The British government will today set out a series of major changes it wants made to the Northern Ireland Protocol, the element of the Brexit trade agreement intended to avoid the return to a hard border on the island of Ireland.

The Cabinet meets this morning when it is likely to discuss the reopening of indoor dining today although the decision to go ahead from next Monday has already been taken.

Australia's two largest states have reported sharp increases in new Covid-19 cases, a blow to hopes that lockdown restrictions would be lifted with more than half the country's population under stay-at-home orders.

Temperatures are set to reach 30C in some areas again today, as high temperature warnings remain in place across the country.

A specialist in public health medicine at the HSE Mid-West has said Ireland is "at a very precarious spot" in the fight against Covid-19 and urged people to remain vigilant in the coming weeks as relaxations are eased.

Twelve people died after torrential rains flooded a subway in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou, with images showing passengers struggling against chest-high water inside a train carriage.

Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Michael McGrath will tell his Government colleagues this morning that Covid spending over a 22 month period to the end of this year will top €30 billion.

Rescue crews are unlikely to find any more survivors among the rubble of villages devastated by floods in western Germany, a senior Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW) official has said.

A Chilean taekwondo competitor and a Dutch skateboarder have withdrawn from the Tokyo Olympics after testing positive for Covid-19, officials said.

A coroner will deliver his findings in a long-running inquest into the death of a Northern Ireland teenager who was abducted and murdered more than 25 years ago.

New York and parts of the eastern United States and Canada were shrouded in a gray smoky haze yesterday from fires burning in the western US and Canada.

A former senior editor of Hong Kong's shuttered pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily has been arrested by national security police.

The Department of Health has reported a further 1,110 confirmed cases of Covid-19. It said there are 89 patients in hospital, while there are 21 people in ICU.

A 34-year-old man attacked and fatally injured his former partner in her home before driving away and admitting he killed her, a jury at the Central Criminal Court was told today.

An Irish man has been arrested in Frankfurt in Germany, with local authorities saying they may have prevented a potential "attack".

In a candid admission, former Vote Leave mastermind Dominic Cummings said it was "perfectly reasonable" to argue that Brexit was a mistake, but that anyone who was confident either way had "got a screw loose".

There will not be any time limits for those allowed to eat and drink inside pubs and restaurants under guidelines agreed with the hospitality sector this evening.

For several weeks, RTÉ Investigates monitored several locations in Ballymun where drugs are openly sold on the streets.

The world's richest man Jeff Bezos and three crew mates reached the edge of space after taking off on Blue Origin's first human flight.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has told Taoiseach Micheál Martin that the European Union had to show pragmatism to end a stand-off over rules for post-Brexit trade involving Northern Ireland.