The death of toppled Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi was today hailed by the UK's Prime Minister David Cameron as a step towards a “strong and democratic future” for the north African country.

'Tudors' actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers was handcuffed by officers at France's Charles DeGaulle airport in Paris after reportedly challenging them to a fight.

Four Dublin football fans who smashed up a Derry bar before a cup final match were today jailed for three months.

A man in his late forties was shot and injured in a gun attack in east Belfast tonight.

Police were today investigating a number of attacks by nationalist youths on property in the loyalist Fountain area of Derry.

A bomb attack which damaged a van in Co Derry was not connected to the loyalist feud, police said today.