NPHET is expected to issue an update in relation to the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine following meetings with the National Immunisation Advisory Committee and the Health Products Regulatory Authority.

France and Germany were set to resume AstraZeneca vaccinations after EU regulators gave the jab the all-clear, and US President Joe Biden said his administration would meet its goal of inoculating 100 million Americans weeks ahead of schedule.

The British government intends to take on new powers that would allow it to compel the Stormont Executive to provide abortion services in Northern Ireland.

The Director of Fota Wildlife Park in County Cork has warned that - like many similar attractions - the park is facing permanent closure unless it reopens to visitors soon.

US and Chinese diplomats clashed in their first face-to-face talks since President Joe Biden took office, with both countries digging in on a list of issues on which they diverge broadly as the meeting opened in Alaska.

The Director of Public Health with the HSE in the Midwest has outlined three examples of how Covid-19 can easily spread between households.

The Bar Council of Ireland has adapted its Transition Year programme for students interested in pursuing a career in law and moved the course online.

Canadian Michael Spavor, who was detained by China more than two years ago on suspicion of espionage, was due to go on trial, a case seen in Canada and the US as part of a wider diplomatic spat with China.

The US House of Representatives has passed two immigration bills that would provide legal status for millions of undocumented immigrants, but the measures have an uncertain future in the evenly divided Senate.

The bushfires that ravaged Australia between 2019 and 2020 were so huge that they spewed as much smoke into the stratosphere as a large volcanic eruption, with serious consequences for the environment, according to a study published in the journal Sc...

Samia Suluhu Hassan has been sworn in as President of Tanzania, becoming the first female head of state in the east African country following the death of president John Magufuli.

NASA has successfully carried out a key static test of its troubled Space Launch System rocket, as the US space agency prepares to return to the Moon.

The Chair of the Irish Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group Profesor Philip Nolan has said the number of new cases of Covid-19 are "static or declining slowly".

Several countries said they would resume AstraZeneca vaccinations after Europe's medical regulator said the jab is "safe and effective" and not associated with a higher blood clot risk after days of commotion around the shot.

From a continued low number of cases associated with schools, to a warning that NPHET's advice on non-essential travel is unlikely to change any time soon, here are five things we learned at the latest Covid-19 briefing.

Well over a year since Covid-19 swept through the Chinese city of Wuhan, questions over its origins remain highly sensitive.

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has denied that she had misled a parliamentary committee investigating her handling of sexual harassment claims against her predecessor Alex Salmond, saying that she stood by her evidence.

Essential workers including those in retail, transport, cleaning and food service should receive a living wage with access to an occupational pension, according to the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Leo Varadkar.

Gardaí have raided a suspected shebeen in Edenderry, Co Offaly, seizing a significant amount of alcohol.

Teenage boredom, heartache and loss are prominent themes in this year's Fresh International Film Festival, which begins next week. Now in its 25th year, 1,200 film entries have been received from children and teenagers, and the pandemic has a starrin...