At least eight people were killed in shelling which hit residential houses and a shopping district in Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, according to Ukraine's Prosecutor General.

A fourth dose of the Covid-19 vaccine is expected to be approved for use in Ireland, according to Tánaiste Leo Varadkar.

Russian forces advancing on the Ukraine capital Kyiv from the northeast have stalled as Ukraine rejected Russian calls for defenders to lay down their arms in the besieged city of Mariupol.

Irish people are being urged not to send any more items for Ukrainian refugees in Poland, but instead to consider putting welcome packages together for people who will arrive here in the coming weeks.

A China Eastern Airlines aircraft with 133 people on board has crashed in mountains in south China while on a flight from the city of Kunming to Guangzhou, state media reported.

EU foreign and defence ministers are meeting in Brussels at the beginning of a week of high stakes diplomacy over Ukraine which will culminate in a meeting of EU, G7 and NATO leaders.

Hong Kong is set to resume international flights from the United States, Britain and seven other countries, the government said as it announced a loosening of some of the world's toughest Covid-19 restrictions.

Gardaí investigating the fatal shooting of a woman in Dublin last night suspect the killing could have been accidental.

The United Nations has begun a monitoring mission on the Great Barrier Reef, assessing whether the World Heritage site is being protected from climate change as it suffers further widespread bleaching.

The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has called for greater urgency and prioritisation by the State to eliminate racism and racial discrimination in Ireland.

A new obesity drug, which has been found to reduce body weight by three to four stone, has been approved for use in Ireland.

The Biden administration has formally determined that violence committed against the Rohingya minority by Myanmar's military amounts to genocide and crimes against humanity, US officials said.

Australia's media regulator will be able to force internet companies to share data about how they have handled misinformation and disinformation under new laws that will bolster government efforts to rein in Big Tech.

The United States will today officially declare that Myanmar military violence against Rohingya Muslims that sent more than 700,000 fleeing amounted to genocide and crimes against humanity.

A new maritime planning regime is being announced, which will enable the development of offshore wind farms.

A car ploughed into a crowd of early morning carnival-goers in Belgium today, killing six people and injuring dozens of others, authorities said.

Union representatives are set to brief a Stormont committee on its plans to launch a legal challenge against ferry giant P&O after it sacked 800 workers.

The Russian editor who protested Moscow's invasion of Ukraine during a state TV news broadcast has called for other Russians to speak out against the "gruesome war".

The first properties pledged by Irish people to help Ukrainian refugees are being put into use this weekend.

China has imposed stay-at-home orders on millions more people in the country's northeast as it battles its biggest Covid-19 outbreak in two years.