Gardaí investigating the murder of a man in Dublin yesterday morning believe he was targeted and lured to his death.

World number one Novak Djokovic has won an appeal against a decision to refuse him a visa in the Federal Circuit Court of Australia ahead of the Australian Open.

Health Service Executive CEO Paul Reid has warned there is a continued strain on the health system and that last night the unwelcome milestone of over 1,000 people in hospital with Covid-19 was reached.

Writer-director Kenneth Branagh's Belfast won Best Screenplay at the Golden Globes in the US on Sunday, but there was disappointment for the film's cast, Caitríona Balfe, Jamie Dornan and Ciarán Hinds, and Passing star Ruth Negga.

Talks are under way in Geneva between senior US and Russian officials as tension grows over the potential for a Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The owner of an alpaca farm in Co Louth has appealed to people to donate their Christmas trees.

A Myanmar junta court has convicted Aung San Suu Kyi of three criminal charges, sentencing her to four years in prison in the latest in a number of cases against the ousted civilian leader.

There is still pressure on British hospitals and the country is not yet in a position to say it can live with Covid-19, senior minister Michael Gove said this morning.

Nine children are among at least 19 people killed and dozens injured after a fire tore through a high-rise apartment building in New York yesterday.

A failure by the Government to deliver answers on how a major report on mother-and-baby homes was leaked to the media before it was due to be published has been criticised.

A pilot was pulled from a Cessna plane that had come down on train tracks in Los Angeles, seconds before a train smashed into the fuselage.

Bob Saget, a stand-up comedian and actor beloved for his role as Danny Tanner on the 1990s US sitcom Full House has died suddenly aged 65, his family has announced.

China has reported more cases of the highly transmissible Omicron coronavirus variant today, with authorities on high alert over flare-ups in major cities just weeks ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics.

Nearly 8,000 people have been detained in Kazakhstan after days of historic unrest in the Central Asian country that left dozens dead, the interior ministry said today.

Scientists have hailed one of the "greatest finds" in British palaeontological history after the largest fossilised remains of a prehistoric "sea dragon" were discovered in the midlands.

A man in his 70s has died following a collision in Co Tipperary.

The Department of Health has been notified of a further 21,384 new cases of Covid-19, with the number in hospital with the virus rising by 67 to 984.

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has said she is prepared to unilaterally override parts of the post-Brexit agreement on Northern Ireland if the negotiations she is now leading fail.

An infant boy handed in desperation to a soldier across an airport wall in the chaos of the American evacuation of Afghanistan has been found and has finally been reunited with his relatives in Kabul.