The Taoiseach is in Belfast today to meet politicians and business leaders as efforts continue to break the Stormont impasse over the Northern Ireland Protocol.

The Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, has described Britain's moves to unilaterally discard the Northern Ireland Protocol as "deeply concerning".

Russian forces intensified their offensive in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region using artillery, rocket-launchers and aircraft to damage defences around Donetsk, Ukraine's general staff have said.

Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Michael McGrath has said that there will be a difficult balance to strike in the upcoming public sector pay talks.

A 1955 Mercedes-Benz, one of only two such versions in existence, was auctioned off earlier this month for a record €135m, making it the world's most expensive car ever sold.

Washington Correspondent Sean Whelan examines Sweden and Finland's applications for NATO membership, ending decades of military neutrality.

Former US President George W Bush mistakenly described the invasion of Iraq as "brutal" and "unjustified" before correcting himself to say he meant to refer to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The latest virus outbreak is the largest ever seen in Europe, but the risks to the wider public are extremely low

The Freedom of Galway is to be awarded this afternoon to Patricia Burke Brogan, and posthumously to Ena McEntee, who both worked to protect and assist residents of the former Magdelene Laundry in Galway during the 1960s.

Hauliers are to be given more time to apply for an emergency support scheme put in place by the Government to assist them with the soaring cost of fuel.

The Oklahoma state legislature has passed a bill banning abortions from the moment of fertilisation, with some exceptions, the strictest ban so far in the United States.

Billionaire Elon Musk took to Twitter late yesterday to denounce as "utterly untrue" claims in a news report that he had sexually harassed a flight attendant on a private jet in 2016.

The man narrowly tipped to become Australia's next prime minister predicted a "close" outcome in tomorrow's vote, as he barnstormed the country in an eleventh-hour bid to defend a shrinking lead.

American aerospace giant Boeing has launched its Starliner capsule for the International Space Station in a critical uncrewed test flight that followed years of failures and false starts.

A woman who carried out a campaign of harassment against former TD Jonathan O'Brien rang or texted him over 5,500 times, regularly sending him over 100 text messages a day, a court has heard.

Amy Broadhurst and Lisa O'Rourke wrote their names into the history books of Irish boxing as the two fighters secured gold medals at the Women's World Championships in Istanbul.

Leo Varadkar said the Opposition can "rest assured" that the Government still has a majority in the Dáil, and a "substantial majority" in the Seanad.

The military situation in the "completely destroyed" Donbas region is like hell, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Artist Olia Federova spent months sleeping in a basement in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. But a pushback of Russian troops means she now feels it's safe to leave, explains Philip Gallagher.

A 20-year-old man has been charged with the murder of Christopher Hall in Balbriggan in north Dublin last year.