Power has been restored to thousands of homes in south Belfast left without electricity after a fault with an underground cable, Northern Ireland Electricity said today.

Four people, including a teenager and an eight-year-old girl, were killed in a string of separate accidents on Northern Ireland’s roads today, police said.

A Lisburn man was believed to be searching for drugs hidden at the side of a railway line when he was struck by a train and killed, a coroner said at an inquest today.

Police in the North have released two youths arrested in connection with the rape of a 16-year-old girl in Belfast.

Police in the North are investigating a serious sexual assault on a teenager in Belfast in the early hours of this morning.

Police in the North have arrested four people after a foiled bank raid in south Belfast.

It took police controllers 10 minutes to alert officers in the North to a bomb planted outside their station, a terrorism trial in Northern Ireland heard today.

A man is to be charged with murdering the 29 people who died in the Omagh bomb atrocity, it emerged tonight.

Police and government agencies in the United States and Northern Ireland have joined forces to hunt for a two-and-a-half-year-old Californian girl believed to have been brought to Belfast.

The RUC said it has found a second suspect bomb on a railway line in the North.

The examination of a suspect bomb on the main Dublin railway line on the outskirts of Belfast is now expected to continue until tomorrow.

A suspected bomb has been located on a rail track at Finaghy on the outskirts of Belfast on the line to Lisburn, said the RUC.