Spirit giant Diageo is to buy a gin brand co-owned by Hollywood actor Ryan Reynolds as part of a deal worth up to 610 million US dollars (£466 million).
August 17, 2020
Aid workers suffered a record 277 major attacks around the world last year, an independent humanitarian research organisation said on Monday, with healthcare workers responding to crises facing a spike...
August 17, 2020
Two kayakers drew a crowd when they used the wet conditions to paddle up and down a street in Chelmsford last week.
August 17, 2020
Localised coronavirus restrictions in parts of Northern Ireland where cases have surged may soon be required, the region's chief scientific adviser has warned.
August 17, 2020
An airport owned by the Scottish Government has reported a financial turnaround after a £1 million loss the previous year.
August 17, 2020
European Council president Charles Michel has convened an emergency summit of EU leaders to discuss the presidential election in Belarus and the violence in the wake of protests against the...
August 17, 2020
A review of the Covid-19 test turnaround time is to be carried out as the system comes under huge strain from the surge in confirmed cases.
August 17, 2020
South Korea warned on Monday of a looming novel coronavirus crisis as new outbreaks flared, including one linked to a church where more than 300 members of the congregation have...
August 17, 2020
A restaurateur has defended controversial footage from a Dublin bar which showed a barman pouring drinks into dancing punters' mouths, saying it "looked terrible but ain't that terrible."
August 17, 2020
Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe went to a hospital for what Japanese media said was a regular health check-up, although the visit generated renewed worries about his health.
August 17, 2020
Thailand's economy contracted at a 12.2% annual rate in the April-June quarter, its sharpest downturn since the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s.
August 17, 2020
The first leader of independent Belarus who helped oversee the Soviet breakup said on Sunday President Alexander Lukashenko had been badly shaken by the biggest push to oust him in...
August 17, 2020
Cruise ship passengers had their temperatures checked and took Covid-19 tests so they could set sail on what is being billed as the first Mediterranean cruise after Italy's pandemic lockdown.
August 17, 2020
Milwaukee is missing out on the financial boost and world attention hosting the Democratic convention would have brought with the Covid-19 pandemic meaning it will be the venue in name...
August 17, 2020
The Democratic convention will bring together the party's progressive and establishment wings with the fear of President Donald Trump winning a second term becoming the main unifying and energising theme...
August 17, 2020
South Korea counted its fourth straight day of triple-digit increases in new coronavirus cases on Monday as the government urged people to stay home and curb travel.
August 17, 2020
South Korea counted its fourth straight day of triple-digit increases in new coronavirus cases on Monday as the government urged people to stay home and curb travel.
August 17, 2020
South Korea counted its fourth straight day of triple-digit increases in new coronavirus cases on Monday as the government urged people to stay home and curb travel.
August 17, 2020
Ireland continues to have the most overcrowded primary classrooms in the EU, with 335,649 pupils in classes of 25 of more.
August 17, 2020
A new research project will assess whether babies born during lockdown are more likely to develop allergies.
August 17, 2020
A controversial South Korean pastor has been strongly criticised for leading thousands of followers to a rally in central Seoul, a move that Moon Jae-in, the president, called "an unpardonable...
August 17, 2020
Being in lockdown gave mother Nichola Murray time to process a painful miscarriage and consider having another child.
August 17, 2020
Vegans should stop drinking soya milk in order to save the rainforest, the UK Sustainable Food Trust has said.
August 17, 2020
There is an angry backlash from Government, the bar trade and the public to a video from the weekend that appears to show total disregard to public-health advice in a...
August 17, 2020
Top Democrats in the US Congress are to summon the postmaster general to testify this month on changes that have stoked fears they are aimed at holding up mail-in ballots...
August 17, 2020
A couple expecting their first child in "the madness of a pandemic" says it is a strange and surreal experience.
August 17, 2020
An influential doctor is calling on the State to pass emergency legislation to fight the spread of Covid-19 amid fears "reckless" behaviour may have influenced 1,100 cases in just 14...
August 17, 2020
The aviation industry is staring into a winter of devastation but the answer could lie in colder climes.
August 17, 2020
Most people in America know Scranton, a beleaguered industrial centre in the heart of Pennsylvania, as the setting for the US version of Ricky Gervais sitcom The Office.
August 17, 2020
The Department of Justice has been alerted after leaflets spreading conspiracy theories about Covid-19 were handed out at a temporary direct provision centre in Wicklow.
August 17, 2020
A German-Brazilian couple kept apart by coronavirus restrictions have been reunited after Germany eased border controls for unmarried couples who can prove their relationships preceded the pandemic.
August 17, 2020
The chairman of the Dáil's coronavirus committee has denounced Covid-19 "hysteria" and defended the decision of former Fáilte Ireland chairman Michael Cawley to go on a family holiday to Italy.
August 17, 2020
France is planning to make face masks compulsory in shared workplaces such as open-plan offices, factories and conference rooms as it struggles to stem a spike in coronavirus infections.
August 17, 2020
The head of Germany's largest trade union has proposed a four-day week to protect jobs threatened by digitalisation and the coronavirus-induced economic slump.
August 17, 2020
Tensions have risen in the Gaza Strip after the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) carried out air attacks against Hamas positions.
August 17, 2020
Ireland's multi-million euro cruise-liner industry may not recover from the fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic for three or four years.
August 17, 2020
More than 10,000 Thai protesters chanted “down with dictatorship” at a rally in Bangkok in the biggest demonstration against the monarchy and the government since a 2014 coup.
August 17, 2020
The calculated grading system being used for this year's Leaving Certificate has been designed to ensure that overall girls will do better than boys.
August 17, 2020
Hundreds of thousands of people filled the city centre of the Belarusian capital of Minsk yesterday, demanding an end to the reign of Alexander Lukashenko in the largest political rally...
August 17, 2020
The UK government is facing the threat of legal action and criticism from its own MPs after it sparked anger by mishandling English exam grades during the pandemic.
