Nine people have died and around 50 are missing after flooding in western Germany that caused several houses to collapse.

The Health Service Executive is linking up with dating platforms here to promote the roll out of the vaccination programme.

Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe has said he is "so committed" to retaining Ireland's low corporate tax rate that he is not willing to sign up to a new international tax agreement in its current form.

The Dáil has passed the Government's legislation on the reopening of indoor hospitality. It was voted through tonight by 74 votes to 68.

An athlete in Japan and five Olympic workers, mostly contractors, have tested positive for coronavirus, Tokyo 2020 organisers have said, just over a week before the opening ceremony.

Britney Spears has told a court in Los Angeles that she wants her father Jamie Spears charged with conservatorship abuse.

Saints, witches and sin all played a part in how our ancestors predicted the weather

Australia's second most populous state, Victoria, will go into a five-day lockdown to combat an outbreak of Covid-19, Premier Daniel Andrews has said.

The UN has warned that a "perfect storm" was brewing, with a raging pandemic disrupting access to routine vaccinations, leaving millions of children at risk from measles and other deadly diseases.

Twitter will shut down its ephemeral posts feature called Fleets on 3 August after the product failed to gain traction with users.

More than a million acres of the western US and Canada were in flames as multiple blazes raged across the region, fuelled by soaring temperatures and drought, and with little sign of letting up.

Almost two thirds of parents surveyed by the Irish League of Credit Unions for its annual back to school survey say that covering the cost of sending a child to school amounts to a financial burden.

The Belarus opposition leader, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, will give evidence to the Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs today.

Cuba has announced that it is temporarily lifting restrictions on the amount of food and medicine travellers can bring into the country in an apparent small concession to protesters' demands.

The FBI dragged its feet in probing sexual abuse allegations against disgraced USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, according to the United States Justice Department's internal watchdog.

The volume of goods passing through Dublin Port recovered strongly in the second quarter of the year despite Brexit, the port authorities have said.

Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan has advised parents that it is safer not to bring children into indoor dining settings and this is the "responsible public health advice".

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has strongly criticised proposals by the British government to introduce "what amounts to a general amnesty" to end prosecutions for crimes related to the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

Gardaí believe they have seized up to half a tonne of cocaine, which was disguised as charcoal and concealed in a shipment of bags to Ireland.

Curfews and other virus restrictions are returning to many regions of Spain as the country tries to curb a surge in more contagious Delta cases, especially among unvaccinated young people.