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The financial scandal that toppled Cardinal Angelo Becciu has mounted as evidence shows he directed hundreds of thousands of euros of Vatican and Italian church funds to a charity controlled...

The chief medical officers in the South and North have issued a joint appeal to people to avoid unnecessary travel across the border because of the Covid-19 spread.

Pizza Hut will be the latest restaurant chain to attempt to push through site closures when its creditors and landlords vote on restructuring plans next week.

A soldier who served in Afghanistan has left the Army to become a paramedic following the Covid-19 pandemic.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has thanked Russian pilots and paramedics for acting quickly after he fell into a coma on a flight from Siberia.

France's counter-terrorism prosecutor's office has opened an investigation into a knife attack near the former offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo that wounded at least two people.

French terrorism authorities are investigating a double stabbing outside the former Paris offices of a satirical newspaper where a dozen people were killed in 2015.

Authorities in Madrid are expanding restrictions on movement to a further eight areas of the Spanish capital.

A football-loving fox came unstuck at Charlton Athletic's training ground when it became tangled in netting, before the RSPCA arrived to rescue it.

VATICAN CITY, Sept 24 (Reuters) - A powerful Vatican cardinal caught up in a real estate scandal resigned suddenly on Thursday and gave up his right to take part in...

Children have accounted for more than one in ten new cases of Covid-19 in the last seven weeks.

A Roscommon publican who went to work displaying coronavirus symptoms while awaiting test results has said he didn't know he should have been isolating.

Twenty-six staff from the O'Neill sportswear factory in Strabane and 18 staff members from Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry City are currently off work as a result of Covid-19 outbreaks.

The final stretch of a US presidential campaign is typically a non-stop mix of travel, caffeine and adrenaline – but Joe Biden is taking a lower key approach.

A British police officer has been shot dead by a man who was being detained at a custody centre in south London in the early hours of Friday.

Teenage environmental activist Greta Thunberg is back.

The UK's national debt hit a new record at the end of August, the latest figures show as the country's embattled public sector borrowed another £35.9 billion.

SEOUL, Sept 25 (Reuters) - North Korea expressed regret on Friday over the death of a missing South Korean, saying it shot him as part of measures to battle the...

PARIS, Sept 24 (Reuters) - France set a new record of daily COVID-19 infections on Thursday, the fourth in eight days, while the number of people hospitalised for the disease...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has apologised over the killing of a South Korea official near the rivals' disputed sea boundary, saying he is “very sorry” about the “unexpected”...

The hidden health cost of Covid-19 in delayed care for cancer patients and hundreds of thousands of people now on public waiting lists was revealed in the HSE's €600m winter...

Covid-19 is set to take its toll in the coming months - and the HSE's €600m winter plan extending to April will not be enough to fix it all.

American cities were on high alert yesterday after two police officers were shot in Louisville, Kentucky, during protests over the decision not to charge the force for killing Breonna Taylor.

Covid-19 is set to take its toll in the coming months - and the HSE's €600m winter plan extending to April will not be enough to fix it all.

It seems like the far-fetched plot from a movie in which a Hollywood star falls head over heels for a forgotten Welsh sporting great.

The Government is funding new research investigating how to reduce skin damage caused by wearing face masks and other personal protective equipment (PPE).

Covid-19 is set to take its toll in the coming months - and the HSE's €600m winter plan extending to April will not be enough to fix it all.

The Government is funding new research investigating how to reduce skin damage caused by wearing face masks and other personal protective equipment (PPE).

Mary Trump, the niece of Donald Trump and author of a recent memoir that painted an unflattering portrait of him, sued the US president yesterday, accusing him and other family...

It seems like the far-fetched plot from a movie in which a Hollywood star falls head over heels for a forgotten Welsh sporting great.

Court marshals have seized Alexei Navalny's Moscow apartment in what appears to be a warning to the Russian opposition leader ahead of his possible return home.

It seems like the far-fetched plot from a movie in which a Hollywood star falls head over heels for a forgotten Welsh sporting great.

A stream of Republican senators yesterday publicly pushed back on Donald Trump for not committing to the peaceful transition of power if he loses the US election in November.

Aviation and tourism officials expressed alarm after it was signalled that the Government's Green List for travel during the Covid-19 pandemic will be slashed to just four countries from next...

Dublin City Council has spent at least €600,000 on contactless pedestrian button modifications for traffic lights in its latest step to combat the spread of Covid-19.

American cities were on high alert yesterday after two police officers were shot in Louisville, Kentucky, during protests over the decision not to charge the force for killing Breonna Taylor.

A gold and crystal casing holding droplets of the blood of former pope St John Paul II was stolen from the cathedral of Spoleto in Italy.

A surge in virus cases has been linked to communion and confirmation parties, a health expert warned as another county faced into tighter Covid restrictions.

A historic Chinese wine jug found in a Derbyshire garage during a lockdown clearout has sold for £390,000 (€425,000) at auction.

If the pre-trial hearings are anything to go by, the Commercial Court battle between publicans and FBD Insurance is set to be an explosive affair.