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2020 has been a year that no one will forget, marked by a pandemic and strong social protests. But there were also stories that gave us hope. Here's a summary of the highlights of the last 12 months. This is what you need to know to finish the year. First the truth. | World | CNN

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2020 has been a year that no one will forget, marked by a pandemic and strong social protests.

But there were also stories that gave us hope.

Here's a summary of the highlights of the last 12 months.

This is what you need to know to finish the year.

First the truth.

1 The 20 Most Shocking Stories of 2020

2020 has been for many the most difficult year in modern history, and not only because of the covid-19 pandemic.

It began with a wink of war between the US and Iran.

And, as it progressed, it turned into a year with natural disasters, scandals, political squabbles and social demands.

The tension was immeasurable.

The mourning lasted the whole year.

This is a summary about a nightmare year.

2 The terrible year for aviation in the world

The world saw empty airports, planes grounded and millions of trips canceled due to travel restrictions around the world, as the virus raged in an uncontrollable pandemic for months.

3 The year of climate inaction

2020 was to be the turning point for action against the climate crisis, the year the world realized the challenge and began to take the issue seriously.

Instead, symbolically, it represented a decade of wasted climate promises.

4 The famous who died

It was a year in which great stars and personalities left, some in a surprising way.

Kobe Bryant, Armando Manzanero, Diego Armando Maradona and Chadwick Boseman were some of the famous people who passed away in 2020. Look at the gallery.

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Celebrities who have passed away in 2020. Look at the gallery →

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Designer Pierre Cardin died in December at the age of 98.

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The Mexican singer-songwriter Armando Manzanero died on December 28, 2020 after complications from covid-19.

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Professional wrestler Jon Huber, known in the ring as Luke Harper and Brodie Lee, died on December 26 at the age of 41, according to World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.

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Stella Tennant died on December 22, 2020 at age 50, Vogue reported.

Tennant became famous in the world of modeling avoiding the traditionally feminine aesthetic that made her contemporaries stars.

He was a fashion icon of the 90s.

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The successful British spy writer David Cornwell, known to the world as John Le Carré, has died at the age of 89, his literary agent, Jonny Geller, chief executive of The Curtis Brown Group, said on Sunday, December 13.

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Italian soccer legend Paolo Rossi died on December 9 (Credit: Tony Duffy / ALLSPORT)

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Alejandro Sabella, former technical director of the Argentine soccer team, passed away on December 8.

(Photo of Télam).

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Former World Cup star with Senegal, Papa Bouba Diop, passed away at the age of 42, it was reported Sunday, November 29.

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British actor David Prowse, who played Darth Vader in the original "Star Wars" trilogy, died at age 85 on November 29.

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Diego Armando Maradona died on November 25 at the age of 60.

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Bobby Brown Jr., son of singer Bobby Brown, has died at age 28

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After a year of battling a rare form of cancer, former "MasterChef Junior" star Ben Watkins died on Monday, Nov. 16 at the age of 14, his family said.

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Alex Trebek, host of 'Jeopardy', passed away at the age of 80 on November 8, 2020.

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Actor Eddie Hassell, best known for his roles in "Surface" and "Devious Maids," was shot and killed in the early hours of Sunday, November 1 in Texas.

I was 30 years old.

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Nikki McKibbin, a contestant on the first season of "American Idol," has passed away.

He was 42 years old.

McKibbin suffered an aneurysm on Wednesday, her husband Craig Sadler announced on Saturday, October 31, in a Facebook post.

McKibbin was on life support until that Saturday.

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Sean Connery, the Scottish actor whose five-decade film career was dominated by the role of James Bond, died at the age of 90 on October 31.

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James Redford, an activist, filmmaker and philanthropist, has died at age 58, a representative for his father, actor and director Robert Redford, confirmed to CNN.

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Conchata Ferrell, a beloved longtime supporting actress, passed away on October 12, 2020, her manager Dan Spilo reported.

Ferrell played a long list of roles, including characters from television series such as "Two and a Half Men" and films such as Edward Scissorhands and Erin Brockovich.

(Credit: Vince Bucci / Getty Images)

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Eddie Van Halen, the renowned guitarist for the iconic rock group Van Halen, died on October 6 at age 65 (credit: Ethan Miller / Getty Images).

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Argentine cartoonist Joaquín Salvador Lavado, better known as "Quino", died at the age of 88.

(MIGUEL RIOPA / AFP via Getty Images)

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice of the Supreme Court of Justice, died on September 18 at the age of 87, the court announced.

He had suffered five episodes of cancer, the most recent a recurrence in early 2020 when a biopsy revealed lesions in the liver.

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Chadwick Boseman died at age 43 on August 28.

(Credit: Gareth Cattermole / Getty Images for Disney)

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Mexican actress Cecilia Romo passed away after struggling with the consequences of the coronavirus.

(Credit: National Association of Interpreters of Mexico (ANDI))

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Photograph of the actor Manuel "El Loco Valdés" during his participation in the play "Divas por siempre" on January 26, 2017. Valdés died at the end of August.

(EFE / Armando Mota / file).

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Landon Clifford, a 19-year-old YouTube celebrity, died on August 13 after spending six days in a coma, his wife Camryn announced on social media Wednesday, August 26.

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Singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle has died at age 38, according to an announcement made on Sunday, August 23 by his representatives.

The son of country rocker Steve Earle, he rose to fame in 2007 with the EP "Yuma," said Rolling Stone.

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Eusebio Leal, a historian from Havana, died at the age of 77.

(ADALBERTO ROQUE / AFP via Getty Images)

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Herman Cain, the former presidential candidate and former CEO of Godfather's Pizza, died of coronavirus on July 30.

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Malik Abdul Basit, a rapper, singer, and founding member of The Roots, died on July 29.

He was 47 years old.

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Olivia de Havilland, star of 'Gone with the Wind', died aged 104 on July 26 at her residence in France.

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Regis Philbin, host of "Live with Regis and Kathie Lee," Miss America pageants and other television shows, died at age 88 on July 25.

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Grant Imahara, host of the Discovery Channel's "MythBusters" and Netflix's "White Rabbit Project," has died, according to a Discovery Channel statement released Monday, July 13.

He was 49 years old.

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"Glee" actress Naya Rivera died in July, presumably drowning after swimming with her son in a lake in California.

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Actress Kelly Preston died of breast cancer, her husband, actor John Travolta, reported in an Instagram post on Sunday.

According to Travolta, Preston had been battling breast cancer for two years.

He was 57 years old.

(LOIC VENANCE / AFP via Getty Images)

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YouTube star Nicole Thea died at the age of 24, along with her unborn baby on July 12.

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A grandson of Elvis Presley, Benjamin Keough, died, a representative for his mother, Lisa Marie Presley, said on July 12.

I was 27 years old

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Rapper Huey, from St. Louis, known for his 2007 hit "Pop, Lock & Drop It," was killed in a shooting on June 26.

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Indian Siya Kakkar, an influential TikTok teenager with a significant fan base on the video-sharing platform, died on June 26.

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Joel Schumacher, an eclectic director whose career spanned from a couple of divisive Batman movies to St. Elmo's Fire, died on June 22, 2020.

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British actor Ian Holm died at the age of 88 on June 19.

Holm, who had a long and varied acting career, in which he played a number of characters, including Bilbo Baggins in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy.

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The Spanish novelist Carlos Ruiz Zafón died at the age of 55, as reported on June 19 by the Planeta publishing house on its social networks

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The Spanish singer Pau Donés died on June 9 at the age of 53 as a result of cancer he had suffered since 2015.

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Mexican actor Héctor Suárez Hernández died at age 81 on June 2, 2020.

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Gregory Tyree Boyce, an actor who appeared in the 2008 film "Twilight," was found dead in a Las Vegas residence on May 19.

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Director Lynn Shelton, known for the films "Humpday" and "Your Sister's Sister" and the series "Little Fires Everywhere," died in May at age 54 in Los Angeles.

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Argentine singer Sergio Denis died on May 15, as confirmed by his son on his Twitter account.

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Actor and comedian Jerry Stiller passed away of natural causes on May 11.

He was 92 years old.

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Little Richard, pianist, artist, and rock 'n' roll legend died at age 87 in Macon, Georgia, on Saturday, May 9.

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Roy Horn of the magic duo Siegfried and Roy died on May 8 of complications from the coronavirus, according to his publicist.

He was 75 years old.

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Cady Groves, a pop and country singer-songwriter, died in early May at her home in Tennessee.

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Mexican singer-songwriter Óscar Chávez died on April 30.

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Irrfan Khan, a Bollywood actor who was very successful on his move to Hollywood, passed away on April 29.

He was 53 years old.

(Credit: Vittorio Zunino Celotto / Getty Images for DIFF)

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Singer-songwriter Bill Withers died on March 30, 2020, in Los Angeles of heart complications.

He was 81 years old.

Whiters is remembered for soulful hits like "Lean On Me", "Ain't No Sunshine" and "Lovely Day."

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Legendary singer Kenny Rogers died on March 20 at age 81.

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Swedish actor Max von Sydow, who became famous in Ingmar Bergman's films before appearing in international hits like "Game of Thrones," died on March 9 at the age of 90.

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Caroline Flack, 40, former host of the hit British reality show 'Love Island', committed suicide and her body was found on February 15 in her East London apartment.

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"Nanny McPhee" star and climate change activist Raphael Coleman died at the age of 25 on February 7.

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Kirk Douglas died on February 5 at the age of 103.

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Kobe Bryant died at age 41 on January 26 in a helicopter crash.

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Neil Peart, whose virtuoso drumming and witty lyrics propelled his band Rush to worldwide stardom and sealed his place as one of the greatest drummers in rock music, died on January 10.

He was 67 years old.

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Actor Harry Hains, who played roles in productions like "American Horror Story," died on January 10 at the age of 27.

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Silvio Horta, the creator of Ugly Betty, died on January 8 at the age of 45

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Former NBA commissioner David Stern died on January 1 at age 77

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American singer-songwriter David Olney, whose music was performed by Linda Ronstadt, Steve Young, Emmylou Harris, and others, died of an apparent heart attack while performing on stage in Florida on Saturday, January 20, 2020. He was 71 years old. .

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Terry Jones, one of the stars of the British comedy group Monty Python, died on January 18, 2020 at the age of 77.

In recent years, he spoke of his health problems, including dementia.

5 The good news of the year

2020 was a terrible year.

But the world is in a better shape than you might think.

Another devastating virus officially disappeared from the continent that it had once swept, a remarkable public health achievement after decades of work.

But you may have missed it.

And this is not the only achievement that is lost from sight in the midst of the dizzying expedition that was 2020.

The Key Health Advances In 2020 You May Have Missed From Covid-19
2020 was a difficult year, but these moments made it a little more fun

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Covid-19 dominated the health news in 2020, but scientific advances continued.

Slide this gallery to know them.

A major victory was a vaccine that has been in the works for years, finally ending the second deadliest outbreak of Ebola.

This outbreak killed more than 2,200 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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The first blood test to help diagnose Alzheimer's disease was launched in 2020. Additionally, research continued to refine behavioral and lifestyle interventions to delay the onset of dementia.

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A "revolutionary" development in the fight against diabetes-associated heart and kidney disease occurred in 2020. This year it was discovered that the newer classes of drugs for type 2 diabetes - SGLT2 inhibitors and GLP ARs -1–– reduced the risk of disease associated with cardiovascular events and death.

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A clinical trial published in March showed that vericiguat, an investigational drug, shows promise in helping people with declining heart failure.

Also for those with reduced ejection fraction, a measure of the amount of blood that the left ventricle pumps with each contraction.

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In 2020, the FDA approved the first treatment for thyroid orbitopathy, in which the eyes push forward and bulge out.

Which causes eye pain, double vision, sensitivity to light, or trouble closing the eye.

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This year, the FDA approved a lice medicine in adults and children older than 6 months.

The drug, called XEGLYZE, is a welcome addition to the lice treatment arsenal.

Indeed, many have become resistant to existing treatments.

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In November, the FDA recognized sesame seeds as a common allergen and asked manufacturers to voluntarily add a warning to the label of products containing the seeds.

Allergy consumer advocates want to go further, asking the FDA to enforce the warning.

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There were a number of health issues that were left in the middle due to the global attention that was put on covid-19.

International progress to control the HIV epidemic was "completely sidetracked" by the new coronavirus, according to the World Health Organization.

New prescriptions for PReP, an HIV preventive, fell 75% in the spring.

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Fear of the new coronavirus - and the desire not to overwhelm doctors and hospitals flooded with COVID-19 patients - prevented many from seeking basic medical care.

By July 1, “approximately 41% of American adults had delayed or avoided medical care.

Including urgent or emergency care (12%) and routine care (32%) ”for the coronavirus, the CDC said.

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The Clean Air Act celebrated its 50th anniversary this year, but the commemoration was marred by the loss of a number of environmental safeguards.

A key sign of climate change was the wave of wildfires that endangered lung health.

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The use of electronic cigarettes continues to be a health problem, especially among young people.

However, the issue "has basically disappeared from the radar since covid-19 hit," the American College of Cardiology said.

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Studies showed that racial and ethnic minority groups were more likely to suffer severe cases of COVID-19 and were more likely to enter intensive care units, require ventilators or die, according to the CDC.

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The best of entertainment in 2020

Despite the hardships of the pandemic, the world turned to movies, television, music, and the arts for entertainment.

This is a selection of the highlights of the year.

The 5 best movies of 2020
The best video games of the year
The 5 best series released in 2020
The series that became popular again in 2020
The youtubers who earned the most in 2020
The most popular movies of 2020

Drive-ins, baked goods, and other classics the pandemic brought back in 2020

The covid-19 pandemic also brought with it (back) classics that the whirlpool of modern life seemed to have left behind.

With millions of people in lockdown, and theaters, restaurants, shops, and stadiums closed - in other words, with much of the world on hiatus, entertaining could be quite a challenge.

The space discoveries of 2020

We learned more about our little corner of the universe, as well as the vast expanses beyond, dotted with strange stars and even stranger exoplanets.

People (alive) with the most searches on Google in 2020

Google recently released its Year in Search 2020, with the most searched categories this year.

In this ranking, we present you who are the 5 most popular people alive in the search engine.

Hint: most are politicians.

Also know what were the news and the most searched words of 2020.

The great disappointments of 2020 in sports

The Astros scandal in the Major Leagues, the disastrous season of FC Barcelona and Novav Djokovic's famous ball hit a linesman, among other cases, are part of this unattractive list.

Also, see here who was the best footballer of the year.

The word of the year in Spanish was not "coronavirus"

The Foundation for Urgent Spanish chose the word for 2020 and, although it is not the term “coronavirus”, it is related to a common experience among all the inhabitants of the planet.

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The figure of the year

82 million

The year closes with a global figure of more than 82 million confirmed cases of covid-19 (accumulated), according to the count of Johns Hopkins University.

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The date of the year

"I can't breathe"

Those were George Floyd's last words to Minneapolis police officers before he died on May 25.

A phrase that marked not only the social climate in the United States, but also resonates in a year defined by a virus whose disease attacks the respiratory system.

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