The Health Service Executive has reported a small increase in the number of hospital patients with Covid-19.

Violence has broken out on the streets of Northern Ireland again, despite appeals for calm.

Coronavirus-related deaths worldwide have crossed 3 million, according to a Reuters tally, as the latest global resurgence of Covid-19 infections is challenging vaccination efforts across the globe.

New Zealand has approved quarantine-free travel with Australia, with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern saying a two-way corridor for travel between the two largely Covid-free nations to begin on 18 April.

The annual conferences of the teacher unions begin online this morning with debate set to be dominated by the decision to change the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out from an occupation-based schedule to one based on age.

NASA's Ingenuity mini-helicopter has survived its first night alone on the frigid surface of Mars, the US space agency said, hailing it as "a major milestone" for the tiny craft as it prepares for its first flight.

Iran and the United States will hold indirect talks in Vienna aimed at bringing both countries back into full compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal that Washington abandoned three years ago.

North Korea will not attend this year's Tokyo Olympics because of the coronavirus pandemic, Pyongyang's sports ministry has said.

Clinical trials are under way of a new Covid-19 vaccine developed by the United States Army.

Iceland's spectacular, two-week-old volcanic eruption has entered a new phase as television pictures showed a fresh fissure had opened up and begun spitting out lava.

Talks are due to take place later this week between officials and ministers on a controversial proposal to extend the list of countries on the mandatory hotel quarantine list.

The death has been announced of the internationally renowned soprano and music teacher Dr Veronica Dunne. She was 93 years old.

From the United States to Israel, from Australia to Ireland - most agree that a rapid rollout of the Covid-19 vaccination is the key to reopening the economy.

A report by a French television channel alleging "clandestine" luxury dinners in Paris despite the Covid-19 pandemic has sparked an investigation and a political furore over claims the elite were brazenly ignoring rules they themselves had set.

A stunning front-running performance from Freewheelin Dylan produced a shock 150-1 success in the Irish Grand National at Fairyhouse.

Derek Chauvin broke Minneapolis Police Department rules and its ethics code governing the "sanctity of life" during his arrest of George Floyd in the US city last May, its police chief has testified at the former officer's murder trial.

US President Joe Biden has referenced his Irish roots in a video welcoming newly sworn-in US citizens.

Jailed filmmaker Harvey Weinstein has filed a long-expected appeal on his rape and sexual assault conviction, kick-starting an attempt to have his 23-year prison sentence quashed.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that a planned reopening of the economy would take place next week, with the opening of all shops, gyms, hairdressers and outdoor hospitality areas in England.

New cases of Covid-19 in the United States rose 5% to more than 450,000 last week, the third week in a row that infections have increased, according to a Reuters analysis of state and county data.