Officials in France and the US are "finalising the technical discussions" for a "special pass" enabling travel, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday.

The Ingenuity helicopter, which landed on the Red Planet along with the Perseverance Rover on 18 February, is expected to fly for just 40 seconds for this first test flight.

The start of quarantine-free travel was a relief for families who have been separated by the coronavirus pandemic as well as to struggling tourist operators.

Four wagons of a passenger train bound for Cairo ran off the railway at the city of Banha in Qalyubia province this afternoon, killing at least 11 people and injuring scores of others.

Spanish police have released images of a raid on an illegal workshop in Tenerife that was making guns from 3D printers. They also found white supremacist literature and manuals on making explosives.

Czech detectives have linked the UK Salisbury poisoning suspects with a deadly blast at an arms depot in the Czech Republic in 2014.

In December 2020 Serbia's Constitutional Court ruled that border control officers had violated the rights of 17 Afghan refugees they abandoned in a forest in freezing cold temperatures near the Bulgarian border.

The pope has expressed alarm at Russia's military deployment near the Ukrainian border and urged both countries to work towards building 'reciprocal trust'.

France said further EU sanctions on Russia could be imposed while the White House warned of "consequences" if jailed dissident Alexei Navalny's health deteriorates any further.

New arrivals from Argentina, Chile, South Africa and Brazil must adhere to strict new guidelines that will come into force next Saturday, including a 10-day home quarantine.

The Israeli government has removed the obligation to wear a mask outdoors due to a steep fall in covid cases after mass vaccination

Environmentalists are deeply concerned about the new facility's water consumption and its impact on wetlands, an important source of biodiversity in the region.

The talks in Austria's capital are aimed at bringing the United States back into the world powers' 2015 deal with Tehran on its nuclear programme.

China and the United States are the world’s top carbon polluters, pumping out nearly half of the fossil fuel fumes that are warming the planet’s atmosphere.

Alexei Navalny's personal physicians say the jailed dissident is in serious danger of a heart attack three weeks into his hunger strike.

Amid protests and vigils against police violence across the United States, a riot erupted in Portland after police fatally shot another man in a park on Friday.

The Duke of Edinburgh was laid to rest in a funeral service steeped in military tradition on Saturday. Here are some of the highlights of the day's ceremonies.

Palermo prosecutors have accused the Italian ex-interior minister with dereliction of duty and kidnapping for leaving a migrant rescue ship stranded at sea for 19 days in August 2019.

Myanmar's junta has pardoned and released more than 23,000 prisoners to mark the Thingyan New Year holiday. It's not yet clear whether this includes any of the protesters arrested since the military seized power in February.

A state TV broadcast has claimed the suspect is Iranian-born and fled the country hours before the explosion at Natanz

The Balkan Trafik Festival is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year with a COVID-safe digital programme.

Ukraine has confirmed it will expel a 'senior' Russian diplomat on Monday in response to the arrest and expulsion of its consul in St Petersburg.

There have been more than three million deaths worldwide due to COVID-19, according to a Johns Hopkins University tally. WHO's Europe office announced last week that in the European region there are one million reported deaths.

The key stories of the week, captured by photographers around the world.

Protesters gathered in the US following the release of recent police body camera footage showing two fatal police shootings of people of colour.

NASA chose Elon Musk's SpaceX to build the next lander that will carry astronauts to the moon.

US President Joe Biden met with Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga in Biden's first face-to-face meeting with a foreign leader.

The resignation marks the end of the Castro brothers' leadership that began with the 1959 revolution.

The audio-based social network solely relies on users reporting harmful content, rather than proactively moderating content.

The interior ministry said the measure was taken "in order to maintain public order and safety" after several days of heightened anti-French sentiments.

The Irish government is hoping to bank on the rise of remote work to breathe new life into rural towns and villages.

Questions have been raised around the different ways in which vaccines can impact women compared to men

Bucharest is the EU capital that is most at risk from earthquakes, many seismologists believe. And with hundreds of vulnerable old buildings suffering from decades of neglect, many residents of the Romanian capital are living in fear for their lives...

The former head of Austria's far-right party, Heinz-Christian Strache has been charged with corruption following the 2019 "Ibizagate" scandal.

France's industry minister said on Friday that while a final decision was yet to be made, it was "highly probable" the EU wouldn't renew its contract for the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID vaccine.

With no state ceremony, a custom-built hearse and a 30-person guest list, the Duke of Edinburgh's adieu will look a little different to other royal funerals.

Sweden's Public Health Agency says they will ease restrictions for those citizens, mostly elderly, who have had at least one vaccination shot against COVID-19.

It's far more complex than the UK just leading the way.

The talks were arranged to improve relations between the NATO allies but descended into accusations.

Romania has approved a bill that aims to exclude Chinese group Huawei from the country's future 5G mobile network.

French Parliament adopts a law that sets the age of consent at 15 years old, and 18 years old in the case of incest.

Authorities in the US and the EU have already started planning for such an eventuality.

Ukraine's president has told Euronews there is no time to lose in resolving tensions in the east of the country.

Iran appears to have followed through on its vow to increase enrichment after a bomb attack on its nuclear facility in Natanz.

Animal welfare officers said they were "almost swept off their feet by a laughing attack" when they realised the animal was in fact a flaky viennoiserie pastry.

Lai was one of the nine leading Hong Kong pro-democracy advocates who were sentenced to jail terms on Friday for organising a march during the 2019 anti-government protests that triggered an overwhelming crackdown from Beijing.

At least eight people were killed in a shooting late on Thursday at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, police have said.

Police in Chicago said Adam Toledo was holding a handgun when an officer shot him in the chest.

The challenge in China lies partly in the sheer scale of the effort and the need to convince a population that currently feels safe from infections.

The measures are meant to punish Russia for actions that US officials say cut to the core of American democracy and to deter future acts.