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Meanwhile in the UK the gender pay gap widens at department run by women and equalities minister Liz Truss.

Vandals tore down a Black Lives Matter banner and sign from two historic black churches in downtown Washington and set the banner ablaze.

"I have never heard Trump be passionate and engaged about saving lives during the pandemic as he does trying to steal the election."

China and Europe trade on average more than one billion euros a day.

“I’ve been working in the intensive care ward for 20 years, and I didn’t want to put my in-laws through the psychological strain of separation. Plus, there was already a lot of pressure on the health service,”

“Today, we are a better society that expands women’s rights and guarantees public health.”

As unemployment benefits expired for millions of Americans on Saturday, Donald Trump, who spent Christmas playing golf in Florida, continued to block a $900bn pandemic relief bill that would extend them.

In addition to serving food and non-alcoholic drinks and offering the warmth of indoors, the restaurant provides its bathrooms for the homeless to wash in.

Bezos is the world’s wealthiest person, with a fortune estimated at $185bn, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, up from $113bn before the pandemic.