Time to add some glamour to Russian espionage, ad hints

Is it a job ad? A hoax? Or a genuine appeal to the young modern Russian nationalist with an eye for fashion statements and spying?

Rescues bring glimmer of hope in villages smashed by Italy quake

Exhausted rescue workers, their faces white with dust, continued to comb the rubble of earthquake-hit Italian villages as dawn broke on Thursday.

Scenes of tragedy, survival as Italy struggles with earthquake

Scores of tragedies have emerged from the rubble of picturesque, centuries-old villages nestled in the Apennine mountains.

'Self-styled emirs' radicalising Muslim prisoners in English jails

British government has announced plan for special units for extremist Islamist prisoners 'who seek to poison the minds of others', but former inmates doubt it will work.

The Night Tube comes alive in London

London is a city of traditions. Two of those traditions died tonight.

Russia's muscle-flexing near Ukraine hints at Moscow's woes

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For the first time since flight MH17 was shot down, Buk missile launchers may have returned to Eastern Ukraine.

Radical clerics had contact with teenager behind Anzac terror plot

Two radical UK Islamist preachers convicted of inciting support for the so-called Islamic State had been in contact with a Blackburn teenager who plotted an attack on a Melbourne Anzac Day parade last year, Fairfax can reveal.

London's bobbies get makeover for terror age

The Metropolitan police unveiled on Wednesday their new-look fast-response team for anti-terror actions: lots of guns, shields and motorcycles.

Australian family fails to win reprieve from UK deportation

The Brain family are now expected to leave Britain voluntarily, but they can be forcibly deported.