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Australia's highest court will deliver its ruling next week on whether to overturn the convictions of Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Catholic convicted of child sex abuse.

At 11am, the numbers in receipt of unemployment benefit in March will be published. They are likely to show a historic increase in the hundreds of thousands.

Figures from data infrastructure companies show that web traffic over the last week is 50pc higher than the annual average.

I'm a native of New Ross, Co. Wexford. I've been in Sydney 24 years but have travelled home every year since to visit close family and friends, sometimes twice a...

Little did I know when I called last orders on a Tuesday night, that it would be my last shift before the world was shut down by a global pandemic.

The Irish family of the first NHS front-line doctor to die from coronavirus have paid tribute to the heroic health worker.

They say we're going to experience both a baby boom and a spike in divorce cases when all of this is over. The future baby-makers are using the downtime to...

As the global response to the coronavirus evolves, organisations are experiencing operational, financial and liquidity challenges. The top concern for many businesses is to manage their cash pressures to ride...

On Tuesday evening, the Irish College of General Practitioners (ICGP), collaborating with the HSE, circulated updated advice to GPs regarding Covid-19 infection in communities. This latest bundle includes a paper...

Though it's been said many times, it is important to begin by acknowledging that Covid-19 represents an unprecedented global humanitarian challenge. Its impact will be far-reaching, and it will have...

I'm a native of New Ross, Co. Wexford. I've been in Sydney 24 years but have travelled home every year since to visit close family and friends, sometimes twice a...

Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden has quietly expanded his lead over US President Donald Trump among registered voters, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll.

The FBI failed to keep all the records needed to justify wire-taps within the United States, a Justice Department watchdog has said in a report which raises new questions about...

Drugs that treat malaria are among the medicines which will be used from next week in Ireland to treat Covid-19 as part of a global trial aimed at giving patients...

It's in the late afternoons that the peace descends. A peace that, without realising it, I had somehow lost along the way. In truth, not lost so much as abandoned,...

They say we're going to experience both a baby boom and a spike in divorce cases when all of this is over. The future baby-makers are using the downtime to...

The Irish jumps season is officially over after Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) chiefs called a halt to any hope of completing the national hunt action this spring, although this year's...

The logjam in coronavirus testing is now leaving some patients waiting two weeks to find out if they are positive for the virus.

New York authorities rushed to bring in an army of medical volunteers yesterday as the statewide death toll from the coronavirus doubled in 72 hours to more than 1,900.

Q There are more delays in testing for coronavirus. What is the problem?

Can a pandemic help your company's business? Let's face it: a handful are sure to benefit. Netflix is booming. Zoom and Microsoft Teams have become indispensable for some businesses. And...

President Donald Trump has said that he is weighing grounding domestic flights between coronavirus hot spots as he ramps up efforts to try to contain the pandemic's spread in the...

President Donald Trump has announced that US naval ships are being moved towards Venzuela.

French health officials reported 509 new deaths from the coronavirus on Wednesday, taking the total to 4,032. This makes the country the fourth to pass the 4,000-fatalities threshold after Italy,...

Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said on Wednesday that France is likely to unwind its nationwide coronavirus lockdown gradually rather than in one go. The government has ordered people to stay...

Ireland can share in an EU “unemployment reinsurance scheme” worth up to €100 billion to help member governments pay the emergency coronavirus welfare payments.

Kosovo's government has decided to phase out its 100 percent tariff on imports from Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina starting Wednesday. The move, however, did not ease international pressure on Serbia's breakaway...

Elizabeth the baby elephant has been making a splash at the UK's largest zoo.

Keep informed of these unprecedented times with the latest coronavirus updates on Independent.ie's live blog.

Emergency services gathered to wish a 10-year-old boy happy birthday.

The Taliban has said the group was ready to declare a ceasefire in areas of Afghanistan under its control if they are hit by a coronavirus outbreak.

THE country's top civil servant has urged TDs to heed public health advice to stay at home ahead of a controversial sitting of the Dáil this week.

A pen pal friendship between a six-year-old boy from London and an eight-year-old girl from Yemen has been described as “humbling” by a charity.

Global markets slumped after new figures revealed a major manufacturing slowdown with mass factory job cuts across the world.

Turkey will have to take additional measures if the coronavirus outbreak grows and people don't abide by a “voluntary quarantine,” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday. “We may have...

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said the Government is running into difficulties securing Covid-19 tests and equipment and that there will be delays.

Bank of Ireland says footfall in branches has halved since Friday's tighter Government lock-down but many older customers are continuing to come in for routine banking unnecessarily.

Residents at a residential home have recreated a giant game of Kerplunk to lift their spirits in isolation.

A number of staff and 10 pregnant women at the Rotunda Hospital have tested positive for coronavirus, Master of the Rotunda Hospital, Professor Fergal Malone confirmed today.

Keep informed of these unprecedented times with the latest coronavirus updates on Independent.ie's live blog.