The Minister for Defence is expected to recommend a major increase in defence spending at the Cabinet meeting later today.

A teenage boy has died after getting into difficulty while swimming near a beach in Dublin.

Ukraine is expecting a fresh assault by Russian ground forces, following widespread shelling which has killed more than 30 people.

The Government looks on course to defeat a Sinn Féin motion of no confidence, which will be voted on in the Dáil later today.

A national charity that offers support to people who have experienced child sexual abuse has seen an increase in abuse amongst siblings.

Live updates from Sky Stadium in Wellington, where Ireland face the Maori All Blacks in the penultimate game of their New Zealand tour.

The House committee probing the 2021 assault on the US Capitol will examine connections between associates of former president Donald Trump and far right-wing extremist groups at its seventh hearing.

Fire and rescue crews in Northern Ireland received a total of 203 emergency calls on the first night of celebrations for the Twelfth of July.

The euro sank to within a whisker of parity with the dollar today and stock markets fell as the prospect of further central bank tightening and worries about the health of economies worldwide unnerved investors.

The Government will consider a proposal to maintain the current TV licence fee.

Nominations for the UK Conservative Party leadership election open and close today, with candidates requiring the support of 20 fellow MPs to make it onto the ballot.

The sole surviving member of an Islamic State group cell that killed 130 people in Paris in 2015 has not appealed his whole-life sentence for the killings, the Paris chief prosecutor has said.

Sri Lankan immigration officials have said they prevented the president's brother and former finance minister Basil Rajapaksa from flying out of the country, as anger rises against the powerful family for a debilitating economic crisis.

Family and friends of assassinated former prime minister Shinzo Abe have gathered at a Tokyo temple this morning for a private funeral.

Two men, aged in their 30s and 40s, are being questioned in Kilkenny following the seizure of almost €7 million worth of cannabis linked to the Kinahan organised crime group.

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has said that three out of four patients in hospital with Covid-19 now are over 65 years of age.

Tory MPs will begin the process of voting for a new leader on Wednesday, with Boris Johnson's successor to be finally announced on 5 September.

Composer Monty Norman, who wrote the much-loved theme for the James Bond films, has died at the age of 94.

NASA has revealed the first image from the James Webb Space Telescope, revealing the earliest galaxies formed after the Big Bang and a view further back in time than any previous telescope.

Mo Farah has revealed in a BBC documentary that he was brought into the UK illegally under the name of another child.