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Scuba divers helping to clean up Stockholm's canals

00:54 A group of volunteer scuba divers called "Clean Malaren" have been cleaning up Stockholm's canals for the past two years.They have found 12,000 kilograms of lead batteries, 320 s

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Notes on a Pandemic: New hope for the planet

19:01 Before the COVID-19 outbreak, climate activism around the global had reached new heights, with demonstrations by the groups including Extinction Rebellion regularly bringing citi

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Europe offers aid to Lebanon hours after Beirut explosion

00:09 Hours after a huge explosion in Beirut, neighboring countries and European states offered the city aid and medical assistance.The blasts at Beirut's port killed over 100 people,

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Cruise ships return to Greece after four-month ban

00:45 Greece reopened six of its ports to cruise ships on Saturday,four months after they were banned because of COVID-19. But ships are not expected to dock at these ports until 20 Au

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Notes on a Pandemic: Travel and play

17:37 The lockdown in March led to mothballed planes, closed airports and quarantined cruise liners around the world. But before the pandemic, "overtourism" was becoming a problem in s

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Glasgow's tallest office building gets COVID-19 'touch-free' makeover

01:59 The developers behind Glasgow's soon-to-be tallest office building have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to redesign it because of COVID-19. They had already started constr

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Notes from a Pandemic: When work stops working

17:02 For manyaround the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought a level of economic uncertainty not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s. In the UK, half of the labor force i

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The architects behind the UK's COVID-19 Nightingale hospitals

03:17 As COVID-19 spread across the world, hospitals became desperate for beds for acute patients. In response, China built a hospital in Wuhan in just 10 days and the UK turned conven

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Notes on a Pandemic: Office of the future

15:58 Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, office space in Europe's biggest business hubs was expensive and often hard to come by. Last year, it cost $2,375.70 per square meter to rent an

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Rare Asiatic lions born in Rome during lockdown

00:57 Two female Asiatic lion cubs were born in Rome on 29 April, a first in the Bioparco zoo's history. The zookeepers only suspected that the cub's mother was pregnant two days befor

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Notes on a Pandemic: Science Rules

16:44 Sincethe first case of COVID-19 was reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan late last year, the focus of the world's medical community has been on finding an effective treatment in

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Greens up, far-right down, in German regional Hamburg vote - exit poll

Election posters of Hamburg candidates for mayor, Peter Tschentscher (left) with the SPD and Katharina Fegebank (right) with the Greens (Credit: Reuters/ Fabian Bimmer) Voters in the city of

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Hungary provides free IVF to increase birth rate

In December, Hungary's government bought six fertility clinics (Credit: AP/Darko Vojinovi) Hungary has started providing free fertility treatment at state-owned clinics in an attempt to curb p

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Revealed: The world's most sustainable companies

Ørsted reportedly provides energy to 12 million people through its wind farms (Credit: Ap/ Matt Young) Almost half of the world's most sustainable companies are from Europe and the top two a

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'Go out!' Macron confronts Israeli security at French church

00:38 French President Emmanuel Macron has had a confrontation with Israeli security when visiting Jerusalem's Old City. Israeli police and security pushed past Macron as he approached

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UK warns against all but "essential" travel to Wuhan

Airports around the world are implementing measures against the virus that originally emerged from Wuhan, China, a city in central China (Credit: Reuters) The United Kingdom has advised again

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Brutal images of world leaders created for gender violence campaign

A side-by-side comparison of AleXsandro Palombo's poster with an image of Angela Merkel (Credit: AleXsandro Palombo) The faces of some of the world's most powerful women looked out from poste