A projectile fired from Yemen struck an area in Tel Aviv early this morning, wounding 16 people, the military and emergency service providers said, the second such attack within days.
The death toll from a car-ramming at a German Christmas market in the city of Magdeburg has risen to five, according to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, with more than 200 injured.
Over 2,000 people gathered at Newgrange in Co Meath for the Winter Solstice - the astronomical phenomenon that marks the shortest day and the longest night of the year.
Syria wants to contribute to "regional peace", the country's new authorities said, after a meeting between leader Ahmed al-Sharaa and a US diplomatic delegation.
The US Congress has averted a Christmastime government shutdown after weeks of tense negotiations that went down to the wire, passing a bill to fund federal agencies through mid-March.
Malaysia has agreed to resume the search for the wreckage of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, its transport minister has said, more than 10 years after it disappeared in one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries.
A secret passageway built 500 years ago to allow the Medici family to pass through the Italian city of Florence unhindered is reopening to the public after a €10m restoration.
The first group of Palestinian children to be medically evacuated to Ireland for healthcare treatment has arrived, Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has said.
US singer Gracie Abrams has held off competition from festive classics by The Pogues and Mariah Carey to claim Ireland's Christmas No 1 with her song That's So True.
Thomas 'Nicky' McConnell has become the fourth person to be found guilty of the murder of Gerard 'The Monk' Hutch's nephew Gareth Hutch in an ambush in Dublin eight years ago, following a verdict by the Special Criminal Court.
