Rescuers in China were drilling new shafts on Thursday to reach gold miners who have been trapped underground for 11 days after an explosion,including one they hope to use to b ...

Some 3,500 relatives of people killed during the Northern Ireland conflict have urged the British and Irish governments to fully investigate the decades of violence. ...

Muscovite Sofia Dorofeyeva had always been drawn to the trains traveling across the vast expanses of her native Russia but until this year she and her female compatriots had be ...

Level 5 restrictions aimed at reducing the spread of Covid-19 are set to be extended, with Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney saying they will be maintained "well into ...

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has not explicitly ruled out the idea of restaurants being shut until May or even longer. ...

Six-year-old Adam King from Co Cork, whose 'virtual hug' provided one of television's most memorable moments on the Late Late Toy Show last year, is set to see it light up buil ...

Tom Hanks, Bruce Springsteen, and Katy Perry were among the stars who gathered last night for a star-studded primetime TV special to mark US President Joe Biden and Vice-Presid ...

New US President Joe Biden has warned the worst of the pandemic is still to come, as the number of American coronavirus deaths surpassed the country's troop fatalities in World ...

Tiger King star Carole Baskin has said she is 'thankful' that Donald Trump did not grant a pardon to her rival Joe Exotic who is serving a 22-year jail sentence for breaching w ...

A file has been sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions in connection with the Oireachtas Golf Society's Dinner last August which became known as "Golfgate". ...

Job postings for the final quarter of last year were 23% lower than the same time in 2019, according to figures published by e-recruitment platform IrishJobs. ...

Taoiseach Micheál Martin will join other EU leaders on video conference later today to discuss the target of vaccinating 70% of the EU's adult population by the summer. ...

Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan has said the highly infectious nature of Covid-19 cannot be under-estimated, as well as the impact it can have on families and communities ...

The family of Nóra Quoirin will challenge an inquest ruling that she died by misadventure after vanishing in the Malaysian jungle while on holiday, their lawyer has said. ...

The family of Nora Quoirin will challenge an inquest ruling that she died by misadventure after vanishing in the Malaysian jungle while on holiday, their lawyer has said. ...

US President Joe Biden signed a series of executive orders to launch his administration, including a decision to rejoin the Paris climate accord and a mask mandate for all fede ...

US President Joe Biden has signed 17 executive orders to launch his administration, including a decision to rejoin the Paris climate accord and a mask mandate for all federal b ...

US President Joe Biden signed a series of executive orders to launch his administration, including a decision to rejoin the Paris climate accord and a mask mandate for all fede ...

The Minister for Justice is to publish new legislation to allow pre-trial hearings to take place in criminal cases. ...

The Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald has written to the Taoiseach Micheál Martin demanding that he "act" on new information relating to Tánaiste Leo Varadkar's leaking of ...

New research has identified a number of specific genes associated with breast cancer. ...