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Russia’s foreign minister has ruled out holding fresh talks in Geneva to defuse the Ukraine crisis, unless pro-Russian opposition groups are involved. Sergei Lavrov added there was no point as an April accord between the US, EU and Russia had…

The Afghan government has declared a day of national mourning for hundreds of people killed when a mudslide engulfed their village on Friday.

Rescuers in Afghanistan have given up hope of finding any more survivors in a double landslide that is feared to have killed more than 2,500 people.

Many pro-Russia rebels have been killed, injured and arrested in the Ukrainian government offensive in the eastern city of Sloviansk, acting President Oleksandr Turchynov has said.

Ukraine’s acting President Olexander Turchynov has reinstated military conscription to deal with deteriorating security in the east of the country.

Ukraine’s acting President Olexander Turchynov has admitted his forces are “helpless” to quell unrest driven by pro-Russian activists in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk.

India’s Election Commission has accused the main opposition BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi of violating the election code.

The search for the missing Malaysian plane is entering a “new phase”, Australia has announced, after the initial undersea search found nothing. PM Tony Abbott said that “a much larger” area of the ocean floor would now be targeted. But…

Nashport Ohio — A couple who held hands at breakfast every morning even after 70 years of marriage have died 15 hours apart.

South Korean officials have said the recovery operation after Wednesday’s ferry disaster may take two months.

Rescuers were searching through piles of snow and ice on the slopes of Mount Everest on Saturday for four Sherpa guides who were buried by an avalanche that killed 12 other Nepalese guides in the deadliest disaster on the world’s…

The acting President of Ukraine, Olexander Turchynov, has announced the start of an “anti-terrorist operation” against pro-Russian separatists.

Pro-Russian activists have attacked another official building in east Ukraine, ignoring a deadline to leave or face eviction by Ukrainian forces.

More than 70 people have been killed in a bomb blast at a crowded bus station on the outskirts of Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, officials say.

Partial results from the Afghan presidential vote show former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah slightly ahead of Ashraf Ghani.

Signals in remote seas thought to be from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 are “rapidly fading” and finding the jet will be a “massive, massive task”, Australia’s PM says.

Two bombs planted by suspected Maoist rebels have killed at least 12 people in the eastern Indian state of Chhattisgarh as voting continues in the general election.

Armed men have seized a police station and a security services building in eastern Ukraine, officials say.

A plane searching for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has detected a possible new signal in the southern Indian Ocean, Australian officials say.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned European leaders that Ukraine’s delays in paying for Russian gas have created a “critical situation”.

Ukraine’s interior minister has warned pro-Russian activists who have taken over state buildings in eastern cities to enter talks to find a political solution or face “force”.

An emotional Oscar Pistorius has apologised to the family of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, on the first day of his evidence at his murder trial.

Argentina’s leader, Cristina Fernandez de Kirshner, has become godmother to the child of a lesbian couple who was baptised in a Catholic church.

A Chinese ship searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane in the southern Indian Ocean has picked up a pulse signal, Chinese media say.

A court in India has sentenced three men to hang, under a new law which carries the death penalty for those convicted of multiple sexual assaults.

One of the women, Anja Niedringhaus, died in the attack. Her colleague, Kathy Gannon, is reported to be stable.

A soldier shot dead three colleagues and injured 16 others at the US Army’s Fort Hood base in Texas before killing himself, the military says.

A bomb has targeted the convoy route of Pakistan’s former military ruler, Pervez Musharraf, within minutes of him passing, police say.

Nepal’s 75-year-old prime minister Sushil Koirala might qualify as one of the world’s poorest heads of government.

Nato is not seeing a Russian troop pullout from the border with Ukraine, the military alliance’s chief has said.