Europe Edition

Europe is in the grip of a record-breaking heatwave and wildfires are raging across the Mediterranean. Here's how climate change drives these events....

In the rural Russian town of Tikhoretsk, support for Vladimir Putin's 'Special Military Operation' in Ukraine is high, and residents say Western sanctions do not impact them....

Ireland has improved its ranking in how it handles human trafficking according to the latest worldwide 'Trafficking in Persons' report....

Live updates from tonight's Champions League first leg as Stephen Bradley's side face a daunting trip to Bulgaria to face Ludogorets. Kick-off at 6.45pm...

The Taoiseach has defended a change to refugee visa requirements, saying that it was a necessary response to the rising number of people seeking international protection....

Nine of the UK's 12 hottest days on record since 1884 have occurred within the last two decades....

Europe's heatwave looks set to peak today, but temperatures may remain above normal into the middle of next week, the World Meteorological Organization said, warning that such events could occur with greater frequency in the future....

The EU Ombudsman has asked the European Commission for more information as part of its inquiry into the monitoring of data protection rules in Ireland....

A woman has been re-arrested over the fatal assault of a man earlier this year. The incident happened at a house in Ballyconnell, Shillelagh, Co Wicklow on 10 February....

Efforts are being made in Northern Ireland to increase the barn owl population after decades of decline....

Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda has apologised to the parents of a baby boy who died four days after his birth in October 2017....

The Criminal Assets Bureau has tried to serve legal documents on Daniel Kinahan at his business and home addresses in Dubai, the High Court heard today....

A strike by refuellers at Britain's busiest airport Heathrow is set to go ahead later this week and cause delays for hundreds of flights after workers rejected a revised pay offer, labour union Unite has said....

A senior World Health Organization official has warned that countries in Europe must accelerate Covid vaccine uptake and bring back measures such as mask wearing to avoid stricter measures as autumn and winter approach....

The liberal-leaning Russian independent TV station Dozhd (TV Rain) resumed broadcasting yesterday evening from abroad after being forced to shut its Moscow studio following Russia's invasion of Ukraine....

AIB is to turn 70 of its 170 branches into cashless outlets as a result of what it has claimed is declining demand for these services....

A video of the Valentine's Day 2018 shooting at a high school in Florida that left 17 people dead was played at the sentencing trial of the man who admitted to carrying out the massacre....

The final Cabinet meeting before the summer break is expected to agree sectoral targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions....

The number of Covid-19 daily PCR positive infections has been stable and in the case of self-reported antigen tests, it has decreased, according to the latest weekly update from the Department of Health....

Flogas Energy has announced it is again increasing the prices it charges for gas and electricity....

The European Union has launched membership negotiations with Albania and North Macedonia - a long-delayed step towards joining the bloc....

Unions have accused the Government of not being serious about concluding a review of the current public sector pay deal....

Unions have accused the Government of not being serious about concluding a review of the current public sector pay deal....

Twitter has accused Elon Musk of trying to "slow walk" the company's lawsuit to hold him to his $44 billion takeover and urged a September trial to ensure deal financing remains in place, according to a court filing....

Britain is now facing its highest temperatures on record, while firefighters battle heatwave-related blazes across southern Europe....

Another hot day is in store for Ireland, with temperatures forecast to be in the mid to high twenties, according to Met ireann....

Gormanston army camp in Co Meath will begin accommodating 150 Ukrainian refugees from today....

Tory MPs will vote again later today in the Conservative leadership contest, as the race for second place intensifies with Rishi Sunak's place in the final two looking largely secure....

Russian forces are keeping up their bombardment of cities across Ukraine, with the intense shelling of Sumy in the north, cluster bombs targeting Mykolaiv and a missile strike in Odesa in the south, authorities have said....

Irish research organisations, such as universities and colleges, spent a record breaking 672 million on research projects last year....

Taoiseach Michel Martin will today begin a 4-day official trip to Japan and Singapore....

British Prime Minister Tony Blair wanted Mo Mowlam "steered off" a plan to amend the Parliamentary Oath to the Queen to help out Sinn Fin....

216 retailers are to receive 9.3m in grants through the latest round of a Government scheme designed to help businesses boost their online presence....

Newly released British State documents reveal just how bad relations between the Ulster Unionist Party and the Northern Ireland Office were during the negotiation of the Good Friday Agreement....

The British government refused to pass on what it knew about the fate of German industrialist Thomas Niedermayer to his family because it might lead to "awkward" media attention, according to released cabinet papers....

Newly released British government papers show serious disagreement between London and Dublin over the exclusion of Sinn Fin from political talks because of a number of IRA murders in February 1998 - just two months before the Good Friday Agreement....

The British Ambassador to Dublin regarded Taoiseach Bertie Ahern as a pragmatic negotiator and deal-broker, but one who kept his own counsel and could be "ruthless"....

A special football match between Celtic and Rangers in Belfast to publicise the referendum on the Good Friday Agreement was proposed by No 10 adviser Alistair Campbell according to British cabinet papers just released....

After three years, over 20,000 Limerick supporters have finally got the chance to show their appreciation to the Limerick hurling team which has now delivered three All-Ireland hurling titles in a row....

Concerns have been raised regarding an advertisement by the HSE for a Director of Nursing in Adult Safeguarding....

Refugees travelling here from safe European countries will from tomorrow be required to hold visas under a change agreed by Government....

Jury selection has begun in the criminal trial of Steve Bannon, a prominent former presidential aide to Donald Trump, for defying a subpoena from a congressional panel investigating last year's attack on the US Capitol by a pro-Trump mob....

Taxi-booking service Free Now has said it will introduce a 1 fee to all journeys completed with the app from 1 August....

The Brazilian Amazon lost about 18 trees per second in 2021 as deforestation in the country increased by more than 20%, according to a satellite data-based report released today....

An Irish man in his 30s is in a critical condition in hospital in Spain, after he was shot in a nightclub on the Costa Del Sol in the early hours of this morning....

Workers in the care, community and voluntary sector are to escalate their campaign of industrial action as part of an ongoing pay dispute....

Irish Water has imposed measures including tankering and night-time restrictions on water supplies in 15 areas across the midlands and southeast as demand increases during the current hot spell, and has once again appealed for people to take "simple s...

RT made a net surplus of 2.4m in 2021, compared to a net surplus of 7.9m in 2020....

Photos of people sleeping on floors and chairs as recently as this morning in the transit hub at Citywest in Dublin have been shared with RT News....

Leona Maguire's quest for a first-ever major title this week has been disrupted as her golf bag is missing ahead of the Amundi Evian Championship in golf....