The former head of Kazakhstan's domestic security agency has been detained on suspicion of treason, the agency has said, after he was fired amid unprecedented unrest.

A judge in the US state of Georgia has sentenced Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael and William "Roddie" Bryan to life in prison for what he called the "chilling" 2020 murder of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man who was running through their mostly white n...

A man has been arrested in connection with the unexplained death of a man in his 70s whose body was found at a house in Lisdoonvarna, Co Clare earlier today.

Novak Djokovic was granted a vaccine exemption to enter Australia because he contracted Covid-19 last month, his lawyers have claimed.

All children aged between five to 11 years-old who have been registered with the HSE will offered an appointment for their first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine from today.

Time will tell if the arrival of the Omicron variant in December here may possibly have contributed to a turning point.

As environmental organisations remind us that we can all help tackle climate change in 2022, an avid litter collector from Co Leitrim has issued her own rallying call for people "to do their bit".

Mr Justice Seamus Woulfe gave evidence today at a court hearing over a gathering held by the Oireachtas Golf Society at the Station House Hotel, Clifden, Co Galway, in August 2020.

The Department of Health has been notified of a further 21,926 cases of Covid-19, while the number of people hospitalised with the virus has decreased by five to 936.

Journalist Charlie Bird is on both a spiritual and a physical journey to climb Croagh Patrick this April as he battles Motor Neurone Disease.

The chief economist of the European Central Bank, Philip Lane, has said he believes inflation will come down later this year and that the current high rate is part of what he calls a "pandemic cycle of inflation."

Aoife Beary "insisted on living life well" and did not let the injuries she sustained in the Berkeley balcony collapse tragedy define her, her funeral mass heard this morning.

An autonomous drone carrying a defibrillator helped save the life of a 71-year-old man who suffered a cardiac arrest in Sweden, the man and the drone operator said this morning.

Sidney Poitier, who broke through racial barriers as the first black winner of the best actor Oscar for his role in "Lilies of the Field," and inspired a generation during the civil rights movement, has died at the age of 94.

Two 18-year-old men have appeared before Dublin District Court charged with assaulting a teenage girl and her friend in west Dublin last week.

Days of unrest in Kazakhstan have left dozens dead and public buildings ransacked and torched in the worst violence in its 30 years of independence.

Security forces appear to have reclaimed the streets of Kazakhstan's main city after days of violence, as the Russian-backed president said he had ordered his troops to shoot to kill to put down a countrywide uprising.

One hundred years ago today, the Dáil voted to ratify the Anglo-Irish Treaty. After a passionate, sometimes ill-tempered debate lasting three weeks, the vote in favour was extraordinarily close: 64 votes to 57.

Dominic Cummings has made a fresh allegation of a potentially lockdown-breaking party in Downing Street's garden after a "senior No 10 official" invited people to "social distanced drinks" in May 2020.

DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson has repeated his threat to collapse the Stormont Assembly unless the dispute over the Northern Ireland Protocol is resolved soon.