Sunday 25 October 2026Evening (Europe/Dublin)
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Brazilians are voting in the presidential election runoff pitting the leftist Lula against the far-right Bolsonaro; the incumbent president lost the first round to the senator and son of the convicted ex-president.
More than one million Lula supporters rallied on the eve of Brazil's election runoff, with nearly 159 million people due to head to the polls on Sunday.
'We can't let the far right take power again': Lula voters are making a final push before Brazil's runoff, striving in bellwether Minas Gerais to win over those who abstained or backed Flavio Bolsonaro.
'Gaza's suffering has become campaign fodder': Palestinians fear the worst from the Israel election, with the humanitarian catastrophe largely ignored as rivals Gadi Eisenkot and Benjamin Netanyahu vow to end Hamas rule.
Blanche has defended the DoJ's pre-emptive suit to block Alaska Senate results certification; the US attorney general called CNN 'crazy' for suggesting Trump's attempt to overturn the election could lead to a January 6 repeat.
Obama has rallied a rapturous Michigan crowd for El-Sayed - 'He'll finish the job we started'; the former president spoke to thousands in support of Abdul El-Sayed for US Senate and the Democratic ticket.
California's leader has called the attack on alleged noncitizen voting 'weaponizing the law'; the state attorney general said the Trump justice department's directive to verify 20,000 ballots is completely improper.
Europe live: Serbia is voting as strongman Vucic faces a grassroots challenge to his 12-year rule; the Student List movement is taking on the authoritarian leader after nearly two years of protests against government and institutional corruption.
Explainer: what is at stake in Serbia's election? The key players, main issues and potential fallout as a grassroots student-led coalition threatens to upend the political landscape of the EU-candidate country.
Exclusive: signs suggest Thomas Markle Sr may be a 'sex offender of the grossest kind', a Philippine minister says; forensic analysis of found images continues as Meghan's father denies possessing child sexual abuse images.
Exiled opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has returned to Venezuela; the Nobel peace prize winner's return after almost a year in exile is unlikely to please interim president Delcy Rodriguez.
The US military is giving Elon Musk's SpaceX access to sensitive tracking data, an advantage in tracking objects in orbit that raises national security concerns and fears of greater control over the space industry.
Exclusive: 'He's not going to punk me. I'll trick him' - the Ali G: Who Iz I? stooge says he was in on the joke but didn't care; Joshua Loudermilk says suspicions were first raised by a gun shaped like a wearable plastic bottom.
'It's magic': scientists have rediscovered how to make ancient Roman colour-changing glass; the optical engineering behind the 1,600-year-old Lycurgus Cup has baffled experts for centuries.
The Sunday read: 'That's the way the city works' - how the UAE changed the face of Andy Burnham's Manchester, a story winding from the Arab Spring to some of the most deprived places in England, with complicated results.
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Gardai have released details of the unidentified man found dead at the Dublin recycling depot; the body was found at the facility in the early hours of Saturday.
Further weather warnings have been issued as thousands remain without power after Storm Boelo; the National Directorate for Fire and Emergency Management urged the public to remain cautious.
Rite and Reason: what the Burke family really need from us - who are the controversial children trying to impress? Could it be their mother?
Impossible to look away from Elizabeth Holmes in the latest documentary on the Theranos fraudster; her unblinking gaze, like the eyes on the billboard in The Great Gatsby, represents moral decay.
Dublin marathon: family rivalry, lengthy friendships and a group of lads ready to go 'wild' - thousands lined the streets to cheer on a record number of runners.
An inquiry has begun after the 'unexplained' death of a man (35) near Crookstown, Co Cork; the course of the investigation will be determined by the postmortem findings.
The restaurant criticised for using Dutch chicken has brought a 'luxury' award home for Ireland; plus Maurice Regan's 'Luck Penny', Vincent Browne on Charles Haughey, and a Garda clampdown on souped-up e-bikes.
Ulster University is to make almost 500 redundancies as its provost warns education quality is under threat, with third-level institutions across the North facing reduced funding.
Was that a stock market wobble, or the start of something more serious? Markets are becoming nervous about the scale of borrowing by 'hyperscalers'.
From breezy floorboards to a cosy A rating: a Lucan refurb more than worth the wait; this family went with a one-stop shop for the renovation and retrofit of their home.
The Listowel assault investigation is expected to be upgraded to a murder inquiry after the man's death; Glen Keane (21) was left in a critical condition after being attacked during last month's racing festival.
Opinion: Ireland's left has failed to penalise the government for decades of inaction but the right has not; political failure around protests flows from the left's inability to turn economic dysfunction into a larger project of reform.
Andy Irvine on Donal Lunny: 'He glued Planxty together and made the structure work' - the friends made music together through decades when Ireland became a lot more liberal.
Sarah Moss: is it possible for me, an immigrant writer, to produce 'Irish fiction'? Whenever I give a straightforward answer to 'where are you from?', I feel I'm missing something.
Ireland has the worst public access to the countryside in Europe - how did this happen? There is none of the 'right to roam' you find elsewhere.
Dogs are not welcome if we want to enjoy the spectacle of returning overwintering birds; pets should be kept away or on a leash as the bay welcomes these beautiful visitors.
I love Vinted. I just wish it loved me back when I was scammed - 'No! You don't understand!' I typed, feeling like K in Kafka's The Trial, if K had simply been trying to return an ugly blouse.
Ross O'Carroll-Kelly: 'Oh my God,' Sorcha goes. 'Did you lock Brian in the attic?' - I'm doing it for his rugby career. He can thank me when he wins his first cap for Ireland.
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Emergency services attended a serious three-vehicle crash in Co Tyrone; the PSNI, NI Ambulance Service, NI Fire and Rescue Service and the Air Ambulance charity were all at the scene.
Storm Boelo: thousands of homes are without power and traffic is disrupted as high winds batter Northern Ireland, bringing severe gales and heavy showers on Sunday.
A man has been charged with causing the death of a woman in her 60s in the Aghagallon crash; the deceased has been named as Pauline Downing from the Kilmore area.
A Daisy Hill Hospital rally has heard calls to save maternity services; people raised concerns about expectant mothers having to travel to Craigavon and further afield to give birth.
'Profound consequences must mean profound consequences': Carla Lockhart's defiant message as Portadown rally draws a large crowd, with over 25 bands taking part in the centre of the town.
Why Irish could be 'at risk' with proposed changes to Northern Ireland's curriculum; concerns have been raised about a change in language teaching under the education department's TransformEd plans.
'We're becoming a family tradition': Belfast jewellery institution Steensons celebrates 50 years in business; Brona Steenson talks about creating crowns for Game of Thrones and putting her own stamp on the family business.
Sophie Clarke: Give My Head Peace and The Blame Game can't last forever, but our place on television should; as familiar favourites leave our screens, what will replace them and how much of ourselves will we see?
A historic Co Down building thought to have housed missionaries gets a new lease of life; Bangor-based Boom Studios is reviving the 1800s building, understood to have been mostly vacant for nearly two decades.
'Generations of young men have come through the doors': West Belfast's De La Salle College celebrates 60 years serving the community; it was officially opened on October 25, 1966.
Half of Belfast's peak morning Glider services to the Titanic Quarter are now standard buses; Translink announced enhanced G2 services in January, but the additional routes are operated by regular Metro buses.
'Possibly the best coffee in the city' and a double helping of dessert: Last Orders with VINE's Nathan - from Regency House pancakes to dinner at Waterman, the Lisburn chef picks his perfect day of eating in Belfast.
Travel late deals: GBP 160 hotel breaks, discounted Northern Ireland stays and up to GBP 950 off Mexico escapes, plus coastal stays, a pre-Christmas Cumbria break and Krakow.
With no money, Healey can only hope for the best with his British budget; Eamon Quinn on a chancellor tasked with delivering a low-key budget while managing the UK's GBP 3 trillion public debt pile.
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A prisoner who is still in jail 23 years after getting a three-year sentence says it is 'mental torture'; Northern Ireland's longest-serving inmate Eddie Coll pleaded for release at a parole hearing this month.
'Act your age': a judge scolded a neighbour from hell dragged by police kicking and screaming from an attic; the engineer is on his last chance to avoid prison after breaching a restraining order.
TV presenter Scarlette Douglas has announced she is pregnant with her first child.
A hitman boasted he could arrange contract killings for cash to buy guns for the UVF; Allan Nesbitt has long-established links to loyalists in Northern Ireland and is believed to be a UVF member.
A millionaire developer was 'floored by a businessman' in the toilets of a plush venue in a fracas dubbed the 'battle of the loos'; the alleged fistfight is linked to a 20-year-old feud over a GBP 1m property deal.
Police feared dissidents would use old Provo guns in a Drumcree violent outbreak; associates of a bomber seen on the Garvaghy Road are said to control a massive haul of weapons.
Lockhart's exit from the DUP would be a huge body blow to the party - and doesn't Gavin Robinson know it.
Presbyterian men cloak sexism in theology, calling women equal while denying them power.
A UTV favourite on retirement, grandchildren and the future: 'I don't think my work is quite done yet' - after three decades exploring Ulster's people and places, Joe Mahon is bringing Mahon's Way to a close.
If you were wondering what Sinn Fein's so-called 'shrine to terrorism' would have looked like, check this out.
'We're hoping to be a wee bit different': a lottery winner has submitted plans for a new Belfast Christmas market.
'I've come to admire Rose Kennedy so much': Belfast's Laura Donnelly on playing the US political dynasty's matriarch.
'Some of his ideas are mad, but I just let him get on with it': an abseiling 82-year-old has no plans to slow down; the retired engineer throws himself into fixing broken electrical items for free at Downpatrick's Repair Cafe.
Fixing our crippled NHS is a life-and-death issue, yet politicians pay it lip service and then make cuts; for at least a decade they have known the gravity of the situation but keep choosing populism over courage.
Buying sex in Ireland is as easy as buying clothes - with the same filters and reviews; the ease with which exploited women are sold by pimps and traffickers is laid bare in a shocking report.
Stormont has descended into chaos as Michelle O'Neill walked out and Emma Little-Pengelly was left unable to continue; shouting MLAs and a First Minister leaving early expose divisions now impossible to conceal.
Events at Drumcree have seriously undermined unionist confidence in policing, a loyalist focus group says, setting out its concerns in a letter to the PSNI chief constable.
An unexplained aspect of police intelligence over dissidents at Drumcree may help bring understanding; more on the policing of Drumcree is expected on day two of the Orange Order case.
An ex-UVF gunman who was awarded an MBE has quit the Orange Order and his cash-strapped community group; Lurgan district master David Martin resigns as not-for-profit Brownlow House closes its cafe and lays off staff amid losses.
Belfast musician Katie Richardson is revelling in a run at London's Globe theatre with a musical twist on a Belfast story.
A Derry singer has rounded off the year with the release of a single featured on Love Island.
A Sinn Fein MLA has urged the Arts Council to cut funds to loyalist bands which have vowed to snub the PSNI; it comes as UUP leader Jon Burrows warns bandsmen not to 'stoop to Sinn Fein's level'.
'It had a groove cut into it so the rope wouldn't slip': the church where criminals sentenced to death were hanged.
Northern Ireland gigs of the week: Westlife, Gurriers and Morderstein.
A new BBC documentary lays bare the IRA cover-up after the brutal Robert McCartney murder: 'This wasn't the killers' first...' - unseen footage shows the bloody aftermath of the 2005 killing that shook the peace process.