The suicide rate among 10 to 24 year olds in the US rose by 56% between 2007 and 2017 according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, overtaking the number of young people killed by homicide around 2010.
A public meeting in Ballinamore, Co Leitrim has heard that up to 130 refugees and migrants will be given accommodation in new apartments in the town, with 100 arriving within two weeks. Just 914 people live in the small Leitrim town, but the Department of Justice will make 20 three and four-bed apartments made available to refugees […]
Thousands of Dutch farmers have descended on The Hague in their tractors after new rules were implemented to clamp down on nitrogen emissions from the agriculture sector
Extinction Rebellion protesters in London were dragged off the roof of a Tube train by commuters after attempting to stop services this morning.
Poland’s Law and Justice party (PiS) has begun drafting a bill that would criminalize “the promotion of underage sexual activity”, amid fears that sex education in other jurisdictions is leading to the early sexualisation of children.
Family carers are protesting outside the Dáil today to voice their upset at the Budget’s failure to deal with what they term as a “home care crisis”. They point out carers are saving the State some €10 billion in costs annually, but say those providing care are not getting the support they need. “Family carers feel […]
The families of a mother and three children killed in a 2015 motorway crash have urged the public to stop using their phones whilst driving after a lorry driver using his phone to change music ploughed into their car.
ABC news network have come in for heavy criticism after airing footage of what they reported as Turkey’s invasion of Syria, only for it later to be exposed as a video from a Kentucky military show in 2017. Watch the two videos side-by-side here: The network has since apologised for what it claims was a […]
Air Canada flight staff will no longer greet guests as “ladies and gentlemen” or “mesdames et messieurs,” after changes in company policy to reflect claims of gender fluidity and non-binary identities.
Lisa Smith and her two-year-old child are said to be among 900 women and children that have escaped a detention camp for ISIS members that was bombed by Turkish warplanes in northern Syria.
The breakthrough deal may put an end to further advances by the Turkish army, as it is likely that Kurdish hopes of an independent state have diminished with the arrival of the Syrian army
A full review of the screening process in Irish maternity hospitals has been called for after another shocking story published today revealed a woman considered abortion after the Rotunda wrongly diagnosed a number of anomalies. The Irish Sun reported that “a pregnant woman was told by doctors her baby had a string of serious health problems only for the […]