Russia has exercised effective control over the region since fighting a brief war in 2008, but most of the world still considers it to be part of Georgia.
On the fifth anniversary, Lancashire remembers the 22 victims, four who lived in the county, of the Manchester Bombing.
"Hold on to the rope, look at me," the instructor says, coaxing 28-year-old lawyer Iryna Gorobiyovska who is nervously about to abseil down a building.
LIFEBOAT crews rushed to help the medical evacuation of a patient from Green Island.
The cheapest new car in the UK now costs more than £10,000 - making it more expensive than ever to buy a brand-new vehicle.
Championship leader Leclerc lost control of his Ferrari through the chicane on his first attempt.
Letter: Frank Jackson on the former Labour deputy leader’s recollections about the 2003 Iraq war
YORK City have sealed a return to the National League after a five-season absence from the fifth-tier of English football.
JOHN Studholme (The Cumberland News, letters, May 13) states that ‘people are not happy (with Brexit)’ on the basis of a very small survey.
Three people were taken to hospital when a section of the stands for spectators watching Trooping the Colour collapsed on Saturday.
Late-season snow fell on parts of Colorado on Saturday, May 21, causing widespread power outages and creating hazardous travel conditions.This video shows in Fairplay, a town southwest of Denver in Park County, at an elevation of 10,580 feet, on Saturday morning, according to the source.More than 123,000 customers were without power on Saturday morning as a result of the storm, according to poweroutages.us. More than 114,000 of those were customers of Xcel Energy, which said the majority of its outages were in Araphoe, Jefferson, and Denver counties.The National Weather Service said conditions should improve by Saturday afternoon. Credit: @huskercspackler via Storyful
Carpet bombing is indiscriminate - devastatingly destructive and utterly random. The town in eastern Ukraine's Donbas has seen its topography alter dramatically in the last 72 hours as the Russians intensify their assault on the region.
President Joe Biden is tending to both business and security interests as he wraps up a three-day visit to South Korea on Sunday
In the midst of the noise of Russian shelling in the neighbouring city of Severodonetsk, on the east Ukrainian front, believers of Orthodox Church in Lysychansk attend a mass at the basement of a damaged church.
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Australia’s Prime Minister-elect Anthony Albanese is a politician molded by his humble start to life as the only child of a single mother who raised him on a pension in gritty inner-Sydney suburbia
There’s no love lost between the former BGT judge and the Little Britain star.
Pope Francis has expressed his spiritual closeness to Catholics in China and voiced hope that the church there operates in “freedom and tranquility
Dan Tehan and Karen Andrews both touted as potential challengers, but conservatives confident Dutton has the numbers to succeed Scott Morrison
Monkeypox, which is related to the now eradicated smallpox virus, is endemic in parts of west and central Africa
Friday's session at the Special Criminal Court, where the Paris terror trial is taking place, continued to hear testimonies of the families of victims. They were followed at the bar by families who lost their homes and belongings in the police raid on the terrorist hide-out in Paris-Saint-Denis, days after the attacks, and who also claim the status of victims. This was the last, long day of testimony from the bereaved.We heard a man lament his lost brother, "a beautiful person", dead in the Bata
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