Several casualties in fight with pro-Russian group

Violence in Slavyansk threatens to escalate tensions with Moscow

After Crimea won, Putin tries not to lose Ukraine

Vladimir Putin looks likely to go down in history as the Russian leader who won back Crimea, but he is fighting to avoid also being remembered as the man who let Ukraine escape from Moscow's sphere of influence.

Hurled shoe misses Clinton at Vegas speech

US presidential front-runner ducks, laughs off hotel security breach

Good pay, no crime: life good in Antarctica

There is no crime or traffic, and in this Antarctic hamlet paychecks can be much higher than in Chile. Plus, the penguins are very cute.

In royal yacht race, it's Kate who ends up ruling waves

Prince William's forebears may once have boasted they ruled the waves, but it was his wife, Kate, who triumphed when the British royals took part in a yacht race in New Zealand on Friday.

At least 10 dead in California, as bus, truck collide head-on

At least 10 people died, many of them high school students, after a tractor-trailer slammed into a tour bus with college hopefuls on a campus tour in Northern California on Thursday, local police said.

ROK, US launch air drill amid strains with DPRK

The Republic of Korea and the United States kicked off their largest joint air drill on Friday at a time of elevated military tensions with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Official tasked with Obama healthcare rollout to resign

US President Barack Obama's Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is resigning, paying the price for the chaotic initial rollout of his signature healthcare law, officials said Thursday.

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Lavrov warns European stability at risk

Global powers need to be ready if tensions rise over Ukraine: Obama

Regions should have more say: PM

Ukraine's prime minister told leaders in the country's restive east on Friday that he is committed to allowing regions to have more powers, but left it unclear how his ideas differed from the demands of protesters now occupying government buildings or Russia's advocacy of federalization.

Zoo puts tradition out to pasture

Paris to unveil new stress-free, biodiverse enclosures following $234m renovation