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New Year celebrations: How the world brought in 2023

Pope Francis and world leaders pay tribute to Benedict XVI

UN seeks top court opinion on Israeli occupation

North Korea ends year with ballistic missiles launch

2022 viral videos: Six social media moments that charmed Indians

Covid in China: WHO calls on Beijing to strengthen its response

Cristiano Ronaldo joins Saudi Arabian side Al Nassr until 2025

Andrew Tate: Romanian police to hold influencer for 30 days

Afrochella: Shock at end of Ghana music festival

Pele: The player who united a nation

Venugopal Dhoot: How debt and bad loan led to Videocon owner's downfall

Pele: Brazil football legend dies aged 82

Pele: A sporting icon who made football beautiful

Ex-Pope Benedict's failing health presents difficult decisions for Vatican

Marion Biotech: Uzbekistan links child deaths to India cough syrup

Fatphobia: The Brazil women fighting prejudices

Ukraine fighting is deadlocked, spy chief Kyrylo Budanov tells BBC

Bangladesh: Densely-populated Dhaka gets first metro line

19-year sentence for second ringleader in Michigan governor kidnap plot

Apple and Tesla: Tech stocks tumble amid supply issues

The Philippines' food worries amid Ukraine war and typhoons

What women on minimum wage gave up in 2022

The Senegal man on a mission to plant five million trees

Russia bans oil sales to countries using price cap

Spain announces €10bn help to fight rising prices

South Korea lifts ban on import of adult sex dolls

The town giving sober teens free beer

The truth about 'medbeds' - a miracle cure that doesn't exist

The indie music stars knocking Bollywood off the charts

Iran protests: Family of football legend Ali Daei stopped from leaving

Burkina Faso explosion: Minibus hits deadly landmine amid jihadist violence

Ukraine war: Refugee girl played piano to hide the sound of bombs

Drifting Rohingya refugee boat reaches Indonesia

Peaceful nights at last after air raid trauma in Ukraine

Army of islanders to protect gecko the size of a paperclip

Iran protests: 'No going back' as unrest hits 100 days

Austria avalanche buries at least 10 people at ski resort

Wind, snow and floods combine for historic US storm

Canada coach crash leaves more than 50 injured

Saving donkeys in the Holy Land

US winter storm: Americans and Canadians face mass outages on Christmas Day

Pope condemns human 'hunger for wealth and power' at Christmas Eve Mass

Reunited: The Ukrainian couple who married near the front line

At least 20 dead in Russia illegal care home fire

US winter storm: Stranded Native Americans burn clothes for warmth

Canada's polar bear population plummets - government report

Winter storm's icy blast hits 200 million in US

Megan Thee Stallion: Jury finds Tory Lanez guilty of shooting rapper

Russia may send empty Soyuz to bring ISS crew home

What exactly is in the $1.7tr US spending bill?

He Huang: How a comedian divided Chinese social media

Journey star tells his bandmate to stop performing for Donald Trump

How did Salt Bae get to hold World Cup after final?

China Covid: 'Everyone I know is getting a fever'

Fleeing China's Covid lockdowns for the US - through a Central American jungle

Ukraine war: Biden tells Zelensky his country will never stand alone

In pictures: Zelensky's momentous day in Washington

Israel's most right-wing government agreed under Benjamin Netanyahu

The trip that transformed Australia and China ties, five decades on

How to stay safe in possible US winter weather bomb cyclone

Ros Atkins on... China’s Covid surge

Nurses' strike: 'If we have to, we'll continue to strike'

Ukraine's Zelensky planning to visit US on Wednesday - reports

World Cup: The crowd goes wild for Argentina... in Bangladesh

Elon Musk at Twitter: Who could replace him as chief executive?

EU moves to ensure animal medicine supplies

Ukraine to boost Belarus border defences as Putin meets Lukashenko

Lionel Messi named BBC Sports Personality's World Sport Star of the Year

World Cup 2022: 'Argentina really needed this win'

Netherlands slavery: Saying sorry leaves Dutch divided

German cathedral school allows girl choristers after 1,000 years

World Cup 2022: Elation in Argentina, sorrow in France - fans react

Canada's polar-bear capital Churchill warms too fast for bears

World Cup final: Argentina beat France on penalties in dramatic Qatar showpiece

Ukraine wartime Christmas tree made from camouflage nets

Peru-Bolivia border blocked by protesters

Ethiopia’s PM sees OLA rebellion grow in his own backyard

Taraneh Alidoosti: Top Iran actress who supported protests arrested

US to end crack and powder cocaine sentencing disparity

ANC conference: SA President Ramaphosa struggles to stop hecklers in own party

From refugee camp to the World Cup: The Syrian players hoping to make it big

Peru protests: Ministers quit as death toll mounts

Toddler survives hippo attack in Uganda

Wildfires rip through Chile as temperatures soar

Brittney Griner vows to play this season after prisoner swap

Nigerian child chess prodigy granted US asylum

After the FTX chaos, is crypto down and out after a torrid 2022?

Dave Chappelle's attacker jailed for stage tackle

Thousands of unedited government JFK assassination files released

Storm Efraín: Waist-deep floodwaters in Madrid metro after heavy rain

US sues Arizona over shipping container border wall

Sudanese woman sentenced to stoning death will go to jail instead

Sombath Somphone: The activist who disappeared at a police checkpoint

World Cup: France fans jubilant as Morocco's dream ends

Meta sued for $2bn over Ethiopia violence

Twitter Files spark debate about ‘blacklisting’

FTX crypto boss Sam Bankman-Fried denied bail in Bahamas

'I wish I hadn't survived': Why women are burning themselves in Iraqi Kurdistan

US charges seven with military technology plot on Russian orders

World Cup 2022: Argentina 3-0 Croatia - Messi and Alvarez put their side into World Cup final

Tamil Nadu: Indian man's search for father's lost grave ends in Malaysia

Excommunicated: The women fighting to be priests

Why Taiwanese are among Ukraine's foreign fighters

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried arrested in Bahamas

Russia's Putin scraps trademark year-end news conference

Arizona’s governor is creating a border wall with shipping containers

Ukraine war: The Russians locked up for refusing to fight

One of Central America's most active volcanoes erupts again

K-pop: The rise of the virtual girl bands

Peru protests: Andahuaylas airport forced to close in deadly unrest

Junior Eurovision: France wins song contest as UK comes fifth

Kosovo: Roads blocked as violence between Serb protestors and police continues

Ukraine war: Odesa and Melitopol under attack

Chile volcano: Alert issued after Lascar rumbles to life

Kenya Maasai Olympics: Hundreds gather for lion hunt alternative

Rita Moreno: If I wasn't Hispanic, I'd have had a different career

World Cup 2022: Morocco are 'Rocky' of tournament after beating Portugal

World Cup: Fans in Morocco and around world erupt with joy

Sam Bankman-Fried: I hope to make money to pay people back

The seven-day-a-week life of a maid for Qatar's royal and rich

World Cup 2022: Brazil 'in pain' after exit on penalties against Croatia

George Floyd: Ex-officer J Alexander Kueng sentenced for manslaughter

King Charles and Camilla meet Ryan Reynolds in Wrexham

World Cup 2022: Croatia 1-1 Brazil (4-2 pens): Tite's men knocked out

Africa's week in pictures: 2 - 8 December 2022

The brothers running the Great Wall of China

The moment Brittney Griner and Viktor Bout cross on airport tarmac

Schengen: No EU border-free zone for Romania and Bulgaria

Pope breaks down in tears over war in Ukraine

How the Brittney Griner prisoner swap with Russia was done

Women's basketball: ‘I’ve been spat at in the face for the colour of my skin’

Harry & Meghan Netflix series launches amid controversy

Peru's ousted leader: The dramatic day in three moments

Sunny Balwani: Former Theranos executive gets nearly 13 years in prison

Ukraine war: Animal eye packages sent to embassies from Germany

D'banj: Nigeria Afrobeats star arrested for youth fund fraud

Crimea bridge: How Russia is rebuilding its vital link

Apple sued by women over AirTag stalking

Colorado shooting suspect charged with hate crimes

Elon Musk's Neuralink firm facing animal testing investigation - report

Canada: Hockey star criticises Justin Trudeau over gun law

Cyril Ramaphosa: How Arthur Fraser landed South Africa's president in trouble

Billie Eilish: Growing up in public has been bruising

Neil Diamond surprises with 'Sweet Caroline' singalong

US Supreme Court weighs clash between free speech and gay rights

Iranian protester subjected to mock executions in prison - source

Nigeria's Kaduna train attack: How I survived hijacking and captivity

EU must act over distortions from US climate plan - von der Leyen

Mount Semeru: Indonesia raises alert to highest level as volcano erupts on Java island

Out on a spacewalk with Nasa astronauts at the ISS

Cutting energy prices will take years - power boss

US midterms: Georgia Senate run-off looms after bitter campaign

El Salvador: The people caught up in the gang crackdown

Chennai: Transfer of 1,000 India crocodiles raises thorny question

Anwar Ibrahim: Honeymoon as Malaysian PM will be brutally short

West Bank footage throws spotlight on Israel's use of lethal force

Earthshot Prize: Prince William announces five winners

Police arrest elderly Alabama woman over unpaid $77 trash bill

Takeoff: Police arrest man in fatal shooting of rapper

Bruce Lehrmann: Australia parliament rape retrial abandoned

Prince William and Kate: Young fan says meeting the two was 'insane'

Coca-Cola Christmas truck in flames in Romania

France's Emmanuel Macron joins the Bidens for a White House state dinner

Juventus: Prosecutors call for club's board to face trial

China condemns British lawmakers' Taiwan visit

India remittances set to hit record $100 billion in 2022