Sepp Blatter expected to seek another term as Fifa president
If he decides to stand, Sepp Blatter will win another four-year term as Fifa president, despite having said in 2011 that he wouldn’t.
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Pro-Russian rebels shoot down a military transport plane in eastern Ukraine, killing all 49 Ukrainian service personnel on board.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko tells Vladimir Putin that reports of tanks crossing the country’s border from Russia are “unacceptable”.
If he decides to stand, Sepp Blatter will win another four-year term as Fifa president, despite having said in 2011 that he wouldn’t.
Ukraine’s new President Petro Poroshenko says he will not give up Crimea and will press for further ties with the European Union, but warns Ukraine must settle for better relations with Russia too.
This is a land that refuses to forget. Here in the centre of Donetsk you can still find a statue to Lenin in a square named after him. There is a bust of Karl Marx outside the local college.
In their first meeting since Russia annexed Crimea, at D-Day commemorations in France, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s president-elect Petro Poroshenko call for an end to the bloodshed.
The leaders of the powerful G7 industrial nations meet in Brussels – with a noticeable exception – Russia President Vladimir Putin.
US intelligence whistle-blower Edward Snowden says in a US television interview that he was “trained as a spy” and worked undercover in other countries for various government agencies.
Ukrainian confectionery tycoon Petro Poroshenko claims outright victory in the presidential election. The “chocolate king” won more 55.9 per cent of the vote in the first round, exit polls suggest.
Vladimir Putin has described the Prince of Wales’s reported comparison of him with Adolf Hitler as “unacceptable” and “wrong” and said that remarks of this kind are “not what monarchs do”.
Belarus border guards order me out of the country, but our resourceful Channel 4 News cameraman slips past them for a much-needed glimpse of Europe’s most repressive regime.
Apocalyptic rain soaks Donetsk from dawn on Monday as people awake wondering quite what has actually dawned here.
Russia calls on Ukraine’s interim government to hold a nationwide debate after separtists in two eastern regions of the country claimed victory in referendums on self-rule.
The world is ranged against it. It has achieved the hitherto impossible feat of uniting Kiev and Moscow in agreement. But the Donetsk referendum is going ahead.
The Sunday Times Rich List shows the UK now has more billionaires than ever before – with a combined wealth of more than £301bn.