New standards for domestic solid fuels will be introduced across the State within a year, so that the most polluting solid fuels will no longer be available on the Irish market.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney will face further questions at an Oireachtas Committee examining the appointment of Katherine Zappone to a special envoy role last July.

The prosecution of the alleged mastermind behind the 11 September 2001 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and four others is to restart, just days before the 20th anniversary of the attacks.

A Vietnamese man has been sentenced to five years in jail for spreading Covid-19 after he breached home quarantine rules.

Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) rates will be cut by €50 after today, as part of the Government's wind down of the scheme.

Leona Maguire capped off an outstanding maiden Solheim Cup performance as she cruised past fellow rookie Jennifer Kupcho in the climactic singles on Monday as Europe retained the trophy with a 15-13 win.

Michael K Williams, the acclaimed African-American actor best known for his role as antihero Omar Little in the iconic HBO crime-drama The Wire, has died at the age of 54.

El Salvador has become the first country in the world to accept bitcoin as legal tender, despite widespread domestic scepticism and international warnings of risks for consumers.

The Taliban fired shots into the air to disperse crowds who had gathered for an anti-Pakistan rally in the capital.

Homeless charity DePaul Ireland said it assisted more than 3,500 people last year across the island of Ireland.

Ireland's third level colleges will offer course places to tens of thousands of applicants later today.

There was a reduction in the number of people who contacted the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre last year due to Covid-19 restrictions.

A statue of Christopher Columbus in the heart of Mexico City will be replaced by one of an indigenous woman, authorities have said, days before the country's 200th independence anniversary.

NASA has confirmed that its Perseverance Mars rover succeeded in collecting its first rock sample for scientists to pore over when a future mission eventually brings it back to Earth.

Fran Unsworth, the BBC's director of news and current affairs, will leave the corporation next year, it has been announced.

The HSE has estimated that between 10,000 and 12,000 children are restricting their movements as a result of being designated a close contact of a Covid-19 case.

Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has said he obeyed the regulations and restrictions that are in place in the UK when he attended a music festival at the weekend.

As anticipated by the Tánaiste Leo Varadkar earlier today, the UK tonight announced further unilateral extensions to the grace periods governing the operation of the Northern Ireland Protocol.

An amateur archeologist has found 22 gold objects with sixth century symbols that could yield new details about pre-Viking peoples in Denmark, the museum that will house the treasure has said.

Brazil great Pele is recovering in hospital from surgery to remove a tumour from his colon.