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Over 50s' firm Saga has seen shares sink as it warned coronavirus has affected its travel business due to cancellations and falling demand.

Turkey said it would deploy special forces along its land border with Greece to prevent Greek authorities from pushing back migrants trying to cross into Europe, after Turkey declared its...

R&B singer R Kelly is due in US federal court on Thursday in Chicago to enter a plea to an updated federal indictment that includes sex abuse allegations involving a...

All schools and universities in Iran will be closed until the end of the country's calendar year on March 20, Health Minister Saeed Namaki announced on state TV on Thursday....

Greece has repulsed nearly 35,000 migrants trying to cross onto its territory illegally since Turkey opened its border nearly a week ago, government sources said on Thursday, as it prepares...

Boris Johnson appeared flustered when asked if he will be changing nappies when his new baby arrives.

Javier Perez de Cuellar, the two-term United Nations secretary-general who brokered a historic ceasefire between Iran and Iraq in 1988 and who in later life came out of retirement to...

One of the parents of the Clare family diagnosed with coronavirus completed a shift working in a hospital A&E after returning from Italy.

Two schools in the west of the country were closed today following the latest outbreak of the new coronavirus among a family.

One of France's vaunted high-speed trains derailed on Thursday morning on a trip to Paris, injuring 21 people including the driver, officials said.

Turkey is deploying 1,000 special police forces along its border with Greece on Thursday to halt the pushback of migrants towards its territory, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said. The comments...

The owner of Ladbrokes took a hit to its top line last year after the Government imposed a maximum stake on so-called fixed odds betting terminals.

Departing Moneysupermarket boss Mark Lewis received an almost £90,000 larger pay packet last year as he helped drive the firm to bumper profits.

The leaders of Turkey and Russia will meet in Moscow in a bid to agree a deal that avoids further escalation of conflict in Syria.

An air strike on a rebel-held village in Syria has killed at least 15 people including children and injured several others, opposition activists said.

I write as a consultant specialist in maternal medicine with 30 years of experience in caring for high risk pregnant mothers. I have never written to the media nor made...

I write as a consultant specialist in maternal medicine with 30 years of experience in caring for high risk pregnant mothers. I have never written to the media nor made...

I write as a consultant specialist in maternal medicine with 30 years of experience in caring for high risk pregnant mothers. I have never written to the media nor made...

Domino's Pizza is still trying to sell its international businesses, months after announcing a deal for its Norwegian arm.

US prosecutors have called for Bernard Madoff not to be released early from prison even if kidney disease kills him within months.

Turkey's purchase of Russian S-400 defense systems remains a very serious concern as Washington considers what support to offer over Syria's Idlib, the US special representative for the region James...

The leaders of Turkey and Russia will meet in Moscow in a bid to agree a deal that avoids further escalation of conflict in Syria.

Athens will transfer migrants who arrived on its territory illegally after March 1 to the northern city of Serres then plans to deport them back to their countries of origin,...

Insurance giant Aviva has said it faces a £70 million bill so far from the recent UK winter storms and has seen coronavirus hit its Asian and Italian businesses.

ITV has warned that its advertising revenues are being hit by the outbreak of coronavirus as travel companies pull their ads from TV.

Bernie Sanders is refocusing his campaign to be the Democratic nominee for US president after a disappointing showing on Super Tuesday.

The peace talks on Syria in the Astana format are currently the only effective instrument that has facilitated the efforts to curb violence in that country, according to Iranian Foreign...

The US death toll from the strain of coronavirus known as Covid-19 has reached 11 following the death of a patient in California.

Peruvian politician and diplomat Javier Perez de Cuellar, who served as the United Nations' fifth secretary-general throughout the 1980s, has died at the age of 100, Peruvian officials confirmed late...

Covid-19 has become a massive organisational, economic and political challenge as the virus spreads through Europe. With just a couple of cases on the island of Ireland, the next two...

A number of juvenile GAA fixtures due to take place this weekend have been postponed as a result of the coronavirus case in a Dublin school.

Shares in Hostelworld slumped by as much as 16pc yesterday after the Irish accommodation booking platform warned that coronavirus could pare its revenues by €4m.

The faster spread of the coronavirus will wipe out any hope of stronger growth in 2020, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said yesterday, adding that a third...

I'm stuck in Italy with 3,090 confirmed cases of coronavirus, 107 dead, 276 recovered. Stuck? Lucky you, they say. But no. An enforced absence when there are work deadlines to...

Italy has taken the unprecedented step of closing all schools and universities in an attempt to halt the spread of the coronavirus, which has so far killed 107 people and...

The global release of the new James Bond film 'No Time to Die' has been postponed for seven months amid the coronavirus disruption that has closed cinemas in China and...

Businesses are likely to suffer tax payment difficulties as the coronavirus spreads, Revenue officials now fear.

A 370-pupil primary school that closed yesterday amid coronavirus concerns is reopening today, after being told it should not have shut.

The United States carried out its first air strike on Taliban fighters in Afghanistan since the two sides signed a troop withdrawal agreement on Saturday.

Large numbers of Italian rugby fans arriving here will increase the risk of the coronavirus spreading, a leading infectious disease consultant warned.