Thousands of people in Hong Kong defied a police ban, breaking through barricades to hold a candlelight vigil on the 31st anniversary of China's crushing of a democracy movement centred...
June 4, 2020
More than £1 million has been raised for one of the UK's largest zoos after it revealed it was fighting for its future due to an indefinite closure.
June 4, 2020
Poland's PM Mateusz Morawiecki asked parliament on Thursday for a vote of confidence in government, in a surprise move seen as an attempt to bolster his Law and Justice (PiS)...
June 4, 2020
TAOISEACH Leo Varadkar has criticised President Donald Trump, saying there has been an “absence of moral leadership” in the response to protests across US cities in recent days.
June 4, 2020
French troops will not march on the Champs-Elysees avenue on Bastille Day this year.
June 4, 2020
Forces allied with the UN-supported government in Libya said they have regained control of all of Tripoli's entrance and exit points after taking back the airport, and claimed that the...
June 4, 2020
FIANNA Fáil leader Micheál Martin has claimed legitimate hairdressers are being marginalised because people are getting their hair cut on the black market.
June 4, 2020
Donal Lawlor has finally returned home after a battle with coronavirus that saw him spend 32 days on a ventilator.
June 4, 2020
Performing arts students have recorded a cover of Judy Garland's Somewhere Over The Rainbow to demonstrate the “glimmer of light” to come following the coronavirus pandemic.
June 4, 2020
Libya's internationally recognized government said on Thursday it has regained control of Tripoli, driving eastern forces out of the capital after a year-long battle. Forces allied with the Government of...
June 4, 2020
A spokesperson for the German police involved in the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has said: "We are assuming that the girl is dead".
June 4, 2020
LABOUR leader Alan Kelly has called for all travel limits to be lifted by the end of June and for grandparents to be allowed give their grandchildren a “quick hug”...
June 4, 2020
The European Central Bank has boosted its pandemic emergency support programme by 600 billion euros to 1.35 trillion euros in an effort to keep affordable credit flowing to the economy...
June 4, 2020
France will cancel the Bastille Day parade on July 14 due to coronavirus social distancing requirements. The military parade marking the national day will be replaced by a ceremony on...
June 4, 2020
A mother is using Lego to teach her children about social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic.
June 4, 2020
People across the world's leading economies are now more skeptical about their governments' handling of the coronavirus pandemic, a survey published by polling firm Kantar showed on Thursday. In May,...
June 4, 2020
Tonic maker Fever-Tree saw sales from supermarkets and off-licences surge by nearly a quarter in the first full month of lockdown, as Britons hit the gin while stuck at home.
June 4, 2020
Spain will lift all restrictions to border crossings with France and Portugal from June 22, Reuters quoted Tourism Minister Reyes Maroto as saying in Madrid on Thursday. The borders were...
June 4, 2020
The Duchess of Sussex has shared her “absolute devastation” at racial divisions and the death of George Floyd in the US, telling girls graduating at her old high school: “I'm...
June 4, 2020
Hong Kong's legislature approved a contentious bill that makes it illegal to insult the Chinese national anthem.
June 4, 2020
Households ramped up their savings while credit card spending on some services “collapsed” in the first three months of 2020, according to a trade association.
June 4, 2020
India and Australia sealed a deal on Thursday to get access to each other's military bases, the Foreign Ministry in New Delhi said. The pact would clear the way for...
June 4, 2020
Authorities in Kuwait want to slash the migrant proportion of the country's population from 70 to 30 percent to “resolve the demographic imbalance.” Like its Gulf Arab neighbors, oil-rich Kuwait...
June 4, 2020
The Palestinians have said they were rejecting taxes collected on their behalf by Israel, protesting against Israel's plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank. Ibrahim Melhem, spokesman for...
June 4, 2020
Britain's lenders are being asked by the Bank of England to give details on their expected losses on loans due to the coronavirus crisis as the sector is braced for...
June 4, 2020
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June 4, 2020
Former US defence secretary Jim Mattis said he has been “angry and appalled” by President Donald Trump's heavy-handed use of the military to quell protests near the White House.
June 4, 2020
A police report into the disappearance of British backpacker Peter Falconio in the Australian Outback concluded his girlfriend Joanne Lees was hiding the truth, a documentary will claim.
June 4, 2020
Italy yesterday reopened its borders to European tourists after a three-month lockdown in which 33,500 people lost their lives to coronavirus.
June 4, 2020
When I envisaged 2020, I saw my first summer living in Dublin away from my parents consisting of fun, beers and boys. Instead, I've found myself moving back in with...
June 4, 2020
Art experts have found two paintings by Raphael in a room inside the Vatican.
June 4, 2020
It is more than 13 years since three-year-old Madeleine McCann vanished from the Portuguese coastal village of Praia da Luz while on holiday with her parents, Kate and Gerry, and...
June 4, 2020
US President Donald Trump said the Republican Party would seek to pull its August nominating convention out of North Carolina after Democratic Governor Roy Cooper refused to heed a GOP...
June 4, 2020
The World Health Organisation (WHO) will resume its trial of hydroxychloroquine for potential use against the coronavirus, its chief said yesterday, after those running the study briefly stopped giving it...
June 4, 2020
Former US deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein is defending his decision to appoint a special counsel to scrutinise ties between Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and Russia, telling senators he...
June 4, 2020
I'm a black woman from the third precinct in Minneapolis, where a lot of the unrest has been happening, and my role as an activist involves helping out the community....
June 4, 2020
When I envisaged 2020, I saw my first summer living in Dublin away from my parents consisting of fun, beers and boys. Instead, I've found myself moving back in with...
June 4, 2020
Joe Biden is on the cusp of formally securing the Democratic presidential nomination after winning hundreds more delegates in primary contests.
June 4, 2020
Sweden's state epidemiologist has said the country should have imposed greater restrictions to bring its coronavirus epidemic under control - the first time he has expressed doubts about his decision...
June 4, 2020
At 8.02PM on Tuesday in New York City, two minutes after the citywide curfew went into effect, several men in red berets and varsity jackets lined the streets.
