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All Bar One owner Mitchells & Butlers has confirmed around 1,300 jobs have been axed as it revealed the pandemic sent it plunging to a £123 million annual loss.

Ethiopia's prime minister said the army has been ordered to move on the embattled Tigray regional capital after his 72-hour ultimatum ended for Tigray leaders to surrender, and he warned...

Two months ago, Professor Philip Nolan sent out a series of tweets in an effort to explain why restaurants and pubs were being asked to close, despite the lack of...

Another week, another teachers' union tantrum. Who'd have thought the pandemic would turn teachers' reps into the prima donnas of the public service?

Two months ago, Professor Philip Nolan sent out a series of tweets in an effort to explain why restaurants and pubs were being asked to close, despite the lack of...

The Chris Rea song Driving Home For Christmas will take on a particular poignancy in Ireland this year as so many people will be forced to reluctantly decide the best...

This week's guest is maybe not one you would normally associate with Real Health, but I'm delighted to be joined by Lyra, the Cork singer-songwriter who is making serious waves...

If watching the fourth series of The Crown has taught me anything, it has confirmed just how much power fiction can wield; not just to twist the truth but to...

Private homes remain the main hotspot for Covid-19 transmission, accounting for over 650 outbreaks last week amid ongoing concern about the impact Christmas gatherings might have.

You learn something new every day, the older people who populated my youth used to say. I was recently gobsmacked to learn that dead people vote.

Declaring “America is back,” President-elect Joe Biden introduced his national security team, his first substantive offering of how he'll shift from Trump-era “America First” policies by relying on experts from...

In the weeks since US President Donald Trump lost the election, his lead lawyer Rudy Giuliani has repeatedly made baseless claims of widespread voter fraud and the campaign brought a...

US President Donald Trump has pardoned his former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

Justin Trudeau, Canada's prime minister, has been pranked by Russian comedians pretending to be the climate activist Greta Thunberg.

A US tourist who stole a chunk of ancient marble from Rome three years ago has sent it back, asking forgiveness “for being such an American a------”.

Google was ordered by a US judge to turn over the content of emails of the son of Farkhad Akhmedov to the Russian oligarch's former wife in her pursuit of...

At least eight people have died after a boat carrying more than 30 migrants hit rocks close to a small port on Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, Spanish rescue services...

As if the Danish government's rushed decision to cull and bury more than 10 million mink wasn't a grisly enough story, thousands of the animals' bloated cadavers have begun to...

While President Trump continues to deny the clear result of the election, the incoming one is well along in putting together an administration that is both barrier-breaking and reassuringly conventional.