Several people have been injured after a sword attack at a high school in Sweden, local authorities say. Police said they had arrested one man after the incident at Brinell School in Fagersta, central Sweden. Officers were called to the scene just after 14:00 local time (13:00 BST) on Friday, …

The bodies of two Belgian men who went missing in the Swiss Alps in 1992 have been discovered after being exposed by the melting of a glacier, police have said. A hiker discovered the bodies on 26 July on the Trift Glacier, south of the Swiss city of Lucerne, officials …

The mayor of Como has banned riding bicycles in certain areas of the historic Italian city after he was hit by an electric one. Alessandro Rapinese said the ban was necessary to improve public safety. It means from September, cyclists will have to dismount through an area of around 30 …

Belgium’s Prince Laurent has legally recognised 26-year-old former car salesman Clément Vandenkerckhove as his son and heir. Vandenkerckhove, the result of a relationship between the royal and Belgian singer Wendy Van Wanten, was quietly brought into Prince Laurent’s family at a town hall ceremony six months ago, although details have …

A Ukrainian man has been arrested in Croatia on suspicion of taking part in the bombing of the Nord Stream gas pipelines between Russia and Germany. The suspect is alleged by German authorities to have been one of the scuba divers who planted explosives on the pipelines in September 2022, …

The lab routinely tests for 400 substances and “now, in France, we are looking for diuretics”, he adds. It is now 15 years since Anaïs’s encounter with Nègre and seven years since she first spoke to police. Like many of the other accusers, she is frustrated at the length of …

A number of buildings and cars are damaged in the historic city, and the world famous Alhambra palace has temporarily closed. BBC News

An American tourist has died after being struck by lightning while hiking on Mount Etna in Sicily. The 30-year-old, who has not been named by authorities, was on the active volcano on Sunday when a thunderstorm broke out, Italian media report. The man is said to have been found by …

What if Fernandez to Man City doesn’t happen? Talk of City signing 18-year-old Ayyoub Bouaddi has been rumbling all summer, and the club have reportedly held talks with the Moroccan, who would cost an estimated £85m. Bouaddi is said to be keen on the move. The teenager impressed at this …

Two people have died and an evacuation is under way after two fires broke out within minutes of each other on a Greek island near Athens. Fire officials said nearly 200 firefighters were working to extinguish the flames on the island of Salamina and keep them from converging, Greek media …

Four Renaissance paintings of “extraordinary value” have been stolen from a museum in Sicily, Italy’s culture minister has said. Alessandro Giuli confirmed that three panels of the Polyptych of San Gregorio and a double-sided panel of the Madonna with Child and Christ in Pietà, all attributed to Antonello da Messina, …

Six people have been injured at a market in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, as the country was hit by a series of Russian strikes. Five people were reportedly killed across Ukraine, while Russian officials said seven people were killed there, in strikes by Ukraine. The BBC’s Ukraine correspondent Dan Johnson …

Liechtenstein has announced that it has changed royal succession rules to allow women to ascend the throne. The declaration was made on the national day of the central European country, which has a population of just 44,000. Liechtenstein’s current ruler, Prince Hans-Adam II, has been the head of their royal …

Gregory Melotte, one of those working to extinguish the blaze, told Belgian broadcaster RTBF: “We managed to calm the fire coming from the plain, to prevent it from spreading into the fir forest. We still succeeded in our mission, but it’s not over yet. “The flames are coming towards us, …

France’s top court has struck down a ban on social media for under-15s, saying it infringed upon freedom of expression. The legislation was backed by French lawmakers in July, making it the first European country to block young people from the platforms, after concerns over the harmful effects on children’s …

Police have recovered three paintings that were stolen from a museum in Italy earlier this year. CCTV footage of the theft on the night of 22 March was released by authorities, showing two masked thieves breaking into the Magnani Rocca Museum, near the city of Parma. It is estimated the …

Broken engine fragments smashed a cabin window of a Ryanair plane last month causing a man’s head and right shoulder to be sucked into the hole, US investigators have said. In a preliminary report, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said this happened after an engine fan blade broke shortly …

A person has been fined for using a foghorn to wake a sleeping polar bear in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, a local official said. The incident happened earlier this month after someone sounded the alarm from onboard a vessel, which was sailing in a fjord in northwestern Svalbard – about 1,000 …

A “massive” Ukrainian drone and missile strike on Russia’s port city of Novorossiysk has damaged grain export terminals and hit the last major Russian naval base on the Black Sea. Three people, including an eight-year-old child, were killed and 24 people were injured in the Wednesday nighttime attack. Ukraine’s Volodymyr …

During the Second World War, German soldiers’ identification tags were split into two on the event of a soldier’s death. One half would be kept with the soldier, while the other would be sent to German army authorities, which tracked German military casualties and would notify relatives of soldiers’ deaths. …