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Nearly two million mortgage payment holidays have been granted to customers impacted financially by Covid-19, according to trade association UK Finance.

Germany has reported its highest daily increase in coronavirus cases in a month after managing to contain its outbreak better than comparable large European nations.

Civil organizations involved in Hungarian politics will still have to disclose their foreign donors, PM Viktor Orban said on Friday. He made the statement after the European Union's top court...

France's Junior European Affairs Minister Amelie de Montchalin warned on Friday that she could not rule out the European Union's trade talks with ex-member Britain ending without a deal. “I...

Education campaigner Malala Yousafzai has expressed her “joy and gratitude” after completing her philosophy, politics and economics degree at Oxford University.

A man has been arrested after an unarmed police officer was shot dead and another was wounded when they tried to pull over a car in New Zealand's largest city,...

The UN nuclear watchdog's 35-nation Board of Governors passed a resolution on Friday calling on Iran to stop denying the agency access to two suspected former sites, Reuters quoted diplomats...

ALMOST two-thirds of workers are unaware of a tax-free payment of more than €15 a week that can be made to those working from home.

British financial institutions that benefited from slavery such as Lloyd's of London should go further than saying sorry for their role in the Atlantic slave trade and atone for their...

India's prime minister is meeting opposition leaders as the government tries to lower tensions with China after 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a clash in a Himalayan border region.

India's prime minister has met senior opposition leaders who questioned whether intelligence failures allowed China to build up its forces in disputed Himalayan territory ahead of a clash that killed...

A Confederate monument that had stood in the town square of a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, for more than a century has been removed.

Beijing said on Friday that any decision by the United States to arbitrarily decouple from China would not be realistic or wise. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian made the...

China has said it never detained Indian soldiers after Indian media reports that China had released 10 of them late on Thursday.

Mountain rescuers stepped in to help save a lamb stuck on cliffs on the Isle of Lewis.

Japan lifted all coronavirus-linked curbs on domestic travel on Friday. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called on people to go sightseeing or attend concerts and other events to help the economy...

US President Donald Trump said he has heard “interesting” things about Roswell, the crash site of an alleged UFO.

Chinese prosecutors have charged two detained Canadians with spying.

President Moon Jae-in on Friday accepted the resignation of South Korean point man on Pyongyang. Kim Yeon-chul had asked to quit after North Korea destroyed a liaison office while ramping...

Overdraft customers are set to be able to ask for another three-month interest-free buffer of up to £500.

Singaporeans can wine and dine at restaurants, work out at the gym and socialise with no more than five people at a time as of Friday, when the city-state removed...

US President Donald Trump said he has heard “interesting” things about Roswell, the crash site of an alleged UFO.

US President Donald Trump said he has heard “interesting” things about Roswell, the crash site of an alleged UFO.

A police officer has been killed and a second injured after being shot in New Zealand.

A police officer has been killed and a second injured after being shot in New Zealand.

Welcome to the 'Never Trump' camp, John Bolton. It took you a long time to get there.

India used diplomatic channels with China to de-escalate a military stand-off in a remote Himalayan border region where 20 Indian soldiers were killed this week, its government said yesterday.

To listen to the many assessments as to how the Irish peace process was won, one could be forgiven for thinking that it had 100 fathers, which it did not,...

If there's one thing I know for certain, it is that we have changed and we are still changing because of this pandemic as individuals, as families and as businesses.

Ulster Bank has suspended its search for a new headquarters and is reassessing its need for a major office campus in the wake of Covid-19.

Fórsa and other unions at the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) have put forward their proposals in a bid to avoid lay-offs at the body that is in charge of air...

Vera Lynn, the singer who became a symbol of hope in Britain during World War II and again during the coronavirus pandemic with her song 'We'll Meet Again', died at...

The IRFU and players representatives will meet again next week as talks on potential pay cuts continue.

US President Donald Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to help him win the 2020 election, according to a damning new account of life inside the administration by former national...

Beijing's latest cluster of cases may have begun as early as May, the director of China's Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has said, blaming asymptomatic cases for late detection.

Applications for mortgage payment breaks have slowed to a trickle, in a what could be a sign the financial stress on families is easing.

The IRFU and players representatives will meet again next week as talks on potential pay cuts continue.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar will today make Ireland's case for a bigger share of the planned €750bn EU coronavirus economic aid fund.

Ireland has dropped out of the top 10 ranking of most competitive countries, according to a new survey from a leading business school in Switzerland.

Australia is under increasing cyber attack from a “sophisticated state-based cyber actor”, the country's prime minister said.