MPs will debate and retrospectively vote on the new measures later amid surging coronavirus cases.

Roughly one in 50 people in England has got the virus, Prof Chris Whitty says.

Prosecutors open an inquiry after Olivier Duhamel is accused of abusing his stepson 30 years ago.

Virgin Holidays joins Tui and Thomas Cook in cancelling holidays after latest coronavirus restrictions.

Prof Tobias Welte, from Hanover University, on how Germany is coping with the coronavirus pandemic.

Organisers are facing "dire straits" if the 2021 music festival season is scrapped, MPs are told.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.