China launched "multiple" ballistic missiles into waters around Taiwan during military drills, Taipei's defence ministry said, condemning what it described as "irrational actions that undermine regional peace".

A first-of-its-kind Government analysis of coroners' data has shown there are 27 unidentified remains of people in the State.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for taxation on windfall profits of oil and gas companies to ease the impact of the global energy crisis on the most vulnerable people.

A report on the integration of Syrian refugees in Ireland has highlighted how language barriers have created difficulties for people resettling in this country.

Ever since Communist China and Taiwan broke away from each other at the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949 the waterway separating them has been a tense geopolitical flashpoint.

A charred chunk of space junk found jutting from a paddock by an Australian sheep farmer was confirmed by authorities to be part of one of Elon Musk's SpaceX missions.

Ukraine said Russia has started creating a military strike force aimed at President Volodymyr Zelensky's hometown of Kryvyi Rih, while NATO is moving closer to its most significant expansion in decades as the alliance responds to the invasion of Ukra...

The number of confirmed cases of monkeypox in Ireland has increased to 97, according to the latest official figures.

The US Senate has ratified the entry of Sweden and Finland into NATO, strongly backing the expansion of the transatlantic alliance in the face of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

A California court has sentenced one of three men charged in the armed robbery of Lady Gaga's dog walker, in which the singer's French bulldogs were stolen, to four years in prison.

The public finances recorded a surplus of €5 billion at the end of July, according to figures published this afternoon by the Department of Finance. This compares to a deficit of €5.7 billion at the end of July last year.

A volcano has erupted in Iceland near the capital Reykjavik, the Icelandic Meteorological Office said as live images on local media showed lava spewing out of a fissure in the ground.

A murder investigation is under way after the fatal attack on a 34-year-old inmate at Mountjoy Prison last week.

A Dublin man has signed a guilty plea to a charge of killing his sister Sandra Boyd.

People are being asked to be aware of fake €2 coins following a seizure of almost 1,500 of them.

A 62-year-old French man survived for 16 hours in an air bubble inside his capsized sailboat in the Atlantic Ocean.

Safefood has said that it supports moves by supermarkets to remove best-before dates on some food products.

US congresswoman Jackie Walorski and two members of her staff have been killed in a head-on vehicle collision in Indiana, her office and local police said.

A man from Illinois in the United States accused of opening fire on spectators watching an Independence Day parade in the Chicago suburb has pleaded not guilty to 117 counts connected to the attack.

A Russian and Ukrainian team has completed an inspection of the first shipment of grain from Ukraine since the Kremlin's invasion five months ago helped spark a global food crisis.