Two people have been charged in relation to the death of a four-year-old boy in Limerick last year.

US President Joe Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin's threat to use nuclear weapons is the biggest such threat since the Cuban Missile Crisis.

A man in his 30s has been charged in connection with the death of Thomas Dooley at a funeral in Tralee, Co Kerry, on Wednesday.

A new report says significant failures in oversight and management by Irish Water and local authorities last year put the health of the 885,000 people served by the Gorey and Ballymore-Eustace water treatment plants at risk.

Citing rising interest rates and increasing material costs, the Construction Industry Federation said there is some concern that there could be a fall-off in the number of homes built next year.

Australian scientists are trying to grow plants on the moon by 2025 in a new mission unveiled today that they said could help pave the way for a future colony.

Grief-stricken families have been gathering outside a Thai nursery where an ex-policeman murdered nearly two dozen children in one of the kingdom's worst mass killings.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has said the Tánaiste's comment that the Northern Ireland Protocol is too strict and working without being fully implemented is "stating a fact".

Myles Sanderson, one of two brothers suspected of carrying out a series of September knife attacks in central Canada, committed all the murders on his own, police said.

A forest fire that tore through part of Easter Island has charred some of its fabled monumental carved stone figures, known as moai, authorities said.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin is joining other EU leaders at a summit in Prague, which will be dominated by discussions on how to reduce the price of gas following Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent energy crisis.

Trade unions will meet today to formally ratify acceptance of the new public sector pay deal.

A new Covid-19 wave appears to be brewing in Europe as cooler weather arrives, with public health experts warning that vaccine fatigue and confusion over types of available vaccines will likely limit booster uptake.

The Irish Government is working with Kyiv authorities and the family of Rory Mason to bring home the remains of the Irishman who was killed in action in Ukraine.

The United Nations has warned of a possible explosion of cholera cases in crisis-wracked Haiti.

A US airstrike killed two senior Islamic State jihadist group officials in Syria, the military's Central Command (CENTCOM) said.

Police arrested a man suspected of stabbing multiple people on the Las Vegas Strip, killing two and wounding at least six in an unprovoked attack, local authorities said.

A woman who poured boiling water over her 20-month-old son causing him permanent, disfiguring scarring has been sentenced to nine years in jail with the final two years suspended.

A Connecticut jury has begun deliberating in a trial to decide how much conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his company must pay families of victims of the Sandy Hook mass shooting for falsely claiming the incident was a hoax.

A 20-month-old boy became "a different child" after his mother scalded him with boiling water, his foster mother said.