Russian armour smashed into the base of Ukrainian troops on Saturday in the first serious military action between the two countries in the confrontation over Crimea. Machine guns and stun grenades were used in the assault by Russian soldiers as they ...

Russian armour smashed into the base of Ukrainian troops on Saturday in the first serious military action between the two countries in the confrontation over Crimea. Machine guns and stun grenades were used in the assault by Russian soldiers as they ...

Reeva Steenkamp was standing in a toilet cubicle when she was hit in the right hip by the first of four bullets fired by Oscar Pistorius through a locked door, his murder trial heard. Police ballistic expert Captain Christiaan Mangena told Pretoria's High Court the ...

Pilot suicide. When Malaysian authorities disclosed this weekend that flight MH370 was deliberately steered off course and the equipment sending out its location disabled (or the subject of an unlikely malfunction), attention focused on the Boeing 777's pilots.

Russia on Monday night brushed off the toughest sanctions issued by the US and EU against Moscow since the end of the Cold War, by acknowledging the sovereignty of Crimea, opening the legal door for Moscow to annex the territory. Washington began to ...

Bands played Russian patriotic songs in Lenin Square and a supposedly disbanded riot police unit, the feared Berkuts, manned checkpoints in balaclavas. This was the capital of Crimea on the eve of a referendum that will further inflame one of the biggest ...

The choir of the Russian Black Sea Fleet sang rousing battle hymns of the Great Patriotic War to an exultant crowd; Slavic heritage was celebrated with traditional dancing; bikers and Chechens united in praise of Putin as they came to show solidarity along ...

Manchester United will host Liverpool at Old Trafford in the north-west derby this Sunday. United will need a win against the Reds in order to salvage any hope of a Champions League spot. Arsenal have a tricky fixture list this month, which could see United ...

Five people in China have been stabbed to death and their attacker shot dead by police, authorities have confirmed. The deadly attack occurred following a dispute between two street vendors, according to reports from Changsha, leading to one vendor and ...

US investigators are examining whether missing Flight MH370 was “intentionally diverted” from its planned route after new data revealed the plane may have flown for a further four hours from the point of its last confirmed location. A report in the Wall Street ...

Ukraine's Security Council chief has accused Russia of planning to invade after it claimed that tens of thousands of troops have amassed on the country's border. Andriy Parubiy, Secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, said during a ...

At least one person is dead after an apartment building in Harlem collapsed following a massive explosion, early reports suggest. Emergency crews and firemen from across New York City rushed to the scene as a large plume of dark smoke fanned across the ...

Oscar Pistorius was 'on his stumps' when he tried to smash down his locked toilet door with a cricket bat after shooting girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, his murder trial heard. Police Colonel Johannes Vermeulen told the court the marks made on the toilet door ...

As Formula 1 prepares for the official kick-off of its brave new world in Melbourne's Albert Park this weekend, Michael Schumacher's family today issued one of its increasingly rare statements about the health of the 45-year-old former multiple world champion ...

Flappy Bird could be set to rise from the ashes like a pixelated phoenix, after Dong Nguyen confirmed in a rare interview that he is 'considering' reinstating the game to app stores. The Vietnamese developer pulled the game in February over concerns it was ...

Michael Schumacher has been showing “small, encouraging signs” in his fight for recovery, his family have confirmed. “We are and remain confident that Michael will pull through and will wake up,” they said in a statement. Doctors at the Grenoble hospital in ...

It used to be that when you bought a phone, that was it. It couldn't get any better and fixing any fault in the firmware was a convoluted business. But the arrival of the smartphone brought with it easily updatable operating software with downloadable software ...

Titanfall players opting for physical copies of the game rather than a digital download should be prepared for a small(ish) update before they begin pumping lead this week. The patch, spotted by a Reddit user who has already gotten their hands on the game, ...

Google has announced new plans to promote Android wearable technology, hoping to position the operating system as the default platform for smart devices in the same way that it already is for smartphones. “We want to develop a set of common protocols by ...

Russian forces further tightened their hold on Crimea early Sunday morning, capturing a Ukrainian border guard post in the west of the region, trapping and holding around 30 personnel inside. The Chernomorskoye base on the western edge of the Back Sea ...