At least 49 people died and hundreds have been injured after a fire tore through a shipping container depot in Bangladesh, sparking a huge chemical explosion that engulfed many of those who had rushed to the scene to help. The...
Tributes have been paid to a six-year-old boy from Belfast who has died on holiday following an incident at a swimming pool in Majorca.
Corey Aughey had been in intensive care since the accident last Thursday in Spain but died...
Three men who have apologised after an incident involving a chant mocking the murder of Michaela McAreavey have expressed concern about being subject to a “public witch hunt”.
A statement from JWB Consultancy on behalf of John Bell, Andrew McDade...
Money which was supposed to be Covid-19 assistance for low-income households in a small Japanese town was mistakenly wired to the bank account of a resident who refused to return it and spent most of it on online gambling,...
Boris Johnson’s threats to rewrite part of the Brexit deal he signed would result in retaliation from Brussels, the European Union’s ambassador in the UK said.
Joao Vale de Almeida said there was no scope for reopening negotiations on the...
Age-related muscle loss is more common among people living in disadvantaged areas, according to a new study from Trinity College Dublin.
This type of muscle loss, known as sarcopenia, was twice as common in adults with the most socioeconomic disadvantage...
A Dublin man who said he was holding over €46,000 worth of drugs because he was under threat has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison.
In March 2021, gardaí from the Clontarf Drug Unit were investigating...
The lack of transparency over portions of salaries gifted back to the State by politicians and civil servants has been criticised by a member of the Dáil’s spending watchdog.
Fianna Fáil TD Paul McAuliffe raised the issue with Department of...
Moldova’s president, Maia Sandu, is convening a meeting of her security council on Tuesday after a series of incidents in the breakaway Moldovan republic of Transnistria and a warning from Moscow that the Russian-backed region could be drawn into...
North Korea will speed up development of its nuclear arsenal, leader Kim Jong Un said while overseeing a huge military parade that displayed intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and other weapons, state media reported on Tuesday.
The parade occurred Monday night during celebrations for...
