A YouTube tribute video shows family and friends of Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah defending the pilot calling him a 'loving, reflective, generous' person. PT1M5S http://www.theage.com.au/action/externalEmbeddedPlayer?id=d-34x22 620 349 March 17, ...

17 March 2014. European Union foreign ministers will meet today to consider sanctions against Moscow as the West bitterly denounced Crimea's vote to break away from Ukraine and join Russia. Also in this Section. Warning on care information 'maze' ...

Researchers have found that Northeast Greenland ice sheet started to speed up and lose mass around 2003 because of localised increase in temperatures. An international team of scientists, including Professor Jonathan Bamber from the University of Bristol ...

On a rainy Sunday, thousands of spectators lined the streets of downtown Vancouver to celebrate the Irish holiday with friends and family. © Copyright (c) The Vancouver Sun. E-mail this Article · Print this Article; Share this Article ...

Crimea will formally apply to join Russia on Monday after voting to split from Ukraine as Europe prepared to hit Moscow with a wave of sanctions in the worst East-West stand-off since the Cold War. An overwhelming 95.5 percent of voters on the mostly ...

Paris, in an effort to ease dangerous pollution levels, is allowing only cars with license plates that end in odd numbers on the road Monday. Vehicles with even license plate numbers are designated to be the only ones on the road Tuesday, if the pollution ...

A senior official of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has criticised Malaysia for hoarding information on the missing Flight MH370 and not acting fast enough to establish "malicious intent" early on. The New York Times (NYT) quoted the official as ...

Madrid: Lionel Messi scored a hat-trick to become Barcelona`s all-time record goalscorer as they cut the gap on La Liga leaders Real Madrid to four points ahead of their meeting next weekend with a 7-0 thrashing of Osasuna. After a slow start, the hosts were ...

HONG KONG (AP) Asian stocks drifted Monday as investors largely shrugged off a weekend vote in which Crimeans opted to leave Ukraine and join Russia. Safe-haven assets such as the Japanese yet got a boost after preliminary results showed an ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – Detailed maps of Mercury's cliffs and ditches show the solar system's innermost and smallest planet Mercury has lost much more real estate due to cooling over four billion years than scientists thought, according to a ...

ukraine Hundreds of pro-Ukraine protesters, including several who played dead, took to Toronto's streets Sunday to demand that Russia withdraw from Crimea. (DAVE THOMAS, Toronto Sun). Article. Tweet. Change text size for the story; Print this story.

According to reports, the commander of the missing Malaysia Airline jet Captain Zaharie Afmed Shah had said that there were no problems inside the plane. He also gave all-clear minutes after the transponders were shutdown. Malaysian authorities are now ...

BAALBEK: A suicide car bomb attack killed four people late Sunday in an area dominated by Hezbollah near the Syrian border, a Lebanese security source told AFP. The attack in the Bekaa Valley was claimed by the Al-Nusra Front in Lebanon, as well as by ...

MAJDAL ANJAR, LEBANON—Along with some 20 other Syrian children, 13-year-old Anas braves rain, mud and cold to attend class in a tent pitched along Lebanon's border with Syria, the home of a Syrian refugee family that serves as a classroom for four ...