RTÉ director general announces recruitment freeze
All discretionary spending will be stopped in plans to restore confidence in the Irish broadcaster.
1970-01-01 08:00
Samuel Newey: Counselling plan in name of volunteer killed in Ukraine
Samuel Newey's family say volunteers fighting overseas should be offered support when they return.
1970-01-01 08:00
China insurance boss sentenced in finance crackdown
Ex-China Life Insurance boss Wang Bin is the latest high-profile boss to be caught up in the crackdown.
1970-01-01 08:00
Libya floods: Flooded city buries its dead in mass graves
At least 10,000 people are still missing after a catastrophic dam burst which took 2,300 lives.
1970-01-01 08:00
MP Michael Chong urges US-Canada cooperation on China interference
A Canadian politician has detailed to US lawmakers ways he says China tried to intimidate him.
1970-01-01 08:00
Russian aid reaches beleaguered enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh
Nine months into an effective blockade, a humanitarian aid lorry enters Nagorno-Karabakh.
1970-01-01 08:00
Switzerland: Hundreds of sex abuse cases 'tip of the iceberg', say researchers
A report commissioned by Catholic Church uncovers cases dating back to the 1950s.
1970-01-01 08:00
Russian airliner forced to land in corn field
Ural Airlines says no one was injured and denies a lack of spare parts was to blame for hydraulic failure.
1970-01-01 08:00
Colombia cocaine: Cultivation reaches record high
A UN report finds the area planted with coca bushes is the biggest ever registered.
1970-01-01 08:00
Soviet invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia were wrong, Putin says
Russian President Vladimir Putin also said that the West has 'no friends, only interests'.
1970-01-01 08:00
Paul Simon 'beginning to accept' hearing loss
The US singer-songwriter says his new disability has changed the way he lives and works.
1970-01-01 08:00
Libyan floods: Derna city alone recovers 1,000 bodies - minister
Much of Derna is under water after two dams and four bridges collapsed in flooding after Storm Daniel.
1970-01-01 08:00