The eight-year-old children from Oviedo have been confined to their homes since 2021. Their ten-year-old brother was also at home.

Children rescued from four-year COVID ‘horror house’ lockdown

The kids – eight-year-old twins and a 10-year-old – appeared amazed that they were finally allowed outdoors,breathing deeply and touching the grass.

  • James Rothwell

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A silver lining:Frankfurt Airport Railway Station.

Europe’s biggest buzzkill airport has football pitch-sized wastelands

This major European hub may be as big as an intergalactic shopping mall,but it’s without the fun stuff.

  • Flip Byrnes
Vietnamese female police officers march during a parade celebrating the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War in Ho Chi Minh City.
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World in pictures this week,May 1,2025

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by The Age picture editors

The historic Stone Bridge in Regenburg.

Port guide:Regensburg,Germany

Don’t miss one of Europe’s most attractive old towns,which has a lively,lived-in atmosphere thanks to its university and manufacturing credentials.

  • Brian Johnston
The middle building of Moabit Prison in Berlin.

Berlin doctor charged with serial murder of palliative patients

He is accused of 15 deaths but suspected of dozens more. If convicted,the doctor would be the most prolific serial killer in Europe in two decades.

  • Christopher F. Schuetze
An Indigenous man stands next to a large earth balloon during the march coined:“We are the answer” in Brasilia.
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World of photos,April 12,2025

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by The Age picture editors.

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French President Emmanuel Macron holds a meeting in Paris on Thursday with representatives of industries affected by the US tariffs.

‘Brutal’:Macron vows to protect Europe after US lands shock trade blow

The French president has called on EU nations to stop all investment in the United States after Donald Trump announced a 20 per cent tariff on European imports.

  • James Crisp,Nick Squires,James Rothwell andSarah Newey
One sausage to rule them all:German bratwurst.

All hail the sausage to rule all sausages

When it comes to the world’s best sausages there’s Spanish chorizo,South Africa’s boerewors and English Cumberland. But nothing beats Germany’s bratwurst.

  • Ben Groundwater
Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive it in a makeshift tent camp inside a landfill in central Gaza Strip on Friday.

Israeli airstrike destroys Gaza’s only cancer hospital,ceasefire ‘bridges’ on the table

Meanwhile,E3 countries say they are “appalled” by the violence in Gaza and called for an immediate stop to strikes.

  • Brahim Hazboun,Sam Mednick andNidal al-Mughrabi

Pigeons to be tricked into taking contraceptive pill

They have been called the “rats of the sky”,leaving mess over bikes,footpaths and virtually any other surface. Now one European city is fighting back.

  • James Rothwell