Torrential rain that caused deadly floods in southern Japan was moving north-east on Wednesday, battering large areas of Japan's main island, swelling more rivers, triggering mudslides and destroying houses and...
July 8, 2020
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has said he is confident of swiftly recovering from Covid-19 as he has been treated with hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malaria drug that has not been proven effective...
July 8, 2020
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has said he is confident of swiftly recovering from Covid-19 as he has been treated with hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malaria drug that has not been proven effective...
July 8, 2020
An Irishman will miss the birth of his first child because of the US Covid-19 travel ban.
July 8, 2020
At the start of the pandemic, when it looked like lock-down was going to be announced, Declan Feeney made a decision he'd been toying with for a while - he...
July 8, 2020
A cancer patient suffering the side effects of chemotherapy was placed in a Covid-19 ward at Mayo University Hospital, according to documents released under the Freedom of Information Act.
July 8, 2020
A cancer patient suffering the side effects of chemotherapy was placed in a Covid-19 ward at Mayo University Hospital, according to documents released under the Freedom of Information Act.
July 8, 2020
Johnny Depp, the actor, referred to the jealous and controlling side of his character as "the monster", blaming "illness" for the violence and abuse he inflicted on his former wife,...
July 8, 2020
Banana bread. Connell's chain. Sourdough starters. Joe Wicks. There was just something about lockdown that encouraged us to become utterly obsessed with random things. And some of our obsessions were...
July 8, 2020
Young Palestinian soccer players, all amputees and many on crutches, were back on the field in Gaza yesterday for the first time since coronavirus restrictions were eased in the territory.
July 8, 2020
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said yesterday he had tested positive for coronavirus, adding in a television interview that he was in good health despite running a fever.
July 8, 2020
Prince Andrew is agonising over whether to condemn Ghislaine Maxwell after insiders admitted "this is not a good time to make enemies".
July 8, 2020
French President Emmanuel Macron's reshuffled government took office yesterday, with conservatives given prominent roles in efforts to rescue France's coronavirus-ravaged economy from the worst depression in decades.
July 8, 2020
Chinese public health authorities are taking precautions to prevent a bubonic plague outbreak in a remote northern region after a herder contracted the disease, although experts say the risk is...
July 8, 2020
With over 600,000 downloads in the first 24 hours, the early verdict is in: Ireland seems willing to give the HSE's new contact tracing app a go. But what is...
July 8, 2020
Scientists have raised the prospect of a brain damage "epidemic" after detecting an increase in life-threatening inflammation linked to coronavirus.
July 8, 2020
One Friday afternoon last month, a group of politicos logged on to Zoom to war-game what could happen after the US election. Among them were senior figures once in the...
July 7, 2020
Thousands of people protested against the Serbian president's announcement that a lockdown will be reintroduced after the Balkan country reported its highest single-day death toll from coronavirus.
July 7, 2020
Doctors at the Vatican's paediatric hospital said they have successfully separated conjoined twins whose skulls were fused back-to-back, an exceedingly rare surgery for an equally rare congenital defect.
July 7, 2020
A custom coffin is being built for the funeral of the world's longest-surviving conjoined twins, who died on July 4 in the US state of Ohio of natural causes.
July 7, 2020
A further 24 people have been diagnosed with Covid-19 in Ireland, according to the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC), as the worldwide tally approaches 12 million cases.
July 7, 2020
Hollywood star Johnny Depp accused his ex-wife Amber Heard of lying about him beating her up, and told London's High Court on Tuesday that she had actually struck him.
July 7, 2020
Serbia's president announced the reintroduction of a lockdown after the Balkan country reported its highest single-day death toll from coronavirus.
July 7, 2020
The death toll from torrential rain in southwestern Japan rose to 56 on Tuesday, as disaster-affected areas widened to the northern Kyushu region, Kyodo reported. The number of Self-Defense Forces...
July 7, 2020
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro says he has tested positive for Covid-19 after months of downplaying the severity of coronavirus.
July 7, 2020
At least two people have died after two passenger trains collided head-on in Czech Republic.
July 7, 2020
Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay 150 million dollars (£119 million) to settle claims it broke compliance rules in its dealings with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, New York...
July 7, 2020
The FTSE 100 slid into the red as sentiment across Europe was heavily dented by the European Commission's decision to cut its growth projections for the eurozone.
July 7, 2020
Germany said on Tuesday it wants European Union states to overcome a deadlock on how to handle refugees and migrants this year, weighing in on a dispute that has long...
July 7, 2020
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro says he has tested positive for Covid-19 after months of downplaying the severity of coronavirus.
July 7, 2020
More than 200,000 people have now died from the novel coronavirus in Europe, according to an AFP tally. The figures are based on official sources as of 13:10 GMT on...
July 7, 2020
More than 200,000 people have now died from the novel coronavirus in Europe, according to an AFP tally. The figures are based on official sources as of 13:10 GMT on...
July 7, 2020
Iraq partially reopened its southern Shalamcheh border crossing with Iran on Tuesday, border officials said. Baghdad closed the crossing more than three months ago to combat the spread of the...
July 7, 2020
Authorities in China's capital on Tuesday reported no new cases of the coronavirus for the first time in around four weeks since the detection early last month of a virus...
July 7, 2020
Hungarian President Janos Ader called on Ukraine and Romania on Tuesday to stop polluting two major rivers that flow across Hungary after floods in the past weeks brought in “dirty...
July 7, 2020
Germany's eastern state of Saxony plans to allow events with more than 1,000 visitors from September 1, the state's health minister said on Tuesday. This could include football games. There...
July 7, 2020
Pubs in rural Ireland and tourist destinations shouldn't be punished and prevented from reopening due to the behaviour of a small number of people, Labour leader Alan Kelly has said.
July 7, 2020
Households could find themselves being pestered by more scam phone calls as Covid-19 lockdown measures ease and illegitimate call centres around the world get back to work, National Trading Standards...
July 7, 2020
Parents who take children on foreign holidays this summer are jeopardising their chances of returning to school in September, a post-primary principals' leader warned today.
July 7, 2020
Israel's public health director quit on Tuesday amid a spike in new coronavirus cases, saying that the government had reopened the economy too rapidly and had lost its way in...
