The US president-elect Joe Biden's Irish cousins recently gathered under a pop art-style mural of him to celebrate his victory.

Donald Trump, has been pushing hard for a vaccine, saying one might be ready before US elections November 3.

Virgin Galactic's "future astronauts" have been waiting for years to take their seat on SpaceShipTwo.

The Al-Amal or Hope probe, officials say is designed to inspire the region's youth and pave the way for scientific breakthroughs.

Jeremy Walter has developed an incredible eye for minimalist architecture photography after spending nearly ten years photographing nothing but buildings.

Buddhists celebrated Makha Bucha Day at a temple in Thailand.

IBTimes UK can now reveal the winners of the photography competition we ran in conjunction with EyeEm, using machine learning and neural networks to pick the winners.

An Indian village in Uttar Pradesh celebrated Lathmar holi - a festival of colour.

The top prize went to a remarkable image of a single, floating atom captured by an Oxford University student using a basic DSLR camera.

People burn incense at temples to pray for good health and fortune and flock to temple fairs to watch dragon dances and Chinese opera.

After a huge sinkhole swallowed cars on a street in Rome, we look at other craters that have suddenly opened up around the world.

Over Syrian 1,000 civilians, many of them children, were killed in the first week of February alone as air strikes hit hospitals, schools and markets.

Donald Trump is a typical Fire Dog: hot-tempered, talkative and argumentative. Chinese astrologers predict his second year in office will be even more tempestuous than his first.

Jacob Zuma has quit as president of South Africa. He has been embroiled in a rape trial, corruption, an arms deal, using public money for his home and association with the Guptas.

Ashbourne is home to one of Britain's oldest and bloodiest sporting traditions: the Royal Shrovetide Football Match, played every year on Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday.

Three nominees for each of the eight photo contest categories, and – for the first time – a shortlist of six nominees for the World Press Photo of the Year.

This most important of Hindu festivals falls on Tuesday 13 through to Wednesday 14 February 2018.

Nearly 3,000 dogs are competing to win Best in Show at the 142nd annual Westminster Kennel Club dog show in New York.

Behind the ostrich feathers and sequins, the parades tackle serious matters such as crime, corruption, drugs, poverty and intolerance towards the LGBT community.

Heartwarming image of Pikin the gorilla resting in the arms of her human companion Appolinaire in the back of a car wins Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award.

A panorama photograph of motorbikes in a World War Two shipwreck in the Red Sea has won Underwater Photographer of the Year 2018.

Germany celebrates its annual Rose Monday carnival in traditional fashion: with floats featuring huge, unflattering puppets of politicians.

Teams throw 500,000 kilograms of oranges at each other as the northern Italian town of Ivrea marks the start of carnival season.

Seven of Rio de Janeiro's elite samba schools danced through the specially-built Sambadrome on the first night of the city's famous Carnival parades.

People living along the California coast are being treated to a living light show as tiny glowing phytoplankton light up the waves at Big Sur.

Over 19,000 children are thought to have been recruited, often by force, by armed groups on all sides of South Sudan's brutal civil war.