US President Joe Biden has called for national unity as the United States prepares to mark the 20th anniversary of the 11 September 2001 attacks that killed 2,977 people, calling it America's greatest strength in the face of adversity.

Australia's third most populous state has said it may order a snap lockdown after a cluster of Covid-19 cases, as the country posted a record one-day rise in daily infections.

On the morning of 11 September 2001, I was at my apartment in Washington DC preparing to go work at RTÉ's Washington office, when the foreign desk called from Dublin.

The EU is concerned the UK would prefer a "forever war" on the Protocol, rather than be content with a compromise that businesses and consumers in the North can live with, writes Europe Editor Tony Connelly.

We cast an eye over this year's final, where Mayo and Tyrone meet in the decider for the first time.

Twenty years after the 11 September attacks, the US "war on terror" is still being fought on a piece of hilly scrubland in southeast Cuba known as Guantanamo Bay.

After the landmark programme to reform the health service lost two of its top people this week, the Government faces a huge task to make the potential of Sláintecare a reality, writes Fergal Bowers.

Instead of believing that the attacks on 9/11 were carried out by Al-Qaeda, some people in the US believe the government was primarily responsible.

It is the skyscraper that replaced the Twin Towers in New York's skyline. Inaugurated in 2014, the One World Trade Center has become a symbol of resilience after the horror of 9/11.

For some, the hill represents New York's resilience; for others it's a gaping wound. Beneath it lies debris, mixed with human remains, from the 9/11 attacks.

Saturday marks the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the United States that left nearly 3,000 people dead.

The incidence rate of Covid-19 has decreased over the last fortnight, and the number of people in hospital and ICU have stabilised, the Chair of the Irish Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group has said.

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has said he would like the Rotunda Hospital to answer questions and make a statement on allowing RTÉ film a programme at the hospital.

Any Fianna Fáil TD who votes against a motion of confidence in Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney, or abstains on the vote, would face a six-month suspension from the parliamentary party, the Taoiseach has said.

The head of the WHO Europe has expressed doubts about vaccines' ability to put an end to the Covid pandemic, as new variants dash hopes of reaching herd immunity.

A member of the Sláintecare Implementation Advisory Council has called for a meeting with Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly at the earliest opportunity in the wake of the resignations of two senior members of the group.

What exactly is Sláintecare? And how far are we away of the "unprecedented change" it purports to offer?

Britain's Prince Andrew has been served legal papers in a US lawsuit brought by a woman who says he sexually abused her when she was a teenager, a court filing has showed.

The Environmental Protection Agency has called for new measures at policy, industry and individual level to halt the rise in packaging waste in Ireland after official figures showed the amount is rising by more than 10% per year.

Former French health minister Agnes Buzyn has been charged over her handling of the Covid-19 pandemic after investigators at a special court in Paris concluded there were grounds to prosecute her.