US President Donald Trump has said that he believes Russia's leader Vladimir Putin wants to end the Ukraine war despite inconclusive talks in Russia, as US officials prepared for a follow-up meeting with Ukraine's top negotiator.

A new study for the HSE has found that making the weight loss drug Mounjaro available to public patients would not be value for money at the current price.

Israel's participation in the Eurovision Song Contest will be debated at a two-day meeting of member broadcasters in Geneva starting today.

Students and staff at Trinity College Dublin have produced the world's first film in the ancient - and dead - Sumerian language.

While emigration has long been a factor of modern Nigerian life, 'Japa' has become a cultural phenomenon, with millions leaving every year. Juliette Gash travelled to Lagos with the assistance of the Simon Cumbers Media Fund to report on Japa syndrom...

The brother of Mayo woman Sandra Collins, who went missing 25 years ago today, has said his sister's disappearance was the "closest thing to hell" for their family.

Storm Éowyn was the most searched term on Google in Ireland this year.

The current system for tracking a child's movement between primary schools should be extended to other jurisdictions, the Chair of the National Review Panel has said.

A man in his 50s has died following a road crash in Cork city yesterday afternoon.

Tech giant Meta has said it is starting to remove under-16s in Australia from Instagram, Threads and Facebook ahead of the country's world-first youth social media ban.

French authorities have isolated two people infected with the virus that causes Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome (MERS) who were among a tour group visiting the region, the health ministry said.

Israel's army has said the remains of one of the last two Gaza hostages, a Thai national, have been identified.

The Fianna Fáil parliamentary party has heard that the review of its botched presidential campaign is now being examined by solicitors for both the party and its former candidate Jim Gavin.

The Taoiseach has described a meeting with fishing organisations as "comprehensive and constructive" ahead of next week's EU quota negotiations in Brussels.

French President Emmanuel Macron has told Xi Jinping that France and China must overcome their "differences", as the two leaders met in Beijing.

Democrats in the US Congress have released photos and videos showing the luxury island home where convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein allegedly forced underage girls into sex with powerful men.

The head of the National Review Panel has said the "overarching conclusion" from its review into the case of missing schoolboy Kyran Durnin is that what happened "could not have been anticipated from knowledge that was available" to Tusla at the time...

An investigation is under way after a 20-year-old man died following a suspected hunting accident in Co Carlow.

A California doctor has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison for illegally supplying 'Friends' sitcom star Matthew Perry with ketamine, the powerful sedative that caused the actor's drug overdose death in 2023.

Minister for Agriculture Martin Heydon has said that the department's surveillance for Bluetongue virus has been ramped up following confirmation of further suspected cases in Northern Ireland.