A couple are recovering from a night-long tiger kidnap ordeal.

The Police Ombudsman in the North is investigating the death of a man in a collision between a car and a police vehicle on the outskirts of north Belfast this morning.

Police are treating the wounding of a man on the outskirts of north Belfast as attempted murder, it was confirmed today.

A youth has been taken to hospital with head injuries after rival groups clashed in the Hightown Road area of Glengormley on the northern outskirts of Belfast.

SOME of the worst storms on record lashed the North wreaking havoc on roads and flooding hundreds of homes.

Northern Ireland was today experiencing some of its worst October weather for years, with landslides wreaking havoc on roads, and home-owners erecting flood defences.

Loyalists last night threw two bombs at a community theatre staging a children's play as part of a community festival in the Ardoyne area of north Belfast.

The RUC chief constable, Ronnie Flanagan, has said he believes the Ulster Defence Association is responsible for an orchestrated campaign of pipe-bomb attacks on Catholic homes across the North.

The Red Hand Defenders have claimed responsibility for the murder of a Protestant teenager in Glengormley, Co Antrim last night.

It is believed the two victims of last night's drive-by shooting in Antrim were best friends.

The father of an 18-year-old drive-by shooting victim tried to revive his dying son after the attack.

An 18-year-old was shot dead in a drive by shooting outside a GAA clubhouse in Co Antrim last night.