Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said on Monday he had tricked a Russian secret agent into disclosing details of the botched plot to kill him and had been told that poison had been placed in his underpants. Navalny, one of...
Boris Johnson shrugs off fears of no-deal Brexit
The UK government will stick to its December 31 deadline for negotiating a trade deal with the EU. Britain is set to default to tariff rules set by the World Trade Organization if no deal is agreed, terms which Prime...
German relief as homegrown vaccine finally approved for EU rollout
In Germany, regional authorities will be tasked with administering the vaccine, with frontline workers and elderly workers first in line. FRANCE 24 correspondent Nick Spicer says there was some surprise the Pfizer...
European Commission approves Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine
The European Union on Monday approved the coronavirus vaccine developed by BioNTech and Pfizer to be approved for use across the 27-nation bloc.
President-elect Joe Biden gets Covid-19 vaccine on live TV
President-elect Joe Biden on Monday received his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine on live television as part of a growing effort to convince the American public the inoculations are safe.
How a young girl’s fairy house sparked a magical friendship – BBC News
When four-year-old Eliana created a fairy garden outside her California home at the start of the pandemic, she soon began finding notes and gifts from a fairy named Sapphire – launching months of correspondence...
Downing of Pan Am Flight 103
We look back at the events that led to the downing of Pan Am Flight 103 as the US charges a Libyan over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people