A DAMNING document from the Police Ombudsman has heavily criticised the inaction of the security forces before and after the brutal murder of young Portadown woman Margaret Perry in June 1991.

Apart from the Obama administration and its supporters, just about everyone in the world has written off the Washington peace talks between the Israeli and Palestinian leaders as a fool's errand.

Undercover soldiers were watching as loyalists murdered a Catholic teenager in west Belfast, a report by the Historical Enquiries Team has found.

Middle East peace talks get underway at the State Department in Washington, with Hillary Clinton flanked by Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas .

Northern Ireland police say they have arrested a suspected Irish Republican Army dissident over a blast that injured three children.

Northern Ireland police say they have arrested a suspected Irish Republican Army dissident over a blast that injured three children.