A Belfast teenager who drowned under the wheels of a police vehicle in a Co Antrim river after a car chase was nearly twice over the drink-drive limit and had been sniffing butane gas, an inquest was told today.

Former soldiers from Ireland and the North stood shoulder to shoulder today to honour servicemen killed in the First and Second World Wars.

A teenage girl was subjected to a brutal sex attack on a train station platform in broad daylight, police in the North revealed today.

A man and a teenager have died in separate overnight road accidents in counties Kildare and Antrim.

A police chase in the North that ended when a teenager drowned while trapped under a patrol car should have been called off, an Ombudsman’s Office inquiry claimed today.

Police in the North have been cleared of any wrongdoing in connection with the death of a man following a pursuit two years ago.

AN al-Qaida suspect who downloaded bomb-making instructions to blow up an aircraft was jailed yesterday for six years at Belfast Crown Court.

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.

Police were today investigating the death of a man in a fire at a flat in Northern Ireland.

A new acute hospital serving the west of Northern Ireland is to be built to the north of Enniskillen, it was announced today.

Police in the North have arrested a 21-year-old man in connection with the murder of a young woman in Belfast overnight.