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Leo Varadkar was speaking after health officials in Northern Ireland confirmed that a case has been identified in the province.
What better way to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee than with a terribly British afternoon tea - here are the best places to get one according to Tripadvisor reviews.
The First Minister was invited to appear before the Scottish Affairs Committee.
A Moldovan court on Thursday placed former president and pro-Russian opposition leader Igor Dodon under house arrest for 30 days to allow prosecutors to investigate allegations of corruption and treason. The Ciocana district court in Chisinau, the capital, made the order two days after Dodon's house was searched and he was placed under detention for 72 hours. Speaking to the media after the court hearing, Dodon said the case was politically motivated, a charge the government has rejected.
The council that admitted it failed to prevent the murder of toddler Star Hobson has a serious staff retention problem in its children's services, according to data uncovered by a Sky News freedom of information request. Bradford Council spent £12.3m on agency staff in the last year - representing a doubling of its spend since the 16-month-old girl died on 22 September 2020. Star's mother Frankie Smith is serving a 12-year sentence for causing or allowing her daughter's death.
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Andrew Fletcher, a founding member of the British electronic band Depeche Mode, had died aged 60, the band announced Thursday.
Laurence Knight, 33, was arrested in July last year.
Surging migration | More than one million foreign nationals have been allowed to live in the UK for the first time in modern history as the Government was accused of breaking its Brexit promises. The data also showed that three-quarters of the initial asylum applications are being granted, the highest rate for 30 years, despite the Government's claims to be cracking down on illegal arrivals and bogus claims.
Two lanes of a motorway have reopened after a crash involving three vehicles.
‘I’m not sitting in this courtroom, laughing, making snide jokes. This is horrible, this is painful, and this is humiliating for any human being to go through’
A film inspired by women's experiences of war is one of several Ukrainian films featured at the Cannes Film Festival this year.
The highest percentage of those arriving, 43% equating to 14,271 people, were categorised as one parent with children.
After two years of a total shutdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the National Parks Agency (ANPN) has decided to resume public observations of Gabon's gorillas, hoping the iconic species will serve as a booster for niche tourism. "Through tourism, it allows bringing needed funds into the park's system to protect the gorillas and actually all other species through them as well," explains Koro Vogt, the Loango Gorilla Project manager.
The corporation needs to save an additional £285 million after the Culture Secretary announced the licence fee will be frozen for the next two years.
The restrictions which coloured life for so many during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic are proving something of a dry run for life in the Ukrainian capital now, according to one Kyiv resident. For more than three months Oksana Goshel, 34, has been filing audio diaries detailing life in a war zone - and its dramatic shifts - for the Sky News podcast, Ukraine War Diaries. "We were laughing and saying that COVID was kind of a good rehearsal for Ukraine," she says.
Brendon McCullum told a press conference that he's looking to block out external noise and "quieten down some of that for the players, but also for myself". The former New Zealand captain has been appointed head coach of the England Test team in a bid to improve their fortunes, with just one win in their last 17 matches.
Man in India's Madhya Pradesh assaulted on suspicion of being Muslim