express- Voters went to the polls on Sunday in Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate to elect new local governments. The two German states were once CDU strongholds but have since fallen to the Green Party and Social Democrats (SPD). In Baden-Württemberg the...
bbc- The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has announced that fully vaccinated Americans can return to some sense of normalcy. Those who have received the required jabs can visit with other vaccinated people and some unvaccinated people,...
bbc- The European Parliament has voted to waive the immunity of former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont and two other Catalan separatist MEPs. The politicians left Spain in 2017 following a failed independence referendum, which Madrid said was illegal. The vote left...
independent.ie- Last summer, the first place I visited when restaurants were allowed to reopen was Beach House in Tramore. Lunch was every bit as good as I had hoped it would be when I first heard that Jumoke Akintola...
independent.ie- There were growing fears last night for the fate of anti-coup protesters caught up in a crackdown in Myanmar’s commercial capital Yangon. Western governments called on the military to refrain from violence against protesters amid concern about the fate...
breakingnews.ie- The North’s education minister has tabled proposals to accelerate the return of children to classes in Northern Ireland. Peter Weir wants all primary school children to be in classes by March 22nd and all secondary school children back at...
breakingnews.ie- Like many of us, Jess Wright has suffered her fair share of disappointments during the pandemic. The former Towie cast member got engaged to fiance William Lee-Kemp last February and doesn’t yet know when her big day will be,...
breakingnews.ie- TV watchdog Ofcom has launched an investigation into comments made by Piers Morgan about the Duke and Duchess of Sussexes’ interview with Oprah Winfrey. The organisation received more than 41,000 complaints about his remarks on Monday during ITV’s Good...
independent.ie- Did we ever imagine we could miss the commute? Being rammed onto a bus seat in a stuffy top deck or spending an hour getting intimate with a stranger’s armpit aren’t likely candidates for nostalgia. However, we are discovering...
independent- The government has been urged to extend measures introduced early in the pandemic to prevent homelessness, as councils across England warned of the prospect of an increase in rough sleeping if support ends. Research by homeless charity Crisis, led by Heriot-Watt...