Sisters Lera and Masha Kostorna are wrapped in a yellow blanket. Paint is peeling off a damp wall behind them. The sisters are minding each other, holding and hugging tight, sitting on a cold floor, in a bomb shelter in Kharkiv in northern Ukraine. They are singing loudly over music …

Siún Ní Raghallaigh has resigned as Chair of the RTÉ Board. She said her position was “no longer tenable” because it was “abundantly clear” she had lost the confidence of the Minister for Media Catherine Martin. The minister had earlier appeared on RTÉ’s Prime Time where she refused to express …

A Sydney police officer has been charged with murdering his former boyfriend and another man, who have both been missing for days, after blood was found at the boyfriend’s home. The senior constable, 28, was arrested after walking into a police station in the beachside suburb of Bondi, police said. …

A spacecraft built and flown by Texas-based company Intuitive Machines landed near the south pole of the moon, the first US touchdown on the lunar surface in more than half a century and the first ever achieved by the private sector. The uncrewed six-legged robot lander, dubbed Odysseus, touched down …

Florida has moved toward enacting one of the strictest bans on children’s use of social media in the United States, sending to the governor a bill to keep those under-16 off such platforms. The controversial legislation seeks to protect children’s mental health against the “addictive features” of such platforms, amid …

Advertised rents rose at a slower pace last year than in the previous two years, but still climbed by 6.8% new data from property listings website Daft.ie shows. Nationally the average rent sought on the open market during the last three months of the year was €1,850 a month. That …

Former US President Donald Trump asked a federal judge to dismiss criminal charges accusing him of illegally holding onto sensitive US national security documents when he left office, arguing the prosecution is legally flawed. Lawyers for Mr Trump, the frontrunner for the republican nomination, challenged the appointment of Special Counsel …

A Russian drone hit a commercial area in Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odessa, killing one person, with others possibly still trapped under rubble, the Ukrainian military said. The military’s Southern Forces, in a post on the Telegram Messaging app, said it had intercepted nine drones, but one of them …

A spacecraft built and flown by Texas-based company Intuitive Machines landed near the south pole of the moon, the first US touchdown on the lunar surface in more than half a century and the first ever achieved by the private sector. The uncrewed six-legged robot lander, dubbed Odysseus, touched down …

Israel will take part in negotiations this weekend in Paris with the US, Qatar and Egypt on a potential deal for a ceasefire and release of hostages in Gaza, according to a source briefed on the matter and Israeli media. The last talks on a ceasefire failed two weeks ago, …