Friday’s death toll in Bago was the biggest one-day total for a single city since March 14, when just over 100 people were killed in Yangon, the country’s biggest city.

Rachael Blackmore has smashed through one of the biggest gender barriers in sports by becoming the first female jockey to win the gruelling Grand National horse race.

Italian prosecutor tells court there is no reason to put the right-wing leader, Matteo Salvini, on trial for alleged kidnapping

Iran has unveiled the country's newest advanced nuclear centrifuge in a ceremony to mark the National Nuclear Technology Day.

The group, based in villages on the island of Tanna in the former Anglo-French colony, revered Philip and believed him to be a reincarnation of an ancient warrior who left the island to fight a war.

Egyptian archeologists have unearthed a three thousand year-old lost city complete with mud brick houses, artifacts and tools from the times of the pharaohs.

After the woman was free of the virus, her lungs were no longer functional or treatable, and the only option for her to live was to receive a lung transplant.

Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama, overwhelmingly voted against joining the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union.

DMX died in New York State on Friday of what the hospital said was a catastrophic cardiac arrest.

The key stories of the week, captured by photographers around the world.

The Alibaba Group, the world's biggest e-commerce company, was fined €2.3 billion by Chinese regulators on Saturday for anti-competitive tactics.

The first explosion occurred Friday morning. Experts have warned that explosive eruptions could continue for days or possibly week.

"Protests have been postponed out of respect for the Queen and the Royal Family," read posters posted in Unionist areas of the city.

Evacuation orders were issued for the roughly 16,000 people who live in the red zone near La Soufriere volcano in St Vincent's northern region.

Giorgos Karaivaz was found dead, shot multiple times, beside his car in the Greek capital.

Prince Philip’s funeral will take place on April 17 at Windsor Castle in a family service that will be closed to the public.

Under a Dutch government-approved pilot scheme, the world-famous Keukenhof garden opened its gates to let a few thousand people tiptoe through the 7 million tulips, hyacinths, daffodils and myriad other flowers.

Survivalists or so-called 'preppers' have long been bracing for disaster. It appears that the Covid-19 pandemic has given this secretive community a boost. But is it an outdoor hobby, a fringe discipline or a prudent strategy for self-preservation?

It's far more complex than the UK just leading the way.

The Swedish government has proposed a bill that would tighten immigration rules after five years of temporary measures.

Prince Philip "passed away peacefully" on Friday morning at Windsor Palace, the Royal Family said.

Alba Herrero is a waitress in La Francachela restaurant in Madrid and currently works four days a week, which has allowed her to study to become a teacher.

Solberg planned a meal with 13 other people for her 60th birthday celebrations, despite public gatherings in Norway being limited to 10 people.

US President Joe Biden has issued an executive order aimed at targeting homemade firearms, known as "ghost guns"

A joint US-Russian crew aboard a Soyuz rocket launched successfully on Friday, heading for the International Space Station.

The announcement comes hours after Australia said it would stop using the AstraZeneca jab on those under 50 years old.

Medical experts have emphatically denied Derek Chauvin's defence argument that George Floyd died as a result of drugs and underlying health problems.

Numbers have been surging in countries even where the pandemic is thought to be kept in check.

Mario Draghi said he was “very displeased by the humiliation” the EU Commission president suffered during her meeting with the Turkish president.

President Macron unveils plans to scrap France’s elite government school, the ENA, and inject more diversity into the recruitment of top civil servants.

The British Overseas Territory has become one of the first places in the world to ease restrictions including outdoor mask wearing

If Albania and Kosovo both find the doors of Europe slammed shut, they may both conclude that a federation is the next best option.

Why is nutrition more important than ever? How can we teach this to the younger generations? How will restaurants bounce back after the pandemic? World-famous chef, Heinz Beck, explains all.

It's been claimed the vaccines given to Serbia's neighbouring citizens were about to expire. Speaking to Euronews, the country's prime minister, Ana Brnabić, did not deny the allegation.

Kyaw Zwar Minn said that staff members at the London embassy loyal to the military regime prevented him from entering his office.

The study found no "influences from North Africa" in the Basque region, which, on the contrary, "are appreciated in most populations of the Iberian Peninsula".

Russia is carrying out a “slow-motion assassination” of the Kremlin critic, says Bill Browder, whose lawyer Sergei Magnitsky died in a Russian jail.

The woman was arrested on suspicion of planning an attack on a church in the French city of Montpellier, say anti-terrorism investigators.

Slovakia is currently the only EU nation to recognise its Roma community as an at-risk group in its vaccination campaign despite Romani being more likely than the general population to suffer from cardiovascular diseases and other chronic diseases.

Jordan's King Abdullah II has made his first public comments after an alleged plot to destabilise his kingdom involving his half brother, former Crown Prince Hamzah.

The G20 agreed on a $650 billion (€547 billion) resource boost for the International Monetary Fund.

India’s prime minister received his second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine as the country hit another peak Thursday with 126,789 new cases reported in the past 24 hours.

The capital of Northern Ireland has been the scene of a week of rioting amid rising tensions over the fallout from Brexit.

“The survivors of Auschwitz experienced first-hand what it is like when words become deeds. Their message to us: do not be indifferent!”

Air traffic controllers were striking over pay, causing more than a dozen flights at Albania's one international airport to be cancelled.

The European Space Agency's Director-General has set out an ambitious plan, which he says will keep the agency on the front foot in the space race.

Hundreds of films have been censored in Italy, most famously Bernardo Bertolucci's 1972 classic "Last Tango In Paris".

It's got absolutely nothing in common with the Big Apple. But that hasn't stopped Novhorodske in Ukraine wanting to call itself New York.

Museums remain closed in Italy due to the coronavirus pandemic, but in Naples people can get their culture fix while getting vaccinated.

A total of 497 people have stood trial in Turkey since 2017 over the failed coup attempt.