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1. Coldest city in the world - in pictures

22 Jan 2014: Located on the permanently frozen tundra of Russia’s far east, Yakutsk is generally considered the coldest city in the world, with temperatures regularly falling to -45C in winter. Photographs: Amos Chapple

2. Chelsea and Manchester United agree provisional £40m deal for Juan Mata

22 Jan 2014: Chelsea and Manchester United have provisionally agreed a £40m fee for Juan Mata though the champions are yet to make a formal bid

3. The 30 greatest video games that time forgot

22 Jan 2014:

Keith Stuart: From lost adventures to forgotten puzzlers, here are the classic titles that games history has cruelly overlooked

4. Spot the city skyline - quiz

20 Jan 2014:

Test your knowledge of the world's great cities. Can you identify these places from the silhouettes of their biggest and most notable landmarks?

5. Getting enough sleep is a forgotten art | Emma Brockes

22 Jan 2014:

Emma Brockes: The desire to 'lean in' at work must, occasionally, be superseded by the need to keel over. A nap isn't always bad

6. Police to ask home secretary to approve use of water cannon across country

22 Jan 2014: Police chiefs say water cannon are needed because 'austerity measures are likely to lead to continued protest'

7. If Liverpool wanted to replace Steven Gerrard, who could they buy?

22 Jan 2014:

Statsbomb: Gerrard has been captaining Liverpool for over a decade, but who could Brendan Rodgers buy to succeed his ageing skipper?

8. China's princelings storing riches in Caribbean offshore haven

21 Jan 2014:

Relatives of political leaders including China's current president and former premier named in trove of leaked documents from the British Virgin Islands

9. Nelson Mandela statue's hidden rabbit catches government on the hop

22 Jan 2014:

South Africa's arts and culture department says it had no idea two sculptors had secreted a rabbit in nine-metre bronze statue

10. Quentin Tarantino shelves western The Hateful Eight after script leak

22 Jan 2014:

'Very very depressed' director alleges agent of Michael Madsen or Bruce Dern may have been responsible for script ending up online

11. Andy Murray sent crashing out of Australian Open by Roger Federer

22 Jan 2014: Roger Federer weathered a belated challenge from Andy Murray at the Australian Open to win 6-3, 6-4, 6-7, 6-3 and set up a semi-final with Rafa Nadal

12. A beaver in England? Well, I'll be dammed

22 Jan 2014: The first wild beaver to be seen in England for 500 years has set up home in Devon

13. Joyce Carol Vincent: how could this young woman lie dead and undiscovered for almost three years?

8 Oct 2011:

When film-maker Carol Morley read that the skeleton of a young woman had been found in a London bedsit, she knew she had to find out more

14. US psychology body declines to rebuke member in Guantánamo torture case

22 Jan 2014: Complaint dropped against John Leso, involved in brutal interrogation of suspected 9/11 hijacker Mohammed al-Qahtani

15. Manchester United make club record £40m bid for Chelsea's Juan Mata

22 Jan 2014: Manchester United have made a club record £40m bid through a third party for the Chelsea midfielder Juan Mata

16. Nicolas Anelka likely to up the 'anti' after FA's quenelle charge | Marina Hyde

22 Jan 2014: Marina Hyde: We must look forward to hearing the West Bromwich Albion striker's defence after he described his gesture as being anti-system and anti-establishment

17. Rio statue is repaired after lightning strikes - in pictures

22 Jan 2014: Work has begin to repair the Christ Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Two fingers and the head were chipped during recent lightning storms

18. Get a job at Costa? If only it was that simple for young people | Erica Buist

22 Jan 2014: Erica Buist: Employment minister Esther McVey's patronising advice is just a way to deflect attention from her department's shocking statistics

19. Nicolas Anelka Facebook post says: 'I am neither antisemitic nor racist'

22 Jan 2014: Nicolas Anelka has posted a call on his Facebook site for the Football Association to drop its charges over the quenelle, insisting he is neither racist nor antisemitic

20. Independent commission to investigate future of internet after NSA revelations

22 Jan 2014: Two-year inquiry headed by Swedish foreign minister, set up by Chatham House and CIGI thinktanks, is announced at Davos

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