North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said that Pyongyang's nuclear weapons guarantee its safety, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Tuesday. Kim was addressing a conference of veterans...
July 28, 2020
Virgin Money customers have increased the amount of cash in their bank accounts by around 5% as people have been unable to spend money eating out or shopping in the...
July 28, 2020
A new biography of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle has offered a unique insight into what led the couple to step down from royal duties.
July 28, 2020
The chief executive of Reckitt Benckiser has said he expects that Covid-19 will permanently increase sales of Dettol and other cleaning products as the company looks forward to a better-than-expected...
July 28, 2020
Greggs is still struggling to reach the heady heights of last year even after reopening hundreds of sites across the UK, the baker revealed on Tuesday.
July 28, 2020
Statues in South Korea of a man kneeling in front of a girl symbolising victims of sexual slavery by Japan's wartime military have become the latest subject of diplomatic sensitivity...
July 28, 2020
A Malaysian court pronounced former Prime Minister Najib Razak guilty in his first corruption trial over the multibillion-dollar looting of the 1MDB investment fund.
July 28, 2020
Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak has been convicted of crimes involving the multibillion-dollar looting of a state investment fund that brought down his government in a shocking election ousting...
July 28, 2020
Johnny Depp was a drug addict prone to violent rages and a misogynist who assaulted his wife, a London court was told as the actor's libel trial against a UK...
July 28, 2020
Boris Johnson admitted he was "too fat" and struggled with his weight as he spoke about how his Covid-19 scare made him get fitter and lose a stone.
July 28, 2020
Johnny Depp was a drug addict prone to violent rages and a misogynist who assaulted his wife, a London court was told as the actor's libel trial against a UK...
July 28, 2020
Lawyers acting for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said they were "kept in the dark" over a new indictment drawn up by US authorities, a court has heard.
July 28, 2020
Ghislaine Maxwell is trying to prevent naked photographs and "sexualised video" evidence from being unsealed ahead of her trial, according to a court appeal filed yesterday.
July 28, 2020
The US Park Police and Secret Service violently routed protesters from Lafayette Square last month without apparent provocation or adequate warning, immediately after Attorney General William Barr spoke with Park...
July 28, 2020
A wild bear in Italy has justified its nickname of "Papillon" by escaping from a supposedly secure enclosure in the Dolomites for the second time.
July 28, 2020
The possibility of a Covid-19 cluster in a childcare setting or school cannot be ruled out, acting chief medical officer Dr Ronan Glynn has warned.
July 28, 2020
Spain's tourism industry is at increasing risk of being shut down as countries across Europe seek to restrict visits to the Mediterranean nation following an order by the British government...
July 28, 2020
Protests in several major cities across the US turned violent as weeks of civil unrest and clashes between activists and authorities boiled over.
July 28, 2020
The reopening of schools across Ireland will put intense surveillance on the role of children in the Covid-19 pandemic.
July 28, 2020
North Korea leader Kim Jong Un said his country's hard-won nuclear weapons were a solid security guarantee and a “reliable, effective” deterrent that could prevent a second Korean War, state...
July 28, 2020
The biggest test yet of an experimental Covid-19 vaccine got underway in the US on Monday with the first of some 30,000 Americans rolling up their sleeves to take part.
July 27, 2020
Hunger linked to coronavirus is leading to the deaths of 10,000 more children a month over the first year of the pandemic, according to an urgent call for action from...
July 27, 2020
Chess world champion Magnus Carlsen was forced to concede defeat in the Fantasy Premier League title race after a scintillating campaign almost took the Norwegian to number one.
July 27, 2020
A YOUNG man from Dublin has died after he was hit by a car while enjoying a night out with friends in Marbella.
July 27, 2020
Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson have officially become Greek citizens, according to the country's prime minister.
July 27, 2020
Donald Trump's lawyers have filed fresh arguments to try to block or severely limit a criminal subpoena for his tax records, calling it harassment of the president.
July 27, 2020
A dozen additional cases of a nastier, even more infectious local strain of Covid-19 were confirmed by Vietnamese officials on Monday. The find has forced tens of thousands to evacuate...
July 27, 2020
WHO emergencies program head Mike Ryan praised on Monday Japan and Australia for having had “good success in containing” the coronavirus. However, he warned that it was to be expected...
July 27, 2020
Fires were set, windows were smashed and 16 people were arrested as demonstrations continued for a second night in Virginia's capital city of Richmond, police have said.
July 27, 2020
The mayors of six US cities have appealed to Congress to make it illegal for the federal government to deploy militarised federal agents to cities that do not want them,...
July 27, 2020
The first five of a batch of French Rafale fighter jets, purchased by New Delhi in a controversial multibillion-dollar deal, headed to India on Monday. They are expected to be...
July 27, 2020
Turkey has reduced the number of navy vessels in an area of the East Mediterranean where it disputes Greek jurisdiction over oil-and-gas drilling rights, Athens said on Monday. Tensions flared...
July 27, 2020
The London markets slipped lower as travel firms saw their shares hammered by the Government's decision to quarantine arrivals from Spain.
July 27, 2020
Kosovo's foreign minister said that she asked Apple to correct her country's borders in its maps.
July 27, 2020
Belgium's prime minister has unveiled a set of drastic social distancing measures aimed at avoiding a new general lockdown amid a surge of Covid-19 infections.
July 27, 2020
Poles are bitterly divided over steps being taken by the right-wing government to leave the Istanbul Convention, a European treaty against domestic violence, claiming it promotes gender “ideology” and links...
July 27, 2020
Belgium announced new measures on Monday including a sharp reduction in permitted social contact after a surge of coronavirus infections in the past three weeks. PM Sophie Wilmes told reporters...
July 27, 2020
Kiev's troops and self-defense forces in eastern Ukraine have begun a ceasefire in a new bid to try and end years of hostilities. The truce came into force from midnight...
July 27, 2020
Melania Trump has announced plans to redo the White House Rose Garden to make it more in line with the original design implemented during the 1960s Kennedy administration.
July 27, 2020
WILLIE O'Dea has claimed that people on unemployment payments are being "singled out for punishment" by having their benefits cut if they leave the country for holidays.
