China's Chang'e-5 probe has collected samples from the surface of the moon, in the first effort to bring lunar rocks to Earth since the 1970s.

The mission has landed the country's third probe on the moon and forms part of an increasingly ambitious space program – which also has a robot rover hea...

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Madrid's regional president, Isabel Ayuso, officially inaugurated Spain's first dedicated pandemic hospital.

Costing more than $100m, the Isabel Zendal hospital has room for 1,000 beds and 50 intensive care units after construction started just four months ago.

The new hospital aims to ease the...

Tens of thousands of university students in the UK have started traveling home for their winter holidays – this year with arrangements made so that they don't all leave at once.

The government has given a travel window from December 3-9 to allow universities to stagger departures and encourage s...

The world's airlines are stepping up efforts to start delivering COVID-19 vaccines as health regulators signal further approvals are likely in coming weeks.

Experts say it will take the equivalent of 8,000 jumbo jets to safely distribute billions of doses of vaccines to the world's population. ...

It has been all hands on deck for months. Brussels Airport staff, logistics companies, and dry ice handlers have all been painstakingly preparing for what's been called "the mission of the century."

"It's a big logistical challenge. Some people call it the biggest product launch in history," sa...

With time running out on Brexit talks with the EU, the UK is scrambling to erect alternatives to 40 years of free trade. The measures include building dozens of lorry parks across the country, to avoid bureaucratic chaos at ports and lines of lorries waiting to clear customs.

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The UK government confirmed its first doses of the new Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine have arrived in England.

The doses were transported in the back of trucks from the company's plant in Belgium to the UK via the Channel Tunnel, which runs between France and England.

The UK government is exp...

At first glance, Puurs in Belgium isn't much more than a single lane and a handful of shops. You can easily cover the entire center on foot in under 10 minutes.

Until a month ago, the sleepy Belgian town of 17,000 was best known for its white asparagus and hair-raisingly strong Duvel beer. They...

"Rich countries are ordering and securing doses that are in no way relative to their size of population." Said Stephan Exo-Kreischer, Germany director for the lobby organization ONE, which campaigns to fight and prevent diseases worldwide.

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🇬🇧 A 90-year-old grandmother 👵 and a man named William Shakespeare 👴 are the first people to get the COVID-19 vaccine in the UK 😷 🏥 Watch the video to see this historic moment.

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During the 2020 Web Summit, held virtually but "based" in Lisbon, CGTN Europe's Juliet Mann hosted a conversation with the European Space Agency's Director General Jan Woerner.

Woerner explained the ESA's future plans, which focus on three key destinations: the International Space Station, the ...

Europeans are soon to be introduced to the delights of one of China's most ancient wines, thanks to the Geographical Indications deal agreed with the EU a year ago.

The rice wine comes from Shaoxing city in the Yangtze Delta, which since ancient times has been known as "the land of fish and rice...

In the second part of CGTN's Yue Zou's conversation with U.S. entrepreneur and engineer Peter Diamandis, part of Web Summit 2020, the pair discuss likely medical advances over the next decade and further, along with some of the ethical issues which are raised whenever tech and the medical world c...

Rows of firs and spruces of all sizes stretch across the Oxfordshire countryside, as far as the eye can see - 120,000 grow on the sloping hillsides of this family farm, in the aptly-named village of Christmas Common.

Farmer Andrew Ingram sells around 14,000 Christmas trees each year from the Tre...

An influential group of UK business leaders says it is critical there are no tariffs between the UK and the European Union as talks over a Brexit trade deal continue to stall.

Allie Renison, the senior policy advisor at the Institute of Directors (IoD), says if there is no trade deal and tariffs...

UK vaccine manufacturer AstraZeneca is set to begin a new trial before the end of the year in which it will combine a dose of its vaccine with the Russian Sputnik-V jab.

Scientists believe that using two different types of vaccine together could be more effective in fighting the virus than vacci...

Sian Griffiths, emeritus professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, has said that wealthier countries should support disadvantaged parts of the world distribute the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine due to the cost of storing it.

"We must remember this is a global disease and that low-income countr...

Vaccine collaboration is critical in combating the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the World Health Organization's Margaret Harris.

This comes after UK pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca revealed on Friday it would look into combining its own COVID-19 vaccine with Russia's Sputnik V, in the hop...

The Italian government is finally stepping in to recover 60 tons of compressed non-recyclable garbage that have been sitting at the bottom of the Tyrrhenian Sea for five years.

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Researchers in Italy want to carry out further retrospective COVID-19 tests after a four-year-old boy was found to have contracted the virus in November 2019.

His sample was one of a number of unresolved cases that were then re-tested for COVID-19 at the University of Milan. Out of the 39 sample...

Following London’s sharp increase in COVID-19 cases amongst students aged 10-19 years, the UK government has announced it will roll out rapid mass testing across England’s secondary schools from January.

London's Mayor Sadiq Khan has been calling for mass testing for students. Khan said the gove...

🇨🇳 The U.S. must rejoin the Joint Committee on the Iran nuclear deal if the accord is to be saved, says China as talks between the six JCPOA nations resumed.

🇺🇸 This puts further pressure on President-elect Joe Biden to return to the negotiating table after his predecessor Donald Trump withdrew...

London shops are open as the UK chooses lighter restrictions than other European countries despite a surge in cases. The UK will also allow families to mix at Christmas.
Rather than impose a harder lockdown as Europe battles a second wave of the virus, the British government has chosen not to clo...