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  • It took the world's top 1,000 billionaires nine months to recoup their fortunes after the coronavirus pandemic hit. This image shows a homeless person sitting in the rain on April 24, 2020 in New York City. (Pablo Monsalve/ViewPress/Getty Images)

    The megarich have already recovered from the pandemic. It may take the poor a decade to do so

  • Bernie Sanders turned his inauguration meme into a sweatshirt for charity. (Friends of Bernie Sanders via CNN)

    Bernie Sanders turns inauguration meme into sweatshirt for charity

  • When Cemal Senturk was transferred to Medical Park Hospital, his dog, Boncuk, escaped and followed him to the hospital, where she waited each day. (Medical Park Hospital via CNN)

    Loyal dog waits for six days outside Turkey hospital for her sick owner

  • FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2017, file photo, Oklahoma State Rep. Justin Humphrey prepares to speak at the State Capitol in Oklahoma City. A mythical, ape-like creature that has captured the imagination of adventurers for decades has now become the target of Rep. Justin Humphrey. (Steve Gooch/The Oklahoman via AP, File)

    Oklahoma lawmaker proposes 'Bigfoot' hunting season

  • Deng Pravatoudom, 57, is seen after winning the $60 million Lotto Max jackpot. (OLG)

    Toronto woman says winning numbers for $60M Lotto Max jackpot came to husband in a dream

  • A scene from "Canada and the Gulf War: In their own words," a video by The Memory Project, a program of Historica Canada, is shown in this undated illustration. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO - Historica Canada

    New video marks Canada's contributions to first Gulf War on 30th anniversary

  • FILE - This Dec. 6, 2018 image made available by NASA shows the InSight lander. The scene was assembled from 11 photos taken using its robotic arm. On Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021, NASA declared the craft dead after failing to burrow deep into the red planet to take its temperature. (NASA via AP)

    Mars digger bites the dust after two years on red planet

  • Katie Moore cools off with a bag of ice on her head Monday, Aug. 17, 2020, in Death Valley National Park, Calif. Death Valley recorded a scorching 130 degrees (54.4 degrees Celsius) Aug. 16, 2020, which if the sensors and other conditions check out, would be the hottest Earth has been in more than 89 years and the third-warmest ever measured. (AP Photo/John Locher)

    Hot again: 2020 sets yet another global temperature record

  • A forest fire, seen here in June 2020, burns in Russia's Sakha Republic. Parts of Siberia experienced temperatures in 2020 that were more than 6 degrees Celsius above normal averaged over the year. (Yevgeny Sofroneyev/TASS/Getty Images via CNN)

    2020 was tied for the hottest year ever recorded -- but the disasters fueled by climate change set it apart

  • Javed Soleimi holds a photo of his wife Elnaz Nabiy, who died in the crash of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752, in Edmonton, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Amber Bracken

    'Cannot imagine your pain:' Canadians mark anniversary of jet downing in Iran

  • Vishnugopan (Vishnu) Sothilingam is seen in this undated photograph used in a GoFundMe campaign. (Matthew Shulman/GoFundMe)

    'A smile doesn't cost': Tim Hortons worker in Vaughan shocked community raised over $20K for him

  • Alireza Ghandchi is photographed in front of a portrait of his wife Faezeh, daughter Dorsa and son Daniel in Richmond Hill, Ont., Friday, January 1, 2021. Ghandchi lost his family after Iranian forces shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet on Jan. 8, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

    Families of downed Flight 752 victims struggle with loss a year later

  • The Marigold ring is pictured. (Handout /Renani Jewels)

    Ring with 12,638 diamonds sets a Guinness World Record

  • A Tim Hortons employee hands out coffee from a drive-through window to a customer in Mississauga, Ont., on Tuesday, March 17, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

    Tim Horton launches new dark roast as part of chain's plan to get back to basics

  • Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos speaks at the the Amazon re:MARS convention, Thursday, June 6, 2019, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

    Amazon's Bezos tops list of richest charitable gifts in 2020

  • Silatik Qavvik poses in this undated handout photo. Qavvik, 34, died from complications caused by COVID-19 on January 2, after spending one month on a ventilator in a Winnipeg hospital. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO - Johnnie Cookie

    'Would kiss our cheeks:' Nunavut woman dies of COVID after giving birth in Winnipeg

  • People protest in solidarity with the George Floyd protests and honouring black lives that have been lost at the hands of police across the United States in Toronto on Friday, June 5, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

    In other news: Some of the stories that shaped Toronto in 2020 aside from COVID-19

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    Toronto man to reunite long-lost diaries with mystery woman after 37 years

  • A gingerbread monolith stands on Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 2020, on a bluff in Corona Heights Park overlooking San Francisco. A nearly 7-foot-tall monolith made of gingerbread mysteriously appeared on the San Francisco hilltop on Christmas Day and collapsed the next day. The three-sided tower, held together by icing and decorated with a few gumdrops, delighted the city when word spread about its existence. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group via AP)

    Gingerbread monolith delights San Francisco on Christmas Day

  • Employee Aja Burton (left) and store owner Kait Waugh chat at the Fat Plant Farm in Regina on Thursday Dec. 17, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Michael Bell

    'Plant boom:' Working from home, pandemic stress has people turning green