Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned of "lightning-fast" retaliation if countries interfere in Ukraine as European leaders accused Russia of "blackmail" over its cuts to gas supplies.

Google will continue to invest in Ireland, saying changes to the international corporation tax regime make "no difference at all" to their investment plans.

Criminal gangs and gang members are separated and isolated in prison to prevent them from exercising control over other inmates, according to the Director General of the Prison Service.

Before a punch has been thrown in anger in New York, Katie Taylor's promoter Eddie Hearn is already pondering a future fight that could see the Bray native finally fight in front of her home crowd.

Tenants are often unable to make discrimination complaints about their landlords within the necessary two month timeframe, because they cannot find out their landlord's address, according to a report.

The Chinese megacity of Guangzhou has cancelled hundreds of flights and launched mass testing of 5.6 million people after one suspected Covid case, as the battle to contain the coronavirus sweeps across the country.

The death and destruction caused by Hurricane Ida in the United States last year has prompted the World Meteorological Organization to remove the name from a rotating list of storm titles.

Former US president Donald Trump testified under oath that he feared protesters would pelt him with "very dangerous" fruit like pineapples, tomatoes, and bananas saying: "You can get killed with those things."

Follow the latest developments on day 64 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

People killed or seriously injured in work-related incidents are to be honoured in a ceremony to mark Workers' Memorial Day.

The General Secretary of the Psychiatric Nurses Association (PNA) has voiced concern that some psychiatric patients with "very challenging behaviour" are being placed in acute admission units which are putting "staff and other patients at risk".

Indonesia has begun imposing a complete ban on palm oil exports, as the world's largest producer of the commodity risked destabilising a global vegetable oil market already hitting peak prices.

A Tory MP who allegedly watched pornography on his mobile phone in the House of Commons chamber should be expelled from the party if the claims are correct, a UK Home Office minister has said.

Johnny Depp was dropped from the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise because of the domestic abuse allegations made by Amber Heard, his former Hollywood agent has said.

A humanitarian organisation in Poland has warned international donations of food, sanitary and medical supplies to Ukraine have more than halved since the start of the war.

Some unionists might vote for Alliance in the aftermath of Brexit which has been "completely mishandled" by the DUP, Alliance Party leader Naomi Long has said.

Huge swathes of tropical rainforest were burned or hacked down for cattle and crops last year, led by destruction in Brazil, researchers said, warning that climate change itself is making it harder to reverse the losses.

The Government has defeated a Sinn Féin motion that sought to scrap plans to restrict the sale of turf.

The father of a two-year old girl has been describing the moment he found her critically injured in the living room of his partner's apartment in Cork in July, 2019.

Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has insisted he "did not commit a crime" regarding the disclosure of a confidential Government document to a friend.