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The World Health Organisation has warned that the world is running out of antibiotics, and that antimicrobial resistance is a global health emergency.

After a record attendance and fine weather yesterday, the National Ploughing Championships move into their second day in Tullamore, Co Offaly with a change in the weather and rain forecast.

The European Parliament's Brexit Coordinator, Guy Verhofstadt, is in Belfast for a two day series of meetings.

The Dáil returns today after the summer break and the government and opposition are expected to focus on the upcoming Budget - which is three weeks away.

A bipartisan group of US Congressmen and women have written to the US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to appeal to him to appoint a special envoy to Northern Ireland.

In the wake of the Garda breath test controversy, the chairperson of the Policing Authority has said she does not know if the public can believe that the police service abides by the rule of law.

British police have arrested a third suspect over the bombing of a packed London Underground train which injured 30 people last Friday.

Several people have died after a powerful earthquake hit Mexico this evening, with at least two people killed when a school collapsed in Puebla state.

A centre for people with intellectual disabilities in Co Wicklow has been criticised by the Health Information and Quality Authority for failing to appropriately investigate allegations that residents were harmed.

All orthopaedic surgeries at Galway's Merlin Park Hospital for the foreseeable future have been cancelled due to a leaky roof at the hospital.

IBEC has warned an Oireachtas Committee against cutting the Universal Social Charge.

The European Union have unveiled plans to step up its response to cyber attacks, including a new intelligence sharing agency, cyber war games, and product safety labels.

The Government will not revisit the confidence-and-supply-agreement with Fianna Fáil, a spokesperson for the Taoiseach has said.

The Cabinet has agreed on the legislation that will come before the Oireachtas this autumn.

Minister for Housing Eoghan Murphy has said new figures from the Residential Tenancies Board show rents nationally rose 6.5% in the 12 months to June 2017.

Gardaí are investigating the discovery of skeletal remains washed up on the shore in Co Clare this afternoon.

The first of hundreds of Catalan mayors summoned to answer questions on why they have backed a banned referendum on independence from Spain have appeared before the state prosecutor amid cheers and chants from supporters.

Dublin city councillors are set to refuse to increase the local property tax at a special meeting later this evening.

Donald Trump has urged UN member states to turn up the pressure on North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons, using his maiden speech to the world body to address what he has said is the top global challenge.

A man has died following a farming accident in Co Wexford.