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A 13-year-old young carer has made hundreds of face shields with a 3D printer he bought using holiday money.

The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated across Latin America, Russia and the Indian subcontinent even as curves flattened and reopening was under way in much of Europe, Asia and the US.

Efforts continuing to resolve the row over State indemnity for Leaving Cert grading process, as a union claims that teachers could be caught for up to one third of the...

Beijing said on Friday it opposed foreign interference in Hong Kong and that no country would allow separatists to endanger national security. Beijing plans to impose new national security legislation...

India authorities have started assessing damage and clearing roads in the wake of Cyclone Amphan that killed more than 90 people and left millions displaced after barrelling through the coastal...

Muslims worldwide will celebrate one of their biggest holidays under the long shadow of coronavirus, with millions confined to their homes and others gripped by economic concerns during what is...

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Cape Canaveral will next week launch its first astronauts for nine years but Nasa and partner SpaceX are urging the spectators who normally cram beaches and roads to stay way...

Tributes from former first families rolled in in response to the news that a man who was a fixture in the White House under 11 presidents had died at the...

The family of murdered Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi have announced they have forgiven his Saudi killers, giving legal reprieve to the five government agents convicted of his murder who...

India's central bank on Friday cut its key interest rate to 4% to revive the economy severely hit the Covid-19 outbreak and a two-month lockdown.

China's top economic official on Friday promised higher spending to revive its pandemic-stricken economy and curb surging job losses but steered clear of launching a massive stimulus on the scale...

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has proved so popular during the coronavirus pandemic that it has prompted a change of leadership in the conservative opposition party just four months...

Q. The health service is to start testing people next month for antibodies to see if they have had the coronavirus. Will that result in people with antibodies getting immunity...

Coronavirus has infected about five million people across the world and killed more than 328,000, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.

In January 2020, health officials from the Chinese Centre for Disease Control published a large study on Covid-19 cases.

China is to propose national security laws for Hong Kong in response to last year's often violent pro-democracy protests which plunged the city into its deepest turmoil since it returned...

Michael Cohen, US President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, was released from a federal prison yesterday due to concerns that he could be exposed to the coronavirus while incarcerated, according...

Ireland and Ulster scrum-half John Cooney has admitted that he and the majority of his fellow players are reluctant to return to action until it is safe to do so.

Manchester United are facing losses of at least £75million if the financial impact of the Covid-19 crisis is compounded by a failure to qualify for the Champions League for a...

In January 2020, health officials from the Chinese Centre for Disease Control published a large study on Covid-19 cases.

US President Donald Trump yesterday escalated his campaign to discredit the integrity of mail balloting, threatening to "hold up" federal funding to Michigan and Nevada in response to the states'...

Horse Racing Ireland has announced the Galway Festival will remain a seven-day meeting on its original dates this year.

'Full House' actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, agreed to serve prison time as part of a deal to plead guilty to cheating the college admissions...

If Great Britain feared that this year's summer of sport would represent a veritable desert, then the golf's European Tour has some positive news.

The Greens are raising eyebrows all over the country as news breaks of a leadership election in the midst of government formation talks. The party insists on its constitutional right...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will not face criminal action following allegations of misconduct over his relationship with a US tech entrepreneur but he might have had an intimate relationship...

Some 101 people classed as extremely obese have been hospitalised with coronavirus, 63 of whom had to be treated in intensive care, a new analysis reveals.

Out of the mayhem of a global pandemic, the English Football Association has been presented with an unwanted, unforeseen, but potentially exciting opportunity.

Oh dear. After years of omerta, it seems the glossy fashion world is turning in on itself. Andre Leon Talley, the 6ft 6in, one-time African-American creative director of US Vogue...

Nursing homes are being asked to accept patients from acute hospitals without a negative swab for coronavirus.

As few as 50,000 people - just 1pc of the population - may have been infected by the coronavirus, leaving the nation with low immunity and at risk of a...

China's legislature will take over long-stalled efforts to enact national security legislation in Hong Kong in a move that could limit opposition activity in the semi-autonomous territory.

A Georgia man who filmed mobile phone video of Ahmaud Arbery's fatal shooting has been charged with murder.

Dublin is facing a major transport headache as Covid-19 restrictions are lifted over the coming months unless many workers continue to stay at home.

A shooting at a Texas naval air station that wounded a sailor and left the gunman dead is being investigated as “terrorism-related”, the FBI said.

MORTGAGE holders with Ulster Bank whose loans were sold to a US vulture fund last year were annoyed to get letters this week confirming the sale of the loans.

Denmark began re-opening museums and zoos ahead of schedule on Thursday as virologists said the virus epidemic was slowing despite the lifting of quarantine measures. Museums, zoos, theaters and cinemas...

They haven't gone away you know.

THE first post-Covid sale of troubled mortgages has gone through with Ulster Bank offloading thousands of loans to a US vulture fund.