Coronavirus: Italy carefully reopens for business

France is full of small museums that retrace its history. In the south-western town of Agen, the museum of fine arts houses 3,000 works of art.

Traffic is back on the streets of Riyadh, and restaurants and hair salons have reopened as Saudi Arabia lifts its coronavirus curfew. Saudi Arabia has been the hardest-hit Gulf state during the pandemic, with over 150,000 confirmed cases.

In the capitals of the two Koreas, rival museums offer radically different accounts of the same conflict: a war launched to unify the peninsula that now defines its division.

Chukwuemeka Nnaji, President of the Nigeria Union of Traders Association in Ghana joins CNBC Africa for more.

Congolese activist Mwazulu Diyabanza has tried to remove looted art from museums in protest against the theft of African art treasures. Now he is facing trial.

Faced with rising coronavirus cases, Catalonia closes restaurants and bars for two weeks.

Fire razes 254 shops in Yar' Kasuwa in Abuja

Melanie Igbe's restaurant hosted 50 people a day when it opened in Nigeria's megacity Lagos a year ago. Fear of coronavirus has driven most diners away, but Igbe believes inflation rather than the pandemic may kill her business.

Erin Osun, Lobu residents flee as communities, houses, shops, vehicles burnt

With restaurants and cafés closed due to the pandemic, an alternative is emerging among Brussels hoteliers: transforming bedrooms into private dining rooms, so guests can enjoy an evening "as if at a restaurant" but in compliance with the law.

Singaporean Sue-Anne Chng used to wear a different outfit on all 15 days of the Lunar New Year, when it is customary to don new clothes to symbolise a fresh start. But this year she will wear second-hand items exchanged for her old clothes at a store catering to people concerned about the impact of fast fashion on the environment. Several swapping initiatives, from permanent shops to pop-up events, have appeared in the affluent city-state in a bid to encourage consumers to make the most of what is already in their closets.

Egypt has inaugurated on Tuesday two museums at Cairo International Airport, celebrating International Museum Day.