Angry French police have taken to the streets for five nights in a row – and Parisians have started to cheer them on, reviving scenes last seen following the Charlie Hebdo attacks in 2015.

Nineteen people died when a helicopter carrying oil and gas field workers crashed in a remote area of Siberia in bad weather, Russian investigators said yesterday.

As rain pours at a muddy migrant camp in Calais in northern France, patients sit inside portable offices waiting to be seen by volunteer medical staff at a makeshift health clinic.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said yesterday that she laments the fact that Christmas carols are no longer sung at her Christian Democrats’ (CDU) annual Christmas parties.

Private rooms at the Pope’s summer residence in Castel Gandolfo opened to the public yesterday at the request of Pope Francis, who has never holidayed there in more than three years as Pontiff.

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim warned the EU yesterday not to forget that Turkey has alternatives to the bloc, whose ties with Ankara have become increasingly strained.

Led by women dressed in white, several thousand Venezuelans marched through Caracas yesterday in the first of what the opposition hopes will be escalating protests against the quashing of a referendum to remove President Nicolas Maduro.

The change is part of the new round of regulations announced by the Obama administration.

Donald Trump yesterday unveiled plans for the first 100 days of his presidency, vowing to create 25mn jobs over a decade and middle class tax cuts, as he and Hillary Clinton courted undecided swing state voters.

More than 100 people were treated for respiratory problems after a chemical spill at an MGP Ingredients Inc facility on Friday generated a chemical cloud over the northeastern Kansas city of Atchison before authorities declared the threat over.

People participate in a walkathon titled “Together for Hope”, organised as part of a Breast Cancer Awareness campaign at Mangalbazar in Lalitpur, near Kathmandu.

Prime Minister and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged ruling Awami League leaders and workers to take oaths to stamp out poverty from Bangladesh, asking them to make lists of the poor in their respective areas for their rehabilitation so that they could live with dignity.