Gardaí in Co Louth are appealing for witnesses to the abduction of an An Post official, his partner and their child from a house in Drogheda.

Efforts to establish the cause of an overnight fire in Co Louth are getting underway this morning.

NEW YORK CITY officials say a renewed search this year of debris in and around the World Trade Centre site has recovered 72 human remains.

A 17-year-old male, charged in relation to a serious stabbing incident in Drogheda, has been remanded in custody.

A 17-year-old male has been charged in connection with a multiple stabbing in Drogheda.

A 17-year-old male is being questioned in connection with the stabbing of seven men in Drogheda overnight.

Seven people have been injured following a stabbing incident in Drogheda overnight.

A woman was being questioned by gardaí today after a 60-year-old woman was stabbed outside a church.

A Monaghan man who has admitted indecently assaulting young boys some 20 years ago will be sentenced next month.

Detectives in the North are today hunting a robber who held up a man before making off on a bicycle.

Houses in the UK were engulfed today as tributaries feeding the Thames spilled over on to the river’s already waterlogged flood plain.

Firefighters continued early today to battle a massive warehouse fire in Brooklyn at an historic US waterfront complex containing a building once home to the world’s largest rope factory.

BY yesterday afternoon the party had swung from the town centre to the comfort of the clubhouse at United Park.

The proposed Freedom Tower at the former World Trade Centre site, redesigned to address security concerns, will lose the distinctive asymmetrical shape envisioned in earlier plans but will be the world’s strongest and safest high-rise building, officials said today.

After concerns were raised about security at the soaring skyscraper proposed as the centrepiece of the former World Trade Centre site, architects went back to the drawing board.

Two lorries have been destroyed in a suspected arson attack at a garage in Co Antrim, police said today.

A three-year-old girl was injured when vandals attacked her family’s car as it drove under a footbridge, it emerged today.

Two men were today stabbed and injured, one critically, during a fight outside a pub in Northern Ireland.

WORLD leaders will light an eternal flame, and former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani will lead a reading of the names of 2,823 victims during a day of “simple and powerful” observances marking the anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks.

An FBI informant secretly recording a conversation with a tax assessor ended up making what is believed to be the only known uninterrupted audio recording of the September 11 attack on the World Trade Centre in New York.

Convicted drug dealer and armed robber, Jeffery Mitchell, who was arrested on Friday evening after four days on the run, has been remanded in custody at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.