The bodies of 46 people have been discovered inside a truck in San Antonio, Texas, city officials have said, in one of the most deadly recent incidents of human smuggling along the US-Mexico border.

Minister for Justice Helen McEntee has said the Government strategy to tackle domestic, gender and sexual based violence is their "most ambitious" plan to date.

The parents of two boys with a rare muscle weakening condition are appealing for Spinal Muscular Atrophy to be added to the heel prick test, saying early diagnosis would be life-changing for those born with it.

A new voucher scheme that will give remote workers free access to local digital hubs has begun operating.

A German court has handed a five-year jail sentence to a 101-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard, the oldest person so far to go on trial for complicity in war crimes during the Holocaust.

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War.

Firefighters and soldiers are searching for survivors in the rubble of a shopping centre in central Ukraine after a Russian missile strike killed at least 18 people in an attack condemned by the UN and the West.

An additional 1,056 additional college places will be available in September, Minister for Further and Higher Education Simon Harris has said.

Ghislaine Maxwell will today learn her fate when a US judge sentences the former socialite for helping late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse girls.

China has cut the quarantine time for inbound travellers by half in a major easing of one of the world's strictest Covid-19 curbs, which have deterred travel in and out of the country since 2020.

Japan baked under scorching temperatures for a fourth successive day, as the capital's heat broke nearly 150-year-old records for June and authorities warned power supply remained tight enough to raise the possibility of cuts.

The Cabinet will today consider draft legislation that would allow the Minister for Education direct schools to quickly provide places for students with special educational needs.

Plans to introduce maternity leave for councillors will be announced by Minister of State with Responsibility for Local Government Peter Burke.

A dispute over how to shield poorer citizens from European Union policies to put a price on pollution is threatening to prevent the bloc's countries from agreeing a raft of new green measures.

The British government has won its House of Commons vote for the second reading of the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill by 295 to 221 votes.

HSE Chief Executive Paul Reid has announced that he will be stepping down from his position later this year.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced today's missile strike on a shopping centre in the central city of Kremenchuk as a "brazen terrorist act", as the death toll rose to 16.

An Amtrak train with 243 passengers on board has derailed in the US state of Missouri after hitting a truck at a public crossing near the town of Mendon, killing three people.

The leaders of the Group of Seven leading industrial democracies, gathered for their annual summit in southern Germany, condemned Russia's "abominable" missile attack on a shopping centre in the Ukraine town of Kremenchuk.

A rare tornado killed at least one person and injured 10 others today in the coastal city of Zierikzee in the southwest of the Netherlands, emergency services said.