Two arrested over fatal Balbriggan shooting
Two people have been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of Benny Whitehouse in Balbriggan, Co Dublin last September.
Mr Whitehouse was shot dead in his car on Clonard Street on 25 September 2014.
A 34-year-old man and a 28-year-old woman are being detained at Balbriggan and Swords Garda stations.
Aggravated robbery at house in Co Wicklow
An investigation is under way into an aggravated robbery at a house in Laragh, Co Wicklow.
Just before midnight, a couple returned to their home and became aware there were a number of intruders in the house.
The woman raised the alarm.
The man was confronted by four masked men, one of whom was armed with what is believed to be a shotgun.
The intruders escaped with a small amount of cash and a mobile phone.
Washington Post spy trial begins in Iran
The trial of Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian on espionage charges has completed its first day behind closed doors in Tehran, Iran's ISNA news agency reported.
Mr Rezaian, 39, is accused of "espionage, collaboration with hostile governments, gathering classified information and disseminating propaganda against the Islamic republic," according to his lawyer Leila Ahsan.
She has condemned the charges saying there is "no justifiable proof" to substantiate them.
Five Kenyan police wounded in al-Shabaab ambush
Five Kenyan police officers were wounded by Somali militants who attacked two patrols in rural areas in the east of the country, Kenya's police chief said, contradicting earlier reports that about 20 people were killed in the attacks.
Two officers were critically wounded and three sustained minor injuries when the patrols were attacked in the Fafi andYumbis areas.
Al-Shabaab said it killed 25 officers while local media had earlier put the death toll at about 20.
Burma reaches agreement to repatriate 200 migrants
Burma, also known as Myanmar, has said it has reached an agreement with neighbouring Bangladesh to repatriate 200 Bangladeshis rescued from a boat off the Burmese coast last week.
A migrant crisis has flared up in Southeast Asia as Rohingya Muslims fleeing persecution in Burma and Bangladeshis trying to escape poverty at home become prey to human traffickers.
After Thailand cracked down on the practice, traffickers began abandoning overloaded boats on the open sea rather than trying to smuggle travellers through Thailand.
Some 3,500 are stranded, the United Nations refugee agency has said.
Australia may scrap controversial tampon tax
The Australian government bowed to pressure and took the first step to end a controversial sales tax on women's sanitary products, a day after a student carrying a giant tampon confronted Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey on television with a petition demanding change.
Other products like condoms and sunscreen are exempt from the 10% goods and services tax which is otherwise added to all items sold in Australia from day-to-day groceries to large-scale building materials.
Yesterday, university student Subeta Vimalarajah presented Mr Hockey with the result of an online petition which found that 90,000 people supported cutting the tax on sanitary items.
In a brief statement today, Mr Hockey said that once the Treasury calculates the cost of cutting the tax from sanitary products, "I will write to the states for them to consider the issue ahead of our next meeting in July".
Saudi beheads 88th person, exceeds 2014 total
The number of people beheaded in Saudi Arabia this year has overtaken the total for all of 2014, despite activists' concerns that trials are not conducted fairly.
According to AFP tallies, the executions of two Saudis for drug trafficking and a third for murder brought to 88 the number carried out in the conservative Islamic kingdom this year.
That exceeded the 87 death sentences carried out in 2014.
The interior ministry said two men were executed in the northern region of Jawf after they were convicted of smuggling amphetamines.
The third man was put to death in the southwestern region of Asir for a stabbing murder.
