US President Joe Biden has called the guilty verdict in the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer charged with the murder of George Floyd "a giant step" toward justice in the US.

Police in the US city of Columbus in Ohio fatally shot a black teenage girl they confronted during an attempted stabbing, as seen in police video footage of the encounter, authorities said.

Former US police officer Derek Chauvin has been convicted of murder and manslaughter in the death of African-American man George Floyd in a case that shocked the US, laying bare deep racial divisions.

Loud cheers erupted from the crowds that had gathered outside Hennepin County Courthouse in downtown Minneapolis when the verdict was announced.

The dust is still settling after Premier League clubs bowed to supporter pressure and reduced the controversial plans for a breakaway Super League to rubble,

India recorded more than 2,000 Covid deaths and almost 300,000 new cases, among the world's biggest daily totals since the pandemic began, official data showed.

The Health Service Executive has reported a further small reduction in the number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in hospitals.

A 90-year-old Hong Kong woman has been conned out of €26.5m by fraudsters posing as Chinese officials, police said, in the city's biggest recorded phone scam.

The curlew conservation project at Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland has recorded the "against the odds" return of two juvenile birds to the area.

A majority of people in the Republic do not believe there will be a united Ireland inside the European Union within the next ten years, according to a Red C poll published today.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth turned 95 today, just days after burying her late husband Prince Philip, in what will be her first birthday without him in more than seven decades.

A close ally of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was detained by uniformed officers in Moscow, her lawyer wrote on Twitter, ahead of protests planned across Russia.

Regular exercise cuts the risk of dying from infectious diseases such as Covid-19 by more than a third, according to new research.

Touching artwork is strictly forbidden in most museums, let alone buying it and taking it home. But the Design Museum in London wants visitors to do precisely that.

An oral hearing opens later this morning into a controversial planning application for 179 apartments in the grounds of a former mother-and-baby home at Bessborough in Cork.

Netflix said slower production of TV shows and movies during the pandemic hurt subscriber growth in the first quarter, sending shares of the world's largest streaming service down 11% last night.

Job postings on e-recruitment platform IrishJobs.ie were up 34% in the first quarter of the year, compared to the final quarter of 2020.

A South Korean court has dismissed a case brought by a handful of World War II sex slaves and their families against the Japanese government, saying Tokyo enjoyed "sovereign immunity" over the issue, reports said.

The count to fill two vacant Seanad seats will get under way later this morning, with a result expected early this afternoon.

The construction industry could be unable to meet pent-up demand for housing and infrastructure, even when fully reopened - due to labour shortages and a "boom and bust" cycle in the sector, according to new research.