A fresh Stormont Assembly election will not take place before Christmas, the Northern Ireland Secretary has announced.

Twitter is expected to tell employees by email today about whether they have been laid off, temporarily closing its offices and preventing staff access.

Former US President Donald Trump has teased a strong possibility of a comeback during a rally in Iowa.

A French parliament session was thrown into turmoil yesterday after a far-right MP was accused of yelling "back to Africa" to a black colleague posing a question on migrant arrivals to the government.

Around 4.5 million people across Ukraine are affected by power cuts caused by Russian strikes on energy infrastructure, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

On Sunday, representatives from nearly every country on Earth will come together in Egypt to coordinate global climate action for the next year.

South Korea's military has said it scrambled fighter jets after detecting about 180 North Korean warplanes flying north of the military border over four hours this morning.

A British patient who had Covid-19 for 411 days was finally cleared of the virus thanks to a cocktail of drugs, doctors have reported.

FIFA have written to World Cup teams urging them to focus on the soccer in Qatar and not let the sport be dragged into ideological or political "battles".

A public consultation opens today on government plans to introduce a scheme to disregard historic convictions related to consensual sexual activity between men.

Primary schools in India's capital New Delhi will shut to protect children from the toxic smog choking the megacity of 20 million people, authorities said.

Bereaved parents have called on the Government to urgently introduce legislation governing the practice of organ retention, more than 20 years after the scandal rocked Ireland's healthcare system.

Some economists and bankers are warning that the US economy and the global economy will enter recession by the middle of 2023.

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is in a stable condition after being shot in the leg at a political rally in what the country's president deemed "a heinous assassination attempt".

The HSE has said that last week there were over 30,100 emergency department attendances, the highest on record.

A Russian-installed occupation official in southern Ukraine has said Moscow was likely to pull its troops from the west bank of the Dnipro River, signalling a huge retreat that, if confirmed, would be a major turning point in the war.

A former Derry football captain has appeared in court charged with manslaughter over the death of a man in Co Antrim at the weekend.

The chair of An Bord Pleanála, Dave Walsh, is to take early retirement, citing "personal and family reasons".

A 16-year-old boy on trial accused of the murder of Mongolian national Urantsetseg Tserendorj - who died after being stabbed in the neck on her walk home from work - told gardaí that he went out that night planning to rob someone with a knife.

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul has been released from the San Francisco hospital where he underwent surgery for injuries suffered when attacked by a an intruder at the couple's home six days ago, she has said.