Last-minute negotiations between Israel and Hamas to extend the Gaza truce were overshadowed on Wednesday by an unconfirmed claim by Hamas that a 10-month old baby Israeli hostage and his family had been killed.
An Irish man has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman after entering her home by posing as a contractor in the US.
Fans of Italian club Lazio greeted Celtic to Rome last night by unfurling a number of anti-Irish banners.
Tributes are pouring in for an Irish Catholic priest who was found dead at his house in Nairobi on Sunday morning.
Steve Bannon, a long-time ally of former American President Donald Trump, has said that Ireland is a “powder keg” following the riots in Dublin last week.
Police in Nairobi are investigating what has been reported locally as the “mysterious death” of an Irish Catholic priest at his house on Sunday.
Eight people have been arrested after Spanish cops discovered a stash of 600 kilos of ‘Bart Simpson’ cocaine near Valencia.
A critically endangered Sumatran rhino has been born on Indonesia’s western island of Sumatra, the second born in the country this year and a welcome addition to a species that numbers fewer than 50 animals.
Pope Francis, who is suffering from lung inflammation, is in "good and stable" condition, receiving antibiotic therapy intravenously, and will limit his activities for the next few days in order to conserve his strength, the Vatican said on Monday.
A major march against antisemitism has begun in London, after English Defence League founder Tommy Robinson was escorted away by police.
The Irish Ambassador has been summoned for an angry dressing-down by the Israeli authorities after a tweet by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar.
Nine-year-old Israeli-Irish national Emily Hand has been released by Hamas, along with eight other Israeli children and five women.
Hamas has released 24 hostages who had been held captive in the Gaza Strip for weeks, and Israel freed 39 Palestinians from prison in the first stage of a swap under a four-day ceasefire deal.
A suspected Croatian drug lord who was on Interpol's most wanted criminal list has been pictured on his knees as he was arrested in a Turkish bolt hole.
The family of award-winning Irish filmmaker Ross McDonnell, who was believed to have died after a body was recovered on a beach in New York, have confirmed his death.
A Kansas woman has been jailed for two years after being convicted of a witness retaliation plot involving a leader of the Irish Mob Gang in Oklahoma.
A vehicle speeding toward a US-Canada bridge from the American side crashed and exploded at a checkpoint in Niagara Falls on Wednesday, killing two people and prompting the closing of multiple border crossings for hours.
Irish-Israeli girl Emily Hand (9) is one of the potential 50 hostages that will be released by Hamas in an exchange for 150 Palestinians held by Israel, according to Israel’s Channel 12, who quoted Benjamin Netanyahu’s office.
Israel's government and Hamas agreed on Wednesday to a four-day pause in fighting to allow the release of 50 hostages held in Gaza in exchange for 150 Palestinians imprisoned in Israel, and the entry of humanitarian aid into the besieged enclave.
The bodies of four missing teenagers were found inside their overturned car which was partially submerged in water, police have said.
A 65-year-old American woman who woke up after surgery in Mexico with breast implants and a Brazilian butt lift she did not want is now facing a $75,000 medical bill to correct the damage.
Police in the Netherlands have seized 1,000 ecstasy pills emblazoned with a Nazi Eagle symbol following a traffic stop in the town of Kerkrade.
One of two women who filmed the torture of Irish backpacker Cian English before he fell to his death from a balcony after being assaulted in Australia has said she is haunted by what she did.
The chief of Hamas told Reuters on Tuesday that the Palestinian militant group was near a truce agreement with Israel, even as the deadly assault on Gaza continued and rockets were being fired into Israel.
The body of Irish Emmy award-winning filmmaker and photographer Ross McDonnell has been found on a New York beach, it has been reported.
Mohamed Salah had to be escorted off the pitch by the military after he was targeted by pitch invaders during Egypt’s win over Sierra Leone.
Two men were arrested in the US this week after more than $1bn worth of knock-off designer merchandise was found hidden in a storage locker.
An Albanian woman has been jailed for seven and a half years for acting as a fixer for people smugglers who transported migrants across the English Channel.
Taylor Swift has said her Saturday night show in Rio de Janeiro has been postponed due to “extreme temperatures”.
The sisters of murder-suicide victim Denise Morgan have hit out at a glowing obituary posted in her killer’s honour, describing him as ‘humble’ and ‘loving’.
A South Carolina Christian school teacher who was arrested for having sex with a student in a Pizza Hut car park “ruined our son’s life”, the victim’s mother has said.
An Irish-born doctor at the Al Shifa hospital in Gaza Strip has claimed that Israeli forces had "found nothing" when searching for evidence that Hamas has used the complex as a command centre.
Authorities in Malaysia have captured two critically endangered Malayan tigers after they were blamed for an unprecedented spree of deaths among villagers.
A 73-year-old man has been charged after phoning police from an Irish pub to tell them there was a nuclear bomb in Atlanta Airport.
Tánaiste Micheál Martin’s State convoy was forced to stop and seek shelter when an air raid siren rang out during his visit to Israel.
Tánaiste Micheál Martin has said he has been given no confirmation that Irish-Israeli girl Emily Hand is alive.
An Irish woman who was staying at a five-star hotel in London said she accidentally ordered a £1,890 (€2,170) cocktail thinking it was £18.90 (€21.70).
The mother of murdered toddler James Bulger has begged the parole board to keep her son’s killer Jon Venables’ behind bars.
A Dublin woman is appealing for help after her father’s Yorkshire Terrier was attacked and killed by a “vicious” dog while out for a walk.
A man has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter over the death of ice hockey player Adam Johnson, South Yorkshire Police said.
Answers on the visa application of Britain’s Duke of Sussex regarding past drug use should not be disclosed because it is “private personal information”, lawyers on behalf of the US Department of Homeland Security have said.
Thousands of fans turned out at Old Trafford to bid a final farewell to Manchester United great Sir Bobby Charlton.
A small aircraft collided with a moving car after attempting an emergency landing at an airport in Texas, USA.
Suella Braverman has been sacked as home secretary as Rishi Sunak took action following her unauthorised article criticising the way pro-Palestinian protests had been policed.
Appeals have been launched to identify five people after footage circulated online of incidents at London train stations on Armistice Day.
The decapitated head has been reattached to a famous statue of a Co Clare man who is credited with starting Australia’s Gold Rush.
A 14-year-old boy accused of murdering teenager Alfie Lewis outside a school in Leeds is due to enter a plea to the charge next month.
A woman in Australia who took prescribed Ozempic to lose weight ahead of her daughter’s wedding has died, with her grieving husband saying the drugs were "not worth it."
Luis Diaz’s father has been released almost two weeks after he was kidnapped, the Colombian Football Federation has confirmed.
