A European Commission proposal says the two energy sources are key to a green transition.

Among three killed is a 12-year-old Dutch boy who was watching an adult set off a device.

The new law allows chronically or terminally ill adults to make provisions for an assisted suicide.

The PM wants domestic flights to go green, as part of ambitious national plans to cut emissions.

The organisation ends the year on a positive note but warns about "nationalism and vaccine hoarding".

Officials hope the law will prevent a billion items of single use plastics every year.

Car burning has become an annual event in French suburbs since riots hit several cities in 2005.

The US and Russian presidents spoke by phone for almost an hour amid rising tensions over Ukraine.

EU-based Brits trying to get home will be allowed to cross France during the Christmas period.

A US teacher says she spent five hours in the toilet after testing positive for Covid-19.

Business groups criticise a new law requiring mandatory fingerprinting, drug tests and STD checks.

The carmaker apologises for an Egyptian commercial in which a woman is photographed without consent.

The Russian and Belarusian leaders both made the scoreboard in a game following talks between the countries.

The trees are seen as a way to minimise waste and support zoos during the Covid pandemic.

To ensure the promises of COP26 are kept, young campaigners are putting their faith in the courts.

Famed for her images of Paris street life, she was the last member of the French humanist group.

A production of Antigone seeks to overturn prejudices about Africans arriving in Sicily.

The Supreme Court dissolves a civil rights group formed to remember victims of Communist repression.

Crash Landing On You has been a big hit and now fans are travelling to the filming locations.

Alpine villages say the animals have started approaching children and they need to fend them off.

Herders are struggling to find thousands of reindeer that have run away in search of food.

More than 30,000 people face a two-year wait on applications - affecting plans to live and work abroad.

A group of young men are using their gymnastic abilities to reduce the impact of light pollution in their hometown.

LGBT activists cancelled Tbilisi Pride this year after violence from far-right protesters.

In his annual press conference, President Putin demands Nato abandon military activity in Eastern Europe.

Travellers in St Pancras station, London, line up to get to France before it closes its borders to the UK.

Ros Atkins examines the ethical arguments surrounding vaccine mandates.