Irish people who are stranded in the coronavirus-hit city of Wuhan and want to leave are expected to benefit from a move by the European Commission to start helping repatriate Europeans.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces have targeted civilians trying to flee the fighting in the last rebel stronghold of Idlib, civil defence rescuers say.
When Donald Trump, with his usual hyperbole, called his plan for the Middle East the "deal of the century", many wondered whether he was talking about a peace deal, or one that merely played well for himself and the Israeli prime minister.
Saying "it is time for this to end", US President Donald Trump's legal team appealed to the Senate last night to acquit him in his impeachment trial and sought to marginalise former national security adviser John Bolton's explosive allegations about Mr Trump's conduct.
US president Donald Trump yesterday proposed the creation of a Palestinian state with a capital in eastern Jerusalem in an effort to achieve a peace breakthrough with Israel.
The wreck of the Titanic was hit by an adventure firm's submarine last year but the crash was kept secret by the US government, a court has heard.
UK broadcasting giant Nicholas Parsons has died aged 96.
