Tom Hanks and Sting joined Lily Tomlin, singer Al Green and ballerina Patricia McBride in being awarded this year’s Kennedy Centre Honours for influencing American culture through the arts.

One of the North's four Victims Commissioners is dismissing calls for her resignation after she wrote about the death of her brother on a website.

The North's Commission for Victims and Survivors is due to hold the first in a series of public meetings in Co Antrim tonight.

Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness have announced the appointment of four new victims commissioners in the North.