The predominantly young and ever more numerous inhabitants of Pakistan always seem to be searching for a hero to save them – from poverty and perpetual economic crisis, hours of daily power cuts, Islamist terror attacks and a creeping sense of ...

Ukraine claimed to have captured two armoured vehicles belonging to an elite Russian paratrooper unit near Lugansk as its forces continued their advance to clear the provincial capital and other eastern cities of Russian-backed separatists. “Ukrainian ...

He spoke with a British accent. That made the graphic video footage of an Isis militant slaying the American journalist James Foley all the more chilling. A warning between the lines: the bloodshed in Syria and Iraq will soon come home. But the killer's spiel ...

Israeli warplanes struck and killed at least two high-ranking Hamas military commanders early on Thursday morning, as Israel's war in the Gaza Strip appeared to enter a new phase of targeted killings of the group's top leaders. The Islamist group said that ...

Dozens of computers in the Ukrainian prime minister's office and at least 10 of Ukraine's embassies abroad have been infected with a virulent cyber espionage weapon linked to Russia. The cyber attack has also affected embassies in eastern Europe of at ...

A group of men sit in a Kamaz truck – one of those big Russian 4x4s that regularly wins the Dakar rally – speeding down a highway. Some of them sense that they are going the wrong way fast but nobody dares do anything. This graphic scenario is how the ...

German industry has softened its opposition to economic sanctions against Russia, following the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17. A business leader, who has previously repeatedly warned about the damaging economic effects of sanctions, ...

Defeated presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto plans to file an appeal in Indonesia's constitutional court, according to senior members of his campaign team. Joko Widodo, the reformist governor of Jakarta, was declared Indonesia's next president on ...

Voracious demand for the iPhone and iPad in China salvaged Apple's latest quarterly earnings, as customers in the US and other developed markets opted to wait for the next version of the smartphone. Apple blamed speculation about the launch of new ...

Shortly after Philip Clarke made his surprising – and, it turns out, prescient – admission at a conference in March that his days as Tesco chief executive were probably numbered, the boss of another blue-chip British company asked me, worriedly: “Does it ...

At least 19 people were killed after a train derailed in the Moscow metro during rush hour on Tuesday morning. According to a statement by the city health department, 19 people were killed and 42 seriously injured in the accident, one of the worst in the ...

Germany has a habit of winning the World Cup at symbolic moments. Victory in 1954 – captured in the film, The Miracle of Bern – allowed Germans a moment of pride and redemption after defeat and disgrace in 1945. A second victory in 1974 went to a West ...

The Israeli air force shot down a Hamas drone along its southern coast near the city of Ashdod on Monday, as its military operation against the Islamist group that rules the Gaza Strip entered a seventh day. The Israel Defence Forces said it had destroyed the ...

The US has launched an urgent effort to stop Afghanistan's disputed presidential election disintegrating into a conflict that would threaten the nation's stability as foreign combat troops pull out. John Kerry, secretary of state, arrived in Kabul on Friday for talks ...

Pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine's breakaway eastern regions have vowed to fight on after fleeing Slavyansk in convoys of tanks and military vehicles to regroup in Donetsk, the provincial capital. Secessionist fighters spent the day digging into positions in ...

Hostilities between Israel and Hamas, the militant group that controls the Gaza Strip, appeared to ease on Friday amid reports of Egyptian efforts to broker a truce between the two sides after weeks of tit-for-tat attacks. Although there was no official ...

At least two people were killed and 20 injured in Brazil following the collapse of an overpass being built for an urban transit project originally intended for the World Cup. In the accident in Belo Horizonte, which will host the first semi-final of the World Cup on ...

At least two people were killed and 20 injured in Brazil following the collapse of an overpass being built for an urban transit project originally intended for the World Cup. In the accident in Belo Horizonte, which will host the first semi-final of the World Cup on ...

At least two people were killed and 20 injured in Brazil following the collapse of an overpass being built for an urban transit project originally intended for the World Cup. In the accident in Belo Horizonte, which will host the first semi-final of the World Cup on ...

The European Central Bank is to shake up the way it conducts monetary policy, moving its monthly meetings to a six-week cycle and publishing regular accounts of its deliberations from January 2015. The publication of the minutes brings the ECB into line ...