The Minister for Further and Higher Education has said it is important that clarity is given as soon as possible, and that he expects the Cabinet to make a decision on the reopening of indoor hospitality tomorrow.

AIB has agreed a deal to buy about €4.2 billion of performing Ulster Bank corporate and commercial loans.

Asking prices for houses nationally jumped 13% in the second quarter of the year compared to the same period last year, according to two separate reports by property websites Daft.ie and Myhome.ie.

A "heat dome" over western Canada and the US Pacific northwest has sent temperatures soaring to new highs, triggering heat warnings from Oregon to Canada's Arctic territories.

All of Italy has become a mask-free, "low-risk" zone for coronavirus, marking a dramatic milestone for the first European country to be hit by the global pandemic in February 2020.

The lifeboat Operations Manager at Wicklow RNLI has urged children and parents not to use inflatable toys in the sea after the rescue of two teenage girls who drifted out to sea on a rubber ring yesterday.

A month after an engineering report warned of "major structural damage" that required prompt repair in 2018, an official assured residents of the Florida building which collapsed last week that their building was sound, US media has reported.

Third level colleges will be obliged to put in place ways of enabling the anonymous reporting of sexual harassment under new plans.

Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said he had handed in his notice of resignation, giving parliament's speaker the job of finding a new premier after the Social Democrat leader lost a vote of no-confidence last week.

The UK defence secretary and top military commanders are self-isolating after the chief of the armed forces tested positive for Covid-19 last week.

Employers' group Ibec has forecast that the economy in Ireland will grow 6.5% this year driven in the main by strong exports.

The European Commission's vice president is to face questions from Stormont Assembly members on the contentious Northern Ireland Protocol.

The pandemic has been no laughing matter for comedians, with all live performances cancelled since March of last year.

The Pentagon has said the US has carried out retaliatory targeted air strikes against "facilities used by Iran-backed militia groups" on the Iraq-Syria border, in which at least five militia fighters are reported to have been killed.

Hong Kong police have arrested the lead opinion writer of Apple Daily on national security grounds as he tried to fly out of the city, local media reported, days after the pro-democracy newspaper was forced to shut down.

Tour de France organisers have said they are suing a spectator who caused a crash when a cyclist rode straight into a cardboard sign being held out by a fan looking the other way at a television camera.

The Department of Health has been notified of a further 340 cases of Covid-19, while the number of people in ICU has risen by two to 15.

The death toll following the collapse last Thursday of an apartment tower in Miami has risen to nine, the local mayor has said.

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has reimposed Covid-19 restrictions for two weeks to combat a surge in the highly contagious Delta variant.

Technology giant Apple has submitted a fresh application to Galway County Council seeking a five-year extension to the planning permission it was first awarded in 2016 to develop a data centre in Athenry.