Gardaí have confirmed that air patrols are being deployed at night to prevent raids by criminal gangs on some of the country's remotest Christmas tree farms.
A same-sex couple has become the first in the world to carry the same baby in both their wombs in a "shared motherhood" procedure.
Donald Trump left a Nato summit yesterday after world leaders were caught on camera mocking him at Buckingham Palace.
Humanity's ancestors may have been saved from extinction because they developed the ability to digest alcohol, scientists claim.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un rode a white horse up a sacred mountain in his second symbolic visit in less than two months, state media has reported, as his military chief lashed out at US President Donald Trump for talking about a possible military option against the North.
The first birth-control pill that can be taken just once a month will soon be tested on humans, scientists have said.
Germany said yesterday it had expelled two Russian embassy employees in protest over what it said was Moscow's lack of co-operation in an investigation into the murder of a Georgian man in Berlin.
