The Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness says republicans have been talking privately to a “very significant group of Protestants and unionists”.

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Sinn Fein confirm unionist talks

Women in their early 40s should be given access to IVF on the NHS, draft guidelines for England, Wales and Northern Ireland recommend.

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IVF age limit ‘should be raised’

Police forces in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have stored almost 500 body parts and human organs, a report says.

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Body parts kept by police forces

Some body parts retained by police in Northern Ireland were disposed of “without the consent or knowledge” of their families, according to the justice minister.

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‘No assent’ to destroy body parts

A wooden ship believed to be over 200 years old was discovered during a recent exploration of the northern Gulf of Mexico, according to a press release from the U.S. National Oceanic and Astmospheric Administration (NOAA).

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200-year-old shipwreck found in Gulf

Umberto Bossi, the founder of Italy’s main opposition party the Northern League, is under investigation for fraud, authorities say.

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Italy’s Bossi in fraud probe

Forty-nine decapitated and mutilated bodies were found Sunday dumped on a highway connecting the northern Mexican metropolis of Monterrey to the U.S. border in what could be the latest outburst in an escalating war of terror among drug gangs.

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Dozens of Bodies Found on Mexico Highway, Official Says

Vulnerable young girls in Northern Ireland are being sexually exploited in the same way as those in a recent case in Rochdale, a charity has said.

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Rochdale-type cases ‘occur in NI’

Syria foils an attempted suicide car bomb attack in the northern city of Aleppo, state TV says, a day after massive blasts in the capital Damascus.

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Syria ‘foils suicide bomb attack’

Man jailed for laundering £2.4m of Northern Bank robbery cash has his conviction quashed on appeal.

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Northern Bank conviction quashed

Police in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh arrest the father and uncle of a two-month-old girl for allegedly trying to bury her alive.

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Indians held for live baby burial

The brother of a murdered Coleraine pensioner, who died after a burglary at his home, criticises the justice system in Northern Ireland.

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Brother: jail terms no deterrent

Army bomb disposal experts make safe a ‘viable explosive device’ which had been left in a vehicle near Newry, Northern Ireland.

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Bomb is found during Newry alert

Contempt of court proceedings against the former Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain are due to begin on Tuesday at the High Court in Belfast.

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Peter Hain contempt case begins

The average UK petrol price has risen to a new high of 142.48p per litre, motoring association the AA has said, with Northern Ireland prices even higher.

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NI petrol prices ‘highest in UK’