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A publicity stunt involving South Korean girl group Blackpink and a cuddly baby panda has prompted outraged comments and calls for an apology from some in China.

Bosses at Galliford Try expect the company to get back into the black in the first half of its financial year, after its construction sites reopened following the first lockdown.

As if this week hasn't been ‘there's something in my eye' enough after Joe Biden and vaccine hopes, along come the Christmas adverts that have officially sent our tear ducts...

A paralysed British athlete set to take part in a global cycling race hopes victory can shine a light on the life-changing technology that allows him to compete.

China on Friday became one of the last major countries to congratulate Joe Biden on being elected US president.

Scientists believe they have found a better way to sober up drunk people than black coffees and cold showers.

Within the annals of 20th-century serial killers, one name – and one moniker – represents a particularly disturbing chapter.

Within the annals of 20th-century serial killers, one name – and one moniker – represents a particularly disturbing chapter.

Stormont has voted to reopen hospitality next week - despite the warning from its top medical adviser that Covid restrictions must stay in place for another fortnight to save lives.

The Yorkshire Ripper serial killer has died in hospital, the Prison Service has confirmed.

Boris Johnson's most senior adviser Dominic Cummings is reportedly set to leave his Downing Street position by the end of the year.

Covid restrictions on travel between counties and household visits will only be eased just before Christmas under plans being discussed by Government.

A civil court trial has begun in Japan over Nissan's demand for 10 billion yen (£73 million) in damages from its former chairman, Carlos Ghosn.

South Korea has reported its biggest daily jump in Covid-19 cases in 70 days as the government began fining people who fail to wear masks in public.

South Korea has reported its biggest daily jump in Covid-19 cases in 70 days as the government began fining people who fail to wear masks in public.

Thick mud and debris coated many villages around the Philippine capital Friday after a typhoon caused extensive flooding that killed at least 39 people.

School systems in multiple US states are giving up on in-person classes and some governors are reimposing strict social-distancing measures as the coast-to-coast resurgence of the coronavirus sends deaths, hospitalisations...

Boris Johnson is counting the cost of a power struggle in No 10 which resulted in the resignation of one of his closest aides.

A nurse accused of the murders of eight babies in a year-long killing spate at a UK hospital neonatal unit has been remanded in custody.

Paranoia and anxiety about a “black man in the White House” drove the Republican Party towards Donald Trump, Barack Obama has claimed in his new memoir.

Pressure mounted on officials in battleground states to accept claims of ballot-counting irregularities and voter fraud in the election despite a lack of evidence, as Republicans sought new ways to...

President Donald Trump declared on Twitter, “WE WILL WIN!”

The idea that law abiding members of the public will be expected to remain in their counties after six weeks of Government-imposed lockdown is laughable.

There were many prayers offered in the United States over the last week and a half. Prayers that sought to bring an end to the hatred and division that has...

Donegal remains at risk of living under higher levels of restrictions than other counties at Christmas despite moves to extend Covid-19 restrictions in Northern Ireland.

Donald Trump conceding defeat is like Hannibal Lecter agreeing to be sectioned. He will not go peacefully. It seems fitting that the final scene of the Trump horror show was...

President-elect Joe Biden has chosen long-time Washington operative Ronald Klain as White House chief of staff, sending an early signal that he intends to rely heavily on experience, competence and...

A coalition of federal and state officials said they have no evidence that votes were compromised or altered in last week's US presidential election.

A coalition of federal and state officials said they have no evidence that votes were compromised or altered in last week's US presidential election.

A coalition of federal and state officials said they have no evidence that votes were compromised or altered in last week's US presidential election.

A nurse accused of the murders of eight babies in a year-long killing spree at a hospital neonatal unit has been remanded in custody.

At least 74 migrants drowned after their Europe-bound ship capsized off the coast of Libya, the UN migration agency said, in the latest in a series of at least eight...

THE DAA has insisted it will have access to capacity of more than 12,000 Covid-19 tests per day once new facilities in Dublin Airport opens.

With a Covid-19 vaccine drawing closer, public health officials across the US are gearing up for the biggest vaccination effort in history.

The FTSE 100's eight-day rally came to an end on Thursday as soaring optimism regarding the Covid-19 vaccine finally tempered.

Italian mediation helped resolve a long-running dispute between Kosovo's ethnic Albanian government and the Serb minority, allowing a road project that will bypass a historic Christian Orthodox monastery listed as...

Twitter has compiled its top acts of kindness in the UK throughout the pandemic to put a focus on those “coming together in support of one another”.

A hulking, never-occupied building likened to a robot's head that has loomed over the Russian city of Kaliningrad for decades is to be demolished next year, the region's governor says.

Former President Mary Robinson has compared Donald Trump's refusal to concede the US election with “volatile and undemocratic situations in states such as Kenya, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe”.

Republicans have branded their opponents “socialists, “radical extremists” and “Marxists” ahead of US Senate elections in Georgia that will determine who controls the chamber when President-elect Joe Biden takes office.