Tuilagi in frame for Test call
Manu Tuilagi might have thrust his sizeable frame into the British and Irish Lions Test team picture after starring in Tuesday's 35-0 victory over Melbourne Rebels. The Leicester and England...
View ArticleObama talks to Karzai after attack
Barack Obama has spoken to Afghan President Hamid Karzai after the Taliban launched an attack outside Kabul's presidential palace, the White House said. The two leaders spoke by video conference after...
View ArticleTexas passes abortion restrictions
Texas Republicans have passed new abortion restrictions expected to close almost every abortion clinic in the second most populous state in the US. The Republican-controlled House voted for the bill...
View ArticleArchbishop offers Mandela prayer
A South African archbishop who visited Nelson Mandela in hospital has offered a prayer in which he wishes for a "peaceful, perfect, end" for the former president and anti-apartheid leader. Thabo...
View ArticleMitchell cited for Zebo incident
Melbourne Rebels wing Lachlan Mitchell has been cited for alleged foul play during the game against the British and Irish Lions. He has been reported for lifting Lions wing Simon Zebo. In a statement,...
View ArticleUS tones down calls over Edward Snowden
Rebuffed by Russia's president, the Obama administration has toned down demands that fugitive National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden be expelled from a Moscow airport in a sign that the US...
View ArticleUS tones down calls over Snowden
Rebuffed by Russia's president, the Obama administration has toned down demands that fugitive National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden be expelled from a Moscow airport in a sign that the US...
View ArticleUK set to miss greenhouse targets
The UK is not on track to meet its targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions through the 2020s, the Government's climate advisers have warned. Some progress has been made in putting in place measures to...
View ArticleFans out in force to back Murray
Andy Murray will take to Wimbledon's Number One court for his second round clash with unprecedented support from British fans. The Scot will take on Lu Yen-hsun in the second match of Tuesday...
View ArticleWait is over for Glastonbury fans
The stages are built. The cows are safely hidden away. And on Wednesday, the wait is finally over for Glastonbury festival goers. Thousands of people, laden down with rucksacks, tents and crates of...
View ArticleObama orders crackdown on carbon
US president Barack Obama has ordered his administration to end the practice of coal-fired power plants dumping unlimited carbon pollution into the Earth's atmosphere as he moved to deliver on a major...
View ArticleBP's ad campaign over oil spill
BP is placing a full-page advertisement in three of America's largest newspapers to Wednesday as the company mounts an aggressive campaign to challenge what could be billions of dollars in pay-outs to...
View ArticleMet 'ignored intimidation claims'
Police ignored intelligence for 15 years that private investigators were hired by criminal gangs to intimidate key witnesses in high-profile trials, it has been reported. Details of the threat posed...
View ArticleDrop in heart disease death rates
Heart disease death rates in many European Union (EU) countries including the UK have more than halved since the 1980s, new research has shown. But despite the steady reduction in mortality in both...
View ArticleChinese space capsule lands safely
A Chinese space capsule with three astronauts has landed safely on the country's northern grasslands after a 15-day trip to a prototype space station, marking the latest success for its manned space...
View ArticleShared education will bridge divide
It is evident, yet again, that most people in Northern Ireland want to see progress towards a single education system. That is the clarion call to the politicians from the latest poll which is...
View ArticleMan jailed for 17 years for murder is innocent
A man jailed for the notorious murder of a council worker in Belfast nearly 40 years ago has spoken of his relief after his conviction was quashed. Senior judges declared significant unease about the...
View ArticleCutlery 'can influence food taste'
Food flavour can be affected by the colour, weight and shape of cutlery, according to scientists. Volunteers rated white yoghurt as sweeter and more expensive than pink yoghurt when eaten from a white...
View Article'Anti-immigrant' attitudes increase
Attitudes toward immigrants reached an all-time low as the economy collapsed and unemployment soared, a study has shown. Researchers recorded a rise in the number of Irish people who believed those...
View ArticleArab Idol winner calls for unity
Palestinians have a new voice: a 23-year-old wedding singer from a Gaza refugee camp touted as a rare symbol of national unity after he won the Arab world's top TV contest. But Mohammed Assaf's...
View ArticleUnder-performing teachers should get sack in interests of pupils: report
Schools must be prepared to sack under-performing teachers in order to cut the number of pupils failing to meet basic reading and writing targets, a Stormont committee has said. A new report by the...
View ArticleOsborne to set out spending plans
Chancellor George Osborne will draw up the battle lines for the next general election as he sets out his final spending plans before the country goes to the polls in 2015. The Spending Review for...
View ArticleSeparate education systems in Northern Ireland are unsustainable, claim...
Business leaders have called for Stormont to heed the findings of today’s poll and ensure more focus is placed on integrated education. Related Articles They claim Northern Ireland cannot afford to...
View ArticleGermany questions GCHQ monitoring
Germany has directly challenged British ministers over GCHQ's reported programme of the mass monitoring of global phone and internet traffic. Justice minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger has to...
View ArticleTrust withheld information from inquest, children’s death probe told
Many more child deaths may have been caused by hyponatraemia but never disclosed by the authorities, the chairman of a public inquiry has warned. John O’Hara QC was speaking as it emerged that a...
View Article£560,000 Eglinton Community Hall expansion boost
A new £560,000 sports, arts and cultural facility has been unveiled at Eglinton Community Hall in Londonderry. The hall has been expanded with £243,090 of funding from Derry’s urban regeneration...
View ArticleDonal McKeown: Still lessons to be learned by school integrationists
Statistics and questionnaires are both helpful and dubious sources of information. You can use them to deliver almost any preferred answer. And the LucidTalk poll (on behalf of the Integrated...
View ArticleHamill murder has echoes of Lawrence case
MARTIN Luther King once remarked that the colour of a man's skin should be of no more significance than the colour of his eyes. Unfortunately, as we have seen in the case of the racist murder of...
View ArticleSinn Fein and University of Ulster clash over who’s to blame for stunting...
A top academic has launched an outspoken attack on Sinn Fein after the party claimed the University of Ulster is holding up the expansion of its Magee campus. The UU’s Provost of Magee and Coleraine,...
View ArticleMoors murderer Ian Brady: I’m not insane
Moors murderer Ian Brady denied he was insane yesterday as he recalled cooking steaks with Ronnie Kray and mingling with some of Britain's most notorious criminals during his half-century of...
View ArticleWhere are the SDLP accounts then, Dolores?
SDLP MLA Dolores Kelly, speaking in the planning debate in the Assembly, called for transparency in party donations, so we could see the big businesses that paid into Sinn Fein and DUP coffers (as if...
View ArticleWoman wins legal bid over the failure to try date rape accused
A Belfast woman who claims she was the victim of a date rape which left her pregnant has cleared the first stage in her legal challenge to a decision not to bring a prosecution. She was granted leave...
View ArticleNo-one is above the law, Mr Kelly
WELL done the person who filmed Gerry Kelly obstructing the police in the execution of their duty (News, June 25). He deliberately put himself in front of the police vehicle – no doubt hoping that the...
View ArticleAlarm at noisy wake-up call
I AM wondering if I can be the only one who is disturbed by early-morning flights into (and out of) the Harbour Airport. There seems to be an occasional flight around 7am – rather hard to pin down,...
View ArticleDUP pair are 'salesmen' for the Maze site
IT'S disappointing to see Jeffrey Donaldson MP and Edwin Poots MLA being reduced to salesmen for the IRA/Sinn Fein project at the Maze, inclusive of an IRA hunger strike shrine. It's a shrine – no...
View ArticleEditor's viewpoint: Shared education will bridge divide in Northern Ireland
It is evident, yet again, that most people in Northern Ireland want to see progress towards a single education system. That is the clarion call to the politicians from the latest poll which is...
View ArticleMan who attacked ex-partner walks free
A man who brandished a six-inch blade at his ex-partner while threatening her and her family has walked free from court after his 18-month jail term was suspended for two years. Belfast Crown Court...
View ArticleMLAs back restrictions on planning appeals through courts
New restrictions are set to be imposed on anyone seeking to challenge planning decisions through the courts. MLAs have voted to push through an amendment which would limit the ability of anyone...
View ArticleMan facing court over blaze deaths
A man accused of killing three generations of the same family is due to stand trial. Carl Mills, 29, is accused of a lethal arson attack on a house in which a grandmother, teenage mother and baby were...
View ArticleCourt win for lifer in row over release
A life sentence prisoner has won his High Court battle over being denied a further temporary release for allegedly returning to jail drunk. Convicted robber James Clyde Reilly's challenge was conceded...
View ArticleMan admits molesting teenage boy during trip
A man has pleaded guilty to sexually molesting a teenage boy on a weekend away. Following legal discussions at Belfast Crown Court on Monday, James Oisin Gunn (20) pleaded guilty to a single charge of...
View ArticleBreastfeeding gives babies a great start - Poots (Northern Ireland Executive)
(Source: Northern Ireland Executive) Health Minister Edwin Poots has said that breastfeeding gives babies a great start in life. ~ Tuesday, 25 June 2013 The Minister was speaking as he launched a new...
View Article25 June 2013 - Breastfeeding gives babies a great start - Poots (Northern...
(Source: Northern Ireland Executive) Health Minister Edwin Poots has said that breastfeeding gives babies a great start in life. ~ Tuesday, 25 June 2013 The Minister was speaking as he launched a new...
View ArticleWomen gets suspended jail term for stabbing her ex-partner
A woman who stabbed her “abusive” ex-partner received a suspended jail term at a Belfast court. Rosaleen O'Toole (47), of Alexandra Avenue in north Belfast, had originally been charged with the...
View ArticleNorthern Ireland to lose 180 hospital beds in next four years
Hospitals in Northern Ireland will lose 180 beds over the next four years, the Health Minister has revealed. Edwin Poots said the axing of bed numbers was a practical outworking of the Transforming...
View ArticleHague defends intelligence-sharing
Britain should have "nothing but pride" in its "indispensable" intelligence-sharing relationship with the United States, William Hague has insisted amid continued controversy over secret surveillance...
View ArticleEdwin Poots being urged to offer anti-breast cancer drug
Health Minister Edwin Poots is under pressure to bring Northern Ireland into line with the rest of the UK by offering women at risk of breast cancer the chance to take preventative drugs. Related...
View ArticlePrince Charles gives strongest hint yet that grandchild will be a boy after...
Arriving at a bus factory in Ballymena the Prince of Wales probably did not expect to receive a present for the world’s most talked about grandchild. But in what could be seen as a strong hint that...
View ArticleCod Father hit by £1,500 fine
The owner of a west Belfast fish and chip shop has been fined a total of £1,500 for food safety offences. Gerard Corrigan, owner of The Cod Father on the Falls Road, was also ordered to pay costs of...
View ArticleNew drive to encourage more breastfeeding
A new strategy has been launched to encourage more parents in Northern Ireland to choose breastfeeding. Health Minister Edwin Poots unveiled the plan yesterday at a Unicef Baby Friendly...
View Article