Chancellor Angela Merkel's government said it's received no official word from Washington on plans to withdraw US troops from Germany, the latest sign of the deteriorating relations between the two countries.
Staring down the barrel of election defeat, US President Donald Trump's team is being forced to regroup and recalibrate with only five months to go to the polls.
Anti-racism protesters who tore down a statue honouring a slave trader in a British port city have fuelled a global debate over how to deal with monuments to historic figures who profited from enslaving African people.
It has been almost three months since Ireland entered a state of national shutdown. When I first began writing this diary, I never envisaged the catastrophic social impact of Covid-19. I couldn't have imagined that many of us would be shunted indoors for weeks, that our freedom of movement would be sharply curtailed, that we'd...
Sweden's opposition MPs have said the country's Covid-19 herd immunity strategy has "failed miserably" and demanded the resignation of the chief epidemiologist.
So, as we emerge, blinking and unsure, into the daylight of phase two, are we witnessing the beginning of the end?
Due to the covid-19 pandemic, schools across the US have cancelled their in-person commencement exercises. To celebrate the graduates whose final years of school have been upended, former first lady Michelle Obama took part in a YouTube special. This is an edited version of her address to the Class of 2020.
