Ukraine has said troops defending the country's second-largest city, Kharkiv, have repelled Russian forces and advanced as far as the border with Russia.

The United States has banned more than 600 individuals with connections to the Kinahan organised crime gang from entering the country.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will visit Northern Ireland today to meet the leaders of the main political parties at Stormont.

The Secretary General of the Irish Red Cross has said over 9,000 accommodation pledges for Ukrainian refugees have been cleared by the Red Cross and sent to the Department of Children.

A gunman opened fire in a southern California church during a lunch banquet yesterday, killing one person and wounding five, before churchgoers detained the suspect and tied his legs with an electrical cord, authorities have said.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has denounced his country's response to the coronavirus pandemic and ordered the army to help distribute medicine.

A white teenager who killed ten people in a racist attack at a western New York grocery store in a black neighbourhood had been taken into custody last year and given a mental health evaluation after making a threat at his high school, authorities sa...

The first ever draw for the Tailteann Cup took place live on RTÉ's Morning Ireland on Monday morning, with Laois colliding with Westmeath and Cavan facing Down.

Yesterday was the warmest day of the year so far, according to Met Éireann, with one weather station reaching a temperature of 20.9C.

Russia has this morning warned that decisions by Finland and Sweden to join the NATO military alliance were serious mistakes.

The Chairperson of the Medical Board of the St Vincent's Healthcare Group has expressed "overwhelming" support for the relocation of the National Maternity Hospital to the Elm Park site.

A three-year-old boy has died after a suspected dog attack close to Rochdale in England, police in Manchester have said.

Just 1% of people here have their main current account with a digital bank, a survey of consumers carried out on behalf of the Department of Finance has found.

The first commercial flight in nearly six years has taken off from Yemen's rebel-held capital, a major step forward in a peace process that has provided rare relief from conflict.

The New Zealand government has said this morning that it would set up a NZ$4.5 billion (€1.7 billion) climate response fund, with a sizable percentage going towards cutting pollution over the next four years as it targets net zero emissions by 2050...

The Chief Executive of the Child and Family Agency Tusla has publicly apologised to a woman who was repeatedly raped by her foster father over a seven-year period.

An 18-year-old white gunman shot 10 people dead and wounded three yesterday at a grocery store in a black neighborhood of upstate New York, before surrendering after what authorities called an act of "racially motivated violent extremism".

The front lines in Ukraine shifted today as Russia made advances in the fiercely contested eastern Donbas region and Ukraine's military waged a counteroffensive near the strategic Russian-held city of Izium.

Fianna Fáil Minister Charlie McConalogue said there is "determination" among all three Government parties to move forward and build the new National Maternity Hospital.

With a fresh standoff developing over the Northern Ireland Protocol, Vincent Kearney asks how long it might take to rebuild trust.