The European Commission Vice President, Maros Sefcovic, has said British legislation currently before parliament that would empower UK ministers to unilaterally override parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol, is damaging trust and respect with the E...

As UN inspectors sought to avert a nuclear disaster on Ukraine's frontline, the West and Russia wounded each other's economies, with Moscow keeping its main gas pipeline to Germany shut today while threatened with price caps on oil exports.

Ground teams at Kennedy Space Center in Florida have begun the final preparations ahead of a second attempt to send NASA's giant, next-generation moon rocket on its debut test flight today.

Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who was much admired in the West and who lived long enough to see all the reforms he had championed undone, will be buried today without state honours or the presence of President Vladimir Putin.

The Exchequer recorded a surplus of €6.3 billion at the end of August, according to figures released by the Department of Finance this afternoon.

The Nord Stream 1 pipeline that transports Russian gas to Germany will undergo further maintenance, Gazprom said yesterday after scrapping today's deadline to resume flows, deepening Europe's difficulties in securing fuel.

Sri Lanka's ousted President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was provided today with an official residence and security by the government after he returned to the country he had fled in July during economic unrest, two senior officials said.

The application to bring a secondary school teacher before the High Court for breaching a court order has been adjourned until Monday.

In an increasingly digital world those who work with cash are at an increasing disadvantage, but the cost of joining the financial system can be high too, writes Adam Maguire.

The United States announced a new $1.1bn (€1.1bn) package of arms to Taiwan, vowing to keep boosting the island's defences as tensions soar with China.

A Co Westmeath-based project wants to get more people repairing their possessions, instead of binning them.

The Health Service Executive has warned that "high strength" drugs have been identified at Electric Picnic, now underway in Stradbally, Co Laois.

The National Indoor Athletics Training Centre is to be repurposed to assist with emergency refugee accommodation, Sport Ireland have announced.

Argentina's Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was unharmed when a man with a loaded gun tried to shoot her but the gun did not go off, officials said.

Ciara Mageean has smashed Sonia O'Sullivan's long-standing Irish 1500m record with a stunning run that saw her beat rival Laura Muir for first place in the Diamond League in Brussels.

Jane Fonda has revealed she has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma and that she has started chemotherapy treatment.

More than 61,000 Leaving Cert students are receiving their results, which were artificially boosted in order to comply with a commitment made by the Minister for Education earlier this year.

Bord Gáis Energy has today announced a substantial increase in its residential gas and electricity prices, with the average residential electricity bill rising by 34%, and the average residential gas bill jumping by 39% from 2 October.

Russia has halted gas deliveries to Germany via a key pipeline an indefinite period after saying it had found problems in a key piece of equipment, a development that will worsen Europe's energy crisis.

A senior Greek cleric has sparked uproar after declaring on national TV that rape entails a woman's consent and does not lead to pregnancy.