Europe

In a rare address to the country, Queen Elizabeth II thanked health workers and essential employees in the UK

The league on Friday said the furloughs were needed because there was no agreement on the size of the salary cuts players must take to reduce the financial impact of the pandemic

More than 130 firefighters, three aircraft, and 21 vehicles were deployed to battle fire, which was said to have burned around 20 hectares (50 acres) in long-vacated area

Normally, tens of thousands of Romans, tourists and pilgrims, clutching olive tree branches or palm fronds would have flocked to an outdoor mass led by the pontiff

The TGV-turned-mobile-intensive-care-unit is just one piece of France's nationwide mobilization of trains, helicopters, jets and even a warship, deployed to relieve congested hospitals and shuffle hundreds of patients and medical personnel in and out of coronavirus hotspots

“There’s going to be a lot of death,” president warns

Assailant, a refugee in his 30s from Sudan who lives in the town, is arrested after being 'found on his knees on the pavement, praying in Arabic,' prosecutor's office says

He's treated more than 100 patients at home

Poland's parliament is preparing to vote Friday on legislation that would transform the country's May presidential election entirely into a mail-in ballot

Measure to apply retroactively to January 30

Dr. Anastasia Vasilyeva of the Alliance of Doctors union was trying to take masks, sanitizer and other gear to a hospital in the Novgorod region when she and others were stopped by police; they were accused of violating self-isolation regulations

Johnson still self-isolating; warns citizens not to be tempted by nice weather 

The expanded authority comes as the government doubled the size of its coronavirus emergency loan scheme to 40 billion Swiss francs ($40.94 billion) after being flooded by requests for help by businesses

WWII liberator also played role in crushing Czech uprising

The queen rarely addresses the nation directly apart from her traditional televised Christmas Day message