Ukraine began mobilizing its new National Guard on Friday as tension over the fate of Crimea heightened and street violence flared once again. More than 600 men and women turned up near the city's Independence Square on Friday morning to volunteer ...

Follow The Globe and Mail's Africa correspondent Geoffrey York as he tweets from Oscar Pistorius' murder trial. An expensive luxury watch was stolen from the bedroom of Oscar Pistorius when police were in control of his house after he shot his girlfriend, his ...

From the train, the town of Armyansk doesn't look like much. On one side of the tracks, there's a low-rise factory that appears not to have produced anything for some time. The other hosts a clutch of Soviet-era apartment blocks. And then you see the men with ...

The Group of Seven nations have demanded that Russia halt efforts to annex Ukraine's Crimea region. “We will take further action, individually and collectively” if Russia annexes the Ukraine territory of Crimea, said a statement issued Wednesday by the G7.

A missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner may have turned back from its scheduled route before vanishing from radar screens, military officers said on Sunday, deepening the mystery surrounding the fate of the plane and the 239 people aboard. More than 36 hours ...

China is holding fast to its expectations of moderate GDP growth, as Beijing struggles to maintain the country's economic expansion in the face of fiscal, social and environmental threats to its prosperity. On Wednesday, amid the grandeur of the cavernous ...

Facebook Inc. is in talks to buy drone maker Titan Aerospace for $60-million, according to media reports. The high-flying drones would give Facebook, the world's No.1 Internet social network, the ability to beam wireless Internet access to consumers in ...

Apple is accelerating the race to make smartphone applications easier and safer to use in cars. Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz and Volvo are previewing Apple's iPhone technology for cars this week at an auto show in Geneva. The partnerships give Apple an early ...

NATO's secretary-general warned Moscow on Sunday it was threatening peace in Europe with its seizure of Crimea and should “de-escalate tensions”, but diplomats said the alliance was unlikely to agree on major steps to rein Russia in. Speaking moments ...

The head of Mt. Gox, the bitcoin exchange whose abrupt shutdown has shaken the virtual currency, said on Wednesday that he remains in Japan and is working with others to solve the company's problems. “As there is a lot of speculation regarding MtGox ...

Manchester United's troubled season took another turn for the worse on Tuesday as David Moyes' side slumped to a 2-0 first leg defeat to Olympiakos in the last 16 of the Champions League. Moyes described the match as “the worst performance in Europe” ...

Desperate for cash and fearing Moscow will cut off billions in vital aid, Ukraine's new interim government appealed Monday for a massive infusion as major powers jockeyed to shape the political outcome of the strategically located but bitterly divided nation.

Ukraine's political crisis has many dividing lines. And on a Monday night here in the country's second-largest city, those lines all blurred into an argument about a man who died more than 90 years ago. For thousands of pro-European protesters – who are ...

Before he was ousted as Ukraine's president, Viktor Yanukovych drew up plans to use thousands of troops to crush the protests that eventually toppled him, according to a leaked document published online. Ukrainian journalists are going through thousands ...

As Mexican troops forced their way into Joaquin (El Chapo) Guzman's main hideout in Culiacan, the country's most powerful drug lord sneaked out of the house through an escape tunnel beneath the bathtub. Mexican marines working with U.S. authorities ...

Cash: $12-million (U.S.). Decoration of a dining hall and tea room: $2.3-million. Statue of a wild boar: $115,000. “A bribe”: $4,000. These are some of the expenses detailed in financial documents found in President Viktor Yanukovych's abandoned residence, ...

Nine al-Shabab militants wearing military fatigues and carrying guns and grenades died after attacking the presidential palace with two car bombs on Friday, in an assault the president called a “media spectacular” by a “dying animal.” President Hassan ...

Two members of the anti-Putin punk rock band Pussy Riot, just released after two years in prison, say they have been arrested shortly after arriving in the Olympic city. “We were detained on the 16th at 7:00, spent 10 hours with the FSB (Russia's Federal ...

Talks with Iran over a permanent agreement on its nuclear program begin Tuesday in Vienna, but there is little immediate optimism over a negotiation that is expected to last up to a year. Even Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Monday in ...

Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten Inc., controlled by billionaire Hiroshi Mikitani, will buy call and messaging app provider Viber Media Inc. for $900-million in a deal that would more than double the number of users in its digital empire. Viber is one of the ...