The PM warns the "hardest weeks" are ahead as schools close and stay-at-home orders are issued.

A week into mass vaccinations France has inoculated fewer than 1,000 - far behind Germany.

UK nationals resident in Spain say they were wrongly turned back when their flight landed in Barcelona.

More than €50m (£45m; $61m) has been spent preparing the French side of the Channel for Brexit.

Geert van der Vossen, a Swedish artist, has created a floral tribute to the country's thousands of coronavirus patients.

It comes after rules banning women from 356 jobs considered "too dangerous" were lifted last year.

Some EU specialist firms stop delivering to the UK because of tax changes that took effect on 1 January.

The Wikileaks founder is wanted in America over the publication of thousands of classified documents.

The deal will create the world's fourth biggest car maker and lead to major savings for the new group.

The PM says the number of vaccine doses will amount to "tens of millions" by the end of March.

As businesses return to work after Christmas, the amount of freight moving through NI will increase.

The New Year's Eve event, held in a warehouse in a village in Brittany, was shut down on Saturday.

A second coronavirus vaccine - from Oxford University/AstraZeneca - has been approved.

After Covid-19 should we expect more pandemics in the future?

The prime minister gave examples of the benefits of Brexit for "ordinary voters". How do they stack up?

What will be different about the UK's relationship with the EU from 1 January 2021?

Thirteen months after leaving Tottenham, Mauricio Pochettino is back in football. Guillem Balague looks at why he has taken on the challenge at PSG.

This year could be a "make or break" moment in the fight against global warming.

Chloé Lopes Gomes says she has faced humiliating racial harassment while being a ballet dancer in Berlin.

The BBC's Tom Bateman spent 2020 following the lives of Israelis affected by the pandemic.

Police say they clashed with attendees while attempting to break up the event in Brittany.

A man has filmed hundreds of birds found dead on a Rome street soon after firework displays in the city.

The Tails and Paws train features posters of dozens of animals in need of a new home.

The BBC looks at a selection of history's powerful protests and why only some achieved their goals.