Pop-up vaccination centres will open on many college campuses later this month, Minister for Further Education Simon Harris has said.

There is heightened security in Washington today ahead of a rally in support of those arrested following the storming of the Capitol Building on 6 January.

Girls were excluded from returning to secondary school in Afghanistan today, after the country's new Taliban rulers ordered only boys and male teachers back to the classroom.

Australia's police arrested 235 people in Melbourne and 32 in Sydney today at unsanctioned anti-lockdown rallies and several police officers were injured in clashes with protesters.

Unsafe water entered the public drinking water supply at two water treatment plants last month, the Environmental Protection Agency has confirmed.

This weekend, Russia goes to the polls, in an election the Moscow Times newspaper classifies as "a confidence vote on Putin". The focus for these elections will be on the party called United Russia and any analysis of how the party does this weekend ...

By the time we get through next year, the State will have spent just over €48billion on measures to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic. You might think after that, a return to regular budgeting would be a humdrum affair. You would be wrong.

US real estate scion Robert Durst has been convicted of killing his best friend to prevent her talking to police about his wife's disappearance.

Hopefully from now, moving forward out of the pandemic, a healing can begin. And we step out, with caution, onto firmer ground and into these brighter, better days.

France said it had decided to recall its ambassadors in the United States and Australia for consultations, after Australia struck a deal with America and Britain which ended a $40 billion French-designed submarine deal.

Ireland has approved the use of booster jabs in some vulnerable groups - but is it placing all its eggs in the vaccine basket?

As a result of the Protocol, Northern Ireland has effectively been turned into a worryingly small market for medications. This is creating additional complications for the pharmaceutical supply chain.

President Michael D Higgins has said the title of a church service in Armagh next month marking the centenary of Northern Ireland "isn't a neutral statement politically".

From museum visits to dance displays, architecture to circus performance, Culture Night aims to show the richness and diversity of Ireland's cultural heritage.

A drone strike in Kabul last month that killed as many as 10 civilians, including seven children, was a "tragic mistake", the US military has admitted.

The Department of Health has been notified of a further 1,392 new cases of Covid-19. There are 288 people in hospital, down two since yesterday, of whom 73 are in ICU, up six

A member of the Sláintecare Implementation Council has said there was "no meeting of minds" and that he is "none the wiser" following a meeting with the Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly this evening.

Michael D Higgins was hailed as a "wise man" by Pope Francis when they met at the Vatican today as part of the President's four-day trip to Rome.

Two men have appeared in court charged with the murder of journalist Lyra McKee in Derry in April 2019.

A panel of expert outside advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration have voted to recommend Covid-19 vaccine booster shots for Americans age 65 and older and those at high risk of severe illness.