Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Leo Varadkar has said the Government intends to re-engage with public service unions to make a further offer on stalled pay talks.

Ukrainian forces are facing "massive" and relentless artillery attacks in a battleground eastern city, as Russian troops gained ground throughout the Donbas region.

An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 has killed at least 280 people in Afghanistan, officials said, adding that hundreds of people were injured and the toll was likely to rise as information trickled in from remote mountain villages.

Childcare providers and parents will stage a protest outside Leinster House to highlight issues with funding for the sector.

The US Senate took an initial step towards passing the country's first major gun-control legislation in decades, galvanised by two mass shootings in a nation that has long struggled to curb chronic gun violence.

The State is failing children with special educational needs who cannot secure appropriate school places, a report from the Ombudsman for Children has found.

South Korea has confirmed its first case of monkeypox virus and pledged to strengthen monitoring and response systems as it raised the alert level to "caution" for the infectious disease.

Heatwaves in northern and central China drove up electricity demand to record levels as millions switched on air conditioners to escape the sweltering conditions, while floodwaters in the south submerged villages and trapped city residents.

A new survey of financial services employees shows that 88% of respondents say they would like to work from home some of the time.

The bodies of an elderly man and woman have been removed from a house in rural south Tipperary where they were found on Monday afternoon.

A California jury has found comedian Bill Cosby was liable for sexually assaulting a woman at the Playboy Mansion in 1975 when she was a teenager.

A seven-year-old Irish girl is in critical condition following an incident at a swimming pool on the Spanish island of Mallorca.

EastEnders star Jessie Wallace has "expressed her deep regret" after she was arrested on suspicion of assaulting a police officer and drunk and disorderly conduct, the BBC said.

An Irish man has been given a four-year-jail sentence in England after he admitted his involvement in an international people smuggling scheme.

The number of HSE employees paid more €500,000 has doubled from three to six.

Police in Vancouver are appealing for witnesses following a hit-and-run in the city in which a 24-year-old Irish man was killed.

Top public servants including medical consultants, CEOs of State bodies, certain members of the judiciary and senior civil servants are to have their pay restored to pre-austerity levels on 1 July.

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has expressed concern over the rise in cases of Covid-19 and urged people over 65 and those who are immunosuppressed, to avail of their second booster.

The classroom door in the Uvalde primary school where 19 children and two teachers were killed last month was not locked, even as police waited for a key, the Texas Department of Public Safety Director has said.

Ed Sheeran and his co-songwriters have been awarded over €1 million in legal costs after winning their UK High Court copyright trial over the hit Shape of You earlier this year.