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A teddy bear discovered the perils of being a sports fan as it took a baseball to the head in an MLB game.

Next year's State exam students will have much more choice because of the disruption caused to their education by Covid-19, according to documents released today

As Russia's most determined and durable opposition figure, Alexei Navalny has employed an astute understanding of social media, an accountant's ability to wade through financial data, a knack for sardonic...

EU Commissioner Phil Hogan was based in Kildare after returning to Ireland from his EU base – but left the county for a medical appointment and didn't return.

Russian doctors have given a dissident who is in a coma after a suspected poisoning permission to be transferred abroad for medical treatment, a senior medic said.

The FTSE 100 closed in the red on Friday despite better-than-forecast economic figures for August after it was dragged down by widespread negativity across Europe.

US attorney general William Barr has said he would be “vehemently opposed” to any attempt to pardon former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.

The Tony Awards will go ahead this year in digital form, despite the Broadway season being shortened due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Wildfires in California have killed at least five people and forced tens of thousands from their homes, straining firefighting resources by the sheer vastness of the battle lines.

WPP is set to tell investors whether the company has met cost-cutting targets or if the coronavirus pandemic has blown its turnaround plans off course.

Family and allies of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who remains in a coma in a Siberian hospital, are fighting for his transfer to a German clinic.

A close associate of Russian opposition leader Alexi Navalny, who is in a coma in a Siberian hospital, said German doctors now have access to Mr Navalny as supporters push...

A more comfortable Covid-19 test to for school children may be possible following a new review by the country's health watchdog.

A 13-year-old boy with a stutter stole the show at the Democratic National Convention as he gave an emotional endorsement of Joe Biden.

A flamingo chick has been successfully parent-reared at Blackpool Zoo for the first time in the attraction's 48-year history.

Russian doctors treating opposition leader Alexei Navalny do not believe he was poisoned, and refused to transfer him to a German hospital on Friday.

THE brother of the suicide bomber who set off an explosion at a 2017 Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, killing 22 people and injuring hundreds, was sentenced yesterday to...

No more parties and events in homes listed on Airbnb, the short-term home rental company said on Thursday as it tries to enforce strict social-distancing norms to fight the COVID-19...

Russian doctors treating opposition politician Alexei Navalny say they have not found any indication that the Kremlin critic was poisoned.

Doctors in the Siberian city of Omsk have refused to authorise the transfer of opposition politician Alexei Navalny to a German hospital, Mr Navalny's spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh said on Twitter.

Joe Biden accepted the Democratic Party nomination for the White House on Thursday, vowing to heal a United States battered by a deadly pandemic and divided by four years of...

Joe Biden accepted the Democratic Party nomination for the White House on Thursday, vowing to heal a United States battered by a deadly pandemic and divided by four years of...

Megan Thee Stallion has said for the first time that fellow hip-hop star Tory Lanez was the person who pulled the trigger, more than a month after she was shot...

Veep actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus starred at the Democrats' convention as she took aim at US President Donald Trump.

At least five people have died as dozens of wildfires sparked by lightning strikes continue to burn in Northern California.

Joe Biden has vowed to unite an America torn by crisis and contempt as he accepted the Democratic presidential nomination.

Kildare will remain in local lockdown while restrictions in Laois and Offaly will be lifted under recommendations from health officials.

US President Donald Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon is under arrest on charges that he and three others ripped off donors to an online fundraising effort intended to build...

Kamala Harris, the black daughter of immigrants from India and Jamaica, has become the first woman of colour to accept the nomination for vice president from a major political party.

Kim Jong-un says North Korea's development goals have been "seriously delayed", a rare acknowledgment that shows the country's already brittle economy is under severe strain from sanctions, flooding and the...

Belarusian authorities have opened a criminal probe against opposition activists who set up a council to negotiate the transition of power amid massive protests challenging the extension of the 26-year...

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was "fighting for his life" in a coma yesterday after what his spokesman said was a targeted poisoning.

On Joe Biden's big day, President Donald Trump was planning to show up in his rival's old backyard.

The ex-lover of Juan Carlos, the disgraced former king of Spain, has described his decision to transfer €65m to her as an "enormously generous gift", dismissing claims of money laundering.

Kanye West has been kept off the presidential ballot in Wisconsin as his campaign turned his nomination papers in minutes after the deadline.

President Donald Trump took the fight to Joe Biden's old backyard and insisted his Democratic rival would be the state's “worst nightmare” if elected president.

Ireland appears to be a long way off from reaching ‘herd immunity' from coronavirus after a new study indicated the vast majority of people were unlikely to have been infected...

The National Public Health Emergency Team (Nphet) has recommended lifting lockdown rules for Laois and Offaly but said restrictions should remain in place for Kildare.

The proportion of the Irish population infected with Covid-19 is three times higher than that detected through other surveillance methods, the HSE said.

President Donald Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon pleaded not guilty to charges that he ripped off donors to an online fundraising scheme to build a southern border wall.