Firefighters will remain at the scene of a fuel depot blaze in north Belfast overnight.

The PSNI has ruled out foul play in the death of a man whose body was found in a burned-out car on the outskirts of Belfast earlier this week.

A Portuguese man was stabbed in a suspected racist attack in the North early today.

MPs in the North were tonight urged to back radical £150m (€218m) plan to make Belfast one of Europe’s most vibrant cities by 2020.

Police and civilians were injured as loyalist gunmen opened fire during ferocious rioting on the streets of Belfast today.

The body of a Northern Ireland doctor killed in a climbing accident in New Zealand is expected to arrive in Belfast later today.

THE mother of a Belfast doctor killed on a mountain in New Zealand yesterday spoke of her relief that a search-and-rescue team had recovered his body.

The mother of a Belfast doctor killed on a mountain in New Zealand today spoke of her relief that a search-and-rescue team had recovered his body.

A Northern Ireland man who plunged to his death while climbing a mountain in New Zealand had told his family how lucky he was to have escaped the Asian tsunami, it emerged tonight.

Bomb disposal experts in the North have defused a pipe bomb found outside a house in a nationalist area of north Belfast this morning.

A loyalist mob including senior members of the Ulster Defence Association blocked a road in north Belfast last night in an apparent show of force ahead of the annual Twelfth of July celebrations.

Four teenage boys were killed today when their car careered off the road.

Four people have been killed and a fifth injured in a road accident in Northern Ireland this afternoon.

Murdered loyalist Alan McCullough was a military intelligence spy who double-crossed both factions of a feuding terror organisation, his killers claimed tonight.

Detectives probing a dissident republican bombing campaign in Belfast tonight charged a man.

A former British government porter at the centre of a suspected IRA spy ring copied top security papers on Northern Ireland’s most senior army officer, a court heard today.

A former government messenger was today due in court after being charged by detectives probing a suspected IRA spy operation in the Northern Ireland Office.

A married couple and their three-year-old twin sons narrowly escaped injury in a petrol bomb attack on their north Belfast home today.

Two members of the Ambulance service in the North were injured overnight.

A police officer was seriously injured when he was hit by a stolen car and dragged along the street while dealing with disturbances in north Belfast early today.

Violence flared during an Orange parade which marched through a flashpoint area of north Belfast.