Minister for Justice Helen McEntee is to strengthen the law against hate crimes and hate speech, with the aim of making it easier to secure convictions in the courts.

Police in Sri Lanka have fired fire tear gas to hold back thousands of protesters who have stormed the prime minister's office in Colombo, demanding that he step down along with the country's president.

The Chief Executive of the Children's Rights Alliance has said that around 62,000 children in Ireland live in consistent poverty.

Ukraine launched long-range rocket attacks on Russian forces in southern Ukraine and destroyed an ammunition store, its military has said, as Russia continued to pound the country's east.

France and Britain are set to suffer soaring temperatures, with a heatwave in western Europe fuelling wildfires across vast stretches of forestland.

The General Secretary of the Representative Association of Commissioned Officers has said the increase in Defence Forces' spending is positive, but RACO members see very little in the plan for them.

A video of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, showed police waiting for more than an hour before breaching a classroom where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers.

Three men have been charged in the US for possessing handwritten notes worth over $1million belonging to Eagles founding members Don Henley.

British Conservative Party MPs will have the chance to vote for the eight contenders vying to replace Boris Johnson, as balloting begins to find his successor.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has warned that the cost-of-living crisis could last into the spring of 2023.

US President Joe Biden is due to land in the Middle East today for a trip that will see Israeli leaders urge tougher action against Iran, before a delicate stop in Saudi Arabia.

Daily Covid-19 infections in South Korea have jumped above 40,000 for the first time in two months, with the government warning of a potential five-fold surge in the coming months.

The mercury had hit 56 degrees Celsius, when I stepped off the plane and onto the melting tarmac at N'Djamena International Airport, in Chad, in 2008.

Twitter has sued Elon Musk for violating his $44 billion deal to buy the social media platform and asked a Delaware court to order the world's richest person to complete the merger at the agreed $54.20 per Twitter share.

NASA has started releasing the next wave of images from the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful observatory ever placed in orbit.

The Taoiseach has said questions need to be answered as to why hospitals in Ireland have continued until recently to use the practice of incineration for the disposal of organs, contrary to HSE guidelines.

Donald Trump called a witness who has yet to appear before a congressional committee investigating the 2021 US Capitol attack, committee vice chairperson Liz Cheney has said, raising concerns the former president might be illegally trying to influenc...

Republic of Ireland defender Nathan Collins has completed a move from Burnley to Wolves for an undisclosed fee believed to be in the region of £20.5m, with his international team-mate Josh Cullen heading to Clarets from Anderlecht.

The Government has won a confidence motion in the Dáil - 85 TDs voted with the Coalition and 66 against.

Ukraine has said it carried out a long-range rocket strike against Russian forces and military equipment in southern Ukraine, territory it says it is planning to retake in a counter-offensive using hundreds of thousands of troops.