In today's news roundup, China responds strongly to negative comments from soccer star Mesut Özil, a Christmas song hits number one 25 years after it was recorded, and the US stops trading with the imaginary country of Wakanda.
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In today's news roundup, floods have forced hundreds of thousands from their homes in East Africa, Italian schools will begin teaching climate change next year, and movie star James Dean, who died in 1955, will make a new movie.
In today's news roundup, the auto workers' strike against General Motors could end soon, NASA astronauts make the first all-female spacewalk, and a map in a children's movie causes political trouble in Asia.
On January 1, over 50,000 books, poems, songs, and other works of art became "public domain" in the US, making them free for anyone to use.
The man who played Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street for 50 years is leaving the show. Caroll Spinney, who plays the 6-year-old bird, is now 84.
Thirteen years after they were stolen, a pair of red slippers from The Wizard of Oz have been found. The FBI tracked the shoes down in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
On Wednesday, Saudi Arabia opened its first public movie theater in 35 years. The movie Black Panther was shown to invited guests. This marks a big change for the country.
The movie Coco won an Academy Award on Sunday night for the best animated movie. The movie has been very popular in movie theaters, and now it is winning awards.