Emoji news: Work out the stories from the pictures

7 November 2014

Emoji face

By Amelia Butterly and Anna Doble

Newsbeat reporter

We learned this week that "racially diverse" emoji faces with a range of skin tones are being developed for you to use in messages.

They're not ready to download yet but we thought we'd mark the moment by telling you some of the week's big stories - in emojis, of course.

Can you work out them out? If you get really stuck, we've put the answers at the bottom of the page.

Story 1

Emojis of dancing woman, microphone, bag of cash, dollar bills and an up arrow

Story 2

Emojis of man thinking, a newspaper and a diamond ring

Story 3

Emojis of five boys, a microphone, a red cross and a monkey

Story 4

Emojis of a man running, a football, pound notes, red crosses and a sad face

Story 5

Emojis showing a girl with a crown, a red circle with a line, the word free, headphones and musical notes, a greater than sign, CDs, the word soon and some bags of cash

Story 6

Emojis showing an American flag, elephant v donkey, postbox, elephant, thumbs up, party streamer, donkey, thumbs down and a broken heart

Story 7

Emojis showing a globe, surfer, skull and whale

Answers

1 - Beyonce named top-earning woman in music

2 - Benedict Cumberbatch announces engagement in The Times

3 - One Direction criticised for using chimp in Steal My Girl video

4 - David James declares himself bankrupt and auctions possessions

5 - Taylor Swift's entire back catalogue removed from Spotify

6 - Republicans make historic gains in US mid-term elections (In the US the Republicans are often represented by an elephant, while the Democrats are associated with a donkey - or in the case of available emojis - a horse)

7 - Man surfs on dead whale in Australia

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