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British Crime Survey reveals the chances of being a victim of crime are lowest for 20 years.

The Queen has officially opened the National Theatre on the South Bank in London after years of delays.

The EEC is donating £1.8 million to help combat the famine in Ethiopia.

Zambia is the ninth African state to gain independence from the British crown.

American forces seize control of the Caribbean island of Grenada less than a week after a left-wing coup in which the prime minister, Maurice Bishop, was killed.

Erica Ogwumike has been drafted into the WNBA - but is also a medical student in the US. She talks about combining the two - and why she would like to represent Nigeria.

How the border between Ethiopia and Eritrea is dividing families and communities who live along it.

Billions of locusts are destroying food supplies in the Horn of Africa during the coronavirus outbreak.

The Islamic State has been behind the growing wave of violence in northern Mozambique.

A Kenyan university is voluntarily making critical medical kits in the fight against Covid-19.

Malawi announces cash handouts for the poorest, after the courts blocked the proposed lockdown.

Llewellyn Barnes made his debut in a professional golf debut last month, after decades living homeless in South Africa.

Ghana is well known for its elaborate funerals and rowdy election campaigns so coronavirus is changing everything.

African states face real challenges in trying to expand their testing for the coronavirus.

Islamist militants have stepped up attacks in the north, raising fears of greater instability.

Heavy rains across the region have also destroyed homes, crops and some infrastructure.

The Mercury-nominated rapper had been put in an induced coma in April.

A British actor and theatre manager drafted the Act of Military Surrender while in the army.

The Dutch politician and MEP Sophie in ’t Veld on the economic impact on the EU of coronavirus.

At exactly 1500 on 8 May 1945, British PM Winston Churchill announced the end of the war in Europe.

Some are well known, some forgotten, but all played a key role in World War Two.

Albert Jarrett was among some 10,000 West Indians who crossed the Atlantic to join the war effort.

Berlin officially surrendered to Soviet forces on 2 May but fighting continued until the war ended.

Seventy-five years after Victory in Europe, what has changed and is a new world order forming?

Allan Little examines how events on VE Day were reported by the BBC, and how Britain changed.

Will Russia's renewed interest in Africa make it a key player in the region?

You might never think of Germany as a cricket nation, but there has been a huge transformation over the past five years.

BBC Sport looks at the path La Liga is following to allow top-flight football to resume safely in Spain.

France is eyeing a lifting of strict coronavirus measures on Monday but for many the damage is done.

Measures will be relaxed from Monday, but the densely populated capital faces continuing curbs.

The Bundesliga will resume behind closed doors on Saturday 16 May - becoming the first European league to restart following the coronavirus shutdown.

Sporting events in the Netherlands will have to take place without fans until there is a coronavirus vaccine, Dutch Health Minister Hugo de Jonge says.

It is a one-off holiday in the German capital, but some think it should be marked nationally each year.

Leaders across the continent are holding closed ceremonies, without the public in attendance.

Italy has the third highest officially recorded coronavirus deaths, after the US and the UK.

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