Robert Lacey is sitting beside a large parcel of draft chapters of his new book, Battle of Brothers, which have been returned unopened from Buckingham Palace.
October 18, 2020
With just under a quarter of households comprising a single person, loneliness and isolation threaten to permeate what is already shaping up to be a particularly trying winter for the...
October 18, 2020
Two weeks ago, a young man went to the pub to celebrate with his mates after a match. Unknown to him, the virus was already in his system. Some of...
October 18, 2020
Gone are the days when Donald Trump held forth daily at the White House podium flanked by members of his coronavirus task force. And the days when VP Mike Pence...
October 18, 2020
More than half of Covid-19 patients who were admitted to Beaumont Hospital are still suffering serious medical complications months after being discharged.
October 18, 2020
A Professor of medicine from Harvard University and author of a global petition calling for the end to Covid-19 lockdowns has called Ireland's five-level strategy a "fantasy" plan that could...
October 18, 2020
Scientists believe "smart-zoning" would help tackle Ireland's growing Covid-19 numbers if cases were managed outside the parameters of county boundaries.
October 18, 2020
A Professor of medicine from Harvard University and author of a global petition calling for the end to Covid-19 lockdowns has called Ireland's five-level strategy a "fantasy" plan that could...
October 18, 2020
When we are looking at long, long lines of people queueing to vote, we have this cultural assumption that we must be looking at some Third World country where democracy...
October 18, 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic is about solving a series of problems - not just one.
October 18, 2020
What's happening in Northern Ireland? How could one part of the island of Ireland have done so badly when it comes to Covid-19, while other parts, only a matter of...
October 17, 2020
Haitian police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse anti-government protesters who blocked roads and set fires in the capital, Port-au-Prince.
October 17, 2020
Armenia and Azerbaijan have announced a new attempt to establish a ceasefire in their conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh starting from midnight.
October 17, 2020
A mostly young, diverse crowd of masked women rallied in the nation's capital, Washington DC, exhorting voters to oppose President Donald Trump and his fellow Republican candidates in the November...
October 17, 2020
A suspect shot dead by police after the beheading of a history teacher near Paris was an 18-year-old Chechen refugee unknown to intelligence services who posted a grisly claim of...
October 17, 2020
A suspect shot dead by police after the beheading of a history teacher near Paris was an 18-year-old Chechen refugee unknown to intelligence services who posted a grisly claim of...
October 17, 2020
The governor of a southern region of Italy has had choice words for the exported American holiday of Halloween as Naples buckles under surging coronavirus infections.
October 17, 2020
The governor of a southern region of Italy has had choice words for the exported American holiday of Halloween as Naples buckles under surging coronavirus infections.
October 17, 2020
Two further deaths and 1,031 new cases of coronavirus have been reported in Northern Ireland, the Department of Health has confirmed.
October 17, 2020
Pope Francis has permanently removed a Polish bishop who was kicked out of his diocese a few months ago pending a Vatican investigation into allegations he covered up cases of...
October 17, 2020
MELANIA Trump has lashed out at "self-serving adults" for focusing on her falling out with a friend and adviser.
October 17, 2020
Children with lower social and communication abilities may have a brain organisation that is “reversed” or “flipped”, compared to those with typical development, research suggests.
October 17, 2020
Azerbaijan officials have accused Armenia of striking its second-largest city with a ballistic missile, killing at least 13 civilians and wounding 50 others in an escalation of their conflict over...
October 17, 2020
New Zealand's prime minister Jacinda Ardern has won a second term in office in an election landslide of historic proportions.
October 17, 2020
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's centre-left Labour Party won a landslide victory in New Zealand's general election on Saturday as voters rewarded her for a decisive response to COVID-19.
October 17, 2020
Authorities in Bangkok have shut down mass transit systems and set up roadblocks as Thailand's capital braced for a fourth straight day of determined anti-government protests.
October 17, 2020
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's Labour Party was on track for a landslide victory in New Zealand's general election on Saturday, and could possibly form the first single-party government in decades.
October 17, 2020
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's Labour Party was on track for a landslide victory in New Zealand's general election on Saturday, and could possibly form the first single-party government in decades.
October 17, 2020
A suspect shot dead by police after the beheading of a history teacher near Paris was an 18-year-old Chechen, French police said.
October 17, 2020
An amateur mountaineer scaled Europe's tallest mountain in a day – just a few days after being given the all-clear from Covid-19.
October 17, 2020
Jacinda Ardern appears to be heading for a landslide win and a second term as prime minister during early vote counting in New Zealand's election.
October 17, 2020
Terror has struck France for the second time in three weeks after the gruesome beheading of a history teacher in a Paris suburb.
October 17, 2020
Polling places have opened on election day in New Zealand as Jacinda Ardern seeks a second term as prime minister.
October 17, 2020
Terror has struck France for the second time in three weeks after the gruesome beheading of a history teacher in a Paris suburb.
October 17, 2020
Riot police in Thailand cracked down on thousands of student-led protesters who rallied yesterday in the capital in defiance of a strict state of emergency - while the prime minister...
October 17, 2020
US president Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden hit the campaign trail again yesterday after displaying their sharply contrasting styles in duelling televised town-hall events on Thursday evening.
October 17, 2020
Millions of Americans are breaking voter-turnout records with three weeks to go before Election Day and Democrats are casting early ballots at a far higher rate than Republicans.
October 17, 2020
Dublin City Council has given the green light to contentious plans to turn James Joyce's 'House of the Dead' on Dublin's quays into a 50-bed tourist hostel.
October 17, 2020
Ever since Donald Trump set his sights on winning the White House, he's complained, with incendiary vitriol, that American elections are "rigged" against him.
