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Covid: UK at 'tipping point', top scientist warns

Covid: BAME people's mental health 'forgotten about'

Irina Slavina: Final protest of Russian journalist who set herself on fire

Covid-19: Councils could spend £1.7bn over budget by March as costs rise

Wikipedia article of the day for October 11, 2020

‘We were students negotiating with armed guerrillas for my father’s life’

The tale of Algeria's stolen cannon and France's cockerel

Trump-aged Covid survivors on the president and the pandemic

Covid: Student anger over 'junk' food parcels in isolation

Covid-19: Father shares antibodies after daughter's death

UK recalls ambassador to Belarus amid unrest

Security staff 'cut by a third' at Glasgow and Aberdeen airports

Lone Scottish dolphin Yoda spotted off Denmark

Covid: What is the mental health cost to the young?

'Red Wall' Tories form group to campaign for northern England

In pictures: Scotland's last orders

Hathras case: A woman repeatedly reported rape. Why are police denying it?

From beats to eats: How nightclubs try to survive

Wikipedia article of the day for October 10, 2020

Why Trump wants Sudan to befriend Israel

What we can expect to see at North Korea's 'biggest military parade'

Halle synagogue attack: Neo-Nazi trial revives horror of attack

Africa's week in pictures: 2-8 October 2020

US Army trials augmented reality goggles for dogs

M to the B - the Blackpool grime MC behind TikTok's most popular video

Facebook deleting QAnon pages - But what is it?

Millie B: The Blackpool rapper behind 'M to the B' viral hit

Coronavirus: 'My bank account request disappeared down a hole'

UK chefs campaign for more political clout

U2's Joshua Tree voted the best album of the 1980s

Australia partner visas to require English test under new law

Four years and counting: The epic China-US takeover

How Saint Maud film taps into the horror of loneliness

Kyrgyzstan election: Euphoria turns to insecurity as mob rule spreads

Four years and counting: The epic China-US takeover

Coronavirus: Curbs 'a blessing in disguise for prisons'

Government to face pressure over planning changes

Government to pay £2m to settle coronavirus testing case

UK passport photo checker shows bias against dark-skinned women

Coronavirus: Curbs 'a blessing in disguise for prisons'

Let depressed teens postpone exams, say researchers

Homebuyers look to country and coast to escape cities

Cambridge Analytica 'not involved' in Brexit referendum, says watchdog

Coronavirus: How A&E is coping in the pandemic

Artist Duncan Grant erotic drawings kept under bed worth £2m

Hathras case: A fatal assault, a cremation and no goodbye

Are wildfires the end of the Californian dream?

The friends who drove a bus behind the Iron Curtain

Coronavirus in Africa: Five reasons why Covid-19 has been less deadly than elsewhere

Giant hogweed: One man's battle against 'toxic invader'

Wikipedia article of the day for October 8, 2020

UK passport photo checker shows bias against dark-skinned women

Government to pay £2m to settle coronavirus testing case

US Election 2020: Your most pressing questions answered

Kamala Harris: Where does she stand on key issues?

US tech giants accused of 'monopoly power'

Facebook bans QAnon conspiracy theory accounts across all platforms

Navalny poisoning: Kremlin critic recalls near-death Novichok torment

Greece Golden Dawn: Neo-Nazi party faces crime organisation verdict

Covid and Trump: The president's healthcare v the average American's

Coronavirus threatening expat exodus from the UAE

Kamala, Kashmir and Modi's friend all on ballot in US election

Venezuelans brave 'brutal' migrant route made tougher by pandemic

Fighting Covid-19 in Afghanistan over the phone

Wikipedia article of the day for October 7, 2020

Covid hospital cases jump nearly 25% in England

Covid-19: NHS tests threatened by Roche supply chain failing

Coronavirus: Manchester universities move teaching online

Coronavirus: 'Rule of six' doesn't make sense, say rebel Tory MPs

Dominic Raab does not rule out Winter Olympics boycott over Uighur Muslims

'Surprise' orangutan born at Chester Zoo after negative pregnancy tests

Fleetwood fishmonger saves 'one in 30 million' orange Canadian lobster

Premier League: Is absence of fans behind the goal rush?

The man who proved black holes weren't impossible

Being black at Cambridge University

Parents record song 'to change perceptions of Down's syndrome'

'Fantastic opportunity' as Jedburgh distilleries approved

Coronavirus: Can China's Golden Week boost Asia's economies?

Afua Hirsch: 'Don't sell off history with slave links - use it to educate'

Perez Hilton: I never needed to be so cruel

Coronavirus: How to tell which countries are coping best with Covid

Measles in DR Congo: By air, boat and foot to deliver the vaccine

Ervin Staub: A Holocaust survivor’s mission to train ‘heroic bystanders’

Perez Hilton: I never needed to be so cruel

Wikipedia article of the day for October 6, 2020

Covid: Nearly 500,000 redundancies planned since crisis began

Covid could cause 'tsunami of cancelled NHS operations'

'Long Covid': Why are some people not recovering?

State pension age hits 66 and set to rise further

Afua Hirsch: 'Don't sell off history with slave links - use it to educate'

Covid: Swansea prisoners make hundreds of PPE items

Paul Cleeland: ‘Gun error’ claim over 1972 murder case

Covid-19: 'Silent killer being weaponised by offenders'

Coronavirus: How lockdown has affected mental health

Covid: How many cases might contact tracers have missed?

Youth jail plans therapy rather than steel doors

Can Boris Johnson's levelling-up mission survive Covid?

Alcoholism in the time of coronavirus

The robot shop worker controlled by a faraway human

Can a BBC reporter fool a face mask detector?

Supreme Court President Lord Reed wants more diversity in Supreme Court

Ola: London bans Uber rival over safety concerns

Kenzo Takada: Japanese designer dies from Covid-19

Coronavirus: 'World's best airport' warns of prolonged crisis

Kayla Mueller's parents: 'We can't let her down again'

'Why I’m not alone in missing hugs during the pandemic'

US election 2020: Who do Russia, China and Iran want to win?

New Covid-19 test could be Indian ‘game changer’

US election 2020: Who really decides the outcome?

Covid on campus: Partying, isolating and sometimes both

Coronavirus: 'World's best airport' warns of prolonged crisis

'Shopping around is impossible when you don't have a computer'

Home working here to stay, study of businesses suggests

Covid-19: 'How lockdown stopped me from breastfeeding'

Covid in Scotland: I'm angry they think our business isn't important

Home working here to stay, study of businesses suggests

Covid-19: Government launches £238m scheme for jobseekers

Covid-19: Government launches £238m scheme for jobseekers

Covid-19: Government launches £238m scheme for jobseekers

How Dagny's luminous pop battles Norway's endless nights

Wikipedia article of the day for October 5, 2020

HMS Queen Elizabeth: On board the Royal Navy's new aircraft carrier