An unemployed man was accused today of an arson attack that led to a huge rescue operation from a block of flats in Belfast.

Two people have died in a head-on road crash in Northern Ireland.

The number of people killed in road accidents this weekend has risen to four.

Twelve children with special needs were injured today when a minibus carrying them to a daycare centre collided with a lorry in Northern Ireland.

A family of four escaped injury during a pipe-bomb attack on their home in Co Antrim this morning.