A man with a knife has today tried to hijack the car of Alliance Party politician Anna Lo.

A DEMOCRATIC Unionist Party member of the Northern Ireland assembly has come in for heavy criticism after calling for a halt to GAA clubs fundraising by packing shoppers’ bags in south Down supermarkets.

The Democratic Unionist Party’s Northern Ireland Assembly victory was tonight hailed as its greatest ever political triumph.

NEXT THURSDAY is the first day of the 4,709th year of the Chinese calendar.

Fifteen women were rescued today as police raided a series of brothels in a major crackdown on human trafficking in the North.

The Conservative Party was today accused of planning to decimate the North's economy just when it was beginning to recover from the global recession.

The North's Chief Constable today said he was happy with the £1bn (€1.1bn) financial package secured for the devolution of policing powers to the region and was ready and willing for the move to go ahead.

The party earmarked to take on the North's new Justice Ministry will not accept the post until the Stormont government agrees on a strategy to tackle segregation in the region, a senior member signalled today.

More racist threats have been made against the North's only Assembly member of Asian descent.

Migrant workers are essential to the North's economy and enrich life in the region, a public rally against racism was told today.

Trade union leaders in the North will hold a rally in Belfast city centre today to protest against the spate of racist attacks in the city.

Racists in Belfast have threatened the life of the North's only elected representative from a minority community.

Two teenagers are due in court today charged in connection with the racist attacks on Romanian families in Belfast.

The Romanian families forced to flee their Belfast homes because of racist attacks want to go home, it was revealed today.

Two men were arrested today in the North after a seven-hour stand-off with armed police ended peacefully.

Two vulnerable women have been saved from human traffickers in the North, it was revealed today.

A “No Foreigners” sign on a house to let in Belfast provoked outrage today.

The British Home Office faced demands today for the release of two Nigerian families who settled in the North and are being held in a detention centre awaiting deportation.

Martin McGuinness will today be briefed on China’s catalogue of human rights abuses.

A 29-year-old man has been arrested by police investigating a shooting at a pub.

A PIER is a disappointed bridge, James Joyce once wrote. We’ve seen a lot of disappointed bridges in the past 10 years since the Good Friday Agreement was hailed as having signed, sealed and delivered a future for the North.

“THINGS fall apart, the centre cannot hold, mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,” — well the fallout from the Belfast Assembly poll is not quite as bad as WB Yeats’s words suggest, but he was spot-on about the middle ground parties going south.

Voters in the North have elected their first ever ethnic minority candidate, with the Alliance Party's Anna Lo winning an Assembly seat in South Belfast.

The Ulster Unionist Party has paid the price for its arrogant treatment of former members in the North’s Assembly Election, it was claimed tonight.

Democratic Unionist MP Nigel Dodds, and Sinn Féin's policing spokesperson Gerry Kelly became the third and fourth Assembly members to be elected in the North's Assembly elections today, both capturing seats in North Belfast.

The North’s Assembly Election candidates will learn what the electorate has in store for them today as counting gets under way in 18 constituencies.

Former Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy will today lend his support to the cross community Alliance Party in its bid for Northern Assembly seats.

Two stone lions were today guarding a new multi-million pound complex of sheltered flats specially designed for elderly Chinese people in Belfast.

A Chinese woman was punched and verbally abused on her way to work in south Belfast, it was claimed today.

Two thirds of Chinese families have been forced out of a south Belfast neighbourhood where racist thugs are trying to block their attempts to build a community centre, it was claimed today.

IT is the duty of all people in Northern Ireland to unite to tackle racism, the Lord Mayor of Belfast told a rally yesterday.

It is the duty of all people in the North to tackle racism, a rally was told today.

The organisers of an anti-racism rally in Belfast today were hoping that thousands of workers would take to the streets to demonstrate their abhorrence of recent attacks on racial minorities in the City.

Thousands of workers across Northern Ireland were urged today to take to the streets against racism as they have against sectarianism in the past.