Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is finally set to swear in his new government – a move that comes after three deadlocked elections, a year-and-a-half of political paralysis and another...
May 17, 2020
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is finally swearing in his new government – a move that comes after three deadlocked elections, a year-and-a-half of political paralysis and another three-day delay...
May 17, 2020
A Chinese government-backed team plans to climb to the summit of a deserted Mount Everest this week to measure the world's highest peak.
May 17, 2020
Getting a new qualification under your belt could be the key to bouncing back from unemployment if you are one of the almost 600,000 people who have lost their job...
May 17, 2020
Who could have predicted, when the economy was temporarily put into suspended animation while the Government dealt with the Covid-19 outbreak, that nobody would want to go back to work...
May 17, 2020
They are most vulnerable to Covid-19, but the people inside the country's care homes have had little platform to speak of their experiences. We heard some of their stories.
May 17, 2020
The way the FBI tells it, William Rosario Lopez put on a surgical mask and walked into the Connecticut convenience store looking to the world like a typical pandemic-era shopper...
May 17, 2020
In January 1919, the US was in the midst of the Spanish flu pandemic. Hundreds of thousands of young, healthy people would end up dead, a pattern replicated across the...
May 17, 2020
In Germany yesterday they played, in England tomorrow they will talk about playing - again. If it is debatable that the football culture of a country reflects the wider national...
May 17, 2020
Big day tomorrow. What can I do from then under phase one of this plan to reopen the country?
May 17, 2020
South Korea is one of the first countries to come out of the Covid-19 crisis. People here are going back to work and schools are scheduled to reopen from next...
May 17, 2020
Another newspaper columnist recently compared the publisher of Independent News & Media to a "lucky general". He was referring to this organisation's move to a paywall just weeks before the...
May 17, 2020
The man who helped shape Sweden's strategy of 'herd immunity' has said Ireland's lockdown has delayed, not prevented, the virus spreading in the coming months.
May 17, 2020
Grandly conceived as "a generational decision" for West Clare, last year's Dubai Duty Free Irish Open at Lahinch seemed to have delivered the perfect dividend. What more could be desired...
May 17, 2020
At the Lykkebo Skole primary school in Copenhagen, head teacher Soren Friis stands outside the entry to the stairwell leading up to the first and second-year classrooms, saying good morning...
May 17, 2020
After weeks of lockdown, the country's garden and DIY stores will reopen to a whole new world of social distancing tomorrow morning.
May 17, 2020
The Italian government announced yesterday that it will throw open its borders next month, effectively ending Europe's longest and strictest coronavirus lockdown just as the summer tourism season gets under...
May 17, 2020
If I had a euro for each email I've received promoting an exciting new way to engage and inspire virtual teams during this whole Covid-shutdown-remote-working-from-home experience we are enduring together,...
May 17, 2020
Speaking loudly can leave coronavirus lingering in the air for up to 14 minutes, research has shown.
May 17, 2020
The entire social economy has been thrown into chaos by the coronavirus pandemic.
May 17, 2020
When the Covid-19 death toll eases, we will certainly have to pay more taxes. How will the move towards being a higher-taxed economy affect politics and governance?
May 17, 2020
In Leipzig, the players bumped elbows and grinned like this was all a little bit silly. In Dortmund, Erling Haaland scored the first goal of football's plague times and stood...
May 16, 2020
Follow the latest coronavirus news in Ireland and across the world on the Independent.ie live blog.
May 16, 2020
Follow the latest coronavirus news in Ireland and across the world on the Independent.ie live blog.
May 16, 2020
Minister for Health Simon Harris has warned against a stigma around people not wearing PPE as Ireland moves into Phase One of the roadmap, and said that a wearing face...
May 16, 2020
Italy will throw open its borders next month, effectively ending Europe's longest and strictest coronavirus lockdown, just as the summer tourism season gets under way.
May 16, 2020
Follow the latest coronavirus news in Ireland and across the world on the Independent.ie live blog.
May 16, 2020
Follow the latest coronavirus news in Ireland and across the world on the Independent.ie live blog.
May 16, 2020
One of the most wanted fugitives in Rwanda's 1994 genocide has been arrested in Paris, authorities said Saturday.
May 16, 2020
One of the most wanted fugitives in Rwanda's 1994 genocide has been arrested outside Paris, authorities said Saturday.
May 16, 2020
Italy will allow international travel, as well as transit between the country's regions, from June 3, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced on Saturday. The authorities, however, have not ruled out...
May 16, 2020
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern found out there are no exceptions when it comes to social distancing after she was turned away from a cafe because it was too...
May 16, 2020
White stork chicks have hatched in the wild in the UK for the first time in centuries.
May 16, 2020
Follow the latest coronavirus news in Ireland and across the world on the Independent.ie live blog.
May 16, 2020
Officials in Venice have voiced hope the coronavirus crisis will provide an opportunity to reimagine one of the world's most fragile cities, creating a more sustainable tourism industry and attracting...
May 16, 2020
Life under lockdown has yielded an unexpected bonus for some of Battersea's loneliest animals – unlimited cat cuddles and double daily walkies.
May 16, 2020
Australians could go out to eat for the first time in weeks on Saturday, but the reopening of restaurants, pubs and cafes came with a stark warning – Do not...
May 16, 2020
Australians could go out to eat for the first time in weeks on Saturday, but the reopening of restaurants, pubs and cafes came with a stark warning – Do not...
May 16, 2020
US President Donald Trump has fired the State Department's inspector general, an Obama administration appointee whose office was critical of alleged political bias in the department's management.
