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Hong Kong's leading TV broadcaster has decided to drop this year's Academy Awards for the first time since 1968, even with two Hong Kong films nominated. CNN's Will Ripley reports.

Delays in deliveries, production bottlenecks, exports control, vaccine hesitancy and public feuds with pharmaceutical companies have muddled the first months of Europe's vaccination campaign against COVID-19.

Millions of people across the UK will be able to have their first sit-down pint at a pub in months today, with others also looking forward to visiting indoor gyms, shops, and hairdressers after the government eased lockdown restrictions.

Europe's coronavirus deaths on Monday passed the one-million mark as the World Health Organization warned that the pandemic had reached a "critical point." The death toll across Europe's 52 countries, compiled by AFP from official sources, totalled at least 1,000,288.

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame has rallied leaders in Africa, saying that the continent ought to build capacity to produce its own vaccines and medical products.

The new strain of coronavirus first identified in England is more infectious but not more dangerous than the original COVID-19, two new UK-based studies have found.

Europe's Muslims will begin marking Ramadan on Tuesday evening, religious authorities from various countries said.

CNN's Rosa Flores reports on migrants who were expelled by the Biden administration living in squalor, fearing returning home, across the border in Reynosa, Mexico.

CNN's Don Lemon speaks to Jonathan Arthur, attorney for US Army officer 2nd Lt. Caron Nazario. Nazario is suing two Virginia police officers after they drew guns, pepper sprayed him and pushed him to the ground during a traffic stop in December 2020. One officer has since been fired.

Fagradalsfjall (Iceland) (AFP) – Visitors flock to see the four lava streams flowing from Iceland's three week-old volcanic eruption near the capital Reykjavik, after three fresh fissures opened last week.