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Kosovo's PM Albin Kurti sacked his interior minister amid disagreements over whether the country should declare a state of emergency to halt the spread of coronavirus. The move may bring...

The Eurovision Song Contest 2020 has been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

"It was taken out of context," wrote actress Vanessa Hudgens in an apology note for her comments on the coronavirus.

CREDIT unions say they will be understanding and flexible towards members in genuine financial difficulty.

TAOISEACH Leo Varadkar has been told that Irish health authorities should be able to carry out some 15,000 Coronavirus tests per day as efforts to battle the pandemic intensify.

BROADCASTER and doctor Ciara Kelly is suffering from the coronavirus, she revealed today.

Middle East states need urgently to offer more information about coronavirus cases to help bolster the fight against the disease across the region, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on...

Glastonbury festival will have an "enforced fallow year" in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, organisers have said.

Seth Rogen has live-tweeted his first viewing of Cats while in self-isolation.

PHARMACIST and former TD Kate O'Connell has appealed to members of the public to keep back from shop workers to reduce the risk of retail staff being exposed to coronavirus.

Car dealership Pendragon has seen its shares slump to their lowest level in nearly 11 years after posting an annual loss and warning the coronavirus outbreak is set to see...

The technology that animated movies like Toy Story and enabled a variety of special effects is the focus of this year's Turing Award, the technology industry's version of the Nobel...

Political leaders “underestimated” the magnitude of the danger posed by the coronavirus, Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission has admitted. Her statement came as the EU...

MPs in New Zealand have passed a landmark bill that treats abortion as a health issue rather than a crime.

Norwegian musher Thomas Waerner has won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race across Alaska – one of the few US sporting events not cancelled by concerns over the coronavirus.

A number of US embassies around the world will suspend routine visa services due to coronavirus precautions, the US Embassy in South Korea said on Wednesday. The suspension will affect...

The operators of a Colorado funeral home whose side business of selling body parts without consent was exposed by a Reuters investigative report in 2018 were charged on Tuesday with...

A pub in England is offering free rooms to anyone who finds themselves "temporarily homeless" because they live with someone vulnerable due to the coronavirus.

The coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 7,900 people worldwide.

China defended its decision on Wednesday to expel American journalists from three US newspapers and bar them even from working in Hong Kong. Beijing says the measure falls within the...

Joe Biden swept to victory in Florida, Illinois and Arizona on Tuesday, increasingly pulling away with a Democratic presidential primary upended by the coronavirus.

On March 17, 2019, not many people would have been sitting at home watching the news. But this year is very different. If you weren't among the brave workers providing...

At least three rockets struck Baghdad's fortified Green Zone near the American Embassy late on Tuesday, Iraqi security officials said.

The dream may have been put on hold for a year but it is still very much alive with Tiger Roll being aimed at the 2021 Aintree Grand National.

Not even a virus pandemic was going to stop enterprising Irish families from wearing the green to proudly mark St Patrick's Day.

On a St Patrick's Day like no other, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar issued a historic rallying cry for the nation to help slow down an unstoppable virus.

Our understandable fixation with the coronavirus risks overlooking a significant anniversary in this nation's history which occurs this week.

Idris Elba had never sounded so serious - not even when shooting down questions about whether he wanted to be the next James Bond.

There were many tears last Thursday when students were told that school was closing that evening.

Dublin businesses alone stand to lose €106m this summer after Uefa announced the postponement of the Euro 2020 tournament until next summer.

Detailed Brexit trade negotiations planned for this week were cancelled yesterday, as government sources indicated the UK is now preparing to seek a mutually agreed extension to the Brexit negotiations...

With children out of school due to the Covid-19 crisis, RTE could provide a valuable public service by re-jigging its daytime TV schedule to become, in effect, a 'national school'.

Europe's airports are facing a near total collapse of passenger traffic and need "extraordinary and urgent funding" to remain operational, industry body Airports Council International has warned the European Commission.

Idris Elba had never sounded so serious - not even when shooting down questions about whether he wanted to be the next James Bond.

For educators - and, indeed, all other sectors - employment was upended last week. Colleagues in the early-years sector found themselves temporarily laid off, emphasising once again the disparity between...

Old equipment such as building insulation foam, refrigerators, cooling systems and foam insulation are still leaking ozone-destroying gases into the atmosphere, scientists have said.

As we begin a period of social distancing and isolation, we've asked three writers to document their experiences. Today, it's the turn of Sophie White, mother to three small children....

Singer and musician Gavin James is determined to do something to help in the face of an unprecedented crisis.

A war of words between the United States and China escalated last night after President Donald Trump called Covid-19 the "Chinese virus" and Beijing expelled journalists from leading American newspapers.

US stocks extended tenuous gains yesterday, with the Federal Reserve said to be close to reintroducing additional crisis-era tools to stabilise financial markets roiled by the coronavirus.