Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said the French government would have known Canberra had "deep and grave concerns" about French submarines before the deal was torn up last week.

Tomorrow will see a further relaxing of Covid-19 restrictions in Ireland. This round will see the gradual return to workplaces, as well as changes to organised indoor and outdoor group activities. Here are all the restrictions easing Monday 20 Septem...

Russian President Vladimir Putin's party was today set to retain a majority in parliament on the last day of three-day elections in which most Kremlin critics were barred from the ballot.

After 18 months of working from home due to Government imposed restrictions, from tomorrow it will once again be permissible for people to start returning to their office or workplace.

Relatives of the victims of a US drone strike that killed 10 members of an Afghan family in a "tragic mistake" demanded a face-to-face apology and compensation.

Four SpaceX tourists returned to Earth safely last night after spending three days in space, successfully concluding the first orbital mission in history with no professional astronauts on board.

An increase in core welfare rates along with the old age pension are expected to form part of the Budget which will be announced next month.

There is heightened security in Washington today ahead of a rally in support of those arrested following the storming of the Capitol Building on 6 January.

Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Darragh O'Brien, has said the failures identified in two water treatment plants are "unacceptable" as he ordered an audit of all such plants across the system.

France's Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris is finally ready to undergo restoration work more than two years after a blaze ravaged the heritage landmark, authorities said today.

Republicans want to focus on the problems besetting the Biden administration like the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, the migrant surge at the US-Mexico border and the ongoing Covid-19 crisis.

The Department of Health has been notified of 1,456 new cases of Covid-19.

A woman charged with murdering her three young daughters, just weeks after the family arrived in New Zealand from South Africa, appeared in court today.

Australia has made a "huge" diplomatic error, the French ambassador said today having been recalled to Paris after Canberra ditched a multi-billion dollar order for French submarines in favour of an alternative deal with the United States and Britain...

Girls were excluded from returning to secondary school in Afghanistan today, after the country's new Taliban rulers ordered only boys and male teachers back to the classroom.

Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence Simon Coveney has said the group of women who alleged they were sexually assaulted and harassed while serving in the Defence Forces have agreed to meet him.

US real estate scion Robert Durst has been convicted of killing his best friend to prevent her talking to police about his wife's disappearance.

Hopefully from now, moving forward out of the pandemic, a healing can begin. And we step out, with caution, onto firmer ground and into these brighter, better days.

Ireland has approved the use of booster jabs in some vulnerable groups - but is it placing all its eggs in the vaccine basket?

This weekend, Russia goes to the polls, in an election the Moscow Times classifies as "a confidence vote on Putin". The focus for these elections will be on the party called United Russia and any analysis of how the party does this weekend inevitably...