Salmond’s Scottish sporting surge? Perhaps not
Is Alex Salmond hoping to ride a wave of patriotic fervour flowing for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games? If history tells us anything, he may be disappointed.
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Is Alex Salmond hoping to ride a wave of patriotic fervour flowing for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games? If history tells us anything, he may be disappointed.
Don’t hold your breath for a thunderclap of judgement on Russia tomorrow at the EU foreign ministers’ gathering. You might get some tough rhetoric but you will not see a major escalation of sanctions.
The nuttiest conspiracy theory I’ve seen so far has it that flight MH17 was full of the bodies of those who died on flight MH370, the aircraft that disappeared over the Indian Ocean back in March.
David Cameron issues a warning to Russia President Vladimir Putin following the downing of MH17. “This is a defining moment. It is a festering and dangerous crisis.”
Four days after the downing of flight MH17 this remains the biggest crime scene in the world, with the suspected criminals in charge of guarding it. That is one of the many astonishing facts about this unspeakable tragedy. Today has been a story of glaring absences. First there is the absence of the dozens of…
The pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine say they have not found the black boxes belonging to the downed flight MH17 and have not touched the site, leaving many bodies exposed to the elements.
Six Britons are among 300 feared dead after a Malaysian passenger plane crashes in Ukraine near the Russian border – with officials claiming it was shot down by a ground-to-air missile.
Nine British people are feared among the 300 dead on board a Malaysian airliner “shot down” over Ukraine. These images by Anton Skyba capture the devastation on the ground.
Germany are champions of the world again after snatching victory against Argentina in Brazil – and Angela Merkel is there to congratulate them.
Overnight, the pro-Russian rebels in Slaviansk, Ukraine, are reported to have quit the town, fighting their way out in one or more armoured convoys as the Ukrainian army attacked.
With two years before the presidential election, Hillary Clinton is coy about whether she will run. But the ex-first lady tells all about US policy on Putin: “If he will talk to us, we talk to him.”
Getting around the “right to be forgotten” is not hard, and if the reaction to Google’s removal of articles from its search results is anything to go by, the law may even have the opposite effect…
Quantum mechanics is famously complicated, but could it be the answer to keeping data – from banking and government communications – safe from prying eyes?
Pro-Russian separatists fire on Ukrainian military checkpoints in the east, despite a ceasefire declared by the rebels, Ukrainian government forces claim.
People in the UK should stop being bashful about Britishness, Prime Minister David Cameron says as he calls for the Magna Carta to be taught in all schools.