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The funeral mass for Archbishop Desmond Tutu takes place at the Anglican cathedral in Cape Town on 1st January
The following day the Houses of Parliament in Cape Town are badly damaged by a fire.
Sidney Poitier, the first black man to win an Academy Award for Best Actor, dies on 6th January, aged 94.
Ronnie Spector, the lead singer of the '60s girl group The Ronettes, dies on 12th January, aged 78.
On Thursday, 13th January it is announced that Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, had returned his military affiliations and Royal patronages to The Queen.
A tsunami strikes Tonga on 15th January, caused by an eruption of the under-water Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano.
The world no. 1 men's tennis player Novak Djokovic is deported from Australia on 16th January for not complying with the country's entry requirements - vaccination against COVID-19 or a valid medical exemption.
On 19th January Christian Wakeford, the Conservative MP for Bury South, defects to the Labour Party.
Meat Loaf (born Marvin Lee Aday), best known for his phenomenally successful début album Bat Out Of Hell, dies on 20th January, aged 74.
Comedian and writer Barry Cryer, a regular panelist on the BBC radio shows Just A Minute and I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, dies on 25th January, aged 86.
Portugal's ruling Socialist Party led by Prime Minister António Costa wins an unexpected outright majority in the snap general election held on 30th January.
The initial findings of an investigation into "gatherings" held during COVID restrictions at 10 Downing Street and other government premises are published on 31st January. The investigation, carried out by civil servant Sue Gray, finds that some of the events "should not have been allowed to take place" and that others "should not have been allowed to develop as they did".
On the same day The New York Times Company buys Wordle, a web-based word puzzle invented by software engineer Josh Wardle - originally as a game for him and his partner to play, which then attracted millions of players after he had made it available to the public in October 2021.

The Mayor of Ottawa Jim Watson declares a State of Emergency on Sunday, 6th February to deal with the "Freedom Convoy" protest, which had converged on the Canadian capital on 29th January after a week-long drive across Canada.
Bamber Gascoigne, the original presenter of the television quiz show University Challenge, dies on 8th February, aged 87.
Cressida Dick announces her resignation as Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis on 10th February after the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, had made it clear that he had no confidence in her leadership.
On Monday, 14th February, shortly after midnight, the Ambassador Bridge between Windsor, Ontario and Michigan, Detroit is re-opened, bringing to an end a six-day protest which had blocked the main exit and entrance of the bridge. Faced by the continuing "Freedom Convoy" protests, the Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau invokes the Emergencies Act for the first time since it was passed in 1988.
On Tuesday, 15th February Prince Andrew settles a lawsuit brought against him in the USA by Virginia Giuffre, a woman who claimed that he had sexually assaulted her on three occasions when she was 17 years old.
Jack Smethurst, best known for his role as Eddie Booth in the ITV sitcom Love Thy Neighbour (1972-76), dies on 16th February, aged 89.
London's O2 Arena is one of many buildings damaged on Friday, 18th February as Storm Eunice wreaks havoc across the UK.
Anna Karen. best known for playing Olive in the sitcom On The Buses (1969–1973) and Aunt Sal in EastEnders (1996-2017), dies in a fire at her home in Ilford on 22nd February, aged 85. Upon hearing the news Lyn Paul Tweets: "So sad to hear of the passing of Anna Karen and in such a horrific way. She was a fellow Lady Ratling and such a lovely lady. RIP Anna." (Twitter, 23rd February, 9:03pm).
On 24th February armed forces from Russia invade Ukraine.
On the same day the remaining legal restrictions relating to COVID-19 come to an end in England. People who test positive for COVID are no longer bound by law to self-isolate.

The Australian cricketer Shane Warne dies of a heart attack on 4th March, aged 52.
Lynda Baron, best known for her role as Nurse Gladys Emmanuel in the BBC comedy series Open All Hours (1976–1985) and its sequel, Still Open All Hours (2013–2016), dies on 5th March, aged 82.
Yoon Suk-yeol wins the presidential election held in South Korea on 9th March.
On the same day, in response to disastrous floods in New South Wales and Queensland, the Prime Minister of Australia, Scott Morrison, declares a national emergency.
William Hurt, who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Luis Alberto Molina in Kiss Of The Spider Woman (1985), dies on 13th March, a week before his 72nd birthday.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori, two British-Iranian citizens, both of whom had been held captive in Iran, are released on 16th March and return to the UK the next day.
800 members of P&O Ferries staff are sacked in a video call on Thursday, 17th March.
On Friday, 18th March the UK government removes the remaining COVID-19 restrictions on international travel. From 4.00am onwards travellers entering the UK no longer need to take COVID tests or complete a passenger locator form.
Madeleine Albright, who served as United States Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001, dies from cancer on 23rd March, aged 84.
CODA wins the Oscar for Best Picture at the 94th Academy Awards held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on 27th March. Will Smith, who wins the Oscar for Best Actor for his role as Richard Williams in King Richard, steals the headlines after hitting comedian Chris Rock, who had told a joke about Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. Will Smith is subsequently banned from the Oscars gala and other Academy events for 10 years.
The Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, signs the Parental Rights in Education Act on 28th March. Commonly known by critics as the "Don't Say Gay" bill, it prohibits classroom discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity from kindergarten to grade 3 in Florida schools.

C. W. McCall, best known his hit single Convoy, dies on 1st April, aged 93.
On 2nd April tide waters engulf Bondi Beach and other beaches in Sydney after two intense weather systems lash Australia's east coast.
The Fidesz party led by Hungary's incumbent Prime Minister Viktor Orbán wins the parliamentary elections held on 3rd April.
June Brown, best known for her role as Dot Cotton on the BBC soap opera Eastenders, dies on the same day, aged 95.
From 4th April the price of a Royal Mail 1st Class stamp rises by 10p to 95p; the price of a 2nd Class stamp increases by 2p to 68p.
On 8th April former Wimbledon champion Boris Becker is found guilty of four charges under the Insolvency Act. He is sentenced to two-and-a-half years in Jail on 29th April.
Akshata Murty, the Indian wife of the UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak, bows to political pressure on 8th April, saying that she will start paying UK taxes on her overseas income. This follows the revelation earlier in the week that her status as a non-domiciled UK resident had legally entitled her to avoid paying an estimated £2.1m a year in UK tax.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan loses a vote of no confidence on 10th April. He is succeeded as Prime Minister by the opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif.
The Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, signs a controversial bill on Friday, 22nd April, dissolving Walt Disney World's self-governing status in the state. This follows The Walt Disney Company's stated opposition to Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill.
On Sunday, 24th April Emmanuel Macron is re-elected President of France.
On Monday, 25th April Twitter's Board of Directors unanimously accepts an offer from the world's richest man, Elon Musk, to buy the company for $44 billion (£34.5 billion). The deal is completed on 27th October after months of legal wrangling.
The Russian energy company Gazprom halts gas exports to Poland and Bulgaria on 27th April over the countries' refusal to pay for supplies in roubles.
The leader of the British Virgin Islands (BVI), Andrew Fahie, is arrested in Miami on 28th April on charges relating to drug smuggling and money laundering.
On 30th April Neil Parish announces his intention to resign as the Conservative MP for Tiverton and Honiton after admitting that he had watched pornography twice while he was in Parliament.
US country music star Naomi Judd, best known as one half of the duo The Judds, dies on 30th April, aged 76.

On 6th May a gas explosion badly damages the Hotel Saratoga, a five-story luxury hotel in Old Havana which was undergoing renovations. 46 people die and 53 are injured.
Dennis Waterman, known for his roles in television shows including The Sweeney (1975-78), Minder (1979-94) and New Tricks (2003-14), dies on Sunday, 8th May, aged 74.
Ukraine's Kalush Orchestra win the Eurovision Song Contest with the song Stefania. Sam Ryder's song Space Man finishes in second place for the UK, the country's best result since 1998.
On the same day (Saturday, 14th May) an 18-year-old white man, Payton S. Gendron, shoots and kills 10 black people in a racially-motivated attack at Tops Friendly Market on Jefferson Avenue in Buffalo, New York. Three other people are injured.
On Tuesday, 17th May Blackpool forward Jake Daniels becomes the UK's first active male professional footballer to come out as gay.
Vangelis, best known for his Academy Award-winning score to Chariots Of Fire (1981), dies on 17th May, aged 79.
On 18th May it is announced that the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) had hit a 40-year high, rising by 9.0% in the 12 months to April 2022, up from 7.0% in March.
On 19th May the Metropolitan Police announce that the inquiry into COVID lockdown breaches at 10 Downing Street and other government offices in Whitehall had come to an end. A total of 126 fines (Fixed Penalty Notices) were issued to 83 individuals. The Prime Minister Boris Johnson received a fine for attending a gathering in Downing Street on 19th June 2020 to celebrate his birthday. His wife Carrie and Chancellor Rishi Sunak were also fined over the party.
The Labor Party led by Anthony Albanese wins the Australian federal election held on Saturday, 21st May.
Imran Ahmad Khan, who had resigned as the Conservative MP for Wakefield on 3rd May, is sentenced to 18 months in jail on 23rd May, following his conviction for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy.
London Transport's new Elizabeth Line opens to passengers on Tuesday, 24th May.
On the same day Salvador Ramos, an 18-year old armed with a handgun and an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, shoots and kills nineteen children and two teachers at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, having already shot and killed his grandmother before arriving at the school.
West Ham footballer Kurt Zouma pleads guilty on 24th May to kicking and slapping his pet Bengal cat in a video posted on social media by his brother Yoan.
The much-anticipated report on the investigation by senior civil servant Sue Gray into the gatherings held in Downing Street and other government premises during COVID restrictions is published on 25th May. Its general findings include a statement that: "At least some of the gatherings in question represent a serious failure to observe not just the high standards expected of those working at the heart of Government but also of the standards expected of the entire British population at the time."
On 26th May the four members of ABBA attend the opening night of ABBA Voyage, a concert featuring avatars of the four stars as they were in 1977, at the purpose-built ABBA Arena in London.
Andy Fletcher, one of the founding members of Depeche Mode, dies on 26th May, aged 60.
Champion jockey Lester Piggott dies on 29th May, aged 86.

On 1st June the jury in the Depp v. Heard trial in Fairfax, Virginia awards the actor Johnny Depp $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages from his ex-wfie Amber Heard, finding that Ms Heard's statements about her marriage were "false" and she had acted with "actual malice".
On Thursday, 2nd June the UK begins four days of celebrations to mark the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. The festivities begin with the Trooping the Colour parade and end on Sunday with a pop concert outside Buckingham Palace, which starts with a surprise - a secretly pre-filmed sketch of The Queen taking tea with Paddington Bear.
The Queen’s Jubilee Birthday Honours List includes CBEs for broadcaster Clare Balding and designer Stella McCartney and MBEs for singer Bonnie Tyler and Coronation Street actors Antony Cotton and Helen Worth. Ex-Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand is made an OBE.
Jim Seals of the US soft rock duo Seals and Crofts dies on 6th June, aged 80.
Julee Cruise, best known for her 1990 hit Falling, dies on 9th June, aged 65.
The first flight due to take asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda is cancelled minutes before take-off on Tuesday, 14th June, following a legal ruling by the European Court of Human Rights.
Lord Geidt resigns from his role as Boris Johnson's ethics adviser on 15th June.
Gustavo Petro, the former mayor of Bogota and ex-rebel fighter, wins the run-off election against Rodolfo Hernández held on Sunday, 19th June to become Colombia's first left-wing president.
A powerful earthquake strikes eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, 21st June, killing at least 1,000 people and injuring 1,500 more.
The Conservatives lose two by-elections held on 23rd June - Tiverton and Honiton (won by the Liberal Democrat candidate Richard Foord) and Wakefield (won by the Labour candidate Simon Lightwood).
On 24th June the US Supreme Court issues its official ruling on the case of Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The Court's decision overturns the landmark case of Roe v Wade which previously gave women a federally guaranteed right to abortion across all US states. 
Two people are killed and 21 wounded in Oslo in the early hours of the morning on Saturday, 25th June in what Norwegian police describe as "an act of Islamist terrorism".
Chris Pincher, the Conservative MP for Tamworth, resigns as a Government Deputy Chief Whip on 30th June, following press reports that he had groped two men at the Carlton Club. He is suspended as a Conservative MP on 1st July.

Three people are killed and seven injured on Sunday, 3rd July after a man armed with a rifle and a knife starts shooting at random at the Field's Shopping Centre in Copenhagen.
On 5th July Boris Johnson admits that he had made a "bad mistake" by appointing Chris Pincher to a government position despite knowing of a misconduct complaint against him. Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid resign from the government, followed over the next 24 hours by 11 other ministers. Boris Johnson resigns as leader of the Conservative Party on 7th July.
James Caan, best known for playing the role of Sonny Corleone in The Godfather, dies on 6th July, aged 82.
On 19th July the UK hits its hottest temperature on record, with 40.3°C recorded at Coningsby in Lincolnshire, exceeding the previous record set in 2019 by 1.6°C.
On 22nd July Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Ukraine;s Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov sign an agreement in Istanbul to re-open Ukrainian Black Sea ports for grain exports.
Pope Francis begins a six-day visit to Canada on 24th July. The following day he visits Maskwacis, formerly the site of a residential school, where he asks survivors of abuses at the school for forgiveness "for the evil committed by so many Christians" against Indigenous peoples.
The former First Minister of Northern Ireland David Trimble dies on Monday, 25th July, aged 77.
On 26th July the Governor of Missouri, Mike Parson, declares a state of emergency after severe thunderstorms and torrential rain had caused flash flooding in the St; Louis area and forced the closure of Interstate 70. In the following days flooding occurs in Kentucky, Virginia and Nevada (including the Las Vegas Strip) and spreads to Arizona and California (including Death Valley National Park).
The actor Bernard Cribbins, who narrated the BBC children's programme The Wombles (1973–75) - known also for his role as Albert Perks in the film The Railway Children (1970) and for the novelty records Hole In The Ground and Right Said Fred, both Top 10 hits in the UK in 1962 - dies on 27th July, aged 93.
Songwriter Tom Springfield, who wrote wrote The Seekers’ biggest hits - Georgy Girl, The Carnival Is Over, I’ll Never Find Another You and A World Of Our Own, also dies on 27th July, aged 88.
The leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in killed in a US drone strike in Kabul on Sunday, 31st July.

On 4th August US basketball star Brittney Griner is sentenced by a Russian court to nine years in prison on drug charges.
Judith Durham, the voice of The Seekers, dies on 5th August, aged 79.
Olivia Newton-John dies on 8th August, aged 73.
On the same day the FBI search and remove thousands of government documents from Mar-a-Lago, the Palm Beach residence of former US President Donald Trump.
Lamont Dozier, a member of the Holland–Dozier–Holland team who wrote and produced some of Tamla Motown's greatest hits, also dies on 8th August, aged 81.
Darius Campbell Danesh, the Pop Idol contestant who had a number 1 hit with Colourblind in 2002, dies on 11th August, aged 41, after inhaling chloroethane - a chemical compound which he took to treat chronic neck pain following a car accident in 2010.
On 12th August the author Salman Rushdie is stabbed and seriously injured as he is about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York state. As a consequence of the attack Rushdie loses vision in one eye and the use of one hand.
Nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel is shot dead on 22nd August when a gunman and the man he was pursuing burst into her family's home in Dovecot, Liverpool.
Between 24th-27th August heavy rainfall causes flooding in central Mississippi. Rising floodwaters breach the main water treatment facility in Jackson, the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant, leaving many residents without clean drinking water.
Following heavier than usual monsoon rain and with flood water covering a third of the country, the government of Pakistan officially declares a ‘national emergency’ on 25th August.
On 29th August the Shia Muslim cleric and leader of the Sadrist Movement, Moqtada al-Sadr: announces his retirement from Iraqi politics, prompting fighting on the streets of Baghdad. Iran closes its borders with Iraq in response to the unrest.
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991, dies on 30th August, aged 91.

On Sunday, 4th September 11 people are stabbed to death and 18 others injured in multiple attacks in the remote indigenous community James Smith Cree Nation and nearby Weldon, Saskatchewan. The next day one of the suspects in the killing spree, Damien Sanderson, is found dead with multiple wounds. A second suspect, Damien's brother Myles Sanderson, is arrested on 7th September before dying in police custody later that day from a drug overdose.
The Sichuan province in southwestern China is hit by a 6.6 magnitude earthquake on 5th September.
On the same day Liz Truss succeeds Boris Johnson as leader of the Conservative party, beating the former Chancellor Rishi Sunak in a ballot of Conservative party members by 20,927 votes.
Queen Elizabeth II dies at Balmoral Castle on Thursday, 8th September, aged 96, two days after appointing Liz Truss as the UK's 56th Prime Minister. She is succeeded by her son King Charles III.
The governor of New York Kathy Hochul declares a state of emergency on 9th September after the polio virus is detected in a Nassau County wastewater sample.
The film director Jean-Luc Godard dies on 13th September, aged 91.
Typhoon Nanmadol makes landfall on the Japanese island of Kyushu on Sunday, 18th September. It is the strongest tropical cyclone to strike the Japanese archipelago since Typhoon Yancy in 1993.
Hurricane Fiona strikes the southwestern coast of Puerto Rico on the same day, causing flooding and landslides, and taking out the island's entire electricity supply.
A state funeral for Queen Elizabeth II is held at Westminster Abbey on Monday, 19th September. The Queen's coffin is carried to the abbey from Westminster Hall, where the Sovereign had been lying-in-state for four-and-a-half days. After the service, the Queen's coffin is drawn in a walking procession from Westminster Abbey to Wellington Arch. It is then transferred to the new State Hearse for its final journey to Windsor Castle, where the Queen is buried alongside her late husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, in the King George VI Memorial Chapel.
On 21st September the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, announces a "partial mobilization" of troops to fight in the war with Ukraine, prompting protests in many Russian cities.
Hilary Mantel, author of the best-selling Wolf Hall trilogy, dies on 22nd September, aged 70.
Louise Fletcher, who won an Oscar for her role as Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, dies on 23rd September, aged 88.
On the same day the UK's newly-appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng announces a "mini-budget" which includes plans to cut the basic rate of income tax from 20% to 19% and the abolition of the 45% higher rate of income tax in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, paid by people earning more than £150,000 a year. The announcement prompts a sharp fall in the value of the pound, which falls to an all-time low against the US dollar. 10 days later, on the second day of the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, the government U-turns on its plans to scrap the 45p rate of income tax.
Cuba votes in favour of reforms legalizing same-sex marriage and same-sex adoption in a referendum on the Family Code held on 25th September.
The centre-right coalition led by Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy wins the general election held in Italy on the same day.
On 26th September a gunman, identified as Artem Kazantsev, opens fire at a school in Izhevsk in central Russia, killing 17 people (11 of them children), and injuring 24 others, before killing himself.
On the same day a NASA spacecraft, the DART probe, successfully collides with the asteroid Dimorphos in a planetary defence test designed to nudge asteroids off course and prevent them from hitting Earth.

Football supporters invade the pitch at Kanjuruhan Stadium in Malang, Indonesia on 1st October after the home team Arema FC loses a match to bitter rivals Persebaya Surabaya. 131 people lose their lives in a stampede after police fire tear gas into the crowd.
Loretta Lynn dies at her home in Hurricane Mills on 4th October, aged 90.
On Thursday, 6th October Panya Khamrab, a former police officer wielding a shotgun, a pistol and a knife, attacks a nursery in Nong Bua Lamphu province, Thailand, killing 36 people including 24 children, before killing himself.
On Saturday, 8th October an explosion damages the Crimean Bridge linking Russia with occupied Crimea, setting fire to oil tanker wagons on the railway bridge and causing parts of the road bridge to collapse.
Dame Angela Lansbury, best known as the star of the US TV crime series Murder, She Wrote, dies in her sleep on 11th October, just five days before her 97th birthday.
On Wednesday, 12th October the right-wing radio host Alex Jones is ordered by a Court in Waterbury, Connecticut to pay $965 million in damages after falsely claiming that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax.
On the same day two men are shot dead outside the Teplaren gay bar in Bratislava. The dead body of the man who claimed responsibility, Juraj Krajcik, is discovered the next day.
41 mine workers are killed following an explosion at a coal mine in Amasra in northern Turkey on 14th October.
Robbie Coltraine, who starred as Dr. Eddie "Fitz" Fitzgerald in the ITV television series Cracker (1993–2006), dies on 14th October, aged 72.
On the same day, after only 38 days in the role, Kwasi Kwarteng is sacked as Chancellor and replaced by Jeremy Hunt.
On Wednesday, 19th October Suella Braverman resigns as Home Secretary after using her personal e-mail account to send a draft Written Ministerial Statement about migration to a parliamentary colleague. In her resignation letter she says: "I have made a mistake; I accept responsibility: I resign."
The following day, after only 45 days in office, the Prime Minister Liz Truss announces her resignation as leader of the Conservative Party.
On the same day as her resignation announcement (Thursday, 20th October), a New York court dismisses a sexual assault lawsuit against the actor Kevin Spacey.
On Monday, 24th October Rishi Sunak wins the contest to replace Liz Truss as leader of the Conservative Party following the withdrawal of his leadership rivals, former Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the Leader of the House of Commons Penny Mordaunt. The following day he becomes the UK's first British Asian Prime Minister and the youngest for more than 200 years.
Leslie Jordan, who played Earl "Brother Boy" Ingram in Del Shores' 1996 play (and subsequent film and TV series) Sordid Lives, dies in a car accident in Los Angeles on 24th October, aged 67.
Jerry Lee Lewis, famous for his rock 'n' roll hits Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On and Great Balls Of Fire, dies on 28th October, aged 87.
On the same day Paul Pelosi, the husband of Nancy Pelosi, the 52nd Speaker of the US House of Representatives, is attacked by an intruder with a hammer at the couple's home in Pacific Heights.
On 29th October a crowd crush at the Halloween celebrations in the Itaewon district of Seoul causes at least 154 people to lose their lives, and leaves at least 133 others with injuries.
Former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva beats far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in the presidential election held in Brazil on 30th October.
On the same day at least 141 people are killed when Jhulto Pul, a pedestrian suspension bridge in Morbi, Gujarat, collapses into the Machchhu River.

Matt Hancock, the former Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, is suspended as a Conservative MP on 1st November, following his announcement that he had signed up to be a contestant on the ITV reality show I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!.
The Likud party led by Benjamin Netanyahu wins 32 seats in the Knesset in the legislative elections held in Israel on 1st November. After forming a coalition with ultranationalist and ultra-Orthodox Jewish allies Netanyahu is sworn in as Prime Minister on 29th December.
Imran Khan, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, is shot and injured in the leg on 3rd November at a protest march in Wazirabad.
Actor Bill Treacher, who played Arthur Fowler in EastEnders from 1985 until 1996, dies on Saturday, 5th November, aged 92.
Leslie Phillips, who appeared in the Carry On and Doctor In The House film series as well as the long-running BBC radio comedy series The Navy Lark, dies on 7th November, aged 98.
Dan McCafferty, lead singer of Nazareth, dies on 8th November, aged 76.
On 13th November a bomb explodes on Istiklal Avenue, a busy shopping street near Taksim Square in Istanbul. Six people are killed and 81 others wounded. A week later, in retaliation, Turkish forces bomb nearly 500 targets in Syria and Iraq.
On Friday, 18th November a LATAM Perú Airbus (Flight 2213 from Lima to Juliaca) collides with a fire engine crossing the runway at Jorge Chávez International Airport. Two firefighters are killed but the passengers and crew aboard the aircraft all escape alive.
The general election held in Malaysia on 19th November produces the country's first hung parliament. The ruling coalition led by Ismail Sabri Yaakob suffers its worst electoral defeat, winning just 30 of the 178 seats it contested. The Pakatan Harapan alliance led by Anwar Ibrahim wins the most seats, but falls well short of a majority.
Just before midnight on 19th November a gunman opens fire at Club Q in Colorado Springs. Five people are killed and 25 injured.
Irene Cara, best known for the hit songs from the films Fame (1980) and Flashdance (1983), dies on 25th November, aged 63.
The world's largest active volcano, Hawaii's Mauna Loa, erupts for the first time in almost 40 years on 27th November.
Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac, who wrote many of the band's best-known songs, including Say You Love Me, Don't Stop, Songbird and You Make Loving Fun, dies on 30th November, aged 79.
On the same day a breakthrough in clinical research is announced at the 2022 Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease (CTAD) conference in San Francisco. The results of a large-scale study of the antibody lecanemab reveal that the drug is the first to slow the destruction of the brain in people with early stage Alzheimer's.

Tennis coach Nick Bollettieri, dies on 4th December, aged 91. His Tennis Academy in Bradenton, Florida helped many of the world's top players to become successful, including Monica Seles, Jim Courier and Andre Agassi, as well as Maria Sharapova (who moved from Russia to train at the Academy at the age of nine) and Jelena Jankovic (who moved from Belgrade, Serbia, aged 12).
On Tuesday, 6th December the Court of First Instance in Argentina finds the Vice-President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner guilty of "fraudulent administration" over the awarding of public works contracts to a friend. She is sentenced to six years in jail but continues as Vice-President while she appeals the ruling.
The President of Peru Pedro Castillo is impeached on 7th December, hours after he had tried to dissolve parliament. He is succeeded by Vice-President Dina Boluarte, who becomes the first woman to be sworn in as the country's President.
US basketball player Brittney Griner, who had been arrested at at Moscow Airport in February for possessing cannabis oil, is released from prison in Russia on 8th December in exchange for arms dealer Viktor Bout, who had been held in a US prison for 12 years.
Anne Sacoolas, a former US spy who had been driving the car that killed 19-year-old Harry Dunn in a traffic accident in 2019, is sentenced in absentia on 8th December to eight months in prison, suspended for 12 months, and is disqualified from driving for 12 months.
Ruth Madoc, best known for her role as Gladys Pugh in the BBC television comedy Hi-de-Hi! (1980-88), dies on 9th December, aged 79. Upon learning the news, Lyn Paul Tweets: "Oh no. Just heard that the lovely Ruth Madoc has died, my fellow Lady Ratling who was so incredibly kind." (Twitter, 10th December, 8:50pm)
Former Wimbledon Champion Boris Becker is released from prison on Thursday, 15th December, having served 8 months of his two-and-a-half-year prison sentence.
Terry Hall, who had hits as lead singer of The Specials, Fun Boy Three and The Colourfield. dies from pancreatic cancer on 18th December, aged 63.
The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, meets the US President Joe Biden at the White House and addresses Congress on Wednesday, 21st December - his first trip outside his homeland since the Russian invasion in February.
On the same day a bomb cyclone begins to form over the Great Plains, bringing severe Winter weather to much of Canada and the United States. The Governor of Georgia Brian Kemp declares a state of emergency on 21st December. The following day state of emergencies are also declared in Colorado, Connecticut, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, North Carolina, New York, Oklahoma, West Virginia, and Wisconsin..
On 22nd December Members of the Scottish Parliament vote by 86 to 39 to approve a self-identification system for people who want to change their legal gender.
On 23rd December a 69-year-old white man armed with a gun kills three people and injures three others in racially-motivated attacks at the Ahmet-Kaya Kurdish Centre in Paris, and at a restaurant and a hairdresser's nearby.
Pelé, arguably the greatest football player of all time, who scored a world record 1,281 goals during his 21-year career, dies on 29th December, aged 82.
Fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood dies on the same day, aged 81.
The New Year Honours List, pubished on 30th December, includes Knighthoods for Brian May and Grayson Perry, an OBE for Leah Williamson, Captain of the England Lionesses football team, and MBEs for team members Lucy Bronze, Beth Mead and Ellen White.
Barbara Walters, the first female co-host of a US news programme, dies on 30th December, aged 93.
Former Pope Benedict XVI dies on 31st December, aged 95.

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• Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal
  B.O.T.A (Baddest Of Them All)
  
• Sam Ryder
  Space Man
  [Eurovision Song Contest: UK entry]
  
• Ed Sheeran
  Celestial
  
• Ed Sheeran
  The Joker And The Queen
  
• Sam Smith & Kim Petras
  Unholy
  
• Harry Styles
  As It Was
  
• Harry Styles
  Late Night Talking
  
• Taylor Swift
  Anti-Hero
  
• Taylor Swift
  Lavender Haze
  
• Taylor Swift featuring Lana Del Rey
  Snow On The Beach
  
  

• A-ha
  True North
  
• Arctic Monkeys
  The Car
  
• Michael Ball & Alfie Boe
  Together In Vegas
  
• Beyoncé
  Renaissance
  
• Michael Bublé
  Higher
  
• Camila Cabello
  Familia
  
• Digga D
  Noughty By Nature
  
• Drake & 21 Savage
  Her Loss
  
• Luke Evans
  A Song For You
  
• George Ezra
  Gold Rush Kid
  
• First Aid Kit
  Palomino
  
• Florence & The Machine
  Dance Fever
  
• Liam Gallagher
  C'Mon You Know
  
• Becky Hill
  Only Honest On The Weekend
  
• Lightning Seeds
  See You In The Stars
  
• Madonna
  Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones
  
• Kylie Minogue
  Impossible Princess
  
• Olly Murs
  Marry Me
  
• The 1975
  Being Funny In A Foreign Language
  
• Tom Odell
  Best Day Of My Life
  
• Gilbert O'Sullivan
  Driven
  
• Red Hot Chilli Peppers
  Unlimited Love
  
• Cliff Richard
  Christmas With Cliff
  
• Sam Ryder
  There's Nothing But Space Man
  
• Simple Minds
  Direction Of The Heart
  
• Soft Cell
  Happiness Not Included
  
• Bruce Springsteen
  Only The Strong Survive
  
• Steps
  Platinum Collection
  
• Stereophonics
  Oochya
  
• Harry Styles
  Harry's House
  
• Taylor Swift
  Midnights
  
• Jamie T
  The Theory Of Whatever
  
• Frank Turner
  FTHC
  
• Weeknd
  Dawn FM
  
• Wet Leg
  Wet Leg
  
• Robbie Williams
  XXV
  
• Years & Years
  Night Call
  
  

• The Batman
  
• The Battle At Lake Changjin II
  
• Belfast
  
• Benediction
  
• Bros
  
• Cyrano
  
• Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness
  
• Downton Abbey: A New Era
  
• The Duke
  
• Elvis
  
• Emancipation
  
• Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore
  
• Hocus Pocus 2
  
• Jurassic World Dominion
  
• Licorice Pizza
  
• Living
  
• The Lost City
  
• The Lost King
  
• Lyle Lyle Crocodile
  
• Minions: The Rise Of Gru
  
• Moon Man
  
• Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris
  
• Operation Mincemeat
  
• Parallel Mothers
  
• See How They Run
  
• Sing 2
  
• Sonic The Hedgehog 2
  
• Thor: Love And Thunder
  
• Ticket To Paradise
  
• Top Gun: Maverick
  
• Uncharted
  
  

Tony Award for Best Musical:
A Strange Loop

Olivier Award
for Best New Musical:
Back To The Future
The Musical

• Am I Being Unreasonable?
  
• Anne
  
• Bad Sisters
  
• Big Boys
  
• Bridgerton (Season 2)
  
• Canada's Drag Race (Season 3)
  
• Cheaters
  
• Chloe
  
• Compulsion
  
• Conversations With Friends
  
• The Crown (Season 5)
  
• Derry Girls (Series 3)
  
• Doctor Who: Eve Of The Daleks
  
• Doctor Who: Legend Of The Sea Devils
  
• Doctor Who: The Power Of The Doctor
  
• Euphoria (Season 2)
  
• Everything I Know About Love
  
• Gentleman Jack (Series 2)
  
• The Glory
  
• Gogglebox (Series 19 and 20)
  
• Hacks (Season 2)
  
• Heartstopper
  
• House Of The Dragon
  
• I Am Ruth
  
• Hullraisers (Series 1)
  
• Inventing Anna
  
• Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story
  
• Joe Lycett vs David Beckham: A Got Your Back Christmas Special
  
• Julia
  
• The Lord Of The Rings
  
• The Masked Singer (Series 3)
  
• Mood
  
• My Brilliant Friend
  
• Navalny
  
• Nolly
  
• Ozark
  
• Pachinko
  
• Pam And Tommy
  
• Peacemaker
  
• Peaky Blinders (Season 6)
  
• Pistol
  
• The Real Mo Farrah
  
• The Reckoning
  
• The Responder
  
• RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under (Season 2)
  
• RuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs The World (Series 1)
  
• RuPaul's Drag Race UK (Series 4)
  
• Russian Doll
  
• Screw
  
• Severance
  
• Slow Horses (Seasons 1 and 2)
  
• Somebody Somewhere
  
• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
  
• Starstruck (Series 2)
  
• Stranger Things
  
• Strictly Come Dancing (Series 20)
  
• Then Barbara Met Alan
  
• This Is Going To Hurt
  
• This Sceptered Isle
  
• The Time Traveller's Wife
  
• Top Boy (Series 4)
  
• The Traitors (Series 1)
  
• Trigger Point
  
• Two Doors Down (Series 6)
  
• Uncoupled
  
• Wednesday (Season 1)
  
• Yellowjackets
  
• Young Sheldon (UK: Season 5 / USA: Season 6)
  
  

BBC Sport

BBC
Sports Personality
of the Year:
Beth Mead

Darts: Peter Wright wins PDC World Darts Championship for the second time, beating Michael Smith in the final, 7-5.

Tennis: Ashleigh Barty wins the women's singles title at the Australian Open, beating Danielle Collins in the final, 6-3 7-6 (7-2). In March, two months after her victory at the Australian Open, Barty announces her retirement from professional tennis.
Rafael Nadal wins the men's singles title at the Australian Open, coming back from two sets down to beat Daniil Medvedev in the final, 2-6 6-7 (5-7) 6-4 6-4 7-5.
Iga Swiatek wins the women's singles title at the French Open for the second time, beating Coco Gauff in the final, 6-1,6-3. Rafael Nadal wins the men's singles title for the 14th time. He beats first-time finalist Casper Ruud in straight sets, 6-3 6-3 6-0.
At Wimbledon Tunisia's Ons Jabeur becomes the first Arab woman and first African-born player to reach a Grand Slam final. Her opponent in the women's singles final, Elena Rybakina, loses the first set but goes on to win the match 3-6, 6-2, 6-2, Rybakina - although she was born in Russia - is the first player representing Kazakhstan to win a Grand Slam after switching to represent that country in 2018. Novak Djokovic wins the men's singles title for the seventh time, defeating Nick Kyrgios in the final, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (7-3.
Ons Jabeur reaches a second Grand Slam singles final at the US Open only to lose again, this time to the women's world no. 1 Iga Swiatek, who prevails 6-2 7-6 (7-5).
19-year-old Carlos Alcaraz beats Casper Ruud in the men's singles final (6-4 2-6 7-6 (7-1) 6-3) and becomes the new men's world no. 1 in the process. He is the youngest man to become a Grand Slam singles champion since Rafael Nadal won the French Open in 2005 and the first teenager to be ranked no. 1 in the 49-year history of the ATP rankings.
On 15th September Roger Federer announces his retirement from professional tennis. His final match, a Laver Cup doubles partnership with his long-time rival Rafael Nadal, takes place on Friday, 23rd September at the O2 Arena in Greenwich. Federer and Nadal lose to Jack Sock and Frances Tiafoe, 6-4, 6-7 (2-7), 9-11. Team World, captained by John McEnroe wins the Laver Cup for the first time, defeating Team Europe, captained by Bjorn Borg, 13-8.

Football: Senegal beat Egypt 4-2 on penalties to win the Africa Cup of Nations for the first time.
Liverpool win the FA Cup for the 8th time, beating Chelsea in the final 6-5 on penalties. For Chelsea, the loss is the team's third in three consecutive FA Cup finals, after defeats to Arsenal and Leicester City in the 2020 and 2021 finals respectively..
Manchester City win the Premier League for the fourth time in five seasons, clinching the title with three goals in five minutes against Aston Villa in the team's final game of the season.
Women's FA Cup
Real Madrid win the UEFA Champions League for the 14th time, defeating Liverpool in the final 1-0.
England beat Germany 2-1 after extra time in the final of the UEFA Women's Euro 2022. England forward Beth Mead wins the Golden Boot award as the tournament's top goal scorer. Although Germany's Alexandra Popp had also scored six goals, Mead took the award as she had more assists than Popp, having laid on five other goals for her team-mates.
Argentina win the World Cup, beating France 4-2 in a penalty shoot out, after the final ends in a 3-3 draw.

Athletics: Great Britain is stripped of a silver medal won in the 4x100m men's relay at the Tokyo Olympics after team member C.J. Ujah is found to have committed a doping violation.
Three world records are set at the World Athletics Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon - Sydney McLaughlin wins the women's 400m hurdles final in a record time of 50.68 seconds; Tobi Amusan wins the women's 100m hurdles final, having already set a new record time of 12.12 seconds in her semi-final; and Armand Duplantis jumps a height of 6.21 meters in the men's pole vault final.
Britain's Jake Wightman wins a gold medal in the men's 1,500m, setting a personal best time of 3:29.23 and beating the Olympic champion and European record holder Jakob Ingebrigtsen, who finishes in second place.
Australia top the medals table at the XXII Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. Australia's swimmers complete a clean sweep in five events, winning the gold, silver and bronze medals in the women's 50m freestyle, 100m freestyle, 200m freestyle and 800m freestyle, as well as in the men's 400m freestyle. England win a clean sweep of the medals in the men's 3m springboard.

Winter Olympics: Team GB's women's curling team led by Eve Muirhead wins Great Britain's only gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Beijing, beating Japan 10-3 in the final.

Rugby Union: France win the Six Nations Championship for the first time since 2010, claiming the 'Grand Slam' with a 25-13 victory over England in the final match. Runners-up Ireland claim the Triple Crown for the sixth time.
New Zealand win the Women's World Cup for a sixth time, beating England in the final, 34-31.

Cricket: Australia win the Women's ODI World Cup, beating England in the final by 71 runs.
England, captained by Ben Stokes, win the men's T20 World Cup, beating Pakistan in the final by five wickets.

Horse Racing: the Cheltenham Gold Cup is won by the 3-1 favourite A Plus Tardwins, ridden by Rachael Blackmore. who becomes the first female jockey to win the race.
The 50-1 outsider Noble Yeats wins the Grand National, giving amateur jockey Sam Waley-Cohen his biggest win in the final ride of his career.
The 5-2 favourite Desert Crown, ridden by Richard Kingscote, wins the Epsom Derby, giving trainer Sir Michael Stoute his sixth Derby winner.

Rowing: Oxford win the men's Boat Race for the first time since 2017; in the women's race, Cambridge beat Oxford by more than two lengths in a record time of 18 minutes and 22 seconds.

Snooker: Ronnie O'Sullivan beats Judd Trump 18-13 in the final of the World Snooker Championship at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield to equal Stephen Hendry's record of seven world titles.
Mark Allen beats Ding Junhui 10-7 in the final of the UK Championship at York Barbican, fighting back from being 1-6 down.

Golf: Scottie Scheffler wins the US Masters at Augusta National Golf Club, Georgia. Rory McIlroy shoots a final round of 64 to finish in second place, three shots behind Scheffler.
Justin Thomas beats Will Zalatoris in a play-off to win the US PGA Tour Championship at the Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Matt Fitzpatrick wins the US Open at the Brookline Country Club, Massachusetts. Will Zalatoris is the runner-up once again, finishing in joint second place alongside world number one Scottie Scheffler.
Cameron Smith wins the 150th Open Championship at The Old Course, St. Andrews.
The first LIV Golf invitational event takes place at the Centurion Club near London on 9th June. The PGA Tour suspends all of its members taking part, including the six-time major winner Phil Mickelson.

Cycling: Denmark's Jonas Vingegaard wins the Tour de France, with two-time defending champion Tadej Pogacar finishing in second place and the 2018 winner Geraint Thomas in third.

Motor Racing: Michael Masi is removed as Formula 1 race director prior to the start of the 2022 F1 season. Masi had failed to correctly apply the rules in a late safety car period at the last race of the 2021 season, the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. His mistakes had a direct impact on the outcome of the race, enabling Max Verstappen to overtake Lewis Hamilton and win both the race and the 2021 F1 Drivers' Championship. Verstappen secures his second Driver's Championship after winning the Japanese Grand Prix on 9th October. He ends the season with a 15th win, establishing a new record for the number of wins in a single season.
Four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel announces on 28th July that he will retire at the end of the 2022 F1 season. He finishes his 299th and final race with a 10th place finish. Seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton ends the season without a win for the first time in his career - ending a record only he held.

Gymnastics: Jessica Gadirova wins the floor gold on the final day of the Gymnastics World Championships in Liverpool, having already won silver in the team event and bronze in the all-around competition.

Man Booker Prize

Winner:
Shehan Karunatilaka
The Seven Moons Of Maali Almeida

NoViolet Bulawayo
Glory,

Percival Everett
The Trees

Alan Garner
Treacle Walker

Claire Keegan
Small Things Like These

Elizabeth Strout
Oh William!

Women's
Prize for Fiction

Ruth Ozeki
The Book Of Form And Emptiness