Hopes were rising for a truce last night after two weeks of fighting in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, amid high-level talks between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
The number of public patients waiting to see a specialist has reached another record high of 612,083 amid growing alarm about the dangers of deteriorating health and delayed diagnosis.
Coronavirus cases are surging in Europe amid rising opposition to lockdown rules in a number of countries.
Yes, we know animals don't often talk back. So, there are limits to comparisons between the coordinated cross-border response to Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) in 2001, and the current shambles surrounding a rampant spread of Covid-19 in the North - and increasingly into the Republic.
The final bill to the Irish Exchequer from the Covid crisis is set to exceed the €42bn cost of bailing out the banks a decade ago.
A 75-year old French aid worker and a top Malian politician, captured by presumed jihadists, have been reunited with their families after their release along with two Italian hostages.
The past week was one of the dramatic highpoints in the wildly popular White House soap opera 'The Trump Show'.
