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Nursing homes resorted to using painters' overalls and masks made by dressmakers as they battled Covid-19, newly released documents reveal.

A cathedral cat has become a viral sensation after brazenly disrupting a recording of morning prayers.

Facebook has changed the name of the digital wallet to be used with its new cryptocurrency, the latest in a number of changes to the digital currency and its ecosystem.

Public sector employees in Jordan began a phased return to work on Tuesday, more than two months after they were told to stay at home under a coronavirus lockdown. Most...

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Intensified shelling on the contact line between Ukraine and the self-proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic may undermine the prospects of a peaceful settlement, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday....

THE feared surge in coronavirus cases happened in nursing homes, not in hospitals, TDs probing the State's response to the pandemic has been told.

A CLAIM that nursing homes were left "isolated" by the State in the early days of the coronavirus outbreak has been angrily rejected in the Dáil.

Thailand's cabinet on Tuesday extended an emergency decree to fight the coronavirus until June 30. A spokeswoman denied opposition suggestions that the prime minister, a onetime junta leader, was seeking...

The Afghan government urged the Taliban to extend a three-day ceasefire which is due to end on Tuesday night and announced that it would release 900 prisoners from the insurgent...

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Indonesia ordered the deployment of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and police on Tuesday to enforce rules on wearing masks and safe distancing. The move comes after reports of people...

A coronavirus cluster has been detected on a freight ship berthed in the Australian west coast port of Fremantle.

The joint effort by Nasa and SpaceX to send astronauts into space from the US is “a major milestone” for the global space industry, a leading space expert in the...

Spain on Tuesday urged its European Union partners to set up common rules on cross-border movement and reestablish the freedom-of-travel Schengen area as different national coronavirus lockdowns are phased out....

Take That's Mark Owen and former Oasis singer Liam Gallagher are among the music stars hosting a mass doorstep singalong for Manchester on Thursday.

Marketing supremo Sir Martin Sorrell said he will maintain a high tempo in the face of Covid-19, as he made another acquisition in Latin America.

From 10am today, Leaving Certificate students will be able to register for calculated grading.

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A health expert has warned that the world is still in the midst of the “first wave” of the coronavirus pandemic.

Billionaire Stanley Ho, who was considered the father of modern gambling in China, has died at the age of 98.

EasyJet's finance director has said will leave the business, just days after winning a vote that could have cost him the job.

South Korea has reported 19 new coronavirus cases on the eve of the return to school for more than two million children.

The British Prime Minister's chief adviser Dominic Cummings insisted last night he had no regrets over his behaviour during lockdown and had done nothing wrong by driving 400km to stay...

Democratic candidate Joe Biden's overtures to Republicans were central to his promise to "unify the country" and "restore the soul of the nation" when he launched his presidential campaign.

Shinzo Abe, Japan's prime minister, said yesterday that the "Japan model" has effectively beaten coronavirus, as he lifted a nationwide state of emergency after seven weeks.

There hasn't been much to laugh about for the last few months, but the news that Boris Johnson's widely loathed chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, had been busted for breaking lockdown...

President Donald Trump paid tribute to fallen members of the American military yesterday to mark Memorial Day, while defending his decision to spend most of the holiday weekend playing golf...

A potential turning point was reached in the fight against the coronavirus yesterday as no new deaths from the infection were reported for the first time since March.

The United Nations, formerly the League of Nations, came into being on June 26, 1945, its name suggested by Franklin D Roosevelt, the president of the United States.

China yesterday defended proposed national security laws in Hong Kong by claiming that some of last year's mass pro-democracy protests amounted to terrorism.

Animals in captivity often display repetitive functionless behaviours. Watching my six-year-old pace the yard last week I felt a palpable grief for what he is going through. It reminded me...

The debate here is whether the two-metre physical distancing rule should be reduced to one metre. But not long ago there were fears two metres was not enough to protect...

Leinster chief executive Mick Dawson has admitted that the province is facing a difficult period financially after cancelling the sale of season tickets for the 2020/'21 season, citing the challenge...

There is a new dread stalking the land. Not perhaps as deadly as the virus itself but becoming equally irritating.

Israel will not miss a "historic opportunity" to extend its sovereignty to parts of the West Bank, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday, calling the move one of his new...

World Rugby's medical group has proposed banning reset scrums in a huge shake-up of the sport's laws. Upright tackling, team huddles and spitting would also be scrapped, and players will...

Russian prosecutors asked a court to sentence former US Marine Paul Whelan, who is on trial accused of spying for the United States, to 18 years in a maximum security...

EMPLOYERS with better staff safety records are 20pc more likely to go under, according to a new study of 25 years of health and business records.

India's Maharashtra, home to the nation's financial hub Mumbai, resumed commercial flights yesterday with reduced domestic services as the state struggles to contain coronavirus infection cases.