Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Michael McGrath has said the National Development Plan is the largest public capital investment programme in the history of the State in relation to transport and housing.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has admitted that New Zealand's widely praised "Covid zero" strategy had failed to halt a stubborn outbreak in Auckland and said a new approach was needed.

Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, who lived under police protection after his 2007 depiction of the Prophet Muhammad prompted death threats, has died in a car crash.

Britain's Brexit minister has said the UK "cannot wait forever" for the European Union to respond to its proposals to reform the Northern Ireland Protocol and it is prepared to invoke Article 16.

A man in his 20s has died following a single-vehicle road crash in Dublin.

British army drivers have begun delivering supplies to beleaguered petrol stations in the UK hit by a fuel crisis.

The whistleblower who shared a trove of Facebook documents alleging the social media giant knew its products were fueling hate and harming children's mental health has revealed her identity in a televised interview.

Cancer campaigner Vicky Phelan has said she has returned home from the United States and will receive palliative chemotherapy, after a scan showed her to have a number of new tumours.

A large oil spill off the southern California coast left fish dead, birds mired in oil and wetlands contaminated, in what local officials called an environmental catastrophe.

Members of the Sláintecare Implementation Advisory Council are to meet this morning to discuss the latest developments surrounding the group.

A prestigious Panamanian law firm was named in the so-called "Pandora Papers" as implicated in the creation of offshore shell companies meant to hide money in tax havens for more than 160 politicians and public figures.

New rules introduced to make travel to the UK "easier and cheaper" have come into force.

The Government needs to scrap its plan for frontline pandemic bonus payments and a new bank holiday because it will burden future generations with increased debt, CEO of the Irish Small and Medium Business Association Neil McDonnell has said.

Japan's parliament has voted to approve Fumio Kishida as prime minister, with the new leader announcing a cabinet including both holdovers and fresh faces.

A legal challenge is to be heard to a move by Secretary of State Brandon Lewis to press Stormont to formally roll out abortion services in Northern Ireland.

Governments are being called on to lead the development of hydrogen as a clean fuel after a new report from the International Energy Agency said the world needs faster adoption of low-carbon hydrogen to get on track for a sustainable energy system b...

North and South Korea restored their cross-border hotline today, a step that Seoul said could help improve relations after Pyongyang sparked global concern with a string of missile tests in recent weeks.

A serving Metropolitan Police officer is expected to appear in court later charged with rape.

More than a dozen heads of state and government, from Jordan to Azerbaijan, Kenya and the Czech Republic, have used offshore tax havens to hide assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a far-reaching new investigation by the ICIJ me...

As the Afghan capital fell to a Taliban lightning strike at the end of August, and the lives of Irish citizens and residents were on the line, our Government faced a major dilemma.