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5 Things You Need To Know, Today, on Wednesday 8th December 2021
5. A computer scientist who claims he invented Bitcoin has won a court case allowing him to keep a cache of 1.1m of the cryptocurrency, worth $54bn (£40bn).
A jury rejected claims that Craig Wright's former business partner was due half of the assets.
4. Existing vaccines should still protect people who contract the Omicron variant from severe Covid cases, a World Health Organization (WHO) official says.
But the WHO's Dr Mike Ryan said there was no sign Omicron would be better at evading vaccines than other variants.
3. Amazon and some other services including Prime Video and Alexa have been hit by computer problems.
Thousands of users in the United States have been reporting problems on the outage tracking website Downdetector.
2. Christmas dinner is set to cost more this year with the price of staples such as turkey, Brussels sprouts and Christmas pudding all higher, according to analyst firm Kantar.
A meal for four now costs £27.48 on average, up 3.4% from last year.
1. PCR tests for travel are a "rip-off jungle", former chairman of the Competition and Markets Authority, Lord Tyrie has said.
The government website has recently advertised tests for travellers at prices that have been difficult to obtain.
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