Sinn Féin is fully focused on securing the election of a full Stormont executive by next week, the party president has insisted.

New proposed abortion guidelines for healthcare staff in the North are being considered by the Stormont Executive, the North’s Health Minister has said.

The Ulster Unionist Party has indicated its intention to take part in intensive political talks aimed at saving powersharing in the North in the wake of an IRA-linked murder.

The Democratic Unionists will resign from the Stormont Executive, collapsing power-sharing in the North, unless the Assembly is suspended, First Minister and party leader Peter Robinson said.