Céline Dion has made a “childhood dream come true” for a young fan waiting outside the star’s hotel in Paris, ahead of a much-anticipated comeback show on Saturday. The 20-year-old, who goes by the social media name ‘Sacha’, asked the pop start to duet with him. Initially Céline Dion declined, …

Images released by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine show firefighters directing water hoses at burning vehicles amid clouds of smoke on a street in Pavlohrad. In a Telegram post, regional governor Oleksandr Hanzha said of the 67 people injured, eight are children. Zelensky offered his condolences to the families …

Over the summer, the number of civilians wounded by Russian attacks on the two cities increased from 70 in June to 212 in August, say Ukrainian police. Sixteen people died in June, 20 in July and 15 in August. Residential housing comes under attack as well as infrastructure, says Dyachenko, …

A man has been given a six-month jail term in France after he threatened to kill a female primary school teacher who had disciplined his son at a village primary school. He was sentenced after a fast-track hearing on Thursday, six days after the events unfolded in Le Fauga, a …

Russian drones have been targeting Ukraine with increasing intensity in recent weeks and an attack on a Moldovan border crossing at Starokozache killed two people overnight into Tuesday. The Russian army has new jet-powered unmanned aircraft that are much faster and more difficult to intercept. Analysis by BBC Verify has …

Tributes have been paid to King Harald V after his funeral in Norway’s capital Oslo, with the Prince of Wales and other European royals among attendees. Flags were raised from half-mast to mark the conclusion of a private ceremony at Akershus Fortress, where the king was laid to rest in …

Reigning Miss Austria beauty queen Lucia Sisic has died at the age of 22, having experienced a lifelong heart condition. Mission Austria, which runs the Miss Austria and Mister Austria beauty pageants, announced the news in a tribute on its Facebook page on Monday, saying: “It is with great shock …

Tusk said the “radical toughening of the rules” was needed “for those who, unfortunately, quite systematically drive on to level crossings despite the barriers and red lights”. Reports from the scene say there were traffic lights at the level crossing of Wednesday’s accident and the cement mixer had hit the …

Ummels said that, unlike bigger territories, Guernsey’s security was “ideally positioned” to protect artwork. But he added it had become very difficult to balance security with letting people enjoy the paintings. “My philosophy when we have people visiting a show is always to keep security measures to a minimum, but …

Fourteen suspected people smugglers have gone on trial in Paris for their role in the worst ever small boats disaster in the English Channel. In November 2021, at least 30 men, women and children drowned when their motorised dinghy deflated and started taking on water halfway between France and the …

Iceland has summoned the US ambassador after President Donald Trump posted a map on social media that appeared to show Iceland and several other countries covered by the American flag. Trump posted the image on Truth Social on Monday, showing the US, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Mexico, Central America and the …

The attacks have led to power-generating units at some plants being temporarily taken off the grid. A statement from the Cologne Public Prosecutor’s Office and Cologne Police on Tuesday did not provide further details on the suspect, or on the number and whereabouts of incidents he has been linked to. …

A pair of thieves who stole four Renoir paintings from a French museum left two in the garden as they fled, according to the local mayor. The museum’s alarm went off at 05:48 local time (04:48 BST), with police arriving five minutes later. The thieves are still on the run. …

Four paintings by the impressionist artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir have been stolen from a museum in the south of France. Two thieves broke into the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer on Tuesday morning but dropped two of the paintings in the institution’s garden as they made their escape, local Mayor Bryan Masson …

Dental implants in Albania are typically around €600 ($700; £516) per tooth, similar in price to what is charged in Turkey, which has long been the main overseas destination for people in western Europe who are seeking much cheaper dental work than they can get at home. The same treatment …

Ratko Mladić commanded Bosnian Serb forces in the 1990s against the Bosnian Croat and Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) armies. During the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, his troops committed what became known as “ethnic cleansing” in Bosnia-Herzegovina in a bid to expel the non-Serbian population by force. They besieged the capital city of …

The alerts are also disrupting the start of the new academic year and forcing school children to leave their classrooms throughout the day. When another air raid began, some students at the Drahomanov Ukrainian State University in central Kyiv headed underground; others stayed chatting on the street, such is the …

“All emergency services are on the scene. Everyone affected will receive the necessary assistance,” Zelensky added in a message on Telegram. “I instructed Poklad to deliver an appropriate, tangible response and, where possible, one that mirrors this strike, to the Russians once everything is ready. Our military will support this …

Attacks on military and defence targets are not new, although previous acts of sabotage linked to Russia include more puzzling targets – such as an Ikea store and a Polish paint store. The novelty now is the concentration of cases. “The intensity of military sites being attacked we’ve seen over …

Nvidia has agreed to buy artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face in a deal valued at about $12.9bn (£9.5bn), one of the AI chipmaker’s biggest acquisitions as it expands into software. Hugging Face, founded in 2016, has become a popular online platform where developers and researchers can find, share and test …