A nine-year-old girl has been fatally shot in Liverpool and two other people are in hospital with gunshot injuries.

Tributes have been paid after a 29-year-old Limerick man died following an assault in Co Kildare at the weekend.

The Teachers' Union of Ireland is warning that a severe teacher recruitment and retention problem in schools is being exacerbated by the cost-of-living crisis.

Eight more grain silos at Beirut port have collapsed after they were damaged in the devastating 2020 explosion, in the third such collapse in a month.

Laura Whitmore has announced she will not host the next series of Love Island.

Nest boxes deployed on a small island off the coast of Dublin are greatly helping Europe's largest colony of Roseate Terns, new research shows.

A group of Irish lawyers are representing six young people from Portugal at the European Court of Human Rights in a significant climate change case.

Hundreds have gathered for the Moscow funeral of Daria Dugina, the daughter of a prominent ultranationalist intellectual who was killed in a car bombing that Russia blames on Ukraine

Russia carried out artillery and air strikes in the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine's General Staff said, where fighting near Europe's largest nuclear power plant has raised fears of a catastrophic nuclear incident.

Nearly two centuries after it was cut from his corpse and stashed in formaldehyde, the heart of Emperor Pedro I, who declared Brazil's independence from Portugal, returned for politically charged commemorations of the South American nation's 200th bi...

The United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF) has warned that children suffering during a dire drought across parts of Africa are "one disease away from catastrophe".

A new laser treatment for patients with sight loss as a result of diabetes has been shown to be cost-effective and non-invasive, according to research following a clinical trial.

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is seeking documents from Twitter Inc co-founder Jack Dorsey as the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX pursues his legal fight to walk away from his $44bn deal for the social media company, according to a court filing.

A research team at Trinity College Dublin has developed a new gene therapy that could help treat a progressive eye disease that affects up to 10% of adults over 65 years of age.

The College of Psychiatrists of Ireland has said that Government failings on mental health are putting patients' lives at risk and the body has called for an urgent overhaul of the entire system.

Former President Donald Trump has asked a federal court to temporarily block the FBI from reviewing the materials it seized two weeks ago from his Florida home, until a special master can be appointed to oversee the review.

A severe drought hitting swathes of Europe is "worsening" and, while rain is helping some regions, accompanying thunderstorms are causing their own damage, EU researchers have said in a report.

Opposition TDs have called on Minister for State Robert Troy to make a statement in the Dáil outlining all of his business interests when it returns next month.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed his "sincere condolences" following the death of the daughter of hardline Russian ideologue Alexander Dugin in a car bombing.

A man in his 20s who was injured in an assault in Monasterevin, Co Kildare at the weekend has died in hospital.