A new wave of Russian drone attacks hit Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities this morning, causing people to scramble for cover during the morning rush hour for the second successive week.

Gardaí are investigating an alleged assault on an Under-9 player at a children's sports event in Thurles at the weekend.

British Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will set out billions of pounds of savings to stabilise the public finances in an emergency statement today.

Single use vapes are "making the world a worse place", Minister of State Ossian Smyth has said, adding that he wants to ban them.

The Simon Community has recorded the lowest number of rental properties available since it started collecting data seven years ago.

The members of the K-pop supergroup BTS will enlist in the military, their agency has said, putting an end to a years-long debate on whether the stars deserved exemptions from mandatory service.

More than 600 people are now known to have perished in the worst floods in a decade in Nigeria, according to a new toll released yesterday.

A Status Yellow wind warning for gusts of up to 110km/h remains in place for Atlantic coastal counties until midday.

All student grant holders will receive an additional student grant payment in mid-December, Minister for Further and Higher Education Simon Harris has confirmed.

There are calls for a renewed focus on safety at building sites around the country amid a slight increase in workplace injuries in the construction sector.

The Taoiseach will be in Belfast today for meetings with the main political parties at Stormont.

The HSE is encouraging parents of those aged between two to 17 years old to get the free nasal spray flu vaccine.

Far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro and leftist challenger Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva traded jabs and insults as they squared off yesterday in their first-ever head-to-head debate, two weeks from Brazil's presidential runoff election.

Social Justice Ireland has called on Government to raise core rates in the forthcoming Social Welfare Bill by a further €8 a week, bringing the total to €20.

Eight Iranian inmates were killed in a fire that raged through Tehran's notorious Evin prison, the judiciary has said, doubling the official toll from the blaze.

Thousands of Australians returned to homes and businesses today to assess flood damage even as evacuation warnings remained in inland regions of the southeast and authorities warned of more rain ahead which could trigger renewed flooding.

The Taoiseach has strongly criticised Sinn Féin saying there is something deeply wrong with a party that has built its entire existence on honouring a campaign of violence but now attacks and sues anyone who claims that they supported particular act...

A Belfast court will hear allegations this week that a senior member of the British royal family abused a young boy at a notorious children's home in the city in the 1970s.

Britain's Prime Minister Liz Truss has vowed to reboot her economic programme, but Conservative critics warned the party faces electoral oblivion under her leadership.