Members of the Fijian rugby league team have finished their mandatory two-week hotel quarantine in Sydney, Australia with a musical tribute to hotel staff and other residents. Video: Reuters
Sotheby's auction house has just revealed the artwork, "A street scene in Montmartre" - which spent more than a century behind closed doors in the private collection of a French family. It will go on auction at the end of March. Video: Reuters
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told reporters that he was confident they had hit the correct targets. President Joe Biden directed the airstrikes in eastern Syria against "Iran-backed facilities" in a calibrated response to rocket attacks against US targets in Iraq. Video: Reuters
Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Ronan Glynn has said that while NPHET "want to give people certainty" with regard to reopening society, it is incumbent upon the organisation not to "give people false hope." Video: RTÉ
HSE chief executive has confirmed that, as of February 25th, hospital admissions relating to Covid-19 are down 13 per cent on the previous week. Video: RTÉ
Ireland head coach Andy Farrell has defended his decision to pick 11 Leinster players, including the entire backline, in his starting 15 to face Italy, saying "this is the right team for this game." Video: VOTN
Four children trapped in a building fire in Turkey's Istanbul were rescued by their mother when she threw them from a third floor window to a stretched out blanket below. Video: Reuters
A Stormont Fiance committee was in a flap after a researcher, Colin Pidgeon, caught a pigeon during a live session. Video: Stormont
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has accused Alan Kelly of being "populist and wrong" after the Labour leader dismissed the Government’s revised Living with Covid strategy as "laughable." Video: Oireachtas TV
A wild and ailing sheep found in a forest in Australia, named Baarack by rescuers, has yielded a fleece weighing more than 35 kilograms after being shorn for the first time in many a year. Video: Reuters
US president Joe Biden and Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau sought on Tuesday to turn the page on the Trump era, stressing the countries’ deep ties and pledging to work together to counteract Chinese influence and address climate change. Video: Reuters
Tiger Woods has had surgery for multiple fractures of his right leg after a car accident that a Los Angeles police officer said he was “very fortunate” to have survived. Video: Reuters
British naturalist David Attenborough has warned the UN Security Council that climate change is the biggest security threat that modern humans have ever faced. Video: COP26
An Taoiseach Micheál Martin has confirmed that Ireland will remain under Level 5 restrictions until April 5th, although a phased reopening of schools is planned from March 1st. Video: RTÉ
February 23rd, 2021: Ireland rugby captain Johnny Sexton is focusing on the immediate future having admitted that he may not still be playing by the next World Cup, which is due to be held in 2023, when the Leinster outhalf will be 38. Video: VOTN
The minute-long footage is of the rover recording itself while landing on the planet on February 18th, the first time such video has been captured. Video: NASA
The moment of silence and candle lighting ceremony marked the grim milestone of 500,000 US deaths from the coronavirus, the highest in the world. Video: Reuters
A priest based in Aintree has celebrated Everton's first victory over Liverpool at Anfield in 22 years by finishing his service holding a scarf and playing the theme from Z-Cars, a song played at Everton's home matches. Video: Church Services TV
British prime minister Boris Johnson has announced that the UK government is aiming to "remove all legal limits on social contact" from June 21st as part of a roadmap out of the Covid-19 lockdown in England. Video: Reuters
A total of 41 migrants have been rescued after they attempted to cross to Europe from Melilla, a Spanish enclave in Northern Africa, covered in toxic ash and buried under thousands of glass bottles. Video: Reuters
A Victorian-era house was loaded onto a flatbed truck and moved several streets away. The previous lot it was originally on is so valuable that the owner has sold the space to a condo developer - and will convert the house into apartments, as well. Video: Reuters
The Tiguan was VW's best seller in 2020 and the new one is as good as a family-size SUV can be. However, being a diesel, it might present an image problem for some... especially with the marque's all-electric ID.4 due in April. Video: Neil Briscoe
Never before has a commercial ship crossed the Northern Sea Route, linking Russia and China in February. Video: As credited
More than 100,000 farmers and farm workers gathered in India's northern Punjab state on in a show of strength against new farm laws and in support of continuing protests in Delhi. Video: Reuters
Spanish police raided 227 illegal parties across Madrid over the weekend for breaches of Covid-19 restrictions.
A United Airlines flight bound for Honolulu suffered a right engine failure shortly after departing Denver International Airport scattering debris below. Video: Reuters
Solar panels, children’s belongings and destroyed tents donated to the Palestinian families by a European Union umbrella group that includes Ireland among its donors was left destroyed by Israeli soldiers. Video: Reuters
Facebook Inc is back at the negotiating table, Australian prime minister Scott Morrison said on Saturday after the tech giant this week blocked news on its site in the country.
In his first major foreign policy address as US president Joe Biden replaced his predecessor’s “America First” slogan with “America’s Back”.
Five years after the singer's death, his estate and his closest collaborators offer an unprecedented peek into Prince’s creative process. Video: NYT
The UN human rights watchdog says it has asked the United Arab Emirates for more information about the status of Dubai's Sheikha Latifa and proof that she is alive. Video: Reuters
US senator Ted Cruz has returned to Texas after facing a blizzard of criticism for taking a family trip to Cancún, Mexico as his home state grapples with a deep deadly freeze. Video: Reuters
Nasa's science rover Perseverance, the most advanced astrobiology laboratory ever sent to another world, has beamed back its first image of the surface of Mars after landing safely inside the Jezero crater. Video: Reuters
A new blueprint for tackling climate change, pollution and the accelerating loss of plant and animal species published on Thursday shows how to end the world's "suicidal" war on nature, says United Nations chief Antonio Guterres. Video: UN
Serena Williams broke down in tears and cut short her post-match press conference after her 6-3, 6-4 defeat to Naomi Osaka in the Australian Open semi-finals ended her bid for a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam title. Video: Tennis Australia
Some 4,700 sea turtles have been rescued in Texas after a plunge in temperatures left them "cold stunned" - a condition where cold-blooded animals suddenly exhibit hypothermic reactions when the temperature in the environment around them drops.
Red rivers of lava and plumes of orange smoke poured from Italy's Mount Etna, Europe's largest most active volcano on Wednesday. Footage shows cars driving away from the peak as it spewed thick clouds of ash. Video: Reuters
New research, the Social Activity Measure (SAM) on our behaviour during Level 5 restrictions indicates that some people who believe they are complying with the rules still have “a lot of discretionary contacts”, effectively breaking the rules.
Thousands of protesters in Barcelona, Spain have called for the release of musician Pablo Hasel after the rapper was sentenced to jail on charges of glorifying terrorism and insulting Spanish royalty in his lyrics. Video: David Dunne
The BBC's investigative news programme Panorama has published a video it said was of Sheikha Latifa, one of the ruler of Dubai's daughters, saying that she was being held against her will in a barricaded villa. Video: Reuters
