Russia announced the evacuation of civilians from a key southern Ukrainian city as it acknowledged the situation for its troops on the ground in Ukraine was "tense" in the face of a counter-offensive.

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties has accused An Garda Síochána of unlawfully retaining files on innocent people who have been cleared of producing or sharing child sexual abuse material.

A cheering crowd welcomed home Iranian sports climber Elnaz Rekabi at a Tehran airport, after she competed in South Korea without a hijab, media in the Islamic republic reported.

The Central Bank looks set to relax its mortgage lending rules when it publishes the outcome of a review of them later this morning.

As a Status Orange warning remains in place for five counties, a meteorologist at Met Éireann has said that heavy falls of rain will continue this morning, but it will become drier as the day continues.

O'Connell Street is ostensibly Ireland's Champs-Élysées, where the fight for Irish freedom was focused. But it is now a shadow of its former self, explains Fran McNulty.

The US midterm elections take place on 8 November – so called because they fall in the middle of a four-year presidential term and are widely seen as a test of a president's popularity.

British Prime Minister Liz Truss faces a humiliating clash with Labour leader Keir Starmer this afternoon, having been forced to junk her entire economic strategy and with her leadership in peril.

Liz Truss seems to have a better chance of surviving the week now as she prepares for today's Prime Minister's Question Time.

Authorities in California have charged a suspected serial killer with the murder of three men in a string of shootings that have shocked the local community, officials said.

A new report from the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) shows that trade between the UK and the EU has declined since Brexit.

The unexpected appearance of a live snake on a plane caused some turbulence among business-class passengers aboard a United Airlines jet at the end of a flight from Florida to New Jersey.

South Korea has criticised North Korea for unleashing a fresh artillery barrage into waters off its east and west coasts, targeting a maritime "buffer zone" set up in 2018 to reduce tensions.

The Indonesian government has announced a ban on all syrup and liquid medicine prescription and over-the-counter sales, after the deaths of nearly 100 children from acute kidney injury this year.

The winner of European Parliament's top human rights award, the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, will be decided later today.

Cholera cases are rising in Haiti, according to Health Ministry figures, fueling fears of a new disaster in a country already deep in a humanitarian and security crisis.

Gerard Hutch, the man known as 'The Monk', told a former Sinn Féin councillor that he had carried out the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel over six years ago, a prosecutor has told the Special Criminal Court.

Kyiv has accused the Red Cross of "inaction" over Ukrainian prisoners held by Russia, saying a lack of visits to detained soldiers and civilians meant they were vulnerable to being tortured.

For thousands of students awaiting their Junior Certificate results, today brought some relief that a date had finally been confirmed for next month.

The Government has signed off on an ban on evictions to run from 1 November until the end of March.