A Chinese government-backed team plans to climb to the summit of a deserted Mount Everest this week to measure the world's highest peak.
When the Covid-19 death toll eases, we will certainly have to pay more taxes. How will the move towards being a higher-taxed economy affect politics and governance?
Speaking loudly can leave coronavirus lingering in the air for up to 14 minutes, research has shown.
The Italian government announced yesterday that it will throw open its borders next month, effectively ending Europe's longest and strictest coronavirus lockdown just as the summer tourism season gets under way.
At the Lykkebo Skole primary school in Copenhagen, head teacher Soren Friis stands outside the entry to the stairwell leading up to the first and second-year classrooms, saying good morning to each pupil and then giving each a squirt of alcohol gel in their right palm.
The man who helped shape Sweden's strategy of 'herd immunity' has said Ireland's lockdown has delayed, not prevented, the virus spreading in the coming months.
Another newspaper columnist recently compared the publisher of Independent News & Media to a "lucky general". He was referring to this organisation's move to a paywall just weeks before the Covid-19 pandemic struck hard. By and large, Independent.ie's achievement of 20,000 subscriptions in under three months is pretty substantial and beyond the expectations of almost...
