The discovery of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of avian influenza, or bird flu, at a commercial turkey farm in Co Carlow is "very worrying", the Irish Farmers' Association has said.

Israel has confirmed that the remains handed over by Hamas the day before belonged to Israeli-American soldier Itay Chen, who was seized by Palestinian militants during the October 2023 attacks that ...

Zohran Mamdani's election as New York mayor caps an extraordinary rise for the leftist local politician who emerged from relative obscurity to lead a supercharged campaign for the US megacity's top ...

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Retailer Marks & Spencer has today reported a 55.4% slide in first-half underlying profit, reflecting the impact of an April cyber hack that forced it to suspend online clothing orders for seven weeks ...

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Thomas Frank brushed off criticism by pundit Jamie Carragher after Tottenham registered the biggest victory of his short tenure with a 4-0 thrashing of Copenhagen.

The country's services sector expanded at the fastest pace this year in October, a rapid rebound from two months earlier when ...

Pub chain JD Wetherspoon has today projected a more cautious outlook for the rest of the year ahead of the upcoming UK budget, and posted a slowdown in sales growth due to a squeeze in consumer ...

Ten years ago, almost every country in the world agreed to sign the Paris Agreement, a legally binding international treaty, ...

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Danish jewellery brand Pandora has today cut its comparable sales growth forecast for the full year and reported weaker than expected sales growth for the third quarter as they declined in Europe.