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What Just Happened?
The biggest news and entertainment stories this week, in simple terms
What just happened, 2016?
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Fake news, banking blues and a world without queues. 5-9 December: What just happened?
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Peace deals, protests, and powerful bankers. 25 November – 2 December: What just happened?
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Sea ice shrinks, LinkedIn locked out, Greens demand a recount. 18 – 25 November: What just happened?
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Currency chaos, Snapchat shares, donations galore. 11 – 18 November: What just happened?
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Trump wins, Toblerone shrinks, China shops. 4 – 11 November: What just happened?
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Pipeline fights, solar cars, and swapped votes. 30 October – 6 November: What just happened?
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Calais camp cleared, media mega-merger, British banks (likely to) bail. 22–29 October: What just happened?
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Anti-violence strike, candidates clash, and inequality deepens. 15-21 October: What just happened?
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Ethiopia protests, Yemen bombing, and Samsung slump. 8-14 October: What just happened?
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Hurricane Matthew, India protests and TV debates. 31 September -7 October: What just happened?
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Presidential debate, ‘suspended adulthood’, Martian colony. 24-30 September: What just happened?
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Big firms, dodgy banks, fishy business. 17-23 September: What just happened?
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Millions attend Hajj, US pipeline protests, Great Wall crowdfunding. 10-16 September: What just happened?
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G20 wraps up, social loans, and meaty millennials. 3-9 September: What just happened?
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Apple’s tax woes, climate cost, super courts. 27 August-2 September: What just happened?
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Floods and fire, Olympic scandal, kidneys for sale. 13-19 August: What just happened?
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Italian earthquake, UK pay gap, Paralympic threat. 20-26 August: What just happened?
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Trumponomics, Earth Overshot, tea in crisis. 6-12 August: What just happened?
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Olympics good? Olympics bad? We’ll watch from the moon. 30 July-5 August: What just happened?
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More terror in Europe, Clinton wins nomination, UK delays nuclear future. 23-29 July: what just happened?
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Turkey’s in trouble, Kickass Torrent’s in trouble, Leo’s in trouble. 18-22 July: what just happened?
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Horrific attack in France, Black Lives Matter protests, new UK leader. 9-15 July: what just happened?
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Baghdad terror, Zimbabwe protests and football fraud. 2-8 July: what just happened?
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Terror in Turkey, Spanish elections and Brexit confusion. 25 June-1 July: what just happened?
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Brexit, refugees and Senate sit-ins. 18-24 June: what just happened?
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Gun laws, Cambodia, the Pope – 11 to 17 June: What just happened?
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China, celebrity endorsement and Euro mascots – 4 to 10 June: What just happened?
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Brexit, Cuba, South Korea. 21 to 27 May: What just happened?
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Slavery, legal cannabis, cartoon bears – 28 May to 3 June: What just happened?
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Trump, Greenpeace, North Korea. 30 April to 6 May: What just happened?
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Brazil suspends president, protests in Greece, and Thai oxen predict rosy future – 7 to 13 May: What just happened?
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BHS, TTIP, Indian job deficit. 23 to 29 April: What just happened?
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Ecuador rebuilds, EU pursue Google. 16 to 22 April: What just happened?
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Venezuela in crisis, wine wars in France. 9 to 15 April: What just happened?
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No to tampon tax and backpacker tax. 12 to 18 March: What just happened?
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Obama in Cuba, Canada’s budget. 19 to 25 March: What just happened?
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Tesla launch, UK steel on brink. 26 March to 1 April: What just happened?
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Panama Papers, Saudis diversify. 2 to 8 April: What just happened?
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Chickens, chickens, more chickens, and Beyoncé – 14 to 20 May: What just happened?
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27 February to 4 March: What just happened?
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London costs the earth, mobile money on the up. 5 to 11 March: What just happened?
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