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TRT World says Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the parent company’s name is being changed to “Meta” to represent a future beyond just its troubled social network.

The Daily Mirror says with a record 54.4C in America’s Death Valley, -25C temperatures in Spain and raging fires in Greece, it’s been a year of climate disasters.

BBC News says the Covid pandemic will “go on for a year longer than it needs to” because poorer countries are not getting the vaccines they need, the WHO has said.

The Independent says Prince William vowed to “find the solutions to repair our planet” as the first ever winners of the Earthshot Prize were announced.

The Metro says Prince William has criticised billionaires who keep sending rockets into space, saying the world’s greatest minds need to focus on trying to fix the planet instead.

The Independent says a leak of documents over the weekend showed Azerbaijan’s strongman, Ilham Aliyev, had secretly bought $540m (£400m) worth of property worldwide, including a central London home registered in the name of his then 11-year-old son.

The Guardian says heads of government, oligarchs, business tycoons, ruling families and a Middle Eastern monarch are among the anonymous owners of at least £4bn in UK property.

The i says France will be bracing itself on Wednesday as the trial opens of 20 people involved in the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, one of the worst atrocities to hit the continent

The Times says nine out of ten antisemitic posts on Facebook and Twitter stay online despite being reported, a large-scale study has found.

France24 says rescue ships picked up more than 700 people trying to cross the Mediterranean in makeshift vessels this weekend off the coasts of Libya and Malta.