Russian forces have seized the largest nuclear power plant in Europe after a building at the complex was set on fire during intense fighting with Ukrainian defenders, Ukrainian authorities have said.

Fighting broke out between Russian and Ukrainian forces near Europe's largest nuclear power plant, causing a blaze and raising alarm from world leaders of a potential massive disaster.

Follow all the latest developments on the ninth day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Two of Hong Kong's largest retail chains have started rationing some food and drug items to curb panic buying that has plagued the city over the past week amid fears of a citywide lockdown as Covid-19 cases soar.

This week, as the war in Ukraine became more brutal and the impact of sanctions against Russia rippled out, it became clearer that what we've experienced up to now may only have been a relatively benign adjustment to the post-Covid world.

A man in his sixties has died on his farm at Drimoleague in west Cork.

Yaroslava Antipina, Chief Strategy Officer at an IT company, has been updating her followers on Twitter as she fled Kyiv with her 19-year-old son to join her mother in Slavuta, west of the Ukrainian capital.

The United States should diplomatically recognise Taiwan as "a free and sovereign country", former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said today while visiting the island.

The family of a 19-year-old Irish medical student who is stranded in the Ukrainian city of Sumy have appealed for more help to bring her home.

The notion of Labour being in some form of existential crisis is not new. But the party's collapse over the past decade has thrown its future into doubt like no other time in the past, explains Conor McMorrow.

In a video message released today, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia's military operations in Ukraine are going according to plan, while praising the country's soldiers as heroes.

A woman has described how she felt paralysed and her "body and mind went into autopilot" as she was allegedly raped and sexually assaulted by five men.

Dublin man Patrick Sean Cullen, who only moved to Ukraine to be with his girlfriend last month, told Prime Time that they made the heart-rending decision to leave Kyiv on Wednesday.

A man and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of withholding information in connection with the murder of Ashling Murphy.

Four Irish babies born to surrogate mothers in Ukraine have been united with their parents in neighbouring Moldova.

On Wednesday, hundreds of heartbroken refugees arrived from Ukraine at Záhony train station, on Hungary's border with the war-torn country, writes Fran McNulty.

Irishman Brendan Murphy, who was living in Kyiv, has crossed the border from Ukraine to Poland with his wife and family.

A US jury has cleared a former Louisville police officer of charges connected to a botched raid that left Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old black woman, dead and sparked protests and calls for police reform.

A 28-year-old man has been found guilty of the manslaughter of a homeless man in Cork City in 2019.

A teenager who was not a regular drug user played "Russian roulette" and died after taking 'bombs' of ecstasy at the Indiependence music festival in Mitchelstown, Co Cork, an inquest has heard.