The US has killed al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a strike in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden said, the biggest blow to the militant group since its founder Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011.

The United States has accused Russia of using Ukraine's biggest nuclear power plant as a "nuclear shield" by stationing troops there, preventing Ukrainian forces from returning fire and risking a terrible nuclear accident.

A second man has been charged with the murder of a 63-year-old man in Co Antrim last week.

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has arrived in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysian state media reported, her second stop in an Asian tour that has sparked anger in Beijing over a possible stop in Taiwan.

Despite a $25 million US bounty on his head, al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri apparently felt comfortable enough with the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan to move into a home in Kabul where he would regularly appear out in the open, on his balcony.

Favourites Ekin-Su Culculoglu and Davide Sanclimenti have been crowned the winners of Love Island 2022.

Price increases announced last month by Electric Ireland came into effect yesterday.

Scotland's ruling nationalists have called British Conservative frontrunner Liz Truss "obnoxious" after she accused their leader Nicola Sturgeon of being an "attention seeker" for demanding independence.

Rising inflation is continuing to hit Ireland's manufacturing sector, according to the latest AIB manufacturing Purchasing Managers' index.

California Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency over monkeypox in a move aimed at bolstering vaccination efforts to slow the spread of an outbreak that has infected more than 5,800 Americans.

Half of Irish shoppers are overspending, shopping more frequently or buying what they don't need - just to qualify for supermarket money-off vouchers.

A Texas man who was the first person to go on trial for his role in the attack on the US Capitol by supporters of former president Donald Trump has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison.

A man has been remanded in custody charged with the murder of another man in Ballymena.

Kentucky's governor has predicted that bodies will continue to be found "for weeks" as the death toll from devastating flooding rose to 35 and rescuers embarked on a long and gruelling effort to locate victims.

Authorities in India believe they have reported Asia's first possible death from monkeypox, after a 22-year-old Indian man who had recently returned from United Arab Emirates testing positive died.

Russia has announced further sanctions on 39 prominent British people, while a new bill could see the banning of adoption of Russian children by citizens of "unfriendly countries" including Ireland.

The largest fire in California this year is forcing thousands of people to evacuate as it destroys homes and rips through the state's dry terrain, whipped up yesterday by strong winds and lightning storms.

The first ship carrying Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea since Russia invaded Ukraine more than five months ago left Odesa under a safe passage agreement that has raised hopes hundreds of other vessels will follow.

British Conservative frontrunner Liz Truss won another heavyweight endorsement today as Tory members began a month of voting to decide the next occupant of 10 Downing Street.

Brazilian twins who were conjoined at the head have been successfully separated following a number of surgeries.