Police are investigating an allegation that former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson raped a woman in the Houses of Parliament in the UK, according to sources.

While beluga whales have been reported in Irish coastal waters on four occasions, this is their second ever validated recording.

Garvaghy Road residents should not be held responsible for the potential criminal conduct by dissident republicans, the High Court in Belfast has been told.

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald and Northern Ireland's First Minister Michelle O'Neill are to be interviewed by police in relation to their attendance at a counter-demonstration to the Drumcree Orange Order march.

The PSNI believed it was possible that dissident republicans may have used guns and petrol bombs to attack police officers if they attempted to clear protesters blocking an Orange Order parade along the Garvaghy Road, the High Court in Belfast has been told.

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.