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24 Apr, 8 tweets, 4 min read
1/ Had a busy week? Been out socialising in the (chilly) sunshine? Fear not. Make yourself a cup of tea, and settle down to read through the stories behind the biggest headlines of the week - and a few more you may have missed 👇

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2/ Red card for the Super League ⚽🟥

If you slept solidly for 48 hours you may have missed this - it was over so quickly.

The so-called 'big six' English clubs are scrambling to make up with fans, but face lasting damage

Read more 👇

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3/ When a jury found Derek Chauvin guilty of murder, history was made.

It was the first time a white policeman was convicted of assaulting a black man in Minneapolis. Now the hope is for lasting change, with the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act

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4/ 13-year-old Adam Toledo was shot dead by a Chicago police officer during a foot chase.

Sky News has gone through footage released by officials to assess in detail what the videos can tell us about the moment the trigger was pulled

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5/ On Thursday, the world marked Earth Day with a summit of world leaders hosted by President Joe Biden 🌎

We also heard Boris Johnson talk about how action requires more than green acts of "bunny hugging" 🐰

But will the pledges make any difference? trib.al/bPmoHIm
6/ A lack of oxygen. A shortage of ventilators. Cities in shutdown.

The COVID crisis in India has escalated significantly in the past week with day after day of record breaking cases. More here 👇

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7/ A study found that sperm counts in the West had dropped by nearly 60% in the past 40 years - and if sperm counts continue to decrease at this rate, they are set to reach zero by 2045.

🎧 Find out more on the #Daily podcast 👇 podfollow.com/skynewsdaily
8/ Sunday night will see Hollywood celebrate the 93rd Academy Awards - but with no cinema outings in the last year, you will be forgiven for having missed out on seeing the big hopefuls 🍿📽️

More on the #Oscars 👇

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26 Apr
#Nomadland has swept the #Oscars with wins for directing and its lead Frances McDormand as well as best film - with British stars Daniel Kaluuya and Emerald Fennell also among the winners trib.al/qJkLve8
#Oscars: It was a slightly muted ceremony, with less jokes than usual and more focus on the talent in, and not in, the room 👀

However, it still had all the ingredients of an awards show with big talking points.

Find out what the key highlights were 👇
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👗 From butterfly power shoulders to purple hooded jumpsuit…we take a look at the best red carpet outfits from this year’s #Oscars

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25 Apr
1/ Catch up with the #DailyClimateShow 👇
On Friday's show...

🎤 @DeclanMcKenna talks about climate justice
🌍 We speak to the EU’s climate chief about the path to net-zero
🌱Find out how people around the world celebrated Earth Day

2/ 🇺🇸 We look at what President Biden’s climate summit could achieve
🌍 Find out how people around the world marked #EarthDay
🇧🇩 Meet the Bangladeshi engineer with a solar solution

Watch in full 👇
3/ 🏦 We speak to the former Bank of England Governor about a new climate initiative
🌊 Find out why seagrass are eco-friendly superheroes
🤖 And the rise of ocean robots

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25 Apr
"The heat is intense. The grief is palpable. Fires just do not stop burning in the Indian capital, Delhi, right now."

In Delhi a makeshift crematorium has been set up to cope with the number of COVID deaths. @AlexCrawfordSky reports from the centre of the global pandemic
Watch @AlexCrawfordSky's full report from Delhi as India struggles to cope with the number of people dying from COVID-19.

Warning: This package contains footage that some people may find distressing from a makeshift crematorium

"They cannot cope with the number of dead."

@AlexCrawfordSky reported from Delhi outside a makeshift crematorium

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23 Apr
This year the #Oscars significantly expanded its voting body, inviting more than 800 new members.

Based the 2021 nominations this seems to have made a real difference to diversity.

We have analysed 92 years of the winners in the main categories - here's how the stats add up 👇
Our analysis shows that Oscar-winning actresses are on average nine years younger than their male counterparts.

The average male winner is 46, the average female winner is 37
For every woman who has won an award for screenwriting, there are 12 male winners.

And in 92 years of Academy Awards winners there has only ever been one woman to win the award for best director – Kathryn Bigelow, for The Hurt Locker, in 2010
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22 Apr
This week on Hotspots we join @ramsaysky as he returns to Europe’s first epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic, while @AlexCrawfordSky is in Beirut following the catastrophic blast that shocked the world.

Watch tonight 10pm Sky Documentaries I Saturday 9pm Sky News
Chief correspondent @ramsaysky returned to Bergamo to see how the city was coping months after it became Europe’s first COVID crisis point.

His award-winning report at the beginning of March 2020 warned the world what to expect from #COVID19

Watch now👇
Special correspondent @AlexCrawfordSky headed to #Beirut after the catastrophic blast, that killed at least 210 people, shocked the world.

She arrived at the same time as the first international search and rescue teams - and witnessed the destruction first hand
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7 Apr
Coming up on the #DailyClimateShow at 6:30pm 👇

💬 A poll reveals how many Britons are optimistic that climate change is solvable
🗳 Why rare earth minerals were an issue for voters in Greenland's election
🧱 Meet Kenyan engineer @nzambimatee_ke who's tackling plastic waste
You can read more about the stories being covered on the #DailyClimateShow tonight here👇

Poll reveals how many Britons are unwilling to change their habits to tackle the climate crisis

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A major mining project in Greenland aimed at exploiting the Arctic island's huge untapped mineral resources has been thrown into doubt following a snap election

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