“We can’t go on like this”: President Medvedev’s words after the plane crash that wiped out a top Russian ice hockey team. As he paid his respects

British army brutality that killed a young Iraqi father has been condemned by Prime Minister David Cameron who says it must never happen again. An

This was the first massive attack the US ever suffered on its mainland: the Trade Center in New York! The Pentagon! If passengers hadn’t overpowered

Ground Zero smoked for months after 9/11. At first the work crews and rescuers called it the pile. But even as the cinders of the famous World Trade

The Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has told euronews he believes the Syrian government is using disproportionate force against pro-democracy

It may be a tall order for Tripoli to reach any kind of normality soon but the city is slowly trying to get back on its feet after three months of

Fresh video evidence has emerged of the military crackdown in Syria. One film is said to show soliders who have recently defected walking freely

Two people have been charged with terrorism in Mexico after spreading false reports of an attack on a school via Twitter and Facebook.   Their

A recovered replica of a Rubens masterpiece has been presented to the public in Greece, a decade after it was stolen in a robbery.   Undercover

Just over 58 years after New Zealand’s Edmund Hillary and Nepal’s Tenzing Norgay became the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest, breathtaking

The Russian rugby team continued their preparations for the upcoming World Cup in New Zealand on Wednesday, but said they were doing so with pain in

For the new rulers of Libya, relaunching the country’s oil-export based economy is the priority. To pressure Gaddafi sanctions were imposed and

With economic growth in the euro zone weakening , the European Central Bank has signalled that it has stopped putting up interest rates — for now —

A Swedish court has rejected Saab’s application for protection from creditors, pushed the ailing carmaker closer to collapse. Saab had gone to the

Samsung presented its new camera the MV800 at the IFA technology fair in Berlin. It is the latest addition to the company’s self-portrait orientated

The finger of blame is pointing at Jewish settlers after another Palestinian mosque in the West Bank was vandalised in a so-called ‘price tag’

A UN conference has opened in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, aimed at exploring ways to deal with the drought and famine ravaging the Horn of

Forces from Libya’s new government have tightened their siege on Bani Walid, where some suspect fugitive leader Muammar Gaddafi may be

The world’s stock markets continue to be volatile. Wall Street is lacklustre as figures showed the US jobs market remains weak with an increase in

With economic growth in the euro zone forecast to weaken the European Central Bank has changed tack on interest rates. Having previously raised

HSBC says it will lay off 3,000 people in Hong Kong over the next three years as part of its aggressive cost-cutting plan in five places – Hong Kong

The latest forecast for global growth from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development is much more downbeat than its May prediction

British fashion designer John Galliano has received a suspended 6,000 euro fine for his anti-Semitic outburst in Paris last year. He was also

An innocent Iraqi man killed in British custody suffered “an appalling episode of serious, gratuitous violence”, according to a judge-led inquiry in

British musician PJ Harvey’s album ‘Let England Shake’ saw off fierce competition for the Mercury Prize. Harvey is the first artist to win the award

Actor Michael Fassbender has been working overtime at the Venice Film Festival with not one but two films to promote; A Dangerous Method directed by

Clean-up workers at Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear plant have welcomed the first visit of the country’s new Prime Minister. Yoshihiko Noda has

September 9, 1976. Mao Zedong, the revolutionary who founded the People’s Republic of China (PRC), dies aged 82, a week after suffering a heart

There have been numerous attempts by advertisers over the last decade to use 9/11 imagery to communicate their message.    Marketers striving for

Thursday, Indian government employees who were protesting to claim outstanding salary payments were pushed back by the police using water cannons.