US Republican Liz Cheney has lost her seat in Congress to an election conspiracy theorist, but vowed to fight on and do "whatever it takes" to ensure that former US president Donald Trump is not returned to power.

The two contenders in the race to become the next leader of the UK Conservative Party and prime minister are due in Northern Ireland later today.

For months, opinion polls had shown Liz Cheney's challenger, Harriet Hageman, had pulled out a commanding lead of somewhere between 22% and 29% over the incumbent, but in the end it was worse, writes Sean Whelan.

North Korea fired two cruise missiles this morning, Seoul's defence ministry said, Pyongyang's first weapons test in weeks.

A former judge from Afghanistan has said she was left afraid after the Taliban released prisoners from jail, including people she had sentenced.

Wolfgang Petersen, the Oscar-nominated German filmmaker best known for his WWII classic Das Boot, the true story The Perfect Storm, and the presidential thrillers In the Line of Fire and Air Force One, has died.

In the wake of a breakthrough showing at the European Athletics Championships, 20-year-old Israel Olatunde paid tribute to those who had supported him along the way.

US President Joe Biden has signed into law a major climate change and health care spending bill, which it is hoped will give Democrats another boost ahead of midterm elections.

The 147th Dublin Horse Show, which was cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, gets under way in the RDS this morning.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has voiced "disgust" at statements by Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in Berlin on the Holocaust, amid a growing outcry in Germany and Israel.

Russia blamed saboteurs for explosions at one of its military bases in Moscow-annexed Crimea while Ukraine hinted it was responsible as its officials said their strategy was to destroy supply lines supporting Russia's invasion.

British consumer price inflation jumped to 10.1% in July, its highest since February 1982, up from an annual rate of 9.4% in June, intensifying the squeeze on households, official figures show.

Ukraine has hinted at responsibility for new explosions at a military base in the Russian-annexed Crimea region that is an important supply line for Russia's invasion.

A man in his 50s has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of a 75-year-old woman in Co Kerry.

The pedalos lie far from the water's edge and the flat stone slabs around the Sirmione peninsula are exposed after drought reduced the level of Italy's Lake Garda to a 15-year low.

A former rugby coach and teacher has been charged with indecently assaulting boys at a Dublin school in the 1970s and 1980s.

Former Manchester United footballer Ryan Giggs has told a jury how rows with his partner like one he had in a Dubai hotel corridor were a "regular" feature of their relationship.

An elderly man who had been riding his mobility scooter in London was fatally stabbed today, the Metropolitan Police said.

The RTÉ Rose of Tralee International Festival 2022 has been launched, with the 33 International Roses and host Dáithí Ó Sé Kerry-bound after a three-year hiatus due to the pandemic.

Former Pop Idol contestant and theatre star Darius Campbell Danesh has been found dead in his US apartment at the age of 41, his family has announced.