Russia has forces in Syria to show the world that it is still an influence, but any losses can be attributed to ‘private operators’, says Nina L. Khrushcheva

Ireland has been ranked as the 19th least corrupt country in the world in the latest Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI).

At least 52 people have died after a bus caught fire in Kazakhstan, emergency officials said.

Food, water, and energy depend on healthy, diverse ecosystems, but these are declining faster than at any previous time in human history, says Robert Watson

A series of terror attacks have been foiled in Russia after members of an Islamic State sleeper cell were detained, according to intelligence officials in Moscow.

More than 1,300 foreign women and children, the families of Islamic State fighters, are being held at a camp for displaced people in northern Iraq, Iraqi officials said.

At this point they know each other like the back of each other’s backhands.

Russia's intelligence agency said it has foiled a terror plot led by militants fighting for the Islamic State group in Syria.

As armed police take to the streets of London, Alex Morales and John Ainger ask if the city has become safer or more dangerous

A suicide attacker has targeted a highly secure diplomatic area of Kabul with a truck bomb, killing 90 people and wounding up to 400.

Seven suspected Islamic State recruiters have been arrested by authorities investigating Monday's deadly explosion on the St Petersburg subway.

Here are some of Darina Allen’s favourite ways to enjoy the under-appreciated vegetable, the carrot. 

More than 7,500 horses were slaughtered in Ireland last year and sold as meat to householders, mainly on continental Europe.

So what to do with all those Christmas book vouchers?

Donald Trump and Brexit shocked most of the world in 2016. But not readers of last year’s ‘Bloomberg Pessimist’s Guide’, which warned that the unthinkable could happen in both cases. Now the authors are turning their attention to 2017. 

Frank McGlynn’s insight into Genghis Khan tells of man driven by vision and circumstance to take over most of the known world with brilliant and brutal efficency by Neil Robinson. 

Huawei revealed its financial results for the first half of the year, and reported a significant increase in sales revenue and smartphone shipments.

The Denis O’Brien-controlled Irish engineering company, Actavo — formerly Siteserv — recorded a 25% increase in pre-tax profit last year, helped by €99.5m in revenue from its Irish operations.

Kellie Harrington has vowed to strike gold next time out following her defeat to China’s Yang Wenlu is yesterday’s AIBA World Elite Championships 64kg final in Astana, Kazakhstan.

Two people, including a man in his 70s, were arrested early yesterday after they were found do have breached security and entered the airfield at Shannon Airport.

Katie Taylor has vowed to put everything on the line in Central Asia to edge a step closer to writing a chapter in the history of international women’s boxing that will probably never be surpassed.

Offaly welterweight Gráinne Walsh moved to within one win of becoming the only Irish boxer besides Katie Taylor to medal at the World Women’s Elite Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan yesterday.

Mary Davis first burst into the public consciousness in 2003 as the Irish woman who spearheaded the Special Olympics moving out of the US for the first time.

Tom Vaughan-Lawlor and Aoibhinn McGinnity feature in Trial of the Century, on TV3 at 9.15pm tonight.

Three-time EU Elite champion David Oliver Joyce realised a lifetime ambition when qualifying for Rio 2016 on the final day of the European Olympic qualifiers in Samsun, Turkey yesterday.

Chinese and Russian interests have long collided in the far east, writes Peter Marino

The EU’s refugee deal with Turkey is already causing confusion and fear among asylum-seekers and authorities alike, write Tania Karas and Lauren Bohn from the Greek island of Lesbos

Greece is pressing ahead with plans to start deporting migrants and refugees back to Turkey next week, despite mounting concern from the UN and human rights organisations that Syrians could be denied proper protection.

Some of the stranger stories from around the globe

And it looked like he had the hump.

There was someone a little out of the ordinary spotted wandering around a car park in Limerick this afternoon.

IT is a reassuring victory for humanity and the power of redemption — one of the great and underestimated forces of conscience and decency — that Germany has assumed the role of Europe’s moral leader by spearheading the EU’s response to the refugee crisis.