Motorists who speed, use their mobile phones or fail to wear a seatbelt will be hit with a doubling of existing fines as part of new measures in response to a sharp spike in the number of road deaths in recent months.

Hospital admissions for Covid-19 in Australia have reached a new high for a second straight day, data showed this morning.

Former taoiseach Bertie Ahern has said that if David Trimble had not entered peace talks in Northern Ireland 1997, they would never have been agreed.

Japan has executed a man convicted of killing seven people in a truck ramming and stabbing rampage in Tokyo's popular Akihabara electronics district in 2008, the justice ministry said.

From the way 45-year-old Swiss glaciologist Andreas Linsbauer bounds over icy crevasses, you would never guess he was carrying 10kg of steel equipment needed to chart the decline of Switzerland's glaciers.

Seven players from Australian rugby league side Manly Sea Eagles will not play this week after refusing to wear the club's one-off Pride jersey due to "cultural and religious" beliefs, the club's coach revealed Tuesday.

The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform says both sides in the public pay talks will need to be flexible in order for a realistic agreement to be reached.

New York City police are hunting for thieves who burst into a Brooklyn church and brazenly stripped a bishop of the jewellry he was wearing while he was delivering his Sunday sermon as the service was livestreamed, officials said.

Parents are worried about meeting back-to-school costs this year, according to children's charity Barnardos.

Ireland's public acute hospitals may need up to 15,500 more staff within 13 years, according to a new ESRI report.

Russia has said it will cut gas supplies to Europe from tomorrow in a blow to countries that have backed Ukraine, while missile attacks in Black Sea coastal regions raised doubts about whether Russia will stick to a deal to let Ukraine export grain.

David Trimble, the unionist leader credited with helping to secure the 1998 Good Friday Agreement which delivered peace in Northern Ireland, has died.

The zero-carbon city that Saudi Arabia plans to build at Neom will vertically layer homes, offices, public parks and schools within a mirrored facade stretching over 170km, the crown prince said in remarks carried by state media.

To judge the Tory leadership debate purely in terms points scored, many could argue that Rishi Sunak came out on top, writes John Kilraine.

A woman with cancer has told a court that she believed a garda, whom she described as "a monster", was going to kill her during a litany of verbal, physical, mobile phone and online abuse over a period of three and a half years.

Both Tory leadership contenders have paid tribute to former Northern Ireland first minister David Trimble as they took part in their first televised head-to-head-debate.

Pope Francis has made a historic personal apology today to indigenous survivors of child abuse committed over decades at Catholic-run institutions in Canada.

US President Joe Biden has slammed his predecessor Donald Trump for watching his supporters riot for hours on 6 January, while police at the US Capitol suffered through a "medieval hell".

Nobel Prize winner and former Stormont first minister David Trimble has died at the age of 77.

The victorious Kerry football team have been attending homecoming celebrations in Tralee and Killarney with tens of thousands of their supporters.