A pipe bomb thrown into the nationalist Short Strand area in east Belfast today was intended to kill Catholics, Sinn Fein said.

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

A loyalist terror group seen as a cover for the Ulster Defence Association tonight admitted raking a north Belfast community centre with gunfire.

A loyalist Assemblyman today questioned claims that the Ulster Volunteer Force was behind a bomb-making factory discovered in a block of flats in north Belfast.