A planned session of the Northern Ireland Assembly to nominate new minister has been scrapped after power-sharing talks collapsed.

It means the 4pm deadline for forming an executive will pass without agreement.

The Northern Secretary of State James Brokenshire now has to decide how to proceed.

The leader of the Democratic Unionist Party says she wonders whether Sinn Fein was serious about reaching agreement.

But the head of the party at Stormont, Michelle O'Neill has hit back:

The DUP leader says another election won't solve the problems of Northern Ireland.

Arlene Foster says the delay is damaging for Northern Ireland, and a second election won't fix it: