The ruling United Russia party was set for victory in a number of local election seats on Sunday, but was also on course for some setbacks as Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s supporters made rare gains in Siberia...
Lesbos migrants fear detention in new refugee camp | DW News
Greece has opened a 3,000-capacity tent camp for the migrants made homeless by the Moria fire. But a large number of migrants, who were residents of the destroyed Moria camp, have refused to enter the new facility...
How the US election works – BBC News
The president of the United States isn’t directly elected by American voters but by members of what’s known as the electoral college. Here’s how the system works. Motion graphics by Jacqueline Galvin. Produced by...
Coronavirus: Hospital rules kept young couple apart during miscarriage
A young woman has told how she was forced to suffer a miscarriage without the comfort of her partner, due to strict coronavirus rules in hospitals. Lucy Slater was told at her 12-week scan that she had suffered a...
‘Workshy William’ transformed by pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has had a significant effect on the reputations of many politicians and public figures, and that includes the Royal Family and the Duke of Cambridge. Only a couple of years ago, headlines...
Tank ballet | Russian T-72 takes to the air in ‘Day of the Tankmen’ performance
Events at the ‘Day of the Tankmen’ at the Sverdlovsky training ground was topped by the astonishing simultaneous ‘flight’ of three 40-ton T-72B3M tanks.
Echoes of the war | Thousands evacuated as WWII bomb found in Palermo, Italy
Some 5,000 Palermo citizens have been evacuated, after a Second World War bomb containing an estimated 120kg of powerful explosives was discovered near the city’s port.