"Despite the easing measures that have been introduced, social and economic life in Germany is still very far from what was previously considered normal... The available economic indicators paint a c
01:00 Three thousand soldiers marched in Minsk, Saturday to celebrate the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in 1945 as Belarus's President Alexander Lukashenko rejected calls for lockdo
TOP HEADLINES- Italian scientists at the Lazzaro Spallanzani National Institute for Infectious Diseases say they have developed a vaccine candidate that could neutralize COVID-19 in human cells.- Spa
Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic. /AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic Serbia's president has set 21 June as the date of a parliamentary election which had been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.T
06:19 The advent of big data and mobile phones is giving countries an opportunity to fight the coronavirus pandemic by "contact tracing."Nations are collaborating with tech companies t
02:19 As summer approaches in the northern hemisphere, the European Union (EU) is desperately discussing measures to save the bloc's tourism industry, which is in crisis due to the COV
Mobile network phone masts are visible in front of St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London. /AP Full 5G technology and gigabit broadband could add as much as 51.4 billion pounds ($63.9 billi
"Everything hinges on the speed of the economic recovery. We're still in the midst of the pandemic and we're going to learn to live with it for several months."Thierry Breton, the European Union's in
A healthcare worker conducts test for the coronavirus in Prague, Czechia. /AP /Petr David Josek Volunteers in a trial at the University of Oxford are set to be given the first doses of a poten
TOP HEADLINES:- French president Emmanuel Macron announced on Monday evening he was extending a virtual lockdown until 11 May, adding that progress had been made but the battle not yet won. By Monday
00:52 Christians across Europe are commemorating Jesus's crucifixion without the church services or processions of past years, marking Good Friday in a world locked down by the coronav
02:42 The UK government has promised again to increase the testing of citizens for COVID-19 after it failed consistently to reach its target of 10,000 per day.Criticism of the governme
Roman Abramovich will cover the costs of providing accommodation. /AP Chelsea Football Club has made the four-star Millennium Hotel at its Stamford Bridge stadium in London available to health
03:21 Italians in quarantine have recorded messages to themselves 10 days prior, in the hope that their advice to their past selves can help those in other countries who are yet to exp
People have been wearing face masks to try to prevent infection of the virus /Nicolas Asfouri/AFP The symptoms for COVID-19 can be similar to that of the common cold or the flu. They become ap
Inmates (C and R) are being escorted across a yard of the Sant'Anna prison in Modena, Emilia-Romagna, as they are transfered from a building to another. /Piero CRUCIATTI / AFP Italian penitent
Portugal's president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. /CARLOS COSTA / AFP Portugal's president has self-isolated after meeting a group of students from a school that has since been closed after a pupi