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Jacob Rees-Mogg has faced calls to resign over his handling of the House of Commons' return during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Dual GAA counties are facing a funding crisis, even as the potential for a resumption of club matches in August looms into view.

Company directors face potentially dire consequences if they fail to robustly set out the risks Covid-19 poses to their business, according to auditors at Deloitte.

Meghan Markle has said she feared being "picked apart" for speaking out for the Black Lives Matter movement, before deciding: "The only wrong thing to say is nothing."

The European Central Bank intensified its response to the coronavirus recession with a bigger-than-anticipated increase to its emergency bond-buying programme.

Premier League clubs have headed off a row over what happens if the 2019-20 season is curtailed by agreeing to wait to see whether the Championship finishes its campaign.

Fexco, one of the biggest employers in the south-west of the country, is laying off 150 staff.

A widely available indigestion medicine - which can be bought in pharmacies for just €8 - may curb Covid-19 symptoms in mild to moderate cases of the disease, a new...

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will lead a new coronavirus strategy committee as part of a shake-up of his government's response to the pandemic.

Sales of National Lottery tickets are "somewhat behind 2019" so far this year, as Covid-19 has hit demand.

Battered by crisis after crisis, US President Donald Trump appears to be in political peril as never before.

Republicans could be facing a day of reckoning over some of the party's most divisive candidates.

Senior Tory MPs have launched an alliance with parliamentarians across the world to raise "grave concerns" about China and urge governments to adopt a tougher stance toward Beijing.

World food prices fell for a fourth consecutive month in May, hit by the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic which has stymied demand, the United Nations food agency said...

Donald Trump has strongly hinted at a pardon for his friend and long-time political adviser Roger Stone, who has been ordered to report to prison later this month.

Kilkenny-based life sciences company MyBio has signed an exclusive agreement with German manufacturer MöLab for the Irish distribution of its Covid-19 antibody diagnostic test kit.

A judge set bail of $1 million on Thursday for three former Minneapolis police officers charged with aiding and abetting in the murder of George Floyd, a black man whose...

A nine-year-old boy's “ginormous challenge” to use his walker to complete a marathon through the lockdown has hit the £100,000 mark.

A wild boar disrupted rail services for several hours in North Lanarkshire.

A Sinn Féin TD has admitted he broke Covid-19 restrictions to attend a party supporter's funeral.

Celebrities, civil rights activists and politicians gathered in Minneapolis to pay their respects to George Floyd, the man whose death at the hands of police has sparked protests nationwide and...

Organisers have scrapped plans to mandate social distancing during President Donald Trump's appearance at a July 3 Mount Rushmore fireworks display and will not limit the crowd due to coronavirus...

The Australian Prime Minister was interrupted during a press conference when a resident asked the assembled press to move off his lawn.

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Lockdown restrictions for children and nursing home residents will be eased from next week despite an increase in the 'R' figure - known as the rate of infection, Health Minister...

The government in Jordan said on Thursday it would reopen hotels and cafes, allow sporting events without spectators and shorten a night curfew as of Saturday. The night curfew will...

A strong showing from its airlines, was not enough to stop London's top index slipping into the red on Thursday.

A mother is using Lego to teach her children about social distancing and a zoo has raised money as it fights for its future in Thursday's news.

Barcelona's citizens are reclaiming their city as the Covid-19 lockdown has reduced a flood of tourists to a trickle.

A summit between China and the European Union, planned for September in Leipzig, Germany, has been postponed because of the coronavirus, the government in Berlin has said. The decision was...

A large landslide has swept a number of houses into the sea in Arctic Norway.

Prague will drop restrictions on travel to and from Austria, Germany and Hungary on Friday, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis was quoted as saying on Thursday. The move follows the...

IRISH tourists who holidayed in Portugal in 2007 and who may remember the movements of a distinctive Volkswagen camper van and Jaguar car around the Algarve have been urged to...

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Major retail outlets including high-street fashion stores will be able to open their doors to customers for the first time in months next Monday.

Popular clothing and homewares chain Penneys will not be among the high street retailers to reopen next week.

Gamblers in Las Vegas and elsewhere in Nevada were placing their bets again as the desert city ended its Covid-19 lockdown.

Education Minister Joe McHugh is urging schools and teachers and Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) to make themselves available to run summer programmes for children with special educational needs and those...

Ireland hopes to be able to recommend the resumption of air travel with a select number of countries in a number of weeks, Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said on Thursday....

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