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A €75m childcare support package that aims to stop providers from charging higher fees has been announced.

Austria is lifting checks at its border with Italy and ending quarantine requirements for arrivals from 30 other European countries as of June 16, the government in Vienna said on...

The bank that is overseeing the Government's multibillion-pound effort to support small companies through the coronavirus pandemic has appointed a new boss.

A thousand digital outdoor screens across the UK will display people celebrating “Pride Inside” after the coronavirus pandemic saw celebrations cancelled across the country.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday that the West cannot ignore the rise of China. Beijing is coming closer to the West in various ways – in the...

A two-week-old kitten has been rescued after its meowing was heard through the cavity wall of a garage.

The coronavirus crisis has triggered the worst global recession in nearly a century – and the pain is not over yet even if there is no second wave of infections,...

Online retailer The Hut Group (THG) has said sales rocketed past £1 billion for the first time last year, on the back of new acquisitions and technology investment.

Landlord Shaftesbury has swung into a loss as the business said the valuation of its property dropped by more than £300 million.

Rescuers in Pakistan have recovered nine more bodies from beneath the rubble of a building that collapsed earlier this week in the southern port city of Karachi, bringing the death...

Thailand's governemnt will consider a plan to reopen more businesses and establishments from as early as June 15, an official said on Wednesday. The statement came after the country has...

Washington will soon resume operations at its consulate in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the US Embassy said on Wednesday. The novel coronavirus outbreak began in the city late last...

People working from home can now pay to have an alpaca join their team meeting, raising money for end-of-life charity Marie Curie.

Flooding in south and central China has caused more than a dozen deaths and forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes.

Asylum applications in Europe fell to the lowest level in April for over a decade as borders closed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, according to European Union figures....

South Korea's government has said it will press charges against two activist groups that have been floating anti-Pyongyang leaflets and bottles filled with rice to North Korea.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that Turkey will not allow Syria's Idlib it “to become a conflict zone again.” He also accused the Syrian government on Tuesday of “increasing...

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The long-standing wrangle over voting rights and election security in the US came to a head in Georgia on Tuesday in a messy state primary vote amid partisan finger-pointing from...

Munster Rugby chief executive Ian Flanagan has warned that the province will continue to lose out on the vast majority of its income as long as the sport is played...

It's a bit like waking from a disturbing dream. As you open your eyes, the outlines of the room and the furniture are familiar, the world looks more or less...

Nurses and healthcare assistants account for more than half the health workers who have caught the coronavirus, new figures reveal.

'Little Britain' has been removed from the iPlayer because "times have changed" since the comedy first aired, the BBC has said.

George Floyd was lovingly remembered yesterday as 'Big Floyd' - a "gentle giant", a father and brother, athlete and mentor, and now a force for change - at a funeral...

There may be some signs the economy is creeping back into life after it experienced severe Covid-related shocks in March and April that pushed it into the deepest recession on...

Crèches will struggle to cope with a surge in demand for places if school hours are cut in September, a Government report has warned.

Governments around the world are responding forcefully to the Covid-19 crisis with a combined fiscal and monetary response that has already reached 10pc of global GDP.

Every year, a quarter of a million children go missing in Europe. That's one every two minutes, every day of every year.

The coronavirus might have been spreading in China as early as August last year, according to Harvard Medical School research based on satellite images of hospital travel patterns and search...

Ireland is at risk of a significant resurgence of the coronavirus and care must be taken to avoid the infection being brought by people from one county to another post-lockdown,...

Nurses and healthcare assistants account for more than half the health workers who have caught the coronavirus, new figures reveal.

A throng of protesters banged into the Confederate monument in Birmingham, Alabama, covering the statue with red spray-paint and chipping away at its base with rocks. One group tried to...

The Central Bank will expect greater consistency among banks when they set out the financial hit from the Covid-19 crisis in the second quarter of the year, a top regulator...

The Covid-19 crisis could "morph into a banking crisis" if the State doesn't do more to help small firms cope with inter-company debts averaging €78,000, Isme has warned.

There is a tendency among political anoraks to reduce government formation to a puerile horse race in which politicians are the ultimate winners and losers.

Every year, a quarter of a million children go missing in Europe. That's one every two minutes, every day of every year.

George Floyd was lovingly remembered yesterday as 'Big Floyd' - a "gentle giant", a father and brother, athlete and mentor, and now a force for change - at a funeral...

Calls to send every household in the country a bundle of reusable face masks to reduce Covid-19 transmission are being supported by Dr Cillian de Gascun, chair of the Government's...

Attorney General William Barr said the US Secret Service told Donald Trump to go to a secure part of the White House as large protests unfolded outside, contradicting the president's...

Investigators are being urged to take "all the appropriate steps" to review the case of an Irish woman who was raped in Portugal in 2004 after she said she believes...