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Oriol Junqueras' lawyer, Andreu van den Eynde, delivers plea in the final hearings in the trial of 12 Catalan leaders. Catalonia's former vice-president Oriol Junqueras risks up to 25 years in jail, the heaviest sentence. The Catalan separatist have been on trial since February 12 over their role in organising a referendum on secession, despite a court ban, which was followed by a short-lived declaration of independence in October 2017. IMAGES
Britain's Prince Harry leaves court at the end of his final day of testimony in his case against Mirror Group Newspapers, whom he accuses of "industrial scale" phone hacking. The younger son of King Charles III had appeared emotional as he came to the end of his two days' cross-examination by a lawyer for Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), which publishes The Mirror, Sunday Mirror and the Sunday People. Harry and several other claimants allege the titles engaged in "illegal information gathering", including intercepting phone voicemails, to write dozens of stories about him. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron begins the second day of his state visit to the Netherlands with a trip to the Amsterdam Science Park alongside Dutch King Willem-Alexander. IMAGES
Images of Glasgow's Scottish Event Campus (SEC) as the second day of the COP26 heads of state summit begins. More than 120 world leaders are attending the UN Climate Conference. IMAGES
Joseph James DeAngelo Jr, dubbed the "Golden State Killer", apologizes to his victims in a Sacramento courtroom as he is handed multiple life sentences for a brutal decade-long crime spree that terrorized California. The 74-year-old former policeman confessed to 13 murders and dozens of rapes in the 1970s and 1980s under a deal to avoid the death penalty. IMAGES