American troops have flown into Kabul to help evacuate embassy personnel and other civilians in the Afghan capital, a US official said today, a day after Taliban insurgents seized the country's second- and third-biggest cities.

The rollout of Covid-19 vaccines to 12-to-15 year olds will continue this weekend.

Australia's biggest city announced tighter Covid restrictions including heavier fines and tighter policing today as authorities battled to contain a Delta outbreak and said they were seeing the "most concerning day of the pandemic" so far.

Hundreds placed flowers and candles in North Down Crescent Park in Keyham yesterday evening to remember those who were killed by gunman Jake Davison in Plymouth

The US Department of Homeland Security has issued a new terrorism threat advisory ahead of the anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks and during a resurgence of the coronavirus pandemic.

We are in a new phase with Covid-19. The vaccination programme has dramatically changed things and the future looks a lot brighter.

Journalist Sayed Farid Sanai left his home country of Afghanistan and came to live in Ireland in 2019. Here, in his own words, he tells his story of the haunting images of war back home.

Figures published by the Central Statistics Office this week showed that property prices continued their ascent in June with annual inflation of almost 7%. Analysts think there could be double-digit increases to come in the months ahead before the ra...

Nanci Griffith, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter who penned folk and country songs including 'Love at the Five and Dime,' has died at age 68, record label Rounder Records has said in a statement.

A 26-year-old man has been charged with the murder of 25-year-old Ademola Giwa in Tallaght, Dublin, on Tuesday night.

July was the hottest month globally ever recorded, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has said, in the latest data to underline the climate crisis.

There have been more than 10,000 cases of Covid-19 reported by the Department of Health in the last week, the Deputy Chief Medical Officer has said.

It will take months before the process to extradite Gerard Hutch is complete, according to a former Assistant Garda Commissioner for the Dublin metropolitan area.

The mother of the gunman who shot and killed five people in Plymouth in southwest England yesterday evening has been named among the dead by police.

Two people who were arrested in connection with the death of a four-year-old boy in Limerick earlier this year have been released without charge.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on the Taliban to immediately halt their offensive and warned that Afghanistan is "spinning out of control."

The Department of Public Health Mid-West has reported a "sudden increase" in Covid-19 cases in the region connected to widespread community transmission over the past seven days.

A nearly seven-year-old civil lawsuit alleging Bill Cosby sexually assaulted a teen girl will move forward, a judge ruled today.

Masks will no longer be required on Danish public transport, the government has said, as the Nordic country lifted the last of its compulsory face-covering regulations.

The Director of Fota Wildlife Park in Cork has said they are "hopeful" one of their Great White Pelicans will return from his staycation in Co Wicklow.