Dazzling orange lava snakes across Europe’s largest active volcano, as shown in striking new footage. Last Friday’s eruption at Mount Etna, located on the Italian island of Sicily, created a thick streak of bright lava that has run at least 300 meters (1,000ft) lower than the rupture height. The eruption …

There are plans in Berlin to tear down one of the last remnants of Adolf Hitler’s power centre. Almost nothing remains of the Nazi leader’s chancellery in central Berlin, except a bunker. But now there are plans to demolish it to build flats and offices. The New Reich Chancellery, built …

A man has been found dead as an out-of-control wildfire burns in northern Greece, forcing residents of a nearby village to evacuate. The man’s body was found in a charred area near Liti, about 15km (nine miles) north-west of the city of Thessaloniki, where more than 100 firefighters are working …

Right-wing extremists remain the greatest threat to German democracy and their number increased significantly to 58,700 last year, the country’s domestic intelligence service says. That number is an increase of more than 8,000 on the previous year, the agency says in its annual report, adding that extreme left-wing violence is …

The Czech Republic recorded its highest-ever temperature on Saturday, with a reading of 40.8C at a weather station in Doksany north of Prague, the national meteorological service (CHMI) said. And forecasters in Denmark said a provisional temperature of 37C was recorded in Odum, near Aarhus. This exceeded the previous all-time …

Temperatures broke June records in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands on Friday as the death toll from Europe’s heatwave climbed in Spain and France and authorities cancelled concerts and other public events because of health risks. Germany’s highest ever temperature of 41.3C was recorded provisionally in the south-western city of …

Ball says he would still vote leave today, adding: “I just think they’re bullies.” He said it was not Brexit that was the problem but the agreement that was made. “Hopefully in the future we can tear that agreement up and get another agreement,” he said. He said fishermen feel …

A court in Germany has sentenced a man to life in prison for an attack on the Christmas market in Magdeburg in 2024, in which six people were killed. The court imposed the maximum sentence on the defendant, Taleb Al-Abdulmohsen, who is from Saudi Arabia. The 51-year-old was found guilty …

BBC Berlin correspondent Jessica Parker on what’s next for the weather in Europe BBC News

A paper artist has used letters sent to her in the final days of letter delivery by the Danish national postal system to create an art installation of hanging daisies. Gillian Taylor, from Cockwood, in Devon, has spent time in Denmark and several of her Danish friends have contributed to …

Poland’s prime minister has called for “truth” and “mutual respect” at an event on rebuilding Ukraine that Volodymyr Zelensky skipped amid a diplomatic row between the two neighbours and allies. Donald Tusk opened the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Gdansk without the Ukrainian president after he was stripped of Poland’s highest …

Forty people have drowned in heatwave-related deaths in France since 18 June officials have said, as temperatures hit record levels in several major cities and the heatwave reached a peak in several European countries. Measures have been put in place across western Europe in order to help people manage the …

Fifa has been warned it is putting fans’ health at risk by introducing a bottle ban at this summer’s World Cup. BBC News

A diver who filmed an incredibly rare encounter with a Great White shark in the Mediterranean Sea in May has described the moment as “pretty special”. “The shark was pretty close to us […] And in fact my fingers were trembling when I was trying to get the camera operating,” …

Pope Leo XIV has described Barcelona’s Sagrada Família as a masterpiece of “stones, colours and light” as he inaugurated its newest – and tallest – tower. The giant Tower of Jesus Christ, completed in February, has brought the church to a soaring height of 172.5m (566ft) – cementing it as …

He was not questioned even once by investigators. And, according to newspaper Le Monde, US authorities had alerted French police after Barella’s online activity suggested he could be accessing images that showed child sex abuse. French police only discovered this after conducting a trawl for Barella’s name following his arrest …

Rousing orchestral music plays over a video of a snowy Moscow street dotted with billboards celebrating an end to the war in Ukraine. “The Special Military Operation is over,” one fictional billboard reads, using the Kremlin-approved term for its war on Ukraine. “Our heroes are coming home.” Underneath, a beautiful, …

Cape Verdeans arrived in Massachusetts in waves of migration from the 1850s as whalers and seamen. The state is home to the largest Cape Verdean population in the United States, with estimates ranging from roughly 70,000 to over 90,000 residents. Alves regularly returns to his homeland to support the team …

Evidence shows Russians directing the plot and stoking tensions with fake far-right and Muslim groups. BBC News

And it may be that culture matters more than cash. “Part of the problem is we overestimate how much finances work,” says Carney. Israel, the only country in the OECD with a fertility rate that is comfortably above replacement, doesn’t have particularly high levels of government spending on family benefits. …