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Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is testing new tools to help protect young users from sextortion and other forms of intimate image abuse.

Europe's export-oriented small businesses should be offered a single regulatory framework with the same rules governing their activities wherever they operate in the region, a report to be presented to national leaders next week will propose.

Cabin staff at Lufthansa said today they had reached a wage agreement with the airline for 19,000 flight attendants after months of negotiations and a strike that left thousands of passengers stranded.

Discounter Pepco Group has today reported a 2.5% fall in first-half same-store sales and said the trading environment across Europe remains challenging.

Property advisor Savills Ireland has listed 20 on Hatch Street Lower in Dublin 2, at a guide price of €26.5m.

Tesla chief Elon Musk said he will visit India to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and two sources told Reuters the billionaire entrepreneur is expected to make an announcement on investment and a factory in the country.

The Lloyd's of London insurance market's environmental, social and governance standards are weak, as its members have exposure to fossil fuel projects and weapons, non-profit ShareAction said in a report today.

US Federal Reserve officials raised concerns at their March interest rate meeting about the recent "broad-based" rise in inflation, but still said they expected cuts to start this year, according to minutes of the meeting published last night.

A report by Fáilte Ireland on the economic impact of the Wild Atlantic Way has found it is worth more than €3 billion per year in tourism revenue to communities along the western seaboard.

Coillte is considering whether or not to appeal the refusal of planning permission by Galway County Council to proceed with a 343-hectare forest and bogland rehabilitation project near Recess in Co Galway.

The Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) will consider whether to make any changes to interest rates at a meeting in Frankfurt today.

The competition watchdog has said it is disappointed that a long-awaited report examining the possibility of introducing a new profession of conveyancer makes no recommendation or timetable for that to happen.

The global IPO market began the year on a cautiously optimistic note, according to analysis by EY, with activity declining in volume in the first quarter of the year, but increasing in value.

Video-sharing platform TikTok and former President of Ireland Mary Robinson have joined forces to launch a new climate initiative.

A presence of fresh rat droppings and no traceability of unidentified frozen meats were some of the reasons enforcement orders were served on food businesses last month, the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has said.

New research has found there was increase in workplace conflict in 2023.

Tasks performed by early career practitioners are those most vulnerable to AI so fewer tax trainees may be needed in the future

RTÉ has launched a new 'Register of Gifts' which will require employees and contractors to declare any gifts they receive that are above a value of €50.

The Bank of Canada has today held its key lending rate at 5%, saying it is looking for signs that falling inflation will stick before it begins to cut rates.

The World Trade Organization said today that global trade should rebound this year from an unexpected slump in 2023, but warned that regional conflicts, geopolitical tensions and economic policy uncertainty risked darkening the picture.