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FINE Gael MEP Mairead McGuinness is to be Ireland's next European Commissioner.

Vistry Group swung to a loss in the first half of the year as the company had to deal with weeks of lockdown at its building sites across the UK.

Wildfires have burned a record 2 million acres in California this year, with the US Forest Service announcing the closure of all eight national forests in the southern half of...

Wildfires have burned a record 2 million acres in California this year, with the US Forest Service announcing the closure of all eight national forests in the southern half of...

The rearranged Tokyo Games must be held "at any cost" in 2021, Japan's Olympic Minister Seiko Hashimoto said on Tuesday.

The rearranged Tokyo Games must be held "at any cost" in 2021, Japan's Olympic Minister Seiko Hashimoto said on Tuesday.

Halfords has said that a surge in bike sales driven by a cycling boom during the pandemic has offset a slump in its motoring business.

President Donald Trump has said that US defence chiefs want to carry on waging wars in order to keep defence contractors “happy”.

Royal Mail's postal workers delivered 1.1 billion fewer letters in the five months after lockdown started, as the business saw a strong swing to parcel deliveries instead.

India has reported 1,133 deaths from coronavirus in the last 24 hours, its highest single-day total.

US president Donald Trump has clashed with the Democrats over measures to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic, accusing his rivals of “disparaging” for political gain a vaccine he has said could...

The last two journalists working for Australian media in China have left the country after police demanded interviews with them, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has reported.

Prince Harry and wife Meghan have paid back £2.4m (€2.6m) of public money for the renovations to their luxury cottage in Britain.

The official campaigning to lead Japan's ruling party began on Tuesday with the longtime right-hand man of prime minister Shinzo Abe now seen as a top candidate and his likely...

Wildfires have burned a record 2 million acres in California this year, with the US Forest Service announcing the closure of all eight national forests in the southern half of...

Q. Did Covid-19 not "kill" Brexit?

An opposition leader in Belarus was abducted from the streets of Minsk in broad daylight yesterday, local media reported, as the authorities extend their crackdown on protests against dictator Alexander...

Police tackled a 12-year-old girl to the ground and arrested her during protests in Hong Kong against delayed parliamentary elections.

India has overtaken Brazil to record the second-largest number of confirmed coronavirus cases globally.

Alexei Navalny, the poisoned Russian opposition leader, has regained consciousness and is reacting to stimuli, doctors announced yesterday.

Mike Pence, the US vice president, appealed to voters in Wisconsin yesterday to back "the best friend American workers have ever had" in Donald Trump, as he went head to...

The fiancée of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi branded the Saudi justice system a farce yesterday after it jailed five people for 20 years over the journalist's murder but did not...

Spain is rushing through a law to protect the rights of staff who work from home.

Prince Harry and wife Meghan have paid back £2.4m (€2.6m) of public money for the renovations to their luxury cottage in Britain.

China said Indian forces crossed into territory it holds along their disputed border and fired warning shots at a Chinese patrol in a move it called a “serious military provocation”...

India and China have accused each other of making provocative military moves and firing warning shots along their disputed border, despite talks to end the escalating tensions.

The last two journalists working for Australian media in China have left the country after police demanded interviews with them, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has reported.

Masked men detained Belarusian protest leader Maria Kolesnikova in central Minsk on Monday morning and drove her away in a van and two of her allies also disappeared later, the...

Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum performed a musical duet as they took a break from filming Jurassic World: Dominion.

Evacuation orders have been expanded to more mountain communities in California as a huge wildfire churned through the Sierra National Forest.

SOME of the highest achieving students in this year's Leaving Cert are ready to take on the challenges of the post-Covid world - with several inspired to study medicine and...

The Duke of Sussex has paid back the £2.4 million of taxpayers' money used to renovate Frogmore Cottage.

There has been months of uproar over the continued closure of so-called ‘wet pubs', which have been forced to stay shut due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

There have been no new deaths and a further 102 new coronavirus cases in Ireland.

Evacuation orders have been expanded to more mountain communities in California as a huge wildfire churned through the Sierra National Forest.

News of a potential new stumbling block on the UK's road to negotiating a deal with the European Union before the end of the year sent the FTSE 100 soaring...

The number of people on the pandemic unemployment payment is down over 63pc since the peak.

Gulls notice when approaching humans are looking at them and flee sooner when being watched, a study has found.

Online giant Amazon is set to hire dozens of engineers to develop autonomous deliveries in the UK, after online shopping took off during lockdown.

Final verdicts have been issued in the case of killed Washington Post columnist and Saudi Arabia critic Jamal Khashoggi, after his family announced pardons that spared five from execution.