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The BBC has offered an unconditional apology after a report found a prominent journalist used "deceitful" methods to secure a landmark interview with Princess Diana as her marriage broke down.

The world's biggest iceberg — larger than the Spanish island of Mallorca — has formed after breaking off from Antarctica, according to the European Space Agency (ESA). Satellite imagery shows the mass of ice is about 170 kilometres (105 miles) long and 25 kilometres wide.

The European Parliament has overwhelmingly voted to freeze the ratification of the EU-China investment deal due to the sanctions that Beijing has imposed on five members of the hemicycle.

In the UK, the alarming spread of the Indian variant of coronavirus is calling into question the further easing of lockdown measures. A total lifting of restrictions in England is pencilled in for June 21. But the number of confirmed cases of the strain hit more than 3,400 on Thursday, a rise of 2,000 in just a week.

Kato Alepochori (Greece) (AFP) – Several Greek villages have been evacuated as firefighters battle the country's first major blaze of the year on a mountain range overlooking the Gulf of Corinth.

CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports on a breakthrough cluster of Covid-19 infections that spread through the New York Yankees baseball team.

Copenhagen (AFP) – Dr Hans Kluge, the World Health Organization's director for Europe, tells a press conference that international travel should continue to be avoided due to the risk of the pandemic resurging in the region, but he stresses that authorised vaccines do work against variants of concern.

Zhang Yiming, who founded Tiktok owner ByteDance in Beijing nine years ago, announced that he would transition to a new role at the company at the end of this year. CNN's Paul R. La Monica reports.

A German army soldier has been accused of plotting to kill prominent politicians while posing as a Syrian asylum-seeker. Federal prosecutors say the suspect, named as 1st Lt. Franco A., acted out of far-right extremist views and tried to blame the attack on refugees.

CNN's Laura Jarrett reports on court documents which revealed that the mob that stormed the US Capitol, smoked weed during their insurrection.

Andrea Meza of Mexico, who was crowned Miss Universe 2021 over the weekend, says she's working with the Institute for Women in Ciudad Juarez to tackle street harassment. (May 20)