Two people have died in a house fire in Belfast this morning.

A chef who knifed his ex-girlfriend to death in a frenzied rage was today ordered to spend at least five more years in jail.

There has been a mixed start to the first contentious Orange parade of this year.

The first contentious Orange parade of this year's marching season has passed off peacefully in Belfast.

Moves to form an all-Ireland Green Party will offer voters north of the border an alternative to tribal politics, it was claimed today.

Two youths were beaten in north Belfast today in a suspected sectarian attack.

Bomb disposal experts have carried out a controlled explosion on a bomb planted outside a pub in north Belfast overnight.

It was a cruel winter’s day as Northern Ireland’s voters went to the polls to elect their next Assembly.

Two police officers have been injured in North Belfast while trying to keep rival factions apart in the flashpoint area of the Limestone Road.

Politicians today appealed for calm after hundreds of youths clashed during fresh sectarian rioting at a north Belfast flashpoint.

TWO police officers and a paramedic were injured last night, as sectarian fighting broke out in flashpoint areas of Belfast.

Two police officers and a paramedic have been injured in sectarian fighting in Belfast.

A man was injured in a gun attack on a house in Derry early today.

Catholics and Protestants came together to pray for peace today as tensions continued to mount ahead of the peak to the loyalist marching season.

The Lord Mayor of Belfast today called for water cannon to be deployed in the north of the city following another weekend of vicious sectarian rioting.

The British government has agreed to install 45 new surveillance cameras at sectarian flashpoints areas in north Belfast in an effort to identify those responsible for almost nightly violence in the area.

Police in the North have established a special unit in an effort to identify those responsible for rioting in the Ardoyne, Limestone Road and Whitewell areas of north Belfast.

Violence has erupted again in the Limestone Road area of north Belfast, with rival factions throwing stones and fireworks at each other across police lines.

There is considerable concern in the nationalist community at the lack of action by the security forces to deal with loyalist violence in North Belfast, a Sinn Fein Assembly member said tonight.

The Ulster Defence Association has given an undertaking it will ensure loyalists living in a sectarian flashpoint area of north Belfast behave responsibly over the coming days, it was claimed today.

Tensions in north Belfast were on a knife edge tonight amid fears that the bitter sectarian violence blighting the area could spiral out of control.

Reports of fresh gunfire in strife-torn north Belfast were today being investigated.

As the third night of violence between loyalist mobs in riot-hit north Belfast subsided, police said they had come under fire.

Police have come under fire as loyalist mobs went on the rampage in north Belfast tonight.

A police officer needed hospital treatment after being injured during clashes between rival mobs in running street battles in riot-scarred north Belfast, police said.

Loyalists tonight accused the police of brutality as rival mobs engaged in running street battles in riot-scarred north Belfast.

Police were continuing their hunt today for loyalist thugs posing as Glasgow Celtic supporters believed to have been involved in a series of attacks in north Belfast.

Northern Ireland Security Minister Jane Kennedy gave a blunt message to the warring people of divided north Belfast today - learn to live together.

Fighting broke out in north Belfast last night as rival gangs clashed on the Limestone Road.

Three people have been arrested for riotous behaviour following clashes in Northern Ireland.

Chief Constable Ronnie Flanagan is to be asked by the British government why UDA members have not been prosecuted over their role in attacks on nationalists in north Belfast, it emerged today.

Nationalist politicians today held out the prospect of dialogue with Loyalists in North Belfast in an attempt to end months of sectarian violence in the area.

Police today stepped up efforts to catch those responsible for a gun attack in north Belfast.

A young woman and her family had a lucky escape today after a number of shots were fired into her house in a flashpoint area of north Belfast.

There have been fresh disturbances in the Limestone Road area of north Belfast this morning.

Two men and a woman have been attacked by three masked men in a house in Ballycastle, Co Antrim.

Two people have been arrested in connection with violent disturbances in north Belfast last night, in which three police officers were injured.

Fresh trouble broke out in North Belfast last night when rival crowds clashed in the Limestone Road area for the third night running.

Fresh violence has broken out in North Belfast as rival crowds clashed in the Limestone Road area for the third night running.

Gerry Adams has welcomed reports that the Ulster Unionist leader, David Trimble may not impose another decommissioning deadline.

Police in the North have discovered what they say is a petrol bomb making factory in Belfast.

There has been fresh rioting in the Limestone Road area of north Belfast.

A leading loyalist is due in court today charged with inciting rioting and riotous behaviour.

A teenage soldier critically injured in a blast bomb attack in North Belfast has regained consciousness, it was revealed today.