A man in his late 40s has died following a shooting incident in the early hours of this morning at a house in Ballyfermot in Dublin.

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has said she is prepared to unilaterally override parts of the post-Brexit agreement on Northern Ireland if the negotiations she is now leading fail.

At least seven people have been killed and three more are missing after a cliff collapsed onto boats carrying tourists on a lake in Brazil, authorities have said.

Rescue teams in Pakistan are working to clear routes to a locked-in hill town sheltering thousands of tourists after 22 people died in vehicles trapped by heavy snow.

The northern Chinese city of Tianjin has advised its nearly 14 million people to stay home while it conducts mass Covid testing after a spate of recent cases, including two caused by the Omicron variant.

An Australian government bid to delay Novak Djokovic's visa hearing until after the Australian Open draw is finalised has been rejected.

More than 5,800 people have been arrested in connection with the unrest in Kazakhstan that has shaken Central Asia's largest country over the past week.

Gardaí have charged a 32-year-old man with the murder John O'Neill from Lisdoonvarna in Co Clare.

The Department of Health has been notified of 26,122 new cases of Covid-19, the highest daily number since the pandemic began.

The Government says a decision is due within days on possible changes to isolation rules for Covid close contacts.

Police in Northern Ireland investigating an abusive tweet targeting a senior unionist politician have contacted gardaí because they believe the person responsible is based in the Republic.

The leader of Turkmenistan has ordered experts to find a way to finally extinguish a massive five-decade-old fire in a giant natural gas crater in the Central Asian country, dubbed the "Gateway to Hell".

At least 21 people died in an enormous traffic jam caused by tens of thousands of visitors thronging a Pakistani hill town to see unusually heavy snowfall, authorities said today.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Kazakh counterpart Kassym-Jomart Tokayev held a "lengthy" phone conversation to discuss the situation in Kazakhstan following unprecedented unrest, the Kremlin has said.

Time will tell if the arrival of the Omicron variant in December here may possibly have contributed to a turning point.

Novak Djokovic was granted a vaccine exemption to enter Australia because he contracted Covid-19 last month, his lawyers have claimed.

The world recorded more than two million daily coronavirus cases on average between 1 January and 7 January with figures doubling in 10 days, a tally showed today.

As environmental organisations remind us that we can all help tackle climate change in 2022, an avid litter collector from Co Leitrim has issued her own rallying call for people "to do their bit".

The James Webb Space Telescope completed its two-week-long deployment phase today, unfolding the final mirror panel as it readies to study every phase of cosmic history.