I very much welcome the decision of Amnesty International to support the decriminalisation of prostitution.

Security in the North will be tight for the summit as speculation of threats intensifies, writes Conor Humphries

Former Northern Ireland arms decommissioning inspector Martti Ahtisaari will officially launch a new conflict studies institute at Queen’s University Belfast today.

Despite deep divisions, a growing population feel neither Irish or British but Northern Irish, writes John Lloyd

A British government verdict on the ceasefire status of loyalist paramilitary organisations who plotted ferocious rioting on the streets of the North will be given within days, Secretary of State Peter Hain revealed today.