Police in Belarus have cracked down on a women's protest march in Minsk demanding the resignation of the country's president Alexander Lukashenko.

Airstrikes on a Taliban base in northeastern Afghanistan have killed at least a dozen civilians, according to local officials.

A plane full of passengers has landed back where it took off after a round-trip "flight to nowhere" of more than 1,300 miles.

Putin critic Alexei Navalny has been pictured walking down stairs in hospital as he continues to recover after being poisoned with novichok.

At least two people have been killed in Greece after a "medicane" - a rare Mediterranean hurricane - toppled trees, cut power and caused severe flooding.

US Supreme Court judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at 87 due to complications from pancreatic cancer.

Several countries across Europe have announced new coronavirus restrictions in some of their largest cities after recent surges in infections. 

Campaigners have described it as "a huge step forward".

As the coronavirus clings on, reasserting itself in countries like the UK and US, the hopes and fears of politicians, scientists and the rest of humanity centre on a relatively small number of vaccines currently in development.  

Tighter restrictions have come into force in Dublin in response to growing concern over the spread of coronavirus.