Compulsory vaccination against Covid-19 for all those aged over the age of 18 comes into force in Austria today, an unprecedented measure in the European Union.

The Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said "no one party should have a veto" over the future of Stormont.

Rescue workers have edged closer to reaching a five-year-old boy who has been trapped for five days down a 100ft well in northern Morocco, in a case that has gripped the country.

The owners of Glasnevin Cemetery have decided to "discontinue" a controversial memorial wall, which was to remember the deaths of British soldiers and RIC, as well as civilians and IRA volunteers killed in 1916 and the War of Independence.

That Jeffrey Donaldson, the DUP leader, should threaten to walk away from the Northern Ireland Executive even after the elections, unless the Protocol is resolved to his satisfaction, is a scenario that has been entirely predictable, and predicted.

We are well into the second month of 2022, and while some of the green resolutions people made at the start of the year are no doubt flourishing, others are being tested, while some will have been abandoned.

Thousands of demonstrators are expected to pile into the Canadian capital of Ottawa later as a week-long occupation of the city by truckers opposed to vaccine mandates is to ramp up, with other cities also braced for protests.

January of this year was the hottest month in the Colombian Amazon in a decade, leading to an increase in forest fires in the southeastern region and very likely impacting air quality in the capital Bogota, according to an Environment Ministry report...

One Tennessee school's decision to ban the graphic novel Maus has attracted a vast amount of commentary, and not without consequence, writes Juliette Gash.

Students may be disappointed that they did not get what many of them wanted – accredited grades, but their teachers believe that what they did get is "as good as".

Stock markets had a woeful January performance wise and February hasn't brought much by way of a turnaround. The actions of Central Banks against the backdrop of soaring inflation are driving much of the losses. With multiple interest hikes in prospe...

A man with a "very low" IQ of 59 was made to live in a horse box, a disused caravan and a cramped 6ft shed for 40 years, a court in England has heard.

Brooke Scullion, singing the song That's Rich, has been chosen to represent Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest in Turin in May.

United Nations Deputy Secretary General Amina Mohammed has warned that "we picked a fight with nature and it's fighting back".

A man in his 20s has died and three more have been injured in a road crash in Co Westmeath.

Machine gun fire echoed through the abandoned buildings of Pripyat in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, as Ukrainian National Guard troops staged urban combat exercises.

Researchers in Cork have discovered a new way to treat oesophageal, colorectal and other gastrointestinal cancers that are resistant to traditional chemotherapy treatment.

The Taoiseach has left the door open for a return to Cabinet of Dara Calleary who resigned following an Oireachtas Golf Society event in Clifden in 2020.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing renewed calls to stand down as a second senior minister distanced himself from his controversial attack on Keir Starmer and another adviser quit Downing Street.

Eirgrid, the national electricity grid operator, has completed an auction with power companies which will lead to the construction of nine new gas generators around the country.