James Donnelly is a diesel mechanic at a mining site in Western Australia (WA) that employs around 2,000 people and is a two-hour flight from Perth. He is from Brocagh in Co Tyrone. Western Australia has had 788 cases and nine deaths and has a population of 2.6  million

Mexico has passed the 100,000 mark in Covid-19 deaths, becoming only the fourth country to do so.

The devastation caused by Hurricane Iota became clearer last night as images emerged showing the trail of ruin left by the second Category 4 storm to blast Nicaragua's Caribbean coast in two weeks.

Africa has surpassed two million confirmed coronavirus cases as health officials warn of infections starting to creep up again into a second surge.

Hurricane Iota has battered Nicaragua with screeching winds and pounding surf, forcing tens of thousands of people from their homes along the same stretch of the Caribbean coast that was devastated by an equally powerful hurricane two weeks ago.

Hurricane Iota has rapidly strengthened into a Category 5 storm that is likely to bring catastrophic damage to the same part of Central America already battered by Hurricane Eta less than two weeks ago.

?A passenger plane struck a brown bear while landing in Alaska, killing the animal and causing damage to the aircraft, officials said.

British scientists have hailed the "tremendously exciting" news that a US coronavirus vaccine may prevent 94.5 per cent of people from getting Covid-19.