Some headlines from today:
- NASA James Webb telescope launch a make-or-break moment for anxious astronomers
- CNET's most anticipated video games of 2022
- Covid: No new measures in England but we rule nothing out, says PM
- Elon Musk says he'll be paying $11bn in tax this year
- ‘Too early to tell’: health experts nervous about Omicron’s effect on Australia’s hospitalisation rates
- Queen cancels Sandringham plans and will celebrate Christmas at Windsor
- UK retailers offload Christmas trees for £1 or less as shoppers stay away
- Why Trump appears deeply unnerved as Capitol attack investigation closes in
- Schumer vows vote on Build Back Better despite ‘no’ from Manchin
- Gabriel Boric’s triumph puts wind in the sails of Latin America’s resurgent left
- WHO chief warns over festive gatherings: ‘An event cancelled is better than a life cancelled’
- What is behind Algeria and Palestine’s footballing love affair?
- Turkish lira hits turbulence as Erdogan cites Islam as reason for monetary policy
- Tigrayan fighters announce they are withdrawing from rest of Ethiopia
- 'Test & Go' rumour irking operators
- 6.2 magnitude quake shakes Northern California
- GOP Rep. Scott Perry is the first sitting lawmaker the Jan. 6 panel wants to question
- An extinct millipede the length of a car once roamed northern England