Hotel rooms and guest-house accommodation during the coronavirus pandemic is costing the State millions of euro, figures reveal.
Hong Kong banned 12 pro-democracy campaigners yesterday from standing in forthcoming elections to the city's parliament as China stoked tensions by reiterating its threat to refuse up to three million residents eligible for British travel documents the right to leave.
The Gate Theatre in Dublin has postponed all of its productions for this year and will not reopen until 2021.
Boris Johnson has warned people in the UK not to delude themselves that the danger from coronavirus has passed, as Downing Street said another national lockdown could not be ruled out.
The governor of Oregon and the Trump administration have announced an agreement aimed at de-escalating tensions outside the federal courthouse in Portland, where federal agents have clashed with demonstrators during nightly unrest.
Fears are being raised that the rural school transport scheme won't have enough capacity to carry 120,000 children owing to Covid-19 safety measures.
The biggest, most sophisticated Mars rover ever built - a car-sized vehicle bristling with cameras, microphones, drills and lasers - blasted off for the red planet yesterday as part of an ambitious, long-range project to bring the first Martian rock samples back to Earth, to be analysed for evidence of ancient life.
