Russia has declared victory in its months-long operation to capture the strategic port of Mariupol after Ukraine ordered the last of its troops holed up in the city's Azovstal steelworks to lay down their arms.

The British Foreign Secretary is set to meet with a top US Democrat today as tensions mount over the UK's controversial plans to overwrite parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol.

What happened in those critical two hours, between just after 3am and just after 5am, on the morning of 5 July, 2019 when Karen Harrington was alone with Santina Cawley in her apartment?

Having laid down the gauntlet in the House of Commons on Tuesday, the British government has challenged the European Union to renegotiate the Protocol, or the UK will introduce legislation to change it unilaterally.

The Citizens' Assembly which is considering a proposal for a directly-elected mayor for Dublin will hold its second meeting today.

North Korea reported more than 200,000 new patients suffering from fever for a fifth consecutive day, as it fought its first confirmed coronavirus outbreak.

Voting in Australia's eastern states have closed with opinion polls showing the opposition Labor Party narrowly ahead of Prime Minister Scott Morrison's conservative coalition, which has ruled for almost a decade.

With public sector pay talks looming, delegates at the Fórsa national conference were in no doubt that substantial increases are needed to help ease the pressures of inflation, writes Brian O'Donovan.

US President Joe Biden and his new South Korean counterpart will search for ways today to break a diplomatic stalemate with North Korea, as they worry Kim Jong Un could lash out with new nuclear tests.

As National Biodiversity Week 2022 comes to an end, one Co Kildare farmer is sharing the success of an innovative project to help the amber-listed sand martin.

Former US President Donald Trump has paid a $110,000 (€104,000) fine for obstructing a major tax evasion investigation led since 2019 by New York state authorities, a spokesperson announced.

The World Health Organization is due to hold an emergency meeting this evening to discuss the recent outbreak of monkeypox, a viral infection more common to west and central Africa, after more than 100 cases were confirmed or suspected in Europe.

Around 40 people have been injured, 10 of them seriously, when a suspected tornado swept through the German town of Paderborn today, as storms buffeted the western part of the country.

Five beaches have failed to retain a blue flag status from last year, after their water quality was deemed to fall into a lesser category by An Taisce.

The parents of two 11-year-old twins with autism have been told by the Minister for Special Education that their children will be given places in a special school.

Russia's defence ministry has said the last group of Ukrainian forces holed up in Mariupol's destroyed Azovstal steel works had surrendered, marking an end to a weeks-long siege.

The father of a 10-year-old boy is appealing for help to get him access to life-changing medicine for Cystic Fibrosis.

President Michael D Higgins has said that it is "absurd to look for the richest person or group" and to hand them the authority for responsible communication.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said there is "no substitute" for negotiations between the European Union and the UK government to resolve issues with the Northern Ireland Protocol.

A retired school principal has appeared in court charged with 90 counts of sexually abusing 20 boys over a 30-year period in Dublin.