The 15-year-old's parents insist their daughter could not have been alone because of her mental and physical disabilities. They maintain she was kidnapped from the cottage.

The Democrats have a slim majority in the US Congress after a surprisingly strong Republican performance in the November election.

Islamic extremists staged attacks on two villages in Niger near its border with Mali, killing at least 100 people, Niger’s prime minister said.

British diplomat Brian Urquhart, an early leader of the United Nations who played a central role in developing the UN practice of peacekeeping, has died.

The conversation caught on tape on Saturday was the latest step in an unprecedented effort by a sitting president to reverse the outcome of a free and fair election that he lost.

One year after the death of Frenchman Cédric Chouviat resulted from his arrest by police his family join a rally calling for justice.

The election took place in India's northern city of Dharamsala, which is home to Tibet's government-in-exile.

Their deaths on Saturday bring to five the number of French soldiers killed in operations in the West African country over the past week.

China's Mars probe spacecraft is due to enter the red planet's orbit within a month after traveling 400m kilometres since its launch in July

Israel and the UK are the countries that have administered the most vaccine doses to date while France and the Netherlands are among the slowest countries.

The attack in the border region of Tillabéri on Saturday left at least 50 dead.

There are fears of a renewed US-Iran clash a year after the US drone killing of the Revolutionary Guard chief, in the dying days of Donald Trump's presidency.

The outgoing president's baseless fraud claims and refusal to accept his election defeat has become a defining moment for Republicans and is tearing the party apart.

Six people are still missing after the December 28 disaster, but rescue efforts are being hampered by short daylight hours and fragile terrain.

A Ukrainian video game depicts the daily routine of a soldier in the country's separatist-controlled east, where Russia-backed rebels and Ukrainian forces have been fighting for years.

A leading teachers union is calling for all primary and secondary schools to remain closed in England for two weeks because of rising coronavirus cases.

Five fatal passenger plane accidents resulted in the deaths of 299 people in 2020. The year before, 257 people lost their lives in eight fatal crashes.

It is the first time since Donald Trump became president that the Republican-controlled Senate dismissed his veto.

This would push the country's programme a technical step away from weapons-grade levels as it increases pressure on the West over its tattered atomic deal.

In this special edition of The Cube we dive into the difference between legitimate vaccine hesitancy and the anti-vaccine movement.

The move comes after Scotland became the first country in the world to offer women free sanitary products. Other countries have followed suit and removed taxes.

Tensions persist between Croatia and Serbia after the devastating wars in the 1990s. But they have been put aside as the region unifies to help Zagreb after Tuesday's deadly earthquake.

The figures came as the UK changed its vaccinate rollout strategy to ensure more people receive a first dose earlier.

The UK's Brexit transition period for leaving the EU has ended and with it the country's membership of the decades-old Erasmus programme. Here's what alumni of the scheme have to say about the UK leaving it.

Portugal has several thorny issues to contend with after Germany secured big wins at the end of its presidency.

The Bosnian army was sent to erect tents as shelter for hundreds of migrants at the burnt-out Lipa camp after protests.

Future of UK finance: City of London faces uncertainty under EU-UK trade deal

More ships are to run directly to Cherbourg, in France, and the Spanish city of Bilbao in the early months of 2021

As has been the case in the past, Donald Trump doesn’t see the links between his impulsive, corruption-driven decisions, like the Blackwater pardons, and threats to US national security.

Divers jumped off the Cavour Bridge into Rome’s Tiber river on New Year’s Day, keeping up the annual tradition that has been going on for decades.

Since March, an 11-year-old boy in England has been sleeping out in his garden for a charitable cause, raising over €100,000 for a local hospice.

BREAKING: France brings forward nightly COVID curfew from 20h to 18h in more than a dozen regions.

A curfew was ignored as the party in Brittany continued overnight on Friday before finally ending on Saturday morning, 36 hours after it began.

With European sanctions and a possible snap election looming in 2021, Turkey's president says his government is putting the finishing touches on economic and democratic reforms

Health authorities in Florida have reported finding evidence of a case of a newer, apparently more contagious strain of coronavirus which was first seen in England.

There wasn't much time to welcome 2021 in hospitals in Rome, where doctors and nurses continue to care for patients with serious cases of COVID-19.

The presidency is now handed over to Portugal for the next six months.

Central Croatia continued to experience tremors on Thursday morning, as survivors tried to pick up the pieces from Tuesday's deadly earthquake.

COVID-19 submerged Europe's hospitals, tanked the economy, and forced us to avoid other people. One year since it was first reported in Wuhan, here's how the virus changed life in Europe.

Here we compare the coronavirus vaccines from Pfizer/BioNtech, Moderna and Oxford/AstraZeneca.

Krakow has become the first city in Poland to finance an LGBT support shelter.

More ambulance workers than ever are treating COVID-19 patients in England as a new variant of the virus spreads rapidly

Immigration checks at the land frontier between Spain and Gibraltar will end, while Spanish border officials will be stationed at Gibraltar's airport

EU-based fleets catch up to eight times as many fish in UK waters as British fishermen do in EU waters, according to UK government data. Which is why Brexit made sense for so many British seaside towns.

Viral misinformation surged online in 2020. Here are ten of Euronews' best debunks from the last 12 months.

From talk of flattening the curve to doomscrolling: how the coronavirus pandemic hijacked our vocabulary.

No-one could escape COVID-19 in 2020, but the pandemic was not the only event to have rocked the world in this year.

The European Commission has stated that any decision on this would need the support of a unanimous vote in the European Parliament.

Happy 2021 from all of us at Euronews. Here's how the turning of the year went down across the globe.

Penalties for breaking the rules will be €135 for a first offence and can go up to €3,750 in the event of a repeat offence, the country's Interior Ministry has said.