Northern Ireland is facing a new period of political instability after DUP leader Edwin Poots announced his resignation after just 21 days in the job.

Edwin Poots is facing political oblivion only a month after achieving his career ambition to lead the DUP. So what went so wrong so quickly for the party's shortest-serving leader?

The "last thing" Northern Ireland needs is to have its largest party divided, according to the Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Competition in the mortgage market looks set to intensify with the announcement from Avant Money that it is to begin offering a suite of long-term fixed rates, including the first 30-year fixed rate in the Irish market.

Nearly three dozen women have filed a lawsuit in the US against adult video website Pornhub, accusing it and its parent company of knowingly profiting from footage depicting rape and sexual exploitation, including of minors.

Hunters shot and killed a brown bear in northern Japan after it rampaged through a city, injuring four people including a soldier and lumbering across busy roads.

Ireland has not yet experienced anything like the explosive growth of the Delta variant seen in the UK, explains Mark Coughlan.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said the country must prepare for both "dialogue and confrontation" with the United States, but with a particular emphasis on the latter as Pyongyang probes for any US policy shift under President Joe Biden.

Iranian voters go to the polls today in a presidential election in which ultraconservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi is seen as all but certain to coast to victory over his vetted rivals.

Hong Kong police have charged two executives from the pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper using a powerful new security law, a day after the company's newsroom was raided over articles it had published.

The UK's Conservative Party has suffered a by-election defeat as the Liberal Democrats scored a historic win in Chesham and Amersham.

Revolut hopes to offer credit cards and loans to Irish customers by the end of the year, according to it CEO, though the exact timing will depend on when it gets licenced by the Central Bank.

Moscow has closed its Euro 2020 fan zone and banned gatherings of more than 1,000 because of a spike in Covid-19 cases, the mayor of the Russian capital said.

The United States has designated Juneteenth, which marks the end of slavery in the country, as a federal holiday, with President Joe Biden urging Americans "to learn from our history".

A 22-year-old woman who suffered a traumatic brain injury when she was a passenger in a car driven by her father has settled her High Court action for €15 million.

From miniature elephants to gentle giants, a Co Kildare visual artist has brought the 32 counties on the island of Ireland vividly to life.

Kerry Group's shares rose today after it announced plans to sell its consumer foods' meats and meals business in the UK and Ireland to US food company Pilgrim's Pride for €819m in cash.

Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan has said the public health advice remains for people not to travel abroad for a holiday unless they are fully vaccinated.

On the day when it was announced that people aged 35 to 39 could register for a Covid-19 vaccine from Sunday, the Chief Medical Officer said vaccines were having a real impact. Here are five takeaways from the Covid-19 briefings.

Israeli jets launched air strikes on Gaza overnight Thursday to Friday after militants in the Palestinian territory again launched incendiary balloons into southern Israel, the army and AFP journalists said.