Shoppers in Northern Ireland are being urged not to stockpile after problems with supplies left many shelves empty with smaller retailers saying they fear months of disruption over confusion about import arrangements following Brexit.

Health Service Executive CEO Paul Reid has said frontline clinical and nursing teams say they are under increasing strain as the number of people hospitalised due to Covid-19 continues to climb.

This third wave of Covid-19 is different to the previous two as the virus has spread more rapidly and is affecting a wider range of people from all age groups.

China has recorded its first Covid-19 death in eight months, as experts gathered to discuss worrying new strains of the coronavirus that are spreading rapidly around the globe.

A majority of the House of Representatives has voted to make Donald Trump the first US president to be impeached twice, formally charging him with inciting an insurrection in a vote held a week after his supporters stormed the Capitol.

A senior law lecturer at the University of Limerick has said having a referendum on the legal right to access birth certificates, as recommended by the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes, would "complicate the issue".

A man swimming in Perth's Swan River is in a serious condition after he was bitten by a shark.

There are stark reminders all around Washington DC of the divisions that have been laid bare in the US, writes Washington Correspondent Brian O'Donovan.

While convictions for drugs, assault and public order offences have fallen during the pandemic, incidences of domestic violence have risen.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has backed the messaging platform's ban of US President Donald Trump, but said it sets a "dangerous" precedent and represents a failure to promote healthy conversation on social networks.

Tesco has experienced some disruption to supplies, particularly to the island of Ireland, since a post-Brexit trade deal with the European Union kicked in on January 1, its chief executive Ken Murphy said.

Ugandans are voting in a tense election under heavy security and an internet blackout as veteran leader Yoweri Museveni pursues a sixth term against a former pop star half his age.

Climate activist Greta Thunberg is to feature on a set of stamps issued by Sweden's postal service.

There are some "early signs of hope" in the number of Covid-19 cases being reported daily, as well as in the positivity rate for Covid tests, the Chief Medical Officer has said.

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has indicated that up to four million people could be vaccinated against Covid-19 by the end of September.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has apologised to the women and children of mother-and-baby homes for a "profound generational wrong".

Justin Timberlake, Jon Bon Jovi, and Demi Lovato are among the acts set to perform for a US TV primetime special hosted by Tom Hanks to mark the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin might have expected a warmer reaction to his declaration in the Dáil that the State had failed both the women and children in Ireland's mother-and-baby homes.

Colleen Anderson was sent to the United States when she was just a toddler in the late 1960s. She was born in the Sean Ross Abbey mother-and-baby home in Roscrea, Co Tipperary on 4 August 1965 and describes herself as one of Ireland's thousands of "b...

The second year of the Covid-19 pandemic may be tougher than the first given how the new coronavirus is spreading, especially in the northern hemisphere as more-infectious variants circulate, the World Health Organization has said.