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It's that time of year again when members of the Royal family gather at Buckingham Palace for the Queen's annual Christmas lunch.

Teachers, doctors, lawyers and workers at the Eiffel Tower – people from across the French workforce walked off the job Tuesday to resist a higher retirement age, and to preserve a welfare system they fear their business-friendly president wants to dismantle.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has apologised for his party's crushing loss in the British general election and blamed polarisation over Brexit.

A tweet about sitting on a train carriage floor by climate activist Great Thunberg has caused uproar on social media.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says MPs will vote before Christmas on the Brexit agreement he struck with the European Union.

Hundreds of protesters clashed with police outside 10 Downing Street as Conservatives celebrated their victory.

Boris Johnson's Conservative Party claims landslide victory, winning 365 seats out of 650 in the House of Commons.

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is claiming a "renewed, refreshed and strengthened" mandate in the UK election to demand another independence vote.

European Council President Charles Michel has congratulated British Prime Minister Boris Johnson but the Czech PM says his win is "bad for Europe".

The UK's Liberal Democrats are looking for a new leader after Jo Swinson lost her seat to the SNP on a poor election night for the party.

The thumping election win by Boris Johnson's Conservatives has led the pound to surge more than two percent as markets pin hopes on an orderly Brexit.

Early election results indicate the British PM's Conservative Party will win a majority of 86 seats in Britain's election, enough to finally deliver Brexit.

A convicted rapist is fighting for life after apparently trying to poison himself in a French courtroom when a judge found him guilty of rape and kidnapping that led to death.

Finland's transportation minister Sanna Marin has been selected by her Social Democratic party to become the country's youngest prime minister ever, taking over after the resignation of Antti Rinne.

Venetians say they cannot afford to be wrong. Skeptics and critics say they may be.

Paris police have skirmished with yellow vest activists joining a wave of protest actions against the government's overhaul of France's national retirement system.

At least five are dead following a gas explosion in an apartment building in eastern Slovakia that is threatening to collapse a 12-storey building.

Frustrated travellers ran into transportation mayhem across France for a second day, as unions striked against plans to redesign the national retirement system.

Donald Trump has lashed out at the media after video emerged of world leaders mocking him during a NATO event in London.

Justin Trudeau, Boris Johnson and Emmanuel Macron have been caught on camera trash-talking Donald Trump at a NATO event.

Scholars say a plague outbreak that has been blamed for the demise of the Roman Empire likely didn't kill half the world's population in just a few years.

A parolee has been arrested in central England amid fears he was planning a terror attack, just one day after another convicted terrorist killed two people in London.

Dutch police have arrested a 35-year-old homeless man on suspicion of stabbing three teens on a street in The Hague that was crowded with Black Friday shoppers.

Dutch police are hunting an attacker who stabbed three teenagers - two 15-year-old girls and a 13-year-old boy- on a street in The Hague that was crowded with Black Friday shoppers.

The search-and-rescue operation for earthquake survivors in Albania has drawn to a close, with at least 51 dead and about 2000 injured.

Pedestrians flee 'terrorist' stabbing on London Bridge

Hundreds of thousands of Australians living in the UK have been swept up in what is one of the most controversial general elections in the nation's history amid a battle over Brexit.

The death toll from a powerful earthquake in Albania has risen to 21, but 45 people have been pulled from fallen buildings.

A powerful pre-dawn earthquake in Albania has killed at least 18 people and injured more than 600.