Northern Ireland, United Kingdom News

Pearl Jam will return to Europe in the summer for a series of headlining and festival appearances, beginning June 22 in Dublin.

Photograph: Peter Morrison/AP A surge in cross-border shopping has helped Northern Ireland emerge from the recession , one of its banks said today.

THE sisters of a girl killed in a horrific car smash said yesterday they will never get over their loss.

Once again the lines of traffic stream north for shopping in Newry, Enniskillen, Strabane and Sprucefield.

A man in his 50s was shot in the leg during an attempted robbery last night near Lurgan in Co Armagh.

Jim Allister's Traditional Unionist Voice party has distanced itself from a petition organised by one of its members calling for the release of notorious loyalist killer Torrens Knight.

Gardai were last night questioning a man from Northern Ireland in connection with an ammunition find in Co Louth.

A man has been shot and beaten with a sledgehammer during an attempted armed robbery outside Lurgan.

THE first MLA to join Fianna Fail has said he believes the southern party is in a "powerful position to deliver a united Ireland". It emerged that former Sinn Fein Fermanagh activist Gerry McHugh, 52, had joined Fianna Fail after being pictured at one of their events in Northern Ireland.

In anticipation of a "miserable" old age, young men are more likely to engage in risky health behaviors such as binge drinking, Irish researchers said.

The largest fuel laundering plant ever uncovered in Northern Ireland, capable of producing up to six and a half million litres of illicit fuel a year, has been raided.

Former UFC fighter and popular veteran Rich Clementi picked up a much-needed win over the weekend.

An explosive device was left outside a police station in the North last night. The viable explosive was discovered on waste ground near Strabane station in Co Tyrone, following a telephone bomb warning early yesterday morning.

A planning application to build the largest Tesco store in Ireland has been turned down, Stormont's Environment minister has said.

FREDDIE Mercury impersonator Harry Hamilton has been formally selected as the Ulster Unionists' candidate to fight the Upper Bann Westminster seat next May.

Loyalists have been blamed for orchestrating violence on Sunday that left ten police officers injured.

Alliance party leader David Ford says lessons must be learned from Omagh bombing A Northern Ireland justice minister must insist that MI5 share all intelligence on republican dissidents with the Police Service of Northern Ireland, according to the man widely tipped to take over that department.

NORTHERN Ireland Hospice's biggest annual appeal - " Lights to Remember has just been launched and the charity needs to raise over A 200,000 to meet its target.

A BANBRIDGE councillor has called for more police patrols outside local nightclubs after another young woman was sexually assaulted at the weekend.

Irish workers caused traffic jams on Tuesday as hundreds made use of a one-day public sector strike to do some Christmas shopping in the cheaper stores across the border in Northern Ireland.