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Conservative groups in the US, alleging without evidence that president-elect Joe Biden "stole the election", gathered for protests across America yesterday, including one in Washington featuring President Donald Trump's recently...

The number of people out of work is unlikely to have recovered to pre-Covid levels by the end of next year, Ireland's top economic thinktank is set to warn in...

Conservative groups in the US, alleging without evidence that president-elect Joe Biden "stole the election", gathered for protests across America yesterday, including one in Washington featuring President Donald Trump's recently...

His estate may be worth anything up to $40m, and includes a Rolls-Royce, a pounds 300,000 diamond ring and the rights to lucrative merchandising contracts. But relatives of the late...

When Margaret Keenan, originally from Fermanagh but living in England for 60 years, became the first person to receive a Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine outside a trial, she personified the light at...

US president Donald Trump has lost a federal lawsuit as part of his ongoing attempts to overturn the election.

A large Drogheda bakery ceased operating and closed down on Friday because of an outbreak of Covid-19.

Several thousand supporters of US president Donald Trump returned to Washington for rallies to back his efforts to subvert the election that he lost to Joe Biden.

A first edition of Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone has made £50,000 at auction after almost being sold in a car boot sale for 50p

A Virgin Galactic test flight has ended prematurely after its rocket engine failed to ignite high above the Earth.

A Virgin Galactic test flight has ended prematurely after its rocket engine failed to ignite high above the Earth.

There have been three further deaths of people with Covid-19 and 248 new cases of the virus confirmed by the Department of Health today.

There have been three further deaths of people with Covid-19 and 248 new cases of the virus confirmed by the Department of Health today.

Officials in the US say the nation's first coronavirus vaccine will begin arriving across the country on Monday morning.

Officials in the US say the nation's first coronavirus vaccine will begin arriving across the country on Monday morning.

Police in Paris have arrested dozens of people during a tense and ill-tempered demonstration against a proposed security law.

A Russian nuclear submarine has successfully test-fired four inter-continental ballistic missiles in a show of readiness of Moscow's nuclear forces amid tension with the US.

World leaders should declare states of "climate emergency" in their countries to spur action to avoid catastrophic global warming, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said in opening remarks to a...

The owner of a house in Bristol on which Banksy created a new artwork has not pulled out of the property's sale, her son has said.

Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca is to buy US drug developer Alexion in a deal worth almost £30 billion.

Hundreds of students are missing after bandits armed with assault rifles attacked a secondary school in Nigeria's northwestern Katsina state late on Friday, local police and a school employee confirmed.

Italy could soon reclaim a record no nation wants – the most coronavirus deaths in Europe – amid claims the health system has again failed to protect the elderly and...

Conservative groups that allege without evidence that President-elect Joe Biden stole the US election from Donald Trump plan protests nationwide on Saturday, including a Washington rally headlined by Trump's recently...

A team of volunteer codebreakers has cracked a mysterious cipher sent more than 50 years ago to a newspaper by the San Francisco serial killer who called himself the Zodiac,...

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune marks a year in office on Saturday, but he is nowhere in sight following his evacuation to Germany more than six weeks ago for coronavirus treatment.

US health authorities, shipping services and hospitals stood ready on Friday to immediately launch a mass-inoculation campaign of unparalleled dimension, as federal regulators granted emergency approval to the first Covid-19...

Jimmy Lai, the 73-year-old Hong Kong media tycoon and advocate for democracy, has been denied bail after being charged on Friday under the semi-autonomous Chinese territory's new national security law.

A drone has been converted into a flying flamethrower in a fiery campaign to eradicate more than 100 wasp nests in a central China village.

The Trump administration continued its unprecedented series of post-election federal executions on Friday by putting to death a Louisiana truck driver who severely abused and then killed his two-year-old daughter...

The sense of relief in America was almost palpable this week with the country's drug regulators on the brink of approving a Covid-19 vaccine and images of the UK's roll-out...

President Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday US sanctions over Turkey's purchase of Russian S-400 missiles would be disrespectful to a NATO ally, after sources said Washington was poised to take the...

European Union leaders reached a hard-fought deal yesterday to cut the bloc's greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55pc by the end of the decade compared with 1990 levels, avoiding...

More than half of House Republicans, including their top two leaders, are backing a Texas lawsuit seeking to invalidate President-elect Joe Biden's victory in an extraordinary display of the party's...

Jimmy Lai, the media tycoon and longtime backer of Hong Kong's struggle for democracy, faces life in prison after he was charged yesterday with “collusion with a foreign country” under...

The Trump administration plans to continue its unprecedented series of post-election executions by putting to death a truck driver who severely abused his two-year-old daughter for weeks in 2002, then...

WITH his legal options dwindling and time running out before a key electoral college deadline, President Donald Trump increased the pressure on the Supreme Court to help overturn Joe Biden's...

The conservative-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear arguments over the weekend on President Donald Trump's state lawsuit seeking to disqualify more than 221,000 ballots and overturn his...

The US Supreme Court has rejected a lawsuit backed by President Donald Trump to overturn Joe Biden's election victory.

Rapper Lil Wayne has pleaded guilty to possessing a weapon despite being a convicted felon following a 2019 search of a private plane in Florida.

A lone senator from Utah has single-handedly blocked the approval of two new national museums to honour American Latinos and women, arguing the “last thing we need is to further...