French schools will close for at least three weeks as part of new national restrictions.

Russia's leading opposition figure demands access to a doctor of his choice to treat serious back pain.

Military police say they detained a navy officer as he exchanged documents with a Russian official.

North Macedonia stun Germany as Elif Elmas' late goal secures a shock win in World Cup qualifying.

Béatrice Stöckli had been working in Timbuktu when she was kidnapped by jihadists in 2016.

A group of young people scale the outside of a building to rescue a family from a fire in Nantes.

Initial results from trials in 12- to 15-year-olds in the US will be handed to regulators.

The Chinese-owned carmaker will offer its generous parental leave scheme to 40,000 employees globally.

The carmaker will not change its name to "Voltswagen" in the US despite earlier saying it would.

But he met the couple in a private setting in the run-up, the Archbishop of Canterbury says.

The EU is working to improve conditions but the UK is not keeping pace, says the TUC.

Germany is set to apologise to Namibia for a genocide more than 100 years ago - and to pay an as yet unknown amount of money.

Are European countries relaxing restrictions put in place to control a new wave of infections?

Tampon tax, hedgerows and sanctions: what's changed since Brexit?

A plan to ban hunting of wolves in north-west Spain worries farmers but is hailed by conservationists.

Three months since the end of the transition period, bosses share their stories of how trade has changed.

Despite promises to work together, it has been far from plain sailing between the UK and the EU since Brexit.

Women in Italy who had an abortion or miscarriage discovered the fetus had been given a religious burial, in a grave marked with the mother's name, without their consent.

Prince Albert II of Monaco has weighed in on the controversial interview that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle gave to Oprah Winfrey.

The BBC investigates the disappearance of an Armenian church that changed hands in the recent Nagorno-Karabakh war.

A drone captures spectacular images as lava spews from Iceland's Fagradalsfjall volcano.

A fisherman in Ukraine reels in a boy who was stranded on a block of ice in a river.