Boys will perform just as you expect them to, it seems. If you tell them they aren't as intelligent as girls and are less likely to do well in tests, that is exactly what will happen.

A bomb has exploded outside a shopping centre in the Northern Irish city of Londonderry.

As violence recedes, many people wantto have contentious murals removed from everyday life.

Irish republican dissident groups are targeting the British Conservative party conference.

Belfast is once again counting the cost - human, financial and social - of the familiar mid-July outbreak of disorder.

Belfast's murals are testimony to the depth of division between the city's Protestant and Catholic communities.

The wife of Northern Ireland's most senior politician, a politician herself, has sensationally revealed that she had attempted to take her life while depressed after having an affair.

Millions of people living in southern England and the Home Counties were told to prepare themselves for up to 40cm of snow last night as Britain remained in the grip of the longest prolonged spell of cold weather for 30 years.

Graham Reid takes a boat trip in Belfast through one of history's most famous disasters.