SCIENTISTS have detected the enigmatic ripples in deep space that were triggered by the Big Bang – the rapid expansion of the universe – during the earliest moments of its creation some 13.7 billion years ago.

A SENIOR Israeli minister has predicted there will be no peace agreement with the Palestinians in his lifetime. Also in this section. Suicide bomb kills three in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley · Historic city of Aleppo is now rubble, after waves of bombing · Rape victim ...

Pilot suicide. When Malaysian authorities disclosed this weekend that flight MH370 was deliberately steered off course and the equipment sending out its location disabled (or the subject of an unlikely malfunction), attention focused on the Boeing 777's pilots.

Russia on Monday night brushed off the toughest sanctions issued by the US and EU against Moscow since the end of the Cold War, by acknowledging the sovereignty of Crimea, opening the legal door for Moscow to annex the territory. Washington began to ...

Published 17 March 2014 04:47 PM. An echo of the universe's cataclysmic birth has been detected by scientists in a landmark discovery described as the "Holy Grail" of cosmology. Also in this section. Scientists grow 1,500-year old moss · Flu 'symptom free' ...

Bands played Russian patriotic songs in Lenin Square and a supposedly disbanded riot police unit, the feared Berkuts, manned checkpoints in balaclavas. This was the capital of Crimea on the eve of a referendum that will further inflame one of the biggest ...

All public transport in Paris and several other French cities will be free this weekend in an attempt to reduce the number of cars on the road and improve what has been described as "dangerously" poor air quality.

The choir of the Russian Black Sea Fleet sang rousing battle hymns of the Great Patriotic War to an exultant crowd; Slavic heritage was celebrated with traditional dancing; bikers and Chechens united in praise of Putin as they came to show solidarity along ...

Manchester United will host Liverpool at Old Trafford in the north-west derby this Sunday. United will need a win against the Reds in order to salvage any hope of a Champions League spot. Arsenal have a tricky fixture list this month, which could see United ...

US President Barack Obama talks with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg during a town hall style meeting at Facebook headquarters on April 20 in Palo Alto, California. Obama held the Facebook town hall to answer questions about the deficit and the ...

Five people in China have been stabbed to death and their attacker shot dead by police, authorities have confirmed. The deadly attack occurred following a dispute between two street vendors, according to reports from Changsha, leading to one vendor and ...

US investigators are examining whether missing Flight MH370 was “intentionally diverted” from its planned route after new data revealed the plane may have flown for a further four hours from the point of its last confirmed location. A report in the Wall Street ...

Ukraine's Security Council chief has accused Russia of planning to invade after it claimed that tens of thousands of troops have amassed on the country's border. Andriy Parubiy, Secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, said during a ...

At least one person is dead after an apartment building in Harlem collapsed following a massive explosion, early reports suggest. Emergency crews and firemen from across New York City rushed to the scene as a large plume of dark smoke fanned across the ...

Oscar Pistorius was 'on his stumps' when he tried to smash down his locked toilet door with a cricket bat after shooting girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, his murder trial heard. Police Colonel Johannes Vermeulen told the court the marks made on the toilet door ...

As Formula 1 prepares for the official kick-off of its brave new world in Melbourne's Albert Park this weekend, Michael Schumacher's family today issued one of its increasingly rare statements about the health of the 45-year-old former multiple world champion ...

Flappy Bird could be set to rise from the ashes like a pixelated phoenix, after Dong Nguyen confirmed in a rare interview that he is 'considering' reinstating the game to app stores. The Vietnamese developer pulled the game in February over concerns it was ...

Michael Schumacher has been showing “small, encouraging signs” in his fight for recovery, his family have confirmed. “We are and remain confident that Michael will pull through and will wake up,” they said in a statement. Doctors at the Grenoble hospital in ...

Whatever date you choose for the actual birthday of the world wide web, it's an invention which has changed humanity forever, and created a new virtual world within a generation. Also in this section. Apple brings CarPlay to iPhone and iPad with iOS 7.1 ...

Darren Fresco recounted how Pistorius fired a shot out of the sun roof of a car after having an altercation with police, whilst the second was months later in a busy Johannesburg restaurant that slightly injured another friend. The restaurant incident happened ...