A mother and children have escaped injury after a pipe bomb exploded when it was pushed through the letterbox of a north Belfast house.

The family of a man shot dead on the way home from a GAA match in Croke Park during the Troubles have settled their civil action against the police.

Former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson has been given a 15-year sentence for rape and sexual assault but will only serve seven and a half years due to a change in the law in 2008.