New Zealand's government has extended the lockdown of its largest city, Auckland, for another 12 days as it tries to stamp out its first domestic coronavirus outbreak in more than three months.
In the seaside town of Skerries, the most difficult return to school ever comes with a silver lining for pupils and their families.
Stone Age humans were using a mixture of grasses and ash to create comfortable bedding free of pests around 200,000 years ago, scientists have found.
Marks awarded by teachers in the Leaving Cert calculated-grades process should not be adjusted downwards, a leading educationalist has warned.
Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, has released a foreword to his new book in which he calls the US president "a fraud, a bully, a racist, a predator, a con man", and again accuses him of cheating in the 2016 presidential election.
Plans are back on to beam twin columns of light into the Manhattan sky to represent the World Trade Centre during next month's anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks.
PARIS — Paris is expanding the areas of the city where pedestrians will be obliged to wear masks starting Saturday morning, with health officials saying the coronavirus is “active” in … Click to Continue »
