Russia has vetoed a Security Council draft resolution that declared a referendum on the status of the Crimea region "can have no validity".
Police have searched the home of the missing Malaysian Airlines flight’s pilot, moments after authorities confirm the plane was deliberately diverted.
Six officers have been killed after undentified gunmen opened fire on an army police checkpoint near Cairo, Egypt.
Malaysia’s military has traced what could have been the jetliner missing for almost five days to an area south of the Thai holiday island of Phuket.
Following Pretoria’s expulsion of Rwandan diplomats, Jeff Radebe has warned that SA won’t "be used as a springboard to do illegal activities".
A trio of astronauts who carried an Olympic torch for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games into space last year, have landed safely despite bad weather.
The disappearance of a Malaysian airliner is an "unprecedented mystery", the civil aviation chief has said, as a massive air and sea search continues.
Although it has been claimed that a nine-month-old baby in California was "cured" from HIV with the use of antiretrovirals, there is still no proof.
If the situation in Ukraine has not been addressed appropriately, EU leaders say the organisation might place resctrictions on Russia.
Ukraine’s acting president has called on Moscow to halt the growing military presence in the Crimea region.