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Swat teams advance through a parking lot as a gunman opened fire at a King Sooper’s grocery store in Boulder, Colorado. Photograph:  Chet Strange/Getty

A shooting at a Colorado supermarket killed 10 people, including a police officer who was the first to respond to the scene, authorities said. Police(...)

Solar panels at Cloughjordan Ecovillage, Co Tipperary. Photograph: Alan Betson

There was a time solar energy was quickly put in the “will never happen in Ireland” category, but dozens of developments are set to come on stream in (...)

Some Catholics already bless same-sex unions. Stories abound of good Fr So-and-So who blessed Bob and Bill, Olivia y Cristina, Jacques et Georges. Many priests remain too timid to give blessings themselves, but lay people, indeed whole communities, gather to affirm the goodness of couples who love.  Photograph:   Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Beware the Ides of March, the day Julius Caesar went to his reward in 44 BC. March 15th was also the day the responsum of the Congregation for the Doc(...)

People gather during spring break at  Miami Beach, Florida: The US is reporting 50,000-60,000 Covid cases per day, and the daily death toll stands at about 1,000. Photograph: Cristobal Herrera-Ulashkevich

The Biden administration has played down hopes the United States could export more of its AstraZeneca doses, after the company posted the results of i(...)

UK foreign secretary Dominic Raab: Abuses against Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang represent “one of the worst human rights crises of our time”. Photograph:  PA Wire

The US, EU, UK and Canada have imposed sanctions on China over its treatment of Uighur Muslims in a co-ordinated move that sparked an immediate retali(...)

Porsche jumped 8.9% on contagion from a buying frenzy that has been lifting Volkswagen shares. Photograph: Getty

European stocks eked out gains by the closing bell on Monday after car makers resumed their rally, while airline and travel stocks dragged on markets (...)

Police officers stand next to Jim Nickel, the charge d’affaires of the Canadian embassy in Beijing, as he stands outside the court   during the trial of Michael Kovrig, a Canadian detained more than two years ago in China on espionage charges. Photograph: Nicolas Asfori/AFP/Getty

Canadian diplomats were denied entry to the trial of a former colleague on espionage charges in China, as more than two dozen western countries expre(...)

Jockey Richard Condon and Heaven Help Us with trainer Paul Hennessy celebrate after winning the Coral Cup at Cheltenham. Photograph: Dan Abraham/Inpho

Paul Hennessy is still on a high following the exploits of Heaven Help Us in the Coral Cup at the Cheltenham Festival. Better known as a Derby-winnin(...)

AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine  was 79 per cent effective in preventing symptomatic illness, the trial found. Photograph: Gent Shkullaku/AFP via Getty Images

The Covid-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca was 79 per cent effective in preventing symptomatic illness in a large trial in th(...)

Former US President Donald Trump plans to return to social media soon, using ‘his own platform’ after being banned from Twitter and other outlets. Photograph: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images

Former US president Donald Trump will soon use “his own platform” to return to social media, an adviser said on Sunday, months after the he was banned(...)

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