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Micheal Martin has received the backing of the Irish parliament to become the country's next premier.The longstanding Fianna Fail leader's nomination was backed 95 to 76, the day after the Dail was suspended and the process halted due to a chaotic row. He will formally become Ireland's taoiseach (prime minister) during a ceremony with President Michael D Higgins at his official residence at Aras an Uachtarain in Dublin.Mr Higgins will […]

Real Madrid have become the first football club to generate more than a billion euros (£845m) in revenue in a single year, topping a financial services company's league.Winning both LaLiga and the Champions League last season, Deloitte said the Spanish club had overtaken Manchester City to reclaim top spot in its Football Money League. Real Madrid also saw match day revenues increase in 2023/24 - after renovations to the Bernabeu […]

Hundreds of same-sex couples have been tying the knot in Thailand today as it becomes by far the largest nation in Asia to allow equal marriage and the first in South East Asia.A mass LGBTQ wedding at a shopping mall in Bangkok saw hundreds of marriage registrations as the law came into effect. It marked the culmination of years of campaigning and thwarted attempts to pass equal marriage laws. Porsch […]

👉Listen to The World With Richard Engel And Yalda Hakim on your podcast app👈 Donald Trump returns to the White House vowing that his success will be judged by "the battles that we win but also by the wars that we end".Yalda in Washington DC and Richard fresh back from Jerusalem assess whether the world is a safer - or a more dangerous place - with the new president in […]

A court has ruled that five elephants being held in a Colorado zoo do not have the legal right to pursue their release, because they are not human.An animal rights group brought a lawsuit on behalf of the elephants from Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs, using a legal process known as habeas corpus. A writ of habeas corpus - Latin for "you may have the body"' - is a […]

Donald Trump likes to discomfort his enemies.Not to mention his friends, his partners, business adversaries, celebrity critics, anyone, in fact, who could end up on the other side of a deal. As president of the world's largest economy, that makes for a long list, many of them in Davos on Tuesday trying to make sense of what his second term will mean, and not getting very far.Money blog: Trump's cryptocurrency […]

Donald Trump has attempted to negotiate a potential TikTok sale on live television, in what was supposed to be an announcement about investment in artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure.The US president was holding a news conference about a $500bn (£405bn) investment in AI infrastructure in the country, but was questioned about a range of topics. At one point he attempted to negotiate the sale of Tiktok with American businessman Larry Ellison, […]

Tests on the "mysterious balls" which led to the closure of several Australian beaches last week have revealed they were made up partially of faecal bacteria.Nine beaches in Sydney were closed by authorities on 14 January after white-grey, ball-shaped debris washed up along the shore. The Northern Beaches Council, which described the debris as marble-sized balls, organised their safe removal before reopening the beaches to the public.The council said in […]

A fire at a hotel in a popular ski resort in Turkey has killed at least 66 people, the country's interior minister has said.Ali Yerlikaya added that at least 51 other people were injured in the fire at the Grand Kartal hotel in Kartalkaya in Bolu province's Koroglu mountains in northwest Turkey, about 185 miles (300km) east of Istanbul. Four people, including the business owner, have been arrested by Turkish […]