Evacuees from Ukraine's southern Kherson region are expected to begin arriving in Russia after a Moscow-installed official suggested residents should leave for safety, a sign of Russia's weakening hold on territory it claims to have annexed.

For the fourth day in a row the community of Creeslough, Co Donegal, will gather at St Michael's Church for a funeral.

The water quality of Ireland's lakes, rivers, estuaries and coastal waters has declined in the last five years, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

Unless the bed capacity issue is resolved in emergency departments they will "always be in difficulty", the president of the Irish Association of Emergency Medicine has warned.

Video of Republican and Democratic Party leaders desperately calling for help as the US Capitol was ransacked provided a chilling twist in yesterday's session of the probe into the insurrection on 6 January 2021.

Some key members of Vladimir Putin's regime appear to be increasingly willing to accept that Russia's war in Ukraine is faltering, explains Mark Coughlan.

A meeting of a group set up to advise the Minister for Agriculture on options to reduce emissions from the dairy sector takes place later this morning to consider a suite of options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Elon Musk is under a federal investigation related to his $44bn (€45bn) takeover deal for Twitter, the social media company said in a court filing made public yesterday.

Peaky Blinders star Cillian Murphy won Best Drama Performance at the UK's National Television Awards in London on Thursday night.

British finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng cut short his trip to Washington for this week's global finance minister meetings and has headed back to London amid reports Prime Minister Liz Truss is considering reversing more of her government's controvers...

The leader of Sweden's Moderates party, Ulf Kristersson, has said he has agreed a deal with the Christian Democrats and the Liberals to form a minority coalition government after the right-wing bloc won a majority in last month's election.

The Irish Solar Energy Association has said electricity bills will be kept higher than necessary for longer than necessary, because of delays in the roll-out of renewable energy that are entirely in the control of State agencies.

Flash floods swamped have hundreds of homes in southeastern Australia with residents now facing a "nerve-wracking" wait to assess the damage.

The Unionist perspective on the constitutional future of the island of Ireland will be heard in the Seanad later today, along with other voices.

Facebook's parent company Meta made a series of announcements this week on the development of the 'metaverse', a virtual reality world that allows people to meet and interact in interconnected 3D digital spaces.

Five people, including an off-duty police officer, were shot dead yesterday, prompting a major search operation that shut down part of the North Carolina capital of Raleigh.

North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile into the sea off its east coast, South Korea's military said, the latest in a series of launches by the nuclear-armed country amid heightened tensions.

GAA president Larry McCarthy is aiming to change the culture of the organisation after a series of incidents in which referees have been physically abused blighted the association.

Junior doctors have complained for years that the hours they're expected to work are unreasonable. Now, increasing numbers of them are heading overseas, explains Conor Wilson.

The US House of Representatives committee investigating the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol has issued a subpoena to compel former president Donald Trump to testify before it.