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The results of a hand count of the Georgia election results are set to be announced with expectations they will confirm Democrat Joe Biden's narrow lead over Republican President Donald...

Up to 200,000 third level students will be able to claim special €250 payments – brought in because of the Covid-19 pandemic – before Christmas.

An infant western lowland gorilla that is being hand-reared by keepers has been named following a public vote.

B&Q owner Kingfisher has reported a sales jump over the past three months as the pandemic helped drive spending on home improvements.

The leader of the small Pacific nation of Samoa has appealed for calm after the country reported its first positive coronavirus test.

A tiny owl has enjoyed a lucky escape after he was discovered by a worker helping to prepare the giant Rockefeller Centre Christmas tree in New York.

Sprawled out on rocks lining the riverbank, a lioness and her cub are lazing in the sun.

Africa has surpassed two million confirmed coronavirus cases as health officials warn of infections starting to creep up again into a second surge.

The primary teachers' union says school staff must be on the priority list for a Covid-19 vaccine when they become available.

Immunity to coronavirus lasts at least eight months and may even continue for years, new research has suggested.

Households have become a hotbed for Covid-19 in the midst of the lockdown, with outbreaks in homes more than doubling in the space of a week.

Households have become a hotbed for Covid-19 in the midst of the lockdown, with outbreaks in homes more than doubling in the space of a week.

Immunity to coronavirus lasts at least eight months and may even continue for years, new research has suggested.

For this week's show I wanted to focus on your gut. Not your gut instinct or going with your gut, but gut health. It's a topic I've covered before on...

The devastation caused by Hurricane Iota became clearer on Wednesday as images emerged showing the trail of ruin left by the second Category 4 storm to blast Nicaragua's Caribbean coast...

A shocking Australian military report into war crimes has found evidence that elite Australian troops unlawfully killed 39 Afghan prisoners, farmers and civilians.

DONALD TRUMP has fired America's top election security official after he criticised his unfounded claims that widespread voter fraud “stole” a victory from him.

Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state, is set to pay an unprecedented visit to an Israeli settlement in the West Bank today, as the Trump administration imposes further sanctions...

President Donald Trump's continuing refusal to co-operate with his successor is forcing President-elect Joe Biden to seek unusual workarounds to prepare for the exploding public health threat and evolving national...

PRESIDENT Trump's continuing refusal to cooperate with his successor is forcing president-elect Joe Biden to seek unusual workarounds to prepare for the exploding public health threat and evolving national security...

Ethiopian government forces have captured two towns held by rebels in the northern region of Tigray, in an escalation of violence that threatens to trigger a humanitarian catastrophe and risks...

REPRESENTING a client inside a courtroom for the first time in nearly three decades, Rudy Giuliani showed some rust as he tried to make the case that President Donald Trump...

Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle passed information to the authors of Finding Freedom despite previously dismissing claims that she co-operated with them as a “conspiracy theory”.

Boris Johnson was labelled the “single biggest threat” to the UK and came under fire over Covid-19 contracts as he responded to Prime Minister's Questions from self-isolation.

German police unleashed water cannon and pepper spray in an effort to scatter thousands of protesters angry about Chancellor Angela Merkel's plans to set a legal framework for enforcing coronavirus...

Boris Johnson was labelled the “single biggest threat” to the UK and came under fire over Covid-19 contracts as he responded to Prime Minister's Questions from self-isolation.

Boris Johnson was labelled the “single biggest threat” to the UK and came under fire over Covid-19 contracts as he responded to Prime Minister's Questions from self-isolation.

Pfizer and BioNTech could secure emergency US and European authorisation for their Covid-19 vaccine next month after final trial results showed it had a 95pc success rate and no serious...

Households have become a hotbed for Covid-19 in the midst of the lockdown, with outbreaks in homes more than doubling in the space of a week.

So, who thinks closing schools early for Christmas is a good idea?

Hospital conditions across the US are deteriorating by the day as the coronavirus rages across the country at an unrelenting pace and the death toll surpasses 250,000.

Britain's Prince William has welcomed a new investigation into how the BBC secured a famous 1995 interview with his mother Princess Diana after accusations that she had been tricked into...

The New Zealand Police force has incorporated a hijab into its official uniform, with the first officer to wear it reporting that it “feels great”.

US aviation regulators have cleared for take-off the controversial Boeing superjet that has been grounded for almost two years following two fatal crashes that killed 346 people, including an Irish...

IT is a proclamation that channels Churchill, Kennedy and even a little Queen Victoria.

US President Donald Trump's re-election campaign on Wednesday requested a partial recount of Wisconsin's presidential election results, as part of its long-shot attempt to reverse President-elect Joe Biden's victory.

The International Space Station's two Russian astronauts ventured out on a spacewalk to prepare for next year's arrival of a long-delayed lab.

HIGHER Education Minister Simon Harris has suggested that the army should be used to carry out more Covid-19 contact-tracing.

HIGHER Education Minister Simon Harris has suggested that the army should be used to carry out more Covid-19 contact-tracing.

New York City is shutting schools to try to stop the renewed spread of coronavirus, Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a painful about-face for one of the first big...