Despite an order from Vladimir Putin to completely seal off the area, 20 civilians escape Azovstal.

Russian forces say the currency will be used there from Sunday. But many residents have other ideas.

Germany wants to stop property it owns in Italy being seized to finance compensation for Nazi war crimes

As thousands of Ukrainians are welcomed, the government plans to reduce the number of non-European refugees.

A major importer of Russian gas must decide by May whether to use a controversial payment system.

As the West goes after the assets of Russian oligarchs, the ripples are being felt across the industry.

Football agent Mino Raiola - whose clients included Borussia Dortmund striker Erling Haaland and Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba - dies at the age of 54.

On day 66 of the Ukraine invasion, officials warn of a renewed Russian push.

Nikita Horban was abducted from his village and taken to Russia. He would come back without any toes.

Gibril Massaquoi was a school teacher but then became the spokesman of a notorious rebel group.

Nearly 3,000 packets of morning-after pills have been sent to the country as rape reports rise.

Eleven-year-old Angelina is one of many children who were forced to flee hundreds of miles from their homes on Ukraine's front line.

Two blasts hit the capital as UN chief António Guterres criticised his organisation's Security Council.

Based in Odesa, Jixian Wang hopes to show the reality of the Ukraine war to Chinese people.

The re-elected French president has to focus on a new set of problems, beginning with a general election.

Many French people were left disappointed by the options in the presidential run-off.

One man says he was captured and taken over the border, where he was blindfolded and beaten.

Jubilant supporters greet Macron at the Eiffel Tower, while there's disappointment for those with Le Pen.

She did not become president - yet this result still counts as a win for her and the far right.

After becoming the first French president re-elected in 20 years, Emmanuel Macron told supporters he was "the president of all."

Marine Le Pen addresses her supporters as she concedes in France's presidential vote.

The 44-year-old will now serve for another five years, but he is facing a polarised France.

As the city of Mykolaiv is shelled, the pieces of artillery left behind can be just as fatal.

Hollywood A-lister Angelina Jolie was spotted in a cafe during a trip to Ukraine to meet the child victims of the war.

Antonio Guterres addresses reporters outside a wreckage of apartment blocks north west of Kyiv.

People headed to the front line, and their supporters, are having the country's war with Russia memorialise.

A statue that once represented friendship between the two countries is pulled down in Kyiv.