Mass testing for coronavirus will be rolled out to 67 more areas in England, the health secretary has said. Areas including Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire and parts of the West Midlands will receive new rapid "lateral flow" tests. Matt Hancock said he hoped the new tests would find Covid-19 "wherever it is, especially in those high prevalence areas".
Three million workers, helped by 4,000 planes and ships, are getting ready for the world's biggest online sale - with "revenge spending" tipped to be one of this year's biggest trends. China's Singles Day on 11 November is the world's biggest 24-hour online shopping event, with 1.9bn products ordered and delivered last year.
Marcus Rashford's campaign to tackle holiday hunger and child poverty in England has been addressed with a £396m package in a government climbdown. The prime minister telephoned the footballer on Saturday to tell him of the new plans for targeted support over Christmas, Easter and Summer holidays.
The Queen has led the nation in marking Remembrance Sunday, as people around the UK privately paid their respects at home due to the coronavirus pandemic. She was joined by family members and the PM at the scaled-back service at the Cenotaph in London's Whitehall.
This last issue is, perhaps, the most important. The UK will want to use its chairmanship next year of the United Nations COP26 climate change summit to forge a bond with the Biden administration, hoping to act as a broker between the US and other countries, especially China, in agreeing a deal.
This week should have made Jack Ma China's richest man again, and the stock market debut of his company Ant Financial should have been the largest ever. Things didn't quite go according to plan though. Ant was set for a dual listing on Thursday in Hong Kong and Shanghai worth about $34.4bn (£26.5bn).
Mutations in some of the strains, which have infected a small number of people, are reported to involve the spike protein of the virus, which is targeted by some, but not all, vaccines being developed.
The world's biggest jeweller, Pandora, has no plans for the permanent closure of any of its thousands of stores despite the coronavirus pandemic. Chief executive Alexander Lacik told the BBC he also intended to continue paying all staff in full, The firm could "withstand a big drop in sales" before he would even start considering store closures, he said.
Peter Goffin's grandfather told many stories of his war years in the UK with the Canadian Air Force, but only ever showed his family one photograph - of his wedding to a Welsh bride, Peter's grandmother. But after he died, an album was discovered that provided images to accompany the tales the family knew so well.
Joe Biden will become America's 46th president after defeating incumbent Donald Trump in a bitterly divisive election conducted with the country still reeling from the coronavirus pandemic. His plans for the next four years are likely to confront the challenge of a divided government, however, as Republicans claimed key victories in Congress.
On a tiny stretch of the fast-flowing Valsan river in Romania lives one of the rarest fish in Europe, and quite possibly the world. The 65-million-year-old Asprete was first discovered by a biology student in 1956, and for decades it has teetered on the brink of extinction.
Laura and her husband Rik met through the discussion forum of the website MoneySavingExpert, which they had both joined to try to reduce their spending. They even got married on a Tuesday because it was the cheapest day to do so.
Druids and campaigners are threatening to lie in front of any bulldozers. But a director from English Heritage insists that they have planned a mitigation programme to ensure that any archaeology that is not preserved is recorded.
England's Nations League match against Iceland is in doubt because of the UK government's new travel ban on non-UK visitors coming from Denmark. Iceland are set to play Denmark in Copenhagen three days before facing England at Wembley on 18 November.
Forty years ago, French photographer Raymond Depardon was commissioned by The Sunday Times Magazine to travel to Glasgow for a feature on its rich and poor. The photos he took were never published. Instead, his bleak but sympathetic depictions of people living among urban deprivation and decay languished in Depardon's archives for more than three decades until dusted off for an exhibition and a book in 2016.
In a letter to Ms Johnson's family on 19 October, the newly appointed NI Public Service Ombudsman (NIPSO), Margaret Kelly, said publication of investigation reports helped improve confidence in public bodies.
Joe Biden has won the race to become the next US president, defeating Donald Trump following a cliff-hanger vote count after Tuesday's election. The BBC projects that Mr Biden has won the key battleground of Pennsylvania, propelling him over the 270 electoral college vote threshold required to clinch the White House.
Wales is starting to see a "levelling off" of Covid-19 case rates, the country's health minister has said on the final day of its 17-day lockdown. Vaughan Gething also said mass testing, as being trialled in Liverpool, will be considered in Wales' high case rate areas like Merthyr and the valleys.
A murder takes place in a misty Himalayan hill resort. As the whodunit unfolds, a couple almost unwittingly begin sleuthing to get to the bottom of the crime. And the story is based on a novel by the world's most celebrated crime writer.
After nearly 50 years in public office, and a lifetime of presidential ambitions, Joe Biden has captured the White House. It was not the campaign anyone predicted. It took place amidst a once-in-a-century pandemic and unprecedented social unrest. He was running against an unconventional, precedent-defying incumbent.