The journey to bring the LUX Audience Award to life under uncertain conditions has been a valuable, complex and sometimes arduous mission, says Mike Downey, Chairman of the European Film Academy.

The countermeasures in the Chinese law include "denial of visas, entry or expulsion... and sealing up, seizing and freezing assets of persons or enterprises that adhere to foreign sanctions against Chinese enterprises or officials."

China is the second country to land and operate a spacecraft on Mars, after the United States.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's announcement came hours after US President Joe Biden committed to donating 500 million COVID-19 vaccine doses.

A Moscow court has ordered Facebook and the messaging app Telegram to pay heavy fines for failing to remove banned content.

A groundbreaking study by the World Mosquito Program has found that inserting a natural and safe bacteria into mosquitos can block the transmission of mosquito-borne diseases and reduce one of the world’s fastest-growing tropical diseases.

A sculpture made entirely from waste electronic items has been built in the style of Mount Rushmore and has been placed near the venue of the G7 summit.

"Denmark’s new law is not only unsympathetic and irresponsible but inherently dangerous to global structures of asylum cooperation"

The city of Lisbon has admitted that it had made a mistake in sharing the personal details of pro-Alexei Navalny rally organisers with Russian authorities.

As the G7 Summit gets underway in Cornwall, England, leaders are being urged to increase international development to ensure climate change targets are met.

Government figures on Wednesday showed that Britain had recorded its highest daily coronavirus cases since late February, suggesting the Delta variant was spreading rapidly across the country.

At least six people have been killed and five others injured in a bus crash in Russia.

The regional director for the WHO has warned that Europe must learn from "last year's lessons" to avoid a resurgence of COVID-19 cases after the summer.

Pope Francis has refused to accept the resignation of German archbishop Reinhard Marx over the mishandling of the church sex abuse scandal.

UEFA has told Ukraine that it must remove the slogan 'Glory to Our Heroes' from its EURO 2020 football shirt after a complaint from the Russian Football Union.

A "ring of fire" will be partially visible in many parts of Europe as the first solar eclipse of the year lights up the sky.

Rescuers are continuing to search the debris to find any residents possibly still trapped.

A Moscow court on Wednesday night outlawed the organisations founded by Navalny by labelling them extremist,

French Prime Minister Jean Castex is self-isolating for seven days after his wife tested positive for COVID-19.

Many people infected recently are within the less vulnerable younger age groups, who are waiting for vaccines

Belarus declared a national holiday on September 17, the same day Soviet Forces invaded Poland in World War II in 1939.

The embassy in Damascus has only one Czech employee.

Albanian MPs have voted to impeach President Ilir Meta for allegedly violating the constitution ahead of Albania's April election.

A new EU Drug Report outlines public health concerns over misuse of benzodiazepines such as valium, xanax and klonopin.

According to some local politicians, up to 80mm of rain fell in fewer than two hours.

The 'BerghWing' is the brainchild of a Dubai-based falconer, who trains some of the world's most elite birds.

France has implemented a traffic light system for travel, with the colour of a country determining rules for entry.

Biden first travels to Britain to attend the G7 summit and then Brussels for a NATO summit. He will cap off his week with a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva.

It takes the number of opposition pre-candidates for the Nov. 7 elections detained in the past week to four.

The Bełchatów power plant releases more than 30 million tonnes of CO2 a year but under the Lodz region's new plans, could see its operations curbed by 80 per cent by 2030.

The Russian sports federation said Ukraine's Euro 2020 kit went against UEFA guidelines, while Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiyy has come out in support of the design.

The move is seen as confirming the British unionist party's return to its traditionalist roots. It comes as the EU warns the UK to respect Brexit trade obligations.

The news will be welcome to workers coming from the United Kingdom, who would otherwise have faced a 14-day quarantine period on arrival in Germany.

The new body will be tasked with investigating major cases financial and banking cases, as well as the alleged failures of the state's own anti-corruption institutions.

Macron, who was on a visit to a Drôme hospitality school, was struck in the face while shaking hands with a member of the public.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has signed into effect a law tightening sanctions against protesters taking part in unauthorised rallies and increasing penalties for "extremism".

The body of 33-year-old Sarah Everard was found in Ashford, Kent on March 10 a week after she disappeared in south London.

UN judges upheld Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladić's life sentence for war crimes on Tuesday.

Stamp auction: British Guiana One-Cent Magenta stamp goes under the hammer

Police say four members of a Canadian Muslim family were killed after the driver of a pick-up truck deliberately mounted the pavement in London on Sunday.

The verdict in Mladić's appeal case will effectively conclude UN prosecutions for crimes committed during the 1992-95 Bosnian War.

Discipline and determination result in another great day for Japan at the Judo World Championships in the Hungarian capital Budapest.

More than 6,700 passports were issued by Cyprus over its investment-for-citizenship programme's 13-year run but over half of them were issued not to the investors themselves but to family members or top company executives.

The operation to seize cryptocurrency paid to the Russia-based hacker group is the first of its kind to be undertaken by a specialised ransomware task force created by the Biden administration Justice Department.

Riad Salameh, who has been at the helm of the Banque du Liban for close to 30 years and is now at the centre of the country's financial crisis, is being investigated by both Swiss and French authorities.

Trade unions say plans to increase the women's retirement age in Switzerland will deepen inequalities in the country, where women earn on average 20 percent less than men.

It raises questions about whether the agency should have had its budget and responsibilities expanded to such an extent.

"The honest truth is the best way for us to get our freedoms back... is for everybody to come forward and get the jab."

“There is no justifiable economic need to continue to break our promise to the world’s most marginalised people."

"We are with the Belarusians who are fighting for freedom, fighting for the rule of law, fighting for democracy,"