US President Joe Biden has warned against the return of a closed border on the island of Ireland in a meeting with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the White House.

Two men have been arrested in connection with the murder of journalist Lyra McKee in Derry in 2019.

A rare earthquake has rattled southeastern Australia, shaking buildings, knocking down walls and sending panicked Melbourne residents running into the streets.

Lava poured from an erupting volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma for a fourth day, blanketing houses and fields, a day after people with homes on the path of the molten rock were allowed back briefly to recover belongings.

A 31-year-old man has been charged with four counts of murder after a woman and three children were found dead in a house in the UK.

Tributes have been paid to Sex And The City actor Willie Garson following his death aged 57.

Carlos the Jackal, who was behind some of the biggest terror attacks of the 1970s and 1980s, will attempt to have one of his three life sentences cut at a trial in Paris.

Brazil's Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga tested positive for Covid-19 after attending the UN General Assembly in New York that was inaugurated by his president, Jair Bolsonaro, according to an official statement.

Ireland had the fourth lowest employment rate among people with disabilities of working age in 2018, according to the Economic and Social Research Institute.

Human-caused climate change has intensified the drought gripping the southwestern United States with precipitation at the lowest 20-month level documented since 1895, a US government report has said.

Former US president Donald Trump has filed a $100 million (€85 million) lawsuit against his estranged niece Mary L Trump and The New York Times, alleging they engaged in "an insidious plot" to obtain his tax returns for the paper's Pulitzer Prize-w...

Northern Ireland's biggest agricultural show is under way, with visitors required to show their Covid status before entering.

Issues around the cost of insurance, legal services and credit have not received the urgent attention required to support competitiveness and productivity.

While practically everyone has been targeted by scam texts or spoof phone calls recently, experts say it's almost impossible to get on top of the problem, explains Fran McNulty.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said the opening session of the United Nations General Assembly was significant and the strong theme emanating from it is that "we are facing into the abyss on climate change".

Former Irish rugby international Brendan Mullin has appeared in court charged with stealing over €500,000 from the Bank of Ireland.

Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe has told the Dáil that he will raise the issue of banks contributing to a mica redress scheme "in the coming weeks".

Several retailers have already warned that Christmas supplies could be constrained. Covid-19, Brexit and the small matter of the Ever Given are to blame, explains Louise Byrne.

The FBI has confirmed a body found in Wyoming is missing woman Gabrielle 'Gabby' Petito, whose recent disappearance gripped the United States, with the local coroner saying she was murdered.

The Taliban have asked to address world leaders at the United Nations in New York this week and nominated their Doha-based spokesman Suhail Shaheen as Afghanistan's UN ambassador.