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‘We’re all going to get Omicron’: NSW health minister’s warning as Australia records 9,618 cases
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Anti-apartheid hero Archbishop Desmond Tutu dies aged 90
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Australia tighten grip on Ashes as England top order crumbles at MCG
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Omicron: bleak New Year or beginning of the end for the pandemic?
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Sydney to Hobart yacht race: LawConnect takes lead from Scallywag after flurry of late withdrawals
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Save the Children workers missing after 30 villagers reportedly massacred by Myanmar troops
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Japan’s whaling town struggles to keep 400 years of tradition alive
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Slice of life: New York’s famed $1 street pizza under threat from rising costs
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‘Don’t dance, sing or do stunts’: how Julian Hill became the most popular Australian politician on TikTok
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Tennis star Denis Shapovalov tests positive for Covid after arriving in Sydney
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‘The trick is to make yourself useful’: a beginner’s guide to sailing
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Australians tipped for record $21bn summer shopping splurge as Boxing Day sales begin
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Regulate, break up, open up: how to fix Facebook in 2022
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One year on, most voters say Brexit has gone badly
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Tory MPs warn Boris Johnson’s rivals to oppose tougher Covid new year rules
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Space cadets Branson and Bezos scoop the 2021 shamelessness prize
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Italians fear return of instability if Mario Draghi quits to become president
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Moroccan opposition leader Mehdi ben Barka was a spy, cold war files suggest
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Suicidal asylum-seekers subjected to ‘dangerous’ use of force by guards at detention centre
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Spanish should eat less meat to limit climate crisis, says minister
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Ministers urged to ban trail hunting ahead of Boxing Day hunt
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Burkina Faso declares two days of mourning after 41 militia members killed
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Good chablis and ‘halfies’: life with the other Duchess of Argyll
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‘A lot of abuse for little pay’: how US farming profits from exploitation and brutality
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Tornadoes in Mayfield, Kentucky caused profound losses: ‘Some are never going back to their homes’
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Armed intruder arrested at Windsor Castle as Queen celebrates Christmas
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Culture warriors sallied forth, only to be defeated by their own ineptitude
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‘One rule for them’: how a simple slogan helped change the political landscape
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Which philosophy helps us confront the crises that beset us... ‘we first’ or ‘me first’?
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With Christmas cheer over, the PM now confronts a sullen and angry cabinet
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Nothing like a dame: Trump tops 2021’s cast of clowns and baddies
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‘Almost unsaleable’: slump in school trips to UK blamed on Brexit
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Life is a cabaret – until Covid brings down the curtain on the West End
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The Observer view on the year ahead for Europe
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The Observer view on a year in which the British public put their leaders to shame
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Nasa launches $10bn James Webb space telescope
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Plans to sell off UK vaccine development centre criticised by scientists
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What questions should you ask when you hear a claim based on data?
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Tensions are rising about pandemic modelling, but we ‘gloomsters’ are saving lives
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Under-30s drive surge in people getting their first Covid jab
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Worried about super-intelligent machines? They are already here
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Rodgers breaks Favre’s career TD mark as Packers hold off Browns fightback
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‘If I don’t end up in intensive care, it’s a bonus’: the beauty and pain of being the world’s best endurance swimmer
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Antonio Conte has given Tottenham players the jolt they badly needed
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Thomas Tuchel feeling festive even as Chelsea look to weather harsh winter
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Check mates: how chess saved my mental wellbeing
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Harlequins’ Joe Marchant: ‘I don’t know about a band but we enjoyed a jam’
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Newcastle v Manchester United: match preview