The student admits she was not in class when Samuel Paty showed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

Nikolas Löbel, from Angela Merkel's party, quits after his firm made almost €250,000 from the deal.

The EU body is one of the first major organisations to admit falling victim to the global email hack.

The referendum, brought by a far-right party, could affect Muslim women who wear the burka or niqab.

Lord Frost says the EU has "significantly undermined" post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland.

The Catholic leader delivers a message of hope in the former Islamic State stronghold of Mosul.

President Macron says Olivier Dassault's death in a helicopter crash in Normandy is a great loss.

A row with drug firm AstraZeneca has caused Italy to block 250,000 doses to be sent to Australia.

Roger Federer says he never seriously considered retirement in his 14 months out from tennis as he prepares to return

Stormont signer Kristina Sinclair's children use sign language despite not having hearing difficulties.

Ukraine seeks Unesco status for its beetroot soup - but Russians and Poles call it theirs too.

The Treccani dictionary includes derogatory terms such as "whore" as synonyms for "woman".

In Sweden shops with no staff are popular in rural locations that have lost their local shops.

Waiting for a jab and vaccine passport, EU citizens are impatient to get their lives back.

Talking Movies looks at some of the films unveiled in the virtual phase of the festival.

Italian is the lingua franca of Malindi, which can be a culture shock when walking its old Swahili streets.

Every year, 23 million truckloads of food go straight into the waste bin, according to the UN.

The helmet and breastplate were discovered by an antiquities expert in Bordeaux.

Ilmira Bagrautinova from the world-renowned Mariinsky Theatre danced in -15C to save a natural beauty spot.

Covid border closures mean hundreds of thousands of sailors are being prevented from returning home.

The US has deployed long-range bomber planes to Norway, in a move seen as a message to Russia.

He was met by groups of people outside of Baghdad's Saint Joseph Cathedral.

Pope Francis raised the plight of Iraq's Christian minority during a historic first-time visit to the country.

Hairdressers in the Netherlands have reopened after being shut since December.