries: reports 12/28/19 7:52 PM

An "unflinching" look at the causes of Labour's defeat is needed, rather than a "simple review", ex-MPs say. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2EZeRFS

Victoria Hall, 17, was abducted and killed on her way home from a nightclub. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2QsyADd

A charity watchdog says the UK government needs to make the statutory rate a "legal reality". from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/39kNZhn

Toys R Us, Borders, Maplin and BHS are some big names that have disappeared over the last decade. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2ZC6nhl

U2, who recently performed in Mumbai, are one among many bands lining up to tour India. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2Q6vGoP

The BBC's John Simpson recalls witnessing the communist bloc's collapse in three revolutions. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2Q4GNON

Christel Callow and Nick Haves both needed money for specialist cancer treatment. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2Q44neM

Justin Trudeau legalised cannabis in Canada. So why are people still breaking the law? from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2ZvDHqe

A selection of the best science and environment features published this year. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/39lbO90

Grace Beverley just graduated from uni and has turned her side project into a full-time career. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2tf8DyQ

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Researchers say 41 mass killings claimed 211 lives this year, even as the overall homicide rate fell. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2stFRuy

Dan Rainsford and Sam Chatterley set up a group so other stay-at-home fathers don't feel alone. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2EYfqjn

Joanna is an urban gardener trying to reconnect with nature in Singapore. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2tVLB0l

The boxes are given to families to support them while caring for someone with dementia. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2siaEKR

A selection of the best news photographs from around the world in 2019. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2Qp7lJI

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Beauty entrepreneur Huda Kattan says women can still express themselves in conservative Muslim societies. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2FbqGcl

A selection of the best news photographs from around the UK in 2019. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2Q4DA1G

Taiwan has been declared polio free since 2000 and some of the last polio survivors have decided to band together to dance wheelchair ballroom dancing. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/367iXYs

After being trafficked for sex by her family as a child, puppeteer Raven wants to show people healing is possible through art. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/39hTQUP

Tomas Tama has spent 30 years protecting the reptiles in Ethiopia, despite once being bitten. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/37gAe1E

From Adele's comeback to Glastonbury's birthday bash, here's the best music of the next 12 months. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2Q4BX44

With around one million species at risk, how do conservationists decide what species to save? from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2EYbhf5

Maya was one of dozens of trans women killed in Pakistan in recent years, many of the murders unsolved. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2EZKejz

The plan to revitalise Gare du Nord will include sports areas and medical labs - but critics are not convinced. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2rCMVEM

Opposition to vaccination has its roots in a militancy that was at its height more than 100 years ago. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2MuM407

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"You are there for women at their most vulnerable," the Duchess of Cambridge says in an open letter to midwives. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2MBv48n

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