US President Donald Trump is set to attend the official opening of a migrant detention centre dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" that has been built in a reptile-filled Florida swamp.
Paris is on red alert for high temperatures, with the top of the Eiffel Tower shut, polluting traffic banned and speed restrictions in place as a searing heatwave grips Europe.
The EU's Commissioner for Trade Maroš Šefčovič is flying to Washington today for talks with senior Trump administration officials ahead of next week's deadline for a trade agreement.
Officials in the US state of Idaho have identified the man believed to have ignited a bush fire on Sunday and shot at responding firefighters, killing two.
Gaza's civil defence agency has said that Israeli forces killed at least 51 people, including 24 at a seafront rest area, as fresh calls grow for a ceasefire in the Palestinian territory.
A four-day working week, pay, remote working and artificial intelligence will be among the topics debated at the biennial conference of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, which begins in Belfast today.
The Government is due to consider a number of memos on housing and planning being brought to Cabinet today by Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage James Browne.
A woman has denied a suggestion that her mother was not present during a holiday in which she is alleged to have sexually assaulted her when she was four.
A 38-year-old man has been charged with the unlawful killing of his 82-year-old maternal grandmother in February of this year at her home in Carrigaline, Co Cork.
A 25-year-old man has been jailed for six years and three months for the manslaughter of Dylan McCarthy who died after he was assaulted outside a Co Kildare pub nearly three years ago.
Tánaiste Simon Harris has said this year's budget can still be used to help students and their families, but that there will be no cost-of-living package in advance of Christmas.
British police have launched a criminal investigation into Belfast rap trio Kneecap and Bob Vylan's performances at Glastonbury music festival over the weekend.
A punishing heatwave has gripped southern Europe, prompting authorities to issue health and wildfire warnings as temperatures are expected to soar again.
