A man has been arrested on suspicion of the loyalist murder of two Catholic workmen in North Belfast almost 20 years ago.

Loyalists blocked roads across Belfast tonight as part of a mass protest over flags.

Former Commonwealth heavyweight champion Martin Rogan has questioned the actions of Sandy Row Amateur Boxing Club after they compiled a 57-page report outlining verbal and physical assaults sustained by their members over the course of a decade.

Detectives have reopened the investigation into the murder of a teenager found dead in a shallow grave after new lines of inquiry emerged.

Sixteen police officers were injured in rioting in Belfast in the wake of the Twelfth of July Orange Order parades.

Police in the North have come under attack for the second consecutive night as violence flared following Orange Order parades in Belfast.

Police fired baton rounds at rioters as fresh trouble erupted in Belfast tonight.

Twenty-two police officers have been injured during rioting in the North, it has emerged.

Twenty-two police officers have been injured during rioting in the North overnight.

At least seven police officers have been injured after coming under attack by crowds of rioters in west Belfast last night.

Police investigating the violence surrounding the Orange Order’s July 12 parades in the North today charged a 49-year-old woman with possession of a firearm.

Detectives investigating rioting that surrounded the Orange Order’s July 12 parades in the North today said they have arrested a woman after officers found a gun.

At least 200 suspects are being hunted by detectives investigating serious republican rioting in north Belfast, it was revealed today.

Frontline police facing violent mobs in the North should be allowed to take stronger action against rioters, the father of a wounded officer said today.

Armed riot police moved in tonight to remove nationalist protesters staging a sit-down demonstration ahead of an Orange Order march.

A number of streets in north Belfast have been closed off today as police investigate a security alert in the area.

Politicians in Northern Ireland condemned those responsible for a string of security alerts that brought traffic chaos to the North.

Three bombs planted outside houses in north Belfast today could have caused carnage and destruction, police said.

Police in the North are investigating the discovery of three suspicious devices in north Belfast this morning.

An elderly pensioner was today being treated in hospital with a suspected broken leg after thugs broke into his home and assaulted him.

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

A murder investigation was launched in north Belfast today following the death of a teenage boy.

POLICE last night were refusing to rule out paramilitary involvement in Monday's daring raid on the Northern Bank in Belfast.

The second phase of a multi-million pound facelift for Belfast was launched today.

A 14-year-old boy was shot in a paramilitary-style attack in Belfast early today.

Detectives investigating the murder of a Belfast man killed in a hit-and-run crash last year today renewed their appeal for information about a car with false number plates used in the incident.

Police were today investigating a double nail bomb attack on their station in north Belfast.

Police in north Belfast tonight escaped injury after their station was targeted with two explosive devices.

Six police officers have been injured in North Belfast, after an incident in which a patrol car was rammed.

An overnight fire which destroyed a church in a flashpoint area of north Belfast was not malicious, investigators said today.

A minister today vowed to rebuild his church after it was destroyed in an overnight fire at a flashpoint area of north Belfast.

Investigators in the North are examining what looks like an attempted murder on a son and father during a car chase.

A man and a teenager are recovering after two separate punishment shootings in Northern Ireland.

A hit and run in Belfast last night is being treated as attempted murder by police.

Three police officers were injured when sectarian rioting erupted on the streets of Belfast last night.

The police service in the North has launched an investigation into reports that shots were fired following a loyalist parade in a flash point area in Belfast earlier today.

Tension rose in a sectarian flashpoint area of Belfast amid reports of gunfire in the north of the city.

Sectarian street violence erupted on the streets of north Belfast as rival gangs clashed in a flashpoint area.

Police in the North have broken up skirmishes between loyalist and nationalist gangs.

Shots were fired at police as they kept apart rival mobs during the latest bout of sectarian rioting in strife-torn north Belfast.

Several people were tonight injured during the latest bout of sectarian rioting in strife-torn north Belfast.

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.

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.