Unemployment in the US has swelled to levels last seen during the Great Depression of the 1930s, with one in six workers thrown out of a job by the coronavirus.
April 23, 2020
Healthcare workers across the UK have been applauding coronavirus survivors as they leave hospital.
April 23, 2020
England legend Wayne Rooney acknowledged the ninth anniversary of his famous 2011 tweet in which he appeared to offer Rio Ferdinand a lift.
April 23, 2020
The staffing crisis in private nursing homes is escalating and the promised redeployment of workers from the HSE is not materialising, it was claimed today.
April 23, 2020
A two-week ceasefire in Yemen, which had been declared by a Saudi-led military coalition, expired on Thursday without having led to a permanent truce. The latest peace-push follows UN Secretary-General...
April 23, 2020
The UK's Stobart Group has sealed a deal to buy a 49pc stake – and effective control – of Dublin-based Stobart Air for between £300,000 and £400,000 (€343,000 and €457,000).
April 23, 2020
EU leaders must work together to help countries recover from the coronavirus pandemic, the head of the European Parliament has warned.
April 23, 2020
INSURERS have been called on to reduce premiums for the duration of the emergency.
April 23, 2020
AN INTRUDER in a hi-vis jacket claimed during a spree of home burglaries that he was out “after housebreakers”, then threatened a resident who challenged him: “I'll bomb you, I'll...
April 23, 2020
Indonesia will temporarily ban domestic air and sea travel starting Friday, barring a few exceptions, to prevent further spread of coronavirus, Transport Ministry officials have said. The ban on air...
April 23, 2020
A care home group is creating an app linking users with residents after the success of its “adopt a grandparent” video chat scheme.
April 23, 2020
More than 4.4 million laid-off workers applied for US unemployment benefits last week as job cuts escalated due to the coronavirus pandemic.
April 23, 2020
Longford-based man who recovered from Covid-19 makes headlines in native Nigeria as a beacon of hope
A LONGFORD-based IT worker has offered hope in his native Nigeria that people can recover from Covid-19.
April 23, 2020
A professor of immunology has raised concerns that Ireland's scale of testing for Covid-19 is picking up only one in 10 cases.
April 23, 2020
Asylum seekers and refugees with the coronavirus in direct provision are being offer self isolation facilities on and off site, officials insisted today.
April 23, 2020
French President Emmanuel Macron told mayors that a plan to unwind the coravirus lockdown would be unveiled around Tuesday next week, his Elysee office has said. The return to schools...
April 23, 2020
Independent.ie's live blog is here to keep you informed of what's going on in Ireland and across the world during the coronavirus pandemic.
April 23, 2020
Ospreys in the Highlands have laid their first egg of the season on the same date for the third year in a row.
April 23, 2020
Conservationists in Thailand have reported more sightings of a threatened sea mammal as the coronavirus pandemic has left tourist areas deserted.
April 23, 2020
SERIOUS concerns over the transparency of decision making in the coronavirus crisis have been raised by Labour leader Alan Kelly.
April 23, 2020
FIANNA Fáil leader Micheál Martin has sought clarity on whether members of the public should wear face masks as part of measures to halt the spread of coronavirus.
April 23, 2020
Captain Tom Moore could miss out on the top spot in the charts with The Weeknd likely to overtake the war veteran.
April 23, 2020
Greece on Thursday extended its general coronavirus lockdown by a week to May 4. Any relaxation will be staggered over May and June. Authorities imposed a blanket shutdown of public...
April 23, 2020
Maynooth University (MU) is opening its student apartments to allow returning frontline health care workers to self-isolate for 14 days when they come back from abroad to help tackle the...
April 23, 2020
Charities and community groups working with vulnerable children are among those helped by a donation of thousands of pieces of personal protective equipment (PPE) from City of Glasgow College.
April 23, 2020
Africa has seen a 43% jump in reported Covid-19 cases in the last week following a warning from the World Health Organisation that the continent of 1.3 billion could become...
April 23, 2020
Finland's Prime Minister Sanna Marin will work from home from Thursday as a precaution against possible exposure to Covid-19, according to her office. Marin had been told a close contact...
April 23, 2020
PROMINENT human rights lawyer Niall Murphy has told how he spent 16 days in a coma with coronavirus and was given just a 50 per cent chance of surviving.
April 23, 2020
The leader of Iran's Revolutionary Guard has ordered his forces to potentially target the US Navy after President Donald Trump's tweet a day earlier threatening to sink Iranian vessels.
April 23, 2020
Scammers could use Ramadan to trick people into handing over money thinking they are making charitable donations, a bank has warned.
April 23, 2020
The Hungarian government will decide next week on the future of lockdown measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus as Budapest prepares for a restart of the economy, Prime...
April 23, 2020
Two former members of Syria's secret police have appeared in court in Germany accused of crimes against humanity for their role at a government-run detention centre where large numbers of...
April 23, 2020
A fox cub is recovering after she was saved from drowning in a hole in a Glasgow dockyard – helped by a police officer called Robert Fox.
April 23, 2020
Conservationists in Thailand have reported more sightings of a threatened sea mammal as the coronavirus pandemic has left tourist areas deserted.
April 23, 2020
A police officer made it to the birth of his second child after his coronavirus test results were fast-tracked.
April 23, 2020
A report which said Vietnamese government-linked hackers had attempted to break into Chinese state organizations at the center of Beijing's effort to contain the coronavirus outbreak is “baseless,” the Foreign...
April 23, 2020
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for international cooperation on the development of a coronavirus vaccine, saying the pandemic transcends borders and can only be countered jointly.
April 23, 2020
Beijing will donate an additional $30 million to the World Health Organization (WHO) to support the global fight against Covid-19, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said on Thursday. Hua...
April 23, 2020
Residents and staff at a care home dance and sing on video to send a message to their families that morale is high and to “spread a bit of happiness”.
