Israel's army said it had bombed the home of the political leader of Islamist group Hamas in Gaza, as the UN Security Council is due to meet amid global alarm about the escalating conflict.

Patients across the country, whose important medical appointments have been cancelled tomorrow or later next week, are waiting to hear when they will be rescheduled.

So-called "Generation Rent" is stuck on a treadmill of working hard but unable to realise the aspiration of home ownership.

As in-person religious services resumed this week following the easing of Covid-19 restrictions, bells rang out from one of Dublin's five remaining manual bell towers for the first time this year.

A young child has been killed and four people injured in a suspected gas explosion in the UK which caused two houses to collapse.

With an eye to regaining control of the House and Senate in next year's Midterm Elections, the party's leadership has clearly made a calculated, political judgement that sticking with Mr Trump is their best chance of winning.

Four months into a Covid-19 vaccination campaign marred by shortages and delays, hard-hit Brazil is still struggling to find enough doses, as political and diplomatic blunders prolong its pandemic nightmare.

He was fatally injured at a shipping premises at the port at around 3.30pm.

Planning permissions for housing estates are likely to soon contain new conditions in an effort to curb major investors buying houses.

Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians in all major European cities including London, Berlin, Madrid, Rome and Paris.

The Health Service Executive has said there is "substantial cancellations across all outpatient services with widespread cancellation of radiology services" following a ransomware attack on its IT systems.

Brexit means Scotland is out of the EU. But from the regional office which the Scottish government retains in Brussels, it is hard not to detect the embers of a hope, if not expectation, that it might one day return, writes Tony Connelly.

US President Joe Biden, in a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, expressed his "grave concern" over the flare-up of violence in Israel and Gaza, the White House announced.

There have been 275,000 appointment slots booked for Penneys stores around the country this week, the retailer has said.

Portugal is to resume admitting tourists from most European countries on Monday, the interior ministry said, following months of restrictions to prevent the spread of Covid-19.

People who have appointments for Covid-19 vaccinations or tests are being encouraged to show up as they are going ahead as planned, despite the ransomware cyber-attack on the HSE's IT systems launched yesterday.

British ministers are pushing on with a major easing of restrictions on Monday despite concerns over the variant first detected in India, as they were criticised for allowing the strain's import.

The US pipeline network shut down by a cyber attack has said it has returned to fully "normal operations," easing concerns but not immediately ending gas shortages affecting many eastern states.

The World Health Organization has issued a grim warning that the second year of Covid-19 was set to be "far more deadly", as Japan extended a state of emergency amid growing calls for the Olympics to be scrapped.

Getting that first dose felt like a big moment. I was allocated an mRNA vaccine, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine which means a second dose after 28 days.