How the world celebrated New Year’s Eve with widespread COVID restrictions

Despite COVID curbs hindering celebrations, street parties and gatherings took place across the globe as each country rings in the New Year. New Year's Eve plans have largely been muted or cancelled...

Tens of thousands scramble to escape wildfires tearing through Colorado

Hundreds of homes have been destroyed and tens of thousands of residents evacuated as wildfires spread across part of the US state of Colorado.

COVID-positive woman self-isolates in plane loo for five hours to protect other passengers

A woman who tested positive for COVID during a transatlantic flight self-isolated for five hours in the plane's toilet to protect other passengers.

Putin warns Biden it would be a mistake to impose new sanctions on Russia over Ukraine

Vladimir Putin has warned Joe Biden that new sanctions against Russia over Ukraine would be a big mistake, according to the Kremlin.

France suspends transit ban allowing Britons to pass through country to homes in other EU nations

Britons wanting to return to their homes in EU countries after spending Christmas with friends and relatives in the UK will be able to pass through France after the government in Paris suspended a...

Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s body lies in state in ‘cheapest coffin available’

The coffin carrying the body of Archbishop Desmond Tutu has been returned to a morgue after lying-in-state in St George's Cathedral in Cape Town.Mourners will be invited to pay their last respects to South...

China bans footballers from getting tattoos so they can set ‘good example’

China has banned footballers who play for the country's national team from getting tattoos - with those already inked told to get them removed or cover them up to set a "good example for...

COVID-19 around the world: How have New Year’s celebrations been scaled back amid Omicron surge?

As the world gears up to welcome in 2022, many New Year celebrations are being cancelled or scaled back amid rising infections due to the highly transmissible Omicron variant.So will some of the most...