The Texas gunman who murdered 19 children and two teachers earlier this week posted an online message warning that he was going to attack a school minutes before his assault, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said last night.

Autism campaigners and school principals have reacted with shock to a Government decision to accommodate children with autism in the Dublin area in special temporary education centres from September.

The average waiting time for admission to hospital emergency departments last month was nearly 14 hours for people 75 years of age and over.

The Environmental Protection Agency has warned that the number of homes in Ireland at risk from radon, a cancer-causing gas linked to 350 new lung cancers each year, is significantly higher than previously thought.

Russian forces have shelled more than 40 towns in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region, Ukraine's military have said, threatening to shut off the last main escape route for civilians trapped in the path of their invasion.

The percentage of households renting in Ireland rose from 18% to 29% over the past 20 years and just over half of those renting are in receipt of some form of State support, according to a report from the Economic and Social Research Institute.

Texas Democratic politician Beto O'Rourke has been seething for years over America's surging gun violence, routinely attacking his opponents for their inaction on firearm reform.

A writer who penned a piece titled "How To Murder Your Husband" has been convicted of killing her spouse in the United States.

The number of confirmed cases of monkeypox worldwide has reached 219 outside of countries where it is endemic, according to an update released by the European Union's disease agency.

Eleven newborn babies have died in a hospital fire in the city of Tivaouane in Senegal in west Africa.

A powerful US Congressional team led by senior Democrat Richard Neal is visiting Stormont to discuss the Northern Ireland Protocol with local political parties.

World number eight Rory McIlroy is playing four tournaments on the spin with Memorial, the RBC Canadian Open, the Travelers and the US Open ahead of the Irish Open, which is being held in Kilkenny from 30 June to 3 July.

Mark Darmody, a father of two boys with autism has said he will be highlighting the "lack of services" available to families like his when they meet Government ministers today.

Nineteen children and two teachers died in a shooting at a Texas primary school yesterday.

Seconds before he presents a news bulletin, Afghan television anchor Nisar Nabil puts on a black mask as a symbolic protest against the Taliban authorities for ordering women presenters to cover their faces on air.

The United Nations Security Council is to vote on a resolution aimed at toughening sanctions on North Korea after it fired an intercontinental ballistic missile, diplomats have said.

E-commerce platform eDesk is to create 150 jobs over the next 18 months.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he "overwhelmingly" believes he should remain in office despite public anger at the "bitter and painful" conclusions of the inquiry into parties at Downing Street during the coronavirus lockdown.

At least 19 children and two teachers were killed after a teenager opened fire at a primary school in Texas, in the worst school shooting in the US in nearly a decade.

Russian forces have pounded Ukrainian-held twin cities in the Donbas region that is now the focus of the three-month war, threatening to shut off the last main escape route for civilians trapped in the path of their advance.