Danish police have said that the 22-year-old suspect in a shooting at a Copenhagen shopping centre yesterday that left three dead and four people injured, was known to mental health services.

The Government is to publish its Summer Economic Statement later today, which will set out the parameters of the Budget.

The Ukrainian army retreated from the strategic city of Lysychansk over the weekend, as Russia claimed a major victory by seizing control of the entire eastern Luhansk region.

Fresh evacuation orders have been issued for tens of thousands of Sydney residents after relentless rains flooded several suburbs, with officials warning of more wild weather to come.

Torrential rain is lashing Australia's southeast coast, forcing thousands of people from their homes because of the danger of floods and landslides in a region battered by major flooding four times in the past 18 months.

Ten years after it discovered the Higgs boson, the Large Hadron Collider is about to start smashing protons together at unprecedented energy levels in its quest to reveal more secrets about how the universe works.

Video released last night showed eight police officers in Akron, Ohio, were involved in a shooting that killed an unarmed black man whose body was found with some 60 gunshot wounds after he fled a traffic stop last week.

The Government has launched a further low-cost Covid-19 loan scheme for small and medium businesses businesses.

British Labour leader Keir Starmer will vow not to take the UK back into the single market or restore freedom of movement as he sets out his plan to "make Brexit work".

Ryanair had its busiest month ever in June as it flew 15.9 million passengers, up by 203% from just 5.3 million a year earlier and topping a previous high set in May.

The Director of the National Virus Reference Laboratory has said that people who were infected with Covid-19 in December and January do not have protection against the current wave of the disease.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has said Government's top priority is to respond to the pressures that families are feeling as a result of inflation.

Limerick progressed to an All-Ireland final date with Kilkenny on 17 July after a 0-27 to 1-21 win over Galway at Croke Park.

The chance of finding 27 crew members alive from a vessel that sank off the coast of Hong Kong is "very slim", government rescue authorities said.

Russia said it had taken full control of the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk today after capturing the final Ukrainian bastion of the city of Lysychansk, where Kyiv said it had withdrawn to save the lives of its troops.

Independent TD and former Army Ranger Cathal Berry has said he fears the use of the army at Dublin Airport could inflame a "delicate industrial relations situation".

An avalanche set off by the collapse of the largest glacier in the Italian Alps killed at least six people and injured eight others today, an emergency services spokeswoman said.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson did not know "specific claims" about former Tory MP Chris Pincher before appointing him deputy chief whip despite numerous sexual misconduct allegations, a cabinet minister has argued.

Adrian Meronk gained four shots in his final four holes to secure the Horizon Irish Open at Mount Juliet in County Kilkenny.

There is no legal or political justification for unilateral action on the Northern Ireland Protocol, the Irish and German governments have warned.