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A Russian website publishes what appear to be official figures showing that more than 2,000 soldiers have died fighting in eastern Ukraine, as Moscow insists its regular forces are not involved.
A British journalist working for the Daily Express newspaper is said to have leaked highly sensitive secrets to the Russians during the Second World War.
The celebrated cosmologist teams up with billionaire Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner as they launch a quest to discover life elsewhere in the universe.
Ukraine’s ultra-nationalist Right Sector calls for the resignation of the country’s interior minister following the deaths of two of its members in a shootout with police.
While the far left government will pose the referendum as a vote for or against austerity, the right will say it’s an in-out vote for the single currency and the EU itself.
The country will divide: right versus left – as it has been divided since British tanks rolled into Syntagma Square in 1944 to install former Nazi collaborators into office.
After a lifetime playing onscreen villains, from Dracula in Hammer horror movies to Saruman in the Lord of the Rings triology, Christopher Lee dies age 93.
A BBC investigation claims Olympic gold medallist Allan Wells was a drugs cheat, allegations he claims are a “shocking slur”.
Nick Clegg is among 89 European Union politicians and other senior figures who have been banned from entering Russia, according to a confidential Russian “stop list”.
Thousands of Russian troops march through Moscow’s Red Square to mark the 70th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany – but many western leaders boycott the event over the Ukraine crisis.
Alex Thomson
Both main English parties pretend incessantly that our Trident missile system is an “independent” nuclear deterrent when it never was, is, or could be and both Cameron and Miliband know this well.
Negotiations over a new bailout for Greece are approaching a critical stage. And if the country runs out of cash, it might just feel like the end of the world for many Greeks.
Britain has flown 35 military advisers to Ukraine to help fight pro-Russian separatists – with America set to follow suit. But what can the British army offer that Ukraine doesn’t have already?
Jonathan Rugman
The UK’s emphasis on Islamist terrorism has meant it has ignored the traditional threat from nation states like Russia, according to a former head of MI6.
Russian President Vladimir Putin appears in public for the first time in 11 days at a meeting with the president of Kyrgyzstan in St Petersburg.