Retrospective archive
10,000 sourced records covering January 2020 to August 2026. Five hundred concise archive briefs are currently free to read.
Roman Catholic priest Canon Patrick McEntee, of Dromore, County Tyrone, is sentenced to seven years in prison following his conviction for eight counts of sexual abuse against four boys between the late 1970s and late 1980s.
The International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation votes to ban Russian athletes from competing, including under neutral status, at next year's Winter Olympic Games in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.
The United Kingdom dismisses its ambassador to the United States Peter Mandelson after newly released emails reveal a closer relationship with American child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein than previously acknowledged.
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen announces intentions to seek sanctions against and a partial suspension of trade with Israel, while also immediately suspending certain bilateral funds, citing the ongoing Gaza Strip famine as the reason.
Alliance Party MLA Nuala McAllister is ejected from the chamber of the Northern Ireland Assembly following a clash with deputy speaker Steve Aiken during which she described him as "patronising".
Four Israeli soldiers are killed by Hamas on the outskirts of Gaza City in the Gaza Strip.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejects President Donald Trump's bid on the grounds of presidential immunity to overturn the civil ruling of Carroll I (2019), upholding that Trump must pay $83,300,000 to sexual abuse victim E. Jean Carroll for defamation.
The al-Ruya Tower high-rise apartment building is hit by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, Palestine.
In auto racing, Red Bull's Max Verstappen secures pole position for the Italian Grand Prix at the Monza Circuit with a lap of 1:18.792, setting the fastest Formula One lap in history, surpassing Lewis Hamilton's record of 1:18.887 at the same circuit in 2020.
In wheelchair tennis, Tokito Oda defeats Gustavo Fernández in the men's singles final to complete the career Golden Slam in the event.
In tennis, Aryna Sabalenka defeats Amanda Anisimova 6–3, 7–6(7–3) in the women's singles final to win her second consecutive US Open title.
Hamas releases a video showing a speech by two Israeli hostages in Gaza kidnapped during the Nova music festival massacre in 2023.
A Hong Kong jury convicts three people and acquits five others over 2020 bomb plots targeting hospitals and trains during the COVID-19 pandemic, finding them guilty of conspiracy to cause explosions but not of terrorism charges under the UN anti-terrorism law.
Russia fires more than 500 drones and two dozen missiles at Ukraine overnight, targeting mostly western and central Ukraine and wounding at least five people, in response to the attacks, Poland scrambles its fighter jets and places ground-based air defenses and radar systems on maximum readiness.
A Turkish court annuls the Istanbul provincial congress of the Republican People's Party over alleged procedural violations, dismissing local leaders including the Istanbul chair, and appoints an interim committee to oversee the branch.
The International Association of Genocide Scholars, an international non-partisan research organization on genocide and crimes against humanity, declares that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
The toll from yesterday's earthquake in Jalalabad, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, increases to at least 1,100 people killed and 3,500 others injured.
Colum Eastwood, the former leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, rules himself out of running in the 2025 Irish presidential election.
Israeli defence minister Israel Katz announces that the Israeli military killed Hamas spokesperson Abu Obaida in an airstrike on Gaza City yesterday.
The Colombian commerce ministry officializes a complete export ban of coal to Israel to prevent further atrocities in the Gaza Strip.
Israel recovers the bodies of two hostages in Gaza, one of whom is identified as Elan Weiss, who was killed in the October 7 attacks.
The United Kingdom summons Russia's ambassador to the UK, Andrey Kelin, after the British Council's office in Kyiv was heavily damaged and one employee was injured in an overnight Russian attack on Kyiv.
Investigations are continuing after two young people died and two were hospitalised after attending the Emerge dance music festival in Belfast over the August Bank Holiday weekend.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says that in order to deport 600,000 asylum seekers, a government headed by his party would leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) which may require a renegotiation of the terms of the Good Friday Agreement which has the ECHR written into it.