Herald section
The latest reporting from across the Belfast Herald news desks.
Ophelia made landfall near Emerald Isle, North Carolina, with 70 mph winds, triggering flooding, wind damage, and rescues. The storm weakened to a tropical depression and moved across the mid-Atlantic, leaving heavy rain and coastal flooding in its path.
UNIFIL intervened to de-escalate tensions between the Lebanese Army and Israeli Army near Shebaa Farms on 23 September 2023, following cross-border incidents involving heavy machinery and explosive devices.
Midwives and maternity support workers across Northern Ireland conducted a 24-hour strike on 22 September 2023 over unresolved pay disputes and concerns about maternity service safety.
Health and social care workers from Unite, Unison and Nipsa began a 48-hour strike on 21 September 2023, involving nurses, ambulance staff and hospital support workers. The action followed a lack of pay offer for 2023-24 and a below-inflation increase in 2022-23.
At least two civilians are killed and 21 others are injured in Russian missile strikes across Ukraine.
Rupert Murdoch has announced his retirement as chairman of Fox Corporation and News Corp, with Lachlan Murdoch set to become sole chairman of both companies.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announces that Poland will stop supplying Ukraine with weapons, amid tensions between the two countries over the former's import ban on Ukrainian agricultural products.
Azerbaijani forces fired on a Russian peacekeeper vehicle near Chankatagh in Martakert Province, resulting in the deaths of several peacekeepers. President Ilham Aliyev apologized and ordered an investigation into the incident.