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What’s in a Name?
People have been handed out nicknames for millennia. They are usually, but not always, bestowed with affection, by a person or group of people who know the subject intimately. Nicknames are […]

The error meant around 75,000 people woke up on Christmas morning to a surprise payment from Santander.
BBC News – Business

The carmaker apologises for an Egyptian commercial in which a woman is photographed without consent.
BBC News – Middle East

A tragic effect of the pandemic is that thousands of children are now without a parent or guardian.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

The warning comes as record cases are once again reported across the US and Europe.
BBC News – Europe

It comes as the UK saw record daily case numbers of 183,000 on Wednesday.
BBC News – UK

A jury in New York convicts her of recruiting and trafficking teenagers in a “pyramid of abuse”.
BBC News – US & Canada

The coffin of the archbishop will remain at St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town for two days.
BBC News – Africa

International flights to and from the UK fell to just 400,000 this year, says analytics firm Cirium.
BBC News – Business

Some 5,000 wild cranes have died and hundreds of thousands of chickens and turkeys are being culled.
BBC News – Middle East