China's Communist Party has endorsed Xi Jinping's "core position" in the country's leadership, all but assuring he will be handed an unprecedented third term in power.

The Republic of Ireland have been pitted against co-hosts Australia, Canada and Nigeria in a very tough Group B at the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup.

Boris Johnson is flying back to Britain as he considers an audacious attempt to win a second term as prime minister only weeks after he was forced to step down, with some colleagues warning his comeback could create more political chaos.

While frictions between the two larger coalition parties are ostensibly about big policy issues, they are expressions of deeper concerns in both parties about identity, and how to differentiate themselves from the other, writes Mary Regan.

As an expansion of business support measures of Budget 2023 was confirmed this week with the new Finance Bill, it comes too late for dozens of businesses across the country that have already announced closures.

Volunteers have been spending autumn weekends foraging for native seed as part of efforts to expand an ancient Irish woodland for the first time in over 200 years.

The idea of Boris Johnson returning as Prime Minister seemed ludicrous only a couple of days ago. Now it seems a distinct possibility.

Families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting asked a Connecticut judge to order Alex Jones to pay hefty punitive damages on top of nearly $1bn a jury said the conspiracy theorist owes them for falsely claiming the massacre was a hoax.

A Cuban pilot defected to the United States via Florida after winging in on a single-engine Russian-made plane, airport authorities said.

A man who gave his daughter drugs and alcohol, sexually assaulted her repeatedly over a six-year period and raped her when she was 15 has had his five-year prison sentence almost doubled by the Court of Appeal.

A committee investigating the attack on the US Capitol by Donald Trump supporters has said it had sent a subpoena to the former president demanding he provide documents and testimony under oath.

The Government is going to re-examine the provision of meals to Ukrainian refugees in hotels as part of an effort to encourage people to take up offers of alternative accommodation when it becomes available.

Rishi Sunak is believed to have become the first Tory leadership candidate to have amassed sufficient support to make it to the ballot to run for the leadership of the Conservative Party.

A 43-year-old man who pleaded guilty to harassing Fine Gael TD Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has been given a suspended one year sentence.

Following her resignation, Liz Truss could follow in the footsteps of the two most recent former prime ministers, Boris Johnson and Theresa May, who have remained in Parliament, however, or pursue a career outside of Westminster.

Kellie Harrington, Amy Broadhurst, Tina Desmond, Caitlin Fryers and Aoife O'Rourke will box for gold at the European Women's Boxing Championships in Montenegro after recording authoritative victories in their semi-final bouts on Friday.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has hailed last night's agreement by EU leaders on a price cap on imported gas, saying it would lead to a stabilisation of the market and reduce price spikes.

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has said the DUP should be in "no doubt" that a collapse of devolution at Stormont would result in closer co-operation between the Irish and British governments.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said the Government will "do everything we possibly can to avoid and to prevent" Ukrainian refugees sleeping on the streets due to the accommodation shortage.

Steve Bannon, a one-time adviser to former US President Donald Trump, has been sentenced by a judge to four months in prison for refusing to cooperate with an investigation to last year's US Capitol attack.