2014-07-23

Forty-seven people have been killed after a TransAsia Airways plane crashed in bad weather on an island off Taiwan. A further 11 people survived and

Spain’s Alberto Contador announced on Wednesday he has given up hopes of competing in next month’s Vuelta a España after suffering complications with

The Netherlands has received the first bodies from the Malaysia Airlines flight that crashed last week over eastern Ukraine. A ceremony was held at

The Ukrainian Prime Minister claims there are signs that one of two Ukrainian fighter jets shot down on Wednesday was fired on by another

The International Monetary Fund has cut its growth forecast for the United States for this year from what it said a month ago. It cited economic

Poland’s Rafal Majka produced a superb solo effort to claim stage 17 of the Tour de France in Saint-Lary Pla d’Adet on Wednesday. Having already

The Libyan capital Tripoli witnessed more fighting on Wednesday with explosions being heard near the city’s airport. Rival armed groups have been

Bulgarian authorities have announced the completion of a 33-kilometre fence along the country’s border with Turkey. Sofia has said the reason

The head doctor fighting the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone has caught the disease. Sheik Umar Khan has been hailed as a national hero by the

The death toll for the TransAsia Airways turbo plane crash stands at 47, according to the latest figures. Eleven were injured when it crash landed

A sombre ceremony has taken place in the Dutch city of Eindhoven, with the arrival of the first bodies of victims of the Malaysian passenger plane

The human price being paid is massive, and the economic cost of Israel’s ‘Operation Protective Edge’ is already being felt with more effects to come

Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence alleges pro-Russian forces have shot down two Ukrainian fighter jets. The incident reportedly occurred near the

A sombre ceremony has taken place in the Dutch city of Eindhoven, with the arrival of the first bodies of victims of the Malaysian passenger plane

The Costa Concordia’s last trip is to a scrap heap. The Italian island of Giglio, on the peninsula’s Tuscan thigh, will finally have a clear view

World Cup-winning coach Joachim Löw confirmed on Wednesday that he will see out his contract with Germany which runs until the 2016 European

Ecuador have sacked World Cup coach Reinaldo Rueda following the team’s failure to progress beyond the group stage in Brazil. The 57-year-old, who

Shakhtar Donetsk coach Mircea Lucescu announced on Wednesday that the team will play home games in Lviv and will train and reside in Kiev as conflict

Air traffic control loses contact with MH17 on Thursday 17 July, at a quarter past three in the afternoon, CET. The 283 passengers, some two thirds

‘Guardians of the Galaxy’, based on the Marvel franchise, looks set to be this summer’s major blockbuster. Chris Pratt, who has the leading role

‘Pageant: the Musical’ is a drag queen show about a beauty contest, in which the audience votes for the winner. So different contestants win every

US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Tel Aviv on July 23, despite a US Federal Aviation Administration ban provoked by a Hamas rocket landing

There is a “strong possibility” that Israel has committed war crimes in the Gaza strip, according to the UN’s top human rights official. Navi

The head of Britain’s Serious Fraud Office has said its five-year long investigation into alleged corruption at French engineering group Alstom is

A sombre ceremony has taken place on the tarmac in the Dutch city of Eindhoven, with the arrival of the first bodies of victims of the Malaysian

A domestic TransAsia Airways plane crashed on landing on an island off the west coast of typhoon-hit Taiwan on Wednesday, killing at least 50 people

The Malaysia Airlines crash has triggered a huge change in the EU’s attitude towards Moscow and the crisis in Ukraine. That’s what Ukrainian Foreign

Apple has posted a smaller-than-expected six percent rise in quarterly revenue, but the good news was that revenue in that period surged 28 percent

Shanghai police have arrested five people in an investigation into a supplier of foreign fast-food brands, including KFC and McDonald’s. The firm –

The Bank of Spain has revised up its economic growth forecasts for this year and next. It now sees Spanish gross domestic product growing 1.3