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Consumers are increasingly having a fight on their hands for refunds in the Covid-19 crisis. Irish licensed travel agents and tour operators will now be able to offer a credit...

In 2005, many years before there was any prospect of him becoming prime minister of Britain, Boris Johnson published a novel called 72 Virgins. Its hero is an oddly familiar...

An Post is to temporarily cut parcel rates for SMEs as the number of packages being delivered by the postal service approaches one million per week.

Climate change shares a critical feature with the Covid pandemic: it does not lend itself to narrow, country-by-country policy responses. The virus is unaware that humans have constructed national political...

Barack Obama criticised President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic as an “absolute chaotic disaster” during a conversation with ex-members of his administration, according to reports.

Seoul has shut down more than 2,100 nightclubs, hostess bars and discos after dozens of coronavirus infections were linked to clubgoers who went out last weekend as South Korea relaxed...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has threatened to pull the company's factory and headquarters out of California in a spat with local officials who have stopped the company from reopening its...

Four-year-old cancer patient Archie Wilks has been allowed outdoors for a “fantastic” family walk after finally testing negative for Covid-19.

RTÉ executives hope to replicate the hit BBC telethon The Big Night In which raised over €30m for frontline workers and those affected by Covid-19.

A man who described his neighbours as a “big family” has built a hatch in their shared fence so they can enjoy a socially-distanced drink.

An Italian aid worker who was kidnapped in Kenya in late 2018 has been freed.

An Italian woman who was kidnapped in Kenya while volunteering as an aid worker has been freed in Somalia after an 18-month ordeal.

Andre Harrell, the Uptown Records founder who shaped the sound of hip-hop and R&B in the late 80s and 90s, has died aged 59.

Little Richard, the self-proclaimed "architect of rock 'n' roll" who built his ground-breaking sound with a boiling blend of boogie-woogie, rhythm and blues and gospel, died on Saturday at the...

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Windmill volunteers who were due to celebrate the visitor attraction's 250th anniversary this year have put events on hold and ramped up flour production to serve their local community.

Follow the latest coronavirus news in Ireland and across the world on the Independent.ie live blog.

Follow the latest coronavirus news in Ireland and across the world on the Independent.ie live blog.

Follow the latest coronavirus news in Ireland and across the world on the Independent.ie live blog.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has marked the anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in the Second World War, in a ceremony shorn of its usual military parade and pomp...

Seoul has shut down more than 2,100 nightclubs, hostess bars and discos after dozens of coronavirus infections were linked to clubgoers who went out last weekend as South Korea relaxed...

In his ninth-floor office on Paris's Avenue Montaigne, Europe's wealthiest man, Bernard Arnault, is spending long hours plotting a post-virus future for his luxury goods empire, LVMH. At 71, the...

They have left behind royal life as they knew it, swapping Britain for the sunnier climes of Los Angeles.

Efforts to fast-track the opening of pubs, ahead of the timeline in the Government's roadmap to ease coronavirus restrictions, have been dealt a blow by chief medical officer Dr Tony...

Italy has become the first European Union country to record more than 30,000 coronavirus deaths.

Jacare Souza is out of UFC 249 after testing positive for coronavirus ahead of his bout at the controversial event.

League One and League Two clubs are facing a collision course over how to determine the final tables in the increasingly likely event that their ­seasons are abandoned.

Allies of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden are being told to sharpen attacks on President Donald Trump's stimulus efforts as thinly veiled "cronyism", according to a memo being sent...

An ancient marine reptile that swam the oceans nearly 250 million years ago had unusual pebble-like teeth which it used to crush hard-shelled prey, scientists believe.

The split in the Premier League has now become so pronounced that some figures have a name they share for the bottom six: 'Project Sabotage'.

Premier League footballers are scheduled to start being tested for coronavirus on Thursday, with clubs told to expect their results in just 24 hours, sparking further controversy over Project Restart.

For a 16-year-old Soviet girl during World War II, the first surprise after enlisting to fight the invading Nazis was the freezing, filthy stables where she was to sleep with...

US President Donald Trump has voiced uncertainty over the future of FBI director Christopher Wray.

When Taiwo Ayinde got home from work, her children knew to stay away from her.

League One and League Two clubs are facing a collision course over how to determine the final tables in the increasingly likely event that their ­seasons are abandoned.

Dana White has been criticised and scrutinised because of his desire to push through with UFC events during the coronavirus pandemic but he insists the organisation's return this weekend is...

A white former police officer and his son were arrested in Brunswick, Georgia, and charged with murder in the shooting death of an unarmed black man, an incident that touched...

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II led tributes to veterans of World War Two recalling the "never give up, never despair" message of Victory in Europe Day 75 years ago.

Seven Second World War veterans have joined President Donald Trump for a commemoration in Washington to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the conflict in Europe.