Man released in Antrim murder inquiry
A 50-year-old man who was arrested in connection with the murder of Anthony McErlain in Co Antrim has been released pending a report to the Public Prosecution Service.
The body of 48-year-old was found at a house in the Broombeg View area of Ballycastle on Thursday night.
A 33-year-old man appeared in court yesterday charged with the murder of Mr McErlain.
Man arrested over Down stabbing
A man is in a serious condition in hospital after he was stabbed in Co Down.
The PSNI say the attack occurred near a supermarket on the Castlewellan Road in Newcastle at around 7.30pm.
A man has been arrested.
More than 62,000 migrant arrivals in Greece last month - IOM
The total number of migrants and refugees arriving in Greece in January topped 62,000, the International Organisation for Migration said today.
"[It] is many, many times what we saw a year ago in the previous January," IOM spokesman Joel Millman said.
He added that there were more than 360 deaths among migrants in the waters off Greece, Turkey and Italy during the month.
US threatens North Korea over launch
The United States has threatened North Korea with "tough" UN Security Council sanctions if it goes through with a planned satellite launch.
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) said it had received a shipping warning from North Korea of its intention to launch an earth observation satellite between 8-25 February, in what the US said would be "another egregious violation" of UN Security Council resolutions.
"This argues even more strongly for action by the UN Security Council and the international community to impose real consequences for the destabilizing action that the DPRK has taken, is taking, and to raise the cost to the leaders through the imposition of tough additional sanctions," said Daniel Russel, the assistant US secretary of state for Asia-Pacific affairs.
Australia reports two cases of Zika virus
Two Australians were diagnosed with the Zika virus after returning home from travels in the Caribbean, a state health service said today, confirming the first cases of the mosquito-borne virus in the country this year.
Officials also said that mosquitoes carrying the virus had been detected at Sydney International Airport, but stressed that it was unlikely the virus would establish local transmission given the lack of large numbers of the Aedes Aegypti mosquitos.
Confirmation of the Australian cases came just a day after the World Health Organization declared the Zika virus to be an international public health emergency due to its link to under developed brains in some babies.
