Australia's medicine regulator has provisionally approved the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for children between the ages of 5 and 11, with the health minister saying the rollout could begin from 10 January.

Irish passengers will not require a negative Covid-19 test before travelling to the UK, after new rules were announced by the British government yesterday evening.

The death toll from a sudden, spectacular eruption of Indonesia's Mount Semeru has risen to 13, disaster officials said, as rescuers searched villages blanketed in molten ash for survivors.

Ten cases of Covid-19 have been detected on a cruise ship with over 3,000 passengers, which is set to dock in New Orleans, the Louisiana Department of Health has said.

Pope Francis has returned to the island of Lesbos, the migration flashpoint he first visited in 2016, to plead for better treatment of refugees as attitudes towards immigrants harden across Europe.

The outcome of the US's most significant abortion case in decades could have major implications for millions of women across the country.

The arts and entertainment industry have been reacting to the Government's latest restrictions which sees their audience capacity numbers halved.

The number of people hospitalised with Covid-19 has fallen to its lowest level in four weeks.

More than 150 passengers were flown to Dublin today on an Irish Government repatriation flight from Marrakesh in Morocco, which was operated by Ryanair.

Gardaí say the investigation into the activities of convicted paedophile Kieran Creaven has led to five children in the Philippines being taken to places of safety.

The Omicron variant spread in Australia has tested plans to reopen the economy as a cluster in Sydney grew to 13 cases and an infection was suspected in the state of Queensland.

The UK will require all inbound travellers to take a pre-departure Covid-19 test, and arrivals from Nigeria will have to quarantine in hotels to slow the spread of the Omicron variant, British Health Secretary Sajid Javid has said.

A street in New York has been named after Irish LGBT rights campaigner Tarlach Mac Niallais.

If ever a reason was needed to be concerned about the type of people that children can meet on the internet, Kieran Creaven is it.

A rally protesting against Northern Ireland's Covid-19 certification scheme has taken place in Belfast, with several hundred people gathering outside the City Hall.

Police in Detroit said they have taken into custody the parents of a Michigan teenager accused of killing four students at his high school.

A Russian Aeroflot airliner flying from Tel Aviv to Moscow was forced to change altitude over the Black Sea because a NATO CL-600 reconnaissance plane crossed its designated flight path, Russia's state aviation authority said today.

CNN has fired veteran anchor and correspondent Chris Cuomo, the cable news channel said today, during an investigation into his involvement with helping defend his brother, former New York governor Andrew Cuomo, against sexual misconduct allegations.

The Government has agreed to introduce new restrictions to curb the spread of Covid-19 ahead of the Christmas season.