Minister for Further and Higher Education Simon Harris has said he expects students and staff to be back on campus for the new academic year and will bring a plan to Cabinet shortly on what the guidelines will be.

Ireland should borrow more to invest in housing and could borrow an additional €4bn to €7bn a year, according to a new analysis by the Economic and Social Research Institute.

NASA has announced plans to launch a pair of missions to Venus between 2028 and 2030 - its first in decades.

DUP leader Edwin Poots will meet Taoiseach Micheál Martin in Dublin this evening.

A Co Wexford art project that connects shipwrecks, a blue whale and a 77-year-old woman's extraordinary collection of pieces of pottery, is nearing completion.

Labour leader Alan Kelly has called on Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly to explain how he will respond to advice on the manner in which the AstraZeneca vaccine can be administered.

Sri Lankan authorities have said they are preparing for the worst-case scenario of a possible oil slick from the burnt-out cargo ship sinking off Colombo's main harbour.

Gunmen seized 136 children from an Islamic seminary in central Nigeria at the weekend, the state government said, the latest in a string of such incidents plaguing Africa's most populous nation.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to chair a coronavirus recovery summit with the First Ministers of Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

US President Joe Biden has said he is "looking" at possible retaliation after the FBI and the White House linked Russia to a cyber attack against global meat processing giant JBS.

Australia's second-most populous state Victoria reported its lowest rise in new Covid-19 cases in more than a week today, a day after a snap lockdown in state capital Melbourne was extended for another week.

Israel's opposition leader Yair Lapid has said that he has gathered the votes needed to form a coalition government to oust that of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

London Heathrow Airport will use sustainable jet fuel for the first time as part of a test ahead of a Group of Seven (G7) rich nations summit in the UK next week.

Israel's opposition leader moved closer to unseating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he told the country's president that he has reached agreements with political allies to form a new government.

An extension of the emergency powers legislation introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic has passed all stages in the Dáil.

Irish author Anakana Schofield has won the 2021 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award for her book Bina.

The Government expects to boost revenue generated from Local Property Tax to €560m next year from around €480m - by ending some exemptions and increasing the amount paid by around a third of homeowners.

Outdoor gatherings, case numbers in Limerick and the Delta variant were among the topics raised at the most recent briefing by the National Public Health Emergency Team.

This year's Leaving Certificate results will be issued on Friday 3 September, the Department of Education has announced.

Protections against evictions for renters, who've been financially hit by Covid-19 and are in arrears, are due to be extended under plans to be brought to Cabinet next week by Housing Minister Darragh O'Brien.