European Space Agency instructor Loredana Bessone says girls should be encouraged to enter the field of science at an early age.

The country has struggled to come to terms with the role that Ukrainians played in the murder of Jews during the Nazi occupation.

The most controversial provision in the bill would set price hike caps for landlords with multiple residential properties.

“Facebook’s products harm children, stoke division and weaken our democracy,” a former employee told the US Congress on Tuesday.

"Europe can only prosper when its Jewish communities feel safe and prosper," said Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

The vote on Monday formalises the move that was announced by Belarus’ President Alexander Lukashenko in June.

Protesters seemed wanted to draw more attention to their rally by demonstrating on the eve of a key EU Balkan summit.

The government is preparing to sign off on the historic agreement at a cabinet meeting on Thursday.

Skyrocketing fuel prices, ongoing COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and supply chain disruption are on the cards for Europe this winter. Analyst Radu Magdin argues leaders must tackle these issues head-on, not shy away from them.

The French government said they're looking into retaliatory measures after the UK and Jersey awarded just a small number of licences to French vessels.

An ethnic Serb has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in Kosovo after being convicted of war crimes, including involvement in a 1999 massacre.

The price of natural gas is six times higher than last year, with the costs driving up overall inflation in Europe.

An explosion and a fire at a residential building in Göteborg last week injured at least 16 people and damaged around 140 apartments.

The decision to allow the Western Sahara leader into Spain in April angered Morocco.

The motion was passed by 281 votes, far more than the 234 required, with Citu's National Liberal Party (PNL) MPs boycotting the vote.

Police raids were carried out at 704 locations in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Finland, France, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands, and Spain.

The UK home secretary has announced there will be an independent inquiry into police failings following the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving police officer.

It comes 100 years since the same award was given to Albert Einstein

Will environmental issues be important to Czech voters in a general election this weekend?

Just 14% of Ukraine's population has been vaccinated. With COVID infections increasingly sharply, there are fears of a tough winter ahead.

France's Catholic Church showed "a profound and even cruel indifference towards the victims" of abuse, the head of the inquiry said.

An actress and director are on board a rocket that is on its way to the International Space Station (ISS), as Russia looks to score symbolic points against US competitors.

Russia has reported a record number of COVID-19 deaths for four of the past six days, with 883 fatalities and 25,781 new cases recorded over the past 24 hours, according to the country's national coronavirus task force.

Ten and a half million Czech citizens will head up to the polls this Friday for the parliamentary elections.

Iraqis will vote in snap parliamentary elections this Sunday, for the first time since protests rocked the country in 2019. SIPRI's Shivan Fazil and Dylan O'Driscoll explain what's at stake - and why the new government will have no time to lose.

AUR leader George Simion says his MPs were told that relatives and allies could be appointed to directorships of state energy companies if they abstained from voting.

Authorities said that three people had been rescued and 11 bodies recovered after a sailboat was reported west of Cabrera.

Japan elects former diplomat Fumio Kishida as its new Prime Minister in a parliamentary vote on Monday.

Andrej Babis began life as an anti-corruption crusader. So what happened?

MS5 leader Guiseppe Conte declined to form an alliance with the centre-left Democratic Party (PD) in Rome. Exit polls put the PD in the lead.

The international community must speak up after the recent presidential power-grab in Tunisia, argues Adnen Hasnaoui, president of the Maghreb Institute for Sustainable Development.

The 'climate-friendly' jet fuel is much more expensive than kerosene.

Saturday's election was overshadowed by the return from exile and arrest of former president Mikheil Saakashvili, convicted in absentia in 2018 of abuse of office.

Madrid wants former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont to return to Spain so he can face trial on charges of sedition.

Doctors at a hospital in Lithuania have found more than a kilogram of small metal objects inside a man’s stomach.

Without proper investment to ensure all children are able to reach their full potential, Europe cannot build a sustainable, inclusive recovery, argues Eurochild President Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca.

Social Democrat leader Olaf Scholz has said he wants to form a new government before Christmas.

The Protocol, negotiated as part of the Brexit divorce and signed off on by both the EU and UK parliaments, sees Northern Ireland remain part of the EU's Single Market, in effect creating a de-facto border in the Irish Sea.

A London police officer is due to appear in court on Monday, charged with rape

At least 18 small ships bearing more than 600 migrants arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa on Sunday.

More earthquakes rattled the Spanish island of La Palma on Monday, as the lava flow from an erupting volcano surged after part of the crater collapsed.

Polls are set to close on Monday afternoon, and almost 1,200 municipalities are involved.

The Swedish artist Lars Vilks, known for his 2007 drawing of the Prophet Muhammad and the subsequent death threats that followed, died in a car crash on Sunday.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for an ongoing commitment to democracy as she spoke at the 31st-anniversary ceremony of the reunification of east and west.

The offshore dealings and hidden assets of world leaders, politicians, billionaires, celebrities and drug dealers have been revealed in a huge data leak, which follows 2016’s release of the ‘Panama Papers’.

Despite the impact of Brexit and the pandemic, opinion surveys suggest the UK's ruling Conservatives are polling ahead of the Labour opposition as the party meets in Manchester.

An independent commission has heard evidence from thousands of people since being set up in 2018 in response to a large number of historic sexual abuse claims.

Seven passengers and the pilot are all said to have died when the aircraft crashed into an empty office building early on Sunday afternoon.

The move follows an EU-brokered deal to de-escalate tensions triggered by a dispute over vehicle licence plates.

A Taliban spokesman said at least five civilians were killed in the bombing which targeted a mosque in the Afghan capital on Sunday.