Millions of Sydney residents have woken to the first full day of a two-week coronavirus lockdown, as Australia attempts to contain an outbreak of the highly contagious Delta variant.

The Restaurant Association of Ireland has called on the Government to make a decision, by next Tuesday, on whether indoor entertainment will be allowed to resume from 5 July.

The Oireachtas has spent more than €1.8m on its use of the National Convention Centre since June last year.

France is voting in the second round of regional elections today after a first round that saw a drubbing for President Emmanuel Macron's ruling party, disappointment for Marine Le Pen's far-right and record low turnout.

Tour de France organisers have said they are suing a spectator who caused a crash when a cyclist rode straight into a cardboard sign being held out by a fan looking the other way at a television camera.

You pay car and home insurance - but is your pet insured?

Sajid Javid has said he was "honoured" to be asked to be Britain's Health Secretary following the resignation of Matt Hancock amid intense pressure for breaching social-distancing rules by kissing an aide.

Searchers worked early today to find more than 150 missing residents amid the rubble of a Florida condo building that collapsed three days ago as questions arose about the tower's structural integrity.

A woman in her 20s has died in a single-vehicle road crash in Co Cavan.

A new species of ancient human discovered in China may replace Neanderthals as our closest relative and potentially reshape the understanding of human evolution, according to scientists.

The Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby at the Curragh in Co Kildare and a concert featuring Christy Moore in Killarney, Co Kerry, are among a series of pilot events to test easing of coronavirus restrictions.

Hundreds of people have taken part in a protest against the ownership of the proposed site on which the new National Maternity Hospital will be relocated.

US pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson will "exit from the opioid business nationally" as part of a $230 million settlement with New York, the state's attorney general Letitia James said Saturday.

Conor Murray has been named captain of the British and Irish Lions in place of the injured Alun Wyn Jones, with the Welsh duo of Josh Navidi and Adam Beard called up to replace Jones and fellow injury casualty Justin Tipuric.

The British Health Secretary Matt Hancock has resigned after he admitted breaking Covid-19 guidance by kissing and embracing an aide in his office.

An engineer warned of "major structural damage" at a Florida apartment building three years before it partially collapsed, a report said today, as rescuers raced to find 159 people still unaccounted for.

Ten years on from a hit and run in Co Monaghan in which a 20-year-old man died, gardaí are renewing their appeal for information.

Amid a pandemic and a rise in pet ownership, Irish landlords are asking tenants to pay additional charges and higher deposits to keep pets in their homes, explains Louise Byrne.