After a year of trying to hammer out agreements between the Israelis and Palestinians, US secretary of state John Kerry has expressed his frustration with both sides. Both sides blame the other for breaking agreements, and Mr Kerry has warned both sides his ...

Formula One motor racing world champion Michael Schumacher is making progress and showing signs of waking from an artificial coma after a skiing accident, his agent says. Schumacher, 45, slammed his head on a rock while skiing off-piste in the French ...

Opener Alex Hales smashed a maiden hundred to help England upset world number one Sri Lanka in a thrilling World Twenty20 Super-10 stage match in Chittagong on Thursday. The 24-year-old smashed 116 not out from 64 balls as England reached 4 for ...

US president Barack Obama has told the European Union that a much-awaited trade deal could give Europe access to US gas and reduce its reliance on Russian energy in the wake of the Crimea crisis. The US president says Europe also needs to have ...

Hundreds of relatives of passengers from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 are expected to arrive soon in Perth, possibly in the hope that they can claim recovered bodies. After more than two weeks of speculation, Malaysian authorities have announced the ...

Bayern Munich clinched the Bundesliga title in record time by beating Hertha Berlin 3-1, thanks to goals from Toni Kroos, Mario Goetze and Franck Ribery with seven matches left in the campaign. Last season's treble winners secured their 23rd Bundesliga ...

Prosecutors have wrapped up their case against South African track star Oscar Pistorius, who is accused of murdering his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day last year. Prosecutors say the Olympic and Paralympic athlete wanted to kill ...

It's the news everyone expected but noone wanted to hear - Malaysia Airlines flight 370 crashed in the southern Indian Ocean with no survivors and now a huge recovery operation begins as criticism mounts over how the mystery has been handled.

The simmering tensions on the border of Turkey and Syria have flared again. The Turks have shot down a Syrian warplane, with Ankara claiming it strayed into Turkey's airspace. It is the latest in a series of border clashes between the two nations. Matt Brown.

The simmering tensions on the border of Turkey and Syria have flared again. The Turks have shot down a Syrian warplane, with Ankara claiming it strayed into Turkey's airspace. It is the latest in a series of border clashes between the two nations. Matt Brown.

The simmering tensions on the border of Turkey and Syria have flared again. The Turks have shot down a Syrian warplane, with Ankara claiming it strayed into Turkey's airspace. It is the latest in a series of border clashes between the two nations. Matt Brown.

US scientists say they have detected echoes of the Big Bang 14 billion years ago, in a major discovery for understanding the origins of the universe. The "first direct evidence of cosmic inflation" has been found with the help of a telescope at the South Pole, ...

Small world The planet Mercury has shrunk by as much as seven kilometres in radius over the past four-and-a-half billion years, according to new data from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft. The findings, reported in the journal Nature Geoscience, are based ...

In the city of Quetta ten people died and more than 30 were injured when a bomb went off near a passenger bus. A few hours earlier, a suicide bomber blew himself up near a police armoured vehicle, killed at least nine people near the north-western city of ...

In the tense Ukrainian region of Crimea, a United Nations representative has been threatened by a group of pro-Russian protesters. Robert Serry was in the Black Sea peninsula to assess the situation for the UN when he was confronted by gunmen outside ...

Australian captain Michael Clarke was on track for a Test double century when rain stopped play on day two of the third and deciding Test with South Africa in Cape Town. Clarke was the star on day two, reaching 161 not out at stumps - his eighth-highest Test ...

Britain's GCHQ spy agency intercepted webcam images from millions of Yahoo users around the world, regardless of whether individuals were suspects or not, The Guardian newspaper reports. The report is based on leaked documents provided by American ...

Australian Peter Greste and two other Al Jazeera journalists will remain in jail after an Egyptian court refused them bail and adjourned their trial until March 5. The journalists are accused of supporting the blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood and trying to tarnish ...

A North Korean ship caught in July trying to move undeclared Cuban weapons through the Panama Canal has left to return to Cuba. Panama's foreign ministry says the Chong Chon Gang freighter departed from the Panamanian port of Colon on Saturday ...

Scientists in the United States say they have taken an important step on a decades-old quest to harness nuclear fusion to generate nearly inexhaustible energy. For the first time, two nuclear fusion experiments carried out in California succeeded in producing ...