Northern Ireland's MPs have approved a landmark deal transferring key powers from London to Belfast, in what Prime Minister Gordon Brown hailed as the "final end" to decades of conflict. The vote in the Northern Ireland Assembly on Tuesday was passed by 88 votes to 17 after a stormy debate and, in the hours leading up to it, a ...

Northern Ireland lawmakers voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to create a new Justice Department, the next key step in making their Catholic-Protestant government work. Three of the four parties in Northern Ireland's cross-community government backed the motion to take control of the territory's police and courts from Britain next ...

Northern Ireland's joint government faced fresh pressure after a unionist party said it would reject a key political deal in a vote Tuesday, despite a reported intervention from George W. Bush. The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) said it would not endorse a hard-fought agreement struck last month to transfer sensitive policing and justice powers from London to the province ...

Politicians condemned the murder of a man in Northern Ireland who was shot in the head and left half-naked on a roadside by dissident republicans as "a throwback to the very worst of our past". Ciaran Doherty, 31, was found late Wednesday with his wrists bound and wearing only his underwear on the outskirts of Londonderry, near the border with ...