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Irish budget airline says business model is well placed to do well during a recession after coping with Covid

Vladimir Putin smirked and laughed as he compared dilligence to having a "rubber bum" in-front of high-IQ schoolchildren after they were isolated for two weeks due to Covid-19 in Kaliningrad, Russia

BENGALURU: Indian women hockey team midfielder Navjot Kaur says missing a major tournament like the 2022 Commonwealth Games (CWG) was "hard to accept" as she could not compete in Birmingham Games after contracting COVID-19.

After two-plus years of Covid and seven secretaries of state in the past six years, teachers and students deserve more support, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Councillor Gareth Spratt says only 5.2 percent of space has been committed to affordable/social housing

This Labor Day, we’re thinking about the people who make our picnics possible. People like Marielena, who works in a poultry plant in North Carolina. More than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the workers “do not have sufficient time to even disinfect our hands,” says Marielena.

Not for a hundred years has there been such a pronounced drop in U.S. life expectancy, from 79 years in 2019 to 76 just two years later, in 2021, according to federal researchers. It’s easy to chalk this up entirely to the impact of COVID, and the virus was certainly…

Baroness Ruby McGregor-Smith, head of the British Chambers of Commerce, says help is needed now to prevent them closing

There will be 151 homes built in total. Once completed, the development will provide direct access to the city centre. Swan Group are starting this development after Covid-19 caused delays.

Paul Hollywood is set to prove he's a tough cookie in the infamous Great British Bake Off tent once again if the latest teaser clip is anything to go by

These are the latest ECHO headlines on Friday, September 2