Once-admired building designs are increasingly seen as impractical as global warming drives up temperatures

Cautious communications and sparse use of English have helped the first US pope to keep a low profile while returning to the more formal Vatican structure of the past

Country mourns three volunteer firefighters who tried to stop blazes during unprecedented heatwave

Composition, painted in 1918-20 and slated for destruction by Stalin, has an intriguing fragment of text in Yiddish at its centre

Many legal complaints lodged internationally are based on open-source evidence gathered by activists, particularly social-media posts by soldiers themselves

Young foreign student being given free accommodation in return for letting his name and bank account be used by controversial landlord

Godart apartments in Borrisokane being paid for by State via tax-free scheme designed to help Ukrainians fleeing Russian invasion

Investigation into Irishmen training forces of rogue general reveals wider apparent violations of UN arms embargo covering north African country

Tánaiste Micheál Martin says revelations are ‘deeply shocking’

Department of Enterprise to investigate alleged breaches of UN and EU sanctions after Irish Times investigation found Irish company trained forces of Russian-backed general Khalifa Haftar

Offaly-based Irish Training Solutions has recruited former Army Rangers to train Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar's troops in an apparent breach of UN rules.

The aspiring strongman and rogue general is a challenger to the UN-recognised Libyan government in Tripoli

They provided services to strongman Khalifa Haftar in an apparent breach of a UN arms embargo

A Dutch think tank is promoting a radical shift in taxation, away from labour, focusing instead on the creation of pollution

Unhappiness among officials in western countries over their leaders’ position on Israel’s invasion of Gaza has driven some into rare public demonstrations of dissent