Ukrainian authorities are planning to evacuate more civilians from Mariupol today, after dozens were finally brought to safety following weeks trapped under heavy fire in the strategic port city's Azovstal steel complex.

Northern Ireland's political leaders have clashed over the potential for a border poll, post-Brexit trading arrangements and the cost-of-living crisis during a televised pre-election debate.

In a political landscape for so long dominated by orange and green in unionist and nationalist those in centre-ground yellow are hoping to make a splash this week.

The sea level is rising twice as fast as previously forecast around parts of New Zealand, according to new research, putting the country's two largest cities at risk decades earlier than expected.

The Hospitallers Medical Battalion, which comprises of volunteer medics and emergency responders, was established in 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea.

Life in Lviv is surreal. It is difficult to think of this city as being in a war zone.

China's commercial capital of Shanghai was dealt a blow today as authorities reported 58 new Covid-19 cases outside areas under lockdown, while Beijing pressed on with testing millions of people on a May Day holiday few were celebrating.

Saoirse McGarrigle reports on the boom in Irish whiskey sales around the world, with one famous entrepreneur enjoying success in a new venture.

Eid Al-Fitr is a three-day celebration that takes place after the month of Ramadan ends.

Australian airline Qantas has announced it will launch the world's first non-stop commercial flights from Sydney to London and to New York by the end of 2025, finally conquering the "tyranny of distance".

For most workers, rising inflation has not been matched by proportionate pay rises.

Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Michael McGrath has said the Government has brought in measures of around €2bn since the Budget to offset cost of living pressures.

Finland will almost certainly apply for membership in NATO, Sweden's Foreign Minister Ann Linde told Swedish television today.

A man in his 50s has died after getting into difficulties while swimming in west Cork this afternoon.

The manufacturer of one of the most popular Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) products has said that it is continually monitoring the situation to ensure an adequate supply.

Roughly 100 civilians have been evacuated from a besieged steel plant in the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said today.

Cowering in the labyrinth of Soviet-era bunkers far beneath the vast Azovstal steel works, Natalia Usmanova felt her heart would stop with terror as Russian bombs rained down on Mariupol, sprinkling her with concrete dust.

Police fired tear gas to push back black-clad anarchists who ransacked business premises in Paris today during May Day protests against the policies of newly re-elected President Emmanuel Macron.

Russia is committed to working to prevent a nuclear war ever beginning, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an Italian television interview today.

Gardaí investigating the circumstances surrounding a Covid-19 patient leaving hospital against medical advice have said that the Director of Public Prosecutions has directed no prosecution in the matter.