More than 180 events will take place across Northern Ireland over the next seven days as part of Community Relations Week.

Police, republicans and loyalists have agreed to to keep lines of communication open especially during critical periods of high tension in the community.

A man has died in a fire in south Belfast.

The First Minister has pledged that the Government will do all it can to make the North West 200 a more flexible event in future.

Investigations are continuing into the cause of a fire at a stately home in Co Down.

Talks on the policing of public order events in Belfast have produced a commitment to non-violence. 

An 18 year-old man has been injured in what police are describing as a 'paramilitary-style shooting'.

230 jobs for newly-qualified teachers are being created.

There's been a murder bid on a police patrol in Dunmurry on the outskirts of Belfast.

Gunshots are believed to have been fired at officers responding to a burglary in the Foxes Glen area at lunchtime.

Police say residents in the area also reported hearing shots.

A PSNI spokesperson has revealed the original call to police was bogus. A current line of enquiry is that the response crew may have been lured to the area to be targeted for attack.

A policewoman and two male colleagues were left badly shaken.

A patient has died after the ambulance he was travelling in crashed at the Westlink in Belfast.

The emergency vehicle and a black Renault Espace collided at the Grovesnor Road off slip this afternoon.

The man, who was in his mid to late 50s, was seriously ill at the time of the crash and was being taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital.

Two paramedics were treated in hospital for chest pains and neck injuries, which are not thought to be life-threatening.

The 51-year-old driver of the Espace was also given medical attention but has since been discharged.

Two teenage boys were allegedly assaulted in north Belfast on their way to the cinema.

One in ten motorists across Northern Ireland is ignoring their parking fines.

The Orange Order has asked Belfast City Council about the availability of Ballysillan Playing Fields for use during a 12th of July parade in north Belfast.

It's day two of the Balmoral Show at the site of the former Maze prison.

A Strabane man has made it through to the final of the Eurovision Song Contest.