Now playing Next Musica Cecilia Bartoli: A new artistic direction for the Opera de Monte-Carlo From 2023, the Italian mezzo-soprano, Cecilia Bartoli, will be the new artistic director of the Opera de Monte-Carlo, the first-ever woman to lead the opera house. 25/02/2021
Now playing Next France ‘My only chance is with Elon Musk’: Quadruple amputee dreams of space Philippe Croizon, a quadruple amputee that has since become an accomplished athlete, dreams to become the first handicapped person in outer space. 25/02/2021
Now playing Next Eco-Innovation ‘Dark vessels’ are being tracked from space to stop illegal fishing Satellite technology is being brought in to help combat problems with unregulated fishing in coastal nations. 25/02/2021
Now playing Next World News 'I'm not the same': COVID sufferer still has symptoms nearly a year on "I'm not the same person," Richard Roels, a British long COVID sufferer who still has debilitating symptoms, eleven months after he was first infected with coronavirus. 25/02/2021
Now playing Next Travel News Quarantine hotels: Which countries are using them to stop arrivals spreading COVID? Here's a summary of the quarantine hotel rules in different countries around the world. 24/02/2021
Now playing Next Europe News Puigdemont vows to keep fighting after MEPs vote to lift his immunity A European Parliament committee has voted to lift Carles Puigdemont's immunity. It will now go to a vote before all MEPs next month. 24/02/2021
Now playing Next Real Economy Will publishing salaries help gender equality in Europe's workplaces? In partnership with The European Commission There's still a pay gap between men and women in Europe. So what's being done to create better parity? Real Economy takes a look at how The European Pillar of Social Rights and its pay transparency directive are influencing EU social policies on gender. 24/02/2021
Now playing Next Travel News UK's Reading and Leeds music festivals to go ahead this summer Other iconic UK music events have been cancelled for 2021, but Reading and Leeds have announced they will go ahead 24/02/2021
Now playing Next Serbia Take your pick: Serbia lets citizens choose from four COVID-19 jabs Which would you prefer? In Serbia, people can select any of four jabs: the one developed by Pfizer-BioNTech, China’s Sinopharm, Russia’s Sputnik V and Oxford-Astrazeneca's. 24/02/2021
Now playing Next Nature 72% of Brits want the 'cruel and outdated' fur trade to be banned From Judi Dench to Ricky Gervais, 50 of Britain’s biggest stars are calling for a ban on the sale of fur in the UK. 24/02/2021
Now playing Next Syria ‘Historic verdict’: Germany jails Syrian for Assad regime torture Human rights campaigners hope the landmark ruling will set a precedent for other cases. 24/02/2021
Now playing Next USA Tiger Woods 'fortunate to be alive' after crashing SUV in California The gold star had to be cut free from the wreckage and has undergone surgery for what his agent said were 'serious injuries' to his legs. 23/02/2021
Now playing Next United Kingdom Poet John Keats 'brought back to life' 200 years after his death How the Romantic poet lives on: scientists from the Institute for Digital Archaeology have 'virtually recreated him' thanks to Computer Generated Imagery. 23/02/2021
Now playing Next Ocean Protecting the sea gives glimmer of hope to fish stocks in the Adriatic In partnership with The European Commission Fish stocks in the Mediterranean Sea have dropped to alarming levels due to decades of overfishing. Coastal states fear an impending collapse of fisheries. But in a protected part of the Adriatic Sea between Croatia and Italy, fish populations are recovering. Is this the solution? 23/02/2021
Now playing Next Egypt Shipwreck near Alexandria kills at least nine people Rescue workers in Egypt were still searching for at least five people missing after a boat sank in Lake Mariut near Alexandria on Monday night. 23/02/2021
Now playing Next Living Forget Zoom or Teams, this video platform can plant trees Here’s how two companies have joined forces to grow an ‘Impact Forest’ that will subsidise video call carbon emissions. 23/02/2021
Now playing Next Nature How Kenyan farmers are turning a locust plague into an opportunity The Bug Picture is empowering communities to come up with sustainable solutions to the plague. 23/02/2021