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By Faith Karimi, CNN
The holiday season can be challenging to maintain your health and fitness. Between social events and opportunities to indulge yourself, it’s easy to sabotage your health routine. But there are ways to make your fitness vacation safe.
Here’s what else you need to know Start your week smart.
That was the weekend
• As the highly contagious Omicron variant spreads, experts are urging people to update face masks.
• Archbishop Desmond Tutu, an anti-apartheid leader and voice of justice in South Africa, has died at the age of 90.
• Airlines have canceled thousands of flights as staff and crew members call in sick during the Omicron climb.
• More than 30 people were reported to have died in an attack in Myanmar and Save the Children staff were missing.
• European governments condemned the arrival of “mercenary troops” in Mali, West Africa.
The next week
Monday
It is the verdict when the jury reassembles in the separate trials of Ghislaine Maxwell and Elizabeth Holmes. Maxwell is charged with sex trafficking while Holmes is charged with fraud. The juries will continue deliberations after a vacation break.
A hearing is scheduled to deal with a motion by a Colorado prosecutor asking the court to reconsider Rogel Aguilera-Medero’s verdict. The truck driver was sentenced to 110 years in prison for an accident on Interstate 70 in Denver that killed four people.
Los Angeles police are expected to release bodycam videos, emergency recordings, radio broadcasts, CCTV and other evidence from the shooting in which a police officer died in a Burlington coat factory. She was in a locker room with her mother. The police had shot at a man who was suspected of assaulting a woman in the store, it said.
In Myanmar, a court could reach a verdict in the recent trial of the deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi. She is charged with owning unlicensed walkie-talkies and other foreign equipment which, if convicted, could face years of imprisonment.
Saturday
The Democrat Eric Adams becomes the new Mayor of New York City. A private swearing-in ceremony traditionally takes place at midnight. Adams canceled a public event due to the rise in coronavirus cases.
Do you want 5 more things? This week, on the Sunday edition of the 5 Things podcast, we are speaking to CNN’s senior medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, on our progress in the fight against Covid-19 amid an omicron-fueled surge. We’ll also look at other important health stories starting in 2021 and get some advice on creating New Year’s resolutions. Listen!
Photos of the week
Monkeys warm themselves by a campfire at the Japan Monkey Center in Inuyama. Here are 26 moving, mesmerizing, and thought-provoking images from the week, curated by CNN Photos.
What happens in the conversation
He’s watched a lot of TV so you don’t have to
CNN’s Brian Lowry has put together a “best of” TV list for 2021, a daunting task in an age of limitless quality content and blurred lines between traditional and newer formats. He considered many titles, highlighting what’s trending, what’s not, and everything in between.
Quiz time!
Instead of our normal weekly news quiz, we have a special quiz to get you in the holiday mood! Here’s a question to get you started:
In which fast food restaurant do many Japanese families traditionally eat a Christmas dinner?
A. KFC
B. McDonald’s
C. Pizza Hut
D. Underground
To take CNN’s vacation quiz to see if you’re right
Play me off
Raise a glass to 2022
We made it to the last weekend of the year! Phew, what a ride. To a much better 2022! (Click to listen.)
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