Concert-goers and racing fans will enjoy their first taste of a return to normality today with a number of events scheduled.

The Democratic Unionist Party will meet later today to confirm Jeffrey Donaldson as the new party leader.

Prospects for recovering survivors from a Florida high-rise diminished with each passing hour today, two full days after the 12-storey condominium collapsed while many residents slept.

We have faced many battles over these past 15 months, from viral forces in the world around us and even struggles within ourselves. Keeping a sense of perspective is important when assessing the risk posed by the Delta variant.

Electric car giant Tesla will "recall" over 285,000 cars from the Chinese market after an investigation found issues with its assisted driving software that could cause road collisions, a government regulator announced late yesterday.

What to do in the face of the rising threat from the Delta variant of Covid-19 is a difficult question right now for the Irish Government.

Colombian President Ivan Duque said the helicopter he was flying in near the border with Venezuela was hit by gunfire.

The impasse over the Northern Ireland Protocol is delicately poised. The EU will grant an extension to the grace period on chilled meats, but there is still the potential for another clash with London, just as the marching season gets under way.

Ten years on from a hit and run in Co Monaghan in which a 20-year-old man died, gardaí are renewing their appeal for information.

Amid a pandemic and a rise in pet ownership, Irish landlords are asking tenants to pay additional charges and higher deposits to keep pets in their homes, explains Louise Byrne.

A highly awaited US intelligence report on dozens of mysterious unidentified flying object sightings said most could not be explained, but did not rule out that some could be alien spacecraft.

The Department of Health has reported 380 new Covid-19 cases, while the number of patients in intensive care is unchanged at 13.

Former US police officer Derek Chauvin has been sentenced to 22-and-a-half years in jail for the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis last year.

European Union negotiators have struck a provisional deal on reforms to the bloc's huge farming subsidy programme, introducing new measures aimed at protecting small farms and curbing agriculture's environmental impact.

Britain's health minister Matt Hancock has said he was "very sorry" after pictures of him kissing and embracing an aide were published in a newspaper.

In May last year, Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds.

A French woman who killed her rapist husband was spared more jail time in a case that has become a rallying cause for feminists.

The project team at the new National Children's Hospital on the site of St James's Hospital in Dublin say over 35% of the construction is now complete.