Adam Easton BBC Warsaw correspondent WOJTEK RADWANSKI/AFP There are two front-runners among the 13 candidates: Rafal Trzaskowski (R) and Karol Nawrocki When Poles vote for a new president on Sunday, they are expected to set up a second round run-off between Warsaw’s liberal mayor Rafal Trzaskowski and national-conservative historian Karol …

EPA-EFE/Shutterstock UK entry Remember Monday perform during a Eurovision dress rehearsal The Eurovision Song Contest is back – this time in Basel, Switzerland. The UK’s entry this year is Remember Monday – a country-pop trio who will perform their song What The Hell Just Happened. What is the Eurovision Song …

Thirteen people were injured when a car crashed into fans outside the derby match between Espanyol and Barcelona on Thursday. The match, in which Barcelona won the La Liga title thanks to a 2-0 victory, was delayed for several minutes in the early stages while the referee was briefed by …

Jessica Parker and Kristina Völk BBC News Reporting fromLehrte, Lower Saxony Watch: Christian Brückner was asked about the McCann case as he left court in Germany The chief suspect in Madeleine McCann’s disappearance, who is currently serving a sentence for a rape conviction, will be released from prison in Germany …

Mark Savage Music Correspondent Getty Images Icelandic boyband VÆB were the first act to perform on the Eurovision stage this year Thirty-five seconds. That’s all the time you get to change the set at Eurovision. Thirty-five seconds to get one set of performers off the stage and put the next …

Joe Inwood & Tom Gerken BBC World correspondent & technology reporter Ian Aikman & Eve Webster BBC News EPA The Bayesian, pictured sailing near Palermo, in a photo released by manufactures Perini Navi A luxury superyacht that sank off the coast of Sicily, killing the tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch along …

Yogita Limaye BBC News Reporting fromEastern Ukraine BBC Some soldiers like Kozak believe too many people have been killed to hand over land to Russia Big plumes of smoke are visible on a screen that’s providing a live feed from Ukrainian drones hovering over the outskirts of the eastern city …

The European Commission was wrong to refuse to release text messages sent by Ursula von der Leyen to the head of Pfizer during negotiations to secure Covid-19 vaccines, the EU’s top court has ruled. The General Court said the commission had not given a plausible explanation as to why the …

A duck has been caught speeding on traffic cameras in the town of Koeniz in central Switzerland. Local police said the mallard – a wild duck – was snapped on radar images on 13 April clocking in at 52km (32 miles) in a 30km zone. Adding to the mystery, authorities …

Kim Kardashian has given emotional testimony to a Paris court, telling judges she thought she was going to die at the hands of masked gunmen who stole millions of dollars of jewellery from her in a luxury hotel suite in 2016. Nine men and one woman are on trial for …

A masked gang have tried to abduct the daughter and young grandson of a cryptocurrency chief in Paris, but after a violent struggle they drove off empty-handed. The botched kidnap bid was captured on video by an onlooker in Paris’s 11th district, in the east of the French capital. Police …

French cinema star Gérard Depardieu faces a suspended prison term and registration as a sex-offender if he is convicted today of assault. At his trial six weeks ago, the court heard testimony from two women who said the 76-year-old actor groped them during work on a film set in Paris …

Russia was responsible for the downing of the Malaysia Airlines flight, MH17, over eastern Ukraine in July 2014, the United Nations aviation agency has ruled. All 298 people on board the passenger plane were killed when it was shot down by a Russian-made missile. The Kremlin has always denied any …

Steve Rosenberg Russia Editor Reuters We’ve seen it before: Vladimir Putin doesn’t react well to ultimatums. We saw it again, last night, in the Kremlin. President Putin slammed European powers for talking to Russia “in a boorish manner and with the help of ultimatums”. He didn’t go into detail. He …

TIL BUERGY/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock Executive head of production Tobias Aberg is preparing St. Jakobshalle in Basel for the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest The Swiss city of Basel is going into party mode this weekend, as it prepares to welcome the Eurovision Song Contest. It’s been 36 years since Switzerland last hosted the …

Thomas Mackintosh BBC News Getty Images The recovery process is expected to take several weeks A diver has died during preliminary operations to recover British tech tycoon Mike Lynch’s superyacht from the waters off the coast of northern Sicily, local police said. The accident happened on Friday happened while the …

Thomas Mackintosh BBC News Reuters Tobias Thyberg succeed Henrik Landerholm on Thursday – but quit on Friday Sweden’s new national security adviser quit hours after taking up the role as sensitive pictures of him on the dating app Grindr were sent anonymously to the government. Tobias Thyberg, who took up …

The prime suspect in Madeleine McCann’s disappearance faces a new unrelated charge, the BBC has been told. Christian Brückner is due in court next week accused of insulting a member of prison staff. The precise details of the allegation have not been made public. If found guilty, it could potentially …

Vladimir Putin is leading Russia’s Victory Day commemorations with a parade in Red Square and heightened security after days of Ukrainian strikes targeting the capital. Chinese President Xi Jingping is among more than 20 international leaders who have made the journey to Moscow. A unilateral, three-day ceasefire was announced by …

Emma Simpson Business correspondent Watch: BBC given exclusive behind-the-scenes access to Zara’s Spanish headquarters It’s going to be a very sexy summer, a touch of romantic, cowboy and rock and roll. That’s according to Mehdi Sousanne, at least. And he should know. He’s a designer for Zara who helps create …