Spain's King Felipe and Queen Letizia on Sunday joined Spanish and Portuguese political leaders at architect Antoni Gaudi's famous Sagrada Familia church, for a mass in honour of the victims of the Barcelona van attack at Las Ramblas.

The Capital Gazette - one of the US's oldest newspapers - still hit newsstands less than 24 hours after 5 of its staff were shot dead. The local publication paid tribute to those lost, alongside reports of the massacre.

The world was thrown into mourning on August 16, 2018, when news of the passing of the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, broke. Since her passing, there have been unending tributes from notable personalities in America and across the globe.

The Polish city of Gdansk is saying farewell to its mayor, who was stabbed to death at a charity concert. The suspected attacker's mother has told police she was concerned that her son was planning political revenge.

Grieving is an art — in two senses of the word. An exhibition in the German city Hamburg shows how artists depict loss and change.

A minute's silence was held in Spain to commence the mourning process, with both the Spanish king and the prime minister keen to pay their respects. The country has suffered more than 27,000 deaths from COVID-19.

Germany has sent dozens of search and rescue specialists; Qatar sent mobile hospitals, generators and burn sheets. Investigations continue on why a huge stockpile of volatile chemicals was left in the port for years.

The global death toll from Covid-19 has now passed one million. To mark this sombre milestone, AFP spoke to family members around the world mourning and remembering those lost to the disease -- in South Africa, Syria, Italy, and Indonesia.

Another broken truce: Armenia and Azerbaijan blame each other for renewed clashes over Nagorno-Karabakh. Both sides deny targeting civilians, but residential areas have increasingly come under shelling. DW's Julia Hahn has this report from Azerbaijan's second-largest city, Ganja.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa expresses his condolences to the Zulu nation for the passing of King Goodwill Zwelithini, the late leader of South Africa's largest ethnic group, saying: "It is a difficult day because a huge tree has fallen. ... Our nation is indeed in mourning."

Anime lover and artist Jinnipha Nivasabut has painted 50 portraits of her favourite dead anime characters to explore the impact of the death of fictional characters on the audience. The oil paintings caught the eye of a curator and fellow anime lover who commissioned Jinnipha's work and launched the '2D Afterlife' exhibition. Here, anime anime fans can pay respect to their beloved heroes and villains with a twist of Thai funeral rituals where sandalwood flowers and red Fanta are used as offerings to the dead.

We look at the Irish papers focusing on the random murder of a primary school teacher which has shaken the country and prompted debate on violence against women. Also, papers react to the deadly drone attack on Abu Dhabi which was claimed by Houthi rebels. Plus, find out why armpits are the focus of new beauty trends and finally, a long-running neighbourly dispute in Italy over a noisy toilet flush finally ends!