ECB's Draghi sees recovery signs, as rates held at 0.5%

Mario Draghi says the ECB's key interest rate are expected to remain low for an extended period European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi has said there are...

NSA spy leaks: Snowden thanks Russia for asylum

Grainy TV footage showed Mr Snowden, centre, leaving the airport US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has thanked Russia for granting him temporary asylum, allowing him to leave the...

US and Pakistan to resume key high-level security talks

Relations between Pakistan and the US have recovered somewhat following the crisis sparked by the US killing of Osama Bin Laden in May 2011 US Secretary of State...

Chinese online game targets Japanese-held islands

Earlier versions of Glorious Mission have been popular with gamers An online game that simulates an attack on Japanese-controlled islands has been released in China. Glorious Mission Online...

Syria conflict: Homs arms-depot blast 'kills dozens'

Unverified footage showed a huge fireball over Homs At least 40 people have been killed in a rocket attack on an arms dump in Syria, the UK-based group...

Small but deadly

The biggest extinction in history was probably caused by a space rock that changed the climate AS EVERY schoolchild knows, the dinosaurs were wiped out in an instant,...

I have impeached myself

David Frost: The wave of dissent in America, occasionally violent, which followed the incursion into Cambodia by US and Vietnamese forces in 1970, prompted President Nixon to demand...

How can radiation therapy cause heart disease?

RADIATION therapy is a powerful tool for improving the survival rate of those diagnosed with certain forms of cancer. But the dozens of doses of high-energy radiation involved...