The Ukrainian government has put the army on full combat alert and warned invasion would lead to war, after Putin obtained the permission of his parliament to send soldiers into Ukraine.
All was going well for German Chancellor Angela Merkel on her one-day visit to Britain – until Europe’s most powerful woman headed down to the palace for a cup of tea and a bun.
Matt Frei
Eyebrows have been raised. France was heard muttering an obscenity. That is essentially how George Osborne’s “reform or perish” speech on Europe will be received in Paris or Berlin.
The Formula One legend continues to recover after suffering a near-fatal head injury while skiing, his manager says.
The condition of the former Formula One champion Michael Schumacher has improved slightly after an operation to relieve pressure on his brain. Reports he was going at speed have been denied.
Former Formula One champion Michael Schumacher is fighting for his life after a skiing accident, and it is not clear how his condition will progress, doctors confirm.
Attackers fired upon the German embassy in Athens in the early hours of this morning in an apparent attempt to sour relations between Greece and its biggest bail-out creditor.
The Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) predicts the UK’s GDP will move ahead of France by 2018, then leapfrog Germany by 2030.
Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky says he intends to stay out of Russian politics and will only return home if certain he can leave again, after being whisked to Germany following a decade in jail.
Costs, travel logistics, unfinished stadia, and the prospect of civil unrest have cast a pall over the 2014 Brazil World Cup. But such concerns may be put aside when the draw begins later today for the biggest footballing event on earth.
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s centre-right coalition government has at last struck a “grand coalition” deal with the centre-left Social Democrats. But why the wait and what does it mean for us?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounces the agreement between six world powers and Iran to curb its nuclear weapons programme as a “bad deal” to which Israel will not be bound.
The foreign secretary and the US secretary of state head to Geneva amid growing optimism that a deal on Iran’s nuclear programme is close to being struck.
Fifteen years ago the first module of the international space station was launched on board a Russian rocket. Channel 4 News explores how the ISS has opened the mysteries of space up to the world.
England play Germany at Wembley on Tuesday in one of the fiercest rivalries in football. But given the Germans’ record of tournament success, should England not regard them as role models?