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Spain reported 4,708 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours on Friday, bringing its cumulative total to 566,326 -- the highest in western Europe.

The Prince of Wales has opened a charity's 100th community fridge aimed at redistributing surplus food.

Higher Education Minster Simon Harris has urged young people getting college offers to celebrate safely in groups of no more than six indoors.

There has been one further death and 211 new coronavirus cases in Ireland.

Bahrain has become the latest Arab nation to agree to normalise ties with Israel as part of a broader diplomatic push by President Donald Trump and his administration to fully...

A blue gull spotted in Cumbria has left animal rescue experts scratching their heads.

Traders went into the weekend on a high as they looked to the US for leadership on an uneventful day in Europe.

Flash floods in Sudan have killed more than 100 people this summer and inundated over 100,000 homes, compounding the country's already dire economic situation, officials said.

A 102-year-old retired nurse has completed her 102nd charity walk on her birthday.

Nursing home visits in Dublin are to be curtailed and each resident is to be confined to one nominated visitor.

The John Lewis Partnership (JLP) is to reveal the full impact of the mass closure of its department stores as partners will also eagerly await updates regarding its ongoing strategic...

Two influencers have used the world's tallest building to announce their baby's gender.

Thousands of protesting refugees and migrants left homeless on the Greek island of Lesbos after fires destroyed the overcrowded Moria camp gathered on a road leading to the island's main...

Two people have been arrested as part of a suspected £70,000 furlough scheme fraud, according to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).

Americans are commemorating 9/11 with tributes that have been altered by coronavirus precautions and woven into the presidential campaign.

IT was the day the sun never rose.

Joe Biden was on an Amtrak train on Sept. 11, 2001, when his wife called to tell him about the attacks on the World Trade Center, and when he reached...

A German federal court has rejected a former nurse's appeal over his murder conviction and life sentence for killing 85 patients by deliberately bringing about cardiac arrests.

Thousands of refugees and migrants have spent a third night in the open on the Greek island of Lesbos after two successive nights of fires in the notoriously overcrowded Moria...

Firefighters say they have brought under control a huge fire that terrified residents of Lebanon's capital five weeks after a massive blast killed and wounded thousands of people there.

Thousands of refugees and migrants have spent a third night in the open on the Greek island of Lesbos after two successive nights of fires in the notoriously overcrowded Moria...

Thousands of refugees and migrants have spent a third night in the open on the Greek island of Lesbos after two successive nights of fires in the notoriously overcrowded Moria...

The European Union is ramping up preparations for a tumultuous end to the four-year Brexit saga as top officials prepared to brief its 27 members on British Prime Minister Boris...

India has edged closer to recording nearly 100,000 coronavirus cases in 24 hours as it ordered the retesting of many people whose first screening results were from a less reliable...

At least 10 people have died and 16 are missing as a Northern California wildfire continues to wreak havoc.

At least 10 people have died and 16 are missing as a Northern California wildfire continues to wreak havoc.

At least 10 people have died and 16 are missing as a Northern California wildfire continues to wreak havoc.

Russia has clashed with Germany and five of its Western allies over the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.

Sinn Féin deputy first minister in the North Michelle O'Neill admitted her attendance at the funeral of veteran republican Bobby Storey had undermined the Covid messaging, during her first briefing...

Brexit talks between Britain and the EU are on the brink of collapse because of London's intransigence over the Internal Market Bill.

Dublin Simon Community is calling on the Government to provide a "dedicated funding line" following increased demand for the charity's healthcare services last year, and with the pandemic adding further...

Ceann Comhairle Seán Ó Fearghaíl has been asked to investigate the attendance of senior Oireachtas officials at the 'Golfgate' dinner.

Belarus opposition politician Maria Kolesnikova has spoken out about how security officers put a bag over her head and threatened to kill her when they tried to forcibly deport her...

There is a sense of 'noises off', that the Brexit battle has moved away from these shores, being the subject of a proper ding-dong between Brussels and Britain.

A feminist book entitled I Hate Men is on course to become an unlikely best-seller in France, largely thanks to a government official's call for it to be banned.

The EU will play hardball with Boris Johnson - and Brussels is serious about international legal action.

Microsoft recently alerted one of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's main election campaign advisory firms that it had been targeted by suspected Russian state-backed hackers, according to three people briefed...

Gardaí have objected to the renewal of a licence for an island pub for alleged breaches of Covid regulations.

Thousands of refugees and migrants left homeless on Lesbos by huge fires that destroyed their camp will not be evacuated from the island because the blazes were started deliberately, the...

The public is being urged to hold tight to what nature we have left as wildlife populations shrink to just one-third the size they were in the 1970s.