The Minister of State with responsibility for flood relief, Kevin Boxer Moran, will visit Passage East in Co Waterford this morning to meet homeowners impacted by recent flooding.

Japanese voters are casting their ballots in an election predicted to hand Prime Minister Sanae ⁠Takaichi a win, but record snow in some parts of the country snarled traffic and could dent turnout.

President Catherine Connolly's trip to Northern Ireland fulfilled a promise made in her inauguration speech - and it has gone down as a successful first outing, writes Northern Correspondent Conor Macauley.

US television news host Savannah Guthrie said in a video message released yesterday that her family is willing to pay to secure her mother's return after her presumed abduction in Arizona.

We had been warned that these Winter Olympics were amongst the most "geographically challenging" and spread out in history, with 540km between Milan and the venue in Cortina.