An autonomous underwater vehicle is prepared to be deployed from ADV Ocean Shield. Photo / Australian Defence Force/AP. The search area for the missing Malaysian jet has proved too deep for a robotic submarine which was hauled back to the surface of ...

Kate and William's sampling of a range of wines during a visit to Amisfield. Photo / AFP. Day seven of the royal tour started with much excitement - news emerged that baby George might have a sibling on the way. The story, which quickly spread around the ...

Solomon Islands hit with another blow from nature, but residents take it in their stride. An earthquakes and a tsunami warning are the latest natural events to hit the island nation after last week's severe flooding. Photo / AP. The Solomon Islands have been ...

SLOVYANSK, Ukraine (AP) Ukraine's president Oleksandr Turchynov says the country is to launch a "large-scale anti-terrorist operation" to resist Russia's aggression. Turchynov said in a live televised address from the parliament that authorities in Kiev will ...

SLOVYANSK, Ukraine (AP) Ukrainian special forces exchanged gunfire with a pro-Russia militia in an eastern city Sunday, according to the interior minister, who said one Ukrainian security officer was killed and five others wounded. It was the first reported ...

SLOVYANSK, Ukraine (AP) Ukrainian special forces exchanged gunfire with a pro-Russia militia in an eastern city Sunday, according to the interior minister, who said one Ukrainian security officer was killed and five others wounded. It was the first reported ...

SLOVYANSK, Ukraine (AP) Ukrainian special forces exchanged gunfire with a pro-Russia militia in an eastern city Sunday, according to the interior minister, who said one Ukrainian security officer was killed and five others wounded. It was the first reported ...

SLOVYANSK, Ukraine (AP) Ukrainian special forces exchanged gunfire with a pro-Russia militia in an eastern city Sunday, according to the interior minister, who said one Ukrainian security officer was killed and five others wounded. It was the first reported ...

SLOVYANSK, Ukraine (AP) Ukraine's interior minister says one security officer has been killed and five others have been wounded in a gunfight with pro-Russian militia. Arsen Avakov said in a Facebook post Sunday the Security Service officer was killed in ...

SLOVYANSK, Ukraine (AP) Ukraine's interior minister says one security officer has been killed and five others have been wounded in a gunfight with pro-Russian militia. Arsen Avakov said in a Facebook post Sunday the Security Service officer was killed in ...

Neighbours of Peaches Geldof say she often visited the local day care where "everyone loved her". Photo / AP. Peaches Geldof said she had the "perfect life" and had never been happier, just days before she was found dead, it has emerged. The 25-year-old ...

Wrestling fans have been left reeling following the death of the iconic grapper - real name James Hellwig - yesterday, just days after he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in New Orleans. WWE announced the news on its official website, posting a ...

Tonight, Oscar Pistorius faces what could be the toughest challenge of his life as he testifies for the first time about the night he shot his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. It comes after a week's delay in the trial brought about by the illness of an assessor - an ...

Tonight, Oscar Pistorius faces what could be the toughest challenge of his life as he testifies for the first time about the night he shot his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. It comes after a week's delay in the trial brought about by the illness of an assessor - an ...

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) More than a year after he killed his girlfriend, Oscar Pistorius is expected to finally answer questions about why he shot Reeva Steenkamp through a toilet door when his murder trial resumes this week and his defense lawyers ...

Rwandan women arrive to take part in a procession following a small flame of remembrance, symbolic fire travelling the country, and to hear genocide memories, in the capital Kigali, Rwanda. Photo / AP. Rows of human skulls sit in glass cases near the red ...

Rwandan women arrive to take part in a procession following a small flame of remembrance, symbolic fire travelling the country, and to hear genocide memories, in the capital Kigali, Rwanda. Photo / AP. Rows of human skulls sit in glass cases near the red ...

Rachel Smalley should have known whether her mic was off or on. Photo / Dean Purcell. To deny the reality of climate change and the need to do something about it is to ally oneself with the witch burners, cancer cure peddlers and purveyors of cars that run ...

A US soldier who shot dead three comrades and wounded 16 others before killing himself was on a cocktail of prescription drugs and angry with the army for initially refusing to let him attend his mother's funeral, according to friends. Specialist Ivan Lopez, 34, ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) Recent terrorist attacks in Kenya, blamed on Somali-based Islamic militants, are meant to provoke a sectarian war but will not succeed in doing so, Kenya's president said Friday. The war being fought is not a war of religions, or a clash of ...