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Eighteen people have been injured after an explosion and fire on a ship at Naval Base San Diego.

Twenty-one people have been injured after an explosion and fire on a ship at Naval Base San Diego.

Poland's presidential run-off election between the conservative incumbent and the liberal, pro-Europe mayor of Warsaw is too close to call, an exit poll suggests.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has said the country will immediately return to a ban on the sale of alcohol to reduce the volume of trauma patients so hospitals have...

With the US dealing with the worst coronavirus outbreak in the world, Florida hit a grim milestone on Sunday as it broke the national record for a state's largest single-day...

Florida has shattered the US record for the largest single-day increase in positive coronavirus cases in any state since the beginning of the pandemic.

A police officer who moved out of home at the start of lockdown to protect his son has been reunited with his family.

Confronted by surging patient numbers due to coronavirus, South Africa is considering a return to tighter restrictions to combat the disease, which officials say may soon overwhelm the country's health...

China has fast become a top election issue as US President Donald Trump and Democrat candidate Joe Biden engage in a verbal brawl over who is better at playing the...

Countries in eastern Europe are facing rising waves of coronavirus infections, leading to new restrictive measures such as the mandatory use of face masks in Croatia and travel bans or...

Pope Francis has said he is “deeply pained” over the decision by Turkey to change the status of Hagia Sophia from a museum to a mosque.

Police in Australia are getting used to sharing their station with a baby wombat.

Spaniards in two northern regions were voting in regional elections on Sunday amid tight security measures to avoid more outbreaks of the coronavirus.

Hundreds of thousands of Hongkongers turned out over the weekend to vote in an unofficial two-day primary election held by the city's pro-democracy camp as it gears up to field...

Hundreds of thousands of Hongkongers turned out over the weekend to vote in an unofficial two-day primary election held by the city's pro-democracy camp as it gears up to field...

Two police officers were shot dead by a suspect who later killed himself in a South Texas border town after responding to a domestic disturbance call, authorities said.

Voting is under way in Poland's knife-edge presidential election run-off between the conservative incumbent Andrzej Duda and liberal, pro-European Union Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski.

Robert Mueller has defended his investigation into Russia meddling in the 2016 US election and said Roger Stone “remains a convicted felon” despite his prison sentence being commuted by Donald...

About 10,000 Hong Kong passport holders currently in Australia will be offered the chance to apply for permanent residence as concerns continue over China's imposition of a national security law.

Four private nursing homes had to wait almost four weeks to get the results of Covid-19 tests for residents during the height of the pandemic.

At a barbecue recently everyone did the nervy little dance of 'how do we greet each other? Do we kiss? Do we hug? Do the elbow thing?' Mostly, we did...

Will we ever get our old lives back? Will our jobs, our homes and the places where we live ever be the same again? What is there for us and...

Responsibility for the return of schools rests with the minister in the Department of Education and Skills (DES).

In 2017, psychologist Jean M Twenge decided to look at the first generation who had never known life without a smartphone. She coined the term 'iGen' for the group, born...

Michel Barnier has mocked a Tory MP's protests about the EU's aims for a post-Brexit trade deal - pointing out that the MP actually voted for the measures himself.

Scanning through leaked flight logs from Jeffrey Epstein's private jet between 2001 and 2006, an unfamiliar name crops up time and again - 350 times, to be precise. The name...

It was not your typical Friday night in the pubs of Dublin.

When Johnny Depp decided to take his ongoing libel case against News Group Newspapers it was, presumably, a considered decision. As he has said, it wasn't about money, it was...

So, are we out of the woods yet? With many of the restrictions lifted over the past couple of months, it is timely to gauge how the public perceives where...

This week, as foodies scramble to realign their offerings with the 'new normal', I speak to another talented bunch, about how they and their businesses are coping with the ongoing...

It was not your typical Friday night in the pubs of Dublin.

If you can smell someone else's perfume or aftershave, you're too close to them. If you're near someone and they are speaking loudly because the music is loud, or even...

The Department of Health has abandoned plans to provide regularly updated figures on the spread of Covid-19 across electoral areas of Ireland, claiming there are now too few cases to...

US president Donald Trump's intervention into a criminal case connected to his own conduct drew fierce rebukes yesterday from Democrats and a few lonely Republicans, with calls for investigations and...

Lockdown was safe; we knew what to do - no unnecessary journeys, no socialising, stay home. There was a sameness to it; we had to abide by the same rules...

Drivers stuck in traffic following a collision on the M25 received a sweet treat when an ice cream van rolled down its window and began serving people on the motorway.

Donald Trump wore a mask during a visit to a military hospital, the first time the president has been seen in public with the type of facial covering recommended by...

US president Donald Trump's intervention into a criminal case connected to his own conduct has drawn fierce rebukes from Democrats and a few Republicans amid calls for an investigation.

Thousands of Israelis have demonstrated in Tel Aviv against what is widely seen as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's failure to address economic woes brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.

A long-expected upturn in US coronavirus deaths has begun, driven by fatalities in states in the south and west of the country, new data shows.