Twenty-two police officers have been injured during rioting in the North, it has emerged.

Twenty-two police officers have been injured during rioting in the North overnight.

At least seven police officers have been injured after coming under attack by crowds of rioters in west Belfast last night.

Police in the North have this morning arrested a 40-year-old man in connection with loyalist terrorist activity.

Tributes flooded in from the snooker world for Alex "Hurricane" Higgins, the troubled genius of the table who died after a battle with cancer.

Alex “Hurricane” Higgins lived up to his stormy nickname.

Seven people, including two young children, were injured when they were struck by a car during 11th Night festivities in the North, police said today.

Three police officers were injured after shots were fired during serious disturbances in the North overnight, police said.

Police in the North have confirmed today that members of the on-ceasefire Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) were responsible for the murder of a man shot dead in front of stunned shoppers.

Snooker star Alex Higgins has been admitted to hospital, it was revealed today.

A man arrested after the home of a Hungarian family was damaged has been released, police said today.

Four blast bombs have been found near a BMX track in Belfast, the PSNI confirmed today.

A man has been slashed on the hand and had a finger partially severed during an assault in south Belfast, police said tonight.

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

Thieves tricked their way into a pensioner’s home in Belfast before robbing her, police revealed tonight.

Local residents in a loyalist area of south Belfast staged a protest last night against alleged anti-social behaviour by eastern European migrants.

An eastern European man was injured in a racial attack on his Belfast home today, just as police launched a new drive against such crime.

Three men questioned about the hit-and-run death of a teenager in south Belfast were today released by police.

A 19-year-old man has died following a hit-and-run incident in south Belfast in the early hours of this morning.

AN elderly woman confined to a wheelchair yesterday became the victim of the sixth robbery against senior citizens in the North since Friday.

An elderly woman confined to a wheelchair became the victim of the sixth robbery against senior citizens in the North since Friday.

A 100-year-old woman was left terrified after three thugs kicked down the door of her home as she slept, police confirmed today.

Detectives in Belfast are appealing for information after a break-in at the home of a 100-year-old woman in the south of the city.

A man was shot and injured in a gun attack in Belfast late last night.

A Belfast estate agent claimed today that he had been told to refuse to rent properties to people from ethnic minority backgrounds.

Race hate killers in Northern Ireland could be jailed for at least 30 years under tough British government proposals announced today.

A cross-community Alliance Party councillor in south Belfast has described a recent spate of racial attacks in the area as "totally unacceptable".

A pregnant Pakistani woman and her brother-in-law have become the latest targets of a hate campaign by racists in south Belfast.

I WAS appalled but not surprised by the recent racist attacks on the Donegall Road in Belfast in which three houses belonging to members of the Asian community were targeted.

Northern Ireland police mounted a major security operation in Belfast today as the funeral took place of the latest victim in the bitter internal loyalist feud.

Rival loyalists were today urged to use dialogue not gunfire to resolve their feud following the murder of a second man in Belfast.

A man is being treated in hospital following an apparent paramilitary style shooting in Belfast.

A sleeping family and a taxi driver have escaped injury during separate bomb and gun attacks in Belfast today.

A woman and her son have suffered minor injuries after bricks and a petrol bomb were thrown through the window of their living room in Portrush, Co Antrim, last night.

Two young men are today being treated for bullet wounds following a paramilitary-style shooting in Belfast.

Renewed pressure was put on the IRA to disarm today as Sinn Fein leaders met in Dublin to discuss the faltering Northern Ireland peace process.

The RUC have uncovered a quantity of ammunition and bomb-making equipment after the search of a derelict house in south Belfast.