Here are the key stories of the week captured through the lens' of photographers from around the world.


The closure of traditional bars and restaurants due to COVID-19 restrictions has given rise to a new culinary concept - the so called 'dark kitchen.' It's an industry comprised of rented cooking spaces and delivered take-away meals, and it's booming ...

The Russian opposition figure jailed earlier this week says charges that he slandered a World War II veteran are also politically motivated.

UN Security-General Antonio Guterres said everything possible would be done to mobilise international pressure "to make sure that this coup fails".

Family business Rechapados Ferrer has been inundated with orders since The Queen's Gambit was aired on Netflix.

Democrats will look to use his refusal to testify against him over their charge that the defeated president incited a violent mob to storm the Capitol.

The level of the River Garonne around Marmande -- between Bordeaux and Toulouse -- remains "very high".

Nearly all Republicans voted against the Democratic move but none defended her lengthy history of endorsing outlandish conspiracy theories and violent, racist views.

US President Joe Biden said he would withdraw US support for the Saudi-led offensive in Yemen in his first major foreign policy speech.

Donald Trump had defied Congress with plans to redeploy 9,500 US troops from bases in Germany.

Inger Støjberg has stepped down from the liberal Venstre party as she faces an impeachment trial over a 2016 order to separate asylum-seeking couples.

Meet the people who've had to battle cancer amid a COVID-19 pandemic.

Swiss and Irish police have boogied their way to viral fame with the #JerusalemaChallenge, hoping to give people a good laugh during COVID-19 restrictions.

Spain registered one of its worst months of the pandemic in January with 900,000 new coronavirus infections while Denmark launched plans to reopen society with a new COVID-19 vaccine passport.

It comes after a girl, 10, died in Sicily while participating in a so-called “blackout” challenge on the Chinese-owned network.

The first confirmed cases of the British virus mutation were discovered in Jochberg in Tyrol in mid-January.

In the 15th century, Venetians found a unique way to deal with another devastating disease - the bubonic plague.

“This study will give us greater insight into how we can use vaccines to stay on top of this nasty disease,” said Jonathan Van Tam, the UK's deputy chief medical officer.

An Iranian diplomat was sentenced to the maximum 20-year prison term by a Belgian court for planning an attack against opponents of the Tehran regime in France in 2018.

The fire broke out shortly before midnight at an intensive care unit, where patients with acute respiratory symptoms of COVID-19 were being treated.

Peter Openshaw, an Immunologist at Imperial University, says hospital admissions were the first clue.

With Covid-19 limiting opportunities for face-to-face support, make-up artist Laura Hunt is giving online make-up tutorials to help cancer patients boost their self-esteem.

Lyubov Sobol, Navalny's brother Oleg, and several other allies under house arrest, without access to the internet, for two months as part of a criminal investigation into the alleged breach of coronavirus restrictions.

The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START Treaty), imposes limits on Russian and US intercontinental missiles and bombers, but does not cover new types of weapons.

Yoshiro Mori was reported to have said women talk too much when questioned about the lack of women on the board of the Olympic Games, prompting calls for his resignation.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said those outside Myanmar should make sure Monday's coup fails.

The British prime minister said the EU had cast doubt on the Good Friday Agreement after considering invoking Article 16 of the Brexit deal.

The US House will vote on whether to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committees over the Republican's embrace of conspiracy theories and violent racist views.

Three women, Emerald Fennell, Chloe Zhao and Regina King, were nominated for best director of a motion picture. Only one woman has previously won the award.

Over 10 of the 145 countries that will receive vaccines through the global initiative are in Europe.

It emerged that at some clinics in the country managers were vaccinated ahead of doctors and frontline medical staff.

One of the suspect's songs was used as a soundtrack by the perpetrator in the terror attack in Halle, Germany, in October 2019, reported AFP news agency.

Tectonic plates are irregular-shaped slabs of solid rock which can vary massively in size from a few hundred to thousands of kilometers across

"Given the widespread technological means available, in the form of high-quality printers and different software, fraudsters are able to produce high-quality counterfeit, forged or fake documents," Europol warned.

Christophe Robert from the Abbé Pierre Foundation says “The crisis is like a ticking time bomb for all those that see their resources diminish and risk no longer being able to pay their rent.

One Portuguese hospital has seen the same amount of patients in January as it did during the whole of last year as the third wave of the pandemic sweeps across the country.

"Winning the pandemic, finishing the vaccination campaign, giving answers to every day's problems of the citizens, relaunching the country are the challenges we face," Draghi said.

Primary analysis of phase III trials also showed that the vaccine efficacy is stronger when the period between the two doses is lengthened to 12 weeks.

Detained Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi charged with trade violation and remanded in custody

The Myanmar ambassador who is currently in Europe strongly condemned the military’s takeover of the government.

As many as 918 people were detained, according to the OVD-Info group that monitors arrests.

Jeff Bezos will be replaced later this year by Andy Jassy, who runs Amazon's cloud business.

Cecilia Sottilotta is an Assistant Professor of International Relations and Global Politics at the American University of Rome. She told Euronews that "Draghi really embodies every single quality that no politician currently has in Italy - he is comp...

Video meetings? Meh. One English farm takes Zoombombing to a new level: hiring out goats to make surprise appearances on conference calls.

“Under a dictatorship, there cannot be independent judges and courts," said disbarred lawyer Alexander Pylchenko. "Our country is not an exception."

Twitter said the post violated rules about hateful conduct but decided to keep it on the platform for public interest.

The 100-year-old veteran won legions of fans last year after he raised millions of euros for Britain's healthcare system by doing laps of his garden.

EU staff working in Northern Ireland were told not to go to work on Tuesday after threats forced authorities to halt post-Brexit checks on goods.

Last week the country's prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, resigned after ex-PM Matteo Renzi withdrew his party from the governing coalition.

BREAKING: Russia's Sputnik V vaccine has an efficacy of 91.6% against COVID-19, according to a study published in The Lancet.