Tesla delivered its first China-built cars, a milestone for Elon Musk’s company as it accelerates a push in the world’s largest electric-vehicle market.

A prisoner went on hunger strike to secure a vegan diet in Northern Ireland, official files have revealed.

Pro-choice activists have projected an image of a giant heart onto Northern Ireland Office (NIO) premises in London.

The British government considered leaking details of Irish "intransigence" during Northern Ireland talks in 1990.

Charlie Haughey was warned by loyalist paramilitaries that MI5 ordered his assassination, declassified State papers have revealed.

Charlie Haughey was warned by loyalist paramilitaries that MI5 ordered his assassination, declassified state papers have revealed.

The UK Government has said talks to restore powersharing in Northern Ireland remain a priority, despite scepticism from a senior Democratic Unionist that they are a "waste of time".

The Rev Ian Paisley favoured religious fundamentalists over his DUP deputy leader Peter Robinson during the first roundtable peace talks between the main parties in Northern Ireland, records disclosed.

British officials feared closing Irish border roads using explosives during the Troubles would distress and harm local residents, newly-disclosed records showed.

Former Taoiseach Charles Haughey did not want the bodies of three IRA members shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar to be taken home through Dublin, archived British papers disclosed.

Enough has been done to stop Northern Ireland exiting the European Union, a victims' campaigner who took the British Government to court said.

A Northern government official’s refusal to appear before a probe into the On The Runs (OTRs) scheme for fugitive IRA members will fuel fears of a cover up, an MP said.

An IRA prison escapee pardoned by Margaret Thatcher’s government has said she was a pragmatist whose ministers made small concessions as part of dealings with Ireland.

Former justice minister Michael McDowell privately appealed for fugitive IRA suspects to be granted royal pardons.

JUSTICE Heather Hallett reviewed a Government assurance scheme for fugitive republicans linked to almost 300 murders.

Three fugitive republicans previously wanted by police in connection with conflict-related investigations were confirmed as “cleared” at the start of March, Sinn Féin claimed.

More than 350 royal pardons have been issued in Northern Ireland over the past 35 years, the Government has disclosed.

Secret letters sent to on-the-run suspects in Northern Ireland did not amount to “immunity, exemption or amnesty from arrest”, the British Government insisted today.

Calls for Bloody Sunday soldiers to be granted amnesty on the back of a deal for IRA on-the-runs are inevitable and predictable, a senior politician in the North has said.

Former secretary of state for Northern Ireland Peter Hain has said it is risible for key politicians to claim they had no knowledge so-called comfort letters were sent to IRA on-the-runs.

The UK government has been challenged to immediately stop consideration of five active cases involving on-the-run IRA terror suspects who have asked for assurances they are not wanted by police.

Northern Ireland’s First Minister Peter Robinson has requested the recall of the devolved Assembly after claiming a government deal that saw IRA terror suspects assured they would not be prosecuted also involved the granting of royal pardons.

The leader of the North’s devolved government has threatened to quit unless a judicial review is ordered into the collapse of the Hyde Park bomb trial.

Relatives of the Omagh bomb victims are launching legal action in a bid to force the British and Irish Governments into granting a full scale cross-border inquiry into the outrage.

A man convicted of the IRA Shankill bombing is being questioned today in connection with the shooting of a teenager in Belfast on Tuesday night.

Former Taoiseach Charles Haughey’s attempts to put pressure on the British government during the Falklands War backfired and threatened relations between the two countries at the highest level, Northern Ireland Office (NIO) files from 1982 claimed.

Any decision for Sinn Féin members to meet the Queen will be made on whether it would enhance the peace process or damage it, the party said.

A major report on the North's policing watchdog has raised questions over its independence and the British government's role in appointing its figurehead.

The state failed to protect high-profile solicitor Rosemary Nelson before her 1999 murder by loyalists in the North, but did not collude in her killing, a major public inquiry has found.

A watchdog set up to monitor paramilitary ceasefires in the North has presented its final report to the authorities.

A report into the events of Bloody Sunday when 14 people were killed by British troops need not have been delayed until after the General Election, bereaved relatives claimed today.

A major review of proposals for a Bill of Rights for the North was suspended until after the British general election, it was announced today.

The North's voters support the devolution of law and order powers but also want to see closer co-operation between political leaders Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness, a new poll showed today.

Sinn Féin will crank up the pressure on the North's power-sharing government if there is no deal to devolve policing and justice powers, a senior republican signalled tonight.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will visit the North on Monday as the deadlock over policing and justice powers deepens.

Police officers in the North are to be handed new powers to deal with low level crime without the need for extensive paperwork, it emerged tonight.

The Northern Ireland Policing Board is to challenge the British government over a proposed £17m (€19.45m) cut to the police service budget at a crunch meeting with the North’s security minister, it was announced today.

The British government insulted MPs trying to scrutinise a key Omagh bomb report when it denied full access, an influential House of Commons committee said today.

More than 5,000 young people from across the North will take part in a summer scheme tackling anti-social behaviour, Paul Goggins said today.

Some unionist criticisms of the proposed Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland are factually incorrect, the Human Rights Commission claimed today.

A criminal justice record keeping scheme in the North has gone £15m (€16.8m) over budget, it was revealed today.

Political parties in the North need to come clean about the source of their donations, the Electoral Commission said today.

The decision to delay publication of the Bloody Sunday report in the North is deeply disappointing, a committee of MPs said today.

Over £25,000 (€29,665) was spent on bottled water at the Northern Ireland Office last year, it was revealed today.

Human rights experts should be drafted-in to bolster the ranks of civil servants in any new North Department of Justice, it was claimed today.

Confidence in a body established to probe unsolved murders in the North could be eroded by its hand-to-mouth financial existence, victims said tonight.