The opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympic Games is due to take place on Friday. /AP A rising number of athletes and staff involved in the delayed Tokyo Olympic Games are being forced to self-i
Ducournau picked up the award on Saturday evening. /AP *CLICK RIGHT TO SEE MORE IMAGES* U.S. film director Spike Lee prematurely announced Ducournau as the winner much earlier in the ni
TOP HEADLINES- Leaders of the G20 nations have admitted that COVID-19 variants could threaten the economic recovery from the pandemic. As a result of their comments, which come after a meeting in Ven
TOP HEADLINES• Portugal's capital, Lisbon, is witnessing a surge of infections of the Delta variant, with more than 70 percent of all cases in the area being attributed to that strain.• Germany plans
More than 285,000 Tesla vehicles in China have issues with their assisted driving software. /AP U.S. Electric car giant Tesla is to update the software on more than 285,000 cars in China follo
TOP HEADLINES· Hundreds of Danish soccer fans have boarded busses in Copenhagen for a quick 12-hour round trip to Amsterdam, hoping to avoid any COVID-19 travel restrictions. Their team play Wales in
TOP HEADLINES• Germany has introduced stricter new travel measures for Portugal and Russia amid a surge in cases of the Delta variant first discovered in India. From Tuesday, only citizens and reside
00:57 The longest pedestrian suspension bridge in the world has officially been opened to the public.The bridge is situated inside Arouca Geopark in northern Portugal and hangs around 1
TOP HEADLINES- The first cases of the variant identified in India have been detected in Belgium, in a group of 20 Indian nursing students who arrived from Paris in mid-April, the office of government
The collapse of the proposed European Super League (ESL) has potentially exposed a schism between grassroots soccer fans and the billionaire owners of their clubs.On Tuesday, following pressure from
TOP HEADLINES- Spain is "desperate to welcome" UK tourists this summer, Tourism Minister Fernando Valdes has said. "I think we will be ready here in Spain. We also think that the vaccination scheme i
TOP HEADLINES- Iceland's government is to propose tightening some of its border controls in a bid to ease domestic restrictions. The changes, which will take effect from April 22 to June 30, would me
TOP HEADLINES- The World Health Organization's Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said the world has the "tools to bring this pandemic under control in a matter of months, if we apply th
TOP HEADLINES- A trial that will deliberately expose participants who have already hadCOVID-19to the coronavirus again has been launched in the UK. The study is hoping to examine immune responses in
TOP HEADLINES- France is to lengthen the period between the first and second vaccine doses from four weeks to six weeks in a bid to accelerate its program by injecting more people, Health Minister Ol
TOP HEADLINES• Germany needs to implement a new nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of infections that has caused a surge of patients in intensive care units, says Health Minister Jens Spahn: "If
00:37 U.S. President Joe Biden has announced new measures to tackle gun violence across the country in what the White House has described as a first step to curb mass shootings and sui