China has said it is pulling ahead in what could be the final leg of the global coronavirus vaccine race, with four of seven possible candidates in last stage human...
August 31, 2020
The fall in the number of new Covid-19 infections in Co Kildare is raising hopes the county's lockdown will be lifted later this week.
August 31, 2020
At least four people have died and others are missing at sea after a fire broke out on a migrants' boat off the coast of southern Italy, according to news...
August 31, 2020
The head of Lebanon's Hezbollah has said his group supports the formation of a government that would be able to improve economic conditions in the crisis-stricken country.
August 31, 2020
Belarusians chanting "Happy birthday, you rat" and flying red-and-white opposition flags gathered near President Alexander Lukashenko's residence as protesters kept up pressure on the veteran leader to resign, before dispersing...
August 31, 2020
Police have called for videos, photos or eyewitness accounts of the fatal shooting in Portland, Oregon, that happened after hundreds of supporters of President Donald Trump clashed with Black Lives...
August 31, 2020
Donald Trump has lambasted Democrat mayors for failing to keep law and order as he prepares to visit Kenosha, Wisconsin, where two people were killed in riots last week.
August 31, 2020
Lyubov Sobol was already among the most visible dissidents in Vladimir Putin's Russia. At 32, she has fronted a protest movement that called thousands to the streets when she and...
August 31, 2020
Locals in Killarney were "outraged" after video footage emerged of late-night party scenes on the streets of the town.
August 30, 2020
Italian officials have chartered more ferries and put other measures in place to fight severe overcrowding at migrant centres on the tiny island of Lampedusa, where the arrival of 450...
August 30, 2020
More than 3,100 people in Spain have been forced to evacuate as an out-of-control wildfire in the southern region of Andalusia continues to rage, according to the authorities.
August 30, 2020
There have been 42 new confirmed cases of Covid-19 according to the latest figures reported to the Health Protection Surveillance Centre.
August 30, 2020
The man shot and killed in Portland on Saturday was a supporter of the right-wing group Patriot Prayer whose supporters have frequently clashed with left-wing protesters in Oregon's largest city,...
August 30, 2020
Locals are “outraged” after video footage emerged this morning of “completely unacceptable” scenes of people dancing in the street in Killarney.
August 30, 2020
China's foreign minister has defended detention camps in Xinjiang and Hong Kong's new security law on his first European tour since the coronavirus pandemic erupted.
August 30, 2020
US President Donald Trump's chief Middle East adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner has trumpeted the recent agreement by Israel and the United Arab Emirates to establish diplomatic relations as a...
August 30, 2020
About 1,000 people gathered in a Bangkok sports arena on Sunday, swearing to defend Thailand's monarchy from a student-led mass movement they believe is a threat to the institution's existence.
August 30, 2020
Attempts by far-right protesters and others to storm the German parliament building following a protest against the country's pandemic restrictions have been condemned by senior officials.
August 30, 2020
Authorities in eastern Germany have banned swimming in parts of the River Unstrut after claims that a crocodile was seen there.
August 30, 2020
A three-year-old girl in Taiwan was reported to be safe after becoming caught in the strings of a kite and lifted several metres into the air.
August 30, 2020
One person was shot and killed in Portland, Oregon, as a large caravan of Donald Trump supporters and Black Lives Matter protesters clashed in the streets, police have said.
August 30, 2020
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases globally has topped 25 million, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University.
August 30, 2020
Authorities in eastern Germany have banned swimming in parts of the River Unstrut after claims that a crocodile was seen there.
August 30, 2020
A family which hand-reared an orphan baby hare is continuing to receive visits from the animal weeks after she was released back into the wild.
August 30, 2020
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases globally has topped 25 million, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University.
August 30, 2020
India has registered a record 78,761 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, the worst single-day spike in the world.
August 30, 2020
Chinese authorities say the death toll has risen to 29 in the collapse of a two-story restaurant in the northern province of Shanxi.
August 30, 2020
A crowd of about 1,000 demonstrators have gathered outside a Wisconsin courthouse to denounce police violence a week after an officer shot 29-year-old black man Jacob Blake in the back.
August 30, 2020
'The goal of 'cancel culture' is to make decent Americans live in fear of being fired, expelled, shamed. The far left want to coerce you into saying what you know...
August 30, 2020
The estate of Leonard Cohen has said it is considering legal action over the use of the Canadian singer's song Hallelujah at the Republican National Convention (RNC), calling it a...
August 30, 2020
Pictured last weekend sporting body armour and holding an assault rifle, Belarus's embattled dictator has shown the world he has no plans to go down quietly.
August 30, 2020
Police officers in Kenosha were on alert after days of protests over the shooting of Jacob Blake by one of their colleagues, and they'd recently received a tip about "suspicious...
August 29, 2020
Far-right extremists tried to storm the German parliament building following a protest against the country's pandemic restrictions, but were intercepted by police and forcibly removed.
August 29, 2020
A crowd of hundreds have gathered in Kenosha, Wisconsin, for a march and rally against police violence, nearly a week after an officer shot Jacob Blake, leaving the 29-year-old paralysed.
August 29, 2020
President Donald Trump got a firsthand look at the damage from Hurricane Laura on a post-Republican National Convention trip.
August 29, 2020
Facebook made a mistake in not removing a militia group's page earlier this week that called for armed civilians to enter Kenosha, Wisconsin, amid violent protests after police shot Jacob...
August 29, 2020
Police ordered a protest by people opposed to Germany's pandemic restrictions to disband after participants refused to observe social distancing rules.
August 29, 2020
Thousands of people have taken part in a protest in the capital of Mauritius over the government's handling of an oil spill from a grounded Japanese ship and the alarming...
August 29, 2020
Seventeen people were killed in China after a two-storey restaurant collapsed during a gathering Saturday morning, state media said.
August 29, 2020
Unable to protest on the streets, some activists in Zimbabwe are calling themselves “keyboard warriors” as they use social media and graffiti to put pressure on a government that promised...
