A quiet residential development was numb with shock tonight after a former nurse was found strangled in her own home.

A 19-year-old man is recovering this morning after being beaten during a paramilitary-style punishment attack in Co Antrim.

An 11-year-old boy was kidnapped by a gang who tortured his father before demanding a ransom, it emerged tonight.

A man was arrested today in connection with the suspicious death of a woman in Co Antrim.

Detectives were today investigating the suspicious death of a woman in Northern Ireland.

A man is being treated in hospital this morning following a shooting in the North overnight.

THREE men including a Dubliner walking down the street were shot in the legs in punishment-style attacks in the North.

A man was shot and injured in a drive-by gun attack in Northern Ireland today.

Concern is growing for the safety of two 15-year-old Co Antrim girls who have now been missing since Thursday August 22.

Loyalist thugs were today linked to an attack on the home of a cross-community Alliance Party councillor in Northern Ireland.