Breaking News

A high-risk Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) student has said she is "stuck between a rock and a hard place" over the college's decision to hold exams on-campus next week.

PENCIL cases and lunchboxes are more likely to transmit Covid-19 than school uniforms are, a virologist has said.

The Department of Health has been notified of 92 additional confirmed Covid-19 cases in Ireland, and no further deaths.

School buses will operate as normal and carry the same number of pupils as usual in the year ahead, Bus Éireann has confirmed.

An Oxford professor says he has never seen a disease like Covid-19 for seeking out the elderly to kill.

Around 300 staff at a Greencore sandwich factory in the UK have been diagnosed with Covid 19 after the company ramped up testing following an outbreak in the town of...

The government in Finland recommended the use of face masks in public for the first time on Thursday as the number of coronavirus cases rises. Prime Minister Sanna Marin said...

Pope Francis has continued his clear-out in Poland after revelations of clergy sexual abuse and cover-up.

The FTSE 100 retreated as concerns over a lack of urgency for US stimulus plans drove caution among traders.

The FBI will join Lebanese and other international investigators in the probe of the huge explosion at Beirut's port that killed more than 170 people, injured thousands and caused widespread...

The FBI will join Lebanese and international investigators in a probe into last week's massive Beirut explosion that killed at least 172 people, a senior US diplomat said on Thursday....

A paddleboarder was spotted on the River Thames on Wednesday during stormy conditions.

US President Donald Trump has said the United Arab Emirates and Israel will establish diplomatic ties in a deal halting planned annexation of occupied land sought by the Palestinians for...

President Donald Trump has said the United Arab Emirates and Israel will establish diplomatic ties in a deal halting planned annexation of occupied land sought by the Palestinians for their...

Light winds and scattered thundershowers early on Thursday helped to calm the flames of a huge wildfire that has prompted evacuations north of Los Angeles.

Greece's prime minister has warmly thanked France for boosting its military presence in the eastern Mediterranean.

The president of North Macedonia on Thursday handed a mandate to pro-Western ex-PM Zoran Zaev to form a new government after his party bloc narrowly won a July 15 election....

Workforce representation does not exist in meat plants, and when a worker contracts Covid-19 the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) is not notified, the Dáil coronavirus committee has heard.

Topps Tiles said it expects to post a profit for the financial year after it was boosted by a boom in DIY activity since coronavirus hit the UK.

Lebanon's Parliament has approved a state of emergency in Beirut in its first session since the explosion in the city last week.

A Covid-19 compliance officer who caught coronavirus is urging people to obey public health rules and to realise how easy it is to be hit with the virus.

A resident in Wales was given an almighty fright when a bolt of lightning struck a nearby area.

Online retailer The Very Group has said it will return to profit for the first time in three years after surging sales amid the pandemic saw revenues top the £2...

Taiwan unveiled a T$42.1 billion ($1.4 billion) increase for next year's planned defense spending on Thursday. The Cabinet of President Tsai Ing-wen is proposing T$453.4 billion in military spending for...

Israel has decided to stop shipments of fuel into Gaza in response to Palestinians in the enclave launching incendiary balloons that have torched tracts of farmland on the Israeli frontier....

Migrants have arrived in Dover for an unprecedented 10th day in a row.

National Express has pledged to use £4 million of its job retention bonus cash to slash fares across its West Midlands bus services.

Bus and coach firm National Express has seen shares plunge after posting steep losses and revealing travel remains “much suppressed” amid the pandemic.

Spain's hospitals are beginning to see patients struggling to breathe returning to their wards, less than two months after suppressing Covid-19.

London Zoo has welcomed the arrival of their first “demon pigs” — nicknamed the ugliest pigs on earth.

Paris will send two Rafale fighter jets and the naval frigate 'Lafayette' to the Eastern Mediterranean, France's Ministry of Armed Forces said on Thursday. The move is part of plans...

A police officer pulled a man out of the path of an oncoming train with seconds to spare, with the incident caught on her bodycam footage.

Repossessions of home owners' properties plunged by 93% in the second quarter of 2020 compared with the same period a year earlier, figures from a trade association show.

The Trump administration wants to change the definition of a showerhead to let more water flow, addressing a pet peeve of the president who complains he is not getting wet...

Ladbrokes owner GVC has taken a major hit to its profits after betting shops across the world were closed and sporting events cancelled during the depths of the pandemic.

Schools in Turkey will start to reopen on September 21 in a gradual transition back to in-person education, Education Minister Ziya Selcuk said on Wednesday. The reopening was delayed by...

Some 3.4m people in England have been infected with Covid-19, a figure far higher than previous estimates, a study suggests.

A Florida sheriff has banned his employees from wearing masks and said visitors to police stations will also be asked to remove facial protection.

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have put their past differences aside to deliver an attack on US President Donald Trump in their first appearance as running mates.

US Facebook users who post about voting are starting to see labels on their messages directing readers to authoritative information about the upcoming presidential election.