Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that his government was ordering the mandatory evacuation of people in the eastern Donetsk region, scene of fierce fighting with Russia.

In Ukraine, journalists who were used to working on longform features, social issues and entertainment stories became war correspondents and editors overnight.

US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi will lead a congressional delegation to the Asia-Pacific region, her office has confirmed, with stops in Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan.

Reek Sunday, the annual pilgrimage to the summit of Croagh Patrick traditionally held on the last Sunday of July, returns to normal today for the first time since 2019.

A Ukrainian member of parliament has described calls by Sabina Higgins for a negotiated settlement of the war in Ukraine as "under-informed" and "painful".

President Michael D Higgins will officially open Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in Mullingar, Co Westmeath later today.

The European Central Bank raised interest rates by a higher-than-expected 0.5% last week. While tracker mortgages will automatically have the rate hike applied to them, banks opted not to pass it on to variable rate products yet and few fixed rates h...

Joe Biden has tested positive for Covid-19 for a second time and is returning to isolation, his White House doctor has said, attributing the result to "rebound" positivity from treatment the US president received.

One lucky ticketholder in the US state of Illinois has won the $1.28bn Mega Millions jackpot.

Planting trees has emerged as a low cost, high impact way of tackling the climate crisis. Individuals, businesses and governments are all at it.

A 34-year-old man is in a critical condition in hospital in Dublin after he was attacked and severely beaten by a group of other prisoners in Mountjoy Prison last night.

A 31-year-old man has appeared in court charged in connection with the robbery of Lordship Credit Union in Co Louth almost ten years ago, during which a detective garda was shot dead.

Devastating flooding in Kentucky killed 25 people and the toll is expected to rise, the southern US state's governor said as rescuers continued their search for survivors.

Pope Francis admitted he needs to slow down, telling reporters after a six-day trip to Canada that he cannot maintain his pace of international travel and may have to think about retiring.

A 22-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with the death of nine-year-old Lillia Valutyte in England.

The Ukrainian military has said it had killed scores of Russian soldiers in fighting in the south, including the Kherson region that is the focus of Kyiv's counter-offensive in that part of the country and a key link in Moscow's supply lines.

The governor of the State of New York Kathy Hochul has declared an emergency in the state over the continued spread of monkeypox.

Austrian leaders appealed for national unity after a doctor who faced death threats from anti-vaccination activists and coronavirus pandemic conspiracy theorists took her own life.

A Brazilian woman and her two adult children, all suffering from dehydration and malnutrition, were freed by police following 17 years of captivity by her husband, authorities have said.

Thousands of supporters of a Shi'ite populist cleric have stormed Baghdad's fortified government zone and broke into parliament for the second time in a week, leaving at least 125 people injured and escalating a political stand-off.