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LV= has said it expects to see a jump in cancer claims in 2021 following screening backlogs.

Embattled estate agent Countrywide has revealed a £90 million lifeline investment and changeover at the top under plans to cut its debt mountain and revive its fortunes.

A trio of space travellers have returned safely to Earth after a six-month mission on the International Space Station.

After meeting last month in perhaps the most chaotic debate in modern US history, President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, will take to the stage again to...

Wickes owner Travis Perkins has revealed a sales bounce back in the third quarter thanks to a booming DIY market since lockdown.

A rare Rolex watch once owned by a miner has sold for more than £200,000 at auction.

Before their final televised face-off, President Donald Trump attacked tonight's debate as yet another campaign event that would be "a stacked deck" against him, while Joe Biden's camp hunkered down...

The FBI has notified Congress it has "nothing to add at this time" to a statement made by President Donald Trump's director of national intelligence disputing the idea that Russia...

Plumes of smoke rose above the Nigerian capital yesterday as authorities struggled to contain a wave of anger at the alleged police shooting of dozens of peaceful protesters.

Donald Trump reportedly retains a "secret" bank account in China, according to The New York Times's latest investigation of his tax records, making a nonsense of his attempts to tie...

Barack Obama called on young Americans to vote and help create a "new normal" in the country ahead of making his first in-person appearance on the campaign trail this year.

Barack Obama called on young Americans to vote and help create a "new normal" in the country ahead of making his first in-person appearance on the campaign trail this year.

Two schoolchildren are among seven people facing possible charges over the beheading of a teacher who showed his class cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, France's anti-terrorism prosecutor said yesterday

Two schoolchildren are among seven people facing possible charges over the beheading of a teacher who showed his class cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, France's anti-terrorism prosecutor said yesterday

Russia and Iran have obtained US voting registration information and are aiming to interfere in the presidential election, the government's national intelligence director said.

Short-form streaming service Quibi is closing down just over six months since launching, the company has announced.

Spain became the first country in western Europe to accumulate more than one million confirmed Covid-19 infections as the nation of 47 million struggles to contain a resurgence of the...

British broadcaster and leading naturalist Sir David Attenborough said on Wednesday that the coronavirus pandemic threatens the fight against climate change by distracting people from the gravity of environmental dangers.

The University of Oxford has said a trial of its coronavirus vaccine will continue in Brazil amid reports of the death of a volunteer.

Contact tracing calls have increased by 400pc over the past six weeks, Health Minister Stephen Donnelly has told the Fianna Fail parliamentary party meeting tonight, addressing the controversy over “DIY”...

It can be hard to keep track of what is allowed as new restrictions come into effect.

Sudanese protesters took to the streets in the capital and across the country over dire living conditions and a deadly crackdown on demonstrators in the east earlier this month.

Contact tracing is a mess, and the powers that be have known about it for months.

Contact tracing is a mess, and the powers that be have known about it for months.

Former Rural Affairs Minister Michael Ring has said he will not vote in favour of fines for people in rural Ireland who breach the 5km travel restriction.

Contract tracing is a mess, and the powers that be have known about it for months.

Spain became the first country in western Europe to accumulate more than one million confirmed Covid-19 infections as the nation of 47 million struggles to contain a resurgence of the...

There have been a further three deaths and 1,167 new cases associated with the coronavirus in Ireland.

There have been a further three deaths and 1,167 new cases associated with the coronavirus in Ireland.

US President Donald Trump maintains a bank account in Ireland as well as China and Britain, according to an analysis of his tax records.

The number of weekly Covid outbreaks recorded in schools doubled again last week, according to latest data from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC).

Hopes that a potential Brexit deal might come out of talks with the EU, days after discussions were paused, sent the pound soaring, and the markets plunging.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has overruled his own health minister, rejecting the announced purchase of 46 million doses of CoronaVac, a potential vaccine against Covid-19 being tested in Sao Paulo...

Around 10,000 people who may have been exposed to the Covid-19 virus through close contact with a person who tested positive were not been alerted for several days as a...

The Taoiseach has said he was not informed of the HSE's decision to ask people with Covid to trace their own contacts.

Nigeria's anti-police protesters have stayed on the streets in Lagos, breaking a government curfew after a night of chaotic violence and reports of demonstrators being shot dead.

The HSE is urging people to not let their guard down around family, referencing a case where over 17 people became infected after one person visited extended family.

We're all glammed-up with nowhere to go.

Democratic politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez used a new way to encourage people to vote in the 2020 US presidential election by streaming live on Twitch on Tuesday.

A Danish man convicted of murdering a Swedish journalist on his homemade submarine has been remanded in custody after he confessed to threatening several people on his brief escape from...