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Greece and Turkey have agreed to safety measures aimed at preventing stand-offs between their warships and military aircraft in the Mediterranean Sea from breaking out into open conflict, Nato said.

A Covid-19 outbreak at a school has directly affected about 20 staff and students.

Black women including Bernardine Evaristo and June Sarpong have taken over the Instagram accounts of high-profile white women as part of a campaign to amplify black female voices.

The Russian group accused of meddling in the 2016 US election has posed as an independent news outlet to target right-wing social media users ahead of this year's vote, two...

New Tesco boss Ken Murphy has started his tenure leading the UK's biggest supermarket.

A “sadistic” husband has been jailed for a minimum of 31 years after murdering his estranged wife and her lover in a New Year's Day “bloodbath”.

An inquisitive cat upstaged her owner during a television interview after falling off the bookshelf she was attempting to climb.

Visits to family homes are to be restricted to six people from one other household, according to new recommendations from public health officials.

Authorities have captured an emu in a town near Boston, Massachusetts after the large bird was spotted roaming local streets.

Two French and two Armenian journalists have been injured in the South Caucasus separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh amid fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces.

A national order restricting mobility is being enforced in Madrid as coronavirus is spreading rapidly in the city.

Hong Kong police arrested at least 60 people on suspicion of unauthorised assembly on China's National Day holiday after crowds gathered on the streets of a popular shopping district chanting...

European and British trade negotiators have failed to close the gap on state aid, a key element barring their new agreement on post-Brexit trade ties, officials and diplomatic sources with...

French President Emmanuel Macron has expressed concern about Turkey allegedly sending Syrian mercenaries to support Azerbaijan in its conflict with Armenia.

India has reported 86,821 new coronaviruses cases and another 1,181 deaths, making September its worst month of the pandemic.

Around 2,500 new alien species are predicted to arrive in Europe by 2050, according to scientists.

Around 2,500 new alien species are predicted to arrive in Europe by 2050, according to scientists.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is recovering in Germany after being poisoned in Russia by a nerve agent, has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of being behind the attack.

Rolls-Royce has unveiled a £2 billion investor cash call as part of a wider £5 billion plan to bolster its balance sheet in the face of the coronavirus crisis.

Rolls-Royce has unveiled a £2 billion investor cash call as part of a wider £5 billion plan to bolster its balance sheet in the face of the coronavirus crisis.

Rolls-Royce has seen shares tumble to 17-year lows after unveiling a £2 billion investor cash call as part of a mammoth package to bolster its balance sheet in the face...

Ahead of their performance on Independent.ie's The Great Big Irish Thank You on Virgin Media One on October 4 at 10pm, The Riptide Movement's lead singer Mal Touhy talks to...

Trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange has been suspended because of a problem with the system for relaying market information.

Trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange has been suspended because of a problem with the system for relaying market information.

Trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange has been suspended because of a problem with the system for relaying market information.

Trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange has been suspended because of a problem with the system for relaying market information.

Tokyo Stock Exchange officials are working to get trading back to normal by Friday after it halted for the day due to what they said was a hardware and systems...

Trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange has been suspended because of a problem with the system for relaying market information.

The US presidential debate commission says it will make changes to future debate formats to avoid a repeat of the disjointed first meeting between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

The US presidential debate commission says it will make changes to future debate formats to avoid a repeat of the disjointed first meeting between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

New Zealand's prime minister Jacinda Ardern said she tried cannabis "a long time ago" when asked during a heated live debate yesterday ahead of the October 17 ­general election.

Are you inclined to receiving good news before bad news? Or do you prefer it the other way around? When giving presentations on the economic outlook, your columnist always asks...

A student who missed out on her course of choice after her Leaving Cert results were downgraded said it feels she is "in a raffle and waiting to see who...

Belgium formed a new government yesterday, 16 months after an inconclusive election, with caretaker finance minister Alexander De Croo named as prime minister.

The integrity and competence of a bank's directors is one of the most important lines of defence against mismanagement and fraud. Unfortunately, it is not always the strongest. First and...

Nato allies France and Turkey have exchanged angry accusations over Nagorno-Karabakh, where Azerbaijani and Armenian fighters were engaged in a fourth day of fighting in the worst flare-up of violence...

The number of mothers breastfeeding has soared by over a quarter during Covid-19 lockdown restrictions, a new survey has found.

The rate of ice loss in Greenland is on course to be "greater than anything we've seen" in the past 12,000 years unless emissions are cut drastically, scientists have warned.

I've started wearing my face mask for longer than I need to. Sometimes I realise I'm still wearing it long after leaving a shop or a cafe. Sometimes my boyfriend...

Israel's second lockdown could last for much longer than a month, the prime minister has warned, as parliament approved a controversial ban on mass protests in an attempt to slow...