Scores of schoolboys who were rescued from kidnappers in northwest Nigeria arrived back home, many of them barefoot and wrapped in blankets after their week-long ordeal.
As a second wave of the coronavirus hits countries around the world, the first shipments of COVID-19 vaccine are being distributed to healthcare workers and vulnerable residents and staff of nursing homes.
Thousands of people are believed killed and nearly a million fled their homes during air strikes and ground battles in Tigray that exposed bitter ethnic divisions around the vast nation.
The coronavirus pandemic reshaped our world, the Black Lives Matter movement demanded racial justice, a deadly blast scarred Lebanon, Biden and Trump battled for the American presidency and more moments from 2020. Produced by Canice Leung.
