Two men were charged in Belfast today with possessing explosives

A cross-border investigation has been launched into the kidnapping of a security worker’s wife and son.

Two people have been arrested by police probing a shooting on the outskirts of west Belfast.

A man is being treated in hospital in the North after being shot in west Belfast last night.

A murder probe was launched after a teenager fell from a ninth storey apartment in a city centre, police in the North said.

Three children were held captive at gunpoint while their father was forced to take money from his workplace shop today.

A couple and their two children were tied up by armed robbers who raided their Co Antrim home.

Belfast’s four electoral areas could face major expansion under revised plans for new Parliamentary constituencies in the North, it emerged today.

A teenage boy needed hospital treatment tonight after a garden shed fire threatened to rage out of control near Belfast.

A HOUSE of Commons committee is to visit Belfast to study child poverty on both sides of the peace line.