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Voters in Burma's biggest city, Yangon, turned up in large numbers to cast ballots in nationwide elections that are expected to return to power the party of Nobel Peace Prize...

England footballer Marcus Rashford and child poverty campaigners are celebrating after the British Government U-turned over providing free meals to disadvantaged children during the Christmas holidays.

Kamala Harris has reflected on the journey which will see her make history as the first female vice-president of the United States.

Joe Biden has pledged to be a president “who seeks not to divide, but to unify” in his maiden address as President-elect of the United States.

India has reported 45,674 new coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours, with the capital coping with a sharp surge of nearly 7,000 cases a day this week.

Control of the US Senate is not likely to be decided until a January run-off in Georgia, even after Democrat Joe Biden won the White House on Saturday.

World leaders welcomed Joe Biden's election as US president as a chance to enhance co-operation on climate change, the coronavirus pandemic and other issues after four years of Donald Trump's...

Firecrackers were set off and prayers offered in the ancestral village of Kamala Harris after she and Joe Biden won the US election.

There are fears that a "herd immunity" policy towards Covid-19 could be rolled out in Northern Ireland, according to a public health expert at the University of Ulster.

When faced with scandal, sometimes the best thing you can do is to "know when to do nothing", according to crisis management specialist Eric Dezenhall.

Almost 60pc of surveyed Irish GPs are considering early retirement or resigning as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, new research has found.

If you think 2020 has been unsettling, imagine how you'd feel if you'd predicted it. The panic buying, the conspiracy theories, the anti-lockdown protests... everything you had written just a...

Nurse Hazel Cosingan arrives for her shift at CareChoice nursing home off the Malahide Road in north Dublin. Leaving her partner Paul and their five-year-old son Cody at home in...

Six residents at a care home in Co Fermanagh have died from Covid-19 in the past 10 days.

President Donald Trump's bid to discredit the integrity of the US election and use legal action to block the completion of vote tallies in some states has raised fears, even...

A new US vice president-elect stepped forward yesterday - and for the first time in history she was not a man.

Perception in politics matters - when a flawed perception is allowed to persist, it soon transforms into an accepted reality.

In late August, roughly five weeks before Americans went to the polls, a story appeared in The New York Times reporting new data about the reach of fringe US conservative...

Joe Biden was yesterday declared the winner of the US presidential election, confining Donald Trump to a single term in office and bringing to a close four tumultuous years in...

In an Applegreen car park off the N11, the kid in the Burger King uniform hands me a Whopper and fries through the car window. He sees I'm looking at...

It is with relief that I view the dying gasps of the Trump presidency. He was and is repugnant in more ways than I can count. Anti-immigrant, misogynistic, racist. Build...

Flying home for Christmas could lead to a "very grim" new year for our elderly population, leading public health experts have warned.

Locals in Joe Biden's ancestral home are celebrating his election as president of the United States.

Voting has begun in Burma's elections, with the ruling party of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi heavily favoured to be returned to power.

Stars including Mindy Kaling and Julia Louis-Dreyfus have shared their joy as Kamala Harris made history as the first female, black and Asian American vice president-elect.

As election day ground on into “election week,” it became increasingly clear that Democrat Joe Biden would oust President Donald Trump from the White House.

Americans have gathered on street corners and front lawns — honking horns, banging pots and pans, and starting impromptu dance parties — as a vitriolic election and exhausting four-day wait...

Locals in Joe Biden's ancestral home are celebrating his election as President of the United States.

An election result may have finally been called for Joe Biden, but with more than two months to go until the President-Elect is officially sworn in, the electoral process has...

Democrat Joe Biden has defeated President Donald Trump to become the 46th president of the United States.

Democrat Joe Biden has defeated President Donald Trump to become the 46th president of the United States.

A top election official has dismissed US President Donald Trump's fresh claims of voter fraud as rival Joe Biden edges closer to victory.

Democrat Joe Biden is projected to become the 46th President of the United States after winning the state of Pennsylvania to surpass the 270 electoral college votes needed for victory.

Democrat Joe Biden has passed the threshold of 270 electoral college votes needed for victory in the presidential race.

Democrat Joe Biden has passed the threshold of 270 electoral college votes needed for victory in the presidential race.

Boris Johnson and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen agreed during a phone call on Saturday to “redouble efforts” to reach a trade deal and signed off on talks...

Boris Johnson and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen agreed during a phone call on Saturday to “redouble efforts” to reach a trade deal and signed off on talks...

A further 15 people have died as a result of Covid-19 in Northern Ireland, the Department of Health has confirmed.

Armed protesters continue to gather outside offices where workers are counting votes that will decide who wins the US presidential election.

The US presidential race hovers in suspended animation four days after the election as the vote counting process continues.