A selection of today's front pages
1. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in the opening ceremony at COP26, said it was what time on the Doomsday Clock?
2. Before COP26 began, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that humanity was losing by what score at half-time in the fight against climate change?
3. In a video address to COP26, the Queen said: 'It has sometimes been observed that what leaders do for their people today is government and politics. But what they do for the people of tomorrow, that is ___.' What is the missing word?
4. At COP26 the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby apologised for comparing politicians who failed to act on climate change to those who had 'ignored' what?
5. Who asked at the opening ceremony at COP26: 'Is this how our story is due to end? A tale of the smartest species doomed by that all too human characteristic of failing to see the bigger picture in pursuit of short-term goals?'
6. Why was Israeli energy minister Karine Elharrar unable to get into COP26 in Glasgow on Monday?
7. Owen Paterson, the subject of a lobbying investigation that led to a controversial vote in the Commons this week, resigned as an MP saying: 'I will remain a public servant but outside the ___ world of politics.' What is the missing word?
8. Labour ruled out standing aside in favour of a cross-party 'anti-sleaze' candidate at the by-election to replace Tory MP Owen Paterson in which constituency?
9. What is the name of the former Leicester East Labour MP, now an independent, who was given a ten-week suspended sentence after being convicted of harassment?
10. Hospital worker David Fuller, 67, admitted murdering two women in 1987 and sexually abusing at least 100 female corpses in two hospital morgues in which English county?
11. Mina Smallman called on Dame Cressida Dick to 'get the rot out' of the Met after two police officers admitted doing what?
12. Jes Staley, group chief executive of Barclays, stood down after an investigation into his links with who?
13. Health Secretary Sajid Javid called for 'heads to roll' and Julian Knight, chairman of the digital, culture, media and sport committee, said: 'I struggle to think of any reason why the board should remain in post.' What organisation were they referring to?
14. Three people, who died after getting into difficulty in the River Cleddau in West Wales, were taking part in what activity?
15. The Bank of England surprised financial markets by voting to keep the interest rate unchanged at its historic low of what per cent?
16. Which former England footballer announced that he needed an urgent liver transplant?
17. Fourteen people were taken to hospital when two trains crashed in a tunnel near which city’s railway station?
18. Dawn Voice-Cooper, 76, from Sevenoaks, sipped champagne, smoked a cigarette and listened to Nick Drake’s Day is Done before doing what?
19. What was the name of the four-year-old girl who went missing for 18 days in Australia and was found alive in a locked house?
20. Entertainer Lionel Blair, who died aged 92, was captain of one of the teams in which TV game show that ran throughout the 1980s?
21. Italian restaurateur Ado Campeol, who died aged 93, is widely credited with inventing which dish with a name that translates as 'lift me up'?
22. Quadruple amputee Harmonie-Rose Allen, the Oxford vaccine team and sisters Amy and Ella Meek, who founded Kids Against Plastic, were all winners of what?
23. Why was baby Alpha, born to Cherral and Tyson Mitchell at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, in the headlines?
24. Actress Sarah Jayne Dunn was dropped from which TV programme after refusing to remove photos from the adult subscription site OnlyFans?
25. Where did TV viewers see space traveller Skye crash-landing in the woods near the home of 14-year-old Nathan?
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