On January 1, 2020, it would have taken the most hardened pessimist to have looked ahead to the coming year with any sense of the challenge to humanity that would be unleashed by Covid-19.
No matter how grim the year's events were for so many around the world, there were of course highs as well as lows.
Abu Dhabi's English-language newspaper The National captured the year's events each day and published some memorable front pages.
Above we display a selection of those striking pages as a record of many of the events that shaped our year in the UAE and beyond. To move on to the next picture click on the arrows, or if using a mobile device, simply swipe.
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January 1, 2020: Happy New Year -
January 12: Oman bids farewell to Qaboos the moderniser -
January 30: Visiting family confirmed as first with virus in UAE -
January 31: Europe steps up efforts to combat coronavirus threat -
February 26: Former Egyptian President Mubarak dies at 91 -
March 12: Covid-19 outbreak declared a global pandemic -
March 27: G20 leaders pledge $5tn in first united response to virus crisis -
April 8: 100 days that changed the world -
April 11: Abu Dhabi invests $100m in Agritech companies -
April 15: IMF says world faces worst crisis since 1929 -
June 29: 10,000,000 -
July 14: 'I will watch my country's flag going to another planet' -
July 20: Hope lifts off -
July 29: IATA warns air travel will not recover until 2024 -
August 2: UAE first Arab nation to produce nuclear energy -
August 4: Blast rocks Beirut -
August 9: 'We are going to a funeral for a country that is dead' -
August 14: Israel freezes Palestine annexation for UAE ties -
August 27: High risk of lung cancer as Beirut cleans up -
September 2: Kushner: what Trump woild do with four more years -
September 16: 'We extend a hand of peace and receive a hand of peace' -
November 3: America votes. The world waits -
November 4: Trump-Biden showdown to break US voting records -
November 8: Biden wins the race -
December 2: Sheikh Khalifa optimistic after year of exceptional challenges -
December 3: A nation's growth -
December 14: Christmas coronavirus lockdown in Germany
How 'The National' told the story of 2020 - in 27 front pages
Look back at the most striking newspaper pages that reflect events in the UAE and beyond
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