Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said Ireland needs to maintain the progress of recent weeks - advancing the vaccination roll-out and abiding by public health advice.

Football authorities in South America said Argentina's hosting of the Copa America football tournament has been suspended for what it said was the "current circumstances".

A Ryanair passenger plane made an emergency landing in Berlin before resuming its journey to Poland, German police said late last night without releasing further details.

China has announced that each couple would be permitted to have up to three children, a major policy shift from the existing limit of two children after recent data showed a dramatic decline in births in the world's most populous country.

A leading scientific adviser to the British government has urged caution over the approach to the scheduled easing of Covid-19 restrictions next month.

China has reported a sudden surge in Covid-19 infections in the country's south, with 18 new local cases yesterday in the city of Guangzhou, causing a flurry of flight cancellations.

Relationship breakdown and mothers' or fathers' job loss are key triggers for transitions into child poverty according to new research from the ESRI.

Gunmen kidnapped scores of children from an Islamic seminary in central Nigeria, officials said, the latest in a string of such incidents in the country.

An environmental scientist has warned of the possible impact of the Asian hornet, a large wasp-like species that has been discovered for the first time in Ireland last week.

All seven passengers aboard a plane, including Tarzan actor Joe Lara and his diet guru wife, are presumed dead after it crashed in a lake near the US city of Nashville, authorities said.

The Government is in danger of breaching international law unless Ireland's processes for collective bargaining are strengthened, the Fórsa trade union has claimed.

Israeli nationalist hardliner Naftali Bennett has said he would join a governing coalition that could end the rule of the country's longest-serving leader, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The Department of Health has been notified of 374 new cases of Covid-19, while the number of people in ICU remains the same at 35.

Recycling of electrical appliances and goods rose sharply in Ireland last year, particularly in April and May.

Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has said that local lockdowns remain an option for Government, should there be a spike in Covid-19 infections.

Former Hong Kong schoolteacher Tsang Yin-hung has said she always believed in aiming high after setting a new record for the fastest ascent of Everest by a woman.

The Chief Medical Officer has said he was "absolutely shocked" by the crowds that gathered in parts of Dublin city centre on Saturday evening.

The UN rights chief has voiced alarm at deadly clashes in the Colombian city of Cali, calling for an independent investigation and accountability for the violence.

"It's not easy bein' green," Kermit the Frog famously sang in an episode of The Muppet Show in 1978.

World leaders have called for more action and inclusion of all countries in the global drive towards a cleaner and greener planet at a climate summit hosted virtually by South Korea.