Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness today pledged to re-double their efforts to create a better and shared future in the North as they were reappointed First and Deputy First Minister.

Talks on the formation of a new Government in Stormont are set to get underway following the completion of the count in the North's Assembly elections.

Northern Ireland's First Minister Peter Robinson has offered his condolences to the family of a soldier from the North who was killed in an explosion in Afghanistan.

LEAKING gas fumes poisoned two school friends in a seaside apartment as they enjoyed a holiday ahead of exam results.

Politicians clashed today at the Stormont Assembly over attempts by Ulster Unionists to hand Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness the title of First Minister.

It is thought that the teenage boy who was killed by a train last night may have ran across the track as he fled from a gang of youths.

History was made today at a meeting of British-Irish body when it was attended by unionist politicians for the first time.

A forum of politicians is to call on the British government to release secret files on the Real IRA suspects behind the Omagh bombing.

Around 900 workers in a technology factory facing closure later this year could receive job training as they continue to put in shifts, it emerged today.

The Provisional IRA has admitted killing a 14-year-old schoolgirl in Derry more than 30 years ago and has apologised to the girl's family.

The North's two main unionist parties appeared to be on collision course at the next British general election after the Rev Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionists confirmed they would contest a key Ulster Unionist seat.

The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) has chosen its chief whip, David McClarty, to contest the next general election in the East Derry constituency.

The courts need to get tough on people who attack members of emergency services when they are answering calls, a Northern Ireland Assembly member claimed today.

An Ulster Unionist who is bidding to oust David Trimble from the party leadership urged 13 Assembly members today to back his challenge.

With all 108 seats filled in the Northern Ireland Assembly the party shares are:

David Trimble’s troubled leadership was under intense pressure tonight as he prepared to take charge of a new Ulster Unionist Assembly party left hopelessly split over the Good Friday Agreement.

Extra police must be drafted on to the streets of a leading Northern Ireland seaside resort at night following the latest in a series of killings outside night-spots, it was claimed tonight.

Unionist and loyalist politicians were today heading to South Africa for talks aimed at producing a single unionist vision for Northern Ireland’s peace process.

Unionists hardliners opposed to the peace process were accused tonight of stirring sectarianism among young loyalists after a new outbreak of attacks on Catholic homes in Northern Ireland.

A cross-party delegation of Assembly members was today heading off on a four-day fact-finding mission to Denmark and Belgium to look at alternative energy sources.

Police in Northern Ireland were today hunting for the killers of a 26-year-old Catholic man in a loyalist housing estate in Co Derry.