Three men have died following a road crash involving a car and a lorry in Co Tyrone in the early hours of this morning.

Covid-19 vaccination centres will resume services across the country this morning after being closed for Christmas Day and St Stephen's Day.

The locked-down Chinese city of Xi'an has tightened Covid-19 controls to the "strictest" level, banning residents from driving cars around in an effort to control the country's worst outbreak in 21 months.

A man has appeared in court charged with murder following an assault on a woman in Co Wicklow on Christmas Eve.

Australia has reported its first confirmed death from the new Omicron variant of Covid-19 amid another surge in daily infections, however authorities have refrained from imposing new restrictions as hospitalisation rates remain low.

The jury in the sex trafficking trial of British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell will resume deliberations today. Jurors ended their second full day of deliberations last Wednesday by requesting more transcripts of evidence from the trial.

While many people will be setting goals and resolutions for 2022, Ceola McGowan's target takes some beating. The 31-year-old Sligo woman is training for the World Championship of Double-bitted Axe Throwing in Canada next August.

Restrictions on hospitality have come into force in Scotland in a bid to slow the spread of the Omicron variant of Covid-19.

A Myanmar junta court has again postponed giving its verdict in Aung San Suu Kyi's trial

Seismic is really the only way to sum up the year just gone in the Irish banking and financial services sector.

The Department of Health has confirmed 10,404 new cases of Covid-19. There are 426 people in hospital who have tested positive for the virus, a rise of 48 since yesterday. Of these, 91 are in ICU, up four.

The death toll from heavy rains that have battered the Brazilian state of Bahia since November has risen to 18 while 35,000 people have been displaced.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and veteran of South Africa's struggle against apartheid, has died aged 90.

The bodies of more than a dozen people who drowned trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe washed up on Libya's coastline late yesterday, its interior ministry and the local Red Crescent said.

Desmond Tutu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his stance against apartheid in South Africa. His journey to the award ceremony in Oslo involved a stopover in London, where he asked some of the Dunnes strikers to meet him.

President Michael D Higgins has paid tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, saying he will be "forever remembered for his work in drawing global attention to the horrific inequalities of apartheid".

The Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works has met with officials and engineers from Wexford County Council, after the county was hit by heavy flooding yesterday.

Israel's government set a goal today of doubling the number of Jewish settlers in the Golan Heights within five years, a move that could tighten its hold on the territory it occupied in fighting with Syria in 1967.

The Government will provide financial support to householders affected by the severe flooding in Co Wexford, it was confirmed today.

A UN official has said he was "horrified" by credible reports that at least 35 civilians were killed and their bodies burned in Myanmar, and demanded the government launch an investigation.