The top ranks of American politics have historically been dominated by men, almost all of them white. That's now coming to an end.
The annual ritual, called Daikan Misogi, is held at the coldest time of the year, based on a traditional lunisolar calendar.
Villagers in Kamala Harris' ancestral village of Thulasendrapuram in southern India hold special prayers and burst firecrackers, ahead of the inauguration ceremony in Washington DC.
Trump's statue "cost a lot of hair", laughs the museum's director-general.
Joe Biden fulfills a decades-long ambition in becoming the 46th President of the United States. A former Vice President, Senator and three-time candidate for the nation's highest office, it's been a long road to the White House.
"The number of new infections has decreased. That gives us hope. But the virus mutation carries a great danger. Now is the time to prevent this danger," Chancellor Merkel said as she announced the new measures.
A video praising his administration's legacy and listing economic and foreign policy achievements was released for Trump's final presidential address.
North Korean state media released more video of leader Kim Jong Un posing for group photos with new line-ups of senior officials of the ruling Workers' Party and the Cabinet, following recent landmark leadership meetings this month
The World Health Organization has raised "concerns" about the unequal distribution of coronavirus vaccines in the country.
"We can soon start to see the beginning of the end of the pandemic," said health commissioner Stella Kyriakides in a statement.
Explosions from Mount Etna, Europe's largest active volcano, sent lava rocks flying into the air and left orange streams oozing down the slopes.
The Russian President takes part in a traditional Orthodox ritual to mark the feast of Epiphany every year.
As authorities in southern Germany and in Austria make FFP2 masks mandatory on public transport and in shops, we ask an expert what difference these masks make.
"This is going to remain a fragile government based on a rather brittle majority," said political scientist Giovanni Orsina
EU Leaders may be relieved that Biden will do whatever it takes to restore traditional transatlantic ties but this doesn't mean that U.S. priorities will dramatically change. For Rasmussen, China, as rising power, is the biggest challenge.
Rival heavily armed groups were gathering near government buildings in Richmond, Virginia, ahead of planned protests against Wednesday's inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden in Washington.
Boris Johnson has promised a compensation fund for seafood exporters hit by post-Brexit bureaucracy, but describes their difficulties as "teething problems".
In normal times, people pack out the National Mall to watch the presidential inauguration. Amid the COVID pandemic, flags are taking centre stage.
Italy's prime minister is fighting for political survival after former leader Matteo Renzi pulled his party's support from the government.
When Joe Biden takes the oath of office, he'll do so in a city under siege - not from a foreign enemy but from angry supporters of Donald Trump.
Norway has stressed that there was no established link between the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and the deaths of elderly people who had been vaccinated.
"There will be no nostalgia," said EU trade chief Sabine Weyland. "We are not going to go back to the global order of previous days."
An artist in Kosovo made a portrait of the US President-elect using grain and seeds ahead of his inauguration this week.
Services of the cross-Channel train have dropped to just one train a day between the British and French capitals amid tightened border controls.
"Alexei Navalny's ideas and hopes for his country come before his own personal ambitions and safety," Red Notice author Bill Browder told Euronews.
It comes as extreme cold has hit large parts of Europe, with freezing temperatures cracking railroad tracks in Poland and smog spiking as coal was being burned to generate heat.
British fishing communities were among the strongest supporters of Brexit. But now some are protesting against the extra red tape it has brought.
Adrinet is a EU Cohesion Policy funded initiative that is helping to remove 'ghost nets' from seabeds in the Meditteranean. Its goal is to protect marine ecosystems and educate about the dangers of plastic pollution in the sea.
Elisabetta Bonerba is a project leader at the Adrinet programme, an EU funded initiative to alleviate plastic pollution in the Adriatic seabed. She tells us how best to deal with 'Ghost Nets' haunting our seas.
Japan is rapidly understanding the opportunities that smart cities can provide to help an aging population and to enhance general well-being. We take a look at two Japanese smart towns and their different solution-oriented smart projects.
Some believe President-elect Joe Biden will be more critical of Poland than Donald Trump
2020 ends what was the warmest decade on record. But haven't the lockdowns linked to the pandemic lowered pollution? Euronews' Jeremy Wilks takes a look at the events of the past year and their positive and negative effects on climate change.
Starting next week, Austria will introduce a similar rule nationwide.
Sunday was the third consecutive day of unrest a decade on from the revolution that ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
Learn how the EU's 'SURE' initiative is keeping unemployment at bay during the pandemic by boosting financial aid to furlough schemes in member states.
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All passengers will still be required to quarantine for up to 10 days on arrival but the isolation period can be cut short with a negative test after five days.
"I felt like he knew what was going to happen," said Euronews' correspondent.
The families victims who suffered Stalinist repression are still waiting for compensation 30 years after the collapse of the former Soviet Union
Rather than intrepid animals scaling the building to walk on the roof, it seems the creatures walked across the terracottas when they were originally made.
"It was really the idea of finally working on the coach-trainer relationship," its director Charlène Favier told Euronews.
A test of NASA's new SLS megarocket was aborted after computers automatically shut down engines after a little over a minute
Indonesia is home to about 130 active volcanoes because of its position in the "Ring of Fire" plate belt.
Buildings were reduced to piles of bricks and all that remained of a shopping centre was a crumpled shell.
Weekly protests continue in Jerusalem calling on Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu to step down over corruption charges
The demonstrations in Siliana and other cities began after a video posted on social media showed a police officer shouting and pushing a shepherd whose sheep entered the local government headquarters.
At least 56 people have died in the 6.2 magnitude earthquake which hit Sulawesi island on Friday night
Parisians built snowmen and threw snowballs before the nighttime curfew kicked in, whilst Belgians enjoyed up to 10 cm of snowfall.
The French capital is transforming its iconic promenade into a green oasis.
Indonesia, an archipelago of more than 250 million people, sits on the Pacific “Ring of Fire” and is prone to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.