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India has reportedly banned 47 more Chinese apps just weeks after blocking the video-sharing platform TikTok and 58 others over national security and privacy concerns. Tensions between the world's two...

President Donald Trump's national security adviser Robert O'Brien has tested positive for Covid-19, making him the highest-ranking official to test positive so far.

The famed La Scala opera house announced an autumn programme of concerts and ballets aimed as a signal of confidence that European cultural life can resume in full following the...

Malaysian authorities said they found 26 Rohingya Muslims, including women and children, hiding on a northern islet after they were initially feared drowned after jumping off a fishing boat.

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...

A Swiss pharmaceutical company has completed the first transaction under a new humanitarian trade channel with Iran, according to the government in Bern. The Swiss Humanitarian Trade Arrangement (SHTA) channel...

The world's biggest Covid-19 vaccine study got under way with the first of 30,000 planned volunteers helping to test jabs created by the US government.

The number of Covid-19 cases globally has passed 16 million as the death toll nears 650,000.

The Taliban wants all private companies and aid organizations operating in Afghanistan to register with the hardline Islamists, according to the group's officials. The order was issued last week and...

More than one in three people who have been working from home because of the coronavirus crisis want a vaccine or an antibody test before returning to offices, a new...

Malaysian authorities said they found 26 Rohingya Muslims, including women and children, hiding on a northern islet after they were initially feared drowned after jumping off a fishing boat.

Voters in the US admit anxiety rather than enthusiasm is motivating their engagement in this year's presidential election, research suggests.

The world's biggest Covid 19 vaccine study got under way with the first of 30,000 planned volunteers helping to test jabs created by the US government.

Philippines' president said on Monday he had no choice but to treat disputes in the South China Sea as diplomatic endeavors because the alternative was to go to war with...

An Australian MP has worn a bin bag in response to “sexist garbage” spoken about her by her critics.

Japanese fashion designer Kansai Yamamoto, known for his avant-garde and colourful work that included flamboyant costumes of the late rock great David Bowie, has died of leukaemia at 76, his...

Australia's hardest-hit state Victoria has posted a new daily record of 532 new Covid-19 cases as the government leader warned that a lockdown in the city of Melbourne would continue...

Morocco has banned all travel to and from some of its major cities to try to stem a small spike in coronavirus cases, even though the North African country has...

Vietnamese authorities are evacuating 80,000 people, mostly local tourists, from the central city of Danang after three residents tested positive for the coronavirus at the weekend. The evacuation will take...

A police call operator may have been slightly cheesed off over a 999 call received at the weekend.

Muslim pilgrims have started arriving in Mecca for a drastically scaled-down hajj as Saudi authorities balance the kingdom's oversight of one of Islam's key pillars and the safety of visitors...

Bavaria is setting up voluntary coronavirus test centers at border crossings and railway stations, its state premier said on Monday. “We need mandatory testing at airports and we need it...

Spain's National Court is due to hear evidence in an investigation into whether a Spanish company was hired to spy on Julian Assange during the seven years the WikiLeaks founder...

PEOPLE working from home should not be forced to carry the cost of working remotely for their employers, a top union body said.

The deputy leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah has dismissed the prospect of an escalation of violence between the movement and Israel, despite increased tensions in the last week. “The atmosphere does...

Countries are considering putting away their welcome mats to tourists and regional meetings are being put on hold as the coronavirus pandemic strengthens its grip in many of the worst-affected...

Drugmaker AstraZeneca could pay up to six billion dollars (£4.7 billion) for the global rights to a new Japanese cancer treatment.

City Pub Group said it has been bringing in less than two thirds of its usual business at the pubs it has reopened after lockdown.

The price of gold has surged to a record 1,926.20 US dollars (£1,502.44) per ounce as investors moved money into an asset seen as a safe haven amid jitters about...

The US says it has closed its consulate in Chengdu, China after China ordered the consulate closed in retaliation for a US order to shut down the Chinese Consulate in...

The flu jab could cut the risk of dementia by almost a fifth, according to a study that suggests vaccinating younger people could be beneficial.

Olivia de Havilland, the two-time Oscar winner who played Melanie Wilkes in 'Gone With the Wind', died at her Paris home yesterday at the age of 104.

Teachers, childcare workers and doctors unions have reacted furiously to the €16,288 super junior ministers' pay hike while workers suffer a salary "inequality" in the pandemic.

Leo Varadkar seemed upset by the mere suggestion the €16,288 super junior minister top-up the Government rushed through the Dáil before its six-week summer holiday would seem unfair on those...

With the US election 100 days away, more Americans say the country is heading in the wrong direction than at any previous point in Donald Trump's presidency.

Supermac's founder Pat McDonagh has warned of a "fear factor" among employers over Covid-19 personal injury claims and predicts insurance premiums are going to rise even further.

Mick Fleetwood and Stevie Nicks have led the tributes from across the music industry following the death of Fleetwood Mac co-founder Peter Green at the age of 73.

Almost 4,000 students have not yet applied to an online government system to have their Leaving Cert results calculated ahead of the deadline today.

The Government was fearful of the cost implications of sanctioning a €3.20 work-from-home allowance during the pandemic.

Olivia de Havilland, the two-time Oscar winner who played Melanie Wilkes in 'Gone With the Wind', died at her Paris home yesterday at the age of 104.