South Africa director of rugby Rassie Erasmus is recovering in hospital after undergoing a medical procedure for chemical burns. The 51-year-old, who led the Springboks to World Cup glory in 2019 as head coach, sustained the injury in a “freak accident using a powerful detergent product”. Erasmus is expected to …

US politicians have called for new laws against deepfake images after explicit fake photographs of pop singer Taylor Swift were posted on social media. The false images of megastar Swift, thought to have been generated using artificial intelligence (AI), began circulating predominantly on social media site X, previously known as …

Israel will seek to stop the UN agency for Palestinian refugees from operating in Gaza after the war, its foreign minister has said, after Israel accused several UNRWA staff of involvement in Hamas’s 7 October attack. The foreign ministry aims to ensure “that UNRWA will not be a part of …

Israel will seek to stop the UN agency for Palestinian refugees from operating in Gaza after the war, its foreign minister said, after Israel accused several UNRWA staff of involvement in Hamas’s October 7 attack. The foreign ministry aims to ensure “that UNRWA will not be a part of the …

The DUP executive has been called to a meeting on Monday as the party contemplates a possible return to power-sharing. In an email circulated yesterday evening, members of the 120 strong body were told party leader Jeffrey Donaldson wanted to provide them with a “detailed update on the current political …

US forces struck an anti-ship missile in Houthi-held Yemen that they said was ready to fire early this morning, hours after the Iran-backed rebels caused a fire on a British tanker in the Gulf of Aden with similar munition. US and British forces have launched joint strikes aimed at reducing …

Alaska Airlines has resumed flights with its Boeing 737 MAX 9 fleet, three weeks after a mid-flight blowout of a panel and emergency landing prompted sweeping inspections of the aircraft, the company said. The first trip was flight 1146 from Seattle to San Diego, which left 90 minutes past its …

There is a “unique responsibility to study and remember” the Holocaust, Chief Rabbi of Poland Michael Schudrich said. Rabbi Schudrich will take part in a remembrance ceremony with survivors of the Holocaust at the site of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp to mark the 79th anniversary of its liberation. …

It was the show that RTÉ hoped was set for stardom, but instead, Toy Show the Musical found itself remembered for all the wrong reasons. The latest Grant Thornton report commissioned by RTÉ revealed overstated sponsorship of €75,000, poor oversight by the RTÉ Board and no evidence of that the …

The latest EPA report, the agency’s first Climate Change Assessment, shines a light on many issues thrown up by one of the greatest challenges facing the planet, one of them already being keenly felt in many areas around Ireland. Coastal erosion has always been an issue but in recent years …