Talks on saving the North’s power-sharing government have ended without agreement, Sinn Féin said today.

The SDLP will support the retention of the Parades Commission when it outlines details of its plans for resolving contentious marches tomorrow.

The Parades Commission in the North was back to full strength today just as the marching season approached.

Gordon Brown will be under pressure to make a substantial appointment to the post of Northern Secretary following reports that Paddy Ashdown turned down an offer to take the job, it was claimed today.

US President George Bush has been told to expect a cooling of relations with Britain over the issue of Iraq when Gordon Brown becomes Prime Minister, it has been reported.

Nato peacekeepers today detained a former bodyguard of Radovan Karadzic, one of the UN war crimes tribunal’s most-wanted fugitives, the force said.

The head of the Bosnian Serb Parliament said today he was fired by the country’s international administrator for not co-operating enough in the hunt for top war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic.

Nato peacekeepers have ended two days of patrols around the home of Radovan Karadzic’s daughter, suspected of helping the United Nations war crimes tribunal’s top fugitive evade justice.

Ireland will support Bosnia’s efforts to join the European Union when it takes over the presidency of the EU next year, Minister for Foreign Affairs Brian Cowen said today.

The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Brian Cowen, is to make a four-day visit to the Western Balkans, as part of the preparations for Ireland's EU Presidency in the first half of 2004.

Thousands of weeping relatives today gathered to lay to rest the first identified victims of Europe’s worst civilian massacre since the Second World War.