After two months of closed classrooms, Italian primary, middle and secondary school students return to the classrooms. But 50% of older student will still have to rely on distance learning.

The 2021 Grammy Awards will no longer take place this month in Los Angeles and will broadcast in March due to a recent surge in coronavirus cases and deaths.

About 50 former lawmakers and democracy activists were arrested in Hong Kong on Wednesday for allegedly violating a national security law imposed by Beijing.

The South African mutant is more infectious than the original COVID-19 and concerns are growing that it might not be blocked by existing jabs.

Chancellor Angela Merkel said it was “absolutely necessary” to maintain restrictions.

Kosovo police say that more than 40 people were injured on Tuesday in a suspected gas tank explosion in the town of Ferizaj.

A low-pressure system will be called 'Ahmet' in an effort to reflect the country's increasingly diverse population.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus's comments mark a rare critique of Beijing by the head of the World Health Organization.

United States President Donald Trump has been accused of undermining the electoral process in Georgia by sharing and amplifying false claims.

The boycott of Qatar by its Arab neighbours in 2017 was designed to weaken the country's emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, but it only emboldened the young leader and led to a surge of domestic support.

Surging cases of the virus and a heavy burden on health services require extremely strict social distancing, the UK's chief medical officers have advised.

In the first lockdown schools and colleges were given little more than 48 hours to set up remote education. This time they are much better prepared, according to the Association of School and College Leaders.

At least 944 deaths were reported on Tuesday, taking Germany's official coronavirus death toll to 35,518.

The four nations of the UK are up against a fast-spreading variant of COVID-19, which appears to reached all areas of the nation. Its strategy now relies mostly on the vaccine.

BREAKING: There is no hope of finding any more survivors from Norway's deadly landslide, say police. Three people are still unaccounted for, while seven others have died.

Alfredo Valencia, a Spanish citizen who has worked in Gibraltar for 12 years is cautiously celebrating the preliminary post-Brexit border agreement that he hopes is "going to knock down the Gibraltar Gate".

Government responses to the pandemic have been very different across Europe and the UK's has been driven by populism, according to political strategist and author Alastair Campbell.

Foreign aid workers who fathered children abroad are being revealed by using publicly available DNA databases. Test cases in the Philippines found men from Australia, Canada, the US and Britain had fathered children in the country while doing foreign...

The US president and president-elect campaigned in Georgia before two Senate runoff elections that will determine what party leads the chamber.

The former Bond girl's agent and husband said on Sunday she had passed away in hospital - but corrected the record on Monday when they discovered she was still alive.

Is it as cut and dry as the more viral particles a person is exposed to when they are infected with COVID-19, the worse they will feel? Euronews breaks it down.

Electoral voters won by President-elect Joe Biden are "not gonna take this White House!” he shouted as supporters cheered at an outdoor rally in Georgia.

The latest maritime seizure by Iran came ahead of negotiations over Iranian assets frozen in South Korean banks and amid increased tensions with the West over its nuclear program.

A leaked telephone conversation has led to allegations that the U.S. president violated electoral law.

It is the first step towards ending a diplomatic crisis that has deeply divided regional allies since 2017.

Pavel Sheremet was killed by a car bomb in Kyiv in July 2016. His murder has never been solved.

A court in London has decided Julian Assange should not be extradited to the United States after a long-running saga. Here's the back story.

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.

Is Dan Eliasson Sweden's answer to Dominic Cummings?

All primary and secondary schools have been ordered to close and people told to stay at home.

Alan Rusbridger, the former editor-in-chief of the British newspaper, The Guardian, says the US case against Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange should be a concern to all journalists.

France has vaccinated just 516 people compared to thousands in other EU countries.

Joe Biden is in, Angela Merkel is out, and the first lunar eclipse since 2019 will take place. What else is in the diary for 2021?

The lockdown is the first of 2021 for Scotland as it and the wider UK struggles to control the new variant of COVID-19.

The latest data on the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus

It comes amid escalating tensions with the US and marks the Middle Eastern country's largest breach of the 2015 nuclear deal it struck with several other countries.

A British judge ruled on Monday that Julian Assange should not be extradited to the US due to concerns for his mental health - and now his lawyers are seeking for his release.

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.